# No. 15

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519129
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Floyd, KY
- **Operator:** Fools Gold Energy Corporation
- **Controller:** James L  Bevins
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,543
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James L  Bevins (C11000) → Fools Gold Energy Corporation (P20276) → No. 15 (1519129)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Rowland  Goble  et al → Murriell Don Coal Company Inc:** 2007-06-26 through 2009-10-01; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519129; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Charles A  Ratliff et al → Murriell Don Coal Company Inc:** 2007-06-26 through 2009-10-01; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519129; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Murriell James Ray → Murriell Don Coal Company Inc:** 2007-06-26 through 2003-01-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519129; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James L  Bevins → Fools Gold Energy Corporation:** 2009-10-02 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519129; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 9
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 22 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,220 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 805 violation rows across the full record; 284 carry an S&S flag and $950,549 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 436 samples:** Occupational health samples 379 coal dust; 14 coal quartz; 43 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 — 12K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 8K employee hours and 28 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 212 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 103 contested-violation rows, 103 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 6 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 76 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 70.100 — Respirable dust standards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-70/subpart-B/section-70.100
- **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 75.503 — 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 75.400 — 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 75.1107-4 — Automatic fire sensors and manual actuators; installation; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-4
- **30 CFR 75.1107-6 — Capacity of fire suppression devices; location and direction of nozzles.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-6
- **30 CFR 50.11 — Investigation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-B/section-50.11
- **30 CFR 75.380 — Escapeways; bituminous and lignite mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.380
- **30 CFR 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **30 CFR 75.1714-8 — Reporting SCSR inventory and malfunctions; retention of SCSRs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-8

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 22 rows; 2007-12-28 through 2013-06-27; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2013-12-17 through 2013-12-17; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 780 rows; 2007-08-22 through 2013-10-22; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 103 rows; 2010-10-07 through 2014-06-20; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 379 rows; 2007-09-17 through 2013-09-27; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 6 rows; 2009-01-16 through 2013-08-08; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 103 rows; 2008-05-28 through 2013-03-12; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 94 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 22 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 2007-06-26 through 2009-10-02; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 76 rows; 2007-06-29 through 2013-10-22; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 72 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 18 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 43 rows; 2008-03-03 through 2013-08-22; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 14 rows; 2007-12-28 through 2013-04-04; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 805 rows; 2007-08-22 through 2013-10-22; 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/no-15-1519129`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-15-1519129`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519129/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519129/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519129/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`