In a letter dated June 7, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship made his strongest statement to date regarding concerns about the ventilation system he says the federal Mine Safety and Health ...

Citations for safety and health violations by operators of underground coal mines have increased by nearly a third since 2006, with federal mine inspectors focusing about equally on three main types ...

curtains, sheets of plastic designed to direct fresh air from vents into underground work chambers. “The ventilation system they had didn’t work,” Stanley “Goose” Stewart, a 15-year veteran of the UBB ...

MSHA issued 294 citations in October and November as part of its impact inspection program, which focuses on mines with “poor compliance history or particular compliance concerns.” The agency launched ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Retired coal miner Stanley “Goose” Stewart questions whether it's safe for anyone to work in the industry right now. The Department of Government Efficiency, created by ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has agreed with a branch of the Labor Department in finding that Prairie State Generation must show that the U.S. Mine Safety and Health ...