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The King Of Coal.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- 60 Minutes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blankenship, Don,.
- Occupational Safety and Health.
- Accidental deaths.
- Tragedy.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Coal miners.
- West Virginia.
- Local Subjects:
- Blankenship, Don,.
- Occupational Safety and Health.
- Accidental deaths.
- Tragedy.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Coal miners.
- West Virginia.
- Genre:
- News story
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (15 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2016.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- A report on the 2010 mining disaster in West Virginia in the Upper Big Branch mine that left 29 people dead. A jury found Don Blankenship, then chairman and CEO of the mine's owner, the Massey Energy Company, guilty of conspiring to willfully violate mine safety laws, making it the first time a company CEO had been found guilty of a work safety crime. The victim's families and jurors were angered to learn Blakenship received a misdemeanor conviction with a maximum one-year sentence. Includes interviews with: Stanley Stewart, coal miner; Shereen Atkins, whose son Jason died in the mine; Gary Quarles, whose son Gary Wayne died in the mine; Steve Ruby, assistant U.S. attorney; Booth Goodwin, U.S. attorney for West Virginia; Bobbie Pauley, coal miner whose fiancé Boone Payne died in the mine; Judy Peterson, whose brother Dean Jones died in the mine; and jurors from Don Blankenship's trial, only identified by first name: Pam, Sherry and Kevin.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 11, 2023).
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