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Articles Tagged with ''mining industry''

2012 fatality, injury rates in mining at a record low

Occupational accidents claimed 19 miners’ lives last year
April 15, 2013

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.”


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They achieved the impossible

Western Australian resources industry makes year without fatality
Rick Duley BSc(Hons)
March 21, 2013
Resources companies in Western Australia have achieved what many have worked for but no-one really believed would happen.


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Surging sectors in 2013

Oil and gas industry’s hiring binge
Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson
October 8, 2012
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.


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Don’t shrink from building a caring culture

Timothy Ludwig Ph.D.
October 5, 2012
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.


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West Virginia miners take "timeout" for safety

February 8, 2006
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.
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Mine safety legislation sails through West Virginia legislature

January 27, 2006
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.
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