Report Says Crandall Canyon Managers Should Face Charges (+ video)

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/05/08/report-says-crandall-canyon-managers-should-face-charges/

by James Parks, May 8, 2008

The mine manager and other senior staff at the Crandall Canyon coal mine in Utah hid information from federal mining officials that could have prevented the disaster and should face criminal charges, a congressional committee said today. Last August, six miners and three rescue workers died after the mine collapsed.

In a report released today, the House Education and Labor Committee says the mining company’s plan to remove coal was flawed and should never have been submitted, and that the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) should never have approved it. (See video.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQqprQ48cog

The committee referred its findings to the U.S. Department of Justice for possible criminal prosecutions. Click here to read a summary of the report by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the committee chair.

In a statement, Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts urged the Justice Department “to fully and completely investigate these matters, without regard to where that investigation may lead.”

Yet for all the analyses, all the insights and all the investigations, the fact remains that nine miners are dead today who should not be. Family members have wept and been left inconsolable. Wives, parents and children are without husbands, sons and fathers. Our nation and its leaders can no longer watch these tragedies unfold, wring our hands and say, ‘How horrible,’ then stand aside and do little to prevent them.

FULL story at link.

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. I hope they do but I really don't expect anything from this government

Hopefully Justice will be served. Nine people were killed by criminal negligence.