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I am so angry reading about how much time and energy and money is being spent on apologizing and rescuing and digging-
If the damn mining companies would think about safety, security and backup plans/measures in the first place, maybe these accidents could have been avoided. I don't feel sorry for the mining company profits or bosses at all, and in the end, I hope they lose their shirts over this.
too many of these mining men risk their lives every day just to put food on the table for their families, and does anyone realize how little they get paid???? Something has to be done.... legislators have to step up regulation legislation before more men die. I cried when I learned about many of their lives and families today![]()
Jurors are heading into a holiday break without a verdict in the trial of ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship...
Blankenship, 65, faces up to 30 years if convicted of conspiring to willfully violate mine safety regulations and lying to investors and federal securities regulators at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch Mine, and lying to financial regulators and investors about safety. The coal mine exploded in 2010, killing 29 men.
Don Blankenship’s trial began Oct. 1, and just over two months later, a jury found him guilty of conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards.
His conviction was only a misdemeanor; a jury found him not guilty of all felony counts of the indictment, including conspiracy to defraud the Mine Safety and Health Administration and lying to investors and federal securities regulators after the explosion.
The former CEO, who would have faced up to 30 years in prison had he been convicted of all counts, faces up to one year in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced April 6 at 10 a.m. in Charleston.
Twenty-nine men were killed in the former Massey Energy CEO's coal mine six years ago, but he contended in court Wednesday that he committed no crime.
"I just want to make the point that these men were proud coal miners. They've been doing it a long time. And they'd want the truth of what happened there to be known," Blankenship said, drifting closer toward mentioning his theory that an act of nature, not negligence, caused the deadly explosion in his mine.
The judge told him to stop talking about the explosion and handed down the stiffest sentence allowed for his misdemeanor conviction: one year in prison and a $250,000 fine.
One day after the sixth anniversary of the disaster, the sentencing both gave families closure and reopened wounds...
Has anyone ever heard anything about bodies found in a mine near Colliers WV. Theory was they were hiding there to escape the civil war and the mine collapsed.http://www.wsaz.com/newswestvirginia/headlines/89943497.html
Governor announced the four missing miners were found dead.