Mine Safety and Health Administration News

Black lung diagnoses have doubled in the last decade, and a new investigation blames a combination of factors, including operators...

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is promoting a newly passed law that permanently revokes the credentials of miners who fail drug...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration says it issued 254 citations, 19 orders and one safeguard during special inspections at...

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration said 10 miners died in work-related accidents at the nation’s mines during the...

Federal regulators are issuing a final set of rules for underground coal mine examinations that aim to hold operators more...

Aggressive inspections at troubled mines are helping create safer working environments for coal miners, the head of the federal government’s...

A federal judge refused Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit by former Massey Energy shareholders who say they were deliberately misled...

Three times in a month, regulators have caught West Virginia coal companies illegally warning miners that federal inspectors were onsite....

The former superintendent of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 workers died in a 2010 explosion was charged on...