Utah gets mine-safety grants
Utah will receive $166,113 in federal grant money for health and safety training for miners.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration said this week that overall grant funding for the program in the 2008 fiscal year is $8.2 million, up from $7.9 million. The six-state Rocky Mountain region, which includes Utah, will receive more than $800,000.
The grants cover training and retraining of miners working at surface and underground coal and metal and nonmetal mines, including miners engaged in shell dredging or employed at surface stone, sand and gravel mining operations.
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