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BEYOND SAGO COAL MINE SAFETY IN AMERICA: 'THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO DIE'; Strip mines present unique dangers to workers
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Second in a series Reporting for this series was supported by a
fellowship from the Alicia Patterson Foundation.
kward@wvgazette.com
TWILIGHT - At about 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 17, 2003, Rodney Sheets and
four coworkers piled into a van in the parking lot of Progress Coal's
Twilight MTR Surface Mine in Boone County.
Daylight was still more than an hour and a half away. The workers
needed to get into the pit by 6 a.m. and start moving coal for
Progress' parent company, Massey E...
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BEYOND SAGO: COAL MINE SAFETY IN AMERICA
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; After five of his co-workers died in the Ferrell Mine explosion in 1980, Rodney Sheets got out from underground. He took what he thought would be a safer job, as a drill operator at a Massey Energy mountaintop removal mine. On Sept. 17, 2003, Sheets and another worker, William Birchfield, were
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Richmond, Va.-Based Company Is Faulted in West Virginia Strip Mine Deaths.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; By Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 9--Massey Energy management did not adequately and proactively address safety threats before a September accident that killed ...
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Massey faulted in Sept. strip mine deaths
Charleston Gazette
; kward@wvgazette.com Massey Energy management did not "adequately and proactively" address safety threats before a September accident that killed two workers at one of its mountaintop removal mines, federal investigators have found. Officials from Massey's Progress Coal subsidiary also did not make
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Local briefs
Charleston Daily Mail
; Company cited twice in fatal wreck Both drivers involved in a fatal two-vehicle accident at the Twilight MTR Sufrace Mine failed to follow safety procedures, according to a federal investigation. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration report concludes that management at Progress Coal Co.
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Agency cites Massey subsidiary for safety violations
Charleston Daily Mail
; TWILIGHT - A Massey Energy subsidiary has been cited for two mine safety violations stemming from the deaths of two workers at a Boone County surface mine. William P. Birchfield, 37, of Madison and Rodney W. Sheets, 47, of Danville died Sept. 17, 2002, when a shuttle van they were in was run over
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Massey safety a longtime issue
Charleston Gazette
; kward@wvgazette.com Over the last five years, at least 11 coal miners have died on the job in mines operated by subsidiaries of Massey Energy Co., federal records show. In each case, federal mine safety regulators have cited Massey with violations inspectors said played a role in the accident.
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'A hard working coal miner, with two super sons', Miscommunication may have caused fatalities
Charleston Daily Mail
; A rock truck driver involved in a fatal accident at the Progress Coal Co. Twilight Surface Mine thought the person he was talking to over the radio was in a crane on another part of the mine. When Matthew Adkins, 28, of West Hamlin told the rock truck driver that his supplies had arrived, however,
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Miner's family suing mine owner over death
Charleston Daily Mail
; The family of a miner accidentally crushed by a 190-ton truck at the Boone County mine is suing the mine's owners, including Massey Energy Co., over his death. The suit, filed Monday in Boone Circuit Court, says Massey Energy and its subsidiary, Progress Coal Co., should have done more to prevent
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Two Men Killed in Collision at Massey Energy Coal Mine in West Virginia.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; By Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 18--Two coal miners were killed early Wednesday when their van was struck ... The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.
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Two men killed in collision at Massey mine
Charleston Gazette
; kward@wvgazette.com Two coal miners were killed early Wednesday when their van was struck by a huge truck at a Massey Energy strip mine in Boone County. A third worker was injured and was listed in serious condition at a Charleston hospital, authorities said. The accident occurred at Massey
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