# Mine #15

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518775
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** Management Consulting Services LLC
- **Controller:** Mark  LaVerghetta
- **Public source rows linked:** 17,388
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Mark  LaVerghetta (0161421) → Management Consulting Services LLC (0175993) → Mine #15 (1518775)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **James River Coal Company → McCoy Elkhorn Coal Corp.:** 2004-06-25 through 2014-09-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518775; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Opes Resources Inc → McCoy Elkhorn Coal Co.:** 2014-09-06 through 2016-02-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518775; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Quest Energy Corporation → McCoy Elkhorn Coal Co.:** 2016-02-17 through 2019-10-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518775; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **American Resources Corporation → McCoy Elkhorn Coal Co.:** 2019-10-09 through 2022-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518775; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Mark  LaVerghetta → Management Consulting Services LLC:** 2023-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518775; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- 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 130 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 6,720 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 2 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 3,242 violation rows across the full record; 1,047 carry an S&S flag and $1,823,380 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 5K samples:** Occupational health samples 4,609 coal dust; 257 coal quartz; 288 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 55 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 2,961 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1,391 contested-violation rows, 1,390 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 180 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 9 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 — 10 since 2021:** Inspections 747 inspection events and 33K 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 75.1711-3 — Openings of active mines.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711-3
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **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 75.1106-3 — Storage of liquefied and nonliquefied compressed gas cylinders; requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1106-3
- **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 75.523-2 — Deenergization of self-propelled electric face equipment; performance requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-2
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 130 rows; 2005-01-24 through 2019-11-24; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-11-18 through 2024-11-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 3,154 rows; 2004-09-21 through 2025-06-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1,390 rows; 2008-04-03 through 2020-12-03; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 4,609 rows; 2005-01-25 through 2019-12-16; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 180 rows; 2005-06-13 through 2019-10-31; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1,391 rows; 2007-08-06 through 2020-06-02; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,511 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 277 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 2004-06-25 through 2023-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 747 rows; 2004-09-10 through 2026-07-24; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 175 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 30 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 288 rows; 2006-06-14 through 2019-10-30; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 257 rows; 2005-10-06 through 2019-10-09; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 3,242 rows; 2004-09-21 through 2025-06-17; 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/mine-15-1518775`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mine-15-1518775`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518775/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518775/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518775/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`