THE SAGO MINE DISASTER
Episode 201 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the Sago Mine explosion of January 2nd, 2006 — a disaster that killed twelve miners in West Virginia and exposed catastrophic failures in mine safety oversight. The Sago Mine had accumulated 208 safety violations in the year before the blast. Emergency oxygen rescuers failed underground. And when rescuers finally reached the trapped men, a garbled communication sent the wrong message to the surface — triggering three hours of celebration in the Sago Baptist Church before families were told the truth.
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