Death Toll From Sago Mine Disaster Rises as 2 Workers Shoot Themselves

Ricky Bagolie

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Deaths raise fears about emotional toll from disaster as workers forced to lie to investigators regarding their safety training. their testimony produced a broader probe of the Sago Mine management training pracitces according to The Charleston Gazette

McAteer said Sago would not be the first time that survivors of major mining accidents claimed their own lives.
Most recently, a Pennsylvania surveyor killed himself about a year after he helped to rescue nine miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine near Somerset, Pa., news articles said.