Still ever vigilant?

Though safety has greatly improved since the disaster at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in 2010, Lee Buchsbaum asks whether current economics are reducing US mine-rescue readiness

25 April 2014
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Four years ago on April 5, 2010, this reporter was talking on the phone with Carl Baisden, director of mine training and energy technologies at the Southern West Virginia Community and Technical

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