West Virginia mining accident and reporting

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I heard it was 3 hours. I am so horrified by this story. There's no other way to make such a tragedy even more tragic.

That said, I agree with 'eagles, this was just a bad game of telephone. But perhaps they will now figure out a way to prevent this from ever happening again. I wouldn't be surprised if we came up with a disaster reporting protocol that became standardized. That wouldn't be a bad thing.