Labor/Employment
May 20, 2010
Pay Now or Pay Much More Later
To truly improve mining safety, mine owners as well as the board of directors must understand that it pays to emphasize safety over production, writes Gerald Stern.
The recent Upper Big Branch Mine explosion in West Virginia that killed 29 men is another in a long line of coal mine disasters in Appalachia caused, as always, by coal mine owners and management pushing coal production over miners' safety. Don Blankenship, the Chief Executive officer of the Massey Energy Co., which owns the Performance Coal Co. that operates the Upper Big Branch Mine, personally wrote in 2005 to each of ...
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