The Sago Mine disaster drew widespread attention to safety problems in the nation's coal mines. Why do miners continue to die on the job? What are the government and the coal industry doing about it?
February 5, 2013
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday paved the way for the widows of two miners killed in the 200 ...
January 3, 2013
Nearly 25,000 current and former coal preparation plant workers would receive medical testing to de ...
October 27, 2012
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tours the coalfields in the swing states of Ohio ...
July 7, 2012
Deadly coal disease on rise again
Ray Marcum bears the marks of a bygone era of coal mining. At 83, his voice is raspy, hi ...
July 7, 2012
Evidence from the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster investigation shows not only t ...
July 7, 2012
For more than a quarter-century, government efforts to end deadly black lung di ...
June 7, 2012
The families of three deceased coal miners may pursue lawsuits that allege the Jackson Kelly la ...
February 13, 2012
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Obama administration on Monday proposed a slight cut in its budget for the ...
October 20, 2011
Federal regulators are seeking comments as they target a hazard in underground c ...
October 14, 2011
'Catastrophic failure' could render inflatable units unusable
August 3, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Federal regulators are working on a plan to phase out the most commonly us ...
July 20, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Lawyers for one of the nation's largest makers of respirators have ...
April 9, 2011
West Virginia coal miners continue to die from black lung, despite working under coal dust levels t ...
April 7, 2011
UBB investigator wants wide-ranging reforms in safety rules
April 2, 2011
Environmental problems, prior accidents preceded disaster at Massey Energy
March 30, 2011
Despite escalating safety concerns prior to the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, federal regulators ...
March 3, 2011
Agency chief, wanting more regulatory tools, grilled over audits
March 2, 2011
Federal mine safety regulators quietly warned lawmakers just two weeks before the Upper Big Bra ...
December 30, 2010
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Federal authorities expect to continue working into early next year on a crimin ...
December 7, 2010
As a federal judge prepares to sentence four foremen from Massey Energy's Aracoma Alma No ...
November 17, 2010
A lawyer at the Jackson Kelly firm has been suspended by the state Supreme Court for one year f ...
November 3, 2010
Federal regulators asked a federal judge to shut down a Massey Energy mine they allege is a disaste ...
September 29, 2010
Regulators from both political parties have for more than three decades failed to strongly and prop ...
August 19, 2010
A regulatory filing by Patriot Coal Corp. reveals that federal investigators have demanded ...
July 17, 2010
Despite safety problems, MSHA failed to fine company
Federal inspectors found that Steven Cain had "little mining experience" and "minima ...
July 13, 2010
Obama administration officials on Tuesday urged quick action by Congress to pass another round of ...
June 29, 2010
Congressional Democrats on Tuesday released a "discussion draft" of proposed legislation ...
June 26, 2010
While federal mine safety regulators last year were curtailing tougher enforcement actions because ...
May 11, 2010
Major problems with the nation's most widely used coal-mine emergency breathing device may be m ...
May 8, 2010
Late on the morning of March 9, 1976, a huge explosion ripped through the Scotia Mine in Letcher Cou ...
March 25, 2010
More work needed on mine communications, Joe Main says
March 20, 2010
Last week, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration released an updated count of mine oper ...
March 10, 2010
A former foreman at one of West Virginia's largest underground coal mines admitted Wednesday ...
March 1, 2010
A Patriot Coal foreman told state and federal investigators he was ordered more than a year ago not ...
January 1, 2010
The number of miners killed on the job in the United States fell for a second st ...
October 22, 2009
A former safety director for the United Mine Workers union was confirmed this week by the U.S. Senat ...
July 9, 2009
A foreman at Massey Energy's Aracoma Alma No. 1 Mine will pay a $1,000 criminal fine after he ad ...
January 2, 2009
Three years after fatal mine blast, reformers turn to new administration
Peggy Cohen's youngest son, Hunter, was only 2 years old when the Sago Mine blew up. Today, ...
December 31, 2008
On the eve of a congressional deadline, Labor Department officials have finalize ...
December 24, 2008
Two died in 2006 fire; company admits to escape-route failures
A Massey Energy subsidiary has admitted to criminal safety violations that caused the deaths ...
December 11, 2008
For the first time ever, mine safety authorities have completed all of the quarterly inspections ...
July 27, 2008
Five months before the Crandall Canyon Mine disaster in Utah, mine officials told a federal insp ...
May 15, 2008
Federal and state investigators have issued conflicting reports on the November 2005 death of Chad C ...
January 27, 2008
MSHA leaders promise reforms
Federal regulators have allowed mine operators to avoid fines for thousands of health and safety ci ...
January 2, 2008
67 U.S. miners have died since West Virginia coal disaster
Two years ago this morning, a huge explosion ripped through a small, little-noticed coal mine in Ups ...
September 23, 2007
Agency stopped complete safety reviews
Federal regulators are behind schedule this year to complete required quarterly inspections at more ...
May 10, 2007
Problems found, but ICG avoids citations
BUCKHANNON — Stronger seals, proper methane monitoring and the removal of a pump cable from a sealed ...
April 22, 2007
GATZMER - On Nov. 8, 2005, Chad Cook was hauling a load of coal down Mountain View Mine Road along t ...
March 22, 2007
Company cites rising costs, slump in prices
International Coal Group confirmed Wednesday that it has idled its Sago Mine, the Upshur County oper ...
March 16, 2007
UMW dismisses other reports that blamed lightning
United Mine Workers investigators on Thursday said friction between roof rocks and metal roof suppor ...
March 15, 2007
The owner of the Sago Mine said Wednesday it was ordering emergency shelters to protect miners at al ...
February 25, 2007
BEAVER — Hundreds of unsafe seals have been discovered in underground coal mines across the country, ...
February 23, 2007
BEAVER — Federal regulators and the coal industry are struggling to come up with a new rule to stren ...
February 20, 2007
Gov. Joe Manchin on Monday praised efforts to improve communications deep inside West Virginia’s und ...
February 19, 2007
Lawmakers have amended Gov. Joe Manchin’s mine safety bill to severely limit the types of repeat vio ...
January 2, 2007
Safety agencies and coal industry ignored warnings
At about 8:15 p.m. on July 9, 1997, miner Robert Acklin felt a blast of air as he stood at the botto ...
December 22, 2006
Federal mine safety officials on Thursday announced the formation of a panel to study the use of con ...
December 18, 2006
On March 9, 1976, an explosion ripped through the Scotia Mine in Letcher County, Ky. All 15 miners w ...
December 17, 2006
Mines averaging 6,000 citations for it each year
BROOKWOOD, Ala. — On a September afternoon in 2001, 32 miners repaired drilling machines and hoisted ...
December 3, 2006
Strip mines present unique dangers to workers
TWILIGHT — At about 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 17, 2003, Rodney Sheets and four coworkers piled in ...
December 3, 2006
HAZARD, Ky. — It was not quite 10 a.m. yet on April 4, 2003. Truck driver James G. Williams had alre ...
December 3, 2006
In the two decades before the Sago Mine disaster, the rate of major coal-mine accidents more than do ...
November 5, 2006
Disasters make headlines, but most miners killed on the job die alone
CUMBERLAND, Ky. — At about 10:40 a.m. Dec. 30, 2005, in a tunnel inside H&D Mining' ...
November 5, 2006
When an explosion ripped through the Sago Mine on Jan. 2, killing 12 workers, coal mine safety again ...
September 3, 2006
MELVILLE - On Jan. 19, the second shift was just getting started when the conveyor belts ground to a ...
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