Safety in the pits
Article
2011
116
4-5
fatalities ; unsafe working conditions ; mining ; occupational accidents ; trade union document
Occupational accidents
English
"When five miners died this autumn in two separate incidents in 12 days, conditions in Britain's coal mines briefly caught the public gaze. But Hazards editor Rory O'Neill says the media failed to spot the lack of safety oversight underground that has seen fatality rates in UK coal mines at their highest levels in 50 years."
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