# S-16 Gobblers Knob

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519741
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Breathitt, KY
- **Operator:** Revelation Energy, LLC
- **Controller:** Jeffery A  Hoops
- **Public source rows linked:** 406
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Jeffery A  Hoops (C15863) → Revelation Energy, LLC (0100767) → S-16 Gobblers Knob (1519741)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Jeffery A  Hoops → Revelation Energy, LLC:** 2014-02-28 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519741; 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: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 4 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 163 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 42 violation rows across the full record; 16 carry an S&S flag and $30,692 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 53 samples:** Occupational health samples 37 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 15 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 2 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 4K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 34 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 17 contested-violation rows, 17 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 10 inspection events and 411 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 77.1000 — Highwalls, pits and spoil banks; plans.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1000
- **30 CFR 77.805 — Cable couplers and connection boxes; minimum design requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-I/section-77.805
- **30 CFR 77.804 — High-voltage trailing cables; minimum design requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-I/section-77.804
- **30 CFR 77.604 — Protection of trailing cables.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-G/section-77.604
- **30 CFR 77.1710 — Protective clothing; requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1710
- **30 CFR 77.701 — Grounding metallic frames, casings, and other enclosures of electric equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-H/section-77.701
- **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 77.810 — High-voltage equipment; grounding.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-I/section-77.810
- **30 CFR 77.803 — Fail safe ground check circuits on high-voltage resistance grounded systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-I/section-77.803
- **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

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 4 rows; 2014-08-14 through 2015-07-09; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2016-03-01 through 2016-03-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 42 rows; 2014-04-16 through 2015-06-29; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 17 rows; 2014-12-08 through 2016-06-02; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 37 rows; 2014-05-07 through 2016-01-14; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 17 rows; 2014-05-13 through 2015-06-29; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 155 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 44 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2014-02-28 through 2014-02-28; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 10 rows; 2014-04-14 through 2015-12-09; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 16 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 15 rows; 2014-05-07 through 2015-09-30; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2015-09-30 through 2015-09-30; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 42 rows; 2014-04-16 through 2015-06-29; 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/s-16-gobblers-knob-1519741`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/s-16-gobblers-knob-1519741`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519741/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519741/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519741/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`