MSHA Inspection Failures May Spur Increases to Inspection Activities

摘要

Two recent news items shine a spotlight on MSHA, its inspection corps, and several publicly acknowledged inspection failures. On February 5, 2013, the West Virginia Supreme Court published a decision that, for purposes of the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA"), found that the United States could be liable for the wrongful death of two coal miners resulting from the admittedly negligent inspections performed by federal mine inspectors.