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.” ...

Deep cuts Miners have long faced grave health threats. Between 1900 and 1960, cave-ins, explosions, other disasters and mining accidents killed nearly 100,000 coal miners on the job. It’s ...

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing ...

At the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), meanwhile, Trump officials this month suspended enforcement of a rule that curbed miners’ exposure to the toxic dust that causes black lung.

At the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), meanwhile, Trump officials this month suspended enforcement of a rule that curbed miners’ exposure to the toxic dust that causes black lung.

On April 5, 2010, 29 miners lost their lives at the Upper Big Branch mine in Whitesville following a coal dust explosion, causing the worst mining disaster in 40 years.

The facility housed an experimental mine, and soon after it opened more than 1,000 spectators turned out to see a test explosion designed to determine whether coal dust was an explosion hazard in ...

Before Congress created the agency, known as MSHA, hundreds of miners died each year, in explosions, tunnel collapses, and equipment malfunctions. (The number was far higher through the 1940s ...