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Forever, i think they would have if thereave. are problems and shortages, then either some schools are closing in those districts or those districts are taking a pass. >> it's not a matter of we don't want to be there is c that wean can't stay there testing mass vaccinations, proper ventilation, our schools ,most of them don't have thoseve basic things waiting for that ventilation plan to gon back to work over a weekend we were in florida and then other parts which we'll talk about later.hers but mothers, fathers, they were coming up to, us saying t never stop fighting for us , please. it's al...

So high. and the man hours were not that much difference that the employees worked so there is a question there as to the interest and the attention that that operator is paying to safety. >> and so when you look at them, some of them are minor infractions, but other citations are for more serious offenses, vept la ventilation issues, anything that jumped out at you that when you look at that, you see a ticking bomb? >> well, what grabs my attention very quickly is that over the past couple of years he's had 15 citations on his ventilation and six of them were in the last three months. now, so...

York. ellen, are all violation created equally? >> absolutely not. i mean, that's the whole problem. it's not a problem about the mine act, but it's the way the mine act was written. you could get a violation for having a lid off of a garbage can or for a maintenance worker leaving rags around a piece of equipment and you can get a citation of violation for not adhering to the ventilation plan. that goes into a big pot so you have to sort out the individual violations. >> why is it done that way? that doesn't make a lot of sense. >> sure, it does. you get a ticket for spooet speeding and a tic...

Producers or extractors in central appalachian but there's a history of problems with this country, specifically with this mine. >> that's true. there have been problems with the tricky part, assessing the roles played by poor safety compliance and poor enforce. massey claims the accident rate last year fell to a all-time low and the safety record was stronger than the industry average but this mine has seen three previous fatalities since 1995, all isolated cases. at the same time the company was cited for 3,000 violation, 614 in the last two years. the federal mining safety and health admini...

Us now. we heard norah talking a little bit about this issue of this sounds like a fairly poor safety track record, is it not? >> spotty to be diplomatic. you know, massey energy's safety record and also, chuck, remember the s the sago mine disaster and reforms? they frankly haven't been implemented. massey, federal inspectors fined them more than $382,000 in the last year for repeated violations involving the ventilation plan and equipment at the mine where the latest tragedies occurred. it's the second time coal miners have died at a massey-owned virginia facility in the last four years. you...