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Killer Mines

By Michael Blankenship

Over the years, the federal government has done far less than it should ? and far less than the law requires ? to guarantee the safety of Appalachia?s miners. So it was a welcome break with grim history when the Labor Department asked a federal judge last week to shut down a Kentucky mine owned by the Massey Energy Company. The mine has been cited for about 700 safety violations this year alone. Massey is also the owner of the violation-plagued Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, where a methane explosion killed 29 workers in April. The company is reportedly the object of two grand jury investigations in connection with that disaster. Read more.... The safety record of the mining industry in this country can only be described as abysmal...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on November 08, 2010 (boomark / email).