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orders and flagrant penalties of $200,000 per violation - to crack down at UpperBigBranch prior to the explosion. UpperBigBranch was a non-union mine, but UMW officials investigated the disaster after being named by surviving miners... Published: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Words: 1158
worked on independent reviews with longtime safety advocate Davitt McAteer - about problems cleaning up explosive coal dust at UpperBigBranch. Those documents indicated that Massey executives thought a plan was in place to deal with... Published: Friday, May 27, 2011 Words: 523
aware of increasing numbers of violations at numerous Massey mines - including UpperBigBranch - but took no concrete actions to try to remedy the problems. Reach KenWard Jr. at kward@wvgazette.com or 304-348-1702.... Published: Friday, June 03, 2011 Words: 888
criminal conviction in the Stover case. Ted Pile, a spokesman for Alpha, said that his company continues its own investigation of UpperBigBranch but does not have a timeline for completing that "thorough and exhaustive" effort. An... Published: Friday, October 28, 2011 Words: 1134
penalties for violations at what it calls "Massey legacy operations." Neither Alpha nor its Performance Coal subsidiary, which operated UpperBigBranch, are pleading guilty to any criminal charges. Instead, the government is agreeing... Published: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 Words: 1022
four of Stover's security guards testified that they were trained to announce inspectors' arrival over a radio channel audible in the UpperBigBranch Mine office. Two dispatchers testified that they were routinely instructed to relay... Published: Thursday, October 27, 2011 Words: 1167
from the mine alive, but died either on the way to the hospital or once he arrived there, officials said. In all, 29 miners died, making UpperBigBranch the worst U.S. coal-mining disaster in nearly 40 years. "The Lynch family was... Published: Saturday, April 02, 2011 Words: 931
cited eight coal-mining deaths through June 30, compared to the first six months of 2010, when 41 miners died - 29 of them at the UpperBigBranch Mine Disaster. But since July 1, Stacey makes the third U.S. coal miner to die on the... Published: Friday, July 29, 2011 Words: 319
that he performed at least 228 pre-shift, on-shift and conveyor belt examinations at UpperBigBranch over a nearly two-year period from January 2008 to August 2009. Reach KenWard Jr. at kward@wvgazette.com or 304-348-1702.... Published: Thursday, March 10, 2011 Words: 631
45, of Seth, has been charged and pleaded guilty to faking a foreman's certificate that he used to illegally conduct company safety examinations at UpperBigBranch. Federal investigators went after Harrah after the state Office of... Published: Friday, July 15, 2011 Words: 378
