The only independent, credentialed, legal news service covering MSHA and FMSHRC, mine safety and health issues, and case law.
- Accidents:
- Two Pennsylvania Mines report leg and foot fractures from longwall shields (502)
- Worker doused with sulphuric acid at Morenci Copper Mine (503)
- Rib Roll knocks miner unconscious at Federal No2 (503)
- Surface gold miner seriously hurt in overturn at Mesquite Mine (504)
- Worker sustains electric shock at Powhatan No6 (504)
- Falling steel bar breaks worker’s arm at Princeton Quarry in
- N.C. (505)
- Mechanic seriously hurt while removing wheel chocks at Bristol Quarry (505)
- MSHA to make four annual inspections at WIPP (506)
- Foresight Energy says fire is extinguished at Deer Run Mine (507)
- Miner’s disability not related to 2001 JWR mine explosion (507)
- Blasting: ALJ upholds $23,000 fine against blasting company (508)
- Civil Penalties: MSHA hopes to reduce litigation through civil-penalty proposal (509)
- Criminal Proceedings: Man pleads guilty in W.Vamine kickback scheme (514)
- Fatalities:
- Fatality undiscovered overnight at small Montana sand and gravel producer (515)
- No violations in death of miner crushed by feeder at Mountain View Mine (515)
- Positioning a coal feeder has entailed unsuspected hazards (517)
- Truck drivers belong in cab when loading, MSHA reports after Kansas death (518)
- General News: Alpha NAtural Resources announces layoffs of 1,000 miners (520)
- Injunctions: Secretary, North Dakota operator agree to permanent injunction for right of entry (520)
- Jurisdiction: Shamokin Filler asks for rehearing on plant jurisdiction (521)
- Pattern of Violations: ALJ dismisses Pocahontas’s contest of POV notice (522)
- Review Commission: Nakamura acting FMSHRC chairman as Congress exits for summer break (523)
- Training: MSHA’s inadequate training form for Part 46 compliance may lead to violations (523)
- Review Commission Orders and ALJ Decisions (526)