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Massey agreed in January 2011 to be acquired by Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (ANR) for $7.1 billion. Ted Pile, an Alpha spokesman, said the company would look at the agency’s conclusion as part of a separate probe of the fatal blast: “We heard this information for the first time from MSHA at the same time everyone else did,” Pile said in an e-mail.
A West Virginia investigator said in a May 2011 report that Massey is to blame for the fatal explosion at the mine. MSHA plans to complete its own investigation in fall 20112012.<ref>Holly Rosenkrantz, [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-29/massey-faked-reports-ahead-of-2010-fatal-mine-blast-u-s-says.html "Massey Faked Reports Ahead of 2010 Fatal Mine Blast, U.S. Says"] Bloomberg, June 29, 2011.</ref>
==History of Safety Violations at the mine==