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• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Deaths of the Sago miners - Brief article

On January 7th the Discovery Times channel featured a new documentary about the deaths of the Sago miners. Its description of what the miners and their families went through was heartbreaking. But it left me frustrated and even angry at the producers for their failure to look into what could have been done to prevent the disaster, or at least to save the miners after the explosion occurred. At one point we heard that miners frequently pounded on steel beams in the hope that the sound would carry to the surface, and there was a machine in nearby Pittsburgh that would have enabled those on the surface...