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In April 2012, coal producer Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (ANR), the owner of the mine at the time, said it will permanently close its Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was convicted in 2015 of a misdemeanor conspiring to willfully violate safety standards and was sentenced to one year ...
Mining accidents can occur from a variety of causes, including leaks of poisonous gases such as hydrogen sulfide [2] or explosive natural gases, especially firedamp or methane, [3] dust explosions, collapsing of mine stopes, mining-induced seismicity, flooding, or general mechanical errors from improperly used or malfunctioning mining equipment (such as safety lamps or electrical equipment).
The collapse of a coal mining plant in Eastern Kentucky Tuesday has left one worker dead. ... The disaster was one of three high-profile mining accidents to occur in a five-month period in the U.S ...
Disasters and accidents. 2024 Noto earthquake. The death toll from the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, on January 1, increases to 215 people, with 28 others still missing. Ten people are killed and six others are missing after an accident at a coal mine in Pingdingshan, Henan, China. Law and crime
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]
News of the Sago mine explosion first broke widely to television viewers on the cable news channel CNN. At approximately 11:41 a.m. on January 2, during CNN Live Today, anchor Daryn Kagan, announced, "This just in, news out of West Virginia, an underground explosion at a coal mine there." [64]
Preliminary investigation showed the accident occurred around 2:55 p.m. local time due to a coal and gas outburst at the mine, which is owned by China's Pingdingshan Tianan Coal Mining. According ...
HANOI (Reuters) -Five coal miners have been killed after a mine in northern Vietnam collapsed, local authorities said on Tuesday. The accident happened on Monday at a coal mine in Quang Ninh ...