January 09, 2006
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At one point last year, the Mine Safety and Health Administration fined a coal company a scant $440 for a “significant and substantial” violation that ended in the death of a Kentucky man. The firm, International Coal Group Inc., is the same company that owns the Sago mine in West Virginia, where 12 workers died earlier this week.

The $440 fine remains unpaid.

One would think it would go without saying that worker safety was fundamental to building a strong, healthy nation. In the era of George W. Bush, a/k/a the “Weakener-in-Chief,” one would be dead wrong.


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Posted by Wayne Uff at January 09, 2006 05:44 AM
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I'm afraid, if about seven out of thirteen dead coal miners voted for Bush, Bush has a point there, cynical as it may sound.

Posted by: Peter on January 9, 2006 10:19 AM
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