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The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) (/ ˈ ɛ m ʃ ə /) is a large agency of the United States Department of Labor which administers the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) to enforce compliance with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal accidents, to reduce the frequency and severity of nonfatal accidents, to ...
The miner died when a massive section of the roof fell at an underground mine in Eastern Kentucky. Safety lapses caused accident that killed Kentucky coal miner, federal agency says Skip to main ...
The Upper Big Branch Mine disaster occurred on April 5, 2010, roughly 1,000 feet (300 m) underground in Raleigh County, West Virginia at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine located in Montcoal. 29 out of 31 at the site were killed. [1]
Crandall Canyon Mine - MSHA.gov MiniSite. Contains vector-image maps of the affected area of the mine and drill hole map, and also the emergency response plan. Utah Geological Survey 2005 Coal Report (Crandall Mine described on pp 7-8) Seismological Report on the 6 Aug 2007 Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse in Utah
Since the U.S. government shut down, Alliance Resource Partners , CONSOL Energy , and Berkshire Hathaway's MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company have all experienced fatalities at their coal ...
Underground coal mining has taken place in 29 of the 67 counties in Pennsylvania, and a wide swath of the state’s southwestern region is at risk for soil subsidence, where underground materials ...
As reported in a May 23, 2006 story in The Courier-Journal, [2] "Investigator thinks methane to blame for Darby mine explosion," by Deborah Yetter and Tom Loftus, at a news conference in Holmes Mill, Kentucky on May 22, 2006, Chuck Wolfe, spokesman for Kentucky's Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet announced that investigators entered the mine for the first time since the explosion on ...
Mine Safety and Health News is the only credentialed, independent reporting service in the U.S. covering the Mine Safety and Health Administration and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission. It is not affiliated with any mining organization, lobbying group, policy group, labor or political organization, or mining company. It does ...