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 ...

From once-thriving cities contaminated with perilously high levels of radiation to desolate villages riddled with asbestos, anthrax and explosives, these settlements remain strictly off-limits.

They were still searching for a third miner trapped after hundreds of tons of the slurry tumbled into the tunnels of the mine, part of the state-owned Holding Slovenske Elektrarne Group, on Monday ...

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 ...

Rescuers recovered the body of a second miner on Wednesday after water and mud poured into underground tunnels at the Velenje coal ... of the slurry tumbled into the tunnels of the mine, part ...

WARSAW, Poland -- The death toll in a coal mine fire this week in southern Poland rose to three on Saturday, hospital authorities said. The victims were among 16 miners injured at the ...

A series of events were held Sunday to remember the Knox Mine Disaster — a coal mining accident that happened Jan. 22, 1959 in Jenkins Twp. when the Susquehanna River broke through the mine’s ...

In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country ... erected a memorial to miners who have died in Carbon County from mining disasters like explosions or cave-ins, or suffered slower ...

WARSAW, Jan 27 (Reuters) - One miner died and 11 were hospitalised after an underground tremor shook a coal mine early on Monday belonging to Polish mining group PGG in Radlin, southern Poland ...