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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

the deadliest mine disaster in Indiana’s history. The ceremony is at 10 a.m. Feb. 20 at at the location of the former Sullivan City Mine, now the Sullivan County Park and Lake. The explosion Feb ...

Guwahati, India (Reuters) - The body of a miner was recovered from a flooded coal mine in ... are rat holes in the mine,” H P S Kandhari, a commandant in the National Disaster Relief Force ...

Coal mining disasters in the remote northeastern part of India are not uncommon.