# Blue Creek Mine No. 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0103448
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Tuscaloosa, AL
- **Operator:** Warrior Met Coal BC, LLC
- **Controller:** Warrior Met Coal Intermediate Holdco LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 9,116
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Warrior Met Coal Intermediate Holdco LLC (0124421) → Warrior Met Coal BC, LLC (0144513) → Blue Creek Mine No. 1 (0103448)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Walter Energy Incorporated → Blue Creek Energy, Inc.:** 2012-03-15 through 2016-03-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103448; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Warrior Met Coal Intermediate Holdco LLC → Warrior Met Coal BC, LLC:** 2016-03-31 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103448; 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 — 30 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 30 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 1,025 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 907 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 907 violation rows across the full record; 237 carry an S&S flag and $760,965 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 2K samples:** Occupational health samples 2,303 coal dust; 74 coal quartz; 102 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 12 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 — 509 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 248 contested-violation rows, 248 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 13 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 16 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 — 141 since 2021:** Inspections 145 inspection events and 8K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 208,760 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 67,001
- **Average employees:** 160
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Southern
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 75.380 — Escapeways; bituminous and lignite mines.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.380
- **30 CFR 75.342 — Methane monitors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.342
- **30 CFR 75.1722 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1722
- **30 CFR 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 30 rows; 2022-09-23 through 2026-07-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-09-04 through 2024-09-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 869 rows; 2022-12-08 through 2026-09-10; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 248 rows; 2023-04-11 through 2026-07-23; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 2,303 rows; 2022-03-16 through 2026-10-14; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 13 rows; 2023-07-26 through 2025-06-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 248 rows; 2022-12-08 through 2026-07-13; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,419 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 744 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2012-03-15 through 2016-03-31; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 145 rows; 2012-10-15 through 2026-10-14; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 102 rows; 2023-02-08 through 2026-06-24; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 74 rows; 2022-08-10 through 2026-08-13; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 907 rows; 2022-12-08 through 2026-10-15; 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/blue-creek-mine-no-1-0103448`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/blue-creek-mine-no-1-0103448`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0103448/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0103448/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0103448/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`