Twelve West Virginians miners lost their lives 20 years ago today in one of the worst coal mining disasters in the state’s ...

There are many mine disasters that have occurred in the Mountain State throughout the years. One such disaster is the Sago ...

It has been 20 years since 13 miners were trapped in the Sago Mine in Upshur County. Of those miners, 12 died in the tragedy.

The Sago Mine disaster served as a catalyst for mine safety law changes, but its unclear if some changes will survive budget ...

At the 20th anniversary of the Jan. 2, 2006 Sago Mine explosion in Upshur County that left 12 miners dead, a competitive ...

—1942: China’s northeast is the site of the world’s deadliest coal mine disaster when an accident kills 1,549 miners in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during World War II. —1906: A dust explosion in a ...

A list of some recent fatal mine disasters around the world: — 2013: 83 workers are buried by a massive landslide at a gold mining site in a mountainous area of Tibet, east of Lhasa, according to ...

BARRACKVILLE — When Barrackville community leaders began putting together a memorial for victims of the town's mine disasters in March, Diana Marple thought it would take five years of $1,000 ...

Davitt McAteer, former head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, discusses this week's disaster at the Sago mine in West Virginia and the challenges of mine safety. He is now a vice ...

At 7:30 p.m., miners in the deep galleries of Illinois’ New Orient Coal Mine No. 2 froze in their tracks, stood staring and listening in the dark. Their ears felt clogged by a sudden compression of ...

Friday marks the 20th anniversary of the explosion which ended up claiming 12 lives at the Sago Mine in Upshur County ...

Friday marked 20 years to the day of the Sago Mine Disaster, an explosion that occurred in Upshur County on Jan. 2, 2006, trapping 13 miners underground.