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13 Jan 2011, 9:07 pm
" Of particular note in the report was the 29 deaths in Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine near Montcoal, West Virginia last April. [read post]
11 Apr 2010, 4:57 pm
As a personal injury lawyer in Chicago, I am both saddened and disappointed in the West Virginia Mine explosion that caused 25 needless deaths. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 1:59 pm
In a blog from earlier this week, our Southern California Labor and Employment Lawyers discussed Monday's mine explosion in West Virginia that killed at least twenty-five employees, and whether looking into last month's federal safety violations could have prevented the workers' deaths in the explosion. [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 5:30 am
According to information from the United States Attorney’s Office (Southern District of West Virginia), David Hughart, 53, of Crab Orchard, West Virginia, admitted in a guilty plea that he conspired to impede the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and conspired to violate mine health and safety laws. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 8:33 am
We could devote today’s blog to the anti-worker, anti-consumer political antics of the disgraceful Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, which owns the West Virginia mine responsible for the (now) worst U.S. mine disaster since 1984. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 12:21 pm
The charges stem from the 2010 West Virginia Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion “that killed 29 workers, the U.S. industry’s deadliest in almost four decades. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 1:24 am
Last week, Blankenship, the former chief executive officer of Massey Energy, was charged in a federal indictment for a variety of crimes in connection with a disaster at the Upper Big Branch mine in April, 2010, in which twenty-nine coal workers were killed. [read post]
21 Oct 2012, 12:26 am
Attorney for the Department of Justice, meanwhile, argues that although the MSHA inspectors did not perform as well as they should, the negligence of the mine owner -- Massey Energy Company, the company that also owned the Upper Big Branch mine -- should not be ignored. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 3:13 am
“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]
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]
26 Oct 2016, 3:49 pm
— Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was wrongly convicted and sent to prison because jury instructions made it too easy to conclude that he willfully violated safety rules at a West Virginia coal mine, his attorneys argued Wednesday. [read post]
29 May 2010, 2:05 am
Thus, although there are private wrongful death suits against Massey Energy, these will be filed in state court, such as West Virginia, where questions have been raised about whether Massey Energy has close ties to state courts. [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 6:02 pm
Massey Energy, owner of the mine in which 29... [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 1:48 pm
As Senator Byrd of West Virginia said last month, it is mechanization and the demand for coal that have eliminated jobs in West Virginia, and it's time to adapt to change and to embrace clean energy solutions. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 6:48 am
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]
15 Dec 2011, 11:43 pm
West Virginia's Senator Jay Rockefeller is a key supporter of the Robert C. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 7:05 am
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]
11 Sep 2013, 3:21 am
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]
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]
24 Oct 2011, 2:23 pm
— 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]
