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UT Rescue crews in central
Utah know exactly where six
trapped miners are located,
but were forced to turn around
late Monday because of
'impassable conditions,' the
mine's operator said.This
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UtahCrews were instead going
to try a method that could
take days -- drilling through
the top of the mountain. A
helicopter-borne drill rig
will begin boring down into
mountain early Tuesday, said
Robert Murray, CEO of Murray
Energy, the parent company of
the mine's operator. 'We will
be on our feet until we get
these men out, one way or
another,' Murray said. If the
men survived the collapse, 'We
just may get them out in two
or three days unharmed.'The
men were caught in a cave-in
at the Crandall Canyon mine
before dawn Monday. Rescuers
had hoped to reach the miners
by breaking through the seals
of an old mine shaft, which
could have potentially put
them within 100 feet of the
miners.'I'm disappointed to
report that our efforts have
not been fruitful in this
approach to get to the men,'
Murray said. Crews were driven
out by hazardous conditions
underground. There is still
hope that crews might be able
to breach a second entrance,
but if those efforts fail,
they will have to rely on the
slower, more arduous drilling
process, Murray said. Murray
said workers in central Utah
were 'using every means known
to mankind' to reach
them.'We're sparing no expense
to bring every mining machine
that we have in Utah in here,'
he said. See the rescue
efforts outside the mine
»So far, rescue workers
have been unable to establish
communication with the miners,
who are presumed to be about
1,700 feet away.More than 200
people are working to retrieve
the men. Four rescue teams are
already working at the site,
and another 12 have been lined
up to work in shifts over the
next two days, Murray said.
The miners are thought to have
been working about four miles
from the mine's entrance at
the time of the incident, said
an official with the U.S.
Mining Safety and Health
Administration.Murray said he
was confident of the miners'
location, but there is still
no word on their condition.
Watch CNN's Brian Todd give
the latest on the search for
the six miners »'They can
be in a chamber in there
that's 1,000 feet long, or
they could be dead,' he
said.It could take 48 hours to
reach the miners, Murray said,
but if they are still alive
'there's water and air for far
beyond that.' Every miner
carries a tank with about an
hour's worth of oxygen,
officials from Murray Energy
said. There are also caches
throughout the mine with
additional oxygen, they
said.It is unclear whether the
collapse was caused by a small
earthquake or whether the
collapse itself was strong
enough to register on
seismographs.The U.S.
Geological Survey reported a
quake of 3.9 magnitude jolted
the region shortly before 3
a.m. (5 a.m. ET), with an
epicenter about 16 miles west
of Huntington, Utah, close to
the mine's location in Emery
County. See where the miners
are trapped »Seismographs
recorded movement near the
area that was 'consistent with
a mine-type collapse,' Walter
Arabasz, director of the
University of Utah Seismograph
Stations, told the Deseret
Morning News. 'Now we have to
go back and look at more
careful analyses to be able to
defend with more certainty
whether the originating event
was an earthquake or whether
it was a seismic event caused
in a mine environment,' he
told the Salt Lake City, Utah,
newspaper.It will take about
48 hours to analyze the shake
pattern of the seismographs
around the area, CNN
Meteorologist Chad Meyers
said.A 'rock burst' measuring
on a seismograph would not be
'unheard of' in the region,
Davitt McAteer, former head of
the U.S. Mining Safety and
Health Administration, told
CNN.'It has happened in the
past,' he said.The mine --
owned by Genwal Resources Inc.
-- reported a cave-in to the
Emery County Sheriff's
Department about an hour after
the seismograph reading was
noted.Inspectors have cited
Genwal for 30 violations in
2007, MSHA records show.
Recommended fines in the 10
cases where penalties have
been leveled so far range from
$60 to $524. Utah Gov. Jon
Huntsman Jr. went to the
Crandall Canyon Mine to 'lend
his personal support to the
families and mining community
during this critical time,'
his office said.Huntsman told
reporters the families of the
trapped men were at an
'undisclosed location' near
Huntington, about 140 miles
south of Salt Lake City. 'I am
confident, based upon what I
heard from Mr. Murray, that
every expense is being made in
order to do this right -- no
stone left unturned,' he said.
'They're bringing in the
professionals and all the
equipment they need, hopefully
to make this a successful
outcome.' Mine rescue teams
from the Rocky Mountain Power
Co. are on standby if they are
needed, spokesman Steve
Eskelsen said. In addition,
the power company has offered
to loan out its heavy
equipment, he said. MINE CITED
FOR LACK OF EMERGENCY
PASSAGEWAYS Miners trapped in
US coal mine collapseWhile one
rescue effort has failed so
far, officials remained
hopeful that six Utah coal
miners trapped underground at
the Crandall Canyon mine are
alive, and may be rescued over
the next two days.Author:
Dorothy KosichPosted: Tuesday
, 07 Aug 2007 RENO, NV - In
the first western major coal
mining accident since the
enactment of the tough MINER
safety act, six employees of
GenWal's Crandall Canyon coal
mine in Huntington Canyon,
Utah remained trapped
underground early Tuesday
morning. As of late Tuesday
night, rescuers were focusing
on 1,700 feet of tunnel
between the rescuers and the
area where the miners were
last believed to be working.
