Pennsylvania Drilling Firm Celebrates Its Role in Chilean Mine Rescue

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Pennsylvania Drilling Firm Celebrates Its Role in Chilean Mine Rescue
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Pittsburgh (AP) - Proud employees of a small drilling company too remote to have cable television found themselves Wednesday at the center of the world's biggest news story -- but they still had to get the day's work done.

As rescuers brought 33 Chilean miners one by one in a metal capsule through a 2,000-foot hole bored by drill bits made by Center Rock Inc. of Berlin, Pa., workers in the small southwestern Pennsylvania community occasionally paused their daily routines to follow computer news feeds. Lunch was brought in to help them celebrate.

But machines still needed to be oiled, floors still needed to be swept -- and somebody still had to answer the phones, which were ringing off the hook.

"We still have customers who still need products today, so we're working and we're celebrating," inside sales manager Becky Dorcon told The Associated Press.