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<title>Sago families look to Obama</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Peggy Cohens youngest son, Hunter, was only 2 years old when the Sago Mine blew up. Today, he still blows kisses whenever the family goes by his grandfathers grave.Cohens father, Fred Ware, was among the 12 miners killed in the Sag...]]></description>
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<title>MSHA finalizes belt-air, refuge chamber rules</title>
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<title>A first: MSHA completes required inspections</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - For the first time ever, mine safety authorities have completed all of the quarterly inspections of underground coal mines that are required by a nearly 40-year-old federal law.The U.S. Department of Labor praised the &quot;unpreced...]]></description>
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<title>Another review, another list of MSHA enforcement lapses</title>
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<title>Sago 2 years later: Safety efforts lag</title>
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<title>MSHA behind on Southern West Virginia mine inspections</title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators are behind schedule this year to complete required quarterly <strong>inspections</strong> at more than 60 percent of Southern West Virginias underground coal mines, government records show.U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration manag...]]></description>
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<title>Disaster avoidable, Sago investigators find</title>
<description><![CDATA[BUCKHANNON — Stronger seals, proper methane monitoring and the removal of a pump cable from a sealed area underground could have prevented the Sago Mine disaster, according to a long-awaited report issued Wednesday by federal investigators.U.S. Mine Safet...]]></description>
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<title>Sago Mine shut down</title>
<description><![CDATA[International Coal Group confirmed Wednesday that it has idled its Sago Mine, the Upshur County operation where 12 workers died last year in West Virginia’s worst mining disaster since 1968.In a prepared statement, ICG blamed Monday’s shutdown on high pro...]]></description>
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<title>Blast blamed on roof friction</title>
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<title>ICG orders shelters for mines</title>
<description><![CDATA[The owner of the Sago Mine said Wednesday it was ordering emergency shelters to protect miners at all of its underground coal operations.International Coal Group announced the move about a month before plans for installing the shelters are due to be filed...]]></description>
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<title>Feds find hundreds of unsafe mine seals</title>
<description><![CDATA[BEAVER — Hundreds of unsafe seals have been discovered in underground coal mines across the country, federal mine safety regulators said last week.U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration inspectors cited operators for seals with integrity problems, im...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[BEAVER — Federal regulators and the coal industry are struggling to come up with a new rule to strengthen underground mine seals.Under a new federal law, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has until Dec. 15 to finalize the rule.MSHA officia...]]></description>
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<title>Manchin says mine communication moving along</title>
<description><![CDATA[Gov. Joe Manchin on Monday praised efforts to improve communications deep inside West Virginia’s underground coal mines.“They’re trying everything possible,” Manchin said, after a tour of a Northern Panhandle mine that is testing new communications gear. ...]]></description>
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<title>Safety bill revision limits coal mine closures</title>
<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers have amended Gov. Joe Manchin’s mine safety bill to severely limit the types of repeat violations that can prompt inspectors to temporarily close West Virginia coal mines.The legislation (SB68) was changed to allow regulators to consider only “...]]></description>
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<title>Lightning and seals no new problem</title>
<description><![CDATA[ADGER, ALA. -- At about 8:15 p.m. on July 9, 1997, miner Robert Acklin felt a blast of air as he stood at the bottom of the elevator shaft inside U.S. Steel Mining’s Oak Grove Mine.Deep beneath the rolling hills just south of Birmingham, Ala., Acklin smel...]]></description>
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<title>MSHA forms panel to study underground mine ‘belt air’</title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal mine safety officials on Thursday announced the formation of a panel to study the use of conveyor belt tunnels to bring fresh air into underground coal mines.The panel, formed by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, also will examine th...]]></description>
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<title>Mine disaster causes often remain a mystery</title>
<description><![CDATA[On March 9, 1976, an explosion ripped through the Scotia Mine in Letcher County, Ky. All 15 miners who were underground at the time were killed.Two days later, a second explosion roared through the Scotia Mine. Eleven more men, including three federal ins...]]></description>
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<title>Beyond Sago: Coal dust most common violation</title>
<description><![CDATA[BROOKWOOD, Ala. — On a September afternoon in 2001, 32 miners repaired drilling machines and hoisted tunnel supports into place at the Jim Walter Resources No. 5 Mine. The mine is North America’s deepest, tracking the 6-foot-high Blue Creek seam almost a h...]]></description>
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<title>Beyond Sago: ‘This is what it’s like to die’</title>
<description><![CDATA[TWILIGHT — At about 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 17, 2003, Rodney Sheets and four coworkers piled into a van in the parking lot of Progress Coal’s Twilight MTR Surface Mine in Boone County.Daylight was still more than an hour and a half away. The workers needed to ...]]></description>
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<title>Bad truck brakes helped cause 14 deaths in decade</title>
<description><![CDATA[<B>To access the Beyond Sago series, go to <A HREF="http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Series/Beyond+Sago">http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Series/Beyond+Sago</A></B>HAZARD, Ky. — It was not quite 10 a.m. yet on April 4, 2003. Truck driver James G. William...]]></description>
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<title>Near-miss coal mine accidents on the rise</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the two decades before the Sago Mine disaster, the rate of major coal-mine accidents more than doubled, according to new research by a West Virginia University mining engineer.“This growing problem is largely unrecognized,” Danrick W. Alexander, a min...]]></description>
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<title>Beyond Sago: One by One</title>
<description><![CDATA[CUMBERLAND, Ky. — At about 10:40 a.m. Dec. 30, 2005, in a tunnel inside H&D Mining’s Mine No. 3 in Harlan County, Ky., Bud Morris was standing next to his coal car, dumping a load into a feeder bin.Another miner, Donald Eural Allen, drove his car toward t...]]></description>
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Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>How we did this story</title>
<description><![CDATA[When an explosion ripped through the Sago Mine on Jan. 2, killing 12 workers, coal mine safety again became a national issue.The Sunday Gazette-Mail wanted to take a broader look, to examine the daily dangers faced by the 79,000 coal miners who help provi...]]></description>
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