Tawni O'Dell Quotes

I don't want to ever minimize the danger of working in a mine.

Many mines in the world are unsafe. They are dangerous as hell.

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.

Every single Federal mine safety initiative has been written with the blood of miners.

Of all the federal agencies created by Congress, one of the true success stories is the 'Mine Safety and Health Administration', which grew out of a bipartisan effort in 1977.

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.

Ask the widows and orphans of the thousands of men killed annually through the avarice of railroad corporations refusing to avail themselves of modern appliances in coupling and other improvements on their railroads. Inquire from the thousands of women and children whose husbands or fathers were suffocated or crushed in the mines through the rapacious greed of stockholders clamoring for more dividends.

I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.

In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.

OSHA had come in and looked at the channel 5 studios and it sort of had something to do with wrestling, but they found that there were some safety concerns that had to be addressed.

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then.

Eventing is way too dangerous. People get killed every year doing cross-country.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.