Mine Victim Families Speak at Committee Field Hearing
From House Committee on Education and Labor –
On May 24, Chairman Miller and other Committee members traveled to Beckley, West Virginia to hear from family members of miners killed in the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion. An April 5 explosion in Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia killed 29 miners. It was the worst mine disaster in this country in nearly four decades. Audio files from the hearing can be found at http://edlabor.house.gov/hearings/2010/05/the-upper-big-branch-mine-trag.shtml