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 ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration has released more details on an accident that killed a West Virginia Coal miner ...

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has released a preliminary report in connection with a coal miner’s death last week in Wyoming County. Investigators said Robert White, 63, died at ...

Since the mid-1990s, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has talked about surface haulage accidents and how to prevent them. Organizations including the National Institute for ...

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.

A display case at NIOSH shows a normal lung and a diseased black lung, caused by inhaling coal dust and other harmful particles while coal mining. Howard Berkes NPR Mine safety is under attack. In the ...

MSHA published a final rule today that requires flame-resistant conveyor belts and other fire protection measures in underground coal mines but still allows operators to use belt air -- ventilating ...

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