Monday, October 24, 2011

The first of the criminal proceedings in the Massey Mine Deaths begins.





US mine boss on trial for deaths of 29 miners (click title to entry - thank you)

11:59 AM Tuesday Oct 25, 2011Federal law forbids such advance warnings of spot mine safety checks. Stover had told investigators that mine policy barred this illegal practice, and that he would have fired any guard who violated it, according to the indictment....