Two Dead in Kentucky Mine Collapse (nearly 1,000 violations in last 15 months)

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS News

A rescue team has found a second Kentucky miner dead after a roof collapse at an underground coal mine with a long history of safety problems.

Kentucky Office of Mine Safety and Licensing spokesman Dick Brown said the two miners were found dead Thursday after the accident at the Dotiki Mine in western Kentucky.

U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration spokeswoman Amy Louviere said the first miner who died was still trapped under rock and he couldn't be identified. The second miner was reported dead shortly before 5 p.m. ET and further details were not immediately released.

Gov. Steve Beshear said emergency crews had reached the site of the collapse, about four miles from the entrance to the Dotiki mine, and were "within an arm's length" of the first man when the roof became unstable and they had to retreat.

"About that time, the roof started moving again," he said. "Rocks started falling again. And they had to pull back."


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/29/national/main6444438.shtml?tag=stack

[Botany]

1. Thank you George W Bush for putting a coal man from Massey Energy ....

in charge of the U.S. office of mine safety.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

2. His memoirs should be titled "National Disgrace".

Decision Points my ass. It's almost beyond belief how much one family of reptilian bottom feeders has done to this country.

Poor Laura being all upset that her husband was called incompetent would be laughable if they hadn't caused so much death and destruction along the way.

[Botany]

3. It would be funny if the dead, blood, lost treasure, and environmental .....

..... damage was not up to our eyeballs.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8200042

[Altoid_Cyclist]

8. I remember that post.

Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue would be an appropriate title.

I hope that nobody took my statement the wrong way. I wasn't saying that there was anything funny or laughable about what the BFEE has done to this country. I was mocking Laura the former First Trance for whining about the way that her husband was treated.

[Petrushka]

4. K & R

:kick:

[era veteran]

5. Fuck you King Coal and your fuckwad operators

This will never stop. Here is some other crap about these pigs:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=154x2154

[hootinholler]

6. Doesn't MSHA have an anonymous tip line?

Geebuzz!

-Hoot

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. It's OK though, "it's business."

This oft repeated turn of phrase is the mantra for exploiting any and all resources. And, it really gets my blood boiling.

[era veteran]

9. It helps to mine coal when you can control the inspectors,

just 'contribute' (BRIBE) to politicians. This convenient firing seems a lot dirtier now Guv. Don't go to the Derby Saturday and preen for the TV. Go sit with the relatives of the dead and tell them how much you care about them and will do everything you can to make mining safer,blah, blah, blah. This from a 12/7/09 post on the firing of the Director of Mining Permits..... FitzGerald, of the Kentucky Resources Council, said it's "very disturbing" that the Beshear administration would consult Alliance Coal about the firing of a mining regulator, especially one who did nothing wrong.

Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2009/12/07/1049100/e-mail-raises-questions-in-firing.html#ixzz0mZweR5e8

[Union Yes]

10. 2nd miner found dead in Ky. coal mine

Source: AP/MSNBC

updated 4:40 p.m. CT, Thurs., April 29, 2010

PROVIDENCE, Ky. - A rescue team found a second Kentucky miner dead Thursday after a roof collapse at an underground coal mine with a long history of safety problems.

Kentucky Office of Mine Safety and Licensing spokesman Dick Brown said the two miners were killed in an accident at the Dotiki Mine near Providence in western Kentucky late Wednesday.

Gov. Steve Beshear identified the miners as 27-year-old Justin Travis and 28-year-old Michael Carter.


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36845993/ns/us_news-life

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This is horrible.

[midnight]

11. K&R

[MadMaddie]

12. So in a two month period we have lost around 31 miners

this is not the 1930's this is insane. These unsafe mines must be shut down.

[Union Yes]

13. These 2 make it 31

:cry:

[MadMaddie]

14. Thanks for the correction!

Lives lost because the fat cat owners are to damn cheap to implement basic safety.

Mines 31 lives lost
Oil Spills - ll lives lost

What the hell is next?

[Proletariatprincess]

15. And to think that some people in this country still think that unions are unnecesary.

The fact is, that in countries where there are strong labor unions these kinds of things don't happen. Sweden for instance. France and Germany.
And even if Congress finally does the right thing and passes mine safety regulations, without a strong labor movement they will be inadequet and not enforced properly.

[Cleita]

16. It's the businesses who think unions are unnecessary.

Although I know unions need to be regulated as well as businesses. I know that some unions operate as a business and do nothing for their workers, however, I think we need to make unions, the real ones, relevant again.

[Blue_Tires]

17. +1

[Doctor_J]

19. Unnecessary? They think they're evil

This is what happens when Big Business (including Big Media) run the country instead of We The People.

[Doctor_J]

18. We have lost the American spirit

Back in the day Blankenship and other executives would have been found swinging from a lamppost soon after the WV tragedy. Instead Hate Radio will be blaming this on Al Gore before the day is out, and half of the miners will believe it.

Please wake me we're ready to fight back