MSHA launches new online safety tracking tool

National Mining Association, Mining Week

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) this week launched a new feature on its web site that provides additional tools for mine safety stakeholders to assess safety performance at specific mines around the nation. The addition to MSHA’s existing Data Retrieval System (DRS) is designed to enable users to access specific data about violations per inspection day and repeat violations of the same standard.

MSHA’s DRS currently provides users with the ability to examine data on inspections, violations, accidents, inspector samples, operator samples, quartz results and health samples at specific mines across the country. The new feature provides additional information on the frequency of violations at mines.  Under MSHA rules, the number of violations issued by an inspector per day, and the number of repeated violations of thesame standard, are factors in determining the fine a mine operator must pay for each violation.