Now, can you find the occupations that causes the most deaths per year?
I could only find this one from 2003:
Posted on 01/21/2006 2:10:00 PM PST by 2111USMC
Edited on 01/21/2006 2:22:59 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
>MELVILLE, W.Va. — Rescuers on Saturday found the bodies of two coal miners who disappeared after a conveyor belt caught fire deep inside a coal mine.
The bodies of Don I. Bragg, 33, and Ellery Hatfield, 47, were found in an area of the mine where rescue teams had been battling the fire for more than 40 hours.
"We have found the two miners we were looking for," said , director of the state Office of Miners' Health Training and Safety. "Unfortunately we don't have a positive outcome."
The miners became separated Thursday evening as their 12-member crew tried to escape a conveyor belt fire at Aracoma Coal's Alma No. 1 mine in Melville, about 60 miles southwest of . The rest of the crew and nine other miners working in a different section of the mine escaped unharmed.
Gov. and U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller informed families of the deaths at a church prior to making the announcement, along with Don Blankenship, chairman of the mine's owner, Massey Energy.
Looks like I added wrong.
Coal mine fatalities down nationwide in 2005Associated PressPIKEVILLE, Ky. - Coal mining fatalities were down nationwide in 2005, according to federal regulators.
Barring more accidents before year's end, 2005 could go down as perhaps the safest coal-mining year in the country's history.
As of Wednesday, 21 deaths related to coal mining had been recorded by federal regulators. Seven occurred in Kentucky, and just three died in West Virginia - which often documents more mining deaths annually than Kentucky.
Heard on the radio that western coal is strip mined rather than underground mined, and is low in sulphur. So much so that you could save enough on sulphur scrubbers on eastern coal-fired powerplants to pay for transporting western coal to the east.That way you could shut down the dangerous underground mines in the East. You could, that is, if federal regs didn't require scrubbers whether the coal has sulphur or not. Now who do you suppose arranged that the law reads that way?
(Hint: the underground coal mining jobs which would otherwise be eliminated are in WVa.)
Exactly.
Only slightly. I wasn't posting that correct you. The perspective is what's important here.
not to minimize this tragedy, or the inhernet danger in this industry - but I wonder what the on the job fatality rate is for convenience store and shop clerks, gas station attendants, killed in robberies while on the job.
Wish there was a way to send the Dems underground, literally, how nice the world would be without the likes of lib/dems!
Shameful and despicable.
That said, as someone on TV recently said, if we can men put on the Moon and send that probe to Pluto, surely this nation can find a way to make mining accidents less lethal. Better breathing apparatus, a way to track miners underground, some kind of life pod system than can be erected for miners to wait for rescue. There's got to be a better way.
May those who mourn be comforted.
why is this a national media (and even freeper) lead story? what about mining accidents is so riveting to the nation compared to other occupational deaths.
Now, can you find the occupations that causes the most deaths per year?
I could only find this one from 2003:
Oh, I see you found one! thanks.
See 73.
What really bugs me is that if it's going to take hours or days for a rescue team to get to anyone trapped, why the heck aren't miners given a fighting chance with equipment that may help them survive that long?
Unlikely. In West Virginia, mining provides the best non-governmental jobs in rural areas. As much as those who work them wish they didn't have to, it provides a middle-class existence for their families. The two senators realize that and won't legislate them out of business.
Not in our lifetime, friend.
The industry ought to pick NASA's brains.
A proufound statement...
And such a loss, My hearts are with the families.
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