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Bowie Resources LLC: 2,299 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Wolverine Fuels LLC
MSHA operator ID: 0052652

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
180
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2004–2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
2,299
citations
472
significant & substantial
$3,498,664
proposed penalties
$2,245,873
paid to date
64% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,252,791 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
1,017
inspections on record
35,837
inspection hours
6.4
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
2,299 citations across 35,837 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$3.5M
proposed penalties
$2.2M
current assessed
$2.2M
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
2,209 assessments are final orders; 116 contested dockets.
Of $2.9M in penalties contested before the Commission, $1.3M was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-23.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
21.2%
significant & substantial
4.8%
high negligence or reckless
21.2%
reasonably likely or greater
22.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.1% none, 4.6% low, 90.5% moderate, 4.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2016
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.79 and the all-US-mining average was 2.59 cases per 100 workers.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2016 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2015 1.70 0.57 0.000
2014 2.94 2.41 0.000
2013 3.16 2.37 0.000
2012 3.70 2.85 0.000
2011 4.26 2.13 0.000
2010 3.62 2.42 0.000
2009 3.88 2.91 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Respirable coal dust
ⓘ Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.

Last sampled: 2022-11-17, 3 years ago
91%
within 1.5 mg/m3
2,728
samples
7.20
dust max (mg/m3)
9
over MSHA ECV
ⓘ The excessive concentration value (ECV) is MSHA's own per-sample enforcement threshold, which builds in measurement uncertainty; a sample over its ECV can trigger a citation. The count covers only samples MSHA assigned an ECV.
1,177 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 1,551 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR814
  • LONGWALL OPERATOR (TAILGATE SIDE)383
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR158

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2015-12-10, 10 years ago
3.2
silica avg (%)
149
samples
19.3
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR45
  • LONGWALL OPERATOR (TAILGATE SIDE)34
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)30
See US coal mines ranked by silica in their dust samples.

Noise
ⓘ The share counts noise samples whose measured dose exceeded the 90 dBA permissible exposure limit. It describes the sampled workplace, not what reached the miner's ear: hearing conservation programs and the hearing protection worn during the shift are recorded separately and are not reflected here.

Last sampled: 2021-09-09, 4 years ago
17%
over PEL
417
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • DRIVER63
  • UTILITY MAN41
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)30
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
291 citations taken to the federal commission · 13% of citations on record
  • Settled 280 · 96%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 11 · 4%
78%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 176 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
50%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2.5M proposed, $1.2M after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2016-01-20. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this operator contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2009-1010 Vacate Miller 2009 $232K → $40K
WEST 2008-814 Prevail Manning 2011 $220K → $10K
WEST 2014-0713 Settlement Manning 2015 $136K → $10K
WEST 2008-743 Settlement Manning 2010 $115K → $74K
WEST 2011-103 Settlement Miller 2012 $114K → $40K
WEST 2014-0567 Settlement Manning 2015 $114K → $28K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2017
1
2015
5
2014
15
2013
13
2012
19
2011
18
2010
14
2009
17
2008
23
2007
19
2006
18
2005
8
2004
10

Mines on record

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Where Bowie Resources LLC stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.

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