# Mine #16

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519127
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Floyd, KY
- **Operator:** South Akers Mining Company LLC
- **Controller:** Harold E  Akers; Jim D  Akers
- **Public source rows linked:** 758
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Harold E  Akers; Jim D  Akers (C02535) → South Akers Mining Company LLC (P22951) → Mine #16 (1519127)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Jim D  Akers et al → South Akers Mining Company LLC:** 2007-06-22 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519127; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Harold E  Akers et al → South Akers Mining Company LLC:** 2007-06-22 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519127; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 4
- 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 3 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 156 violation rows across the full record; 46 carry an S&S flag and $34,169 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 200 samples:** Occupational health samples 173 coal dust; 14 coal quartz; 13 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 — 126 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 57 contested-violation rows, 57 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 12 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 27 inspection events and 1K 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 75.701 — Grounding metallic frames, casings, and other enclosures of electric equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-H/section-75.701
- **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 75.1725 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1725
- **30 CFR 48.31 — Hazard training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 75.601-1 — Short circuit protection; ratings and settings of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.601-1
- **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 48.7 — Training of miners assigned to a task in which they have had no previous experience; minimum courses of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-A/section-48.7
- **30 CFR 48.6 — Experienced miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-A/section-48.6
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 3 rows; 2007-11-17 through 2009-01-07; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2012-09-17 through 2012-09-17; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 150 rows; 2007-08-21 through 2009-08-24; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 57 rows; 2008-08-28 through 2010-11-17; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 173 rows; 2007-09-26 through 2009-04-29; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 12 rows; 2007-10-16 through 2008-05-20; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 57 rows; 2007-11-01 through 2009-04-20; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 49 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 15 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2007-06-22 through 2007-06-22; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 27 rows; 2007-06-27 through 2010-02-24; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 22 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 13 rows; 2008-05-15 through 2009-08-24; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 14 rows; 2007-12-11 through 2009-05-07; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 156 rows; 2007-08-21 through 2009-08-24; 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-16-1519127`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mine-16-1519127`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519127/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519127/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519127/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`