The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded $250,000 in Brookwood-Sago grant funding to three organizations in three states to support education and training initiatives that will help identify and prevent unsafe working conditions in and around the nation’s mines.
Administered by the Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration, the Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety grant program helps recipients create comprehensive training materials, promote and conduct mine safety training or educational programs, and evaluate the effectiveness of their efforts.
The recipients of the 2025 Brookwood-Sago grants are as follows:
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., $80,000.
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa., $50,000.
- South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, S.D., $120,000.
Established under the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006, the grant program honors 25 miners who perished in mine disasters at the Jim Walter Resources #5 mine in Brookwood, Ala., on September 23, 2001, and at the Sago Mine in Buckhannon, W.Va., on January 2, 2006.
Source: Department of Labor