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  • On January 2, a mine explosion in Sago, West Virginia, left twelve miners dead.

    Burning Up People to Make Electricity 2006

  • Not unlike the lightning strike that has been cited as the source of the explosion in Sago, the spontaneous combustion of volatile gases at Sunshine was in part the result of an unanticipated act of nature.

    Burning Up People to Make Electricity 2006

  • Not unlike the lightning strike that has been cited as the source of the explosion in Sago, the spontaneous combustion of volatile gases at Sunshine was in part the result of an unanticipated act of nature.

    Burning Up People to Make Electricity 2006

  • On January 2, a mine explosion in Sago, West Virginia, left twelve miners dead.

    Burning Up People to Make Electricity 2006

  • And, secondly, the saddest thing is that with this accident, we're seeing to be in a similar situation that we were in, in Sago, which is we don't have good data about the miners, because we're not in communication with the miners.

    CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2007 2007

  • LONG: It was a year ago today the nation focused on a small patch of rural West Virginia, the community of Tallmansville where an underground explosion led to what we now know as the Sago mine tragedy.

    CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007 2007

  • Regularly, he would call Sago into the den, very red in the face over some wholly imaginary provocation.

    Her Weight in Gold George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • Oh, and on an entirely different subject, I've been watching the news about this whole Utah mining incident with your "Sago" poem in the back of my mind ...

    FIGHT OR FLIGHT Maggie Jochild 2007

  • •Cutting over 100 inspectors at the Mine Safety and Health Administration and, as a result, hundreds of mines weren't inspected and tragedies such as Sago and Crandall Canyon might have been prevented.

    Mary Beth Maxwell: Elaine Chao's Absence of Accountability 2008

  • He found him seated at the door of his tent, enjoying a nice breeze of a fine summer's morning, and was welcomed by the old chief with kind manners and the word "Sago," meaning, "How do you do?"

    Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle

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