Labor and worker rights advocates are urging the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MHSA) to “withdraw” its proposal seeking to remove duplicative requirements for inspection and maintenance of aerial tramways, arguing it would eliminate inspections mandates and compromise miners’ safety.
November 15, 2026
A federal district court in West Virginia is allowing a coal miner’s lawsuit challenging staffing cuts at a key federal workplace safety agency to continue, allowing the plaintiff to file a second amended complaint that effectively moots the federal government’s repeated efforts over the past few months to get the case dismissed.
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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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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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