# Center Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3200218
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Lignite)
- **Location:** Oliver, ND
- **Operator:** BNI Coal, Ltd
- **Controller:** Allete Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,539
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Allete Inc (C13807) → BNI Coal, Ltd (P20244) → Center Mine (3200218)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **R W  Rovelstad et al → Baukol-Noonan Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1988-11-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 3200218; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **L A  Rutherford et al → Baukol-Noonan Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1988-11-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 3200218; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Allete Inc → BNI Coal, Ltd:** 1988-11-17 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3200218; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 — 15 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 95 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,425 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 41 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 190 violation rows across the full record; 33 carry an S&S flag and $73,315 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 648 samples:** Occupational health samples 464 coal dust; 7 coal quartz; 177 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 7 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 — 1.1M tons:** Quarterly production and employment 81K employee hours and 175 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 10 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 5 contested-violation rows, 5 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 10 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 — 21 since 2021:** Inspections 100 inspection events and 6K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 4,240,336 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 326,080
- **Average employees:** 174
- **Coal supply region:** Western
- **Union code:** International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 50.20-7 — Criteria—MSHA Form 7000-1, Section D.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20-7
- **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 77.1606 — 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 47.31 — Requirement for a HazCom program.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-D/section-47.31
- **30 CFR 48.27 — Training of miners assigned to a task in which they have had no previous experience; minimum courses of instruction.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.27
- **30 CFR 77.204 — Openings in surface installations; safeguards.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.204
- **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 77.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.904

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 95 rows; 2000-04-29 through 2025-08-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1970-01-22 through 1970-01-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 179 rows; 2001-06-14 through 2026-08-11; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 5 rows; 2007-07-25 through 2015-02-26; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 464 rows; 2000-03-28 through 2026-09-03; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 5 rows; 2006-09-27 through 2013-11-19; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,691 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 355 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1988-11-17; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 100 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2026-08-11; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 212 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 54 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 177 rows; 2001-02-27 through 2026-07-09; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 7 rows; 2008-11-19 through 2018-10-18; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 190 rows; 2001-06-14 through 2026-08-11; 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/center-mine-3200218`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/center-mine-3200218`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3200218/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3200218/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3200218/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`