{"id":543572,"date":"2010-04-26T07:56:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T11:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2010-04-26T07:56:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T11:56:25","slug":"inspectors-found-%e2%80%98reckless-disregard%e2%80%99-for-safety-at-massey-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543572","title":{"rendered":"Inspectors found \u2018reckless disregard\u2019 for safety at Massey mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Greenwire<\/a>: Federal inspectors at Massey Energy Co.’s Upper Big Branch coal mine<\/a> concluded earlier this year that senior managers demonstrated “reckless disregard” for safety by ordering a foreman to ignore the mine’s citation for faulty ventilation practices, according to the handwritten notes by inspectors.<\/p>\n

According to the January notes, a president and vice president of Massey Performance Coal subsidiary said “not to worry” about the ventilation problem, telling a mine employee that “it was fine.” The notes add to the paper trail of safety violations at the mine, the site of the April 5 blast that killed 29 workers in the deadliest U.S. mine accident in 40 years.<\/p>\n

The Mine Safety and Health Administration<\/a> inspector said “the operator has shown high negligence due to fact of management knowing where problem is,” noting that the ventilation problem in question could “result in fatal injuries.”<\/p>\n

Though this particular citation was remedied by Massey, investigations into the cause of the accident are focusing on other ventilation problems that could have allowed explosive methane gas<\/a> to accumulate.<\/p>\n

“Massey’s Board of Directors has instructed counsel and mine experts to conduct a full evaluation of events, and it would be premature to comment on specific violations before they have had time to finish,” the company said in a statement. “It’s important to note, however, that all MSHA violations must be abated. Most citations are corrected the same day, often immediately. For those that require more time, a deadline is given by MSHA to correct the situation” (Steven Mufson, Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, April 23). – GN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greenwire: Federal inspectors at Massey Energy Co.’s Upper Big Branch coal mine concluded earlier this year that senior managers demonstrated “reckless disregard” for safety by ordering a foreman to ignore the mine’s citation for faulty ventilation practices, according to the handwritten notes by inspectors. According to the January notes, a president and vice president of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543572","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\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}