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Chiefs RB Jones urges kids to stay away from mines

Published Jul. 29, 2010 12:19 a.m. ET

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Chiefs running back Thomas Jones is helping children avoid the danger of venturing onto mine property.

Jones will be a spokesman for the U.S. Labor Department's Mine Safety and Health Administration in a program is called ''stay out-stay alive.'' His message is aimed at everyone, but primarily at children.

The agency says dozens of people are injured or killed every year in recreational accidents at active and abandoned mine sites.

It's a subject Jones knows well. Both his parents were coal miners and he grew up in the coalfields of southwestern Virginia.

He has recorded a series of audio and video public service announcements describing the hidden dangers of abandoned mines and quarries.

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