CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Retired coal miner Stanley “Goose” Stewart questions whether it's safe for anyone to work in the industry right now. The Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial is illuminated Dec. 3, ...

County jail bills continue to skyrocket, but revenues can't seem to keep up.It's an issue commissioners have brought to lawmakers for years. In Kanawha County, Multiple agencies work to extinguish ...

Coal miners argue the Biden-era rule would protect younger workers facing a scourge of deadly diseases caused by silica dust. The Trump administration is having second thoughts. The Trump ...

DRENNEN, W.Va. — A preliminary report from the federal Mine Safety Health and Administration says Nicholas County coal miner Steve Lipscomb died a few minutes after the Rolling Thunder Mine was ...

The Senate confirmation of Trump’s appointments for the two top occupational safety posts in the United States on October 7, one week into the government shutdown, presages a deepening assault on ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Coal miners, their family members, and union representatives rallied outside of the ...

While little is being said so far, investigations continue on multiple levels into a Tuesday afternoon incident that claimed the life of a White Township man. James F. Gershman, 61, died after he was ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Mine Workers Union has its eyes on an October status hearing in connection with the latest delay of the implementation of the Silica Rule. The rule, the final form was ...

A former surface mine in Pike County, in Eastern Kentucky, had not been fully reclaimed in December 2023 even though there had been no mining at the site in several years. Appalachian Voices In our ...

The Office of Special Counsel on Wednesday selected two Mine Safety and Health Administration employees, who disclosed that mines in the Pacific territories have not been inspected since 2016, as ...

STRAWBERRY PLAINS, Tenn. — UPDATE FRIDAY: Authorities using remote-operated vehicles worked for hours until they finally were able to find and confirm that a miner had died July 12 during a collapse ...

NEW MARKET, Tenn. — Update (7/14 at 4:45 p.m.) A spokesperson from the Mine Safety and Health Administration, or MSHA, confirmed to WBIR that they opened an investigation. On the MSHA website, the ...