Less than five years after an explosion fueled by excess coal dust killed 29 men deep inside a West Virginia underground mine, the nation’s coal mines are on pace for an all-time low in work-related deaths. Federal mine safety officials …
Federal mine inspectors have cited a silver mine near Ouray, Colo., where two men died in an accident in November with numerous safety violations. The Denver Post reports the Mine Safety and Health Administration put the Revenue Mine on notice …
A federal agency says the root cause of a southwestern Indiana mine accident that led to an Illinois man’s death was a lack of procedures to prevent worker injury. The Mine Safety and Health Administration said in a report released …
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration says 10 miners died in work-related accidents at the nation’s mines during the first quarter of 2012, and half of those occurred on five consecutive weekends. MSHA chief Joe Main said Wednesday that …
Three times in a month, regulators have caught West Virginia coal companies illegally warning miners that federal inspectors were onsite. Mine Safety and Health Administration director Joe Main says such warnings let workers disguise conditions that could endanger their lives. …
Coal operators across the country are changing the way they work and mines are becoming safer. But the head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration says there are still many who “don’t get it.” MSHA chief Joe Main …
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration says it issued 134 citations during its latest round of inspections targeting problem mines. The agency said Thursday that 60 of the violations were uncovered at coal mines in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, …