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| No | 8% | 19 votes | Total: 229 votes | |
| Yes | 92% | 210 votes |
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by Jake Dalton
In todays modern world, should anyone be subject to such harsh and painful work? Is working in a mine considered forced labor or slavery? The answer is a simple no. Miners ar...read more
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by John Garland
There may be some tightening of some existing regulations but I do not believe any more regulations are needed right now. We have our disasters but our mines are among the safes...read more
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by James Pate
I would venture to say that most coal mining executives want their mines to be safe and intact. Seriously. When a mine collapses and buries several miners, do you think that i...read more
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by Daniel Walch
The Mining Industry should not be subjected to stricter safety standards or more rigorous inspections. Extraction industries have inherent dangers which sometimes manifest throu...read more
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by Yunfei Han
looking at the television screen in home and suddenly see that again more people have died in a mine. whether it is in developed countries such as the United States of America o...read more
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I say we do not need more inspections and stricter standards. What we need is to rework the way the mine governing organization "MSHA" functions. The system is flawed in two asp...read more
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by Jan Fulton
The commonalities of the first yes and no responses prove the most important points about mining, both for the miners beneath, and to the owners and managers above. Man isn't a ...read more
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This debate comes down to two things: values and equality. What do we, as a modern society value? Is it human lives? No, just look at the Iraq War. Is it international trade?...read more
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by Rex Coker
The life of a Miner is one of the most hazardous jobs in the world . Have you ever thought of what drives these men to work under ground at miles beneath the Earth surface? Woul...read more
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by Glenda Potts
I personally work in a gold mine. MSHA(mine safety health administration) and the states has regulations, that every mine has to follow by. Thank God that the mine that I work ...read more
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When I hear news reports of yet another mine disaster, I shudder to think of the terror those miners are experiencing, or perhaps did experience before they died. It is a sad an...read more
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Safety standards should always be examined and improved no matter what the industry. Safety programs should be a continuous cycle of program review, hazard identification, haza...read more
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Miners absolutely need greater safety measures implemented immediately. In China. But not in the United States. The United States has over the course of the last century tr...read more
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Mines always need stricter safety standards. Actually, because technology is getting more and more advanced daily, miners should have minimum contact with underground extraction...read more
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Last week i visited the mine at Spring hill, Nova Scotia, now a museum. A wonderful gentleman, who was at one time a miner in that very mine led our tour. He took us step by ste...read more
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