Title: Witness at Hawks Nest
Description: Orville Orr, a company-paid deputy sheriff who rousts workers each morning, transports workers' corpses to a funeral home 20 miles away. When he learns that the deaths could have been prevented, he first attempts to get breathing protection for workers. That failing, he takes action to secure the first autopsy of a tunnel worker and build evidence of the company's responsibility for the fatalities.
Subjects: Silicosis, Fiction, Construction
Places: West Virginia, Gauley Bridge, Hawks Nest Tunnel (W. Va.), Hawks Nest Tunnel