# NELMS PLANT

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3304187
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Harrison, OH
- **Operator:** LEESVILLE LAND LLC
- **Controller:** Ricky D  Kirk; Jerry  Wells Jr
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,796
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Ricky D  Kirk; Jerry  Wells Jr (C13425) → LEESVILLE LAND LLC (0173255) → NELMS PLANT (3304187)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Donn A  Chickering → Harrison Processing Corp:** 1990-03-01 through 2001-10-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 3304187; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **American Electric Power Company Inc → AEP Ohio Coal L L C:** 2001-10-30 through 2004-04-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 3304187; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Wexford Capital LLC → Hopedale Mining LLC:** 2004-04-16 through 2010-10-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 3304187; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rhino Resource Partners LP → Hopedale Mining LLC:** 2010-10-05 through 2021-06-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 3304187; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Appalachian Resource Company LLC → Leesville Land LLC:** 2021-06-29 through 2021-02-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 3304187; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ricky D  Kirk  et al → Leesville Land LLC:** 2021-06-29 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3304187; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jerry  Wells Jr  et al → Leesville Land LLC:** 2021-06-29 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3304187; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 17
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 8 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 253 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 50 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 173 violation rows across the full record; 39 carry an S&S flag and $27,032 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 492 samples:** Occupational health samples 353 coal dust; 25 coal quartz; 114 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 10 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 2K employee hours and 7 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 35 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 16 contested-violation rows, 16 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 3 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 — 30 since 2021:** Inspections 120 inspection events and 4K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 0 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 20,422
- **Average employees:** 9
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Northern
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 77.216 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; general.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216
- **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 77.200 — Surface installations; general.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.200
- **30 CFR 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.216-3 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; inspection requirements; correction of hazards; program requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **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 77.1104 — 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

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 8 rows; 2002-05-16 through 2024-06-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-03-02 through 2026-03-02; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 170 rows; 2000-07-11 through 2026-06-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 16 rows; 2010-05-21 through 2015-05-19; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 353 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2025-12-29; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 3 rows; 2010-03-11 through 2013-05-08; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 16 rows; 2009-03-30 through 2014-06-02; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 461 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 87 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1990-03-01 through 2021-06-29; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 120 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2026-07-08; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 193 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 48 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 114 rows; 2000-07-10 through 2025-11-19; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 25 rows; 2003-05-07 through 2025-11-19; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 173 rows; 2000-07-11 through 2026-06-17; 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/nelms-plant-3304187`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/nelms-plant-3304187`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3304187/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3304187/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3304187/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`