In the wake of 2006 's Sago Mine disaster , lawmakers in West Virginia and Ohio proposed legislation requiring mine workers to wear emergency tracking devices . Murray lobbied against the laws , calling them " extremely misguided . " He said that politicians were rushing to pass laws and thus " playing politics with the safety of my employees . " Murray said that rather than create " knee-jerk " state laws after the disaster , such as in the case of West Virginia , which passed the law in less than one day after it was proposed , the federal government should host a panel which would study the industry and make recommendations for safety measures
Sago Mine disaster
Sago Mine disaster
Robert E. Murray