{"id":539719,"date":"2010-04-22T11:47:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82988"},"modified":"2010-04-22T11:47:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:47:52","slug":"massey-deep-miner-speaks-out-on-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/539719","title":{"rendered":"Massey Deep Miner Speaks Out on Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82941\/in-coal-county-a-culture-of-fear\" >Our piece<\/a> this morning describes the reluctance of Massey Energy workers to criticize the company for fear of losing their jobs in a part of the country where there are criminally few employment alternatives. As a result, it&#8217;s next to impossible to find miners or their families willing to talk to reporters about Massey&#8217;s safety ethic, particularly in those communities closest to the Upper Big Branch project in Raleigh County, where 29 miners were killed this month in a deep mine blast.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t tell that to Jordan Freeman. The West Virginia-based filmmaker and environmental activist recently conducted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-zmHdZwjj1M\" >this interview<\/a> with a Massey deep miner. And while the identity of the miner is concealed, his message is nonetheless pretty damning.<span id=\"more-82988\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Production was the name of the game,&#8221; he says. &#8220;At all costs we&#8217;ve got to get X amount of footage outside at the end of every shift &#8212; for what they would say to be, to where they could stay in the business, to keep the revenue rolling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, I felt like that lump of coal was important that a human being&#8217;s life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With more and more stories appearing like this, it&#8217;s getting tougher and tougher for Massey to lay a credible claim to their alleged commitment to safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our piece this morning describes the reluctance of Massey Energy workers to criticize the company for fear of losing their jobs in a part of the country where there are criminally few employment alternatives. As a result, it&#8217;s next to impossible to find miners or their families willing to talk to reporters about Massey&#8217;s safety [&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-539719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539719","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=539719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}