On the morning of Saturday, January 13, 2007 James D. Thomas, 48, North Tazewell, Va. and Pete Poindexter, 33, of Rock WV became West Virginia's first mining deaths of 2007 when a roof collapsed at the Brooks Run mine in McDowell County, where safety violations were issued as recently as December 6. The mine had been cited 57 times in 2006.
I would offer my sympathies in any such event, but even more so in this case as the event took place near both my wife's hometown and mine.
It is hard to know which would be preferable from the victim's family point of view. If this were but an "act of God" would the randomness of the event enrage you and add to your grief or act as a salve? If it turns of to be a case of operator negligence, an all too familiar case in West Virginia history, would knowledge that death was preventable result in destructive dreams of vengeance or would the cause of justice for a fallen family member in the long run sustain you?
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Keep up the good work.
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