{"id":522036,"date":"2010-04-09T14:31:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81814"},"modified":"2010-04-09T14:31:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:31:23","slug":"massey-mine-in-kentucky-hit-with-54-safety-violations-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522036","title":{"rendered":"Massey Mine in Kentucky Hit With 54 Safety Violations This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massey CEO Don Blankenship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvmetronews.com\/mediaplayer.cfm?storyid=36360\" >said<\/a> this week that piling up safety violations is simply a part of mining coal. He wasn&#8217;t kidding.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom # 1 Mine, a Massey-owned project in Pike County, Ky., has been cited with 54 safety violations in the four days since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvgazette.com\/News\/201004050545\" >Monday&#8217;s explosion<\/a> in West Virginia killed 25 miners, according to the Mining Safety and Health Administration.<span id=\"more-81814\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-two of those violations were deemed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msha.gov\/mshainfo\/factsheets\/mshafct4.htm\" >significant and substantial<\/a>,&#8221; meaning they \u00a0are &#8220;reasonably likely to result in a reasonably serious injury or illness under the unique circumstance contributed to by the violations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of those so-called S&amp;S violations, four are related to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msha.gov\/30CFR\/75.202.htm\" >preventing roof falls<\/a>; two involve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msha.gov\/30CFR\/75.370.htm\" >problems with ventilation<\/a>; two target <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msha.gov\/30CFR\/75.1725.htm\" >maintenance of machinery<\/a>; and one indicates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msha.gov\/30CFR\/75.342.htm\" >a failure to maintain methane sensors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the year, the Freedom # 1 Mine has racked up 233 safety violations &#8212; tops among all Massey-controlled tunnel mines.<\/p>\n<p>The district housing the mine is represented by Rep. Hal Rogers (R). Rogers&#8217; office hasn&#8217;t responded this week to repeated calls and emails requesting comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massey CEO Don Blankenship said this week that piling up safety violations is simply a part of mining coal. He wasn&#8217;t kidding. The Freedom # 1 Mine, a Massey-owned project in Pike County, Ky., has been cited with 54 safety violations in the four days since Monday&#8217;s explosion in West Virginia killed 25 miners, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}