# Parkway Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519358
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Muhlenberg, KY
- **Operator:** Armstrong Coal Company, Inc.
- **Controller:** Armstrong Energy Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 12,125
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Armstrong Energy Inc (0066691) → Armstrong Coal Company, Inc. (0079344) → Parkway Mine (1519358)**

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.:** 2008-12-31 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519358; 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 107 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 3,001 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 2,166 violation rows across the full record; 422 carry an S&S flag and $1,966,458 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 3K samples:** Occupational health samples 2,417 coal dust; 149 coal quartz; 257 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 41 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 — 48K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 21K employee hours and 43 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 2,709 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1,003 contested-violation rows, 1,004 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 702 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 8 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 — 1 since 2021:** Inspections 204 inspection events and 19K 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 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — 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 75.601 — 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 75.1909 — Nonpermissible diesel-powered equipment; design and performance requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1909
- **30 CFR 75.1731 — Maintenance of belt conveyors and belt conveyor entries.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1731
- **30 CFR 75.1100-3 — Condition and examination of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-3

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 107 rows; 2009-05-04 through 2016-12-05; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2017-04-04 through 2017-04-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 2,105 rows; 2009-05-13 through 2017-01-03; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1,004 rows; 2010-09-20 through 2018-03-08; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 2,417 rows; 2003-05-16 through 2016-10-14; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 702 rows; 2011-02-01 through 2017-01-24; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1,003 rows; 2009-05-13 through 2016-07-27; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,543 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 345 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2008-12-31 through 2008-12-31; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 204 rows; 2009-02-24 through 2021-01-04; 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:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 257 rows; 2009-05-05 through 2016-10-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 149 rows; 2009-05-05 through 2016-10-04; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 2,166 rows; 2009-05-13 through 2017-01-03; 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/parkway-mine-1519358`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/parkway-mine-1519358`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519358/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519358/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519358/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`