Eight workers evacuated, but contact with two was lost. After seven hours, teams found the missing miners dead.

CYCLONE, W.Va (WDTV) - A miner has died in a fatal accident at the Lower War Eagle mine Thursday morning. In a statement, ...

From 2020 to 2023, 1,754 decedents had coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) listed on their death certificates, according to ...

A construction worker for a Nevada gold mining exploration project fell 800 feet to his death on the job in May, sparking an investigation from state mining safety regulators. Lon Shane Jarvis, 56, ...

Federal and state inspectors are investigating the electrocution of a worker at Tucson-based Asarco's Ray Mine, near Kearny, last week. Electrical apprentice Peter Eudave, 41, was adjusting a light ...

Federal mine safety regulators say 18 miners have been killed on the job nationwide so far this year. That's down slightly from 19 fatalities through the first half of 2012. The Mine Safety and Health ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A suspected gang leader known as "Tiger" escaped with the help of South African police after being pulled from an illegal gold mine last week where at least 78 miners died, the ...

On Jan. 8, MSHA released preliminary data showing that mine fatalities in 2008 declined 31 percent from 2007 to drop to an all-time low. Metal/nonmetal mines recorded the lowest level of fatalities in ...

PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Mining deaths fell to a historic low in the United States last year, despite an explosion that killed 13 people in Alabama. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration ...