Don Blankenship Issues Statement on Upper Big Branch Anniversary
Tomorrow, April 5th, is the 8th anniversary of the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine tragedy, which took the lives of 29 coal miners. The miners who lost their lives were among Massey and the coal industry’s very best. Collectively they had perhaps 400 years of experience. They had proven day after day and year after year that they were professional miners. Some had worked at UBB throughout the mine’s entire seventeen years of existence. There is no way I can personally express the