The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has made public a number of best practices to improve powered haulage safety that were recommended by a group of mining industry stakeholders. Powered ...

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The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has published a request for information (RFI) aimed at gathering data about technologies that could improve mine safety conditions. The RFI, which is ...

The agency's Request for Information focuses on reducing accidents involving mobile equipment at surface mines and belt conveyors at surface and underground mines. It says MSHA is also considering the ...

In addition to soliciting data from stakeholders on technology and practices that can improve safety conditions for miners, MSHA will provide technical assistance and develop best practices and ...

Most if not all of the deaths this year in US coal mines could have been prevented if safety measures proposed for nearly two decades had not been blocked and eventually killed by officials from the ...

During law partner and co-chair of Stoel Rives mining group Willa Perlmutter’s 30 years’ experience as counsel in all legal aspects of mining, she has worked on categories of investigations of the ...

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has issued a dozen citations and enforcement orders at an Alpha Natural Resources mine where a conveyor belt burned ...