MSHA: Page had been removed from ‘fireboss book’ at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine

[Hubert Flottz]

MSHA: Page had been removed from ‘fireboss book’ at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine
May 13, 2010 by Ken Ward Jr.

Federal investigators have determined that a page was removed from the “fireboss book” at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine, where 29 workers were killed a month ago in the worst U.S. coal-mining disaster in 40 years.

That’s according to a new court filing by lawyers for the families of two of the miners who died in that horrific April 5 explosion in Raleigh County.

U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration officials revealed this potentially important piece of information to the families of the Upper Big Branch miners during a closed-door meeting last week at Liberty High School in Beckley, according to the court documents.

Rachel Moreland and Mark Moreland, lawyers for the families of William I. Griffith and Ronald Maynor made this revelation public in a legal memorandum filed in the lawsuit in which they and the United Mine Workers seek to force MSHA to conduct its investigation of the disaster through a public hearing. The legal memo, filed today in U.S. District Court in Charleston, says this is what happened at that meeting last week:
After much prodding by miners’ families, MSHA admitted that the investigative team determined that one page of a fire boss book has been removed. Read More...

http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2010/05/13/msha-page-had-been-removed-from-fireboss-book-at-massey-energys-upper-big-branch-mine/

And the Fire Boss said, "Well-a Bless My Soul"

[Hubert Flottz]

1. The "example" was set by the high and mighty over the course of

The BushCo administration. There may be a pattern here :sarcasm:

The story goes on to mention the crime of " mutilation of documentary evidence"


"Mutilation of documentary evidence," Like the missing millions of White House emails, or like disposal of records of the torture and murder that the CIA admitted to, after being told by Dick Cheney to do so?

Monkey See, Monkey Do!

[malaise]

2. K & R

for the workers of the mines

[pruple]

3. K&R

[WhiteTara]

4. welcome

:hi: