# Smith Branch No. 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518917
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Knott, KY
- **Operator:** Hendrickson Equipment INC
- **Controller:** Leonard  Hendrickson
- **Public source rows linked:** 698
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Leonard  Hendrickson (C15954) → Hendrickson Equipment INC (P24456) → Smith Branch No. 1 (1518917)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Leonard  Hendrickson → Hendrickson Equipment INC:** 2005-08-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518917; 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; 1 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 66 violation rows across the full record; 28 carry an S&S flag and $52,701 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 72 samples:** Occupational health samples 49 coal dust; 23 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 2 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 2K employee hours and 4 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 10 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 3 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 4 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 38 inspection events and 853 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 77.404 — 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 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **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 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **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 48.26 — Experienced miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.26
- **30 CFR 71.403 — Waiver of surface facilities requirements; posting of waiver.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.403
- **30 CFR 77.1301 — Explosives; magazines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-N/section-77.1301

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2006-07-18 through 2006-07-18; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-08-15 through 2023-08-15; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 65 rows; 2005-11-08 through 2013-07-03; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2013-02-15 through 2014-02-12; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 49 rows; 2005-11-22 through 2013-06-27; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 4 rows; 2007-02-23 through 2007-02-23; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2006-11-15 through 2013-05-06; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 343 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 58 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2005-08-24 through 2005-08-24; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 38 rows; 2005-10-05 through 2020-01-14; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 33 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 9 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 23 rows; 2006-07-11 through 2013-02-07; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 66 rows; 2005-11-08 through 2013-07-03; 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/smith-branch-no-1-1518917`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/smith-branch-no-1-1518917`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518917/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518917/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518917/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`