On Jan. 29, 55-year-old Steven Fields died after a rock fell from a highway and struck the cab of the drill he was operating ...

Operator of a drill was killed when a loose boulder on a high wall fell and crushed the cab of his machine in a surface mine pit in Boone County ...

A federal appeals court just gave mine operators a reprieve from its strict new silica rule after temporarily blocking it from going into effect.

The U.S. Department of Labor has removed Morton Salt’s Weeks Island Mine from its pattern of violations list following marked ...

The goal of MSHA new miner training is to protect lives and reduce accidents in mining operations. It covers topics such as ...

Senate Bill 883 was discussed in the House Energy and Public Works Committee on Monday.This bill would give the director of West Virginia's Office of Miners Hea ...