# Five Forks Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1601499
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Lignite)
- **Location:** Natchitoches, LA
- **Operator:** Demery Resources Company
- **Controller:** NACCO Industries Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,973
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**NACCO Industries Inc (C01333) → Demery Resources Company (0106965) → Five Forks Mine (1601499)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **NACCO Industries Inc → Demery Resources Company:** 2010-01-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1601499; 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 3 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 229 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 11 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 29 violation rows across the full record; 7 carry an S&S flag and $9,559 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 322 samples:** Occupational health samples 190 coal dust; 132 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 — 66K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 16K employee hours and 34 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 — 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 — 17 since 2021:** Inspections 50 inspection events and 2K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 264,374 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 66,230
- **Average employees:** 34
- **Coal supply region:** Interior
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 77.403-1 — Mobile equipment; rollover protective structures (ROPS).** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.403-1
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **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 77.1710 — Protective clothing; requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1710
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 48.27 — Training of miners assigned to a task in which they have had no previous experience; minimum courses of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.27
- **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 77.205 — 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 71.501 — Sanitary toilet facilities; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-F/section-71.501

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 3 rows; 2013-10-29 through 2019-07-26; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2013-02-11 through 2013-02-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 27 rows; 2010-04-15 through 2026-07-14; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 190 rows; 2010-05-18 through 2026-07-14; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,080 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 263 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2010-01-12 through 2010-01-12; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 50 rows; 2010-04-15 through 2026-07-21; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 161 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 35 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 132 rows; 2010-05-18 through 2026-07-14; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 29 rows; 2010-04-15 through 2026-07-14; 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/five-forks-mine-1601499`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/five-forks-mine-1601499`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1601499/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1601499/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1601499/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`