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Article: Firm faces charges over mine deaths.(Business)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
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- October 15, 2009
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UK Coal and two managers at the group's last remaining West Midlands colliery are to be prosecuted following three deaths at the flagship mine in just eight months.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced it is to prosecute UK Coal Mining Ltd and two of its managers for alleged health and safety breaches.
Three men died underground in separate incidents at Daw Mill Colliery, near Coventry, between June 2006 and January 2007.
The HSE is also taking court action after a fourth man died at Welbeck colliery, Meden Vale, near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in November 2007. In June 2006, Trevor ...