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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 ...
Bill Estep. December 29, 2022 at 8:26 AM. An accident that killed a Kentucky coal miner in March happened in part because the mine operator didn’t do a required examination to spot and correct ...
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 ...
Mine Memorial. 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.
As reported in a May 23, 2006 story in The Courier-Journal, [2] "Investigator thinks methane to blame for Darby mine explosion," by Deborah Yetter and Tom Loftus, at a news conference in Holmes Mill, Kentucky on May 22, 2006, Chuck Wolfe, spokesman for Kentucky's Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet announced that investigators entered the mine for the first time since the explosion on ...
The Upper Big Branch Mine disaster occurred on April 5, 2010, roughly 1,000 feet (300 m) underground in Raleigh County, West Virginia at Massey Energy 's Upper Big Branch coal mine located in Montcoal. 29 out of 31 at the site were killed. [1] The coal dust explosion occurred at 3:27 pm. [2] The incident was the worst in the United States since ...
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 slurry came out of the mine openings, sending an estimated 306 million US gallons (1. ...
The miner died when a massive section of the roof fell at an underground mine in Eastern Kentucky. Safety lapses caused accident that killed Kentucky coal miner, federal agency says Skip to main ...