About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung. And from 1970 to 2016, more than 75,000 died.

Deep cuts Miners have long faced grave health threats. Between 1900 and 1960, cave-ins, explosions, other disasters and mining accidents killed nearly 100,000 coal miners on the job.

Coal miner Micheal McGuire rushed from his job still covered in soot so that he could be with his 3-year-old son at his first Kentucky basketball game. “Didn’t want to miss it.” IE 11 is not ...

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The remaining five missing miners’ bodies were recovered from a flooded coal mine in India's north-eastern state of Assam on Wednesday, Feb. 19.

Guwahati, Jan. 9 -- The body of one of the nine workers trapped inside a coal mine in Assam's Dima Hasao district was recovered by army divers on Wednesday on the third day of the rescue ...

Loretta Lynn's music and story will be at the center of a new stage musical called Coal Miner's Daughter, adapted from the film and book of the same title.. Broadway World reports that the project ...

The surprise move to delay miner safety measures comes against the backdrop of Trump's renewed push to return coal as a primary energy source in the United States. In the executive order signed ...

GRAFTON, W.Va. — A coal miner died Friday, nearly a week after being injured on the job in northern West Virginia, officials said. Colton Walls, 34, of Bruceton Mills, was injured while working ...

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A coal miner has died nearly a week after being injured on the job in northern West Virginia. ... Body of missing 55-year-old fisherman found days after disappearance in Youghiogheny River.