Even as President Trump vows to reinvigorate America's coal industry, critics say his administration has stripped away key health protections for miners.

At 4:07 p.m., May 19, 1928, the whistle blew at Mather Mine, alerting people of an emergency. The explosion that caused it, ...

As detainments and deportations cause many travellers to turn away from America, Annabel Grossman journeyed deep into the ...

For 55 years, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has sent specialized teams of trained medical ...

Moore had about 15 years experience in surface coal mines and was trained ... behind mine pillars, rock columns that would shelter an excavator from slides of dust into the truck-loading area.

It came as more rock was mined to reach ever smaller and more remote coal, mine union officials said. That in turn increased silica dust exposure. A NIOSH study in 2018 found that 10% of ...

West Virginia coal miners filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to temporarily halt the Trump administration's layoffs impacting the Coal Workers Health Surveillance Program. The National Institute ...

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Australian mining equipment, technology, and services (METS) companies are well positioned to assist Poland in its transition ...

Norlite has considered ditching its long-time incineration of hazardous waste in Cohoes and is exploring the use of natural ...

“What I can tell you at the moment is that about 90 per cent of the village is covered or destroyed, so it’s a major ...