Aracoma Coal Company, Inc. Aracoma Alma Mine #1 January 19, 2006 Fatal Mine Fire A fire broke out around 5:45 p.m. Thursday on a belt line about 10,000 feet into at an Aracoma Coal Co. mine in Melville, Logan County. I have just modified 2 external links on Aracoma Alma Mine accident. Records Show Upper Big Branch Mine Amassed Scores of Safety Citations, Thousands in Fines, Fact-checking Trump and Biden during 2nd presidential debate, 5 key takeaways from the final presidential debate, Teenage suspect allegedly plotted to kill Joe Biden: Federal prosecutors, 'Yes, I'm nervous': Mayor urges calm after police shooting of unarmed Black couple. The nation's sixth biggest mining company by production, Massey Energy took in $24 million in net income in the fourth quarter of 2009. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. I made the following changes: When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs. "Quite frankly, I don't know what I said except that I know I'm never loud, vulgar or rude to strangers," he said. The fire trapped 12 miners. The company is well known in West Virginia, in part because CEO Don Blankenship grew to become a fixture in state politics, doling out thousands of dollars to candidates he favored – most of them Republicans. Another Massey subsidiary agreed to pay $4.2 million in criminal and civil fines last year and admitted to willfully violating mandatory safety standards that led to the deaths of two miners. He later recused himself after photographs surfaced showing that he vacationed with Blankenship in the French Riviera. I made the following changes: When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know. The mine was operated by the Performance Coal, a subsidiary of Massey Energy. ", Monday night, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship released a statement saying, "Our top priority is the safety of our miners and the well-being of their families. The two widows of the miners killed in Aracoma were unsatisfied by the plea agreement, telling the judge they believed the company cared more about profits then safety. Two suffocated as they looked for a way to escape. Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 09:03, 8 July 2017 (UTC), Wikipedia:WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health, Template:WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health, https://web.archive.org/20110629071103/http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1529802, http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1529802, https://web.archive.org/web/20110622091958/http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200901140871, http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200901140871, http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20060121%2FNEWS01%2F601210322%2F1001%2FNEWS, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Aracoma_Alma_Mine_accident&oldid=906848802, Stub-Class United States articles of Low-importance, Unknown-importance West Virginia articles, Start-Class Occupational Safety and Health articles, Low-importance Occupational Safety and Health articles, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health articles, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with, If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with, This page was last edited on 18 July 2019, at 17:48. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{sourcecheck}} (last update: 15 July 2018). Coalbrook mine disaster with 435 deaths is the worst ever disaster in South Africa's mining history. The company paid what was then the largest financial settlement in the history of the coal industry for the 2006 fire at the Aracoma mine, also in West Virginia. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. The company paid what was then the largest financial settlement in the history of the coal industry for the 2006 fire at the Aracoma mine, also in West Virginia.
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