'A Cavalier Attitude Towards Safety'
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Highlights from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's report on the Crandall Canyon mine disaster, released March 6.
· The mine posed significant risks before the disaster, and "problems resulted from a cavalier attitude towards safety among senior management."
· "The mining operations proposed by Murray Energy, and approved by MSHA, at Crandall Canyon were among the most dangerous ever attempted."
· Multiple warnings were ignored, including "heightened seismic activity and a major mine bounce in March 2007 . . . that should have raised red flags for both MSHA and the company."
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Highlights from the Labor Department inspector general's report on the Mine Safety and Health Administration and the Crandall Canyon mine:
· "MSHA was negligent in its review, approval, and oversight of the Roof Control Plan and amendments and in ensuring that Crandall Canyon's miners were protected."
· The agency could not show that it "made the right decision" to approve the Crandall Canyon roof-control plan, nor could it show that the approval process was "free from undue influence by the mine operator."
· MSHA did not demonstrate that individual districts had an adequate process to approve roof-control plans, and no standard operating procedure exits.
