MSHA offers 500k in safety grant funds

CHARLESTON, SC —The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration says it’s offering $500,000 in grant money to develop training and training materials for emergency preparedness and haulage safety.

The agency says the Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants cover surface and underground mines that produce coal, metal and minerals. States and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply.

MSHA says it may award 10 separate grants worth at least $50,000 apiece.

MSHA says grant applications are available  at the Web site www.grants.gov and are due July 31.

The grants were set up in a sweeping federal safety law adopted after the deaths of 12 men in an explosion at the Sago Mine in West Virginia and two other high-profile fatal coal mining accidents in 2006.

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