Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced a new initiative to strengthen enforcement of its current respirable crystalline silica standards.

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has launched an enforcement initiative targeting the exposure of coal miners to respirable crystalline silica, which when added to coal dust ...

While the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) continues to work on developing a new crystalline silica standard (that is expected to cut the exposure limit in half), the agency has decided to ...

Gary Hairston ran out of breath this summer on Capitol Hill. Gary Hairston ran out of breath this summer on Capitol Hill. Black lung cut short his coal mining career, but struggling for air did not ...

Gov. Jim Justice’s coal empire has again run afoul of federal mine regulators, who have a specific phrase for a violation they found at a mine in Logan County during a recent inspection there: ...

A half-century ago, the nation's top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust.The inaction since — fueled by ...

The Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA) had a busy time in June 2023, as the organization’s impact investigations swept the United States. In a release dated July 31, MSHA announced it had ...

The addition of respirable crystalline silica makes coal miner disease more deadly. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has launched an enforcement initiative targeting the ...