Less than five years after an explosion fueled by excess coal dust killed 29 men deep inside a West Virginia...
Mine Safety and Health Administration News
The former Massey Energy chief, scorned by regulators and a U.S. senator, may face three decades in prison if convicted...
A hydraulic leak and the failure to use a safety block contributed to the crushing death of a contractor at...
A North Dakota company must allow federal inspectors unfettered access to a sand and gravel mine that is the subject...
Rhino Eastern LLC changed management at its Eagle Mine 3 after inspectors warned that coal miners faced the risk of...
More than a dozen coal companies, including a unit of Patriot Coal Corp., challenged a new federal mine-safety regulation aimed...
The Obama administration ordered a 25 percent cut in the levels of coal dust in U.S. mines to reduce deadly...
Federal mine inspectors have found 97 violations at a Colorado mine where two miners died of carbon-monoxide poisoning last month....
Four percent of underground equipment in West Virginia coal mines are fitted with detectors that automatically shut down mobile machinery...
Federal regulators are urging U.S. coal companies to refocus on health and safety regulations after three fatalities in three days....