Having worked as a mine inspector and safety trainer in the mining industry for most of my life I can tell you that the mood of industry has shifted from corporate responsibility to individual ownership. The main reason for the existence of safety people at mine sites now is to limit liability and twist the fact’s to reflect the individual responsibilities for health and safety. If you’re currently working underground or in the industry, a respirator is the main protection available to you as a miner to avoid silicosis and black lung. The little cotton mask like for covid do nothing. You must wear a fit tested respirator with HEPA filters when ever you are working underground. Ventilation can be improved and maximized, water and rock dust can be used to limit airborne particles but these are all additional cost to the profit margin. Of course we know what the hazards are and how to mitigate them but we as an industry fail to apply them adequately because of cost.
The main problems come down to long term exposure and treatment cost which are massive along with extreme personal suffering however, Silicosis and black lung can occur with a few years of heavy exposure in the worst environments. Coal dust is especially dangerous due to explosive hazards, in the right conditions it can prove to be quite powerful, and result in massive explosions. As an underground miner you are dependent on all feasible engineering controls and your fellow employees to keep you safe, unions used to be a vehicle for labor rights and mine safety, most mines are now non union which is a huge mistake as unity in action and thought are the only tools individual employees have to guide there long term health and life. There aren’t near the numbers of people engaged in this type of work anymore but the risk to them are higher then ever. At some point robotics will replace the individual in this environment but underground mining will be one of the last industries to realize this.
I worked in pumice. Pumice dust is like the silica dust from coal. It causes silicosis and liparitosis. I have emphysema from it, but not a terrible case. One of those things I will probably die with but maybe not from? Or so I hope.
Someone needs to remind the coal workers that the proposal was instigated by a Democrat while the Republican they voted for was the one who has delayed and delayed it's implementation.
This just demonstrates how cheap it is to buy influence in the Grampa Assmouth administration. Because despite their power of life and death over their employees, coal companies are small fish in the pond of US energy production, and getting smaller by the day. These are not tech bros who can toss $1,000,000 to buy influence at some senator’s PAC without batting an eye. They are generally moderate sized, and if they could skim $100,000 from the pension fund to pay to avoid having to keep their employees alive, I’d be surprised. (TBF, killing off your employees is a good way to reduce the requirement for that pension fund…)
Agree and don’t agree. I hate seeing anyone hurt who is just ignorant and lied to, but still they voted for this… It’s like when I see some fucktard pass me on a curve in his penismobile, and I think to myself, “I’d love to see him just wrap that thing around a power pole. Nobody else gets hurt, and even he walks away without a scratch, but he’s lost the only thing which gave his life meaning.”
A quite renown corporate motivation speaker past away last year. He was a dear friend. He shared with me that his family were coal miners from Cape Breton Island. He left the only occupation on the island that could support a family. He succeeded in speaking and writing books to teach people how to control their mind to achieve what they desired. The irony of the cause of his death was that he lost control of his mind. His name was John Kanary. John took actions to ensure he’d be no canary in a coal mind. He spent at least 60 years sharing what he learned from knowing what it was leaving inter generational enslavement to the coal industry. People with fortitude of John Kanary are rare but he did good by sharing how it can be done. I miss him but his wisdom lives on in the people he shared his wisdom with.
Once again, Krasnov fucks the people who supported him harder than anyone else and without lube. And they would all still vote for him again if they could, because they’d rather have black lung than a black lady president.
Having worked as a mine inspector and safety trainer in the mining industry for most of my life I can tell you that the mood of industry has shifted from corporate responsibility to individual ownership. The main reason for the existence of safety people at mine sites now is to limit liability and twist the fact’s to reflect the individual responsibilities for health and safety. If you’re currently working underground or in the industry, a respirator is the main protection available to you as a miner to avoid silicosis and black lung. The little cotton mask like for covid do nothing. You must wear a fit tested respirator with HEPA filters when ever you are working underground. Ventilation can be improved and maximized, water and rock dust can be used to limit airborne particles but these are all additional cost to the profit margin. Of course we know what the hazards are and how to mitigate them but we as an industry fail to apply them adequately because of cost.
