# Catron Mountain

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519937
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Harlan, KY
- **Operator:** Black Mountain Energy LLC
- **Controller:** Robby  Jessee
- **Public source rows linked:** 343
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Robby  Jessee (0133741) → Black Mountain Energy LLC (0155274) → Catron Mountain (1519937)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Robby  Jessee → Black Mountain Energy LLC:** 2023-01-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519937; 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: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+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 — 66 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 66 violation rows across the full record; 16 carry an S&S flag and $32,683 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 60 samples:** Occupational health samples 37 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 20 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 — 844 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 606 employee hours and 1 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 — 18 since 2021:** Inspections 18 inspection events and 756 published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 7,558 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 12,362
- **Average employees:** 6
- **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 71.403 — Waiver of surface facilities requirements; posting of waiver.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.403
- **30 CFR 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **30 CFR 48.28 — Annual refresher training of miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.28
- **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 77.1000 — 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 72.100 — Periodic examinations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-B/section-72.100
- **30 CFR 71.206 — Quarterly sampling; designated work positions.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.206
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-04-14 through 2025-04-14; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 48 rows; 2024-01-26 through 2025-06-18; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 37 rows; 2023-03-23 through 2025-03-10; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 99 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 26 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2023-01-13 through 2023-01-13; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 18 rows; 2023-03-22 through 2026-10-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 19 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:** 20 rows; 2023-03-23 through 2025-03-10; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2023-06-28 through 2024-03-21; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 66 rows; 2024-01-26 through 2025-06-18; 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/catron-mountain-1519937`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/catron-mountain-1519937`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519937/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519937/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519937/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`