mining safety

House has voted to weaken an emergency protection at small operations. What will Senate do?

Black lung has surged in Appalachia in recent years. Research has tied the epidemic to silica dust, which can burrow deep into miners’ lungs.

Brown went into the mine at 10:00 p.m. that night. But he never came out.

The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration says coal-mining related deaths have reached a record low in Kentucky where a single miner died last…

It’s never happened, but a leading official in the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration believes a fatality-free year in coal mining is…