At 4:07 p.m., May 19, 1928, the whistle blew at Mather Mine, alerting people of an emergency. The explosion that caused it, and the loss of life that followed over the coming days, continues to be ...

Two Vassar College girls, home on Easter break, died in a mine explosion in Saint Clair on April 16, 1887..

Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy who owned Upper Big Branch mine, spent a year in prison for violating mine safety laws leading to the disaster.

On April 5, 2010, an explosion in a coal mine near Montcoal, in West Virginia's Raleigh County, killed 29 workers.

An explosion at the Cerredo coal mine in Asturias, Spain, on Monday morning left five workers dead and four others seriously injured, officials confirmed.The exact cause of the incident is still ...

BARRACKVILLE — After 100 years, the Barrackville Mine Explosion will finally receive its own monument. Members of the Barrackville community gathered at the Lions Community Building to ...

Anticipating frigid temperatures, the city of Sullivan has moved its Thursday morning ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Sullivan city mine explosion indoors.

Did steam heat ignite sticks of dynamite killing four men in the Buttonwood mine of the Parrish Coal Company in Hanover Township on Feb. 17, 1906? A coroner’s inquest held later in February 1906 ...

Coal Mine Disaster in India’s Assam Opens Can of Worms Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and politicians.

The city of Sullivan and Mayor JD Wilson will host a 100th Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony of the Sullivan City Mine Explosion, the deadliest mine disaster in Indiana’s history.

A bulldozer pushes mine cars toward the river in an attempt to dam the breach at the Knox Mine. (LUKASIK STUDIO ARCHIVES) Deacon Francis Bradigan anoints the Knox Mine Disaster memorial during a ...

Friday marks exactly 117 years since the Monongah Mine Disaster killed more than 360 people and cemented itself as the worst mining disaster in the history of the United States.