The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration is providing $10.5 million in grant funding to help states provide mine safety training for the nation’s miners. “Through our ongoing commitment to safety training, we achieved a historically low all-injury rate for mining last year. This latest investment demonstrates that we’re doubling down on our efforts to protect our…
Read MoreThe U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has published its preliminary findings from an April 30 incident that took the life of one miner. The fatal accident occurred at the Portable Crusher #1 site in Wastington County, Idaho, a surface stone mine controlled by Jeanne M (Seubert) McDonough and Seubert Excavators, according to federal data. The victim was identified as…
Read MoreThe U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has published an alert with best practices for accident prevention following an April 3 fatality in West Virginia. The incident occurred at an underground coal operation owned by ACNR Holdings. A scoop backed into another scoop that was transporting a longwall shield. This collision caused the longwall shield to shift and pin the…
Read MoreThe U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration confirmed it has renewed its alliance with the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) to ensure manufacturers and contractors have access to information, guidance, and training resources designed to protect the health and safety of miners. MSHA’s renewed alliance with AEM – an association that works to advance construction and agricultural equipment manufacturers, including…
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Labor announced that the Mine Safety and Health Administration has renewed its longstanding alliance with the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association. The alliance ensures industry personnel will have access to information, guidance, and training resources that will protect the health and safety of miners. “MSHA’s industry alliances advance our goal of protecting the safety of…
Read MoreThe Mine Safety and Health Administration issued a Program Information Bulletin (PIB) on April 9, stressing that it will continue to enforce existing silica enforcement outlines. In P26-01, acting Administrator for Mine Safety and Health Enforcement Timothy Watkins said the existing standards on respirable crystalline silica or quartz exposure in title 30 Code of Federal Regulations (30 CFR) parts 56,…
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration announced that injury rates fell to an all-time low in 2025. Also known as the total recordable injury rate, the all-injury rate for mining as a whole was 1.74 per 200,000 hours worked in 2025, down from 1.82 last year. “These historic safety numbers demonstrate that the Trump administration’s efforts…
Read MoreThe Mine Safety and Health Administration recently released a fatality alert to all mines across the U.S. following a January 6 incident that killed a contract worker in California. In that incident, which occurred at the Lebec cement plant, a contractor was fatally struck by the motor and gearbox assembly while removing a baghouse slide gate. The facility is owned…
Read MoreThe Mine Safety and Health Administration in February released initial findings from a November 2025 death at an underground coal operation. The fatality occurred on November 8 when a section foreman was inundated with water from an adjacent abandoned mine while working at the Rolling Thunder operation in West Virginia. Rolling Thunder is owned by Alpha Metallurgical Resources. The foreman…
Read MoreAs part of its efforts to support mine safety, health training across the nation, the U.S. Department of Labor and Mine Safety and Health Administration have awarded grant monies totaling more than $10.5 million for the advancement of miner education to organizations in 45 states, the Navajo Nation, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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