Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.

My dad was a miner, I was good with my hands, had a decent set of O-levels from Matthew Holland Comprehensive School in ...

It features a list of names of men who died in mining accidents in the county dating back to 1875, memorial bricks for other miners and a statue of a miner in the image of Bennett's father. Arthur S.

Ben Cook, a current West Virginia coal miner and United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) member who serves on his local’s mine safety committee, gave me a ride to meet Moore at Petsonk’s wood ...

LANSFORD – A man wearing shorts and a light hooded sweatshirt who spent more than 12 hours in a coal mine tourist attraction on Thursday finally complied with police and was taken into custody.

But some say that working there, and at other coal mines across the Navajo Nation, has given miners lasting health problems, including black lung disease. After driving across the mine for about an ...

Rusby wrote the song My Young Man about her grandad, a coal miner who died in middle-age from emphysema, and her grandmother, Ivy, who nursed him through the years of illness.

Donald Wyman was back at work at his coal-mining job when we visited him in 1994, a year after an oak tree fell on his leg that forced him to amputate it with a pocket knife.

LANSFORD, Pa. — Charges have been filed against 43-year-old David Eisenhower, the Lehighton man who allegedly started a standoff with police while he was in a coal mine in Carbon County.

The mine was located in Boone and Lincoln counties. WEST VIRGINIA OFFICIALS ORGANIZING HIGHWAY CLEANUP FOR SEPT. 24, TAKING REGISTRATIONS A West Virginia man has been sentenced to 1 year in prison ...

A Logan County coal miner died in an accident at a mine in Boone County, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement Wednesday. Steven Fields, 55, of Chauncey, died from injuries he sustained in an ...

A Windber man was killed Friday afternoon in a Somerset County mining incident, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Joshua Mock, 34, was operating a piece of underground machinery when he ...