U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration News

Missouri Cement Company Fined $17K For Shorting Pay of Worker

A federal administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered a Hannibal, Missouri cement company to pay a worker the company penalized for assisting federal safety investigators during a site visit. On March 1, Administrative Law Judge William B. Moran …

Massachusetts Mine Operator to Pay $180K to Resolve Safety Violations

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced Wednesday a global settlement with Worcester Sand and Gravel Company Inc., of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to resolve citations and orders in three separate dockets. An administrative law judge with …

Company Fined $1M in Double Fatality at Colorado Silver Mine

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration imposed a roughly $1 million fine following an investigation into the deaths of two miners at Revenue Mine in Colorado on Nov. 17, 2013. The underground silver ore mine, located …