An attorney who spent years enforcing mine safety laws has retired from the U.S. attorney’s office in Lexington, Ky., the Associated Press reported.
After 20 years of handling civil and criminal cases involving coal mine operators who were accused of violating federal mine safety and health laws, David Sledd retired Friday, the Associated Press reported.
Sledd, an Assistant U.S. Attorney, was hired in 1991 by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky to handle a backlog of coal mine cases investigated by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA).
“There are many miners who have never heard of David Sledd but they are safer because of the work he’s done,” Ricky Hamilton, a former MSHA agent, said in a statement.
Sledd successfully handled cases involving nearly 150 coal mine operators in the 1990s.
