# Dollar Branch Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519135
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Leslie, KY
- **Operator:** Bledsoe Coal Corporation
- **Controller:** James River Coal Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,650
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James River Coal Company (C13562) → Bledsoe Coal Corporation (P23317) → Dollar Branch Mine (1519135)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **James River Coal Company → Bledsoe Coal Corporation:** 2007-08-08 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519135; 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 11 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 44 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 294 violation rows across the full record; 96 carry an S&S flag and $92,551 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 209 samples:** Occupational health samples 173 coal dust; 7 coal quartz; 29 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 9 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 500 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 376 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 188 contested-violation rows, 188 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 25 inspection events and 2K 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.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.1715 — Identification check system.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1715
- **30 CFR 75.332 — Working sections and working places.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.332
- **30 CFR 75.1202 — Temporary notations, revisions, and supplements.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1202
- **30 CFR 75.523-3 — Automatic emergency-parking brakes.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-3
- **30 CFR 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **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 75.601 — Short circuit protection of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.601
- **30 CFR 75.508 — Map of electrical system.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.508

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 11 rows; 2007-09-19 through 2009-07-09; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2009-07-09 through 2009-07-09; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 289 rows; 2007-08-23 through 2009-06-23; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 188 rows; 2008-08-11 through 2011-03-04; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 173 rows; 2007-09-14 through 2009-06-05; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 188 rows; 2007-09-19 through 2009-03-16; 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:** 76 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2007-08-08 through 2007-08-08; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 25 rows; 2007-08-15 through 2009-07-07; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 18 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:** 29 rows; 2007-09-14 through 2009-06-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 7 rows; 2007-09-14 through 2009-05-19; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 294 rows; 2007-08-23 through 2009-06-23; 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/dollar-branch-mine-1519135`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/dollar-branch-mine-1519135`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519135/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519135/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519135/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`