# No. 4

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519770
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Letcher, KY
- **Operator:** Phelps Energy and Resources 2 LLC
- **Controller:** Michelle L  Banks
- **Public source rows linked:** 577
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Michelle L  Banks (0169348) → Phelps Energy and Resources 2 LLC (0168854) → No. 4 (1519770)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Lloyd K  Damron → MJK Mining Inc.:** 2014-11-10 through 2020-02-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519770; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jairus W  Hall → Phelps Energy and Resources 2 LLC:** 2020-02-13 through 2022-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519770; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Michelle L  Banks → Phelps Energy and Resources 2 LLC:** 2022-05-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519770; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 8
- 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 21 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 72 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 118 violation rows across the full record; 41 carry an S&S flag and $25,154 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 215 samples:** Occupational health samples 155 coal dust; 19 coal quartz; 41 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 3 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 10K employee hours and 21 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 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 — 12 since 2021:** Inspections 38 inspection events and 2K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 8,141 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 27,910
- **Average employees:** 21
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Central
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 77.1102 — Warning signs; smoking and open flame.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1102
- **30 CFR 71.206 — Quarterly sampling; designated work positions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.206
- **30 CFR 72.620 — Drill dust control at surface mines and surface areas of underground mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.620
- **30 CFR 71.100 — Respirable dust standard.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-B/section-71.100
- **30 CFR 77.1000 — Highwalls, pits and spoil banks; plans.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1000

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2024-08-29 through 2024-08-29; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-02-21 through 2025-02-21; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 114 rows; 2015-01-22 through 2024-08-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 155 rows; 2015-01-22 through 2024-12-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 15 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2014-11-10 through 2020-02-13; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 38 rows; 2014-12-30 through 2024-06-17; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 55 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 9 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 41 rows; 2015-08-13 through 2024-01-30; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 19 rows; 2015-01-22 through 2024-06-25; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 118 rows; 2015-01-22 through 2024-08-01; 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-4-1519770`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-4-1519770`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519770/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519770/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519770/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`