West Virginia and Regional History Center A survivor of the Monongah disaster looks on at the destruction. Coal mining is still a dangerous profession, but the number of deaths per year dropped ...

MONONGAH, W.Va. — While described as the worst mining disaster in America ... Get caught up on West Virginia.

1907 - Worst coal mine disaster in US history: 362 miners are killed in an explosion at the Monongah Nos. 6 and 8 coal mines in Monongah, West Virginia. December 19, 1907 - An explosion kills 239 ...

A mining disaster made the front pages of the Aspen Democrat in 1907 three days in a row. On Dec. 10, it reported that, 60 hours after an explosion in a coal mine in Monongah, West Virginia, 53 bodies ...

Another 239 men would be killed in 12 coal mining disasters in ... Mine Disaster remains the third worst in West Virginia, after the Monongah Mine disaster in 1907 where 361 miners died and ...

According to the West Virginia Encyclopedia, the Farmington Mine Disaster resulted in the deaths of almost 80 coal miners at the Consolidation Coal Company’s Number 9 mine in Marion County on ...

Time is running out for trapped West Virginia miners ... to that refuge chamber," said Kevin Stricklin, the coal administrator from the Mine Safety & Health Administration. Above ground, crews ...

April 27, 2006 • At least four emergency air packs issued at the Sago Mine failed to function, says West Virginia coal miner Randal McCloy. The lone survivor of the Jan. 2 disaster, in which 12 ...

A 2005 memo which has resurfaced as a result of the disaster appears to encourage his deep mine superintendents to "run coal" at any cost ... Benjamin to the West Virginia Supreme Court. In return, ...