Second U.S. Mining Disaster

American Voices

January 24, 2006 | ISSUE 42•03

Two separate mining disasters in West Virginia have claimed 12 lives in the past month. What do you think?

My wife hasn’t let me go down in my zinc hobby mine since this all started.

Adam Peck
Lab Tech
Maybe if we raised the fines from $16 to $22, the mining companies would really step up to the worker's-safety plate?

Melanie Bonanno
Private Detective
If you have a better alternative fuel source to coal, I’d love to hear it.

Joe Kunkel
Paralegal

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