Centralia

In 1907, two miles south of Centralia, Illinois was the Centralia Mine No. 5. The Mine was there to provide coal during World War II. This particular mine employed 250 men and produced 2,000 tons of coal each day. During the next several years there were several complaints made regarding the safety of the mine. On March 25, 1947, the mine exploded, killing 111 miners. (Stillman, 2010)

By having knowledge of the chromium in the water supply, PG&E should have been required to let the people know that were affected by it. By not telling the citizens, they were withholding information that affected these people’s lives. Because a risk was created, consequences came, and nothing was done to prevent such injuries that did occur, PG&E should have been considered negligent.

Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 : it established federal standards in the construction of refuse piles and dams by coal companies but these standards only protected the coal miners (and not the public who lived around the coal mines) while he was working.

“Blasting itself produced immense quantities of mineral particles. The common practice of returning to the work face soon after the detonation of charges meant entering an area filled with particulate matter. (Derickson 3)” Also, as labors transported, unloaded, and cleaned the extracted material dust was inhaled even though they were away from the mine. So no matter what technique used the coal dust still made it in the air and into the miners’ lungs. There were no safety regulations in place about how long to wait after blowing up coal, no regulations about how many particulates in the air were safe, no mask or safety precautions and no mandatory venting. Although some of these things were easily usable to the safety the company felt it was too costly. “An elaborate system of fans and blowers was ‘too costly’, so the miner had to pay for the bad ventilating by ‘miners’ asthma’ and other ailments caused by bad air. (Derickson 4)” Basically the coal operators did not care enough about the miners safety to provide vents and things that could have helped the air quality.

Prepare a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation summarizing the costs and benefits of the proposed mine. Include the following elements:

Public administration always entails decision-making that serve the well-being of a collectivity. In “the Blast in Centralia No.5” case, the terrible explosion killed one hundred and eleven men. However, such tragedy was precisely predictable and preventable as the mine was perceived drastically dangerous for long time. Dwight H. Green was one administrator that managed the preceding fall and assigned mine inspector to supervise the mine operators. The moral obligations ambiguities he encountered was obviously the attempt to supervise and restrict mine industry versus political patronage upon the industry. Based on Waldo’s Sources of obligations, he was simultaneously obligated to mine law, nation, organizational norms, professionalism, himself

Mining has historically been one of the most important industries in West Virginia. It’s so important to us. Miners are strong, tough, hardworking people who work or has worked in dangerous conditions. It’s difficult to imagine the miners didn’t see the possibility of an explosion every day they went to work in the mines. Perhaps they did and they still went, aware of the possibility but going anyway because their families needed to eat.

Over time, due process should give more insight to the controversy. Even though both sides present great arguments, time should be well managed to define what measures should be taken to deal with all aspects of mountain top removal mining. Most of the debate seems like common sense on both sides. The economic impact is huge for the

In an article written by Peg Seminario, Safety and Health Director for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, she explains that “In 1968, after an explosion at Consol No. 9 coal mine trapped and killed 78 miners, the coal miners in West Virginia went on strike, shut down the mines, demanding stronger safety and health protections. This action led to the passage of the Federal Coal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1969, followed the next year by enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970” (Seminario). The coal miners’ strike expressed their feeling of being ignored by the public and by protesting, the miners were able to get the attention of the people around them. This, evidently, led to the enforcement of laws that would prevent another occurrence like the explosion from happening again. After the Holocaust ended, many changes were made around the world.

The article discusses the need for a stringent government . The article recaps the explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine, in Montcoal, West Virginia, on April 5, 2010,which killed 29 miners. This mine was owned and operated by Massey Energy. The mine was non-union , and therefore was not regulated. The cause of the explosion was eventually traced back to unsafe and substandard mine conditions. The explosion was caused by the accumulation of flammable gas .During the investigation, Federal investigators also found evidence of Massey Energy was keeping two sets of books. One set contained all the beautiful, by-the-numbers. Massey was found guilty of a felony. If there were more regulations and this mine safety records were monitored

The working conditions in the coal mines have been a ghastly sight over the years, because of this the health and safety of the workers (children as young as five, women and men) is horrendous.

On the 19th of September 2010, what was to become known as the Pike River Mining Disaster began in the close proximity to the town of Greymouth. At an occupied mine of 31 miners and contractors, an initial explosion occurred in the West Coast Region of New Zealand’s South Island at approximately 3:44pm. Two were fortunate enough to walk away from the scene and were treated for moderate injuries at hospital, then later released the next day.

President Donald J. Giffels was a Civil Engineer and operated his own consulting firm. He had a problem with a current job and felt there was an ethical duty that must be fulfilled. Mr. Giffels was perplexed by a design for a government facility to train firefighters dealing with fire crashes of airplanes. Under the contract, the firm was to do the civil engineering work for installation of the equipment. Liquid propane had recently replaced jet fuel for simulating crash fires. His highest concern was for the safety of the firefighters. On this particular job, there was a lack of design specifications crucial to safety, no design analysis was submitted, and therefore he assumed that none existed. Even though he was concerned, his firm was not directly responsible for these missing safety standards.

Coal mining is a great resource for our state, but it comes with dangerous side effects. The companies come into our state and start destroying everything because all they worry about is the

He should have discussed the issue with Sands at the early stage before it escalated out of control. He should have had everybody committed to the terms of using Crosby. Not only that but, also disallowed the carry-over of Springfield Metals work to his office. By so doing his department would not have been sub-changed on the use of the resource –Olds in this instance. Olds’ discussion should have ended at the allotted time for each project without using one project’s time on the other.