• US Judge Tosses Suit in 1968 Mine Explosion in West Virginia

    From Bradley K. Sperman@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 3 03:23:34 2017
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    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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  • From Mr. B1ack@21:1/5 to bksperman@outlook.com on Sun Apr 2 21:52:11 2017
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    On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 03:23:34 +0200 (CEST), "Bradley K. Sperman" <bksperman@outlook.com> wrote:

    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


    The history of the coal-mining industry has been, well,
    checkered. Tampering with govt officials and the process
    has been part of this. Little wonder there have been so
    many violent clashes between labor and management
    over the years. If the law won't work you've gotta break
    heads.

    Admittedly though ... a lawsuit dating way back to '68
    does seem a bit too too ......

    Hate to tell the miners (coal and otherwise) and Trump but
    the future of underground mining isn't men - it's robots.
    Semi/fully-autonomous mining 'bots are already possible
    to build. There'd be no humans belowground at all, no
    need for safety stuff, no need for air - it'd be safest to just
    flood the mines with CO2.

    A handful aboveground can run everything. In ten years
    some "Watson-M" computer can even replace most
    of those humans.

    Expect this to be the last generation of human underground
    miners in the USA/Canada and a lot of other places - profit
    margins and lawsuits are going to force humans out of
    the loop.

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