Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced a new initiative to strengthen enforcement of its current respirable crystalline silica standards.

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has launched an enforcement initiative targeting the exposure of coal miners to respirable crystalline silica, which when added to coal dust ...

While the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) continues to work on developing a new crystalline silica standard (that is expected to cut the exposure limit in half), the agency has decided to ...

A half-century ago, the nation's top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust.The inaction since — fueled by ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has started a proceeding to formally gather additional information on silica-based black lung disease in a move that union leaders say simply allows ...