The Mine Safety and Health Administration failed to swiftly enforce thousands of violation findings over a sevenyear period, jeopardizing miners' safety, according to a Labor Department watchdog report released yesterday. The Labor Department's inspector general reviewed violations from 2013 to 2019 as part of the audit. In nearly a third of 706,007 violations, MSHA neglected to confirm by the due date that mine operators had resolved hazards. One was 1,014 days overdue, the report says. MSHA also gave mine operators more time than necessary to fix hazards, the watchdog said. The audit found that due dates varied widely among similar violations and inspectors granted extensions without justifying them.
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