# Riveredge Surface Operation

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519749
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mclean, KY
- **Operator:** Rough Creek Mining, LLC
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 900
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alliance Resource Partners LP (C15455) → Rough Creek Mining, LLC (0136993) → Riveredge Surface Operation (1519749)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Rhino Resource Partners LP → Pennyrile Energy, LLC:** 2014-06-10 through 2020-04-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519749; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Rough Creek Mining, LLC:** 2020-04-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519749; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 8 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 386 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 114 violation rows across the full record; 36 carry an S&S flag and $19,914 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 175 samples:** Occupational health samples 126 coal dust; 13 coal quartz; 36 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 8 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 18 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 29 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 11 contested-violation rows, 11 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 7 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 24 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 71.209 — Status change reports.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.209
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2
- **30 CFR 77.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.904
- **30 CFR 77.403-1 — Mobile equipment; rollover protective structures (ROPS).** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.403-1
- **30 CFR 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 8 rows; 2015-02-06 through 2018-07-22; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-11-04 through 2019-11-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 110 rows; 2014-09-03 through 2019-10-30; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 11 rows; 2016-07-12 through 2020-04-03; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 126 rows; 2014-09-22 through 2019-09-09; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 7 rows; 2015-02-23 through 2019-06-17; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 11 rows; 2015-11-19 through 2019-10-30; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 352 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 55 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2014-06-10 through 2020-04-13; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 24 rows; 2014-09-03 through 2019-10-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 23 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 36 rows; 2014-09-22 through 2018-12-04; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 13 rows; 2014-09-22 through 2019-07-17; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 114 rows; 2014-09-03 through 2019-10-30; 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/riveredge-surface-operation-1519749`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/riveredge-surface-operation-1519749`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519749/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519749/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519749/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`