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Title Mine 21 / produced and directed by Stephen L. Garrett
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Privately Published, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (27 min.)
Summary On December 8, 1981, Mine 21, one of several underground coal-mines operated by Grundy Mining Company in the unincorporated area between Palmer and Whitwell, Tennessee, exploded and killed thirteen miners. While not on the same scale as the disasters in Fraterville (May 19, 1902, in which 216 miners were killed) or Cross Mountain (December 9, 1911, in which 84 died), Mine 21 was the worst mining disaster in Tennessee since the introduction of modern safety precautions. The Department of Labor would eventually rule that "a cigarette lighter taken into a coal mine in violation of Federal regulations touched off a methane explosion," but "accused the Grundy County Mining Company, the mine's operator, of failure to evacuate workers from a methane-laden shaft, to adequately ventilate the shaft, and to enforce a Federal regulation prohibiting smoking materials in a mine" (New York Times, May 5, 1982). The matter went all the way to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, chaired by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts)
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed February 12, 2021)
Credits Cinematography by Jafar Fallahi, Stephen L. Garrett ; edited by Stephen L. Garrett
Performer Featuring: Barbara Myers
Notes In English
Subject Mining corporations -- Tennessee -- Grundy County
Mine explosions -- Tennessee -- Grundy County
Coal mines and mining -- Tennessee -- Grundy County
Coal mine accidents -- Tennessee -- Grundy County
Coal mine accidents.
Coal mines and mining.
Mine explosions.
Mining corporations.
SUBJECT Grundy County (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century
Subject Tennessee -- Grundy County.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
History.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Garrett, Stephen L., director, producer, director of photography, editor of moving image work