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WASHINGTON - More than a year after the Sago mine explosion that killed 12 miners, protections for miners who get trapped underground have not yet been implemented, the United Mine Workers president said Wednesday.
UMW President Cecil Roberts testified during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing in which senators questioned Richard Stickler, head of the nation’s mine [...]

State mine safety director Ronald Wooten on Friday encouraged the coal industry to speed up implementation of West Virginia’s new mine rescue law.
Wooten announced that the state Office of Miners Health, Safety and Training “will step up its efforts to expedite” the addition of emergency breathing devices, rescue shelters and communications equipment.

Many of the safety measures state legislatures and Congress rushed to adopt to protect the 46,000 people working in the nation’s underground coal mines after the Jan. 2. Sago Mine explosion have yet to take effect.
There are still no rescue chambers or wireless tracking and communications equipment in the country’s 606 underground coal mines, and [...]

After a string of fatal accidents in West Virginia and Kentucky, Congress yesterday passed a bill to make coal mining less risky.
In a 381-37 vote, the House endorsed a bill that would require mine operators to put more oxygen supplies underground and move rescue teams closer to mines.
The bill previously won Senate backing and now [...]