# Falkirk Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3200491
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Lignite)
- **Location:** Mclean, ND
- **Operator:** Falkirk Mining Company
- **Controller:** NACCO Industries Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 6,548
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**NACCO Industries Inc (C01333) → Falkirk Mining Company (P01806) → Falkirk Mine (3200491)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **NACCO Industries Inc → Falkirk Mining Company:** 1975-08-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3200491; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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 — 11 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 105 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 2,124 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 46 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 136 violation rows across the full record; 17 carry an S&S flag and $33,310 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 767 samples:** Occupational health samples 561 coal dust; 9 coal quartz; 197 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 8 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 — 1.5M tons:** Quarterly production and employment 232K employee hours and 476 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 22 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 — 19 since 2021:** Inspections 105 inspection events and 7K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 7,400,184 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 856,489
- **Average employees:** 441
- **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 48.26 — Experienced miner training.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.26
- **30 CFR 48.28 — Annual refresher training of miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.28
- **30 CFR 77.701-1 — Approved methods of grounding of equipment receiving power from ungrounded alternating current power systems.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-H/section-77.701-1
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **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 77.204 — Openings in surface installations; safeguards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.204
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 105 rows; 2000-10-04 through 2026-09-16; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1975-01-16 through 1975-01-16; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 132 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2026-05-21; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 561 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2026-09-02; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2003-07-22 through 2005-02-17; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 4,138 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 828 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1975-08-01 through 1975-08-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 105 rows; 2000-02-14 through 2026-05-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 295 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 37 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 197 rows; 2000-03-01 through 2026-05-26; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 9 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2015-10-15; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 136 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2026-05-21; 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/falkirk-mine-3200491`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/falkirk-mine-3200491`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3200491/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3200491/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3200491/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`