Cold Comfort from a Coal Baron [1]
Submitted by Diane Farsetta [2] on
The PR firm Dix & Eaton [3] "is serving as 'media coordinator' for International Coal Group [4], the owner of the Sago Mine in West Virginia in which a dozen miners lost their lives," reports O'Dwyer's. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration had cited Sago Mine for 276 safety violations [5] in 2004 and 2005, "including 120 that were considered 'significant and substantial.'" ICG, which bought the mine in November 2005, "has established a $2 million fund for the families of the lost miners." ICG owner, New York billionaire Wilbur Ross, said he understands the families' trauma since "I lost my own father when I was a teen-ager." Dix & Eaton has worked for [6] Diebold [7], the International Steel Group [8] and Adelphia.