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MSHA Releases Upper Big Branch Mine Investigation Interview Transcripts

Posted in on Wed, Jun 1, 2011

From MSHA –

ARLINGTON, Va. - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today released 25 transcripts of witness interviews from the investigation of the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion that occurred in April 2010. These transcripts, from interviews covering mine rescue and recovery activities immediately following the blast, are now available on MSHA’s website at http://www.msha.gov. They represent the first set in a series of interview transcripts that MSHA, with the approval of the U.S. Department of Justice, plans to release over the coming months.  http://www.msha.gov/MEDIA/PRESS/2011/NR110509.asp

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