# No. 9 Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519568
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Harlan, KY
- **Operator:** Bluestone Mining Company LLC
- **Controller:** Joe  Gibson; Harold  Hurley; Danny  Justus
- **Public source rows linked:** 588
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Joe  Gibson; Harold  Hurley; Danny  Justus (0177320) → Bluestone Mining Company LLC (0189433) → No. 9 Mine (1519568)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **James C  Justice II et al → Liggett Mining LLC:** 2011-03-07 through 2016-07-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519568; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Stanley R  Ditty → Liggett Mining LLC:** 2011-03-07 through 2007-07-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519568; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Douglas  Warriner → Double Branch Energy, LLC:** 2016-07-23 through 2023-06-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519568; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Harold  Hurley et al → Bluestone Mining Company LLC:** 2023-06-04 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519568; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Danny  Justus et al → Bluestone Mining Company LLC:** 2023-06-04 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519568; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Joe  Gibson et al → Bluestone Mining Company LLC:** 2023-06-04 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519568; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 13
- 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 4 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 102 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 8 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 88 violation rows across the full record; 10 carry an S&S flag and $19,536 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 173 samples:** Occupational health samples 132 coal dust; 11 coal quartz; 30 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 1K employee hours and 2 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 63 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 31 contested-violation rows, 31 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 — 19 since 2021:** Inspections 56 inspection events and 1K 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 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **30 CFR 71.501 — Sanitary toilet facilities; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-F/section-71.501
- **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 75.802 — Protection of high-voltage circuits extending underground.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-I/section-75.802
- **30 CFR 48.26 — Experienced miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.26
- **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 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 75.311 — Main mine fan operation.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.311
- **30 CFR 75.1711 — Sealing of mines.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 4 rows; 2013-01-08 through 2013-05-07; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-05-10 through 2024-05-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 82 rows; 2012-02-21 through 2024-05-06; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 31 rows; 2013-08-07 through 2017-09-05; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 132 rows; 2012-03-07 through 2013-05-14; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2024-06-04 through 2024-06-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 31 rows; 2012-11-05 through 2016-07-08; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 53 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 2011-03-07 through 2023-06-04; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 56 rows; 2012-01-12 through 2024-05-06; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 45 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 30 rows; 2012-03-07 through 2013-05-07; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 11 rows; 2012-06-20 through 2013-05-07; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 88 rows; 2012-02-21 through 2024-05-06; 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-9-mine-1519568`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-9-mine-1519568`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519568/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519568/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519568/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`