MSHA awards millions in mine safety training grants
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced that it has allocated $8,441,000 in health and safety training grants for fiscal year 2011.
Grantees will use the funds to provide federally mandated training to miners. The grants cover training and retraining of miners working at surface and underground coal, and metal and nonmetal, mines, including miners engaged in shell dredging or employed at surface stone, sand and gravel mining operations.