Angry over heads up, MSHA takes CAM Mining to court (7/19)
Miners may have been smoking underground
After someone gave a foreman at CAM Mining LLC’s Mine No. 28 in Kentucky advance notice of an inspection, the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) took the company to court and got an order prohibiting it from doing so again in the future.
The temporary restraining order issued on June 30 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Southern Division bars CAM from alerting mine personnel working underground about MSHA inspections “by any means of communication,” according to a statement issued by the MSHA.