Monday, November 06, 2006
Newspaper Says Fatalities Caused By Safety Violations
Most of the fatalities in the nation's coal mines in the last decade resulted from mine operators failure to comply with safety rules, according to an analysis by the Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail. The newspaper examined Federal records of the deaths of 320 coal miners in 297 accidents nationwide between 1996 and 2005. Nearly nine out of 10 fatalities could have been avoided if mine operators had complied with safety rules, the newspaper reported Sunday. Mine operators failed to perform, or incorrectly performed, required safety checks in nearly one-fourth of the mining deaths during the period. Twenty-one percent of the fatalities resulted from violations of roof control, mine ventilation or other required safety plans.
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