Rescue crews began working their way through a West Virginia coal mine ... MSHA cited the mine with two safety violations - one involving inadequate maps of escape routes, the other concerning ...

There have been 122 safety violations at Upper Big Branch mine so far this year. Apr. 6, 2010 — -- Critics say a surge of federal safety citations and revealing internal corporate memos all ...

The scars left by the mining industry are ubiquitous in West Virginia, nowhere more so than in the southern coalfields where abandoned mine tipples tower beside mountains disfigured by long gone ...

Hyre Stalnaker was working in the carpenter shop at the coal mines of Monongah, West Virginia, when the explosion came. First he heard the blast; then he felt the tremor. Seconds later ...

BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. — A coal miner has died in a West Virginia mine. Gov. Jim Justice and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin both announced the death Friday. Justice said Kris Ball, 34, of Harts ...

More than a century of overgrowth on this West Virginia hillside has erased any trace of the burial ground known locally as Little Egypt, the resting place for dozens of coal mine workers who died ...