1917: No. 7 mine explosion in Webster County kills 62 men On the morning of Aug. 4, 1917, a methane gas explosion at the Western Kentucky Coal Company’s No. 7 mine in Webster County killed 62 of ...

— 2007: At least 90 are killed in post-Soviet Ukraine’s worst mining disaster, after a methane blast rips through tunnels deep below ground in a coal mine near the eastern city of Donetsk.

The quiet mining village of Aberfan in South Wales was shattered when a towering coal waste tip collapsed, sending a wav ...

A list of some of history's worst mine disasters: —1942: China's northeast is the site of the world's deadliest coal mine disaster when an accident kills 1,549 miners in Japanese-occupied ...

Artificial Intelligence can forecast gas-related incidents in coal mines within half an hour, according to a new study exploring how the technology can reduce the risk of disasters.

On this day 99 years ago -- May 27, 1925 -- the largest industrial disaster in the history of North Carolina happened near the county line between Chatham and Lee counties, a coal mine explosion ...

Now onto your e-mails. NORRIS: Fran Day (ph) of Franklin, West Virginia, wrote in about our coverage of the disaster at the Sago coal mine.

The disaster at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine also tarnishes the image of "clean coal," a phrase the industry and even the president have used to bolster support for coal.

The disaster occurred just a few months after the U.S. officially declared war on Germany and entered World War I, and at a time when mining companies throughout Western Kentucky were feuding with ...