Ben Hatfield
Ben Hatfield
The Sago Mine disaster was a coal mine explosion on January 2, 2006, at the Sago Mine in Sago, West Virginia, United States, near the Upshur County seat of Buckhannon. The blast and collapse trapped 13 miners for nearly two days; only one survived. It was the worst mining disaster in the United States since the Jim Walter Resources Mine Disaster in Alabama on September 23, 2001, and the worst disaster in West Virginia since the 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster...
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You have a group of people who have been on their feet for 30 to 40 hours trying to save lives. They were looking desperately for a good outcome. I don't think anyone knew how much damage was going to be created. I certainly regret that.
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No barricades or survivors were seen, but there was also no evidence of substantial explosion damage to the installed equipment that was in view.
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The families, much like the people working in the command center, are clinging to every hope.
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No survivors were spotted. It's possible they are barricaded in another area.
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They could be in another location or they could be barricaded somewhere.
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We are very discouraged by the results of this test.
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We all continue to push forward as hard as we can so long as there is hope.
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We will push forward as quickly as we can as long as there is a shred of hope that we can get our people out safely.
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We fully recognize the criticism that the company has received about the manner that the news was communicated to the families.
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We sincerely regret the manner under which events unfolded this morning. The events are a great tragedy.
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We sincerely regret the manner in which the events unfolded. We allowed the jubilation to go on longer than it should have.
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We sincerely regret the manner in which the events unfolded this morning. In the process of being cautious, we allowed the jubilation to go on longer than it should have.
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We sincerely regret the manner in which the events unfolded early this morning.
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Everyone was talking about it in the parking lots, in the kitchen and everywhere. People that got the information were sharing it because that was the hot rumor.