Fewer than half of the inspectors with the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration are working during the continuing federal...
Mine Safety and Health Administration News
A southern West Virginia mine foreman faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to falsifying safety reports...
Action on key federal mine safety and health rules are is lagging, including a rule aimed at lowering exposure to...
With five coal mining fatalities in West Virginia so far this year, Democratic U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall is renewing his...
Federal regulators and safety officials should consider requiring more backup air supplies and work to develop better breathing devices that...
West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Wednesday asked coal companies to halt production for an hour to review safety...
Labor Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced a final rule to strengthen safety in the nation’s most dangerous mines....
Federal inspectors must share the blame — and therefore face a lawsuit — for a 2006 West Virginia coal mine...
Nineteen mining deaths occurred during the first six months of the year, the second-lowest midyear toll ever recorded, federal regulators...
A federal appeals court said this week that the state Supreme Court should decide whether Mine Safety and Health Administration...