{"id":1205,"date":"2006-01-29T18:17:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1205"},"modified":"2006-01-29T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T01:17:09","slug":"mine-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1205","title":{"rendered":"Mine Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvpubcast.org\/radio\/insideapp\/default.asp\">Inside Appalachia<\/a><\/em> again has several excellent pieces about mine safety and the recent mine disasters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvpubcast.org\/radio\/newsroom\/almaminefires.pdf\">The first report talks about the Alma mine fire<\/a>, and has an interview with a beltman at the Alma mine. If what he says is true, then the legislation that was just passed isn&#8217;t going to be nearly enough.<\/p>\n<p>The miner interviewed claims that a similar fire happened at the exact same spot two days before Christmas. He also says that at that time, the fire fighting equipment didn&#8217;t work properly.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting his claim is the fact that MSHA cited Massey twelve times since June for inadequate fire fighting equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a proposed rule to require belts like the one that caused the fire in the Alma mine, to be made of inflammable material,  was killed by federal mine regulators in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Appalachia again has several excellent pieces about mine safety and the recent mine disasters. The first report talks about the Alma mine fire, and has an interview with a beltman at the Alma mine. If what he says is true, then the legislation that was just passed isn&#8217;t going to be nearly enough. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-jr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}