United Mine Workers of America officials released a report on the Upper Big Branch blast that killed 29 men in 2010.
(Bob Wojcieszak/The Charleston Daily Mail via AP)
Union blames mine owner for deadly W.Va. blast
Report urges changes to law, prosecution
United Mine Workers of America officials released a report on the Upper Big Branch blast that killed 29 men in 2010.
(Bob Wojcieszak/The Charleston Daily Mail via AP)
The nation’s largest mine workers union accused Massey Energy Co. and its managers yesterday of “industrial homicide’’ for creating the conditions behind the April 2010 explosion that killed 29 men at a West Virginia coal mine. In a scathing 90-page report on its own investigation into the Upper Big Branch disaster, the United Mine Workers of America called the company “a rogue corporation’’ that put profits first and safety last, and labeled the Montcoal mine “a bomb waiting to go off.’’ Massey is now owned by Virginia-based Alpha Natural Resources.
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