

Reports later concluded that during the massive explosion, approximately 61 miners of the Massey Energy Company working underground had perished inside the mine. A deadening explosion had cleaved through the underground coalmine and unfortunately trapped an unidentified number of shift miners inside the mine. Seven of their fellow miners died instantly and two of them managed to come out alive, but badly injured. On this day, nine of the shift miners had just managed to come out of the cars and while walking towards the exit end of the mine, they heard a loud blast of air blow past them. The mining company used certain cars to ferry miners in and out of the mine entrance during the shift reshuffling. The morning shift miners were in the process of exchanging shifts with the afternoon shift miners at around 3.00 pm on the Monday of April 2010. The death incidence occurred at the Upper branch of the coalmine around Mont coal in the West Virginia district. The Massey Energy Company owned numerous mining companies across the United States. What principle of rights should businesses utilize? Case of death at the Massey Energy Company This essay aims to analyze these theories using the Massey Energy Company as an example. The issues of caring, virtue, rights, and justice in business ethics are important subjects to explore. As the need for mutual understanding between workers and companies intensifies, organizational discourse is currently revolving around ethical business principles that are paramount for organizational success in the modern day businesses.Ĭases of ethical lapses are still on the rise, and thus developing an understanding of the issues in the context of decent business practices is becoming essential.
