[Old School]

Over the past few months ive seen MSHA guys come out and do nothing but come out and downright abuse some coal companies.

I seen em fine a company $1000 yesterday because they didnt have a no smoking sign on there CLEAR GLASS building that had acetelyne torches in it. After the owner told him he would go get one not knowing that rule (theres 5,000 different rules on each thing) had to be enforced since he had it through a clear gas storage unit.
Instead of letting the guy put one on it and help him out, he fined him.
This is what pisses me off. They should be there to help. It wouldnt have taken 30 seconds for him to do that, he had the sign, but that guy was a jerk.
He tried getting me one day and i flew off on him. He has no bearings over me, i have my card, and when im not employed by the company he cant say a thing. It pisses him off everytime he sees me.

I seen this everyday for the past three or four years. We once had an inspector right us a violation, we fixed the problem he abated the violation and the next day another inspector didn't like it that way, so he wrote another violation after the previous inspector said it was ok.