# Savage Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2400106
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Lignite)
- **Location:** Richland, MT
- **Operator:** Westmoreland Savage Mining LLC
- **Controller:** Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,412
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC (0146581) → Westmoreland Savage Mining LLC (P24672) → Savage Mine (2400106)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **MDU Resources Group Inc → Knife River Corp:** 1950-01-01 through 2001-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 2400106; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Westmoreland Coal Company → Westmoreland Savage Mining LLC:** 2001-05-01 through 2019-03-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 2400106; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC → Westmoreland Savage Mining LLC:** 2019-03-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2400106; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 8
- 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 — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 10 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 537 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 9 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 66 violation rows across the full record; 12 carry an S&S flag and $15,519 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 405 samples:** Occupational health samples 268 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 134 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 4 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 4K employee hours and 8 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 2 contested-violation rows, 2 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 — 11 since 2021:** Inspections 74 inspection events and 2K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

No matched record in the 2024 EIA coal-public workbook. This may be inapplicable for a non-coal operation.

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607
- **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 48.31 — Hazard training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 77.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.904
- **30 CFR 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 10 rows; 2000-05-02 through 2025-05-15; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1958-07-04 through 1958-07-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 66 rows; 2000-09-12 through 2026-04-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2 rows; 2005-07-19 through 2005-11-03; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 268 rows; 2000-07-11 through 2026-08-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2005-05-13 through 2005-05-13; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 2 rows; 2005-02-11 through 2005-02-15; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 359 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 74 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2001-05-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 74 rows; 2000-07-10 through 2026-04-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 292 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 55 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 134 rows; 2001-09-19 through 2026-04-07; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2017-06-13 through 2021-08-12; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 66 rows; 2000-09-12 through 2026-04-07; 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/savage-mine-2400106`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/savage-mine-2400106`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2400106/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2400106/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2400106/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`