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Compliance Assistance For Mine Operators

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For workplace safety and health, please call 800-321-6742; for mine safety and health, please call 800-746-1553; for Job Corps, please call 800-733-5627 and for Wage and Hour, please call 1-866-487-9243 (1 866-4-US-WAGE).  This website is currently not being updated due to the suspension of Federal government services. The last update to the site was 10/1/2025.  Updates to the site will start again when the Federal government resumes operations.

On, April 18, 2024, MSHA issued its final rule, entitled Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica and Improving Respiratory Protection, to reduce miner exposures to respirable crystalline silica and improve respiratory protection for all airborne hazards. Coal mine operators must come into compliance with the final rule by April 8, 2025, and MNM mine operators must come into compliance by April 8, 2026. Please visit MSHA’s Respirable Crystalline Silica Final Rule page for more information on the final rule.

A range of resource materials is available below to assist operators in staying compliant with MSHA’s respirable crystalline silica final rule.

Compliance Resources

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