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2 Oct, 2007 4:35 pm
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on Current Mine Safety Disasters: Issues and Challenges, October 2, 2007....
31 Mar, 2008 3:33 pm
Department of the Interior OIG Report: MSHA [Mine Safety and Health Administration] Could Not Show It Made the Right Decision...
6 Mar, 2008 9:49 pm
News release: March 6, 2008 "Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions...
8 May, 2008 3:48 pm
News release: "The Committee launched an investigation immediately after the disaster, finding it likely that the tragedy was the result...
6 Nov, 2007 4:07 am
Lee Davidson of Salt Lake City's Deseret Morning News looks at the workers' compensation benefits that will be paid to survivors of the Crandall Canyon Mine disaster, asking, "How much is a miner's life worth?"
The article illustrates several realities about the workers comp system: it was neither designed as a mechanism to make an injured worker (or his or...
28 Aug, 2007 7:04 pm
... to satisfy the nation's energy appetite.' Nineteen months after the West Virginia editorial was published, six miners were trapped in the Crandall Canyon mine in Huntington, Utah. As the tragic story of the Utah
mine collapse continues to unfold, ... training, and a proactive media approach integrated with a government relations strategy in place now,
before the next crisis. The mining industry needs to show leadership today or else it can expect to be cast as the culprit with each new disaster. You ...
10 Aug, 2007 8:00 pm
Murray Energy Corp., the company that co-owns the Utah coal mine where six workers are trapped, has incurred millions of dollars in fines over
the last 18 months. While the safety record at Utah's Crandall Canyon mine is good, Murray has 19 mines in five states that have not fared so well. Mining safety expert witness Bruce Dial, owner of Dial
Mine Safety, said the $1.46 million in fines so far in 2007 indicate that the company is not taking the necessary steps to remedy ...
8 Oct, 2007 5:47 am
The Washington Post reported yesterday: The Labor Department said Friday that it could cost millions of dollars and take months to respond to a House committee's subpoena looking at the
agency's oversight of the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah,
site...
26 Sep, 2007 8:13 am
... Safety Commission panel is considering whether this would help prevent such tragedies from occuring in the future. After the collapse, the mine faced considerable public scrutiny over its safety standards and over allegations that its owner, Bob ... have been predicted," said Joe Fielder, a
longtime miner involved in the Crandall Canyon rescue effort. "This disaster was not the result of
poor training or improper mine procedures." Others say that reliance on a federal system of regulation is not ...
28 Aug, 2007 10:00 pm
... to organize workers at all of city's 11 casinos. Has won 3, lost 2. Union steps in at request of Crandall Canyon miners UMWA says it's now representing workers at nonunion Crandall Canyon mine on safety issues and in any discussion with Mine Safety and
Health Administration involving rescue or recovery of six men trapped in mine. International Paper and Union Reach Deal International Paper Co.
reached four-year master agreement with United Steelworkers ...
13 May 6:57 am
... and staff members worldwide. Settlements Reached over Utah Mining Disaster: The owner and operator of Utah's Crandall
Canyon mine on Tuesday settled lawsuits filed by the families of the miners and rescuers who were
killed or injured by two cave-ins in 2007. The settlement the largest in Utah mining history was signed by lawyers for the defendants and the families of the 12 men who were
killed or injured. Terms of the settlement were not ...
8 May, 2008 9:26 am
A recent congressional report on last year's mining disaster in Utah is disturbing, yet not surprising: The general manager and possibly other senior staff at the Crandall Canyon Mine near Huntington, Utah where 9 miners died in August
2007, hid...
24 Sep, 2007 7:50 pm
The JLR has been a very busy inmate. He has filed the following lawsuits: Jonathan Lee Riches© v. Manuel Noriega Jonathan Lee Riches© v. Crandall Canyon Mine Jonathan Lee Riches© v. Holy Land Foundation for
Relief and Development, et al Jonathan Lee Riches© v. Theodore Jon Kaczynski The full complaints will be posed on Dreadnaught, but it may take [...]
25 Feb, 2008 1:24 am
... in Extraordinary Rendition 02/22/2008 Subpoenas Issued to UtahAmerican Energy President P. Bruce Hill and Murray Energy Founder and CEO Robert Murray (PDF 157 KB) Subpoenas Issued
by the House Education and Labor Committee Regarding the Crandall Canyon Mine Incident Pursuant to the Terms of H. Res. 836 02/22/2008 White Paper: Climate Change Legislation Design (PDF 2 MB) Prepared by the Majority ...
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