in west virginia.... again, and they can't locate them either (as far as i know) ...
You are a day or 2 late.
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ah.... it' just happed thursday..( i do beleive)
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Bodies found today. Gov. is passing ew mandates: Electronic Monitoring, Fast-response legislation, and reserve oxygen stations. Question being: If the technology has been there for years, like the Gov said, why have hundreds of miners died over the years?
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What is it worth? Burning the lights underground.
01/20/06 10:01 AM Edit Reply
I see my old friends at Massey have had some trouble overnight. I hope they find these guys- MELLVILLE, W.Va. - Rescue teams searched early Friday for two miners who were unable to escape after a fire broke out in an underground coal mine. Nineteen miners were able to flee the blaze, state officials said.
Bragg and Hatfield, both found a short distance from where the fire was thought to have started.
The technology has been around , the Wilberg fire killed 27 best I recall, and a device called a "PED" -personal emergency device- would have more than likely saved them all. It is set up like a cell phone/pager. It would work like a pager, setting the folks on the spot up to call for help or be told of a problem. Also making locating and transporting folks in an emergency much faster and easier. The problem is keeping up an antenna network and a device that doesn't cost too much , as some are bound to wind up lost or destroyed. Our position is always the same, how much is a man's life worth? But when you look at numbers, it will be a rare year when you have this many times that someone is in a situation where hour's oxygen means living or dying- but like I said before, how much is it worth? 15 people in the last couple of weeks. I looked up the year for Wilberg fire found this little story, kinda a different angle.
" Along with the big numbers, though, come the hazards of what is still probably one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Since records were first kept in 1839, close to 14,000 miners have lost their lives in over 621 disasters while working in mines. The majority of these fatalities were due to explosions within the mine, but a substantial number of deaths ? over 977 ? were due to fires, including the Cherry, Illinois mine fire of 1909 where 259 miners were lost. More recently, 27 miners were killed in 1984 at a mine fire at the Wilberg mine in Utah.' Workin in a mine- from the National Fire and Rescue Mag Aug 2002 This page has a couple of pretty good underground pics.
From the Pittsburg tribune .....
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Two mine workers were killed in separate accidents in West Virginia on Wednesday, prompting Gov. Joe Manchin to ask all coal companies to cease production until safety checks can be conducted.
David Dye, acting U.S. assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health, later echoed that request, asking coal mines nationwide to conduct a similar "time out" Monday and hold safety and training sessions for workers.
Pitt Trib
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