Appalachia and coal miner advocacy groups celebrated that dozens of MSHA offices that were scheduled to close will now remain ...

The proposal to close 34 Mine Safety and Health Administration field offices across the country, including the one in St.

The Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA ... Some common hazards include failure to perform dust control on drills—leaving workers exposed to breathable contaminants such as silica dust ...

This occurred because MSHA had not effectively improved the design or execution of its internal control system since a 2011 OIG audit found similar internal control issues with the mandatory ...

Jul 13, 2011 MSHA announced this year's Preventive Roof/Rib Outreach Program is focused on improved mine rib control because there were three rib fall fatalities and two roof falls that killed ...