A West Virginia coal miner has died after operating an excavator. Officials are saying a coal miner, Virgil Paynter, of Lynco, West Virginia died on Thursday in Wyoming County at the CM Energy ...

GRAFTON, W.Va. (AP) — A coal miner died Friday, nearly a week after being injured on the job in northern West Virginia, officials said. Colton Walls, 34, of Bruceton Mills, was injured while ...

Federal officials have published an accident report following a preliminary investigation into the death of a West Virginia miner ... side or highwall." A coal miner died in Boone County on ...

Cleveland-Cliffs said it is temporarily idling its Minorca mine in Virginia, Minn., as well as part of Hibbing Taconite, two ...

In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over ...

West Virginia produces 60% of the coal that it did a decade ago and employs about 12,000 people as coal miners—down from more than 64,000 in the 1970s. The effects extend far beyond the people ...

The strikes that started in West Virginia in June of 1902 had dragged on for months, and mine owners had only gotten more combative as time passed. In their attempt to unionize miners, the seven ...

Here are just three cases from lifetime West Virginia miners: Ronald Pauley, 58, said his cancer is presently in remission. But he’s terribly worried whether he’ll have sufficient health care ...

Bodies of the remaining victims were removed overnight, said Jama Jarrett, spokeswoman for the West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training. The bodies of seven victims had been ...

In the clip shown here, West Virginia miners discuss their battle with "black lung," a disease that develops from long-term exposure to coal dust. An Ohio coal miner shakes hands with U.S ...