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 ...

Safety failures at a West Virginia underground coal mine caused the death of a miner last year, federal regulators found. The Mine Safety and Health Administration released its report last week in the ...

FARMINGTON, W.Va. — The United Mine Workers of America will observe the 56th anniversary of the Farmington #9 Mine explosion in a ceremony set for Sunday afternoon. The event will be held at the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –A new documentary produced by WCHS-TV aims to explore the Coal Mine Wars, with a focus on the Battle of Blair Mountain. The first part of the documentary aired Wednesday night on ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at mine disasters, accidents and deaths in the United States. This is a list of notable mine disasters and is not all-inclusive. December 6, 1907 – Worst coal mine disaster in US ...

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 ...

—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 ...

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – With the prospect of a trade war on the horizon, concerns are looming over how it will impact the ...