David Dye
David Dye
David William Dye FRSwas an English physicist...
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MSHA and the entire mining community extend our deepest condolences when miners are in danger.
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Responses to this request for information will assist the agency in determining an appropriate course of action as necessary to improve mine rescue capabilities.
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There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines and quarries scattered across the American landscape, and some are more visible than others.
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We're looking for a subset of the most promising ones.
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We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.
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The simple, cost-efficient, just plain effective things, those are the things we are most likely to mandate first.
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At this time, we have no information that would suggest that the explosion was related to a recurrence of any of the conditions that were required to be abated before the explosion.
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In order to get to the next level -- to make it down that final slope toward zero -- we must address the difficult questions of what motivates and drives people's decisions and choices about safety and health in the workplace.
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Education can be an effective tool in building public awareness and broadcasting our safety message to kids and, in turn, to their parents.
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The scheme to maintain traffic on the viaduct is very complicated, and there's a lot of risk associated with it that needs to be more thoroughly evaluated.
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All of us at MSHA deeply grieve the loss of these miners' lives, and I want to assure their families and friends that we are conducting an uncompromising investigation into this accident. We will uncover the truth of why this tragedy happened, and how we can best protect miners in the future.
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A lot of people are drawn to the notion of a cheap fix, ... There is no cheap fix for the viaduct.
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This emergency rulemaking will require the use of proven technologies and techniques to help miners evacuate quickly and safely after a mine accident. We are using the emergency temporary standard to get help into the field as fast as possible. MSHA is moving forward on every front to better protect miners' safety and health.
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A few short years ago, those numbers would have been laughed at as impossible goals. Our agency is constantly examining its strategies and looking at outcomes to determine how we can help the mining industry drive fatality, injury and illness rates down to zero.