The National Employment Law Project (NELP) and Biden-era OSHA Administrator Doug Parker are urging the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to drop its proposal to remove what the agency says are duplicate requirements for maintaining and inspecting drilling equipment in mines, arguing the proposal violates the law.
September 17, 2026
The National Employment Law Project (NELP) and Biden-era OSHA Administrator Doug Parker are urging the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to drop its proposal to remove what the agency says are duplicate requirements for maintaining and inspecting drilling equipment in mines, arguing the proposal violates the law.
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Cal/OSHA is announcing monetary and other penalties against a food-production company in the San Joaquin Valley following the employer’s guilty plea on two misdemeanor counts after being criminally charged in connection with the 2020 deaths of two workers who were exposed to nitrogen gas at the company’s plant.
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The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is urging a Wisconsin grain milling company to respond to unresolved safety recommendations the board issued in 2023 following a 2017 fatal accident at one of the company’s facilities that resulted in criminal convictions against two of its managers.
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The National Mining Association (NMA) is urging the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to expand its regulatory reform package of 19 proposed rule changes to include two additional measures, arguing the agency also needs to change accident reporting and approval of electric motor-driven mine equipment.
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The National Mining Association (NMA) is urging the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to expand its regulatory reform package of 19 proposed rule changes to include two additional measures, arguing the agency also needs to change accident reporting and approval of electric motor-driven mine equipment.
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Labor unions are urging the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to provide additional options under its proposed hazard communication rule to allow miners rather than mine operators the choice of how to receive such materials, arguing a shift to electronic-only access will pose a barrier to some miners.
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Labor unions are urging the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to provide additional options under its proposed hazard communication rule to allow miners rather than mine operators the choice of how to receive such materials, arguing a shift to electronic-only access will pose a barrier to some miners.
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A New Jersey steel company is seeking to preserve its suit raising a series of constitutional and statutory claims against the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), urging a federal court to reject the Labor Department’s (DOL) motion to dismiss, charging the government’s arguments are “meritless.”
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Environmentalists and industry groups are raising concerns about how EPA estimated risk to workers from phthalates in technical documents that will support a novel cumulative risk assessment of the chemicals, alleging that methodological deficiencies resulted in assessments that either understated or overstated risk.
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