The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) released three proposed rules on July 1 aimed at revising the criteria for approving safety plans in underground coal mines.
Most of the fatalities in the Sept. 23, 2001, double explosion at Jim Walter Resources Inc. No. 5 mine in Tuscaloosa, Ala. resulted from poor emergency management, causing the Mine Safety and Health ...
In a report examining the roof control plan for Crandall Canyon Mine, where six miners and three rescuers perished in August 2007, the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) concluded ...