{"id":730847,"date":"2010-05-21T11:31:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85409"},"modified":"2010-05-21T11:31:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:31:03","slug":"another-massey-miner-dies-in-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/730847","title":{"rendered":"Another Massey Miner Dies in West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 15 hours after Massey CEO Don Blankenship <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/85397\/massey-ceo-pushes-blame-for-deadly-blast-on-government\" >told Congress<\/a> that worker safety is the company&#8217;s top priority, another Massey miner died in West Virginia,\u00a0The Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/ap\/ApTopStories\/201005210366\" >reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>State of West Virginia spokesman Hoy Murphy says 55-year-old James Erwin of Delbarton died about 6 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy says Erwin was pinned between a piece of heavy equipment and the wall at Massey&#8217;s Ruby Energy mine in Mingo County on May 10.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-85409\"><\/span>The Ruby Energy Mine &#8212; one of the 57 operations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msha.gov\/MEDIA\/PRESS\/2010\/NR100421.asp\" >highlighted<\/a> last month by the Mine Safety and Health Administration for having a troubling safety record &#8212; has racked up 82 safety citations since April 5, when 29 miners were killed (and another seriously injured) at Massey&#8217;s Upper Big Branch Mine in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.censusfinder.com\/mapwv.htm\" >nearby<\/a> Raleigh County. \u00a0Twenty-seven of those violations were deemed &#8220;significant and substantial,&#8221; indicating that they are \u201creasonably likely to result in a reasonably serious injury or illness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 15 hours after Massey CEO Don Blankenship told Congress that worker safety is the company&#8217;s top priority, another Massey miner died in West Virginia,\u00a0The Associated Press reports. State of West Virginia spokesman Hoy Murphy says 55-year-old James Erwin of Delbarton died about 6 a.m. Friday. Murphy says Erwin was pinned between a piece of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-347R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}