Six years after 29 miners were killed in a West Virginia coal dust explosion, the man who ran the mining company like a fiefdom — a coal baron and power broker who earned millions of dollars a year — will …
The nation’s coal mines set a record for the lowest number of on-the-job fatalities last year, with 16. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration reported there were two fewer deaths than the previous low of 18 …
A foreman has been killed at an underground mine in eastern Kentucky, the third mine-related fatality in the state in 10 days. State officials said in a statement that due to the recent deaths, analysts from the Office of Mine …
