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scaeagles · 01-05-2006, 01:50 PM

I did some looking around, and all I found was one cut in the 2003 budget - from 124 million to 117 million in the MSHA budget. In the same report, however, it said that violation citations went from 126000-132000. Those numbers seem pretty high....132000 mining violations in a year? Yikes.

I have no argument with you that the mine in question had a poor safety record. So, I would blame the mine operators.

I brought up other industry to point out that, in fact, mining has not historically (since the 1968-69 beginning of MSHA) been a hazardous occupation. If something has not been shown to be hazardous, to me it makes a bit of sense to me to cut the oversight budget. However I can understand disagreement with that.

01-05-2006, 01:50 PM	#9
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	I did some looking around, and all I found was one cut in the 2003 budget - from 124 million to 117 million in the MSHA budget. In the same report, however, it said that violation citations went from 126000-132000. Those numbers seem pretty high....132000 mining violations in a year? Yikes. I have no argument with you that the mine in question had a poor safety record. So, I would blame the mine operators. I brought up other industry to point out that, in fact, mining has not historically (since the 1968-69 beginning of MSHA) been a hazardous occupation. If something has not been shown to be hazardous, to me it makes a bit of sense to me to cut the oversight budget. However I can understand disagreement with that.
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