Sentence examples for mining safety from inspiring English sources

The collapse has heightened concerns about mining safety in Peru.

China, the world's biggest coal producer, has one of the worst mining safety records.

Moved by a series of appalling postwar pit disasters, he switched his attention to mining safety.

President Bush's Johnny-come-lately call for reduced dependence on foreign oil has implications for mining safety.

After Labour's nationalisation of the coal industry in 1948, which Wynn applauded, he became director of mining safety research at the then Ministry of Fuel and Power.

At Crandall Canyon, rescue workers and mining safety experts met Sunday to discuss whether work on a horizontal rescue tunnel similar to the one that collapsed Thursday night could be safely resumed.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, cancelled a trip to Albania and went to Soma, where he pledged a thorough investigation.The Soma accident will focus new attention on Turkey's dismal coal-mining safety record.

On Wednesday, November 15, the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed the president's pick, David Zatezalo, to run MSHA (the Mining Safety and Health Administration) along party lines even though the nominee once ran a company that consistently violated mine safety laws.

Fast forward to 3pm on 6 December 2011, 30 miles away in the state capital of Charleston: the US Mining Safety and Health Administration released its investigation report concluding that the disaster was "entirely preventable", caused in part by a pattern of major safety problems and Massey's efforts to conceal hazards from government inspectors.

Joe Mackowiak, a ventilation supervisor for the Mining, Safety and Health Administration who was quoted in the report, said that management used a "Band-Aid approach," making minor adjustments in order to pass inspections.

The report spent considerable space detailing what it said were the failures of the federal Mining, Safety and Health Administration, including, it said, secrecy, witness intimidation and obstruction of Massey investigators.