Administration Reverses Course on Planned Closure of Mine Safety Offices June 2, 2025 By John Raby CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety...
Manager Who Operated Crane Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Quarry Worker’s Death April 29, 2024 An upstate New York court last week accepted a mine manager’s guilty plea to manslaughter in the second degree over...
Inspector General Urges Mine Safety Agency to Tighten Silica Dust Rules for Miners December 4, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Labor is urging the government’s mine safety agency to tighten restrictions on...
Massachusetts Mine Operator to Pay $180K to Resolve Safety Violations May 12, 2016 The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced Wednesday a global settlement with Worcester Sand and...
Coal Companies Challenge Black Lung Mining Regulation May 4, 2014 By Andrew Harris More than a dozen coal companies, including a unit of Patriot Coal Corp., challenged a new federal mine-safety regulation aimed...
Officials Concerned Over 3 Miner Deaths in 3 Days October 9, 2013 Federal regulators are urging U.S. coal companies to refocus on health and safety regulations after three fatalities in three days....
Congressmen Renew Push for Tougher Federal Mine Safety Laws March 26, 2013 With five coal mining fatalities in West Virginia so far this year, Democratic U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall is renewing his...
West Virginia Coal Mines Shut Down to Review Safety Following Deaths February 22, 2013 By Vicki Smith and David Guttman West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Wednesday asked coal companies to halt production for an hour to review safety...
U.S. Issues Mine Safety Rule on Patterns of Violations January 18, 2013 Labor Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced a final rule to strengthen safety in the nation’s most dangerous mines....
Supreme Court Hears West Virginia Mine Widows’ Plea October 19, 2012 By Lawrence Messina Federal inspectors must share the blame — and therefore face a lawsuit — for a 2006 West Virginia coal mine...