Report Rips MSHA,Massey On Fatal Coal Mine Accident

摘要

In a blistering report on the explosion that killed 29nminers at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch coal minenin West Virginia last year, an independent commissionntapped by former West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin to in-nvestigate the blast said the disaster directly resulted fromna long-standing culture at Massey in which safety short-ncomings at the mine were steadfastly ignored by companynoffcials bent on boosting production at any cost.