The Mine Safety and Health Administation (MSHA) recently conducted an investigation into a fatal accident at the Blue Knob Surface Mine in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. On Thurs., March 7, a ...

Field measurements utilizing a seat pad accelerometer were made on 61 surface coal mining machines in order to quantify the vibration levels experienced by the operators. Those data were combined with ...

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 ...

A 38-year-old highwall mining machine operator is the second fatality in the coal mining industry of 2018. The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) released a brief report detailing the ...

The March 7 death of a mine operator at a Greenbrier County mine was the result of the victim being in an unsafe location and the poor training he received. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health ...

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Alwar: A large excavator machine and its operator sank into a water-filled pit about 100 feet deep Friday evening as blasting at an illegal mining site in Odela village in Ramgarh police station area ...