COAL, RETREAT MINING: organized crime, industrial homicide, or Russian roulette?

Quote of the day, on "retreat mining" - responsible for two miners' deaths at a Patriot mine in W Va.:

“It’s Russian roulette,” said mine safety expert Davitt McAteer, who ran MSHA during the Clinton administration. “It should be abolished.”

From Ken Ward, http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20140517/GZ01/140519359/1419