GILLETTE - A coal company and a temporary staffing firm have been cited with four federal violations stemming from an Aug. 4 haul truck accident at the nation's largest surface coal mine.

Operations at Freeport McMoRan's Indonesian subsidiary have been halted following an accident that killed four workers and injured five. On September 27, a haul truck ran over a vehicle containing ...

The accident happened at approximately 5:15 p.m. when a haul truck in the pit backed into a another haul truck that was stationary at the time, according to the MSHA report. The operator of the second ...

Along the haul route, segments of the two-lane highway have a fatal accident rate two to seven times higher than the national average, according to an analysis by the Grand Canyon Trust, an ...