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Editor's note: Correspondent Tom Costello reports tonight on the Senate Appropriation Committee's hearing on mine safety.
Since the Sago mine tragedy, some reports have said mining is America's most dangerous occupation. However, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics lists several jobs with worse at-work fatalities.
It says the deadliest are:
(fatalities per 100,000 workers in 2004)
Read the full report from the BLS here.
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President Bush, Unplugged
President Clinton came up with some new safety rules for mining just before he left office, which Bush promptly ignored and set aside the minute he came into office. Those regulations would almost certainly have saved 14 lives in West Virginia this month. This is one more example of W's complete and total disregard for the welfare of working people. This administration has a lot to answer for.
Sharon Cooper, Winchester, VA (Sent Jan 23, 2006 10:20:04 PM)
During the Nightly News cast, someone interviewed regarding mining safety indicated that because the demand for coal has increased and jobs have increased in the past 3 years that this lack of safety and regulation is President Bush's fault. I'm originally from WV - my father was a miner. My girlfirend's father was killed at Island Creek's #22 mine in 1957 - I was 7, she was 5, he was in his early 20's. His death along with others prompted a new safety device that my father carried on his belt - a gas mask. If some of those miners had these masks they might have lasted until the rescue teams arrived. I lived in Logan County - the same county that just lost 2 miners. That was 1957!!!!! Nothing has changed. Why? I have no memory of anyone but Senator Byrd evering holding that Senate seat - has he done anything? Have any of the governors done anything? No. It's their home state and they do nothing but somehow this is Bush's fault - get real. It's the attitude - until some tragedy like this - they are just hillbilly miners - they are expendable. I don't think we have to get into a debate about who's job is the most dangerous. I always knew the job was dangerous - very often evidenced by the deaths around me - but it's colored my attitude toward relationships all of my life. I always say what's on my mind to people and I always tell them I love them - I may never get another chance. Of course, that's true with just driving to work each day. It seems that no matter what the situation - drunk driving, mills, mines, etc. - someone has to die before anything is done to make everyday work situations better and safer.
Marsha Flaige, Jacksonville, FL (Sent Jan 23, 2006 8:39:29 PM)
President Bush is in violation the Constitution, period. He has the tools to protect the nation, but dose not chose the use them. WHY?
Red Blooded American
barry phillips (Sent Jan 23, 2006 5:22:36 PM)
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