Massey's canaries.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine - Brief article

"We'd be marked men" if we complained about safety problems, a miner at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine recently told a congressional committee. He describes a fear that haunts many miners: blowing the whistle could cost a man his job, and with it the ability to support his family.

Still several miners and family members found the courage to tell the committee, in the words of the...