Debate over training for underground miners runs deep
Gregory Rothchild, after 17 years fixing cars, began a 40 hour federal training to become a miner and earned a 1000 dollar weekly job. The piece weighs the adequacy of such training amid recent mine disasters and a looming exodus of aging miners, with experts arguing for more hands on and longer courses, as states vary in requirements and training expands to high tech simulators.
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Galatia
Greg Rothchild
Illinois
West Virginia
Sago
Utah
Rothchild
Burtis
Boot camp trains miners in safety in simulated mine
In Ruff Creek Pennsylvania a nine week program by United Mine Workers of America Career Centers Inc trains would be miners with 360 hours of instruction. Students build a crib roof supports and practice ventilation water removal roof tests signaling and CPR. They visit three real mines and earn Penn State and federal certificates. The course is free but unpaid and offers no job guarantee.
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Clemmy Allen
United Mine Workers of America
Ruff Creek
Federal
Mine Safety and Health Administration
United Mine Workers of America Career Centers Inc
Pennsylvania
Allen
Penn State University
Larry Martelli
Overcrowded Cook County morgue holds bodies from 2006
Cook County's morgue at capacity with 258 bodies by late September 200? including 13 from 2006. 75 percent unclaimed, staff scramble to locate Rosalie Schultz whose body disappeared briefly this spring. Officials cite economy and staffing cuts as drains on emergency readiness.
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Chicago
Cook County
Nancy Jones
Rosalie Schultz
Schultz
Jones
Edmund Donoghue
Michael Boehmer
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Mining Technology and Training Center
Dan Nephin
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