That includes terminating leases for three dozen offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for enforcing mine safety laws. The proposals for MSHA are “idiotic ...

OpEd: Kentucky residents who care about the welfare of working miners should ask Congressman Hal Rogers what he plans to do to keep regional MSHA offices open, and to keep miners safe.

Safety failures allowed by a Boone County, West Virginia coal mine operator with a long history of safety and environmental ...

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 ...

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

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 ...