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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Coal mining disasters in Kentucky" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
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.
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 ...
Starting in the 1960s coal seams in both Kentucky coal fields have been increasingly accessed via a method known as Mountaintop Removal Mining, which is a form of surface mining that involves the topographical alteration and/or removal of a summit, summit ridge, or significant portion of a mountain, hill, or ridge in order to obtain a desired ...
The 11-story structure at the Martin Mine Prep Plant in Martin County caved in on Tuesday evening, the Kentucky Emergency Management agency said in a statement. Governor Andy Beshear confirmed on ...