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As if things in WV weren't bad enough! It's where Massey Energy's flagrant safety violations at Upper Big Branch Mine killed 29 and injured in 2010--the worst coal mining disaster in 40 years; and where a "bomb train" carrying crude oil from N Dakota to Virginia derailed near Mount Carbon in Feb. 2015, causing fireballs and conflagrations on 19 rail cars, each w/some 30,000 gallons of crude, destroying one home, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of others, and causing a shutdown of two water treatment plants; and where in 1970 a Pittston Coal Company slurry impoundment dam in Logan County burst (days after it was declared 'satisfactory' by a federal mine inspector); and where the largest construction site disaster in U.S. history happened at Willow Island Power Station, where 51 workers were killed in 1978 because of faulty concrete, and where fracking is now tearing the state apart, w/more than 16,000 acres of damaged land since 2005 and 200+ lawsuits against frackers in '13 & '14.