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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 November death of a sand-and-gravel mine worker near Virginia occurred because a conveyor system's structural integrity was compromised by modifications, according to a U.S. Department of Labor ...

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 ...

As investigators piece together what caused the underground fire at West Virginia's Aracoma mine last week, critics charge that the Bush administration's new mining safety policies may be increasing ...