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West Virginia Public Service Commission Chairman Charlotte Lane praised coal in a recent PSC-published column celebrating ...
The following story is part one of a two-part series examining the devastating impact of black lung disease on the lives of ...
Unions and occupational safety providers say the federal agency with statutory responsibility to protect workers’ health and ...
The West Virginia Coal Association is praising the passage of the massive budget bill passed by Congress on Thursday, however ...
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 ...
Mine Memorial Committee has been given the funds to help establish a monument to honor the 33 lives lost in a mine explosion that occurred more than 100 years ago.
Deep cuts Miners have long faced grave health threats. Between 1900 and 1960, cave-ins, explosions, other disasters and mining accidents killed nearly 100,000 coal miners on the job. It’s ...
After the disaster, MSHA sent inspection teams to conduct impact inspections at mines with a history of repeated problems, many of them underground operations in West Virginia and Kentucky, which ...
Timeline December 6, 1907 – Worst coal mine disaster in US history: 362 miners are killed in an explosion at the Monongah Nos. 6 and 8 coal mines in Monongah, West Virginia. December 19, 1907 ...
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