Commissioners vote to affirm violations of magazine requirements

摘要

At a Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission meeting, Commissioners Mary Lu Jordan and Michael Young voted to affirm citations alleging that blasting contractor Austin Powder Co. violated Mine Safety and Health Administration's (MSHA) construction requirements for magazines. However, Chairman Michael Duffy agreed with the contractor that it and others in the industry lacked "fair notice" that MSHA was going to require the storage of non-mass-detonating detonators in magazines, meeting the construction requirements set forth in para. 56.6132.