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More recently, in December 2018, the Kentucky Department for Natural Resources issued a surface mining and reclamation permit for the site to a different company, Lexington Coal Company LLC, which ...
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 the 153 men underground at the time. The other 91 men in ...
One man has died after he and a coworker were trapped beneath tons of concrete and steel when an 11-story building being demolished collapsed at an abandoned eastern Kentucky mine's coal ...
The Hurricane Creek Mine Memorial is the memorial commemorating the 1970 Finley Mine explosion, which killed thirty-eight coal miners [8] and left one survivor. The memorial is located in Leslie County, Kentucky [9] built on the Finely Mine site. The memorial was planned by the friends and families of the lost miners to honor them.
Map showing location of Martin County in Kentucky Wolf Creek on October 22, 2000. The Martin County coal slurry spill was a mining accident that occurred after midnight on October 11, 2000, when the bottom of a coal slurry impoundment owned by Massey Energy in Martin County, Kentucky, broke into an abandoned underground mine below. [1]
The incidents involved coal miners and union organizers on one side and coal firms and law enforcement officials on the other. [1] The Harlan County coal miners campaigned and fought to organize their workplaces and better their wages and working conditions. It was a nearly decade-long conflict, lasting from 1931 to 1939.
Officials have released the names of two workers trapped when a coal mine preparation plant collapsed earlier this week in eastern Kentucky as the search continues to find one of those workers ...
A road leads to a collapsed coal preparation plant in Martin County, Ky., on Nov. 1, 2023. (Ryan C. Hermens / Lexington Herald-Leader via Getty Images)