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Kim White
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A born care giver Kim White has
been in
the mental health field 10 years and worked 15 years in the health
and safety field.
Kim
is an all around good soul and stated in one of her correspondences,
"I am fascinated by the "human spirit".
I tend to "care", for some reason if I stand on the sidewalk,
strangers will come up to me and tell me their life story.....weird I
know. I love people and connecting with them. I love that my parents
taught me to care and that God gave me a gift that is not worth anything
if it can't be shared. I will go to the ends of this earth for those
I love.... Everything about me is on the outside, what you see is
what you get and I have no patience when it comes to bull sh*t! I
call a spade a spade and I am not afraid to say so."
Kim
Lost her nephew
Tyler Kahle, 19, (along with another young
man) in July at working for Alaska Mechanical Inc., contracted by NovaGold/ Alaska Gold
Co.Anchorage-based. Kim and her family have seen
firsthand the issues involved with a workplace death. Kim has
rang the same concerns many families have and supports the Family
Bill of Rights and the ground work of USMWF.ORG
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Two
die in mine accident near Nome
By
ELIZABETH BLUEMINK
ebluemink@adn.com
Published: July 20, 2007
Two
young ironworkers died Thursday night in an industrial accident at the
Rock Creek open-pit gold mine construction site near Nome, state troopers
said.
Craig
Bagley, 27, of Anchorage, and Tyler Kahle, 19, of Wisconsin, fell
about 50 feet to the ground when the lift basket they were working in
tipped over, troopers said.
The
men, contractors for Anchorage-based Alaska Mechanical Inc., the prime
contractor on the Rock Creek mine construction, were attaching siding to
the mill building when they fell, mine officials said.
They
survived the fall and were transported to a local hospital. Kahle was
pronounced dead at 7:49 p.m. and Bagley died at 9:09 p.m., troopers said.
The
accident happened at about 6:45 p.m., according to mine personnel. Workers
at the scene called 911 immediately, and Nome emergency workers arrived
quickly to provide medical attention, according to the personnel. Troopers
gave a different timeline, saying the accident happened at 6 p.m. and that
they were not notified until 6:55 p.m.
The
federal Mine Safety and Health Administration and mine owner NovaGold
Resources Inc. said they are investigating the accident.
NovaGold
and its Alaska subsidiary, Alaska Gold Co., are working to provide
counseling for crews and support for the men’s families, said Doug
Nicholson, general manager at the Rock Creek site.
The
deaths have “certainly affected crews on-site and senior management. ...
There’s a lot of concern from my management in Vancouver (British
Columbia),” Nicholson said.
The
men were working in a manlift, a piece of equipment that lifts workers in
a basket. They were attaching siding to the mill, Nicholson said.
The
manlift basket is attached to a mechanical arm that pivots, extends and
retracts, and sits on a four-wheel base. The manlift controls are inside
the basket where the men were working, troopers said.
“From
what I understand, all the proper safety precautions were taken,”
Nicholson said. The two men were roped off and wearing safety harnesses,
he said. Ten days ago, the mine construction site passed a federal
mine-safety inspection, he added.
AMI
declined to comment on the accident Friday afternoon.
This
summer, the Rock Creek mine survived a lawsuit by Nome residents who tried
to block its federal permit to use wetlands. Rock Creek will be a
relatively small mine after it opens this year, producing 100,000 ounces
of gold per year.
Before
Thursday, Alaska’s mining industry had two fatalities in the past 10
years, MSHA records show.
Last
year, a worker was killed by a falling boulder in an open pit at the big
Red Dog zinc and lead mine near Kotzebue.
In
1997, a bulldozer operator trainee died at the Fort Knox gold mine outside
Fairbanks when his bulldozer crashed down an embankment into a ice-covered
settling pond.
Twenty-five
people died in accidents at U.S. mines last year, not including coal
mines, where 47 died.
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