4795606c_South___Corrective_Action_Plan__Recommendation
[Date Due] 9/30/2012 [Status] Completed [Corrective Action Taken] The National Mine Health and Safety Academy held a three-day training session for Coal supervisors in August 2012. The training, in part, stressed the importance of rock dusting to prevent coal mine dust explosions and included instructions on the proper use of the rock dust database and using sampling oversight reports to ensure inspectors have valid reasons for not collecting rock dust samples, including visiting some areas that inspectors indicated were too wet to sample. The Administrator for Coal also directed all field office supervisors to review PowerPoint presentations on the utilization of the rock dust database and the importance of maintaining the incombustible content of rock dust mine-wide. Field office personnel completed the training by September 30, 2012. [Recommendation] 
The Administrator for Coal should direct that training be provided to supervisors on using standard oversight reports to ensure inspectors have valid reasons for not collecting (rock dust) samples, including visiting some areas that inspectors indicated were too wet to sample.
MSHA - Performance Coal - Upper Big Branch Mine-South - Corrective Action Plan
Recommendation