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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?
July 27, 2008
Five months before the Crandall Canyon Mine disaster in Utah, mine officials told a federal insp ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 into a van i ...
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’s Mine No. 3 in H ...
November 5, 2006
When an explosion ripped through the Sago Mine on Jan. 2, killing 12 workers, coal mine safety again ...
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