The apparent cause of a fatal explosion at an Upshur County coal mine in January has the industry grappling with a new problem: how to keep the nation’s underground mines safe from lightning-sparked explosions. While lightning has long been a …
After nearly a year of studying the Sago Mine disaster, West Virginia state investigators have concluded that an unusually powerful lightning strike somehow ignited methane gas underground, a United Mine Workers official says. Lightning is the only possible cause investigators …
State and federal regulators failed to find safety violations that contributed to the deaths of two miners in a conveyor belt fire at an underground coal mine in January, according to an independent report. But J. Davitt McAteer, who was …
