# Lee Ranch Coal Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2901879
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mckinley, NM
- **Operator:** Peabody Natural Resources Company
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Public source rows linked:** 7,137
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Peabody Energy Corporation (C15833) → Peabody Natural Resources Company (P24175) → Lee Ranch Coal Mine (2901879)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp → Santa Fe Pacific Coal Corp:** 1982-02-01 through 1993-06-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 2901879; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Hanson PLC → Lee Ranch Coal Company:** 1993-06-26 through 1998-05-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 2901879; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Peabody Energy Corporation → Peabody Natural Resources Company:** 1998-05-19 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2901879; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 9
- 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 — 7 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 53 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 1,006 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 44 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 436 violation rows across the full record; 115 carry an S&S flag and $186,232 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 779 samples:** Occupational health samples 475 coal dust; 46 coal quartz; 258 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 3 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 19K employee hours and 41 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 139 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 30 contested-violation rows, 75 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 34 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 25 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 — 25 since 2021:** Inspections 122 inspection events and 6K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 1,410,492 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 273,705
- **Average employees:** 143
- **Coal supply region:** Western
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 41.20 — Legal identity report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-C/section-41.20
- **30 CFR 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **30 CFR 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.1303 — Explosives, handling and use.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-N/section-77.1303
- **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 77.505 — Cable fittings; suitability.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.505
- **30 CFR 77.409 — Shovels, draglines, and tractors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.409
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 53 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2026-01-12; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-03-18 through 2024-03-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 435 rows; 2000-03-06 through 2026-08-24; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 75 rows; 2000-08-01 through 2025-04-08; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 475 rows; 2000-02-03 through 2026-10-06; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 34 rows; 2000-04-26 through 2012-03-26; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 30 rows; 2006-12-06 through 2024-06-24; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,900 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 870 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1982-02-01 through 1998-05-19; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 122 rows; 2000-03-06 through 2026-08-23; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 329 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 69 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 258 rows; 2000-04-19 through 2026-03-10; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 46 rows; 2001-10-17 through 2026-08-24; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 436 rows; 2000-03-06 through 2026-08-24; 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/lee-ranch-coal-mine-2901879`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/lee-ranch-coal-mine-2901879`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2901879/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2901879/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2901879/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`