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The cage drops at 4:40 in the morning, and the chaplain is in it, packed shoulder to shoulder with the oncoming crew as the headframe lights disappear above. A jumbo operator on this level has not been right since the ground fall that killed his partner two winters ago. A young miner three weeks int...
Ride the cage down before the day shift, or drive the haul road into a surface pit at first light, and you will meet a workforce that carries its work home in ways few outsiders see: miners on rotating shifts in remote country, families who listen for sirens, and crews who have all lost someone to t...