US coal mine collapse traps six-Utah - Thread No. 2
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No hope for Chinas trapped miners......more then 2000 workers have been killed in Chinas coal mines in the first seven months of this year
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=65644
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I feel for him. He has done all he knows to do. What a crappy situation for everybody.
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Don't feel too bad. I don't want to bash Murray, but the fact is he has to live with the choices he made. Beyond the initial collapse. In a way I feel bad for him too, he is a human being after all. But I am going to respectfully disagree with the bolded part.
philamena,
To keep the last paychecks from the families who probably need the money to pay bills is very sad. Possibly by doing this he feels he will quiet them down & can control them. :doh: I just don't know what his point is.
Has he yet released the paychecks?
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I haven't heard anything about it one way or another.
What I didn't see mentioned yet though is that the peeple who used to work at Crandall Canyon have been transferred to the other two (Murray) mines in Utah. It's in one of today's articles in the Salt Lake Tribune.
What I didn't see mentioned yet though is that the peeple who used to work at Crandall Canyon have been transferred to the other two (Murray) mines in Utah. It's in one of today's articles in the Salt Lake Tribune.
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1414'--------------1586'---------------1865'-----------2039'------------
3rd----------------4th------------------2nd-------------5th--------------rescue
Hole---------------Hole----------------Hole------------hole--------------workers
CC147-<-520'->--CC143-<-780'->----CC137<-520'->CC133-<-650'->-CC128
there's 130 feet between crosscuts
Oxygen Levels not sufficient to sustain life.
The sixth hole is to be drilled 1700' where the miners were last known to be working. I thought the first (2") and the second (8.5") hole, drilled at CC137, was where the miners were last known to be working. I'm guessing this hole will be somewhere towards CC138, or CC139. If anyone hears exactly, please post, thanks.
3rd----------------4th------------------2nd-------------5th--------------rescue
Hole---------------Hole----------------Hole------------hole--------------workers
CC147-<-520'->--CC143-<-780'->----CC137<-520'->CC133-<-650'->-CC128
there's 130 feet between crosscuts
Oxygen Levels not sufficient to sustain life.
The sixth hole is to be drilled 1700' where the miners were last known to be working. I thought the first (2") and the second (8.5") hole, drilled at CC137, was where the miners were last known to be working. I'm guessing this hole will be somewhere towards CC138, or CC139. If anyone hears exactly, please post, thanks.
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It looks like hole #6 will be at crosscut 139.
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/li...23/20070823_024759_Sixth borehole graphic.pdf
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/li...23/20070823_024759_Sixth borehole graphic.pdf
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Trapped miners' families tell Murray to stay away after clashes with mine boss
By Tom Harvey
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 08/23/2007 06:37:50 AM MDT
HUNTINGTON - Anger and frustration at Crandall Canyon mine co-owner Robert Murray has boiled over among some families who are clinging to hope that six trapped miners might still be alive.
Murray has been asked not to brief families anymore on efforts to try to reach the trapped miners after a confrontation with two families at a briefing this week, one of the families said Wednesday night.
Jackie Taylor told reporters that family members also are angry that Murray and federal officials are saying that any bodies likely will be left in the mine and not recovered.
Taylor is the mother of Lacee Taylor, girlfriend of Brandon Phillips, one of the six miners trapped on Aug. 6 when a large portion of the coal mine collapsed. The two also were accompanied by Cassie Phillips, the sister of the 24-year-old miner. Phillips declined to comment.
Jackie Taylor, of Castle Dale, said she had a confrontation Monday with Murray, chief executive of Murray Energy Corp., after he bluntly told families the miners were likely dead.
"He came in yelling," she said.
Taylor said she asked him if Murray knew how the families felt.
"He said, 'Yes, I have felt this.' I said, 'When?' And all he could do was sit and yell at us and tell me I was out of control. He has never felt this before. He doesn't know what we're going through.
More at link: http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6695432
By Tom Harvey
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 08/23/2007 06:37:50 AM MDT
HUNTINGTON - Anger and frustration at Crandall Canyon mine co-owner Robert Murray has boiled over among some families who are clinging to hope that six trapped miners might still be alive.
Murray has been asked not to brief families anymore on efforts to try to reach the trapped miners after a confrontation with two families at a briefing this week, one of the families said Wednesday night.
Jackie Taylor told reporters that family members also are angry that Murray and federal officials are saying that any bodies likely will be left in the mine and not recovered.
Taylor is the mother of Lacee Taylor, girlfriend of Brandon Phillips, one of the six miners trapped on Aug. 6 when a large portion of the coal mine collapsed. The two also were accompanied by Cassie Phillips, the sister of the 24-year-old miner. Phillips declined to comment.
Jackie Taylor, of Castle Dale, said she had a confrontation Monday with Murray, chief executive of Murray Energy Corp., after he bluntly told families the miners were likely dead.
"He came in yelling," she said.
Taylor said she asked him if Murray knew how the families felt.
"He said, 'Yes, I have felt this.' I said, 'When?' And all he could do was sit and yell at us and tell me I was out of control. He has never felt this before. He doesn't know what we're going through.
More at link: http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6695432
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Gary Jensen funeral
Mine inspector killed in cave-in honored as hero, prankster and loving family man
By Mark Havnes
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 08/23/2007 08:04:16 AM MDT
SALINA - A loving family man, a prankster with a permanent smile and, with his last breath, an unassuming hero who gave his life trying to help others.
That is how Gary "Gibb" Jensen, who perished Aug. 16 while tunneling to reach six trapped miners in Emery County's Crandall Canyon mine, was remembered Wednesday at his funeral in Salina and burial in nearby Redmond, the Sevier County hamlet where he lived.
"He was also a [Oakland] Raiders fan," joked his brother, Neal Jensen, to about 800 people attending the service, including U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. "But we'll find it in our hearts to forgive you."
During the two-hour-long service at an LDS stake center in this central Utah town, family and friends painted the 53-year-old Jensen as a man who, besides adoring his wife and their four children and grandchildren, was dedicated to his work as a safety inspector for the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Chao said he exemplified the best qualities of MSHA workers by never hesitating to risk his own life to help save another. "He reaffirmed what is best in the human heart," Chao said. "Like those at 9/11, he rushed in, a selfless hero, to help others. He is the best the country has to offer."
More at link: http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6695433
Mine inspector killed in cave-in honored as hero, prankster and loving family man
By Mark Havnes
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 08/23/2007 08:04:16 AM MDT
SALINA - A loving family man, a prankster with a permanent smile and, with his last breath, an unassuming hero who gave his life trying to help others.
That is how Gary "Gibb" Jensen, who perished Aug. 16 while tunneling to reach six trapped miners in Emery County's Crandall Canyon mine, was remembered Wednesday at his funeral in Salina and burial in nearby Redmond, the Sevier County hamlet where he lived.
"He was also a [Oakland] Raiders fan," joked his brother, Neal Jensen, to about 800 people attending the service, including U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. "But we'll find it in our hearts to forgive you."
During the two-hour-long service at an LDS stake center in this central Utah town, family and friends painted the 53-year-old Jensen as a man who, besides adoring his wife and their four children and grandchildren, was dedicated to his work as a safety inspector for the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Chao said he exemplified the best qualities of MSHA workers by never hesitating to risk his own life to help save another. "He reaffirmed what is best in the human heart," Chao said. "Like those at 9/11, he rushed in, a selfless hero, to help others. He is the best the country has to offer."
More at link: http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6695433
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