# Elkhorn No 3

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518629
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Knott, KY
- **Operator:** Marsh Coal Company LLC
- **Controller:** Pauline  Honeycutt
- **Public source rows linked:** 571
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Pauline  Honeycutt (0041697) → Marsh Coal Company LLC (0051259) → Elkhorn No 3 (1518629)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pauline  Honeycutt → Marsh Coal Company LLC:** 2003-05-05 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518629; 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 68 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 201 violation rows across the full record; 91 carry an S&S flag and $26,445 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 114 samples:** Occupational health samples 92 coal dust; 7 coal quartz; 15 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 — 1K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 3K employee hours and 13 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 30 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 15 contested-violation rows, 15 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 0 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 20 inspection events and 1K 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 77.202 — Dust accumulations in surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.202
- **30 CFR 75.1103-8 — Automatic fire sensor and warning device systems; examination and test requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1103-8
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **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 77.505 — Cable fittings; suitability.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.505
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 75.1101-6 — Water sprinkler systems; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1101-6
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2005-04-19 through 2005-04-19; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2011-12-29 through 2011-12-29; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 186 rows; 2004-09-13 through 2006-02-13; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 15 rows; 2007-04-23 through 2007-04-23; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 92 rows; 2004-11-02 through 2005-12-27; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 15 rows; 2005-10-18 through 2006-02-13; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2003-05-05 through 2003-05-05; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 20 rows; 2003-05-29 through 2006-01-24; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 12 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:** 15 rows; 2004-09-27 through 2005-06-15; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 7 rows; 2005-02-03 through 2005-08-17; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 201 rows; 2004-09-13 through 2006-03-28; 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/elkhorn-no-3-1518629`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/elkhorn-no-3-1518629`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518629/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518629/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518629/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`