Thursday, December 09, 2010
Aracoma Coal Company Supervisors Get Probation
WEST VIRGINIA....
Forty-seven year old Donald Hagy Junior from Gilbert, 38 year old Michael A. Plumley from Delbarton, 37 year old Terry Shadd of Chapmanville and 38 year old Edward Ellis, Junior from Justice were sentenced Thursday. They pleaded guilty in July to not conducting an evacuation escapeway drill at Massey Energy's Aracoma Coal's Alma No. 1 Mine in Logan County, months before a January 2006 fire that killed miners Don Bragg and Elvis Hatfield. Thursday afternoon in front of U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver, all four supervisors were sentenced to a one-year term of probation. Hagy, Ellis and Plumley were ordered to pay a $2,000 fine, while Shadd was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine. Officials say not reviewing escapeaway routine might have contribute to deaths of Bragg and Hatfield who died of suffocation after becoming separated from other miners.
Forty-seven year old Donald Hagy Junior from Gilbert, 38 year old Michael A. Plumley from Delbarton, 37 year old Terry Shadd of Chapmanville and 38 year old Edward Ellis, Junior from Justice were sentenced Thursday. They pleaded guilty in July to not conducting an evacuation escapeway drill at Massey Energy's Aracoma Coal's Alma No. 1 Mine in Logan County, months before a January 2006 fire that killed miners Don Bragg and Elvis Hatfield. Thursday afternoon in front of U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver, all four supervisors were sentenced to a one-year term of probation. Hagy, Ellis and Plumley were ordered to pay a $2,000 fine, while Shadd was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine. Officials say not reviewing escapeaway routine might have contribute to deaths of Bragg and Hatfield who died of suffocation after becoming separated from other miners.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 9:59 PM 
