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Updated: 10:11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 27, 2006 | Posted: 1:14 a.m. Monday, Feb. 27, 2006
JOHNSTOWN —
After 16 mining deaths in West Virginia, Senator Rick Santorum wants some safety changes.
While in Johnstown Saturday, Santorum said mine safety is very important to him, and one major problem is underground communication.
"One of the things that struck me the most was the lack of communication after an accident," he said.
"Usually what happens... the lines of communication are broken because there is a cave-in and all the communication is hard wire, just like above ground... so to date... there's no wireless system that works underground," said the Senator.
Santorum's father was a coal miner in Somerset County.
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