Welcome to Small Mine Safety

We do exactly as the name implies; we help small mines get a handle on their safety program or you can use the information provided to help new mines implement a safety program. If you have a specific question just contact me and ask and I will try to get it up on the site to help other mine operators as fast as I possibly can.

My qualifications: I have been a safety manager for a small mine in New Mexico for over eight years. I am a blue card carrying MSHA qualified trainer. I am qualified by MSHA to train for Parts 48 and 46 surface mines/facilities and I have trained or co-trained in a minimum of one to two trainings per year since 2001.

What I will be helping you with: I will be starting out with the most citations normally issued by MSHA and working my way through 30CFR until I have covered every subject in the CFR. We will be discussing Best Practices and going over some recent fatalgrams issued by MSHA.

Quick Links:
Here are some quick links to help you pointed in the right direction.

Mine Safety and Health Admininstration (MSHA) – Main Page

District Pages: (Metal/Non-Metal)
These are the district pages for Metal/No-Metal. Metal/Non-Metal is if you extract minerals out of the ground and they are anything but coal. Coal has a whole different monster of rules to go by that I will not be covering here but i have provided links to the district pages below.

Northeastern District Office
(Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia)

North Central District Office:
(Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin)

Rocky Mountain District Office:
(Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)

Southeastern District Office:
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virgin Islands)

South Central District Office:
(Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)

Western District
(Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington)

District Pages: (Coal)
I am not qualified in any manner to teach coal but I will put the district home pages information here for you if you need it.

District 1 (Anthracite coal mining regions in Pennsylvania)
District 2 (Bituminous coal mining regions in Pennsylvania)
District 3 (Maryland, Ohio, and Northern West Virginia)
District 4 (Southern West Virginia)
District 5 (Virginia)
District 6 (Eastern Kentucky)
District 7 (Central Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee)
District 8 (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Northern Missouri and Wisconsin)
District 9 (All States west of the Mississippi River, except for Minnesota, Iowa, and Northern Missouri)
District 10 (Western Kentucky)
District 11 (Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands)

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