“MSHA and the entire mining community extend our deepest condolences when miners are in danger.”
David G. Dye
“You can't expect miners to come in and testify about unsafe conditions in the mine when you have their employers across the table from them.”
Tony Oppegard
“In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner, Forty-niner, And his daughter, Clementine”
Percy Montrose
“We found mineral grains that are considered very high-temperature minerals -- they normally form under extremely high temperature conditions. And yet they were collected in a comet, the Siberia of the solar system.”
Don Brownlee
“I am asking miners and management at every mine operation to do the right thing: Take one hour out for safety's sake. This Monday, we urge that extra time be taken, at the beginning of each shift and before the start of any mining activity, to go over the hazards involved with mining and the vital safeguards that need to be taken.”
“We've come a long, long way. We haven't killed a coal miner in a state of Illinois coal mine for two consecutive years.”
Mike Woods
“We lost an entire generation of coal miners.”
Jim Dean
