ssistant U.S. Secretary of Labor Joe Main visited an underground coal mine Tuesday in southern Indiana to see a demonstration of the safety technology, which is called a proximity detector. The detectors are already in use at the Alliance Resource Partners Gibson North mine that hosted Main's visit.
April 27, 2010: The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee convenes a hearing on the explosion. At it, Mine Safety and Health Administration director Joe Main calls for beefed-up safety enforcement.
"I believe it's time for the industry to come to terms that we need to rid the industry of this disease," said Joe Main, assistant secretary of labor for Mine Safety and Health, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It is preventable, but not curable. And it's putting these measures i
"The current rules have been in effect for decades, do not adequately protect miners from disease and are in need of reform," says mine safety chief Joe Main. "That is why MSHA has proposed several changes to overhaul the current standards and reduce miners' exposure to unhealthy dust."
"At times, the ventilation controls are not in place. The water sprays are not in place," says Joe Main, assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health. "We find that the sampling process that is used is not as required by the standards."
Date: Jul 10, 2012
Category: Health
Source: Google
Most of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster victims had black lung disease
The latest effort by the MSHA was announced in 2010. MSHA head Joe Main announced an ambitious plan to end black lung by tightening up legal dust limits and requiring continuous use of dust monitors, and to reform sampling methods and enforcement of dust limits. This is being opposed by lobbyists an
Date: Jul 09, 2012
Category: Health
Source: Google
MSHA: 3 W.Va. mines illegally warned of inspectors
Mine Safety and Health Administration director Joe Main says such warnings let workers disguise conditions that could endanger their lives. And he repeated his assertion during a congressional hearing this week that current penalties aren't high enough to deter the practice.
Joe Main, head of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, said stepped-up federal safety enforcement has helped the coal industry to rebound from 2010 when 48 miners were killed nationwide, 29 of them in an underground explosion in West Virginia.