I am not active as a CRSP nor full time in the Health and Safety business any longer. I am acting as a supervisor in my current (retirement?) employment right now. I found this video while searching out another matter and was dumbfounded.
I absolutely do not wish to be judgemental. These miners died, families destroyed, jobs lost. However, I believe this readily could have maybe been prevented. Though the legal fault fell on the management and company, everyone involved carries some fault, unfortunately some workers paid with their lives.
Safety equipment to prevent explosions was disabled. Suppression dust was not about the mine to prevent a catastrophic expansion of a coal dust explosion. Was no one paying attention? Did no one realize that this happen in Nova Scotia at Westray Mine not much more than twenty years prior.
This is criminal. Do we ever learn?
Don't work in unsafe conditions. Your life and your family could depend on the outcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIeUtcTIXE0
