Former Massey Energy Chief Donald Blankenship won’t take the witness stand to explain what happened when a company mine exploded...
Upper Big Branch mine explosion News
Less than five years after an explosion fueled by excess coal dust killed 29 men deep inside a West Virginia...
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by relatives of three men killed in the Upper Big Branch mine disaster...
Federal mining regulators nearly 150 citations during July impact inspections. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration says it also...
On-the-job incidents killed 43 workers in West Virginia in 2011, the third-lowest total since an annual federal census of workplace...
Federal mining regulators issued 262 citations during the latest round of monthly impact inspections. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health...
Coal producer Alpha Natural Resources says it has taken steps to avoid coal dust violations of the kind that investigators...