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A coal miner was killed on the job in West Virginia on Friday night, Gov. Jim Justice said. The Republican governor said Gary Chapman, 33, of South Williamson, Kentucky, died after being injured ...
Coal mining is the most dangerous occupation in China, the death rate for every 100 tons of coal mined is 100 times that of the death rate in the US and 30 times that achieved in South Africa. Moreover, 600,000 Chinese coal miners, as of 2004, were suffering from Coalworker's pneumoconiosis (known as "black lung") a disease of the lungs caused ...
The Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial was built in Whitesville, West Virginia, and features a 48-foot (15 m) black granite monument with life-size silhouettes of 29 miners etched on the front. [ 65 ] The reverse side of the monument tells the "Story of Coal", a brief summary of the coal industry and its impact on West Virginia and the nation.
Pages in category "Coal mining disasters in West Virginia" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
On March 29, 2020, the state reported its first COVID-19 death. [8] As of April 2022 West Virginia had 498,890 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 6,794 deaths from the disease. [9] The National Center for Health Statistics estimates that between 99 and 434 excess deaths have occurred in the state through May 9, 2020. [10]
Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), which represents West Virginia coal miners and endorsed Manchin in the 2018 United States Senate election in West Virginia, [240] urged him to revisit his opposition; the UMWA noted that the bill included an extension of a fund providing benefits to coal miners with black lung disease as well as tax ...
Betty Jean Hall, an Appalachian attorney and federal administrative judge who paved the way for women to enter the coal mining workforce, has died. Hall died Friday in Cary, N.C., where she had ...