Upper Big Branch Mine disaster
Danny Pettry on the coal mine explosion in his WV hometown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCTvvHun0CQ?rel=0&start=15

Danny Pettry of West Virginia discusses the coal mine explosion that happened in Montcoal, near his hometown of Beckley. He comments on the people who lost their lives and shares his hopes for those injured in the disaster. The Upper Big Branch Mine disaster on April 5, 2010 killed twenty-nine of the thirty-one miners who were on site that day.

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