# S-17 Cumberland

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518769
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Letcher, KY
- **Operator:** Blackjewel L.L.C.
- **Controller:** Jeffery A  Hoops
- **Public source rows linked:** 4,476
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Jeffery A  Hoops (C15863) → Blackjewel L.L.C. (0100767) → S-17 Cumberland (1518769)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Ashland Inc et al → Cumberland River Coal Company:** 2004-06-14 through 2005-12-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518769; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Arch Resources Inc → Cumberland River Coal Company:** 2005-12-12 through 2014-10-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518769; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jeffery A  Hoops → Blackjewel L.L.C.:** 2014-10-03 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518769; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jeffery A  Hoops → Cumberland River Coal Company:** 2017-09-14 through 2014-10-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518769; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 23 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 603 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 420 violation rows across the full record; 108 carry an S&S flag and $215,568 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 529 samples:** Occupational health samples 343 coal dust; 23 coal quartz; 163 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 17 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 10 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 231 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 114 contested-violation rows, 113 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 4 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 19 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 — 5 since 2021:** Inspections 109 inspection events and 6K 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 77.403-1 — Mobile equipment; rollover protective structures (ROPS).** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.403-1
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1000 — Highwalls, pits and spoil banks; plans.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1000
- **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 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 23 rows; 2006-07-12 through 2019-05-21; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-10-04 through 2023-10-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 395 rows; 2004-09-10 through 2019-03-19; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 113 rows; 2012-09-20 through 2019-10-16; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 343 rows; 2004-09-13 through 2019-06-24; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 4 rows; 2012-05-26 through 2017-09-06; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 114 rows; 2008-04-07 through 2019-03-19; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2,207 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 437 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 2004-06-14 through 2014-10-03; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 109 rows; 2004-09-10 through 2023-09-19; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 94 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 25 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 163 rows; 2004-09-13 through 2019-03-19; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 23 rows; 2005-07-26 through 2019-03-19; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 420 rows; 2004-09-10 through 2019-03-19; 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/s-17-cumberland-1518769`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/s-17-cumberland-1518769`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518769/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518769/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518769/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`