Another explosion rocks a coal mine. Five more men die. And the burning question is the same as it was in the Sago Mine disaster. Some of the six workers caught in Saturday's blast in an eastern Kentucky coal mine had survived the initial blast and put on their oxygen devices, but only one made it out alive, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said. And a brother of the survivor said he passed out a couple of times as he escaped because his "self-rescuer" wasn't working properly.
The details echo those of West Virginia's Jan. 2 Sago Mine explosion, the only survivor of which said he and some of his 12 doomed co-workers had to share their breathing apparatus because at least four of the packs didn't work.
The real question is do the owners and the politicians who they finance really care???
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