The main problems come down to long term exposure and treatment cost which are massive along with extreme personal suffering however, Silicosis and black lung can occur with a few years of heavy exposure in the worst environments. Coal dust is especially dangerous due to explosive hazards, in the right conditions it can prove to be quite powerful, and result in massive explosions. As an underground miner you are dependent on all feasible engineering controls and your fellow employees to keep you safe, unions used to be a vehicle for labor rights and mine safety, most mines are now non union which is a huge mistake as unity in action and thought are the only tools individual employees have to guide there long term health and life. There aren’t near the numbers of people engaged in this type of work anymore but the risk to them are higher then ever. At some point robotics will replace the individual in this environment but underground mining will be one of the last industries to realize this.
And now they’re surprised?
Make America Gasp for Air!
I worked in pumice. Pumice dust is like the silica dust from coal. It causes silicosis and liparitosis. I have emphysema from it, but not a terrible case. One of those things I will probably die with but maybe not from? Or so I hope.
Ta, Robyn. Nothing is worse than mountaintop removal coal mining, apart from fascism. That is most decidedly worse.
Someone needs to remind the coal workers that the proposal was instigated by a Democrat while the Republican they voted for was the one who has delayed and delayed it's implementation.
And how did the miners vote? What’s that you say? WV went for TFG by 30 points?
And the unions?
How did they vote?
I have no more fucks to give for people who continually shoot themselves in the foot.
Thoughts and prayers.
ETTD
This just demonstrates how cheap it is to buy influence in the Grampa Assmouth administration. Because despite their power of life and death over their employees, coal companies are small fish in the pond of US energy production, and getting smaller by the day. These are not tech bros who can toss $1,000,000 to buy influence at some senator’s PAC without batting an eye. They are generally moderate sized, and if they could skim $100,000 from the pension fund to pay to avoid having to keep their employees alive, I’d be surprised. (TBF, killing off your employees is a good way to reduce the requirement for that pension fund…)
Well, the MAGA just need a new slogan!
SILICOSIS FOR OUR LORD, SHORT FINGERS! IT'S THE PATRIOTIC THING TO DO!
Then the miners will realize that no sacrifice is to great in the service of the short-fingered vulgarian.
How the hell do you feel sorry for someone who cut his own neck?
Agree and don’t agree. I hate seeing anyone hurt who is just ignorant and lied to, but still they voted for this… It’s like when I see some fucktard pass me on a curve in his penismobile, and I think to myself, “I’d love to see him just wrap that thing around a power pole. Nobody else gets hurt, and even he walks away without a scratch, but he’s lost the only thing which gave his life meaning.”
This can't be, I'm told by some of our most senior people that we are in Americas "Golden Age".
Unfortunately, that gold came from a spray can. And there's inadequate ventilation.
A quite renown corporate motivation speaker past away last year. He was a dear friend. He shared with me that his family were coal miners from Cape Breton Island. He left the only occupation on the island that could support a family. He succeeded in speaking and writing books to teach people how to control their mind to achieve what they desired. The irony of the cause of his death was that he lost control of his mind. His name was John Kanary. John took actions to ensure he’d be no canary in a coal mind. He spent at least 60 years sharing what he learned from knowing what it was leaving inter generational enslavement to the coal industry. People with fortitude of John Kanary are rare but he did good by sharing how it can be done. I miss him but his wisdom lives on in the people he shared his wisdom with.
Once again, Krasnov fucks the people who supported him harder than anyone else and without lube. And they would all still vote for him again if they could, because they’d rather have black lung than a black lady president.
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Say, remember when Hillary had a plan to re-educate coal miners in the clean energy field? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
And the WV voting dudes "didn't want" to do the training
But she had those emails and she told the coal miners their jobs weren't coming back.
(the jobs didn't come back)
Like the old joke: "The food here is terrible" "Yes. And such small portions!"