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Joseph A. Main: Regulations make mining safer
Nov. 20, 1968. 5:30 a.m. An explosion rips through Farmington No. 9 Mine in West Virginia. It leaves 78 miners dead, a grim but familiar death toll that reverberates through America's mining communities.
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Joseph A. Main: Regulations make mining safer
Nov. 20, 1968. 5:30 a.m. An explosion rips through Farmington No. 9 Mine in West Virginia. It leaves 78 miners dead, a grim but familiar death toll that reverberates through America's mining communities.
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