Gaming the System: How Wealthy Coal Operators are Undermining the Solvency of the Black Lung Benefits Program
The following post is somewhat long and complicated. Read it anyway. At its core, this is the same age-old story…
Weekly Toll: Mourning for the Dead
Last week workers were decapitated in a vehicle crash, crushed in a trench collapse, caught in machinery and killed in…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
This list is a bit longer than usual because while I was on vacation, workers continued to die. This round:…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
Three trench deaths last week (on top of three the week before), a 16-year old killed driving heavy equipment, mining…
Marvit Nominated to Mine Safety Review Commission
We discussed the turmoil at the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) a couple of weeks ago and…
Republicans Still Control The Mine Safety Review Commission — Putting Miners at Risk
These are troubling times at the obscure Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) and that means troubling and…
The Weekly Toll: Death in the Workplace
This week: Two construction workers electrocuted, tree cutting, traffic crashes, mining, shootings. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every…
Mine Safety Victory: Safety Laws Are “Wrote By Blood”
West Virginia miners beat back an attempt this week to weaken their mine safety protections. West Virginia mine worker Steven…
Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
This week: Trench collapse, fires, shootings and stabbings, vehicle-related incidents, logging. Never short of different ways for workers to die…
This Day in History: Farmington Mine Explosion Kills 78 Miners
On November 20, 1968, 53 years ago today, 78 miners died in an explosion at the Consol No. 9 coal…