Massey Energy Co. on Friday rejected nearly every part of the federal government's theory on what caused the explosion at its Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia that killed 29 men last spring. The ...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) released three proposed rules on July 1 aimed at revising the criteria for approving safety plans in underground coal mines.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) completed impact inspections at 15 mines in May 2024 across 12 states, identifying a total of 300 violations and issuing one ...

The deaths of five Kentucky coal miners in a May 20 explosion has prompted the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to appoint a veteran investigation team leader to determine the cause of the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s chief of mine safety says he can’t help but think about West Virginians on Labor Day. Chris Williamson U.S. Department of Labor Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety ...

A federal criminal investigation of the deadly Upper Big Branch mine disaster in West Virginia three weeks ago looks at possible bribery and... The disaster at the Upper Big Branch mine in West ...

TWILIGHT (AP) — The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has cited Massey Energy Co. after an explosives accident at a southern West Virginia mine. The troubled Virginia-based coal company ...

ALTON — Seven weeks ago on June 26, the Gordon Moore Park soccer field sinkhole formed. On Wednesday, Alton Mayor David Goins announced Gordon Moore Park will reopen on Friday, Aug. 16. The federal ...

The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration is among the federal agencies selected for spending cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency. Nearly three dozen MSHA offices would have their ...

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — One or more lightning strikes likely caused an electrical current in a cable left deep inside the Sago Mine and touched off the methane blast blamed for the deaths of 12 coal ...

Yancy Mullins hopes to see one thing in the federal government's final report on the 2010 explosion that killed his brother Rex and 28 other West Virginia coal miners - an admission that the Mine ...

As the Trump administration seeks to increase mining in the U.S., the agency charged with mine safety is seeing staffing cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. President Trump ...