Arlington, VA — The Mine Safety and Health Administration has awarded 9 organizations a complete of $1 million via the company’s Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants Program.
The grants will help in the institution and initiation of training and training packages supposed to acknowledge and stop unsafe working circumstances in and across the nation’s mines, MSHA says. The grants are named after deadly mine disasters in Brookwood, AL, and Sago, WV.
As of Sept. 29, MSHA had recorded 34 business fatalities this 12 months, eclipsing the 30 the company noticed in 2022. MSHA reported 38 miner fatalities in 2021, ending a run of six straight years in which fewer than 30 miners died on the job.
“In examining the mining industry’s troubling trend of fatalities this year, MSHA has found that training deficiencies continue to be a root cause of fatal accidents,” MSHA administrator Chris Williamson stated in a press launch. “The grants … further key priorities of the agency and the Biden-Harris administration, including preventing fatalities and serious accidents from safety issues, while also addressing miner health, such as preventing exposure to toxic materials like silica dust.”
Individual grants vary from $50,000 to $169,790.
