Deep fear in coal country: DOGE cuts put region's miners and families on edge

[Norbert]

After years of investigating hundreds of mining deaths and injuries, feds move to cancel lease at Mount Pleasant mine safety office

For federal safety inspectors, the urgent call to their sprawling mining office near Pittsburgh was bleak: Man crushed in the rubble of an aging mine in the heart of coal country.

Agents from the Mount Pleasant office arrived at the scene shortly after the body of Joseph Guzzo Jr. had been pulled from under the massive chunk of earth that collapsed in the mine tunnel four years ago.

Then, months after launching an investigation that found the operator failed to provide critical protections, it happened again.

Another worker in a mine just an hour away suffered catastrophic injuries after a large rock broke from a wall and slammed him against a machine...

Remember, this is the same GOP that want to shutter OSHA. Vulture capitalists and billionaires do not need safety protections, so why should anyone else?

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/powersource/2025/03/30/coal-mine-safety-doge-trump-spending-cuts-federal/stories/202503280062