Each year, the third Sunday in June is a time to pay homage to fathers and the millions of other men who have stepped into ...

More than four years after an underground explosion killed 29 mine workers, a federal grand jury Thursday indicted the top executive of the West Virginia ... worst U.S. coal mining disaster ...

FOSTER, West Virginia— Robert Cash ... It was later found that inspectors had cited the mine for excess coal dust and methane, and the disaster drove stepped-up safety rules and inspections ...

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 ...

December of 1907 was unusually deadly when it comes to mine disasters in the United ... for the companies mining the black coal veins under Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. On December 6, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s a look at some of the worst coal disasters in Kentucky history. 1917: No. 7 mine explosion in Webster ... rivers running through Kentucky and West Virginia. While no human injuries ...

Pleas last summer from the Nestors to the West Virginia ... mine disasters for more than 50 years, and Mullens, whose small-town legal practice has embraced the goal of holding coal mining ...