Miners Quotations | Page 2

Some of the Sago miners requested that the United Mine Workers be their representatives for the purposes of this investigation, and they have a right to be there. Together, the state and MSHA made a commitment to the families that we would conduct a fair, open investigation, and we decided we needed to take this extraordinary step to keep that commitment.

Some of the miners are calling the coal a black Band-Aid. The healing process begins today.

I think we all care just as much about our coal miners as we do our deer and turkey.

We had some extraordinary people here back in those days. Those miners were rough and tough, but they had hearts of gold, too.

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

It appears right now that the two miners were trying to make a valiant effort. They were together trying to get outside, and they encountered pretty high temperatures and high levels.

We don't know whether some of the miners got washed away. Flooding underground creates a lot of pressure. God only knows who's alive down there.

We don't know the exact conditions. We don't know what obstructions the miners encountered coming back in the other direction.

There was some type of explosion either heard or felt by the miners attempting to go in the mine for a shift change. They then backtracked out of the mine.

The twelve miners have been located and are being moved to the surface and their condition is being assessed while they are being moved.