stickler reached public notoriety as a result of his role in co-ordinating the rescue effort to find six miners trapped by a collapse at crandall canyon mine in august 2007. in a report released in march 2008, the inspector general of the labor department said that mhsa was negligent in protecting workers at the mine. the investigation into the cause of the disaster, including the loss of three would-be rescuers, is still ongoing, with completion expected sometime in the summer of 2008.