In the nearly seven months following the March explosion, MSHA has cited more than 550 safety violations inside the mine, more than 190 of which were noted as “significant and substantial.” ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration moves to limit discretionary enforcement by district officials, citing legal and ...

And, it turns out, successful. In March, the administration moved to shutter over 30 field offices of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, or MSHA, throughout coal country.

Dust explosions represent a persistent hazard in various industrial settings, occurring when suspended particulates, such as metallic, coal, or organic dust, rapidly combust in a confined ...

Federal regulators have determined that the operator of a Raleigh County mine with a long history of safety failures caused a worker’s death at the mine in February. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health ...

When the Trump administration took the first steps toward shutting down two major programs aimed at protecting the nation’s miners, the grassroots response was immediate, and vehement. And, it turns ...

PETTUS, W.Va. (WCHS) — Federal officials have released a final report on the investigation of a miner death that occurred earlier this year in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Billy Stalker, a 46 ...

During the April thunderstorms in 1970s, I observed black-coloured rainwater seeping through the roofs of houses in Vyasarpadi and Basin Bridge due to coal dust particles that had accumulated on ...

Investigators from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration have completed an investigation into a fatal mining accident in Raleigh County from February. The accident on ...

‘More powerful than coal dust explosions’ Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of grain sit within the terminals that line Burrard Inlet. The G3 Terminal, for example, can store 180,000 tonnes of ...

THE first explosion that seems to have attracted attention to coal dust in the United States occurred at Pocahontas mine in 1884. Very little attention was paid to the subject for some years ...

BILLINGS — Saturday paid time-and-a-half at the Montana Coal and Iron Co.’s Smith Mine between Bearcreek and Washoe. Miners who had just emerged from the Great Depression of the 1930s eagerly ...