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Many members of the United Mine Workers of America contend that the MSHA has favored industry for a decade. They point out that the government agency has refused to publish its list of mines considered the nation's most dangerous -- once dubbed the "high-hazard list." The MSHA's chief...
Last spring the MSHA stunned the mining industry by announcing that the agency had found widespread fraud in its dust-sampling program, designed to prevent black lung. The tests are done to ensure that coal-dust levels in mines do not exceed 2 mg per cubic meter. The testing device...
The lives of Logan County's miners rest in the hands of four dozen state and federal inspectors who police the county's 157 mines. Many of the inspectors are no doubt honest, but corruption runs as deep as the seams of coal. Four years ago, the Labor Department launched...
Federal mine inspector Jack (Black Jack) Massey says his payoffs began when he found a crisp $100 bill under his jacket in the backseat of his car after inspecting one of Nelson's mines. During the next several years, Massey says, Nelson gave him more than $8,000 in cash...
Hinchman was sentenced to four months of home confinement, with permission to leave only for work and for church. But life has dealt Hinchman a more severe punishment. Instead of a government desk job, he now works in one of the private mines whose ventilation plans he approved. He complains...