Word: mayhugh
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...kinder light and is more comfortable returning. Observes Jim Lamont, Pennsylvania safety representative for the United Mine Workers of America: "I expected him to go back sooner than he did." One of the nine has suggested a deeper and more specific connection between Fogle and his bosses. Blaine Mayhugh reportedly told a U.S. Senate labor subcommittee that Fogle knew that managers of the mine were worried about its safety before the accident. Specifically, Mayhugh alleged last October that while he and Fogle were underground "on our deathbeds," Fogle said he had been told earlier by Black Wolf owner David Rebuck...
...least two of the nine doubt that Mayhugh got it right. Says miner Dennis Hall: "Some things Blaine said, I don't believe." Fogle, in his even-tempered way, suggests his comments in the cave were misreported: "It's changed a lot from what I did say." He had indeed spoken to management about leaving the area because of water, he says--not the millions of gallons in the abandoned mine but increasing amounts of groundwater. "I wanted to move off because it was slowing us down, and not really that it was a danger...
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