# Poplar Grove Preparation Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519828
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mclean, KY
- **Operator:** Pollard Management Group of Kentucky, LLC
- **Controller:** Jason  Pollard
- **Public source rows linked:** 774
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Jason  Pollard (0160322) → Pollard Management Group of Kentucky, LLC (0175175) → Poplar Grove Preparation Plant (1519828)**

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:** 2018-05-11 through 2021-01-24; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519828; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jason  Pollard → Pollard Management Group of Kentucky, LLC:** 2021-01-25 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519828; 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: 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615908+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 18 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 3 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 24 violation rows across the full record; 5 carry an S&S flag and $3,801 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 38 samples:** Occupational health samples 26 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 11 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 384 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 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 — 14 since 2021:** Inspections 30 inspection events and 944 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 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **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
- **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
- **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 77.507 — Electric equipment; switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.507
- **30 CFR 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.513 — Insulating mats at power switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.513
- **30 CFR 77.207 — Illumination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.207

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2018-10-11 through 2019-08-12; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-03-04 through 2025-03-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 24 rows; 2018-07-09 through 2024-09-19; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 26 rows; 2019-06-27 through 2020-06-11; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2019-03-01 through 2019-03-01; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 537 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 94 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2018-05-11 through 2021-01-25; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 30 rows; 2018-06-29 through 2025-02-18; 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:** 4 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 11 rows; 2019-09-04 through 2019-12-16; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2019-12-15 through 2019-12-15; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 24 rows; 2018-07-09 through 2024-09-19; 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-preparation-plant-1519828`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/poplar-grove-preparation-plant-1519828`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519828/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519828/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519828/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`