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Families seek justice in Farmington mine disaster suit
The families of 78 miners killed in the 1968 Farmington No 9 mine explosion in West Virginia plan to ask the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate a 2014 wrongful-death lawsuit against Consolidation Coal. They claim the firm concealed evidence and that the statute of limitations should be extended. The case notes failed alarms and disabled fan controls, the 1970 memo, and later ownership shifts to Murray Energy. The tragedy prompted stronger federal mine safety laws.
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Richmond
Farmington No. 3
West Virginia
Circuit Court of Appeals
James Matish
Frank
Matish
Llewellyn
Mountaineer Coal Co
Farmington
W.va
Farmington No. 9
Timothy Bailey
Bailey
Congress
Mike Michael
Jay
Mike