# Freedom Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3200595
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Lignite)
- **Location:** Mercer, ND
- **Operator:** The Coteau Properties Company
- **Controller:** NACCO Industries Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 6,167
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**NACCO Industries Inc (C01333) → The Coteau Properties Company (P08947) → Freedom Mine (3200595)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **NACCO Industries Inc → The Coteau Properties Company:** 1978-08-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3200595; 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 — 13 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 140 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,457 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 66 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 162 violation rows across the full record; 22 carry an S&S flag and $54,594 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 834 samples:** Occupational health samples 608 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 223 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 11 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 — 3.2M tons:** Quarterly production and employment 253K employee hours and 505 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 11 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 5 contested-violation rows, 5 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 23 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 102 inspection events and 7K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 11,860,169 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 948,236
- **Average employees:** 471
- **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 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 48.27 — Training of miners assigned to a task in which they have had no previous experience; minimum courses of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.27
- **30 CFR 77.1102 — Warning signs; smoking and open flame.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1102
- **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 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **30 CFR 48.26 — Experienced miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.26

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 140 rows; 2000-04-06 through 2026-07-27; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1978-10-01 through 1978-10-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 146 rows; 2001-02-25 through 2026-08-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 5 rows; 2012-06-06 through 2014-08-27; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 608 rows; 2000-03-21 through 2026-09-02; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2007-01-11 through 2007-01-11; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 5 rows; 2011-04-05 through 2026-07-30; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,713 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 813 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1978-08-01 through 1978-08-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 102 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2026-07-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 205 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 38 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 223 rows; 2000-03-14 through 2026-08-18; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2015-10-16 through 2017-01-05; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 162 rows; 2001-02-25 through 2026-08-19; 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/freedom-mine-3200595`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/freedom-mine-3200595`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3200595/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3200595/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3200595/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`