{"id":522281,"date":"2010-04-09T13:01:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-09-massey-coal-miner-suspected-safety-problems\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T13:01:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:01:11","slug":"massey-coal-miner-suspected-safety-problems-might-prove-fatal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522281","title":{"rendered":"Massey coal miner suspected safety problems might prove fatal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Jonathan Hiskes <\/p>\n<p>At least one miner killed in this week&#8217;s tragic disaster in West Virginia seemed to sense that safety problems in the mine might prove fatal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Josh Napper left a note for his girlfriend and toddler daughter the weekend before he died.&nbsp; As his mom, Pam Napper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/?\/video\/us\/2010\/04\/08\/am.intv.pam.napper.cnn\">tells CNN<\/a>, it said, &#8220;If anything happens to me, I&#8217;ll be looking down from heaven at you all. I love you. Take care of my baby. Tell her that daddy loves her, she&#8217;s beautiful, she&#8217;s funny. And just take care of my baby girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Pam Napper, whose brother and nephew were also killed in the accidents, says her son had noted safety problems at the Massey Energy mine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s her interview with CNN:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/before-massey-there-was-crandall-canyon\/\">Before the Massey mine disaster, there was Crandall Canyon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-09-grist-hating-on-don-blankenship-before-it-was-cool\/\">Grist: hating on Don Blankenship before hating on Don Blankenship was cool<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-09-bike-love-in-unlikely-placesdetroit-dallas-abu-dhabi\/\">Bike love in unlikely places&#8212;Detroit, Dallas, Abu Dhabi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=f9ebca7788d4d8a84c89cc876f4401af&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=f9ebca7788d4d8a84c89cc876f4401af&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/ib.adnxs.com\/seg?add=24595&#038;t=2\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jonathan Hiskes At least one miner killed in this week&#8217;s tragic disaster in West Virginia seemed to sense that safety problems in the mine might prove fatal.&nbsp; Josh Napper left a note for his girlfriend and toddler daughter the weekend before he died.&nbsp; As his mom, Pam Napper, tells CNN, it said, &#8220;If anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522281","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\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}