Governor Dwight Green appointed both Robert Medill and DriscollScanlan in the same year. Scanlan was recommended to Green by his state representative. There were several reports from Scanlan that the Centralia Mine No. 5 as highly explosive. (US. Mine Rescue Association, 2012). The reason the mine was highly explosive is because of the coal dust buildup. Two year before the occurrence of the explosion, Frank Perez who was a mine inspector from the U.S. Bureauof Mines, conducted a federal inspection of Centralia Mine. (U.S. Mine Rescue Association, 2012) Perez and Scalan reports of the Centralia mine were very