Retired coal ... 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 April 2 in Orgas, W.Va. Safety laws ...

A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners is one of the federal programs that have been ...

Josh Cochran worked deep in the coal mines of West Virginia since he was 22 years old, pulling a six-figure salary that ...

MADISON, W.Va. — Emory “Curly” Carter sometimes feels like he can’t breathe. Household chores, such as cleaning and gardening, leave him gasping for air, making him feel like he has a ...

Today, a majority of U.S. coal mines are nonunion and the UMW is a shell of the powerful safety advocate it once was. UMW President Cecil Roberts said workers’ safety will be left “solely in t ...

the agency responsible for enforcing mine safety laws. The proposals for MSHA are “idiotic,” Stewart said, and would give coal companies “the green light to do as they please.” Safety laws ...