Published: October 4, 2018 |

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Eastern Iowa Community Colleges has received $184,836 from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration to support safety and health courses along with other programs.

MSHA awarded $10,537,000 in grant funding to 46 states, the Navajo Nation, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Grantees will use the funds to provide miners with federally mandated training. 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.

MSHA awarded grants based on applications from states, and they are administered by state mine inspectors’ offices, state departments of labor, and state-supported colleges and universities. Each recipient tailors the program to the needs of its mines and miners — including mining conditions and hazards miners may encounter — and provides technical assistance.

Eastern Iowa includes Clinton, Muscatine and Scott Community Colleges, and covers all of Clinton, Jackson, Muscatine and Scott counties, as well as parts of Cedar and Louisa counties.

Source: Quad-City Times

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