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HOUSE COMMITTEE EXAMINES MINE SAFETY ON CAPITOL HILL

Richard Stickler, head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, testifies before a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on the Mine Safety and Health Administration's mine safety programs on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 16, 2007. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)


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ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Mine fatalities in the United States in 2008 fell to an all-time low, the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration said Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Labor Department has asked federal prosecutors to begin a criminal investigation of a deadly mine collapse in Utah last year.
WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- Many mine operators are "abusing the system" by appealing every citation inspectors hand out, the head of U.S. mine regulation said.
WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration was partly to blame for the collapse of a Utah coal mine that left nine dead, the Labor Department said.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. Senate panel Friday looked into the collapse of a coal mine in which six miners were trapped, and what can be done to prevent similar disasters.
HUNTINGTON, Utah, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A fifth bore hole to reach six Utah coal miners was expected to reach their cavern site Tuesday in an attempt company officials warned could be the last.
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Drillers tried from above ground Saturday to reach six trapped miners in Utah after the deaths of three rescuers suspended work underground indefinitely.
HUNTINGTON, Utah, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Efforts to reach six trapped miners were suspended Friday after a collapse killed three rescue workers at the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah.
HUNTINGTON, Utah, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Detection of a noise in the Utah coal mine where six miners have been trapped nine days led rescuers to pick a new spot for a bore hole that might reach them.
HUNTINGTON, Utah, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Drilling of a large, third rescue hole began Monday in the search for six trapped coal miners in Huntington, Utah.
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