# Poplar Grove Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519806
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mclean, KY
- **Operator:** Hartshorne Mining LLC
- **Controller:** Paringa Resources Ltd
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,939
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Paringa Resources Ltd (0117943) → Hartshorne Mining LLC (0138573) → Poplar Grove Mine (1519806)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Paringa Resources Ltd → Hartshorne Mining LLC:** 2017-05-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519806; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 11 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 117 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 207 violation rows across the full record; 56 carry an S&S flag and $61,383 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 1K samples:** Occupational health samples 1,196 coal dust; 80 coal quartz; 64 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 12 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 12 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 10 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 7 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 86 inspection events and 5K 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 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607
- **30 CFR 75.901 — Protection of low- and medium-voltage three-phase circuits used underground.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.901
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.1732 — Proximity detection systems.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1732
- **30 CFR 75.1906 — Transport of diesel fuel.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1906
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 11 rows; 2018-10-25 through 2020-06-04; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-08-03 through 2020-08-03; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 203 rows; 2017-08-15 through 2020-07-21; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2020-08-24 through 2020-08-24; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 1,196 rows; 2018-05-30 through 2020-06-17; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 10 rows; 2018-02-01 through 2020-04-29; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2020-02-10 through 2020-02-10; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,756 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 313 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2017-05-01 through 2017-05-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 86 rows; 2017-08-02 through 2020-07-13; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **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:** 64 rows; 2019-06-04 through 2020-03-16; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 80 rows; 2018-06-26 through 2020-06-17; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 207 rows; 2017-08-15 through 2020-07-21; 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/poplar-grove-mine-1519806`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/poplar-grove-mine-1519806`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519806/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519806/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519806/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`