Rescue officials at a coal mine explosion in Colombia found 21 workers dead; rescue operations have since come to a stop. The mine collapsed Tuesday following an explosion.

Coal mining accidents in Pennsylvania have killed hundreds of miners. One in 1907 killed 239 miners in Westmoreland County.

A Chinese national lost his life on Tuesday after being crushed by a hydraulic jack deep inside the Barapukuria Coal Mine in Dinajpur.

A deadly coal mining collapse in China this week is one of a growing number of industry accidents over the last year, government statistics show, coinciding with Beijing's recent push for higher ...

Two miners were trapped and died in a coal mine near Wharton, W.Va., late Monday, according to state police and federal mine safety officials. Amy Louviere of the Mining Safety and Health ...

Three miners were killed in separate accidents during the past week in the first three-day sequence of U.S. coal-mining fatalities in more than a decade.

The death toll from coal mining accidents in China's top coal producing region has surged to 100 people so far this year, according to a notice issued by China's cabinet on Monday that said safety ...

Coal Mine Explosion in Turkey Kills at Least 41 The accident was the country’s worst mine disaster in years, and the president said the authorities would seek accountability for “even the ...

Five miners died on Monday and four were injured in an accident in a coal mine in the northern Spanish region of Asturias, the regional emergency services said.

An accident at a primitive coal mine that was operating illegally in Coahuila, Mexico, led to the deaths of two miners. The two miner's bodies were recovered.

Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports from West Virginia on the search for answers to last month's mining disasters. At dawn last week at the Peabody Coal Mine near Farmington, West ...