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20 miners escape violent rockburst at Idaho silver mine, April and November incidents killed two workers
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on December 15, 2011 Just before 8:00 pm local time, a powerful burst of rock exploded in an area where at least 20 miners were working in the Lucky Friday mine. All the miners escaped to safety but several remain hospitalized. This silver mine in the Coeur d’Alene region has been the site of numerous serious incidents this year,…
Coal mining industry insisted on new dust sampling technology, now they don’t want MSHA to use it
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on October 19, 2011 It’s too late for Ronald Martin of Dema, Kentucky. “I’m in last stage of black lung,” he wrote in shaky script, “please help the miners so they won’t suffer like I suffer. I can’t breathe but a little.” Mr. Martin sent his note to the Labor Department’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to comment…
Republican lawmakers interfere (again) in diesel cancer study
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on August 15, 2011 The Republican chairmen of the House Education and the Workforce Committee and its Subcommittee on Workforce Protections are invoking “sound science” and “transparency” in a request to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) for data and draft publications of a cancer mortality study of underground miners exposed to diesel exhaust. Congressman John…