The operator of a 71-year-old northern Idaho silver mine that was beset by fatal and injury accidents two years ago has been hit by another lawsuit, this time filed by four miners who say managers dispatched them deep underground into …
Students at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine tried to save their patients, but no matter what they could have done, there was no hope. That might be because their patients were never alive to begin with. The students …
The Virginia department that oversees mining is developing a training video to ensure workers are prepared for an underground emergency. The $50,000 for the training video was awarded to the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy by the federal …
Action on key federal mine safety and health rules are is lagging, including a rule aimed at lowering exposure to coal dust that causes deadly black lung disease. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration was expected to issue the …
Federal mining regulators say 2012 had the lowest injury and fatality rates on record. The Mine Safety and Health Administration says the number of U.S. mines fell by about 120 last year, but the number of miners working was actually …
Labor Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced a final rule to strengthen safety in the nation’s most dangerous mines. Solis said that the rule, which revises the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s pattern of violations regulation, seeks to ensure …
With a driver and his bulldozer missing in a thick, dark lake of coal slurry, a mine safety expert and critic of the coal industry says regulators are ignoring stricter construction standards that could prevent more failures at hundreds of …
A coal miner who says he was fired for enforcing safety standards that slowed down both production and the sealing of the Upper Big Branch mine in southern West Virginia is suing Alpha Natural Resources. The State Journal said Glen …
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration’s continuing crackdown on the coal industry hasn’t deterred the industry’s growth, director Joe Main said Friday. From April 2010 to June 2011, the number of underground mining employees grew by about 11 percent, …
Three former West Virginia coal miners have been sentenced this week for lying about their credentials to perform pre-shift safety inspections underground. In Huntington, U.S. District Judge Chuck Chambers sentenced 31-year-old Neil Hasen of Alkol to three years of probation …