The SOGO Mine Disaster

The SOGO mine incident was an accident turned disaster due to poorly equipped miners and substandard infrastructure. The most widely accepted explanation of the explosion at SOGO involves a lightning strike, which has been verified by multiple weather-related organizations. If the explosion had been contained using concrete seals that could withstand 20 pounds of pressure per square inch as required by M Shul's rules, not a single person would have died. And for those violations, the operators were fined a total of $24,000.