As the history books will tell you, the mining industry has taken thousands of lives over the years. When the Industrial ...

The 1976 Scotia disasters in Letcher County transformed U.S. mine rules. Fifty years later, the rescuers were honored.

OVEN FORK, Ky. (WYMT) - Monday will mark the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Scotia mine disaster in Letcher County.

FUXIN, China – Rescuers searching for miners trapped by a coal mine explosion in northeast China (search) found six more bodies early Wednesday, bringing the death toll in the country's worst mining ...

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 ...

HELENA, Mont. — Sacrifices made to win WWII weren't just overseas. Contributions to manufacture iron and other essentials for the war effort were produced on the home front. At the height of WWII, The ...

From Bhopal to the draining of the Aral Sea, discover some of the worst man-made disasters that have occurred around the ...

Over 200 people were killed today after an explosion in a coal mine in Soma, Turkey. Rescue efforts are still underway, but this could be Turkey's worst mining accident ever, and among the worst mine ...

139 men and boys - some as young as only 12 years of age - lost their lives in the underground explosion at the Combs Colliery on July 4, 1893. It is one of the worst mining disasters in history, with ...

SOMA, Turkey — The Turkish government and mining company officials vehemently denied Friday that negligence was at the root of the country’s worst mining disaster even as opposition lawmakers raised ...