Two of the most devastating and deadly coal mine disasters in Wyoming history hit Kemmerer mines over a 13-month period from ...

Documents showing safety records were falsified after a mine disaster which killed 266 people have been on display in Wrexham ...

Half a century after the Kianga mine explosion killed 13 workers in central Queensland, a community gathers to remember the ...

(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 ...

A list of some recent fatal mine disasters around the world: — 2013: 83 workers are buried by a massive landslide at a gold mining site in a mountainous area of Tibet, east of Lhasa, according to ...

Dennis Smedley, 101, is thought to be the last surviving employee who worked at Creswell Colliery when 80 men died during an ...

On May 11, 1910, a coal mine in Whitehaven, England, became the site of one of the region’s deadliest disasters. The Wellington Pit explosion caught miners off guard - and only a few would make it out ...

—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 ...

Coal miners around the country are being asked to take time out on Monday to review safety procedures. Federal regulators called for the safety "stand down" after a deadly series of accidents in West ...

WELLINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Twenty-nine miners remain trapped in a remote New Zealand coal mine, a day after an explosion ripped through the colliery. [ID:nSGE6AI0KL] Mining disasters account for ...

BEIJING, Jan 6 (Reuters) - At least 25 miners have died in a fire at a colliery in central China and three others remain trapped, state media said on Wednesday, in the latest disaster to hit the world ...