Rescue efforts have been
slowed by falling rock and
debris.The mine is owned by
Cleveland, Ohio-based Murray
Energy, whose UtahAmerican
subsidiary mines about 7
million tons of coal annually
from federal coal lands in
Carbon and Emery Counties in
Utah.Murray President and CEO
Robert Murray heads a
privately-owned company which
operates 11 coal mines in
Utah, Ohio, Illinois,
Kentucky, and Pennsylvania,
employing 3,000 people, and
yielding 32 million tons of
high quality bituminous coal
annually. The company claims
to be the second largest U.S.
producer of coal using the
advanced longwall mining
method. Murray Energy has been
the operator of Crandall since
1995.A former CEO of North
American Coal Corp., Murray
has also been a high profile
opponent of global warming
bills under consideration in
the U.S. Congress. Meanwhile,
the United Mineworkers claimed
in 2006 that two of Murray's
Ohio mines have a less than
stellar safety
record.Meanwhile, an
Associated Press science
writer Monday questioned the
Crandall Canyon mine's use of
retreat mining in which coal
pillars are used to support an
area of the mine's roof. When
the area has been mined out,
the company pulls the pillar
and causes an intentional
collapse. However, Utah
American Energy President
Bruce Hill insisted that the
practice is safe and has 'been
done for the last 70 years.'
While the Crandall Canyon mine
collapse early Monday morning
was originally believed to be
caused by an earthquake,
scientists at the University
of Utah Seismograph Stations
suggested to the Salt Lake
Tribune that the 3.9 seismic
event recorded early Monday
was actually the cave-in of
the coal mine. However, the
mine is near active faults
where earthquakes happen. The
U.S. Geological Survey
reported a quake in the region
shortly before 3 a.m.
Monday.The Mine Safety and
Health Administration said it
was believed that the miners
were 1,500 feet underground
about four miles from the mine
entrance. Rescuers were within
2,500 feet of their presumed
location, according to MSHA.
Federal mine inspectors have
issued 325 citations against
the mine since January 2004,
according to CNN. In 2007,
inspectors issued 32 citations
against the mine, 14 of them
considered significant.An
examination by Mineweb of MSHA
records show that MSHA's last
regular inspection of Crandall
took place on July 5th. During
that visit, inspectors cited
Genwall Resources for
violating a rule requiring at
least two separate passageways
be designated for escape in an
emergency, reportedly the
third instance in less than
two years that the mine has
been cited for the same
problem.MSHA Chief Richard
Stickler said he would be at
the mine site today.Robert
Murray told reporters Monday
that if the miners survived
the cave-in, they should have
enough air and water to last
for several days. Murray said
oxygen naturally leaks into
the mine, which is also
stocked with drinking water.
As of Monday night, however,
rescuers have been unable to
contact the miners and could
not say whether they were dead
or alive.Along with the
rescuers working inside the
mine, the Salt Lake Tribune
reported that a helicopter
will help aim a large drill on
the top of the mountain so it
can drill down. Bulldozers are
cutting roads for a second
drill, while another drill is
boring horizontally in the
mine. Murray told the news
media that any effort will
take at least two days to
reach the miners.The six men,
who have not yet been publicly
identified, range in age from
their 20s to late 40s. All
were described by Murray as
'family men.' Their families,
several of whom do not speak
English, have been advised by
Murray not to speak to the
press.'There's a very, very
good chance that the men may
not be in danger, other than
they're entombed,' Murray
declared late Monday.An ABC TV
news report that that four
survivors walked out through
the front entrance from the
10-man crew working in the
area. They have helped
pinpoint the location of the
remaining six men. ABC said
the mine has been cited seven
times for not providing an
emergency exit.Utah Gov. Jon
Huntsman told Reuters late
Monday outside of the Crandall
Mine that 'You have six miners
who could very well be alive.
