Mine Safety, Accidents and Disasters

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (387+ words) A partnership between Glencore Coal and children’s charity Royal Far West has delivered 346 clinical occasions of service to 100 children in the NSW mining communities of Gulgong and Dunedoo since July 2025. Royal Far West’s multidisciplinary team has provided speech pathology, occupational…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (291+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Earl Dotter, Jess Bishop, a black lung victim, takes his last breaths while his sons —also coal miners— keep vigil in Logan County, W.Va., 1976. Silver Gelatin Print. Courtesy the artist and West Virginia Mine Wars Museum....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (144+ words) Didion Milling, Inc., has now implemented all nine safety recommendations issued to the company by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) following an investigation into a fatal May 2017 explosion at Didion’s Cambria, Wisconsin, facility, the board announced August…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (191+ words) Upper Hunter coal mines are being put on notice to keep dust down this spring, as the NSW Environment Protection Authority launches its annual Bust the Dust compliance campaign. EPA field officers will be conducting unannounced inspections until mid-December to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (191+ words) Upper Hunter coal mines are being put on notice to keep dust down this spring, as the NSW Environment Protection Authority launches its annual Bust the Dust compliance campaign. EPA field officers will be conducting unannounced inspections until mid-December to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (716+ words) The Church in the Central African Republic has joined the nation in mourning the deaths of more than 100 people who died following the collapse of an artisanal gold mine on Tuesday, August 18. In a statement August 20, the Bishop of the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (701+ words) The federal agency with the legal mandate to protect coal miners from the coal mine dust that causes black lung disease won’t respond to news of the highest rates of the incurable disease since the 1970’s. But mine safety advocates…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (474+ words) Triangle, VA — United Mine Workers of America President Brian Sanson is pressing the Mine Safety and Health Administration to immediately resume enforcement of its rule covering miner exposure to respirable crystalline silica. Sanson cites recent NIOSH research showing that nearly…...