In 2007, he was appointed by Governor Jon Huntsman to chair the Utah Mine Safety Commission.
For a long time, the mine safety agency was stacked with former mine executives and industry players.
Obviously the administration is working through that investigation and working through different aspects of mine safety proposals.
Mine Safety Appliances calculates it will take well into next year to fulfill its contract with the Army.
Stronger mine safety laws were passed in 2006 after the Sago mine disaster.
Over the years, the company had been cited for numerous mine safety violations.
That would effectively end surprise visits by mine safety inspectors, EPA air quality officials and anyone working for the IRS, said Crandell.
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But Stover, according to testimony from mine employees, routinely announced when government inspectors were on the property, something that violates mine safety laws.
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The team is in the final stages of licensing Gemini-Scout to a commercial robotics company, but for now, the Mine Safety and Health Administration will be the primary customer.
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The mine was shut down by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration due to the unsafe buildup of sand and concrete material in the main shaft of the mine.
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The accident at the Harmony Gold mine in South Africa and the freeing of more than 3, 000 trapped miners has once again turned attention to the issue of mine safety.
No production from the mine is expected this year after the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration ordered the Silver Shaft to be closed for removal of built-up sand and concrete material.
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The temporary closure of the Silver Shaft at the Lucky Friday mine was ordered last year by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration for removal of built-up sand and concrete material.
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We were required to take a mine safety course taught by one of the mine employees to make sure we could operate our oxygen canisters quickly in the dark if necessary.
An angry editorial gives way to a weekly column on mine safety, which, in turn, inspires Foster to found a highly successful correspondence school that teaches disaster prevention in virtually every industrial field.
To help ensure that mine companies no longer use a strategy of endless litigation to evade their responsibilities, we need to tackle the backlog of cases at the Mine Safety and Health Review Commission.
Massey Energy for failing to report more than 20 accidents at its Upper Big Branch coal mine in the two years before an April explosion killed 29 miners there, according to documents released by the Mine Safety and Health Administration on Tuesday.
Earlier Wednesday, a fifth hole drilled down into the mine found just six inches of open space left between the roof and rubble in an 8-foot-high tunnel, said Jack Kuzar, a district manager with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Better supervision of a mine with a poor safety record might have prevented the accident.
Mr Mukanga said the mine had a poor safety, health and environmental record.
Officials said the company decided to demobilize approximately 25% of the contract workers, or around 500 miners, to hire and train direct mine workers to enhance safety and efficiency.
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Baker said that the rehabilitation process has reached a depth of 1, 500 feet, which is about 25% of the total workload required to bring the mine back up to safety standards.
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She says he had been complaining about the safety of the mine even before the rockfall.
These announcements, the government charged, allowed mine workers to address any safety issues that may have been present prior to inspectors finding the violation.
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Chilean government officials has criticized the mine for not having the right safety measures in place.
What kind of work environment would cause two loyal employees to cover-up safety issues at the mine where they, their family and friends all worked?
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The Zambian government has taken over the running of a Chinese-owned coal mine after revoking its licence because of safety lapses.
Mine owner Barminco considered the stunt a safety issue and a breach of its "core values of safety, integrity and excellence, " according to a dismissal letter cited by the paper.
In August, as the U.S. watched rescuers attempt unsuccessfully to reach workers trapped following a fatal accident at a Utah coal mine, lawmakers inevitably called for tougher safety regulations to govern the industry.
In addition, we need to make sure that miners themselves, and not just the government or mine operators, are empowered to report any safety violations.
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