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...reasons for going back into the mine pile up on top of one another like chunks of coal clunking into a hopper, none obviously bigger or more important than the next. In addition to the joy of battling Mother Nature, there's the money. The $150,000 may help him retire early, but meanwhile "I was off six months, and you have to have a job." He has no memory of the drowning dream described by his wife. Unlike most of the other eight miners, several of whom claim to be depressed and/or on Paxil, he says he sees...
...other abstainers were Mark Popernack and John Unger) filed a civil suit against Quecreek's operator, Black Wolf Coal Co., claiming that it should have known how close the water hazard next door was. Fogle opted out. The second divergence is his decision to go back into the mine. Some say the two are intimately connected...
...extending beyond the fact that he made $18 an hour to his men's $15. It suggests that he identifies with Black Wolf more fully than the others, sees his employers in a 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...
...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...
...novel labyrinths of movie offers and government inquiries. Annette enjoyed his unprecedented presence, enjoyed not having to worry about whether he would make it home. But before he even raised the issue again last November, she knew what was coming. "It was just the way he talked about the mine. He loves his job," she says. Randy knew his children didn't approve--his 11th-grade daughter Brittany fainted dead away when she first learned he was trapped, and she has difficulty talking about it to this day. His sons, both older, expressed their opposition, but, he says, "I think...