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Ramaco Resources Land Holdings, LLC: 426 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Ramaco Resources Inc
MSHA operator ID: 0146035

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
21
Mines on record
4
Years on record
2017–2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
426
citations
88
significant & substantial
$222,053
proposed penalties
$178,245
paid to date
80% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $43,808 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
144
inspections on record
8,680
inspection hours
4.9
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.
426 citations across 8,680 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.
$222K
proposed penalties
$180K
current assessed
$178K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
419 assessments are final orders; 10 contested dockets.
Of $117K in penalties contested before the Commission, $75K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-08.
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.
21.0%
significant & substantial
4.8%
high negligence or reckless
21.0%
reasonably likely or greater
27.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.2% none, 23.6% low, 71.4% moderate, 4.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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.
6.26
total case rate
6.26
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US coal mining average was 3.19 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2026 * 2.48 2.48 0.000
2025 6.26 6.26 0.000
2024 4.20 3.50 0.000
2023 2.17 2.17 0.000
2022 1.03 1.03 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 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: 2026-07-30
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
1,438
samples
3.10
dust max (mg/m3)
2
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.
319 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 1,119 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)458
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR272
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)231

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2026-06-11
6.6
silica avg (%)
83
samples
28.6
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)15
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR14
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR13
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: 2026-06-02
1%
over PEL
164
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR46
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER18
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR12
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.
65 citations taken to the federal commission · 15% of citations on record
  • Settled 65 · 100%
86%
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 37 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
36%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$117K proposed, $75K 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 2025-01-13. 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
VA 2025-0008 Settlement Young 2025 $48K → $29K
VA 2024-0022 Settlement Paez 2024 $16K → $10K
VA 2025-0022 Settlement Lewis 2025 $15K → $11K
VA 2024-0011 Settlement Moran 2024 $9K → $7K
VA 2024-0034 Settlement Bulluck 2025 $8K → $6K
VA 2025-0012 Settlement Young 2025 $7K → $6K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2026
1
2025
5
2024
7
2023
4
2022
2
2019
1
2017
1

Mines on record

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Where Ramaco Resources Land Holdings, 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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