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Owns the mine insists safety always comes first. but experts say the paper trail tells a different story. hundreds of citations for safety violations, some of them repeated and serious, which should have raised red flags. at the upper big branch mine, citations for safety violations spiked in the past couple of years, from 197 in 2008 to # 15 in 2009 and 124 already this year. experts say some of the violations are serious, even flagrant. it involved areas critical to preventing explosions, ventilation, excessive dust, and methane gas. the man that once over saw safety laws said the violations...

Gaseous, that takes more ventilation, rock dusting. i assure you of this, however it happened and we can find out, we will not put our miners in danger any way we know about it. we just don't know. >> thank you. our thoughts and prayers are with the family. i must also thank the people of west virginia have been very kind to the press, taking care and feeding us. they are very good. >> i want to say this, they are asking for respect for their privacy, a family time for them. it's private. they are private people. if there is a time they want to talk they will. >> we understand. you heard the l...