An upstate New York court last week accepted a mine manager’s guilty plea to manslaughter in the second degree over...
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The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Labor is urging the government’s mine safety agency to tighten restrictions on...
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced Wednesday a global settlement with Worcester Sand and...
More than a dozen coal companies, including a unit of Patriot Coal Corp., challenged a new federal mine-safety regulation aimed...
Federal regulators are urging U.S. coal companies to refocus on health and safety regulations after three fatalities in three days....
With five coal mining fatalities in West Virginia so far this year, Democratic U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall is renewing his...
West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Wednesday asked coal companies to halt production for an hour to review safety...
Labor Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced a final rule to strengthen safety in the nation’s most dangerous mines....
Federal inspectors must share the blame — and therefore face a lawsuit — for a 2006 West Virginia coal mine...
The Mine Safety and Health Administration says it issued 254 citations, 19 orders and one safeguard during special inspections at...