18-year-old worker dies in WV coal mine accident

[Dogmudgeon]

King Coal has had a busy week demanding tribute in human blood. Five Siberian miners were killed in a Keremovo coal mine accident, too.

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200805300622">18-year-old ICG worker dies at Barbour mine

PHILLIPPI - An 18-year-old International Coal Group employee was killed Friday in West Virginia's third coal mining death of the year.

The death occurred at an ICG mine where federal officials just last week cited the company for not properly reporting an accident and preserving the accident scene, according to federal records.

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U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration records show (Adam) Lanham is the 11th coal miner killed on the job in the United States this year. (Emphasis by P.)

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Scott Depot-based ICG also owns the Sago Mine, where 12 miners died in a Jan. 2, 2006, explosion.

(more at link)

This stuff doesn't get reported beyond the small towns where it happens -- especially if those towns are in Asia. The number of deaths from primary coal mining operations alone is around 4000-8000, world-wide. Premature deaths associated with coal mining are not part of those figures; those numbers are also in the thousands.

--p!

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Hey. As long as we don't have to contend with teh nukularz...

...who gives a flying solar fuck?

Dripping...

bitter...

:sarcasm: