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Take care, and remember to be in contact with your state officials to voice your concerns about MSHA. Our tax dollars pay for MSHA, which is under the Department of Labor. Our fine money goes into the general fund, and we cannot afford to keep paying out costly fines on the more and more frequent trivial citations to essentially support government spending. At least that is how I feel about it.
~ Kathy
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For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 6, Number 3
©2010 Jackson Kelly PLLC
The House Committee on Education and Labor, under Chairman George Miller (D-CA), held a hearing on Tuesday, February 23, 2010, to discuss “Reducing the Growing Backlog of Contested Mine Safety Cases.”
Continue reading "CONGRESS HOLDS HEARING ON MSHA CASE BACKLOG" »
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 6, Number 2
©2010 Jackson Kelly PLLC
There can be few things as dry as a federal agency’s Congressional Budget Justification but the 85 page document that the Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”) recently released to justify its FY2011 budget submission to Congress has some interesting information for mine operators. The budget submission reflects the agency’s expected emphasis on health issues and impoundments and references the recently-announced enforcement program for priority standards.
Continue reading "MSHA’s 2011 Budget Justification" »
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 6, Number 1
©2010 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On January 27, 2010, Joseph A. (Joe) Main, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health, and MSHA unveiled an upcoming enforcement program to prevent fatalities within the mining industry. The program will be titled “Prevent Fatalities – Rules to Live By.” MSHA plans to start implementation of the program on March 15, 2010.
Continue reading "NEW MSHA ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM FOR PRIORITY STANDARDS" »
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 5, Number 1
©2009 Jackson Kelly PLLC
The elements of the significant and substantial (“S&S”) analysis are well established. In order to establish an S&S violation, MSHA must prove: (1) the underlying violation of a mandatory safety standard; (2) a discrete safety hazard; (3) a reasonable likelihood that the hazard contributed to will result in injury; and (4) a reasonable likelihood that the injury in question will be of a serious nature. Mathies Coal Co., 6 FMSHRC 1, 3-4 (1984). However, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (“Commission”) is sometimes amenable to new arguments addressing each of these elements, and in two recent cases, mine operators prevailed in overcoming the S&S designation for alleged violations of § 75.400.
Continue reading "A FRESH LOOK AT THE S&S ANALYSIS" »
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1 comment:
Some of the ways to comply with MSHA includes 1. following their health and safety guidelines, 2. have the right PPE, 3, provide the right safety training programs.
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