President Barack Obama on the West Virginia Mine Disaster at Massey Energy: “All Americans deserve to work in a place that is safe”
Josh Nelson
President Barack Obama on the West Virginia Mine Disaster at Massey
Energy: “All Americans deserve to work in a place that is safe”
April 10, 2010 by Ken Ward Jr.
This statement was just issued by the White House:
It is with a heavy heart that we learn the news that the last four
missing miners did not survive the explosion in the Upper Big Branch
mine.
My thoughts and prayers are with the families of all those who were
lost in this tragic accident, and my gratitude goes out to the rescue
teams who worked so tirelessly and heroically to search for the
missing.
This has been America’s worst mining disaster in forty years, and the
toll on all West Virginians has been immeasurable. We cannot bring
back the men we lost.
What we can do, in their memory, is thoroughly investigate this
tragedy and demand accountability. All Americans deserve to work in a
place that is safe, and we must take whatever steps are necessary to
ensure that all our miners are as safe as possible so that a disaster
like this doesn’t happen again.