Job: Belt Man/Outby Man
Shift: Day
Johnny is a third-generation coal miner and was one of the first men hired at Cobalt Coal. For more than 30 years Johnny worked underground as a Mine Foreman, this is first year working above ground maintaining the conveyer belt, power supply and coal piles. A father of two, he’s encouraged his own children from working in the coal mines because of the effect it has had on his own health.