New app will provide miners with health, safety, miners’ rights information

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration launched an app for use on iPhone and Android devices that will help get timely information directly to miners and members of the mining community. The app allows miners to easily use the tool at mine sites and outside of working hours to search for best safety and health practices…

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At least 10 remain trapped at flooded Mexico coal mine

Pumps are continuing feverishly to pull water from a flooded coal mine in the Sabinas municipality of Mexico’s Coahuila state as 10 miners remain trapped underground since a flooding event on August 3. According to an ABC News report, Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez – who has been to the site in northern Mexico – is calling for increased rescue…

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