MINE TRAINER SENTENCED FOR MAKING FALSE STATEMENT

Friday, February 3, 2012
by Roger Epperson

A certified trainer who pleaded guilty to making a false statement to special investigators with the Mine Safety and Health Administration has been sentenced to six months in prison and three years of supervised release at U.S. District Court in Beckley. 57 year old Raymond Dawson pleaded guilty in May 2011, to telling special investigators that he had given the right amount of training to miners at Brooks Run's Cucumber Mine in McDowell County when, in fact, he had not. U.S. Attorney R. Booth Goodwin of the Southern District of West Virginia said that Keeping miners safe is and will continue to be a top priority of his office.