A joint investigation by NPR and Mine Safety and Health News found that ... mines — looking for safety hazards such as excessive and explosive coal dust, loose rock, electrocution threats ...

Harold Wiggins, 68, of Lexington, S.C., fell 400-600 feet from the top of Looking Glass Rock, rescue squad Assistant ... s Office and U.S. Forest Service that he had found a body at the base of the ...

engaged in checking the quality of the coal being shipped inside the plant found a large glass-like rock, weighing about 2 kilograms, from the wagon of a freshly arrived coal rake from Jharkhand ...

Three people missing since last weekend were found alive Wednesday in an underground coal mine in West Virginia, authorities said. The three were located Wednesday inside Elk Run Coal's Rock House ...

Authorities say three people missing since last weekend have been found alive at a nonoperational ... were located Wednesday inside Elk Run Coal's Rock House Powellton mine near Clear Creek.The ...