November 27, 2024 - More than $10.5 million in recently awarded Mine Safety and Health Administration grants will go toward training and retraining miners.

State, tribal and territorial governments in states in which coal, metal and nonmetal mining occurs are eligible for grant funding. Forty-seven organizations received the grants.

“Training is crucial to ensuring the protection of miners’ safety and health, and the grants awarded today will support these essential training programs,” MSHA administrator Chris Williamson said in a press release. “Every miner deserves to end their shift safe and healthy, and quality educational programs will go a long way toward reducing mining accidents, injuries and illnesses.”

Individual grants range from $18,571 to $736,187.