Comment: Regulation procedures not working for coal mining, it will never work for uranium mining!
By Clement Daly
22 October 2011
A West Virginia miner was killed at a Consol Energy mine in Marshall County Monday night. Charles McIntire, a 62-year-old coal miner at the Shoemaker Mine on the Ohio River near Moundsville, West Virginia died after being struck by a piece of equipment he was operating.
Federal data records at least 15 injuries at the Shoemaker Mine since the beginning of the year, and nearly 500 citations for safety violations, many of them significant and substantial (S&S). This designation is reserved for violations serious enough to warrant the halting of operations because they present the risk of imminent death or injury.
McIntire is the seventh coal miner to be killed in West Virginia this year and the seventeenth nationwide.
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