When last we checked in with former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, he was assuring America and the world that he always put safety first, after the deaths of those 29 men in that southern West Virginia mine. Since then he’s been doing a lot of bellyaching about the federal investigation into same, and then he retired. Via HuffPo, I see that a site called footnoted.com has dug into some Massey records and found : As a result of the tragedy at UBB, [federal mine-safety regulators] significantly increased regulatory enforcement in our mines.