Sixteen workers were incinerated in a US weapons plant—the largest mass death in an industrial disaster since the 2010 Upper ...

The company's website says it processes explosives and ammunition at an eight-building facility that sprawls across wooded hills in the Bucksnort area, about 60 miles southwest of Nashville.

Oct 5 (Reuters) - Miner Freeport (FCX.N), opens new tab said on Sunday that all seven workers who went missing after a mud-flow disaster at Indonesia's Grasberg copper and gold mine have been ...

Documents showing safety records were falsified after a mine disaster which killed 266 people have been on display in Wrexham. They were among a host of exhibits marking the anniversary of the ...

Thirteen miners died in a pair of explosions at the Jim Walter Resources Mine No. 5 on September 23, 2001. The initial explosion was caused by a roof fall that ignited methane gas, with a second, ...

The Zambian government refuted an independent estimate of how much toxic acid spilled from a Chinese state-owned copper mine in the southern African nation in February, and said a cleanup had begun.

SCRANTON, Pa. — A ceremony honoring those who died in a mine disaster returned to Lackawanna County on Sunday. 156 years ago, on September 6th, 1869, 110 miners and two rescuers died in the Avondale ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Pennsylvania officials are asking the federal government to keep a research lab focused on mine safety open in the Keystone State. Department of Environmental Protection ...

From a viewpoint at about 6,190 feet above sea level, a giant hole in the Oquirrh Mountains stretches two and a half miles wide and ¾ of a mile deep. Trucks with tires bigger than a sedan look like ...

PLYMOUTH TWP. — A new coal-miner themed mural is planned for the site of the Avondale Mine Disaster, which will be part of the Susquehanna Warrior Trail when it is eventually connected to the Luzerne ...

RACINE, W.Va. — Cecil Roberts made his last Labor Day stand as United Mine Workers of America president leaning on history. “People have died to make the mines safer,” Roberts bellowed, captivating a ...

During an invitation-only, "informal" conversation, Don Blankenship advised reporters to focus more on federal regulators in their coverage of the... Mine CEO Points Fingers As He Details Explosion ...