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August 31, 2010

MSHA Issues Guidelines for Industry Compliance with Ventilation Regulations

MSHA Guidelines for Industry Compliance with Ventilation Regulations
Number 10-1123-NAT, 8/16/2010

As a result of troubling testimony heard in a recent field hearing regarding the explosion of Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”) has released four new program information bulletins pertaining to ventilation issues in underground coal mines.

According to the MSHA, the purpose of these PIBs is to remind mine operators, miners’ representatives, MSHA enforcement personnel and other interested parties about mandatory coal mine safety standards relative to inadequate ventilation, intentional changes in the mine’s ventilation system, maintaining face ventilation control devices, and maintaining methane monitors in permissible and proper…

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