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| Come and visit Coal County. |
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| This is not your ordinary tourist destination.
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In fact most people visit only in their nightmares.
It is a dangerous and troubled place, where coal miners work with heavy machinery in a shadowy underground realm, all too often going home in a box before the day is over.
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| Here you will find huge strip mining operations that are destroying ancient forests and majestic mountains, at the same time devastating with churning flood waters, the narrow river valleys where the miners live.
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| This is the story of Jake Barrett, whose family owned a mine until they were driven out by cut-throat competition with much larger national corporations. Jake is now an employee of the International Coal Company, Inc, where he works as face boss at the Seventh Heaven Mine, managing twenty-seven men and women miners whose lives depend on his skill, experience and judgment.
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