Mine disasters - where's the public outrage?

I've been reading the latest about the miners who were killed in the Kentucky mine accident with great dismay. Not only does this come shortly after the Sago mine accident, but it involves the exact same model of breathing device. On the heels of Sago, the Kentucky legislature passed measures to beef up their mine safety - new regulations that would go into effect in July. Why the wait? Why not as soon as possible? And why is this story not getting as much attention as the Sago story? Could it be because the media didn't declare the miners alive before it found out they were dead? I'd say so. With Sago, the media thought they had a winner of a story that would probably be made into a movie. If the story of the miners "surviving" hadn't gotten out, I doubt that Sago would have received the publicity that it got. Weeks later I read about miners in Australia surviving for 2 weeks after a mine accident - and it turned out the breathing devices that they used helped to save their lives, while the devices which failed in both Sago and Kentucky led directly to the deaths of those miners. I'm not an expert on how mine safety differs between countries, but I'd bet that Australia's regulations are more rigid than the US'. And the US regulations are far better than those of China. Now you hear more about mine accidents, though since the media didn't have the "survival" angle on the Kentucky mine it's relegated to the back pages of the paper. Despite the widespread attention, the mining industry is trying to rollback safety procedures for mines, especially ones that have been instituted since Sago. Why? The conclusion I've come to is that sacrificing a given number of mine workers per year is an acceptable loss which is not worth the price of improving mine safety. It's not in their economic interest. Sad.