The head of the national coal miners’ union on Thursday urged the Trump administration to impose regulation on silica dust...
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has made three appointments to the state’s Office of Miners’ Health Safety and Training. The...
Some mines in the next decade will run without humans and instead rely on robots, virtual models and sensors, according...
When disaster hits the chemical plants in Port Arthur, Texas, triggering fires like those that flared in the wake of...
Federal regulators have concluded that a Harlan County coal mine operator’s negligence resulted in a miner’s death earlier this year....
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced Wednesday a global settlement with Worcester Sand and...
Former coal baron Donald Blankenship should face the maximum sentence of one year in prison for flouting mine-safety rules, prosecutors...
Underground coal mines will ramp up testing for the dust that causes breathing problems and leads to black lung disease...
Amid layoffs and idled operations, the U.S. coal industry is close to setting a record low for on-the-job deaths in...
Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship will be sentenced next year on a conviction of conspiring to violate safety rules...