Mine Fatality

A 29-year-old Foreman/Belt Man with 8 years of mining experience, 1 years at this occupation, was fatally injured in the Harlan Branch. He was positioned between the structure as he

Nine coal miners have died and six remain trapped underground after an explosion in a coal mine in Colombia, the National Mining Agency (ANM) said. Click here to read more.

Two workers pronounced dead after being trapped in a coal pile at Pueblo power station By Abigail Beckman, Joe Wertz, and Alejandro A. Alonso Galva The two workers trapped in

June M/NM Mining Disasters M-NM-By-Specific-Month-Qry DATE MONTH STATE LOCATION MINE NAME MINE TYPE DISASTER TYPE FATALITIES 6/24/1887 6 NV Virginia City, NV Gould & Curry Gd/Sl Fire 11 6/4/1901 6

June Coal Mining Disasters By-Specific-Month-Qry Date State Type Mine Name Location Killed 6/18/1844 VA Explosion Black Heath Mine Richmond, VA 11 6/10/1873 PA Mine Fire Henry Clay Mine, Shamokin, PA

OVERVIEW On September 15, 2021, at approximately 9:15 a.m., Cleveland Sloan, a 33 year-old contract welder with over ten years of mining experience, crawled into the confined space inside the

No Perkoa Survivors May 19, 2022 Trevali Mining Corp.’s search and rescue teams reached the refuge chamber below Level 520 in the Perkoa mine in Burkina Faso and found no

It is a good time to remind people of Sunshine (the tragedy that could have been prevented, and that caused MESA to shift from Interior to labor, and become MSHA).

May Coal Mining Disasters By-Specific-Month-Qry Date State Type Mine Name Location Killed 5/11/1854 VA Explosion Chesterfield Richmond, VA 19 5/27/1871 PA Smoke from Fire West Pittston West Pittston, PA 20