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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
but I think maybe the State of WVa could have done something like sending state inspectors, etc.
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Supposedly there was a Federal Mine Inspector on site every day the mine was open. I'm reasonably sure he is the man interviewed by NBC today who said he felt the mine was safe, or he would have closed it.
Interesting that in an article I read the other day, the United Mine Workers had very good things to say about the new company who has owned and operated the mine only since November even though they don't represent the employees there.
Tonight on NBC Nightly News, the UMW was bad mouthing the company.
Opportunistic? It looks that way to me.
In the same story, other employees of the mine themselves had good things to say about the company and said they didn't feel unsafe in the mine.
Mining is just a damned dangerous job, and as long as people go underground, there will be accidents and deaths.
Not meaning this to be any kind of a joke, Mother Nature can be a real bitch...