Legal Opinion
Secretary of Labor v. Consolidation Coal Company
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 10, 2018No. 17-1219PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MILLETT, Circuit Judge:
After a rock extraction caused a roof to collapse in a mining tunnel where miners sometimes work, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration cited the Consolidation Coal Company for excavating an excess amount of rock from the tunnel, in violation of what the company's roof plan allowed. An administrative law judge later reduced the citation fine, concluding that Consolidation Coal's breach of its roof control plan, with the resulting roof collapse, was not a "significant and substantial" safety violation. On administrative review, the Federal Mine Safety and…
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