In I’m Proud to Be a Coal Miner’s Grandson, Iain Murray makes the case that coal mining isn’t that dangerous:
To hear Senators Byrd and Rockefeller speak, one would think that the coal mining industry in this country is one of the major sources of death in the US. They might be surprised to hear that, while 28 miners died in accidents on the job in 2004, so did 27 top executives.