# Viper Coal LLC  6#

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519253
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Floyd, KY
- **Operator:** Viper Coal LLC
- **Controller:** Jody Dale Puckett
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,393
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Jody Dale Puckett (0069491) → Viper Coal LLC (0082364) → Viper Coal LLC  6# (1519253)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Hattie F  Johnson → Shorty Enterprise Inc.:** 2008-06-24 through 2010-02-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519253; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **George Chris  Waugh → Black Thunder Mining, Inc.:** 2010-02-11 through 2010-11-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519253; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jody Dale Puckett → Viper Coal LLC:** 2010-11-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519253; 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: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 562 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 418 violation rows across the full record; 198 carry an S&S flag and $345,663 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 154 samples:** Occupational health samples 134 coal dust; 5 coal quartz; 15 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 — 4K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 1K employee hours and 7 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 174 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 86 contested-violation rows, 86 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 39 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 75.800 — High-voltage circuits; circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-I/section-75.800
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **30 CFR 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333
- **30 CFR 75.1100-3 — Condition and examination of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-3
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — 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 75.1725 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1725
- **30 CFR 75.1722 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1722

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2010-07-19 through 2011-03-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2012-06-21 through 2012-06-21; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 392 rows; 2008-08-05 through 2012-05-10; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 86 rows; 2011-05-06 through 2013-12-23; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 134 rows; 2008-10-06 through 2012-05-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2011-04-26 through 2011-04-26; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 86 rows; 2009-11-24 through 2011-02-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 132 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 28 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2008-06-24 through 2010-11-30; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 39 rows; 2008-07-17 through 2012-06-21; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 42 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 15 rows; 2008-11-24 through 2011-12-12; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 5 rows; 2008-11-24 through 2012-03-01; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 418 rows; 2008-08-05 through 2012-05-10; 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/viper-coal-llc-6-1519253`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/viper-coal-llc-6-1519253`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519253/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519253/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519253/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`