Office of Coal Mine Safety

Report mine risk to mine safety and health management office

After the Crandall Canyon mine disaster, six miners and three rescuers died, Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. An executive order was issued to establish the Utah mine safety committee. You can read executive orders and commission reports in the following places.

The Coal Mine Safety and Health Organization, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, has 37 local offices in nine US coal mines. Each district is led by regional managers reporting to deputy general manager of safety and health of coal mines.

The most obvious and most serious cost of underground coal mining is the threat to the health and safety of coal miners. According to Mine Safety and Health Administration, from 2010 to 2013, the number of deaths in the US underground coal mine has reached 77 people including Upper West Virginia in 2010. The explosion of the branch coal mine killed 29 miners. In addition to on-site accidents, coal mines can also cause chronic health problems. Black lung disease (pneumoconiosis) remains a common disease among coal miners. About 10,000 former miners have died between 1990 and 2000, and this disease continues today.

In 1968, 78 miners were involved in trouble due to the explosion of the Consol 9 coal mine, coal miners in West Virginia took a strike to close the mines and asked for enhanced safety and health protection. With this measure, the 1969 Federal Coal Mine Health and Sanitation Law followed by the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed. In the 40 years of these laws, there was great progress. Reduce labor accidents and occupational diseases. Criteria for limiting the exposure of coal dust, asbestos and other toxic substances that reduce the disease and death have been enacted. Workers have important rights to protect against discrimination in order to improve occupational safety issues and obtain information on chemical substances and occupational accidents.