Metal / Nonmetal Mine Fatalities

The Louisville Courier Journal reports that although a mine safety law was passed eight months ago, "Federal regulators have been too slow in implementing important provisions of a mine-safety bill that Congress enacted last year, a key House Democrat said yesterday."

A key provision of the bill is that underground mines need to have enough breathing devices to allow miners to reach the surface in an emergency.

Mine fatalities are reported on the Maryland Center for Environmental Training web site.

http://www.mcet.org/mining/mnm/fatalgrams/index.html

Each report is linked to the OSHA web page for the incident. There you can read recommendations for avoiding such accidents.