Mr. Forbes, a former director of the Bureau of Mines has gone on record as saying that accidents are problems of human failure and that if the Bureau and industry are going to correct these accidents that they have to be attacked through the medium of correction within the human mind, and the human body, and the man has to be made to act safely.
W. Foster Mullins, Chief Mine Inspector for Virginia, quoted in his statement several ex-directors of the Bureau of Mines in opposition to any legislation. From the House Committee on Education and Labor hearing “Coal Mine Health and Safety”.
Tuesday, September 9, 1969
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