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so, the court allowed to stand Blankenship's conviction for conspiracy to violate federal mine safety and health standards at Massey's UpperBigBranch Mine, where 29 miners died in an April 5, 2010 explosion. "We are pleased with but... Published: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Words: 812
officials have described as a massive and widespread criminal probe of the worst U.S. coal-mining disaster in nearly 40 years. Last month, Berger sentenced former UpperBigBranch miner Thomas Harrah to 10 months in jail. Harrah pleaded... Published: Thursday, October 27, 2011 Words: 1167
to deal with safety problems - mainly ventilation violations, excessive coal dust and lack of rock-dusting to prevent explosions - only when UpperBigBranch was faced with the potential of enhanced U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration... Published: Friday, October 23, 2015 Words: 1178
public statements that defended Massey's safety practices in an effort to stop plummeting stock prices following the 2010 explosion at UpperBigBranch that killed 29 mine workers. Ross, who spent 32 years as an MSHA inspector before... Published: Thursday, November 05, 2015 Words: 1439
during a private bench conference with the judge - bringing up earlier Massey allegations that MSHA destroyed ventilation documents from the UpperBigBranch Mine. The defense argues that any documents that were disposed of "may contain... Published: Saturday, November 07, 2015 Words: 1656
criminal probe. During a U.S. Senate hearing six weeks after the disaster, the UMW's Roberts predicted that "investigations of the UpperBigBranch tragedy will show that safe mining practices were not followed at that operation and... Published: Friday, October 21, 2011 Words: 582
to investigators and then tried to destroy evidence about Massey’s practice of warning underground workers when federal inspectors arrived at UpperBigBranch. Prosecutors began their case against Stover when the security director testified... Published: Thursday, February 09, 2012 Words: 383
inspectors, would have resulted in citations and mining-shutdown orders. Quarles, whose son, Gary Wayne Quarles, died at UpperBigBranch, said he's attended two of Blankenship's three hearings. He and his wife, Patty, plan to attend... Published: Sunday, April 05, 2015 Words: 1779
what he and Blankenship agreed was a complicated and unworkable ventilation plan that MSHA tried to "impose on the UpperBigBranch mine. Ruby, though, told jurors to focus not so much on what Ross said in court as on what he put down... Published: Sunday, December 06, 2015 Words: 3801
that the huge explosion was caused by the ignition of methane gas and probably made far worse by a buildup of highly explosive coal dust in the UpperBigBranch Mine. Also Monday, the U.S. House Labor Committee announced it would hold... Published: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Words: 615
