Crews not expected to reach blast area where miners trapped for 24 hours. MONTCOAL, W.Va., April 6, 2010— -- A miner who survived the massive West Virginia mine explosion said he had to struggle ...

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

At 4:07 p.m., May 19, 1928, the whistle blew at Mather Mine, alerting people of an emergency. The explosion that caused it, and the loss of life that followed over the coming days, continues to be ...

There were 69 workers inside the coal mine at the time of the explosion at 9 p.m. local time. Iranian miners look on at the scene of a blast at a coal mine in Tabas in Iran's Khorasan province on ...

Two people are dead and a third has been hospitalised following an underground mine explosion in western NSW believed to be caused by a “catastrophic failure”. The “uncontrolled explosion” struck the ...

HOLMES MILL, Ky. — An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed five miners Saturday, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said. A sixth miner was able to walk away from the blast and out of the mine on his ...

OAK GROVE, Ala.—Lisa Lindsay was surprised. For months, she had waited for federal authorities to do something—anything—to mitigate the risks of the longwall coal mine expanding beneath her home.

Undermined: Fourteenth in a series about the impacts of longwall mining in Alabama. OAK GROVE, Ala.—For the first time, an Alabama official has said that a fatal March 2024 home explosion above an ...

Feb. 17—Did steam heat ignite sticks of dynamite killing four men in the Buttonwood mine of the Parrish Coal Company in Hanover Township on Feb. 17, 1906? A coroner's inquest held later in February ...

On November 19, New Zealand’s Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety, the far-right ACT Party member Brooke Van Velden, moved a one-sentence motion in parliament acknowledging the 14th ...