Paula Walker, BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill survivor, talks about how she survived the explosions at the oil rig. Paula made it to a lifeboat right before the explosion. Her first person account reveals that the disaster has left her with post-traumatic stress disorder as she struggles to live a normal life. The Deepwater Horizon was a 9-year-old semi-submersible, mobile, floating, dynamically positioned drilling rig that could operate in waters up to 10,000 feet deep. On April 22, an oil leak was discovered when a large oil slick began to spread at the former rig site. The leak lasted 87 days.

Family members of the miners killed in the Sago Mine disaster share their thoughts on the failure to rescue their loved ones and describe their hopes for a change in mining safety legislation. They also comment on the disparity of mining company profit versus how much money is invested into safety technology for the miners. On January 2, 2006, a methane gas explosion in the Sago coal mine near Tallmansville, West Virginia trapped and killed 12 miners, leaving one miner in critical condition.