Feds blame bob murray, mine operator, for fatal collapse

[spanone]

the media portrayed this criminal like a victim




(CNN) -- The U.S. government Thursday announced its highest penalty for coal mine safety violations, $1.85 million, for a collapse that killed six miners in Utah last year.


Insufficient pillar support and activity in areas that should not have been mined caused the August Crandall Canyon mine collapse, federal investigators found.

The government fined the mine operator, Genwal Resources, $1.34 million "for violations that directly contributed to the deaths of six miners last year," plus nearly $300,000 for other violations.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/24/mine.collapse/index.html

[texastoast]

1. Wonder how those fines affected Genwal's bottom line? n/t

[spanone]

12. a blip on their quarterly, at best

[MichiganVote]

2. Lawsuits.

[Faygo Kid]

3. Inevitable. Vote Republican, and die. But at least gays won't marry.

Mine safety?

Food safety?

Health care?

Jobs?

Financial security?

Who needs 'em, when you've got guns and gays can't marry.

[Blue Diadem]

4. They need jail time.

Instead, they are given a fine and I can't help but wonder if even that amount will get reduced.

[LostInAnomie]

5. $1.85 million. He probably makes that in a couple of weeks.

That son of a bitch should have lost his ass for killing those men.

Off topic, but does anyone think that guy looks like Bud Dwyer if he wouldn't have blown his head off?

[texastoast]

7. Wonder if it is tort reform?

Or the mine safety laws shrubito's henchmen worked hard to change. And punish their own who spoke out.

http://www.aflcio.org/issues/safety/ns02022006.cfm


Bush Mine Safety Appointee Says Safety Laws Are Just Fine

Despite the clear need for stepped-up mine safety, the Bush administration’s latest choice to run MSHA, Richard Stickler—a former mining company executive at a subsidiary of Massey Energy in West Virginia—told a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing Jan. 31 that he believes the nation’s mine safety laws are adequate.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_3_39/ai_n18764647

Shafted: how the Bush administration reversed decades of progress on mine safety

Washington Monthly, March, 2007 by Ken Ward, Jr.

[malaise]

6. Is the report public yet?

Let's hear from the M$M hacks re the earthquake.

"It was not -- and I repeat, it was not -- a natural occurring earthquake," said the government's top mine safety official, Richard E. Stickler.

[Mendocino]

8. Hey they need experienced coal mine operators in China.

He would fit right in.

[texastoast]

9. Genwal Info

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/utah-a15.shtml

http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_gkk3n2


"Since early 2005, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has cited the Crandall Canyon Mine 176 times for alleged safety or health standard violations. Many of these were deemed "significant and substantial" problems."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20070807/ai_n19445166

Hell. That was under the shrubito smallo peeno administration. How bad would it have been under reasonable regulations?

This needs looking into.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. This evil garden gnome makes my skin crawl.

[bigwillq]

11. I was hoping Murray went to prison

He is such a scum bag

[spanone]

13. no mention of jail for anyone....if you don't obey the rules & someone dies...that's criminal imo

remember he blamed it on the earth tremors.....sure bob

[malaise]

14. Bet he doesn't even pay this fine

Fugging scumbag.

[WhiteTara]

15. I hope they hang him

greedy fat pig. I believe that greed is a crime and the greater the greed, the more severe the penalty.

[DeepModem Mom]

16. K&R

[wanpete]

17. The 1.85 mil probably won't hurt him much at all...but the civil lawsuits from

all the families who lost loved ones will hopefully sink him.