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Name: coal mining catalogs 1922
Format: pdf
Size: 132.37 MB

Title: Coal mining catalogs, including directory of manufacturers
Author: Gerald M. Stern
Language: polski
Year: 2011
Subjects: Current Affairs & Politics, Law, Business, Nature, History, Public Health & Safety, General & Miscellaneous Law, Industries, United States History, Legal History, Basic Materials Industries, Natural Disasters, United States History - General & Miscellaneous, United States History - Northeastern & Middle Atlantic Region, Emergency & Disaster Management Policies, Legal History - General & Miscellaneous, Mining Industries, Natural Disasters - Floods & Flooding, United States Law - General & Miscellaneous, West Virginia - State & Local History
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780307783844
Total pages: 1376

The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibility-written by the young lawyer who took on their case and won.

One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instead of accepting the small settlements offered by the coal company's insurance offices, a few hundred of the survivors banded together to sue.