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A report by the Mine Safety and Health Administration finds the organization has failed to issue penalties for thousands of citations. Jesse Russell reports:

Data released by the Mine Safety and Health Administration has the federal agency taking a hard look at how it regulates. Since 2000, the organization has failed to follow up with penalties relating to thousands of health and safety citations. The agency found the startling discrepancy when it looked back on records concerning a Kentucky coal company. During a 2005 incident, a worker bled to death after he failed to receive first aid. The United States has faced a number of headline-grabbing mine tragedies in the past three years, including the death of 12 workers at the Sago Mine in West Virginia in 2006, and additional deaths at a mine collapse in Utah in 2007. During a January 10 speech, acting assistant Labor Secretary, Richard Stickler said the amount of penalties assessed in 2007 increased by more than 100 percent over 2006.