# No. 2

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519506
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Johnson, KY
- **Operator:** Blackstone Coal Company LLC
- **Controller:** James T  Stephens; Paul  Alexander
- **Public source rows linked:** 71
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James T  Stephens; Paul  Alexander (0072531) → Blackstone Coal Company LLC (0085984) → No. 2 (1519506)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **James T  Stephens  et al → Blackstone Coal Company LLC:** 2010-06-08 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519506; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Paul  Alexander  et al → Blackstone Coal Company LLC:** 2010-06-08 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519506; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 4
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 14 violation rows across the full record; 6 carry an S&S flag and $2,942 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 19 samples:** Occupational health samples 10 coal dust; 9 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 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 9 inspection events and 164 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 71.403 — Waiver of surface facilities requirements; posting of waiver.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.403
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 72.620 — Drill dust control at surface mines and surface areas of underground mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.620
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2012-09-18 through 2012-09-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 14 rows; 2010-09-10 through 2012-09-13; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 10 rows; 2010-09-22 through 2011-03-22; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2010-06-08 through 2010-06-08; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 9 rows; 2010-07-19 through 2012-09-27; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 9 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 2 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 9 rows; 2010-09-22 through 2011-03-23; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 14 rows; 2010-09-10 through 2012-09-13; 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/no-2-1519506`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-2-1519506`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519506/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519506/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519506/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`