{"id":579698,"date":"2010-05-26T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85752"},"modified":"2010-05-26T13:25:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T17:25:06","slug":"massey%e2%80%99s-upper-big-branch-mine-still-racking-up-safety-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579698","title":{"rendered":"Massey\u2019s Upper Big Branch Mine Still Racking Up Safety Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coal mine that exploded last month in West Virginia &#8212; killing 29 workers and all but killing a 30th &#8212; may be shuttered in the wake of the blast, but federal regulators continue to find safety problems there. As The Charleston Gazette&#8217;s Ken Ward Jr. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wvgazette.com\/coaltattoo\/2010\/05\/26\/massey-hit-with-more-violations-at-upper-big-branch\/\" >reports<\/a> today, the Mine Safety and Health Administration has issued dozens of safety violations at the Upper Big Branch in the last two weeks alone.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Most of the citations related to violations MSHA inspectors found in the mine\u2019s electrical systems &#8212; presumably problems that could be discovered without going underground &#8212; or to surface facilities at the Raleigh County operation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-85752\"><\/span>Ward counts 23 new violations since May 14; we count 30. Regardless of the number, the mine is still seen as a safety threat, and it&#8217;s not yet clear how or why.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got calls in to MSHA. Hopefully we&#8217;ll have an update shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coal mine that exploded last month in West Virginia &#8212; killing 29 workers and all but killing a 30th &#8212; may be shuttered in the wake of the blast, but federal regulators continue to find safety problems there. As The Charleston Gazette&#8217;s Ken Ward Jr. reports today, the Mine Safety and Health Administration has [&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-579698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579698","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=579698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}