Chairman Miller Requests Information from Labor Department & Murray Energy on Crandall Canyon Mine

Monday, August 27, 2007

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, today sent requests for documents, communications, and other information from the U.S. Department of Labor and Murray Energy Corporation related to the operation and stewardship of the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah.

“Gathering this information is the first step in an investigative effort to learn what went wrong at the Crandall Canyon Mine and what we must do to prevent such tragedies in the future,” said Miller, whose committee has jurisdiction over worker safety issues. “The families of the miners, the public, and miners who still work underground every day deserve a full accounting of the events that led up to and followed the collapse at Crandall Canyon Mine.”

Miller announced last week that the Education and Labor Committee will convene a hearing into the mine collapse during the first week in October.

To read Miller’s letter to the Department of Labor, click here.

To read Miller’s letter to Murray Energy, click here.

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