As this week's explosion in a West Virginia mine proved, coal mining is still a very dangerous job. The mining accident in Upper Big Branch Mine killed 25, making it the worst coal mining disaster in 25 years.
With six trapped coal miners all but left for dead in a crumbling mountain, families and friends vented their frustration at the mine's owner Tuesday and asked: Was it too dangerous to be working there in the first place?
The federal official who oversaw mine safety in the 1990s expressed dismay Saturday that it took five days before the first drilled hole reached the area of Utah's Crandall Canyon mine where six men are believed to be trapped.
Seeking better mine rescue
Anxious moments at Utah mine
Efforts to reach six men trapped in a collapsed coal mine in Utah were "wiped out" Tuesday by what the mine operator's CEO called continuing "seismic and tectonic activity."
Memorial Day is a traditional time to wave the flag, so with summer's opening day in our rearview mirror, it's time to see if that cloth flapping on the pole at your team's stadium is white -- or should be.
The release of a report blaming lightning as the cause of last January's Sago Mine explosion has been delayed.
After being treated with respirators, feeding tubes, dialysis and even a couple of hours in a hyperbaric chamber, the sole survivor of the Sago Mine explosion has left the care of doctors who have skippered his recovery efforts over the past three weeks.
The doctor treating Randy McCloy, the lone survivor of the Sago Mine disaster earlier this month, said Wednesday that McCloy "can no longer be described as being in a coma."
The miners who died in a smoky, carbon monoxide-choked mine were less than half a mile from breathable air -- and within access of an oxygen tank inside the mine itself, government officials involved in the investigation told CNN.
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