(80 page) Report rips mine regulators for disaster (Crandall Canyon mine, where nine people died )

Source: Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY

A U.S. Labor Department watchdog says federal regulators failed to protect workers at Utah's Crandall Canyon mine, where nine people died last summer.

The department's inspector general blames mining regulators for negligence in approving a roof-control plan for the mine. Six miners died in a collapse Aug. 6, and another cave-in killed three people who were trying to reach the trapped men.

The 80-page report Monday from Inspector General Gordon Heddell says the Mine Safety and Health Administration could not show it made the right decision when it approved risky retreat mining at Crandall Canyon.

MSHA disputes the claim that it was negligent and unduly influenced by the mine operator, Ohio-based Murray Energy Corp.


Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8VOIA1G0.htm

We all know what happened there, and we all know WHY it happened.

The real question is: what are we gonna do about it?

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