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Report: Massey Bars Miners from Attending Victims’ Funerals

HeadlineApr 23, 2010

The Washington Independent, meanwhile, is reporting Massey Energy has prevented miners from attending their co-workers’ funerals since the explosion. Company officials reportedly also rejected plans for a makeshift memorial outside the mine site. And in at least one case, a relative of one of the victims was forced to go to work even though the fate of the victim was at that point still unknown.

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