Coal mining fatalities up sharply as Trump cuts safety regulations, cripples MSHA

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15. Are you union or non-union? If you are non-union you are more likely to die in a mine

than a union mine worker..
This is why Don Blankenship should have been put to death for what he did!!!
Still have my MSHA Card and still waiting for Sean Hannity and Blankenship to be locked up.. Hannity was a guest speaker here!!

read this also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Big_Branch_Mine_disaster




People who run coal mines have a fundamental obligation to be honest with mine regulators," said Booth Goodwin, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, in announcing the guilty plea of a former superintendent of the Upper Big Branch Mine, Gary May, who confessed to conspiring to impede the Mine Safety and Health Administration's enforcement efforts.

He added, "When mine operators resort to tricks and deceit to keep government officials in the dark, our mine safety system unravels and miners are put in harm's way." May owned up to giving advance warning of inspections and concealing violations including "poor airflow in the mine; piles of loose, combustible coal; and scarcities of rock dust, which prevents mine explosions." When the plea was announced, May faced up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine