"Mine where 2 died was cited over roof support; Stability problems hamper Ky. search" by Associated Press | April 30, 2010
PROVIDENCE, Ky. — The underground coal mine where two workers were killed in a roof collapse has been cited at least six times this year for using too few supporting bolts in the roof, state records show.
The rock fall that killed the men happened late Wednesday about 4 miles inside the Dotiki Mine, and instability in the roof hampered rescue efforts, mining officials said yesterday.
Rescuers were “within an arm’s length’’ of the body of a miner trapped under rock when the roof became unstable and they had to retreat, said Governor Steve Beshear.
At least six times since January, state inspectors ordered portions of the mine closed because roof bolts were too far apart, according to written citations obtained from the Office of Mine Safety and Licensing through an open records request.... In all, state inspectors have issued 31 orders to close sections of the mine or to shut down equipment because of safety violations since January 2009. Those records also show an additional 44 citations for safety violations that didn’t result in closure orders.
US Mine Safety and Health Administration records show the mine was cited 840 times by federal inspectors for safety violations since January 2009, and closure orders were issued 11 times. The records show 214 of the citations were issued in the first four months of this year, and inspectors issued closure orders twice this year.
Why even bother with all this bulls***, government?
You give the illegals a ride to work and cite coal companies for show.
Americans, YOUR GOVERNMENT is a FAILURE!
So which campaigns did they fund?
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No canaries guarding the coal mines of AmeriKa, huh?
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Nothing ever changes when you need energy.
Well, now that the lid is off....
"Ex-Mass. man makes brazen escape from Ky. prison van" by Shelley Murphy and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff | April 16, 2010
A former Beverly man convicted of playing a role in the grisly gangland murder of a young Medford woman in 1996 escaped from federal custody yesterday by kicking out the door of a transport van in central Kentucky.
“He is a bad guy and hopefully he’ll be caught quick,’’ said Deputy US Marshal Frank Dawson, a spokesman for the agency’s Boston office.
“He is extremely dangerous.’’
Authorities in Kentucky have launched a multidepartment manhunt, said Pat Melton, a spokesman for the Versailles, Ky., Police Department.
Melton said Capozzi was being taken to Lexington, Ky., yesterday to be flown to a federal facility out of state....
Capozzi, 37, was slated to remain in prison until 2046....
We need the space.
Out with the old scum, in with the.... aaaaah, just lop away.
God is backed up like me, so who cares?
Most of 'em will be rejected and sent down anyway (yours truly included, and not only for being a Catholic; I want to feast on some war criminal flesh in the afterlife).
Aislin Silva, 19, of Medford, was killed by a Mafia-connected gang of drug dealers and thieves who feared she might cooperate with authorities. Witnesses testified that Capozzi helped to hack her body into small pieces and bury them after a fellow mobster strangled her....
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Must have been a different mob.
And THEY GOT HIM, readers!
"Fugitive captured in Ky." by John M. Guilfoil and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff | April 18, 2010
A violent fugitive formerly of Beverly was captured in Versailles, Ky., two days after escaping from a prisoner transport van nearby, federal authorities said last night. Derek A. Capozzi was captured without incident at about 5:45 p.m. yesterday....
Find him in Georgia, did they?
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"Family relieved after fugitive’s capture; Back in prison for Mass. slaying" by Lisa Kocian, Globe Staff | April 19, 2010
The mother of a Medford teen brutally slain 14 years ago said a prayer to her daughter Saturday, which would have been her 33d birthday, urging her to help find the man convicted in connection with her murder.
And on Saturday, Kentucky authorities apprehended Derek A. Capozzi, 37....
How Capozzi got out of those restraints and whether he had any help are now part of a federal investigation, Officer Pat Melton, spokesman for the Versailles Police Department, said.
The Versailles man who spotted Capozzi and led authorities to him said he and his brother-in-law went out to search for the fugitive on a whim, thinking there might be a reward.
“We said, ‘Let’s grab a bat and we’ll go look for him,’’’ recalled Phillip Bryant in a phone interview yesterday.
Bryant said the two were at a birthday party Saturday when he heard that Capozzi had been spotted near his workplace, a stair manufacturing company.
They drove there and parked in a vacant lot next door. The lot abuts a field where he takes his children four-wheeling, Bryant said.
“I walked up there looking for the guy, but I didn’t really think I’d see him,’’ said Bryant. “I looked over and he raised up out of the brush. I acted like I didn’t see him.
“I walked out of the brush pile real slow. I thought I might be hallucinating.’’
Capozzi was lying on the ground, several feet from a train track.
“I guess he was waiting on a train, but the trains don’t ever come down that track, so he was out of luck,’’ said Bryant.
Bryant called 911 and he and his brother-in-law waited, baseball bat in hand, as police arrived and arrested Capozzi without incident, at about 5:45 p.m., Saturday.
“He seemed like he was ready to give up,’’ said Bryant....
Then why did he escape?
Gave up 'cuz he was hungry, didn't he?
Just don't call it in to headquarters on the way to the station house, huh?
"Cellphone use cited in crash that killed 11" by Associated Press | May 7, 2010
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An Alabama truck driver was on his cellphone leading up to a crash that killed him and 10 other people in Kentucky in March, State Police said.
The 28-page report also says Kenneth Laymon of Jasper, Ala., was driving in excess of the 70 mile-per-hour speed limit and did not have his tractor-trailer under control when he crossed the median on March 26 and struck a van carrying Mennonites to a wedding in Iowa....
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The report cites cellphone use and distraction on Laymon’s part as “human factors’’ related to the wreck. A spokesman for the State Police declined to say who Laymon was on the phone with or whether he was on the phone at the moment of the crash.
Of course, he's a convenient scapegoat regardless of the truth since he's dead.
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I'm not saying the government is lying here; all I'm saying is their investigations always seem to absolve police, find human error or some other outrageous reason for events so no corporation suffers lawsuits, or blame some lone patsy.
Just a thought, folks.
