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Posts Tagged ‘Occupational Safety and Health’

More coal miner lives in jeopardy as silica safeguard delayed yet again

By Dan Radmacher | August 19, 2025 | 0
Miners and advocates gather at a hearing on silica dust in Beckley, WV.

Measures that prevent deadly silica dust exposure among coal miners are indefinitely delayed, as coal industry lawyers and the Trump Administration’s Mine Safety and Health Administration reportedly continue to negotiate a settlement to the industry’s case to block safeguards that were initially scheduled to come into effect on April 14.

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