The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought S Uit Against the Coal Company--And Won by Gerald M. Stern

Author:Gerald M. Stern [Stern, Gerald M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Law, Legal History
ISBN: 9780307783844
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

So, Pittston knew the company it was buying was not complying with federal safety standards and did not know how to comply. That’s one of the reasons Pittston was able to buy it out But after Pittston took over, it did not use its “staff” and “know-how” to bring the Buffalo Mining Company into compliance with the safety standards of the federal act Indeed, despite Pittston’s knowledge that the Buffalo Mining Company itself could not afford to bring its operations into compliance, Mr. Spotte admitted that he knew of not one single penny Pittston had made available to the Buffalo Mining Company in the two years it had owned it to enable it to make its operations comply with federal safety standards.

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