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20 years since Westray

 
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Vundo Draxon
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PostPosted: Wed May 09, 2012 12:32 pm    Post subject: 20 years since Westray Reply with quote
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A blue-grey flash lit up the pre-dawn sky. Homes more than a kilometre away shuddered as the shock wave rumbled through the earth.

In all, there were 26 men underground at the time, most of them in the final hours of a four-day shift.

Westray remembered: explosion killed 26 N.S. coal miners in 1992
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PostPosted: Wed May 09, 2012 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Maybe it comes from having grown up in Appalachia, where coal mining is still an overwhelmingly dominant industry, but I cannot think of a job I would less rather do than coal mining. Sewer line cleanup, manually clearing a minefield, you name it. Even the miners not killed in accidents like this have to live in miserable working conditions, with half an inch of coal dust on everything in their houses, until they die of black lung at age 48.

Though the full version on YouTube has been pulled, you can still find a Greek-subtitled version of the fantastic documentary Harlan County U.S.A. online. Harlan is a Kentucky coal-mining county near the Tennessee and Virginia borders, best known for its violent labor strikes and being the birthplace of the song "Which Side Are You On?". The documentary features shots of company gun thugs actually shooting at strikers on camera.
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