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- Accidents:
- Scoop mishap injures two in new CONSOL Harvey Mine (469)
- Runaway blast truck pins miner (471)
- ALJ upholds specially assessed penalty for truck accident at Justice mine (471)
- Signal Peak settles accident citations (472)
- Black Lung: Solutions sought for black benefits issues, including backlog (473)
- Fatalities:
- Worker electrocuted in dredge pond at Murray Mines (475)
- Truck driver killed by loader at Brooksville South Cement Plant in Florida (476)
- Lifting of unsecured pipe led to death at Baillio Sand Mine (477)
- Mystery remains in fatal fall of bulldozer over highwall at Jim Bridger (479)
- ALJ imposes $21,000 fine for violation where miner killed in ‘red zone’ (482)
- Matich settles accident citations where steel tube fell and hit miner driving a skid steer loader (483)
- Federal Tort Claims Act: Aracoma settlement reached; calls for fire safety training at Mine Academy (484)
- Inspections: Impact visits spotlight dozens of infractions at sand and cement operations (485)
- Jurisdiction: MSHA has jurisdiction over coal facility that stores, dries, screens and bags coal (489)
- Liability: Case remanded to ALJ to recalculate civil penalties against mine owner (490)
- Review Commission Orders and ALJ Decisions (492)
- Accidents:
- Two Hurt in structural failure at Angelle Aggregates (422)
- Cracked skull is third fracture injury this year at Dominion No36 (423)
- Miner survives conveyor entanglement at O.KGravel Works (423)
- MSHA imposes safeguards after injuries at Kingston No2 (424)
- Injury Rate nearly 6 times average at Antioch Mine, site of ladder accident (425)
- Grease Line failure entails surgery for maintenance worker (425)
- Nine-employee Naselle Quarry reports two lost-time injuries in two days (425)
- Foreman Altered accident scene at Gardenia Quarry, MSHA charges426
- Combustible Materials: Six years after order, case returns to ALJ for additional S&S information (428)
- Fatalities:
- Supervisor killed by exploding pump at Brewer Sand (429)
- Truck Driver killed in 75-foot plunge at Spring Creek Mine (430)
- Fatal wire-rope failure had nonfatal precursor in 2008 (430)
- LaFarge settles citations from rock fall at Three Rivers Quarry (433)
- Hecla settles fatality-related citation from Lucky Friday mine (433)
- Flagrant Violations: Judge sets criteria for determining flagrant violations (434)
- Grants: Charity agreement transfers Brookwood-Sago grant money to for-profit group (435)
- Ground Control: ALJ decision deeming a 300-foot highwall a danger upheld by Commission (442)
- Pattern of Violations: After three hour discussion, Commissioners seem more comfortable with POV rule (443)
- Safeguards: Commission grants review on whether operators can challenge safeguard notices (445)
- Settlements: Labor Deptrefuses to release memo on standard settlement language (446)
- Review Commission Orders and ALJ Decisions (453)