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Twenty-six-year-old Trenten Dille died in a Marion County Coal Resources mine when the rib of a roof support pillar crushed him; a day later, a miner at Alpha Metallurgical Resources’ Horse Creek Eagle Mine died in an electrical haulage accident.
In chief of the huffington post arianna huffington. is this the pattern with how regulations are not enforced? but how they are made or not made? >> well, yes. that's the problem. even when regulations are made after a disaster like after the sago disaster. the loopholes put in the regulations, which in the end they're not enforced. here we have a classic example of how that works. the mine had 515 violations in 2009. and already 124 in 2010. but by abusing due process and challenging them, this could not be held against them to create what is called a pattern of violations and therefore close...
29 of whom died on his watch last monday. joining me now here in new york as promised, co-founder editor in chief of the huffington post arianna huffington. is this the pattern with how regulations are not enforced? but how they are made or not made? >> well, yes. that's the problem. even when regulations are made after a disaster like after the sago disaster. the loopholes put in the regulations, which in the end they're not enforced. here we have a classic example of how that works. the mine had 515 violations in 2009. and already 124 in 2010. but by abusing due process and challenging them,...
Joining me now here in new york as promised, co-founder editor in chief of the huffington post arianna huffington. is this the pattern with how regulations are not enforced? but how they are made or not made? >> well, yes. that's the problem. even when regulations are made after a disaster like after the sago disaster. what happens is that there are so many loopholes put into the regulations, that in the end they're not really enforced. here we have a classic example of how that works. the mine had 515 violations in 2009. and already 124 in 2010. but by abusing due process and challenging them...
Fate of those miners is. all up and down this area here, this valley, that these coal mines are in and really across the state of west virginia and other coal mining states, people are wondering what the outcome of this is going to be in terms of legislation and new safety measures. we took a look that the and talked with a lot of folks who come from mining family toss see what they have to say about it. >> 1951, the orient, number two mine, 119 deaths prompt the first legislation on mine safety. fast forward, 1968, farmington, west virginia, 78 dead, including future governor joe manchin's un...