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  • Items Posted This Month (February)

    POSTED: 02/06/2010
    Video Clips Added to Video Library

    Drager SCBA Escape System: Care, Use, and Operation – Including SCSR Transfer (4 clips) and
    Making a Safer Work Area (2 Clips)


    POSTED: 02/01/2010
    FedReg 2010-2407
    Information Collection Request

    Qualification and Certification of Electrical Training


    POSTED: 02/03/2010
    Coal Mine Rescue Contest Rules Training Opportunity
    March 23-25, 2010 - Beckley, WV


    POSTED: 02/02/2010
    News Release

    MSHA publishes proximity detection request for information in Federal Register
    Warning system could avert pinning, crushing accidents underground


    POSTED: 02/02/2010
    News Release

    MSHA fatality prevention program will include outreach, enforcement
    'Rules to Live By' targets most often cited standards in fatal accident investigations


    POSTED: 02/02/2010
    Open Government Initiative
    Additional Data Set Available

    We have added another data set to the collection. This data set is for "Mine Addresses of Record" information


    POSTED: 02/01/2010
    2010-1806
    Request for Information

    Proximity Detection Systems for Underground Mines


    POSTED: 02/01/2010
    FedReg 2010-1806
    Information Collection Request

    Applications for a permit to fire more than 20 boreholes and for the use of non-permissible blasting units or for the posting of notices of misfired holes (pertaining to underground coal mines) and the use of nonpermissible explosives and shot-firing units in shaft and slope construction (pertains to coal mining industry).


    Items Posted the latter part of January

    POSTED: 01/28/2010
    News Release

    MSHA, US attorney pursue scofflaw mine operators for unpaid fines
    3 Kentucky coal mines sued for nearly $665,000 in delinquent civil penalties


    POSTED: 01/27/2010
    Open Government Initiative
    Data Sets Available

    In conjunction with this effort, MSHA is please to provide the following data sets for your use. All of the data sets are text delimited files.


    POSTED: 01/27/2010
    Fatal Accident Report Posted
    Fatality #11
    - September 5, 2009 - Other - Surface - Alabama - Rock Mountain Mining-Div/Twin Pines Coal Co., Inc. - Shannon Mine


    POSTED: 01/26/2010
    Fatal Accident Report Posted
    Fatality #16
    - September 27, 2009 - Powered Haulage - Arizona - Copper Ore NEC Asarco LLC - Ray


    POSTED: 01/26/2010
    Program Policy Letter

    P10-V-01
    Reissue of PPL No. P06-V-10: Implementation of Section 2 of the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006


    POSTED: 01/25/2010
    News Release

    Underground fire traps 3 miners at Missouri lead-zinc operation
    Miners retreat to refuge chamber, successfully rescued by mine rescue teams


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