House Education and Labor Committee
2175 Rayburn
13/07/2010 at 03:00PM
On Tuesday, July 13, 2010, the Education and Labor Committee will hold a hearing on “H.R. 5663, the Miner Safety and Health Act of 2010.” H.R. 5663 will bring our nation’s mine health and safety laws up to date, give MSHA the ability to effectively protect miners’ lives, hold mine operators accountable for putting their workers in unnecessary danger, and expand protections to all other workers by strengthening OSHA.
In April, 29 miners were killed at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia, the worst coal mine disaster in America in 40 years. In the last decade, more than 600 miners have died while working in our nation’s mines.
Witnesses
PANEL I
- Joe Main, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor
- Dr. David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor
- Patricia Smith, Solicitor of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor
PANEL II
- Larry Grayson, Professor of Mine Engineering Penn State University
- Lynn Rhinehart, General Counsel, AFL-CIO
- Cecil Roberts, President United Mine Workers of America
- Jonathan Snare partner, Morgan Lewis testifying on behalf of the Coalition for Workplace Safety
- Stanley “Goose” Stewart, coal miner, Chickasaw Village W.Va.
- Bruce Watzman, Senior Vice President for Regulatory Affairs, National Mining Association