The US Labor Department is making up to $250,000 in grant funding available to promote mine safety and health education and training, the agency said Thursday.
The Brookwood-Sago grant program, established by the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006, honors the 25 miners who lost their lives in mining disasters in Alabama in 2001 and West Virginia in 2006.
The grants will fund education and training programs focused on various workplace safety and health hazards faced in mining operations, such as powered haulage and mobile equipment, mine emergency and rescue preparedness, electrical issues, and respirable dust and ...
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