The Scotia widows
Subtitle: inside their lawsuit against big daddy coal
By: Gerald M. Stern.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9781400067640
Subjects: Blue Diamond Coal Company -- Trials, litigation, etc; Trials -- Kentucky -- Letcher County; Mine explosions -- Kentucky -- Letcher County
Description: On March 9, 1976, a violent explosion, fueled by high concentrations of methane gas and coal dust, ripped through the Scotia mine in the heart of Eastern Kentucky coal country. The blast killed fifteen miners who were working nearly three and a half miles underground; two days later, a second explosion took the lives of eleven rescue workers. For the miners' surviving family members, the loss of their husbands, fathers, and sons was only the beginning of their nightmare. In The Scotia Widows, the author recounts the epic four-year legal struggle waged by the widows in the aftermath of the disaster. Stern shares a story of loss, scandal, and perseverance and the plaintiffs' fight for justice against the titanic forces of "Big Daddy Coal."