The agency wants to allow use of “nonpermissible” respirators without mine operators having to ask for approval.

More than $10.5 million will fund required instruction for new and experienced miners, with programs tailored to local hazards.

On April 16, 2024, the Mine Safety & Health Administration (“MSHA”) released its final rule for Respirable Crystalline Silica (“RCS”) for preliminary viewing, and it was published in the Federal ...

MSHA reported that none of the nation’s roughly 12,000 mining operations met the criteria for a pattern of violations notice ...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) released three proposed rules on July 1 aimed at revising the criteria for approving safety plans in underground coal mines.

Retired coal miner Stanley "Goose" Stewart holds a helmet he wore inside the Upper Big Branch mine when it blew up on April 5, 2010, killing 29 men, as he stands for a portrait at his home in Orgas, W ...

The decision is the result of a set of citations MSHA issued to an independent trucking company in West Virginia after inspecting the company’s facility about a mile from a mine site. The agency ...

Industrial Consulting & Training LLC is a training provider offering MSHA-compliant safety education and certification programs for mining operations. HIGHLAND, UT ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 31—ELBERT — The U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration has issued a report about the cause of a miner ...

On Jan. 8, MSHA released preliminary data showing that mine fatalities in 2008 declined 31 percent from 2007 to drop to an all-time low. Metal/nonmetal mines recorded the lowest level of fatalities in ...