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1 Dec 2014, 3:13 am by Jon Gelman
“Those responsible for managing mines in a way that caused multiple deaths were never held responsible,” said Patrick McGinley, a law professor at West Virginia University. [read post]
25 Sep 2013, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Butcher Jr., a laborer at the companies' mining operation, believed that hand scanning involved the Mark of the Beast. [read post]
22 Jul 2012, 8:11 pm
At the time, the mine was owned by Massey Energy Company, the same company that owned the Upper Big Branch mine that was the scene of West Virginia's deadliest disaster. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 6:12 am
Energy West Mining Company, joining the Sixth Circuit in holding that the assumptions used by a multiemployer defined benefit pension plan in calculating the amount of withdrawal liability owed by an exiting employer must reflect the actual and projected experience of the plan. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 8:56 pm
Federal prosecutors are looking into whether the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) might have tipped off Massey Energy Company officials about inspections, prior to the events that led to the 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine. [read post]
21 Feb 2008, 1:41 pm
Despite poking and prodding from his colleagues, Justice Brent Benjamin said Thursday that he will not disqualify himself from a case between Massey Energy and several smaller mining companies — a case in which two of his fellow justices have already bowed out. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 11:43 pm
Meanwhile, Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., the company that bought Massey Energy Company, has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve various civil and criminal penalties linked to the Upper Big Branch mine disaster. [read post]
14 Nov 2009, 4:04 am
Massey Energy and its subsidiary Spartan Mining Company settled a lawsuit alleging age discrimination for $8.75 million. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 7:05 am by Theo Francis
It’s becoming clear that Massey Energy (MEE), which owns the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia where 25 miners died after an explosion this week, has had a spotty regulatory history. [read post]
21 Mar 2016, 6:01 am by Kit Case
” The company he ran, Massey Energy, owned more than 40 mines in central Appalachia, including the Upper Big Branch mine, located in Montcoal, West Virginia, a state where coal is the dominant industry. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 10:00 pm
The company, Massey Energy Corporation, has several violations involving safe ventilation procedures for methane. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 6:48 am by Joe Consumer
  Writes the Charleston Gazette, Don Blankenship, the longtime chief executive officer of Massey Energy, was indicted Thursday on charges that he orchestrated the routine violation of key federal mine safety rules at the company’s Upper Big Branch Mine prior to an April 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 2:23 pm by McNabb Associates, P.C.
— Federal prosecutors said Monday the former security chief at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine where 29 miners died in a 2010 explosion lied to investigators and attempted to destroy related documents in defiance of company orders. [read post]
13 May 2014, 11:18 am by Joe Consumer
The 2010 explosion at Massey Energy Upper Big Branch in West Virginia killed 29 miners. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 4:49 pm by Monroe Freedman
The owner of the coal mine that was the site of the recent disaster in West Virginia in which over two dozen miners were killed is the Massey Energy Company. [read post]
11 Sep 2013, 3:21 am by Jeffery Robinette
Illegal coal mine inspection practices and prescription drug abuse – two of West Virginia’s greatest plagues, paired with poor personal choices, cause the downfall of Massey Energy executive. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
The Clarksburg Exponent Telegram reports that a jury in a West Virginia federal district court last Thursday awarded $150,000 in compensatory damages to a former employee of Consol Energy (the mining operation of Consolidation Coal Co.) in a Title VII suit charging failure to accommodate his Evangelical Christian religious beliefs. [read post]
19 May 2012, 10:03 pm
David Wegman, a professor of work environment at University of Massachusetts Lowell; Michael Karmis, director of the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research at Virginia Tech; and Keith Heasley, a professor of mining engineering at West Virginia University. [read post]
25 May 2010, 7:27 am
A congressional hearing into the cause of the fatal Massey Energy Co. mine explosion that killed 29 miners in Beckley, West Virginia last month has revealed that not only did the company regularly violate safety rules, it pressured employees to hide safety violations from federal inspectors. [read post]
17 Apr 2014, 11:54 am by Jeffery Robinette
Energy prospectors are seeing new potential for oil drilling in the Appalachian Basin, particularly in Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia. [read post]