When an emergency occurs at a coal mine, there are four processes that come into play: information flow, sense-making, decision-making, and action. These processes are the way in which people generally impose a sense of order on a reality that the psychologist William James called a "buzzing confusion." This study portrays the processes of organization building and implementation from a historical perspective through an analysis of responders' narratives.

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