Rescuers recovered the body of a second miner on Wednesday after water and mud poured into underground tunnels at the Velenje coal mine in northeastern Slovenia, STA news agency reported. They were ...

Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co., was known as a safe mine. It had killed men in explosions before, but relatively small accidents, in the philosophy of the miner, are inevitable. It was modern ...

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It is one of the worst industrial accidents in the state's history ... In Buffalo Creek, one of the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dams bursts, unleashing 175 million gallons ...

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Jan 22 (Reuters) - Rescuers recovered the body of a second miner on Wednesday after water and mud poured into underground tunnels at the Velenje coal ... slurry tumbled into the tunnels of the ...