Who here heard about the minor's tragedy? (U.S. residents mainly concerned here). I believe it was just a slight miscommunication that could cause something like this....when contact was lost with the minors in...well, I already forgot the name of the state, but we were not slow to react...excavation to save them was undergo quickly. A transmission was recieved saying the team found all thirteen minors....a slight miscommunication. When it was recieved, Central control assumed they were alive. The Rumor spread like wildfire. it was great news to the populace...unfortunately, Central Control recieved another transmission...
this is where the miscommunication was. The minors had all been found, but only one had survived. In critical condition, he was rushed to medical aid, where he is still recovering. The tragedy's truth spread faster than the rumors of life, and many tears were shed. Though I did not personnaly know any of them, to die such a horrible fate is worth a prayer...I would request all you to the same, if you can take the time.


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um, i just figured i should say that its miners, not minors, minors are young people

and to make it worse, 2 weeks later in another mine the roof collapsed killing a miner...

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It was just a miscommunication that was taken to be true by people who need it to be true. The volunteers who were manning the command post called and said that all 13 had been found. The initial people who heard, took "found" for alive. The mining company didn't have the status when it was announced and only knew that some were alive which turned into 1. The company could have acted faster to help quell the exuberence but didn't know who was alive and who were dead and didn't want to make any hasty decisions before they could release the facts. But when the facts ended up comming slowly they still held the news back which was their biggest mistake. ANy way could be worse they could have been miners in China.....

"China's mines are by far the world's deadliest, with floods, fires, explosions and other mishaps killing more than 6 000 last year. The US mining industry for the same period had 28"

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Sorry for the misspellin! (DAMNIT! I always confuse the young ones for coal-diggers! Well, that is the story I heard.

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a week later, another miner was killed in a different mine, not the sago mine with the explosion, he was working doing something to help hold the ceiling up when a chunk came loose, it fell and crushed him, no one else was injured (if i sound like a news reporter, im not)

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I just can't believe someone said they where all alive then only one person comes out.

China mines are more dangerous, but so are China factories. With 1.3 billion people in China, life is not as precious as in Western Europe and USA. Not so different from USA of 150 years ago, in the early period of the industrial revolution in USA when many Chinese and Irish and other immigrant laborers were killed in building the railroads, and when the death of 10s of thousands of native Americans was cause for celebration rather than mourning.

China is not working from the same economic or social basis or assumptions as are more developed economies and countries, and the Chinese miners consider the risk acceptable given their alternative employment options and risks of other professions that they might consider.

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thats why ZoediacMk1 they say assumption is the mother of all *******-ups, remember never assume 'cause it makes an *** out of me and you.............. They should have had more control over the communications tent, they allowed un-supervised personnel into the area and that is how the rumor got started. I live about 30min from where it happened in West Virginia, I also live 15min from the Pennsylvania mine that the miners were rescued from, which is also not far from where Flt 93 came down on 9/11

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