# Elk Creek Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518826
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Hopkins, KY
- **Operator:** Hopkins County Coal LLC
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 19,093
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alliance Resource Partners LP (C15455) → Hopkins County Coal LLC (P23879) → Elk Creek Mine (1518826)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Hopkins County Coal LLC:** 2004-12-14 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518826; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 588 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 7,240 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 3,249 violation rows across the full record; 876 carry an S&S flag and $1,540,396 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 6K samples:** Occupational health samples 5,372 coal dust; 320 coal quartz; 585 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 150 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 — 2,997 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1,222 contested-violation rows, 1,226 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 549 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 666 inspection events and 42K 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 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.360 — Preshift examination at fixed intervals.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.360
- **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 75.1714-7 — Multi-gas detectors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-7
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **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
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.402 — Rock dusting.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.402
- **30 CFR 75.1903 — Underground diesel fuel storage facilities and areas; construction and safety precautions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1903
- **30 CFR 75.1914 — Maintenance of diesel-powered equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1914

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 588 rows; 2005-05-27 through 2016-04-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-06-18 through 2019-06-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 3,169 rows; 2005-08-03 through 2016-06-06; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1,226 rows; 2007-04-16 through 2017-06-21; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 5,372 rows; 2005-11-22 through 2016-03-16; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 549 rows; 2005-10-27 through 2016-03-28; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1,222 rows; 2006-05-26 through 2016-05-12; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,735 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 371 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2004-12-14 through 2004-12-14; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 666 rows; 2005-01-21 through 2017-02-16; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 38 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 585 rows; 2005-11-22 through 2016-01-25; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 320 rows; 2005-11-22 through 2016-01-26; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 3,249 rows; 2005-05-27 through 2016-06-06; 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/elk-creek-mine-1518826`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/elk-creek-mine-1518826`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518826/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518826/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518826/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`