# Bent Branch Energy Co Mine No 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519247
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** Sidney Coal Company, Inc.
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 70
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc (0127923) → Sidney Coal Company, Inc. (P16149) → Bent Branch Energy Co Mine No 1 (1519247)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Massey Energy Company → Sidney Coal Company, Inc.:** 2008-06-10 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519247; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Sidney Coal Company, Inc.:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519247; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Sidney Coal Company, Inc.:** 2016-07-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519247; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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: 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615908+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $5,000 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 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 — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 0 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 12 inspection events and 87 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 48.26 — Experienced miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.26

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2014-04-07 through 2014-04-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1 rows; 2009-05-26 through 2009-05-26; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2012-03-07 through 2012-03-07; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2009-05-26 through 2009-05-26; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2008-06-10 through 2008-06-10; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 12 rows; 2008-08-08 through 2014-04-07; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 48 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 1 rows; 2009-05-26 through 2009-05-26; 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/bent-branch-energy-co-mine-no-1-1519247`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/bent-branch-energy-co-mine-no-1-1519247`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519247/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519247/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519247/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`