# Mine #4

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519515
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** Excel Mining, LLC.
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 16,503
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alliance Resource Partners LP (C15455) → Excel Mining, LLC. (P24012) → Mine #4 (1519515)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Excel Mining, LLC.:** 2010-07-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519515; 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: 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615908+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 116 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 4,774 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 1 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1,265 violation rows across the full record; 155 carry an S&S flag and $293,604 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 11K samples:** Occupational health samples 9,834 coal dust; 443 coal quartz; 404 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 128 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 9K employee hours and 22 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 431 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 106 contested-violation rows, 106 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 219 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 7 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 — 9 since 2021:** Inspections 433 inspection events and 31K 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 75.1714-7 — Multi-gas detectors.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-7
- **30 CFR 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **30 CFR 75.360 — Preshift examination at fixed intervals.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.360
- **30 CFR 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **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 75.1403 — 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 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 75.1202-1 — Temporary notations, revisions, and supplements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1202-1
- **30 CFR 75.1202 — Temporary notations, revisions, and supplements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1202

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 116 rows; 2012-04-05 through 2020-12-16; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2021-05-11 through 2021-05-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1,233 rows; 2011-04-11 through 2021-01-04; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 106 rows; 2013-02-12 through 2020-01-08; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 9,834 rows; 2012-11-20 through 2022-01-17; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 219 rows; 2013-05-08 through 2020-09-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 106 rows; 2011-09-14 through 2019-05-20; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,800 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 395 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2010-07-16 through 2010-07-16; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 433 rows; 2011-04-11 through 2021-05-11; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 117 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 29 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 404 rows; 2012-11-30 through 2019-12-04; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 443 rows; 2012-11-20 through 2020-02-12; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 1,265 rows; 2011-04-11 through 2021-01-04; 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/mine-4-1519515`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mine-4-1519515`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519515/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519515/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519515/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`