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Thanks for stopping by to take a look! We hope that you will find some useful information as you browse this site. We welcome you as part of this informal group where we can communicate about what is going on in the industry regarding MSHA. Please feel free to leave your comments (but remember that MSHA does read this site too.) To contact us through the phone or email with your stories and concerns, call Cary or Kathy Matthews, at 541-536-1771 or 541-410-4673 (Cary's cell). Our fax number is 541-536-1772. You can email us at: lapineredimixinc@hotmail.com
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We encourage you to join up with your local aggregate association, because there is strength in numbers. If there is not one in your area yet, please consider forming one.
Take care, and remember to be in contact with your state officials to voice your concerns about MSHA. Our tax dollars pay for MSHA, which is under the Department of Labor. Our fine money goes into the general fund, and we cannot afford to keep paying out costly fines on the more and more frequent trivial citations to essentially support government spending. At least that is how I feel about it.
~ Kathy
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Thank You!
Wow, there is certainly a grassroots movement going on right now as we work together to hold MSHA responsible as a public agency to treating mine owners and operators with fairness and respect. (Not to mention the thousands of dollars in fines ... and in some cases, our very livelihoods.) I find this very exciting, how we are all working as individuals and as a group to get things done.
I want to thank everybody who sends me news and information to post on this site. You know who you are. I appreciate your help so much. If you have information that you feel is important to share, please let me know.
I also want to thank you readers, who take the time educate yourselves on the issues and then go out and do something about them. If you are not a member of your local aggregate association yet, please go and join it. There is obviously strength in numbers, and in this situation, your vote really does count. Be part of the solution and stand up and be heard!
I also want to thank the inspectors who are appalled about the change in MSHA, and who are trying to be fair to operators while also trying to keep their jobs. Keep up the good work. I know you are stuck in the middle.
~ Kathy
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