Massey Miner: I Felt Like I Was Working for the Gestapo « The Washington Independent
A coal miner working at Massey’s Upper Big Branch mine when it exploded last month, killing 29 colleagues, described the operation this week as “a ticking time bomb,” where the management valued production over safety and workers didn’t protest for fear of being fired.
“The ventilation system they had didn’t work,” said Stanley “Goose” Stewart, a 15-year veteran of the UBB mine who was 300 feet underground when the blast occurred. “With no air moving it gave me the feeling that area was a ticking time bomb.”
When contacted by this interpid blogger for a response to these alegations, Rand Paul opined
“If the good Lord had intended us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented roller skates.”