The U.S. Department of Labor announced a final rule from its Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to help protect miners from accidents, injuries and fatalities related to surface mobile equipment. The rule requires mine operators to have written safety programs for surface mobile equipment — excluding belt conveyors — at surface mines and underground mines’ surface areas. The programs…
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MSHA Sends Out Confined Spaces Alert
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has sent out a confined spaces alert.
Read MoreMSHA Mid-Year Report Shows 18 Deaths In First Half of 2015
In the first six months of 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) recorded the deaths of 18 miners in mining industry accidents in its national mid-year summary. The toll represents a decrease of five metal and nonmetal deaths from the same period in 2014.
Read MoreMSHA’s March Impact Inspections Target Quarry
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration announced that federal inspectors issued 188 citations and two orders as a result of special impact inspections conducted at 13 coal mines and seven metal and nonmetal mines in March.
Read MoreMSHA Celebrates Mine Rescue Day
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration commemorated the second annual Mine Rescue Day on Thursday, Oct. 30, during a meeting of the Holmes Mine Rescue Association at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy in Beaver, W.Va.
Read MoreMSHA Issues Third-Quarter Fatality Data
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration released a summary of U.S. mining deaths that occurred during the third quarter of 2014. From July 1 to Sept. 30, eight miners were killed in accidents at work, including five in metal and nonmetal mining and three in coal mining. during the same period in 2013, nine miners died…
Read MoreMSHA Releases Injury, Fatality Data
According to preliminary data released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), 42 miners died in work-related accidents at the nation’s mines in 2013, an increase from the 36 miners who died in 2012.
Read MoreMSHA Touts Record-Low Fatality, Injury Rates
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration announced the release of final data for 2012 that indicate the lowest fatality and injury rates in the history of U.S. mining, along with the lowest rate of contractor fatalities since the agency began calculating those rates in 1983.
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