Rio Zim which owns Cam & Motor Mine, Renco Mine and Murowa Diamonds says it is facing operational and financial challenges and has sent most of the workers on leave. Only a few workers in the security ...

A federal court has granted an industry request to put on hold a landmark rule designed to reduce mine worker exposure to toxic silica dust, days before its compliance deadline for coal mine ...

“You take that away, then it’s like going back in the 1950s,” said Chuck Knisell, vice president of United Mine Workers of America District 2 International, which is based in Uniontow ...

The workers are from Cam & Motor Mine in Kadoma, Renco Mine in Masvingo and Murowa Diamonds in Zvishavane. The workers, represented by the Zimbabwe Diamond Allied Minerals Workers Union ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A gas leak at a coal mine in northern Iran killed seven workers, three of whom were Afghanis, state media said Tuesday. President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered a probe into the ...

The United Mine Workers of America, a union representing coal miners, said the hundreds of NIOSH workers who were dismissed “literally save the lives of coal miners every day.” “The ...

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That includes terminating leases for three dozen offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for enforcing mine safety laws.

NIOSH’s Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP ... Part 90 transfers and the mobile unit clinics that travelled to mine sites. This program is not only dear to Anita’s heart, but she told 12 ...

Safety laws and their enforcement played a significant role before and after the Upper Big Branch mine in southern West Virginia blew up 15 years ago Saturday, killing 29 of Stewart's co-workers.

When union organizers showed up, the companies retaliated. Membership in the United Mine Workers union peaked in 1946, then plummeted as government support waned and the industry waged an all-out ...