In the biggest settlement ever reached in a U.S. mining disaster, the new owners of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men were killed in an explosion agreed Tuesday to pay $210 million over a ...

West Virginia Mining Disasters Gov. Joe Manchin has called for a temporary halt to coal mining in West Virginia after the deaths of 16 men in four accidents since Jan. 2.

Mining companies have been slow to adopt new safety requirements. Critics say the West Virginia disaster shows that Congress needs to step in. The industry says it needs clearer guidance.

Time is running out for trapped West Virginia miners. April 9, 2010— -- This has been a week filled with desperate anguish for the families of the miners trapped in West Virginia's Upper Big ...

According to the West Virginia Encyclopedia, the Farmington Mine Disaster resulted in the deaths of almost 80 coal miners at the Consolidation Coal Company’s Number 9 mine in Marion County on ...

West Virginia Report On Mine Disaster Points To State's Shortcomings : The Two-Way While a state review of the 2010 disaster that killed 29 coal miners isn't as pointed in assigning blame as some ...

HICKS: So you worked in coal mines for more than 30 years and then you wound up at the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, West Virginia. Can you share with me what you experienced on the day it ...

Disaster at the Monongah coal mine in West Virginia in 1907 when an explosion killed more than 360 workers. Meaningful safety regulations were still decades away.

May 18, 2010— -- An attempt to oust three corporate directors at the West Virginia coal company that lost 29 miners in a deadly April explosion was unsuccessful Tuesday morning, but critics ...

Former coal CEO sentenced to a year in prison after 2010 West Virginia coal mine disaster April 6, 2016 More than 9 years ago Don Blankenship, the former Massey Energy chief executive.

Another 239 men would be killed in 12 coal mining disasters in West Virginia before the end of the decade, including 97 miners at the Federal No. 3 mine in Everettville in Monongalia County.

Ruins of an abandoned mine in Havaco, W.Va., nearby where more than 80 West Virginia coal miners who died in a mining disaster in 1912 are buried. (AP Photo) “They didn’t care about them ...