The disasters have also amped-up pressure ... back when close to a million people were employed in coal mines in Pennsylvania, and yes, indeed, there are still laws on the books that deal with ...

At 4:07 p.m., May 19, 1928, the whistle blew at Mather Mine, alerting people of an emergency. The explosion that caused it, ...

PITTSTON, Pa ... The Knox Mine disaster took the life of John Baloga's grandfather, someone he never got the chance to meet. “He was a coal miner, he was one of the 12 men who never got ...

Late into the night on Wednesday, July 24, 2002, coal miners working in the ... gallons of water down on the miners. Pennsylvania is pockmarked with old mines and old, often inaccurate, maps ...

But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

They were accidents waiting to happen. The Darr Mine, operated by the Pittsburgh Coal Company and located in south-western Pennsylvania, was one such mine. A cloud of dust and smoke instead of her ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has approved the expansion of an underground coal mine in Westmoreland County. Johnstown-based LCT Energy LP operates the 2,800-acre Rustic ...

The coal mining industry has a long, rich history in Pennsylvania, powering America’s Industrial Revolution and helping it become the sixth-largest economy in the United States. While coal ...