-democracynow- http://www.democracynow.org/es/2010/4/9/titulares # 1 Governor Manchin said: "Air quality has deteriorated since this morning when the men entered. We were concerned about the possibility of air conditions may cause an explosive atmosphere. "
still transcending details safety violations in the Upper Big Branch Mine occurred before Monday's blast. A Senate report says that federal regulators issued evacuation orders for mine more than 60 times since the beginning of 2009. In 2007, the company owns and operates the mine, Massey Energy, could prevent the Administration of the Mining Safety and Health (MSHA, for its acronym in English) declared a pattern of violations, which could have led to the closure of the mine. According to MSHA, the mine exceeded national averages in eleven categories of citations security reasons. For the most serious categories, the mine exceeded more than eleven times the national rate.
In real criteria we want to emphasize on this occasion, as is often the greed and failure in the minimum standards required by international safety standards, cause this type of disaster that might well be avoided, saving the lives of 25 parents that wound American homes.
No one comes to blame capitalism, because the same happened and collective tragedies continue to occur in the communist and socialist regimes. The common element in these abuses employers, it focuses all views on the item man, always full of the most sinister of his misery, such as corruption in the authorities responsible for ensuring compliance with the regulations in each country to develop these activities as risky. And we wonder, if this cruel exploitation of human beings is valid in the U.S., what the state of slavery of miners in Latin America?
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