On April 5th, the United States suffered the worst mine disaster in more than a generation.
Following the April mine disaster, there were widespread bipartisan calls for regulatory changes to protect miners.
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Stronger mine safety laws were passed in 2006 after the Sago mine disaster.
On March 28, 2010, a vast mine disaster happened at the Wang family coal mines, which are owned by Huajin Coal Company.
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He will also win points this week for visiting the victims of the Queensland floods, after his stop in New Zealand to meet residents hit by the Pike River Mine disaster and the Christchurch earthquake.
If anywhere was the canary in the mine forewarning us of the disaster predicted in low lying areas of the world if runaway climate change takes hold, it's right here.
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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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He said the proposed opencast mine would only go down 20m (65ft), with the disaster site 145m (470ft) below.
But the pride felt in the rescue attempts was tinged with bitterness in Senghenydd, as many felt that the mine's owners had failed to heed the warning of a similar disaster nine years before, in which all but one of the 82 miners on shift had been killed.
Plans to operate an opencast mine in north Staffordshire show a "lack of respect" for miners buried in a 19th Century pit disaster, campaigners say.
An angry editorial gives way to a weekly column on mine safety, which, in turn, inspires Foster to found a highly successful correspondence school that teaches disaster prevention in virtually every industrial field.
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