But as heroic rescue teams attempt to reach the missing miners, another potential disaster instigated by reckless Massey Energy regulatory violations and oversight looms above the very heads of these affected coal mining communities--and the pool of journalists and observers: Blasting within a football field of the nearby class "C" Brushy Fork impoundment, one of the largest and potentially weakest coal slurry impoundments in the nation, Massey Energy is engaging in a violation-ridden act of aggression against besieged coalfield residents. "Today Americans are witnessing the tragedy of Appalachia," says Bo Webb, a resident in Peachtree, West Virginia. "Coal barons such as Don Blankenship daily place their employees as well as entire communities at great risk in order to satisfy the profit of Fat Cat Wall street Investors."