Download or read book Selected Clippings on the Scotia Mine Disaster written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scotia Mine disaster 1976 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scotia Coal Mine Disaster March 9 and 11 1976 written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scotia Mine Disaster Ovenfork Kentucky written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newspaper articles about the two explosions at the Scotia Coal Company No. 1 Mine at Overnfork, KY, March 9th and 11th, 1976, where 26 were killed.
Download or read book The Scotia Widows written by Gerald Stern and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 9, 1976, a violent explosion, fueled by high concentrations of methane gas and coal dust, ripped through the Scotia mine in the heart of Eastern Kentucky coal country. The blast killed fifteen miners who were working nearly three and a half miles underground; two days later, a second explosion took the lives of eleven rescue workers. For the miners’ surviving family members, the loss of their husbands, fathers, and sons was only the beginning of their nightmare. In The Scotia Widows, Gerald M. Stern, the groundbreaking litigator and acclaimed author of The Buffalo Creek Disaster, recounts the epic four-year legal struggle waged by the widows in the aftermath of the disaster. Stern shares a story of loss, scandal, and perseverance–and the plaintiffs’ fight for justice against the titanic forces of “Big Daddy Coal.” Confronted at nearly every turn by a hostile judge and the scorched-earth defense of the Scotia mine’s owners, family members also withstood the opprobrium of some of their neighbors, most of whom relied on coal mining for their livelihoods. Meanwhile, Stern, representing the widows of the disaster on contingency, amassed huge bills and encountered a litany of formidable obstacles. The Eastern Kentucky trial judge withheld disclosure of his own personal financial interest in coal mining, and a popular pro-coal former Kentucky governor served as the lead defense counsel. The judge also suppressed as evidence the federal mine study that pointed to numerous safety violations at the Scotia mine: In a rush to produce more coal, necessary ventilation had been short-circuited, miners had not been trained in the use of self-rescue equipment, and ventilation inspections had not been made. Moreover, Scotia did not even have a trained rescue team. Ultimately, the Scotia widows’ ordeal helped to inspire the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, which changed safety regulations for coal mines throughout the country. The Scotia Widows portrays in gripping detail young women deciding to pursue a landmark legal campaign against powerful corporate interests and the judge who protected them. It is a critically important and timeless story of ordinary people who took a stand and refused to give up hope for justice. Praise for The Scotia Widows: “This is a very scary story, a guided tour of the grinding cogs and spinning wheels inside the machinery of justice. Gerald Stern’s compassionate account of the ordeal of the Scotia widows shows you how horribly out of kilter it can all get when greed and self-interest are at the controls. Only with luck and the expertise of Stern does justice emerge in the end, a bit tarnished but still intact.” –Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil Action
Download or read book Down the Mine written by Micah Turner and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What you are about to read is based on the events of the Scotia Mine Disaster, which occurred on March 9th and March 11th, 1976, in two separate methane gas explosions. The first explosion claimed the lives of 15, while the second, 11. This story is written from a first-person fictional account of what one may have experienced on that day."--Introduction.
Download or read book Scotia Coal Mine of Doom written by Eddie Nickels and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 9 1976, a terrific explosion ripped through the Scotia Coal Mine in Oven Fork, Kentucky, killing 15 men. Two days later 13 men were sent inside the mine to investigate the cause of the disaster, only to experience another devastating explosion which killed 11 of those 13 men. The mine was then sealed with the 11 bodies still inside the mine until their recovery over eight months later. This is the full story of those deadly blasts that nearly destroyed the Scotia Mine.
Download or read book Scotia Mine Disaster 1976 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Mountain Elegy written by Eddie Nickels and published by Eddie G. Nickels. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Black Mountain is a ridge of the Cumberland Mountains and is the highest mountain peak in Kentucky, towering 4,145 feet in elevation. Scotia Coal Company operated four coal mine openings inside and beneath Black Mountain, one of which experienced two devastating methane gas explosions on March 9 and 11, 1976, killing 26 miners. The author, a retired Scotia coal miner, describes his experiences of helping to recover the bodies of eleven of the miners who were killed in the second explosion. The eleven miners were sealed inside the mine for over eight months before they were successfully recovered. He also recounts his participation in helping to clean up and ventilate the shattered Scotia #1 mine where the two explosions had ripped through the mine.
Download or read book Scotia Mine Disaster 1976 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Guide to Selected Manuscripts Housed in the Division of Special Collections and Archives Margaret I King Library University of Kentucky written by University of Kentucky. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Individual and Group Behavior in a Coal Mine Disaster written by Horace Dougald Beach and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
