Same recurring violations prompted new mining rule
A couple of points stand out in in a blog post this week written by Joseph Main, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health.
Writing in “Work in Progress,” the official blog of the U.S. Department of Labor, Main notes that 77,000 of the 158,000 violations issued last year by MSHA were to underground coal mines, even though these mines represent just 4 percent of all mines