# Mine No 9

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518984
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Letcher, KY
- **Operator:** Hubble Mining Company LLC
- **Controller:** Harold E  Akers; Jim D  Akers
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,321
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Harold E  Akers; Jim D  Akers (C02535) → Hubble Mining Company LLC (0050049) → Mine No 9 (1518984)**

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 Co Inc:** 2006-05-05 through 2005-12-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518984; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Arch Resources Inc → Cumberland River Coal Co Inc:** 2006-05-05 through 2010-08-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518984; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Harold E  Akers et al → Hubble Mining Company LLC:** 2010-08-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518984; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jim D  Akers et al → Hubble Mining Company LLC:** 2010-08-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518984; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jeffery A  Hoops → Cumberland River Coal Co Inc:** 2017-09-14 through 2010-08-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518984; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 11
- Interval anomalies: 2
- 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 8 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 468 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 475 violation rows across the full record; 126 carry an S&S flag and $238,847 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 759 samples:** Occupational health samples 612 coal dust; 71 coal quartz; 76 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 6 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 — 14K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 10K employee hours and 17 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 124 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 61 contested-violation rows, 61 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 5 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 42 inspection events and 5K 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 75.1725 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1725
- **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 75.606 — Protection of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.606
- **30 CFR 75.312 — Main mine fan examinations and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.312
- **30 CFR 75.1731 — Maintenance of belt conveyors and belt conveyor entries.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1731
- **30 CFR 75.1100-2 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-2
- **30 CFR 75.517 — Power wires and cables; insulation and protection.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.517
- **30 CFR 75.1107-9 — Dry chemical devices; capacity; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-9
- **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
- **30 CFR 48.8 — Annual refresher training of miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-A/section-48.8

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 8 rows; 2007-02-16 through 2011-11-07; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2012-09-21 through 2012-09-21; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 460 rows; 2006-08-10 through 2012-07-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 61 rows; 2011-07-02 through 2015-12-23; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 612 rows; 2006-09-20 through 2012-03-12; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2010-11-03 through 2012-09-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 61 rows; 2010-09-13 through 2012-07-12; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 300 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 75 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 2006-05-05 through 2010-08-09; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 42 rows; 2006-06-08 through 2012-07-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 55 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 16 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 76 rows; 2007-09-12 through 2012-01-19; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 71 rows; 2006-09-20 through 2012-03-08; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 475 rows; 2006-08-10 through 2012-07-12; 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-no-9-1518984`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mine-no-9-1518984`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518984/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518984/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518984/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`