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Last year saw the fewest U.S. mining deaths since such data was recorded, but events so far this year suggest that 2016 will not be such a safe one for coal miners.
“In just the first three weeks of 2016, and after the safest year in mining history, the coal industry has experienced three fatalities in three separate mining accidents, the highest number of coal accidents to occur in the same time period since January 2006,” said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health Joseph A. Main
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