In an op-ed published on March 6th, 2018 in the Wheeling News Register, Assistant secretary for MSHA, David Zatezalo, announced plans to prioritize the collection of unpaid MSHA fines through the ...

Assistant Secretary David G. Zatezalo writes that MSHA will increase its efforts to collect unpaid fines. Since the Scofflaw Program began in 2007, about $67 million in delinquent penalties have ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has proposed $150,000 in fines for Rosebud Mining Co., which operates an Armstrong County, Pa., mine where a miner was killed in a roof-fall accident ...

The agency published a notice in the Sept. 8 Federal Register announcing that it plans to raise civil penalties for coal mine operators who violate the Mine Safety and Health Act. The agency also ...

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One unique challenge on mine sites is the rule requiring a phone call to MSHA within 15 minutes of certain serious accidents. Operators otherwise consumed with emergency response must make quick, ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) recently increased fines for mine safety violations. Terry Wagaman, chair of the Michigan Aggregates Association (MAA) Safety Committee, told attendees ...

MSHA released its findings following a Thursday morning briefing with state mining officials and family members of miners Don I. Bragg and Ellery Elvis Hatfield, who died after getting lost in thick, ...

An audit of the federal system that fines mining companies for unsafe conditions found no evidence that more than $1 billion in mine safety penalties over 18 years deterred unsafe mining practices.