# Emily Creek Energy

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518627
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Martin, KY
- **Operator:** Martin County Coal
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 799
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc (0127923) → Martin County Coal (P00908) → Emily Creek Energy (1518627)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Carl  Kirk et al → Marshall Mining Incorporated:** 2003-04-07 through 2005-01-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518627; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Sidney Coal Company Inc.:** 2005-01-19 through 2005-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518627; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Martin County Coal:** 2005-07-26 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518627; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Sidney Coal Company Inc.:** 2011-06-01 through 2005-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518627; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Martin County Coal:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518627; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Sidney Coal Company Inc.:** 2016-07-26 through 2005-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518627; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Martin County Coal:** 2016-07-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518627; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 15
- Interval anomalies: 2
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 9 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 669 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 172 violation rows across the full record; 57 carry an S&S flag and $54,320 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 224 samples:** Occupational health samples 187 coal dust; 15 coal quartz; 22 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 4 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 27 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 12 contested-violation rows, 12 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 3 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 48 inspection events and 2K 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 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333
- **30 CFR 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 77.506 — Electric equipment and circuits; overload and short-circuit protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.506
- **30 CFR 75.518 — Electric equipment and circuits; overload and short circuit protection.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.518
- **30 CFR 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403
- **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:** 9 rows; 2003-12-23 through 2009-08-03; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2010-02-10 through 2010-02-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 166 rows; 2003-05-13 through 2009-08-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 12 rows; 2012-03-07 through 2012-03-07; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 187 rows; 2003-06-11 through 2009-07-28; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 3 rows; 2003-07-09 through 2008-08-14; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 12 rows; 2009-05-26 through 2009-08-13; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 116 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 2003-04-07 through 2005-07-26; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 48 rows; 2003-04-17 through 2009-12-22; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **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:** 22 rows; 2003-08-28 through 2009-07-15; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 15 rows; 2003-08-27 through 2009-07-28; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 172 rows; 2003-05-13 through 2009-08-20; 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/emily-creek-energy-1518627`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/emily-creek-energy-1518627`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518627/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518627/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518627/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`