PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal judge in West Virginia has tossed
out a lawsuit filed by relatives of 78 miners killed in a 1968
mine explosion.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (http://bit.ly/2nZQpNp ) reports
U.S. District Judge Irene Keeley in Clarksburg ruled Friday that
laws at the time stipulated there was a two-year window to file
a lawsuit after the disaster.
The latest lawsuit filed in 2014 was based on a federal mine
inspector's memo written two years after the explosion at
Consolidation Coal Co.'s No. 9 mine in Farmington indicating an
alarm had been disabled. The families, who earlier had received
$10,000 from the company, said they did not find out about the
memo until 2008.
The disaster led to passage of the federal Coal Mine Health and
Safety Act.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/west- >virginia/articles/2017-04-02/us-judge-tosses-suit-in-1968-mine- >explosion-in-west-virginia
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