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2018 is gone and buried. What happened in the world of workplace safety and health? What can we learn that…

Today is the 13th anniversary of the Sago Mine disaster that killed 12 miners and led to a sweeping modernization…

Howard Berkes has published a major investigative piece for NPR/Frontline on the resurgence of black lung among coal miners. Read…

Darr Mine Fire: Dec. 19, 1907 At 11:30 a.m., a massive explosion rocked the Darr Mine of the Pittsburgh Coal…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics today released its 2017 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries — and it contained good news…

Things have been somewhat quiet lately in the world of mine safety and health. We wrote earlier about the troubling…

On November 20, 1968, 40 50 years ago today, 78 miners died in an explosion at the Consol No. 9…

On this day in 1930, at 11:45 a.m., a tremendous explosion rocked the Sunday Creek No. 6 mine near Millfield,…

Workers Can Participate in CSB Investigations: A major goal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act is to encourage workers…

Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Ken Ward is a rare specimen in many ways. First, he’s a journalist — and there aren’t…

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