Articles Tagged with ''mining industry''

Fatality and injury rates in 2012 were the lowest in the the history of U.S. mining, according to statistics released recently by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA).  “MSHA at a Glance,” with updated information on inspections, violations, mines and miners, as well as injury and fatality rates, is available on the agency’s website, www.msha.gov, under “Fact Sheets.”

Resources companies in Western Australia have achieved what many have worked for but no-one really believed would happen.

Safety manufacturers and distributors have been targeting the oil and gas industry (as well as mining and alternative energy industries) as one of the strongest markets coming out of the Great Recession of 2008.

I had been warmly welcomed to South Africa. We were there to work with a mining construction company that wanted to solve their safety challenge. The challenge was immense.

Thousands of West Virginia miners got safety lectures at the start of their shifts, and officials began a round of inspections across the No. 2 coal-producing state Thursday, Feb. 2, in a "timeout" urged by the governor, according to the Associated Press.

West Virginia lawmakers approved a wide raft of measures aimed at improving mine safety in the nation's second-largest coal producing state, an overhaul triggered by the deaths of 14 miners this month, according to the Associated Press.