Mine Safety

Flatfoot Dancing, Geocaching And A Coal Mine Rescue Competition, This West Virginia Week

On this West Virginia Week, dancers keep the flatfooting tradition alive, miners compete in rescue and tourists challenge themselves with geocaching.

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Rescue Competition Puts Coal Miners On Another Kind Of Turf

Coal miners from West Virginia and surrounding states met in Morgantown last month to compete in a rescue competition.

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Sidelined For Weeks, NIOSH Black Lung Clinic Rolls Again

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s mobile black lung clinic sat for weeks behind the NIOSH office in Morgantown.

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New Miner Challenges Trump Cuts To Black Lung Screening Program

The suit challenges the decision by HHS to shutter the agency that processes such applications. In May, U.S. District Judge Irene Berger ordered HHS to restore the program.

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