The U.S. Department of Labor announced a funding availability of up to $1 million in grants through its Brookwood-Sago grant program to support education and training to help the mining community identify, avoid and prevent unsafe and unhealthy working conditions in and around the nation’s mines. Established by the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006, the program’s…
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Court Orders Missouri Mine Owner to Let Inspectors Onsite
A federal district court judge issued an injunction to prevent a Missouri mine operator and its owner from stopping federal inspectors from completing workplace safety inspections now and in the future at the Partridge Sand & Gravel mine in Stone, Mo. The court action follows an incident at the mine on Aug. 17, 2021, when inspectors with the U.S. Department…
Read MoreMSHA Details 35th Fatality of 2021
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reported that on Dec. 6, 2021, a miner at Palm Beach Aggregates LLC, Palm Beach, Fla., was fatally injured while he was working in a pan feeder under a chute. While attempting to remove angle iron that blocked the chute’s gate from closing, he was engulfed by material that fell from a surge…
Read MoreSafety Professionals Recognized at TRAM
Nov. 30, 2021 – At the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s recent Training Resources Applied to Mining (TRAM) conference, held online Nov. 2-4, Ash Grove Cement was a Grand Prize Winner in the Training Materials Competition. You may recall that Joseph McGuire, Ph.D., an independent safety and health consultant; and Lucas Simpson, B.S., a safety manager for Ash Grove Cement,…
Read MoreProposed MSHA Rule Targets Mobile Equipment
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced a proposed rule requiring mine operators that employ six or more miners to develop a written safety program for mobile equipment and powered haulage equipment (except belt conveyors) used at surface mines and surface areas of underground mines. The written safety program would include actions mine operators would…
Read MoreRequirement for Yearly Checks of Extension Cords Upheld by Court
By Ellen Smith Extension cords, power cords and cables are subject to continuity and resistance testing under Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) regulations, according to an Aug. 12 ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Read MoreFirst Look – October 2016
TOP NEWS Eagle Materials Expands Eagle Materials Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of Cemex S.A.B. de C.V., to purchase Cemex’s Fairborn, Ohio, cement plant, as well as related assets, which include a distribution terminal in Columbus, Ohio, and a cement bagging operation. U.S. Highways Rated The nation’s top-performing, most cost-effective highways are in South Carolina,…
Read MoreMSHA Issues Seat Belt Alert
Neal H. Merrifield, administrator for metal and nonmetal mine safety and health for the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), issued the following alert regarding seat belt safety:
Read MoreMSHA August Impact Inspections Target Cement, Aggregates Plants
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced that federal inspectors issued 105 citations and one order during special impact inspections conducted at 11 coal mines and six metal and nonmetal mines in August.
Read MoreAggregates Team Places in Mine Rescue Competition
A team from Carlsbad, N.M., beat out 35 teams from 16 states nationwide to finish first at the 2016 National Metal and Nonmetal Mine Rescue Contest in Reno, Nev.
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