[99 percent of mining accidents] are due absolutely to the carelessness or willful negligence of the men employed in them [sic].
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Industry publication Coal Trade Bulletin.
Such accidents are little short of deliberate suicide. No legislation can reach such cases as this.
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West Virginia’s chief mine inspector, James Paul. 1903.
It is but the natural course of mining events that men should be injured and killed by accidents.
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Republican Governor G. W. Atkinson (1896-1901.)
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