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Black Butte And Leucite Hills Mines: 23 MSHA citations

Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.

Black Butte And Leucite Hills Mines is an active coal (bituminous) surface mine in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, operated by Black Butte Coal Company with 59 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4801180). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 23 citations and orders there with $8,022 in proposed penalties, and 6 accident reports were filed there, with 6 injury or illness cases.

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MSHA mine ID

4801180

Status

Active since August 1, 1979

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Surface

County

Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Nearest town

Point Of Rocks

Operator

Black Butte Coal Company

Employees

59

MSHA field office

Green River WY Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

23

Significant and substantial

2 (8.7%)

Closure orders

0

High negligence or reckless

0

Proposed penalties

$8,022

Amount paid so far

$8,022

Inspections

24

Inspector hours on site

480

Citations per inspection

0.96 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

6

Injury and illness cases

6

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

October 16, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

2 ($290 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.

Standards cited most at Black Butte And Leucite Hills Mines

Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.

Injury and illness cases at Black Butte And Leucite Hills Mines

Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.

What the accident reports at Black Butte And Leucite Hills Mines describe

Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.

Equipment named in accident reports at Black Butte And Leucite Hills Mines

Other open mines in Sweetwater County, Wyoming

US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.