The work life of the 37 miners who lost their lives in an explosion at the Robena Mine 63 years ago would still be all too ...

—1942: China’s northeast is the site of the world’s deadliest coal mine disaster when an accident kills 1,549 miners in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during World War II. —1906: A dust explosion in a ...

The 2010 mine disaster, which killed 29 workers, and the cover-up by successive governments, demonstrate the urgent need for workers to build rank-and-file committees, independent of and opposed to ...

On the afternoon of 19 November 2010, an explosion ripped through the remote Pike River mine on the West Coast of the South Island, killing 29 men. Their bodies have not been recovered, and remain in ...

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An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

BARRACKVILLE — When Barrackville community leaders began putting together a memorial for victims of the town's mine disasters in March, Diana Marple thought it would take five years of $1,000 ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at mine disasters, accidents and deaths in the United States. This is a list of notable mine disasters and is not all-inclusive. December 6, 1907 – Worst coal mine disaster in US ...

Since the explosion on Tuesday, mine safety expert Davitt McAteer has been looking into what went wrong at the Soma mine and how the disaster could have been prevented. McAteer is the former head of ...

An explosion killed 78 people at the Farmington No. 9 Mine on November 20, 1968. At the time, 99 miners were inside, and the explosion could be heard from miles away. The cause of the explosion was ...

Davitt McAteer, former head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, discusses this week's disaster at the Sago mine in West Virginia and the challenges of mine safety. He is now a vice ...

At 7:30 p.m., miners in the deep galleries of Illinois’ New Orient Coal Mine No. 2 froze in their tracks, stood staring and listening in the dark. Their ears felt clogged by a sudden compression of ...