I was up until 5am watching that whole mess unfold. Absolutely unexcuseable. The only solice was watching the newscaster, company execs and the govenor squirm afterwards.
The bigger issue is that this is just another example of how much (or how little) big business cares about it's employees (and it's consumers). Almost 300 violations in the last two years. 18 last year that were serious enough that the mine should have been shut down. The ONLY time big business cares about it's employees is when they are financial forced to do so.