Joe Main Quotations

Work was in progress to implement some of these protections.

It appears that MSHA is trying to catch up with the state legislative activity on a number of these issues.

The government too narrowly focuses the investigation on the incident without looking at the big picture.

Study all you want. That's good. That's healthy, but don't preclude action with study.

That's normally issued to mine operators that basically thumb their nose to the law, these unwarrantable failure violations.

Even with that, that's not enough air to get those miners out of these circumstances which we all know now they find themselves in.

I'm a believer that we do not have enough air on these miners to get them safely out of harm's way. That's what the government should be guaranteeing.

All those issues, those were moving toward a regulatory conclusion. We think that was the wrong thing to do.