In fact, the experts tell us
that they are and the rescue
attempts are increasingly
close to the cavern where they
think they are
located.'Huntsman said he
would meet with the miners'
families at an undisclosed
location. 'Hope is in order at
this point. Heavy doses of
hope,' he said.Emery County
was also the site of a fire of
Utah's biggest mining
disaster, a fire in the
Wilburg mine, which killed 27
people in December 1984.Tough
new mine safety laws were
enacted last year after 12
coal miners died after being
trapped in an underground
explosion at the Sago Mine in
West Virginia. However,
congressional Democrats have
insisted that the laws still
should be strengthened and
that MSHA should be given
adequately resources for
enforcing them.U.S. mine
health and safety legal expert
Mark Savitt told Elko, Nevada
miners in June that MSHA is
responding to congressional
demands for increased mine
safety by 'trying very hard to
be more stringent.' He said
mining operators are beginning
to see evidence of MSHA's
stringent stance on the
citations issued by the
agency.Savitt claimed that
MSHA is responding to
congressional demands for
increased mine safety by
'trying very hard to be more
stringent.' 'Congress is
essentially counting citations
and looking at dollar amounts'
rather than allowing MSHA to
encourage a health and safety
environment that allows mining
operators to use regulations
are a strategy to drive people
toward safer behavior at
mines, Savitt asserted at the
time.A history of safety
citationsBy Joe Bauman Click
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ingColl...Deseret Morning News
The Crandall Canyon Mine,
where six miners were trapped
Monday after a collapse, has a
history of safety or health
citations. Since early
2005, the Mine Safety and
Health Administration (MSHA)
has cited the Crandall Canyon
Mine 176 times for alleged
safety or health standard
violations. Many of these were
deemed 'significant and
substantial' problems. For
a violation to be considered
significant and substantial,
according to MSHA rules, mine
inspectors must believe that
'based upon the particular
facts surrounding the
violation, there exists a
reasonable likelihood that the
hazard contributed to will
result in an injury or illness
of a reasonably serious
nature.' MSHA issued 33
citations against the mine
this year, plus three orders.
Of the citations, a dozen were
labeled significant and
substantial. These citations
included a build-up of grease
and dust that was combustible,
and inadequate warning devices
and escape ways. Orders
considered significant and
substantial were issued
regarding the dust
accumulation and the
availability of mine rescue
teams. The mine was cited for
not having at least two mine
rescue teams available at all
times when miners are
underground. The
rescue-team order was issued
on Feb. 1, and subsequent
inspections did not indicate
anything lacking in that
regard, so presumably the
citation was not justified or
any problem in this area was
corrected. Since January
2004, the Crandall Canyon Mine
has paid nearly $130,000 in
MSHA-assessed fines. Nearly
$4,000 in additional penalties
have not been settled, and
proposed penalties have not
been assessed for 40
citations. Some citations
result in no penalties, while
the highest since January 2004
was a $6,300 penalty paid in
June 2004 resulting from an
order concerning examining,
testing and maintaining
electrical equipment.
Another assessment for $6,300,
resulting from a citation
issued in February 2004, was
marked 'delinquent' in MSHA
records. The regulation
involves keeping a primary
escapeway clear of certain
equipment. Walter Licht, a
professor at the University of
Pennsylvania who has
researched mine accidents,
said citations can be assessed
because of minor or more
serious concerns. 'One of
the mine inspectors can be in
a mine and see a wrench lying
on the ground that somebody
can trip on, so they get a
citation,' he said. But the
significant citations are to
be taken seriously, he said.
Attempting to put the
citations into perspective, he
said that other coal mines
with disasters in recent years
had in the neighborhood of 180
to 210 citations, compared
with the 33 this year for
Crandall Canyon Mine. In
addition, he said, half of the
violations at the other mines
were serious, while fewer than
half were in that category in
the Utah mine. Licht said
the number of citations at the
Crandall Canyon Mine was not
unusually high. 'This is maybe
par for the course,' he said.
Concerning the rubble that
rescuers have been trying to
remove, he said that seems to
indicate a cave-in happened.
'When you have cave-ins,
they usually are the result of
some kind of explosion or some
kind of fire,' he said. If
there was no earthquake or
explosion, Licht added, 'it's
hard to understand why the
buttressing system should give
way.' The mine's permit
area covers 5,000 acres, with
a combination of private land
and federal and state leases,
according to the Utah Division
of Oil, Gas and Mining. The
mine is entirely within the
Manti-La Sal National Forest,
and its surface operations
take place on 10 acres.
Mining began there in 1939 and
continued until September
1955, when it stopped.
Production resumed in 1983 by
Genwal Coal Co., with
production from 100,000 tons
to 230,000 tons a year, the
state division noted. In 1991,
mining began on state land
within the mine. And in
1997, a mining machine was
purchased that was intended to
increase production from 2.5
million tons to 3.5 million
tons yearly. Genwal
Resources made $45 million in
annual sales, according to the
business-tracking Web site
Hoovers.com. Genwal Resource's
parent company, UtahAmerican
Energy Inc., is owned by
Ohio-based Murray Energy
Corp., which is the fourth or
fifth largest mining company
in America, said Murray Energy
President Robert E. Murray.
The Genwal complex is the
smallest operation, with about
71 employees. Workers at
the Crandall Canyon Mine are
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