Massey Cited by U.S. for ‘Outrageous’ Mine Safety Violations
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Massey Energy Co., owner of the West Virginia mine where 29 workers died in a 2010 blast, was cited by U.S. regulators for more than two dozen safety violations, including inadequate ventilation, at a mine run by Inman Energy.
Conditions and the response of officials at the Randolph Mine in Boone County, West Virginia, were “nothing short of outrageous,” Joseph Main, head of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, said in a statement yesterday. MSHA issued 20 orders requiring the company to remove workers from the mine and five citations.