The company where Charles Scott Howard worked, Cumberland River Coal Company, will pay him $1,753 a week, according to an agreement signed earlier this week. Howard...has gained a reputation as a fearless safety advocate, filing numerous complaints about unsafe conditions and testifying to a congressional panel about mine safety...In the latest case, Howard said Cumberland River Coal fired him on May 16, when he was in training to return to work after being seriously injured in a mine accident in July 2010...A federal judge ordered the company to reinstate Howard on June 15...The company agreed to pay Howard his salary...continue other benefits such as insurance coverage; and pay him retroactive...[A] spokesman for [the owner of Cumberland River,] Arch Coal, said the company could not comment on the case.