The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission upheld citations issued last May by the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to Connolly-Pacific Co.'s Pebbly Beach Quarry, located on Catalina Island, Calif., according to MSHA.
By Randy Logsdon
In the fall of 1946, the Chicago Daily News ran a feature article on veterans attending college at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) under the GI Bill. A focus of the article was married student (barracks-style) housing in an area between Memorial Stadium and the railroad right-of-way known as Stadium Terrace.
By Ellen Smith
A $70,000 penalty against a mining company, and a $7,000 personal fine against a supervisor has been upheld, where a miner fell through a walkway hole, dropping 28 ft. to his death when the workers were in the final stages of replacing a tail pulley belt at Freeport-McMoran’s Morenci Mine in Greelee, Ariz.
Read more: ALJ Affirms $70,000 Penalty, Personal Charges Against Mine Supervisor
The recent triple murder by a disgruntled employee at a California cement plant and quarry is a jarring wakeup call to the mining community that its workplaces are not off limits to workplace violence (WPV).
