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Safety inspectors could be liable for miners’ deaths 

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    • February 13, 2013

State law makes safety inspectors liable for deaths resulting from their negligent failure to ensure a mine’s compliance with federal safety standards, West Virginia’s highest court has ruled in answering a certified question from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Two miners died when an over-accumulation of combustible coal » […]

Original post by http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2013/02/13/safety-inspectors-could-be-liable-for-miners-deaths/

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