Tags: Upper Big Branch
Costly Claims
Operators may pay the price for MSHA’s new emphasis on discrimination enforcement.
by Michelle Witter
Citing the Upper Big Branch disaster, MSHA’s Joseph Main announced that the agency intends to continue to place an increased emphasis on the investigation of miners’ rights ... Read More...
MSHA: Upper Big Branch mine explosion one-year later
One the one-year anniversary of the coal mine explosion — April 5 — that claimed 29 lives at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia, Joseph A. Main, assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health, issued the ... Read More...
AggBeat
Overall mining deaths up in 2010
NSSGA: ‘We cannot rest until fatalities among aggregates workers reach and are sustained at zero.”
by Tina Grady Barbaccia, News and Digital Editor
Mining fatalities in the United States increased in 2010, following a year marked by ... Read More...
Editorial
Mine the Safety Data
By Therese Dunphy
Sunshine. Sago. Upper Big Branch. Each of these coal operations has impacted mining in a way that resonates beyond the miners, families, and companies involved in the catastrophes at each site.
Since 2006, 47 coal miners ... Read More...
Rock Law: A new era of enforcement
A federal anti-shredding statute may provide a new avenue for MSHA criminal enforcement.
By Marci Fulton
The tragic events at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia this April were followed by the inevitable scramble to determine not only what went ... Read More...
MSHA appoints team to investigate Upper Big Branch South Mine explosion
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has appointed a team to investigate the April 5 explosion at the Upper Big Branch South Mine (Performance Coal Co.) in Whitesville, W.Va.
"Twenty-five hardworking men died unnecessarily in a ... Read More...
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