# K-Island Mine #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519857
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Bell, KY
- **Operator:** K-Island Resources, LLC
- **Controller:** Straight Creek Holding Corporation
- **Public source rows linked:** 250
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Straight Creek Holding Corporation (0169401) → K-Island Resources, LLC (0182973) → K-Island Mine #1 (1519857)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Timothy W  Evans Sr → Tackett Creek Mining, Inc.:** 2019-03-13 through 2022-05-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519857; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Straight Creek Holding Corporation → K-Island Resources, LLC:** 2022-05-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519857; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 22 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 25 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $3,511 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 163 samples:** Occupational health samples 107 coal dust; 8 coal quartz; 48 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 — 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 — 0 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 — 18 since 2021:** Inspections 27 inspection events and 775 published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 7,556 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 7,209
- **Average employees:** 12
- **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 48.23 — Training plans; time of submission; where filed; information required; time for approval; method for disapproval; commencement of training; approval of instructors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.23
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **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 77.1606 — 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 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **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 77.1104 — 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

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-05-31 through 2024-05-31; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 25 rows; 2019-08-29 through 2023-12-15; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 107 rows; 2019-06-14 through 2024-02-16; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2019-03-13 through 2022-05-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 27 rows; 2019-04-08 through 2024-04-10; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **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:** 48 rows; 2020-08-25 through 2023-12-11; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 8 rows; 2020-09-16 through 2023-12-11; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 25 rows; 2019-08-29 through 2023-12-15; 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/k-island-mine-1-1519857`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/k-island-mine-1-1519857`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519857/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519857/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519857/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`