PA Coal Industry, Time Tested But Alive, Wei I... and Safe

摘要

Like the industry he oversees, one could say the Director of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Mine Safety paid his dues. A 38-year veteran of the coal industry, Joe Sbaffoni, before joining the Mineral Resources Management branch of the Department of Environmental Protection in 1984, had managed both large and small coal mines in his native state. Before him, his father, uncles, and grandfathers, all had worked in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, as had the father of his wife, Gloria. "We're about as much a coal mining family as a coal mining family can get," Sbaffoni said.