# Yellow Creek #21

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519189
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Knott, KY
- **Operator:** B&W Resources Inc.
- **Controller:** Lipari Energy
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,321
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lipari Energy (0079793) → B&W Resources Inc. (P24596) → Yellow Creek #21 (1519189)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Enterprise Mining Co LLC:** 2008-02-25 through 2014-12-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519189; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Amfire LLC → Enterprise Mining Co LLC:** 2008-02-25 through 2003-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519189; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lipari Energy → B&W Resources Inc.:** 2014-12-17 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519189; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **David  Wells → B&W Resources Inc.:** 2014-12-17 through 2008-09-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519189; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Enterprise Mining Co LLC:** 2016-07-26 through 2014-12-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519189; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 12
- Interval anomalies: 3
- 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 46 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 549 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 252 violation rows across the full record; 78 carry an S&S flag and $68,392 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 377 samples:** Occupational health samples 243 coal dust; 12 coal quartz; 122 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 3 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 1K employee hours and 2 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 90 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 43 contested-violation rows, 43 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 4 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 17 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 — 6 since 2021:** Inspections 58 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 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **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 77.1000 — Highwalls, pits and spoil banks; plans.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1000

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 46 rows; 2008-06-02 through 2020-12-29; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2022-10-26 through 2022-10-26; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 249 rows; 2008-06-13 through 2020-12-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 43 rows; 2012-04-26 through 2019-10-23; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 243 rows; 2008-06-25 through 2022-08-23; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 4 rows; 2011-04-11 through 2019-04-23; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 43 rows; 2010-06-09 through 2019-05-29; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 938 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 192 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 2008-02-25 through 2014-12-17; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 58 rows; 2008-04-07 through 2022-05-25; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 96 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:** 122 rows; 2008-07-01 through 2022-07-14; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 12 rows; 2010-01-14 through 2020-12-22; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 252 rows; 2008-06-13 through 2020-12-17; 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/yellow-creek-21-1519189`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/yellow-creek-21-1519189`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519189/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519189/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519189/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`