Buffalo Creek W Va Diaster 1972

Author : Gerald M. Stern
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307388490

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The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald M. Stern Pdf

The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibility—written by the young lawyer who took on their case and won. One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instead of accepting the small settlements offered by the coal company's insurance offices, a few hundred of the survivors banded together to sue.

Author : William Edward Davies,James F. Bailey,Donovan Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Dam failures
ISBN : UCR:31210020730576

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West Virginia's Buffalo Creek Flood by William Edward Davies,James F. Bailey,Donovan Kelly Pdf

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Buffalo Creek (W. Va.)
ISBN : UCR:31210025009612

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Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) Disaster, 1972 by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Pdf

Author : Gerald M. Stern
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307783844

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The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald M. Stern Pdf

One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instead of accepting the small settlements offered by the coal company's insurance offices, a few hundred of the survivors banded together to sue. This is the story of their triumph over incredible odds and corporate irresponsibility, as told by Gerald M. Stern, who as a young lawyer and took on the case and won.

Author : Kai T. Erikson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781439127315

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Everything In Its Path by Kai T. Erikson Pdf

The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood. On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no concern for former neighborhoods. The result was a collective trauma that lasted longer than the individual traumas caused by the original disaster. Making extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life in general—the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation—and examines the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, rise in crime, rise in out-migration, etc., that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2717 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Floods
ISBN : LCCN:72603353

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Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) Disaster, 1972: May 30 and 31, 1972, Appendix A by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Buffalo Creek (Logan County, W. Va.)
ISBN : LOC:00019228289

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Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) Disaster, 1972 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor Pdf

Author : Goldine C. Gleser,Bonnie L. Green,Carolyn Winget
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483265704

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Prolonged Psychosocial Effects of Disaster by Goldine C. Gleser,Bonnie L. Green,Carolyn Winget Pdf

Prolonged Psychosocial Effects of Disaster: A Study of Buffalo Creek disseminates the findings of an investigation into the psychosocial effects of a specific disaster - the collapse of a slag dam that inundated the valley of Buffalo Creek in West Virginia on February 26, 1972. Based on interviews with more than 600 men, women, and children for whom psychic impairment was claimed, this volume examines the relationships between the individual disaster experiences of the survivors and their later psychological functioning. Comprised of nine chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the psychosocial consequences of disasters and an account of the Buffalo Creek disaster itself, along with the subsequent lawsuit against the coal company. The next chapter explains how the psychopathology and stress of the survivors were scaled and gives some information regarding the reliability and validity of the data. Symptoms, sleep problems, family disruption, and traumatic dreams are considered. The findings on these data and the follow-up studies are discussed. The final chapter contains a summary of the findings and proposes specific suggestions as well as a model for future disaster studies. This book will be of most practical importance to mental health scientists and clinicians working with the victims of stress and disaster, and should also be of considerable interest to social and behavioral scientists and, more generally, to administrators of government activities.

Author : Tom Nugent
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0393332217

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Death at Buffalo Creek by Tom Nugent Pdf

Author : Tom Nugent
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Buffalo Creek (W. Va.)
ISBN : 0393054829

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Death at Buffalo Creek by Tom Nugent Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1410 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119550718

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Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) Diaster, 1972 by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare Pdf

Author : J. Dennis Deitz,Carlene Mowery
Publisher : Mountain Memories Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Buffalo Creek (Logan County, W. Va.)
ISBN : 0938985108

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Buffalo Creek by J. Dennis Deitz,Carlene Mowery Pdf

Author : Ann Pancake
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781582439914

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Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake Pdf

A West Virginia family struggles amid the booms and busts of the Appalachian coal industry in this “powerful, sure-footed, and haunting” novel with echoes of John Steinbeck (New York Times Book Review). Set in present day West Virginia, this debut novel tells the story of a coal mining family—a couple and their four children—living through the latest mining boom and dealing with the mountaintop removal and strip mining that is ruining what is left of their hometown. As the mine turns the mountains “to slag and wastewater,” workers struggle with layoffs and children find adventure in the blasted moonscape craters. Strange as This Weather Has Been follows several members of the family, with a particular focus on fifteen–year–old Bant and her mother, Lace. Working at a motel, Bant becomes involved with a young miner while her mother contemplates joining the fight against the mining companies. As domestic conflicts escalate at home, the children are pushed more and more frequently outside among junk from the floods and felled trees in the hollows—the only nature they have ever known. But Bant has other memories and is as curious and strong–willed as her mother, and ultimately comes to discover the very real threat of destruction that looms as much in the landscape as it does at home.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00185821638

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BUFFALO CREEK (W. VA.) DISASTER, 1972 by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Braithwaite
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791497371

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To Punish or Persuade by John Braithwaite Pdf

In To Punish or Persuade, John Braithwaite declares that coal mine disasters are usually the result of corporate crime. He surveys 39 coal mine disasters from around the world, including 19 in the United States since 1960, and concludes that mine fatalities are usually not caused by human error or the unstoppable forces of nature. He shows that a combination of punitive and educative measures taken against offenders can have substantial effects in reducing injuries to miners. Braithwaite not only develops a model for determining the optimal mix of punishment and persuasion to maximize mine safety, but provides regulatory agencies in general with a model for mixing the two strategies to ensure compliance with the law. To Punish or Persuade looks at coal mine safety in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, France, Belgium, and Japan. It examines closely the five American coal mining companies with the best safety performance in the industry: U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Consolidation Coal Company, Island Creek Coal Company, and Old Ben Coal Company. It also takes a look at the safety record of unionized versus non-unionized mines and how safety regulation enforcement impacts productivity.