# Back in Black

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518622
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Muhlenberg, KY
- **Operator:** Oxford Mining Company-Kentucky, LLC
- **Controller:** Westmoreland Coal Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 704
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Westmoreland Coal Company (C01550) → Oxford Mining Company-Kentucky, LLC (0104786) → Back in Black (1518622)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **William L  Cook → William Ann Enterprises, Inc.:** 2003-03-10 through 2003-04-13; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518622; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Linda A  Winn et al → R & L Winn Inc:** 2003-04-14 through 2006-07-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518622; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Randall G  Winn et al → R & L Winn Inc:** 2003-04-14 through 2006-07-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518622; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Phoenix Coal Corporation → R & L Winn Inc:** 2006-07-06 through 2009-09-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518622; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Charles C  Ungurean → Oxford Mining Company-Kentucky, LLC:** 2009-10-01 through 2014-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518622; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Westmoreland Coal Company → Oxford Mining Company-Kentucky, LLC:** 2015-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518622; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 14
- 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 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 13 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 71 violation rows across the full record; 26 carry an S&S flag and $15,000 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 122 samples:** Occupational health samples 79 coal dust; 2 coal quartz; 41 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 13 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 6K employee hours and 11 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 18 inspection events and 863 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 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **30 CFR 72.620 — Drill dust control at surface mines and surface areas of underground mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.620
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.701 — Grounding metallic frames, casings, and other enclosures of electric equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-H/section-77.701

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2006-09-08 through 2007-02-23; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2010-08-30 through 2010-08-30; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 71 rows; 2003-07-16 through 2010-03-08; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 79 rows; 2003-09-10 through 2010-03-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2007-09-25 through 2007-09-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 286 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 75 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 2003-03-10 through 2009-10-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 18 rows; 2003-06-05 through 2010-04-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 41 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 41 rows; 2004-08-11 through 2009-03-03; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 2 rows; 2006-09-05 through 2007-08-28; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 71 rows; 2003-07-16 through 2010-03-08; 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/back-in-black-1518622`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/back-in-black-1518622`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518622/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518622/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518622/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`