# B & D # 4

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518618
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Harlan, KY
- **Operator:** B & D Mining L.L.C.
- **Controller:** Stanley R  Ditty
- **Public source rows linked:** 596
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Stanley R  Ditty (C12998) → B & D Mining L.L.C. (P24720) → B & D # 4 (1518618)**

Current identity source: `msha-mines`. This is a current snapshot, not a historical claim.

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Stanley R  Ditty → B & D Mining L.L.C.:** 2003-03-03 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518618; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- Interval anomalies: 0
- Valid-time bounds: inclusive; date granularity; null end means open-ended in the upstream history row; not independent proof of present control.
- Transaction-time observation: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 4 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 164 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 145 violation rows across the full record; 74 carry an S&S flag and $21,399 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 175 samples:** Occupational health samples 142 coal dust; 14 coal quartz; 19 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 3 noise rows have an action-level or PEL dose above 100%. These are separate measures, not a silica exceedance count. Silica results and sample status are shown separately.
4. **PRODUCTION — 9K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 9K employee hours and 18 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 18 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 5 contested-violation rows, 5 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 8 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 linked entities:** Contractors Contractors are linked through this mine’s violation or accident records. Their production and hours cover all their operations, so they are not included in this mine’s totals.
7. **INSPECTIONS — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 28 inspection events and 684 published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

No matched record in the 2024 EIA coal-public workbook. This may be inapplicable for a non-coal operation.

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 75.342 — Methane monitors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.342
- **30 CFR 75.1714-3 — Self-rescue devices; inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, and recordkeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-3
- **30 CFR 75.208 — Warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.208
- **30 CFR 75.520 — Electric equipment; switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.520
- **30 CFR 75.601-1 — Short circuit protection; ratings and settings of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.601-1
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 75.523-3 — Automatic emergency-parking brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-3
- **30 CFR 75.512-2 — Frequency of examinations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512-2
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 4 rows; 2003-08-06 through 2003-11-08; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2004-02-23 through 2004-02-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 141 rows; 2003-03-25 through 2003-12-23; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 5 rows; 2004-11-23 through 2004-11-23; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 142 rows; 2003-04-16 through 2004-01-16; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 8 rows; 2003-12-04 through 2003-12-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 5 rows; 2003-10-15 through 2003-11-10; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 62 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2003-03-03 through 2003-03-03; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 28 rows; 2003-03-25 through 2004-02-18; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 4 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 19 rows; 2003-04-16 through 2003-12-09; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 14 rows; 2003-05-27 through 2003-12-09; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 145 rows; 2003-03-25 through 2003-12-23; source ID `msha-violations`

## Caveats

- This is public-record decision support, not legal advice or an official MSHA record.
- Missing data can indicate no event, publication delay, an unresolved identity, or inapplicability.
- Contractor production data is entity-level and is not attributed to this mine.

## Alternate representations

- HTML: `/mines/b-d-4-1518618`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/b-d-4-1518618`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518618/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518618/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518618/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`