# Access Energy

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519532
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Letcher, KY
- **Operator:** Bluegrass Resources
- **Controller:** Paul S Lopez; Clayton  Degiacinto
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,169
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Paul S Lopez; Clayton  Degiacinto (0177763) → Bluegrass Resources (0182813) → Access Energy (1519532)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Wexford Capital LLC → Deane Mining LLC:** 2010-09-30 through 2010-10-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519532; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rhino Resource Partners LP → Deane Mining LLC:** 2010-10-05 through 2015-12-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519532; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Quest Energy Corporation → Deane Mining LLC:** 2015-12-30 through 2017-01-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519532; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **American Resources Corporation → Deane Mining LLC:** 2017-01-05 through 2022-05-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519532; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Amy  Sizemore → Patriot Fuels:** 2022-05-22 through 2022-09-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519532; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Amy  Sizemore → Bluegrass Resources:** 2022-09-13 through 2022-09-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519532; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ken  McCoy et al → Bluegrass Resources:** 2022-09-13 through 2023-06-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519532; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jason  McCoy et al → Bluegrass Resources:** 2022-09-13 through 2023-06-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519532; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Clayton  Degiacinto et al → Bluegrass Resources:** 2023-06-21 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519532; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Paul S Lopez et al → Bluegrass Resources:** 2023-06-21 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519532; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 10
- Typed edges: 21
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 15 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 505 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 640 violation rows across the full record; 157 carry an S&S flag and $233,922 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 1K samples:** Occupational health samples 928 coal dust; 33 coal quartz; 55 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 7 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 3K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 358 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 171 contested-violation rows, 171 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 16 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 4 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 — 8 since 2021:** Inspections 116 inspection events and 8K 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 75.1714-6 — Emergency tethers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-6
- **30 CFR 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (8 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 15 rows; 2012-05-04 through 2018-07-17; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-01-29 through 2020-01-29; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 618 rows; 2010-12-03 through 2019-11-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 171 rows; 2013-01-28 through 2020-04-15; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 928 rows; 2011-11-16 through 2019-08-01; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 16 rows; 2012-08-15 through 2019-10-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 171 rows; 2011-08-30 through 2019-11-07; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 192 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 39 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 10 rows; 2010-09-30 through 2022-09-13; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 116 rows; 2010-12-03 through 2026-09-21; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 138 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 25 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 55 rows; 2012-01-25 through 2019-05-29; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 33 rows; 2011-12-03 through 2019-05-29; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 640 rows; 2010-12-03 through 2019-11-07; 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/access-energy-1519532`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/access-energy-1519532`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519532/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519532/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519532/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`