The 1976 Scotia disasters in Letcher County transformed U.S. mine rules. Fifty years later, the rescuers were honored.
A federal judge in Baltimore on Wednesday approved a $1.75 million settlement in the class action lawsuit stemming from a December 2021 CSX coal terminal explosion in Curtis Bay. Describing the ...
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Fifty years ago today, an explosion at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, Kentucky, killed 15 miners. Two ...
BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, November 8, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- An Australian based company has developed world first technology to mitigate and possibly ...
BALTIMORE -- Measurable amounts of coal dust are present on schools, playgrounds and houses in South Baltimore's Curtis Bay neighborhood which is bordered by an open-air coal terminal, according to a ...
A coal mine explosion in Iran left at least 38 dead and 14 others missing as rescue operations continued this week. A sudden methane gas leak triggered the explosion at the coal mine in Tabas, located ...
TEHRAN, Iran — Rescuers on Monday recovered the bodies of more workers killed in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, bringing the death toll in the disaster to at least 38, officials said.