A series of events were held Sunday to remember the Knox Mine Disaster — a coal mining accident that happened Jan. 22, 1959 ...

At 7:30 p.m., miners in the deep galleries of Illinois’ New Orient Coal Mine No. 2 froze in their ... New Orient No. 2 was the worst U.S. mine disaster since the explosion at Centralia No ...

Rate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported Lung disease is a well-known deadly consequence of working in the coal industry ... worst U.S. mining disaster in ...

An accident in a coal mine in northeastern Slovenia killed at least one miner and left two others missing, officials said ...

In a statement, conservation charity, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, said: "This is a profoundly short-sighted and irresponsible decision by the Minister of Energy and Minerals that puts ...

Doctors say 16 coal miners have suffered burns and injuries from a methane gas fire at a coal mine in southern Poland.

Coal mining disasters in the remote northeastern part of India are not uncommon.

Indian search and rescue teams had recovered four bodies from a flooded coal mine ... inside the mine as pumps have been drawing out water," an official from the National Disaster Response Force ...

Energy Minister’s decree to mine the Rockies called ‘a declaration of war on our province, our children and our future.’ ...

A survivor of a coal mine disaster in India has shared a harrowing account of the moments after the tunnel was suddenly engulfed by water. Ravi Rai was working in the mine in the north-eastern ...

Guwahati, India (Reuters) - The body of a miner was recovered from a flooded coal mine in ... are rat holes in the mine,” H P S Kandhari, a commandant in the National Disaster Relief Force ...