The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration is seeking comments on ventilation plans, prompting one expert to call the comment process hazardous for miners. Federal law requires MSHA to collect ...

Ares Strategic Mining Inc. (CSE: ARS) (OTC: ARSMF) (FRA: N8I1) is pleased to announce the successful completion and activation of its secondary underground ventilation system at the Lost Sheep ...

MSHA recently announced the release of four new program information bulletins (PIBs) pertaining to ventilation issues in underground coal mines. The purpose of these PIBs is to remind mine operators, ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Federal regulators said Wednesday they issued 196 citations during February impact inspections at 14 U.S. mines, including 16 at a southern West Virginia coal operation that ...

Massey Energy is suing to strip the federal government of its ability to influence how coal mines are ventilated. The troubled Richmond, Va.-based coal company unveiled the lawsuit Tuesday. Among ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – Mine safety officials are painting a portrait of ineptitude and confusion by officials at Massey Energy Co. in the months before an explosion at the company's West Virginia mine killed 29 ...

Less than three weeks before 29 miners were killed in an explosion and fire ball at the Upper Big Branch mine last April a government safety expert tried to get top Massey executives to send the ...

In each case, federal inspectors commandeered company phones to prevent surface personnel from notifying workers underground of MSHA’s presence on the property. These inspections occurred during ...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced a new initiative to strengthen enforcement of its current respirable crystalline silica standards.

MSHA recently announced the release of four new program information bulletins (PIBs) pertaining to ventilation issues in underground coal mines. The purpose of these PIBs is to remind mine operators, ...