On Aug. 31, MSHA published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to require underground coal mines to equip continuous mining machines with proximity detection systems in order to protect miners ...

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PRINCETON, Ind. A federal rule issued Tuesday requires all U.S. mines to use sensors that can halt digging machines if miners get too close, a move aimed at preventing workers from being crushed to ...

The timing could hardly have been better. Last week, in the second week of the coal strike, the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. let it be known that it had conducted successful experiments with a ...

GREEN RIVER - A Sweetwater County trona miner who was crushed to death in a February accident did not follow established mining procedures, a federal report issued Friday said. The Mine and Safety ...

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This weekend's testing of two methane monitors from the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia has not detected any evidence of tampering, NPR has learned. The methane monitors were removed from ...

NPR News has learned that a February incident in which a mining machine's methane detector was deliberately disabled was not an isolated incident... Massey Miners: Disabling Monitors Was Common Miners ...

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