# Riveredge Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519424
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mclean, KY
- **Operator:** Rough Creek Mining, LLC
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 12,507
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alliance Resource Partners LP (C15455) → Rough Creek Mining, LLC (0136993) → Riveredge Mine (1519424)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Massey Energy Company → West Kentucky Energy Company:** 2009-08-07 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519424; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → West Kentucky Energy Company:** 2011-06-01 through 2012-05-01; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519424; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rhino Resource Partners LP → Pennyrile Energy LLC:** 2012-05-02 through 2020-04-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519424; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Rough Creek Mining, LLC:** 2020-04-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519424; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 11
- 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 72 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 2,022 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1,363 violation rows across the full record; 319 carry an S&S flag and $688,762 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 5K samples:** Occupational health samples 4,971 coal dust; 279 coal quartz; 198 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 45 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 — 335 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 125 contested-violation rows, 125 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 85 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 13 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 104 inspection events and 18K 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 75.1600-3 — Communications facilities; refuge alternatives.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-Q/section-75.1600-3
- **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 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.1914 — Maintenance of diesel-powered equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1914
- **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
- **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 75.1911 — Fire suppression systems for diesel-powered equipment and fuel transportation units.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1911
- **30 CFR 75.1731 — Maintenance of belt conveyors and belt conveyor entries.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1731
- **30 CFR 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403
- **30 CFR 48.9 — Records of training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-A/section-48.9
- **30 CFR 75.204 — Roof bolting.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.204
- **30 CFR 75.350 — Belt air course ventilation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.350

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 72 rows; 2013-10-02 through 2019-10-17; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-11-01 through 2019-11-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1,352 rows; 2011-02-01 through 2019-10-10; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 125 rows; 2015-03-16 through 2020-02-11; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 4,971 rows; 2014-06-11 through 2019-09-16; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 85 rows; 2013-08-27 through 2019-09-27; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 125 rows; 2014-02-22 through 2019-09-05; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,119 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 686 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 2009-08-07 through 2020-04-13; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 104 rows; 2010-03-03 through 2019-10-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 22 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 198 rows; 2014-06-23 through 2019-09-17; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 279 rows; 2014-08-04 through 2019-08-27; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 1,363 rows; 2011-02-01 through 2019-10-10; 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/riveredge-mine-1519424`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/riveredge-mine-1519424`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519424/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519424/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519424/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`