# Red Dog Operations

- **MSHA mine ID:** 5001545
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Lead-Zinc Ore
- **Location:** Northwest Arctic, AK
- **Operator:** Teck Alaska Inc
- **Controller:** Teck Resources Limited
- **Public source rows linked:** 10,403
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Teck Resources Limited (M01474) → Teck Alaska Inc (L10019) → Red Dog Operations (5001545)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Teck Resources Limited → Teck Alaska Inc:** 1988-03-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 5001545; 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 — 88 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 523 historical accident/injury rows; 2 coded fatalities and 7,136 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 425 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1,429 violation rows across the full record; 244 carry an S&S flag and $831,543 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 556 samples:** Occupational health samples 551 personal; 5 area. 28 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 506K employee hours and 504 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 453 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 209 contested-violation rows, 214 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 30 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 33 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 — 90 since 2021:** Inspections 218 inspection events and 12K 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 56.4101 — Warning signs.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4101
- **30 CFR 56.14207 — Parking procedures for unattended equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14207
- **30 CFR 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.16006 — Protection of gas cylinder valves.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-O/section-56.16006

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 523 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2026-09-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1988-03-16 through 1988-03-16; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Area Samples:** 5 rows; 2024-09-22 through 2025-09-10; source ID `msha-area-samples`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1,404 rows; 2000-03-21 through 2026-05-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 214 rows; 2001-11-27 through 2025-08-27; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 30 rows; 2010-01-12 through 2024-05-28; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 209 rows; 2007-01-21 through 2024-10-06; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 4,471 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 947 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1988-03-01 through 1988-03-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 218 rows; 2000-03-20 through 2026-09-13; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 318 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 81 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Samples:** 551 rows; 2000-11-07 through 2025-12-31; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 1,429 rows; 2000-03-20 through 2026-05-17; 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/red-dog-operations-5001545`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/red-dog-operations-5001545`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/5001545/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/5001545/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://5001545/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`