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- Accidents:
- Continuous miner operators hurt at two related mines (328)
- Underground crash injures two at Cumberland mine (329)
- Alpha says Road Fork conveyor belt incident was not ‘life-threatening’ (330)
- No violations in fall off dredge ladder (330)
- Driver of customer truck injured in runaway (331)
- San Juan Mine returns to longwall production after fire (331)
- Kline hits MSHA on in-house injury record (332)
- Black Lung: 4th Circuit upholds benefits for widow after 8th appeal of case (333)
- Civil Penalties: Mize Quarries agrees to civil penalty payment plan under court agreement (334)
- Compliance Corner: POV history in partially contested cases (335)
- Criminal Proceedings: Supervisor receives $500 fine for submitting false training documents (335)
- Discrimination: Procedural error sends temporary reinstatement case back to ALJ (336)
- Fatalities:
- Underground truck driver may be third death for Kentucky limestone mine (336)
- Cement plant worker killed after struck by loader (339)
- Foreman dies from excavator overturn (339)
- Overturn fatal despite seat belt and rollover protection (340)
- Hazard Alerts:
- MSHA issues summer warning on lightning hazards (341)
- Tire maintenance accidents bring hazard alert (342)
- Labor Relations:
- Arbitrator upholds firing of MSHA inspector where advance notice given to trucker (342)
- NLRB’s Terrance Flynn resigns after ethical violations found by IG (343)
- On the Move: Tony Mayville replaces Greg Wagner at MSHA (344)
- Part 50 Reporting: Commission upholds MSHA access to medical, payroll records (345)
- Private Suits: Fired foreman files lawsuit against gold company (347)
- Workers’ Compensation:
- Worker entitled to disability finding even though back working at higher pay (347)
- Kentucky court agrees with worker’s claim dismissal for shoulder injury (348)
- Review Commission Orders and ALJ Decisions (350)
- Accidents:
- Fractured back reported at new Canadian-owned mine in Pennsylvania (301)
- Hazard complaint results in order at limestone mine (302)
- Mines with good safety records not immune to equipment fires (303)
- Underground gold mine shut down after blasting unleashes torrent of water (303)
- Berms and Guardrails: Truck scale at portable crusher does not need berms or guardrails (305)
- Black Lung: Illinois court reinstates miner’s black lung benefits, reversing lower court (308)
- Criminal Proceedings: Miner loses probation status (309)
- Discrimination: Title VII discrimination claim dismissed because of late filing (309)
- Fatalities:
- 74-year old machine in fatality at Consol’s Shoemaker mine lacked safety features (310)
- Supports built in wrong places before fatal roof fall at Mingo Logan (312)
- Federal Tort Claims Act: Aracoma widows’ appeal head this week (314)
- General News: U.S. Attorney announces Alpha Foundation board of directors (314)
- Pattern of Violations: ALJ upholds POV status for Bledsoe’s Abner Branch Rider Mine (316)
- Private Suits: Mississippi court rules wrongful death suit filed too late by miner’s family (317)
- UBB Widow: Massey defrauded families (318)
- Workers’ Compensation: Kentucky miner entitled to greater benefits than were originally awarded (319)
- Review Commission, ALJ Decisions & Settlements (321)