# Midway Plant and Loadout

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519165
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Ohio, KY
- **Operator:** Muhlenberg County Coal Resources, Inc.
- **Controller:** ACNR Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,920
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**ACNR Holdings, Inc (0157801) → Muhlenberg County Coal Resources, Inc. (0173654) → Midway Plant and Loadout (1519165)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Armstrong Energy Inc → Armstrong Coal Company Inc:** 2007-11-28 through 2018-02-13; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519165; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Western Kentucky Consolidated Resources, LLC → Western Kentucky Rail Loadout, LLC:** 2018-02-14 through 2020-09-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519165; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **ACNR Holdings, Inc → Muhlenberg County Coal Resources, Inc.:** 2020-09-17 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519165; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 9
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 10 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 738 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 12 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 198 violation rows across the full record; 67 carry an S&S flag and $43,800 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 301 samples:** Occupational health samples 224 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 76 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 120 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 42 contested-violation rows, 42 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 36 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 12 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 — 15 since 2021:** Inspections 57 inspection events and 3K 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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 71.201 — Sampling; general and technical requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.201
- **30 CFR 71.209 — Status change reports.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.209
- **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 71.404 — Application for waiver of surface facilities requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.404
- **30 CFR 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 77.207 — Illumination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.207
- **30 CFR 77.202 — Dust accumulations in surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.202
- **30 CFR 77.215-1 — Refuse piles; identification.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.215-1
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 10 rows; 2008-12-16 through 2019-06-11; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-07-01 through 2026-07-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 198 rows; 2008-02-28 through 2024-01-16; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 42 rows; 2009-10-29 through 2021-04-21; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 224 rows; 2008-06-26 through 2024-02-23; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 36 rows; 2009-10-29 through 2024-04-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 42 rows; 2008-12-23 through 2020-06-02; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,647 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 364 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2007-11-28 through 2020-09-17; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 57 rows; 2007-12-06 through 2025-12-11; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 76 rows; 2008-06-26 through 2023-06-20; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2015-12-02 through 2015-12-02; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 198 rows; 2008-02-28 through 2024-01-16; 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/midway-plant-and-loadout-1519165`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/midway-plant-and-loadout-1519165`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519165/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519165/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519165/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`