Ex-Mine Official Convicted in Deadly West Virginia Disaster
The former security chief at a West Virginia coal mine where 29 miners died last year was convicted of two felonies Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. Hughie Elbert Stover, 60, was convicted...
View ArticleAlpha Says Safety Improving at Massey Mines
The number of mine injuries has been cut in the five months since Alpha Natural Resources bought Massey Energy, which had owned the coal mine where 29 men died in a blast last year, Alpha’s CEO said...
View ArticleFirm to Pay $209M Over West Virginia Blast That Killed 29
Coal miner Alpha Natural Resources has agreed to pay $1.5 million to each of the families of 29 miners killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia last year. The payments –...
View ArticleQuestions Raised About Federal Probe of West Virginia Mine Blast
Newly disclosed records show U.S. Labor Department officials stopped independent investigators from questioning how federal regulators handled methane leaks from the floor of the Upper Big Branch mine...
View ArticleSettlements Reported in West Virginia Mine Blast That Killed 29
Coal company Alpha Natural Resources has reached settlements with all the families of the miners killed in the worst U.S. mining disaster in four decades, a lawyer for two of the families said on...
View ArticleWest Virginia Lawmakers’ Personal Tragedies Spur Mine Safety Bill
For two West Virginia lawmakers who lost fathers in coal mining accidents, preventing disasters like the 2010 Upper Big Branch explosion has taken a personal turn with Monday’s introduction of a...
View ArticleMassey Mine Superintendent Charged with Conspiracy in West Virginia Blast
The former superintendent of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 workers died in a 2010 explosion was charged on Wednesday with felony conspiracy by tipping off mine operators to safety inspections,...
View ArticleEx-Security Chief at West Virginia Mine Gets 3 Years in Jail
A U.S. judge sentenced the former security chief at a West Virginia mine to three years in prison after being convicted of two felonies related to a federal probe into the worst U.S. coal mining...
View ArticleJudge Won’t Dismiss Massey Shareholder Suit Over Safety
A federal judge refused Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit by former Massey Energy shareholders who say they were deliberately misled about the company’s safety record before the Upper Big Branch mine...
View ArticleWest Virginia Mine Blast Survivors’ Cases Still Unsettled
Nine men who survived West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine disaster want to abandon mediation of their personal injury claims and start gathering evidence for trial because they say the mine’s new...
View ArticleCoal Firm Alpha Cites Safety Steps on Coal-Dust
Coal producer Alpha Natural Resources says it has taken steps to avoid coal-dust violations of the kind that investigators say caused the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine explosion that killed 29 men,...
View ArticleAlpha Seals West Virginia Mine Where 2010 Blast Killed 29
Alpha Natural Resources has completed sealing the West Virginia mine where an explosion killed 29 workers in 2010. Alpha spokesman Ted Pile told The Register-Herald that crews put the final concrete...
View ArticleFormer Massey Mine Executive to Enter Plea Next Month
A former president of Massey Energy’s White Buck Coal Co. will enter a plea on federal conspiracy charges in January as prosecutors continue to investigate the 2010 explosion at another Massey...
View ArticleWest Virginia Not Enforcing Mine Coal Dust Standards: Report
State standards aimed at reducing buildups of explosive coal dust in underground mines but regulators haven’t been enforced in West Virginia. More than a fifth of the more than 5,500 dust samples taken...
View ArticleRemembering 29 Miners Lost in West Virginia Blast 3 Years Ago
As West Virginians marked the third anniversary of an explosion that killed 29 coal miners Friday, congressional Democrats called the lack of action on tougher mine safety legislation “shameful.” Gov....
View ArticleWest Virginia Supreme Court Judge Hits Ruling on Massey
West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Davis criticized her colleagues in a dissenting opinion Friday for refusing to let institutional shareholders revive a lawsuit filed against the former Massey...
View ArticleMassey Ex-CEO Blankenship Faces Criminal Charges Over 2010 Mine Explosion
The former Massey Energy chief, scorned by regulators and a U.S. senator, may face three decades in prison if convicted of charges stemming from a West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 workers,...
View ArticleMassey CEO Wins Delay of Criminal Trial Until April
Ex-Massey Energy chief Donald Blankenship won an almost three-month delay of his trial, scheduled to begin later this month, on federal charges tied to a fatal 2010 mine explosion that was the worst...
View ArticleEx-Massey Mine CEO: ‘I Don’t Want to Go to 100 Funerals’
Former Massey Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship, facing criminal trial over an April 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners, said the year before that he feared a disaster with 100...
View ArticleMassey Ex-CEO Blankenship’s Criminal Trial Moved to July
Former Massey Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship was given a three-month reprieve to prepare for a criminal trial over an April 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners. The blast at the...
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