President Trump has dismantled the safety net that for years protected miners from injury and disease. CNN’s Kyung Lah ...

Retired coal miner Stanley "Goose" Stewart holds a helmet he wore inside the Upper Big Branch mine when it blew up on April 5, 2010, killing 29 men, as he stands for a portrait at his home in ...

Bullard continued to improve his father’s safety hat, patenting several inventions in 1928 including an adjustable lining to the interior of the hat, and an insulated lamp bracket. The Mine Safety ...

U.S. District Judge Irene C. Berger said Trump administration officials lack the authority to unilaterally cancel the screening program for black lung.

Safety advocates are bemoaning the delay of new measures to protect coal miners. On Tuesday, as coal miners crowded into the Oval Office to watch President Donald Trump sign an executive order ...

An underground coal mine near Donkin, N.S., has been cited for a series of safety violations since reopening ... so they're going over the yellow line," said Fergusson. "I really feel there ...

Eric Anderson, a 44-year-old coal miner, voted for Donald Trump to keep West Virginia’s mines humming and applauded the president’s executive orders allowing power plants to burn more coal.

Minutes after a widow emotionally testified about losing her 29-year-old husband in a deadly 2005 coal mine accident in Harlan County because the first aid available in the mine was inadequate to ...

A survivor of a West Virginia mine disaster that killed 29 workers 15 years ago is speaking out against a Trump recommendation to close three dozen mine safety offices.