Dark Corporate Backstory to West Virginia's Mine Tragedy

> Investigators have not found the cause of the explosion in the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. It killed 25 miners and made four more missing. However, this explosion occurred after mines recorded hundreds of security violations in the past year.

Upper Big Branch is owned by Massey Energy, one of the largest coal companies in the United States, and is operated by Massey's subsidiary Performance Coal. Messi is operated by Don Blankenship, Chief Executive Officer, and Rolling Stones says that "a villain who directly pulled from a comic book: jealousy, beard movement, ruining a ruin of labor unions and using their wealth in politics It's inclined to his will. "

Blankenship helped Messi by accumulating safety and water pollution, and catastrophic poisonous coal runoff. A large-scale disaster recently occurred in this country at the Alacoma mine in Messi, West Virginia. A group of miners was trapped in the fire, and the two were unable to survive.

According to the New York Times, from 2003 to 2006 Blankenship spends more than $ 6 million to promote Republican representatives in West Virginia, West Virginia is always the majority of the Democratic Party and labor interest groups there were. . In 2008, the picture appeared in the French Riviera Blankenship, a judge of the West Virginia Supreme Court is in trial for a lawsuit against Messi. A year later, justice voted to support the Blankenship

Besides the poor economic situation, the safety of the mine is also a matter of concern. West Virginia was lagging behind the adjustment of mining conditions over other states and the mortality rate of that mine was higher than any other state between 1890 and 1912. West Virginia is the site of the worst coal mine disaster ever occurred in Mononga, West Virginia in 1907. This disaster was caused by ignition of methane gas (also known as "biogas"), which in turn ignited coal dust and 362 people died. Due to this disaster, the US Congress was asked to establish a mining department.

Last year, the attention of the American masses was captured by the dramatic workplace tragedy - the explosion of the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia, the Deepwater Horizon Disaster, the explosion of the Tesoro refinery in Washington State. These multiple fatal tragedies became headlines and Congressional politicians broke the table with their fists and demanded action. However, in Japan we suffer from silent morbidity due to deaths at work and little or no anger at all. Construction workers without seat belts fell off the unprotected roof. Unprotected or untrained healthcare workers enter a limited space and are filled with lethal chemical smog. An 18 year old child lived and buried in the collapse of the trench during his first week of work.