Once you open the door the companies will walk right through it. This will stop them looking for ways to make engineering improvements. Toward the end of the Salt Lake City hearing, Brad Pay, another miner from Trail Mountain with 19 years' experience, including 14 on the long wall, took the floor and expressed the concerns of many miners at the meeting. I am hear to tell you things that I have witnessed and seen. I have seen foremen tell miners to hold shear speeds down to limit the dust when MSHA inspectors were coming.
Conditions change from day to day.
During sampling periods, traffic was stopped and some areas were never sampled. Eight hours is a problem. We have still got two hours to go. Things change as soon as MSHA leaves. Don't make estimations and projections on my health.