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W. Virginia Miners Worked in Fear

UNSAFE CONDITIONS

Lax standards frayed nerves before disaster.

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A whistleblower foreman from the West Virginia mine that killed 29 workers earlier this month offers a chilling account to The New York Times of life among the workers.

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