Thirty-one workers were inside the Upper Big Branch mine when an explosion ripped through its walls on Monday afternoon.
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The safety record at the Massey Upper Big Branch mine was troubling.
Owners responsible for conditions in the Upper Big Branch mine should be held accountable for decisions they made and preventive measures they failed to take.
The 2010 mine explosion and collapse at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia that killed 29 miners played a role in the slowdown.
This week, Tim Davis, and two of his nephews, Josh, age 25, and Cory, age 20, were killed in the explosion in the Upper Big Branch mine.
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Earlier this month Massey was thrust into the national spotlight after an explosion at its Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia that left 29 dead.
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An unqualified Massey worker performed over 200 safety checks at the Upper Big Branch mine, the site of the disaster, writes Ward, using a forged ID card, from 2008 to mid-2009.
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Massey Energy, the company that has the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia where 29 miners died in April, has been cited for failing to report several accidents according to the Wall Street Journal.
Stover, who was head of security at the Upper Big Branch Mine (operated by Performance Coal and owned by Massey Energy), was convicted of impeding the investigation of the mine explosion that killed 29 people on April 5, 2010.
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But we do know that this tragedy was triggered by a failure at the Upper Big Branch mine -- a failure first and foremost of management, but also a failure of oversight and a failure of laws so riddled with loopholes that they allow unsafe conditions to continue.
Massey Energy for failing to report more than 20 accidents at its Upper Big Branch coal mine in the two years before an April explosion killed 29 miners there, according to documents released by the Mine Safety and Health Administration on Tuesday.
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