Crandall Canyon Families File Suit on Behalf of Miners Killed in August

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/04/07/crandall-canyon-families-file-suit-on-behalf-of-miners-killed-in-august/

by Mike Hall, Apr 7, 2008

The owners of the Crandall Canyon coal mine in Utah where six miners were killed last August used dangerous mining techniques and “were motivated by avarice and greed, at the expense of safety and human life,” the families of the six charged in a lawsuit filed in Salt Lake City last week.

The lawsuit, filed April 2 in the state’s 3rd District Court, names Murray Energy Corp., its subsidiary UtahAmerican Energy Inc., and others. The suit alleges the company’s use of “retreat mining” where pillars of coal that were left to support the mine roof are pulled down as the miners retreat was “dangerous…and unsafe.” The suit says the company acted without regard to safety from its

greedy determination to mine easily accessible coal.

Three rescue workers were killed 10 days after the initial collapse Aug. 6 while attempting to reach the workers. The bodies of the six miners remain entombed in the mountain site in Emery County, Utah.

Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray, scheduled to appear before a Senate subcommittee Thursday, will have an opportunity to present his version of the disaster. However, a spokesmen for Murray Energy declined to say if Murray would appear before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.

Murray has been asked previously to testify but has yet to appear, and he faces two subpoenas from other committees.

FULL story at link.

[MadMaddie]

1. Good I hope they bring this guy down....

[Richard Steele]

2. I feel just the opposite...

I hope they string him up.

[MadMaddie]

3. Well see we can work to together on this...they can bring him

down long enough to string him up.

See...that's was easy...:toast:

[Richard Steele]

4. The man deliberately HINDERED rescue efforts because he wanted the trapped miners to DIE.

He had broken an assload of mining laws, and they were all WITNESSES.
He did everything in his power to ELIMINATE those witnesses to his crimes.

He obfuscated, he stalled, he blathered, and then he had his goons
escort the USA'S BEST MINE-RESCUE TEAM off of his property at gunpoint.

If there is a HELL, it has a very special "invitation only" area that
is gathering dust waiting for his arrival.