U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor Unveils Initiative to Assess Every Citation

U.S. Newswire, February, 2008

To: NATIONAL EDITORS

Contact: Matthew Faraci, 1-202-693-9406; or Amy Louviere 1-202- 693-9423; both of the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Public Affairs

Prompt action to be taken to improve MSHAs assessments process

ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Richard E. Stickler, Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health, today announced a comprehensive plan to ensure that fines are assessed for all safety and health violations issued by MSHAs coal and metal/nonmetal enforcement personnel. MSHA recently discovered that while 99.6 percent of all citations since 1995 have been properly assessed, less than one half of one percent have gone unassessed over this period of time.

This is an institutional problem that dates back...

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