The 1906 Courrières disaster killed 1,099 miners. But deep in the labyrinth, a handful of men found ways to stay alive that no one thought possible.

A teenager died Wednesday in Morocco when an abandoned coal mine collapsed in the impoverished former mining town of Jerada which saw protests earlier this year following similar accidents. Local ...

On October 21, 1966, a coal waste tip on a hill above Aberfan, Wales suddenly collapsed, surged down a hillside, and engulfed ...

The top mine safety official in one of China's major coal producing regions is under investigation for corruption following a ...

At least 17 miners were killed and more than 200 remain trapped underground after an explosion in a coal mine in the western Turkish province of Manisa on Tuesday, officials said. Turkey’s disaster ...

The latest reported accident in Barkagaon, Hazaribagh, where a worker lost his life and others were injured following the collapse of an allegedly illegal coal excavation site, is only the newest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BEIJING (AP) — A collapse occurred in an illegal mining operation in China on Sunday, killing five people and injuring one other ...

When the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed last week after a huge container ship ran into a support column, the ...

China’s world-beating coal production has helped shield its economy from the worst of the Iran war shock. Now the deadliest mining disaster in years is raising uncomfortable questions about the cost ...

A mine collapse has left one worker injured and another missing. Emergency services were called to reports of an industrial ...

A gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi province killed at least 90 people, state media said on Saturday. It was the country’s deadliest mining accident in recent years. The official ...

On June 24, four empty classrooms in succession appeared on the third floor of the main building of an elementary school in ...