Massey Energy says it will provide financial packages providing health care and other benefits for the families of 29 miners killed in the nation’s worst mining disaster in 40 years. Massey officials announced Monday that the Virginia-based company will cover …
Federal inspectors have found more than 60 serious safety violations at Massey Energy operations since the explosion that killed 29 miners, adding to fallout from the disaster that includes a wrongful death lawsuit by one of the men’s widows. Inspectors …
A Martinsburg, West Virginia official says arson is on the rise in the Eastern Panhandle city. Lt. Greg Hoover said the Martinsburg Fire Department investigated 10 arsons in the first three months of 2010. That’s more than all of 2009, …
Miner Safety “We know there are things in the law that needed to be improved even before this tragedy. Unfortunately mine health safety laws are passed in the blood of dead miners.” —Aaron Albright, a spokesman for the House Education …
Investigators have seized a small fortune from a Mingo County, West Virginia doctor in a case that parallels a previous raid of a Williamson pain clinic, court filings show. The U.S. District Court papers disclose that prosecutors are negotiating a …
Massey Energy Co. said it will increase coal production at its other mines to compensate for production lost at the West Virginia mine where 29 miners died in a blast. It expects to reopen the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine …
$30.8 Million The amount from its surplus that Kentucky’s major workers’ compensation insurance carrier, Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance, has decided to return to policyholders. Earlier this month, Gov. Steve Beshear asked the insurer to consider returning some of its $147 …
A trust fund that invests in Massey Energy wants the board of directors and top executives held personally accountable for the recent explosion that killed 29 coal miners. The Manville Personal Injury Trust sued last week in Kanawha Circuit Court. …
Massey Energy Co. said its officials are meeting with families of the 29 miners killed the April 5 blast at its Upper Big Branch mine to describe the benefits the firm will provide them and denied it was trying to …
West Virginia’s governor has asked a former top federal mine safety official to conduct an independent investigation of an explosion that killed 29 miners in his state, and also called for more scrutiny of mines with a history of safety …
