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Monongah mining disaster - 1907 explosion in West Virginia that killed at least 362 miners. Spurred the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines. Farmington Mine disaster - 1968 explosion in West Virginia that killed 78 miners and caused changes in mine safety legislation. Sago Mine disaster - 2006 explosion in West Virginia that killed 12 ...
The cause of the explosion was never determined, but the accident served as the catalyst for several new laws that were enacted to protect miners. The Farmington No. 9 Mine Memorial, bearing the names of the men who died, is located at the entrance of Flat Run Road in Mannington, West Virginia.
The Monongah mining disaster was a coal mine explosion on December 6, 1907, at Fairmont Coal Company's Nos. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia, which killed 362 miners. It has been described as "the worst mining disaster in American history" [ 1 ] and was one of the contributing events that led to the creation of the United States Bureau ...
Mar. 14—By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph GHENT — A fiery crash at a turnpike tollbooth in Raleigh County resulted in three confirmed deaths, a trooper with the West Virginia State ...
Mar. 12—Troopers with the West Virginia State Police Troop 7 are still investigating a fatal crash that occurred near the Ghent toll booth. On Monday, March 11, a vehicle traveling northbound on ...
The Ashland, Kentucky, company hired a structural engineer, who determined explosive forces in the West Virginia mine reached as high as 60 to 90 psi". [95] This assertion was made by the company in its March 14, 2006, news release announcing the reopening of the mine and the findings of its initial study of reasons for the accident. [96]
On Oct. 11, 2000, a spill from a Martin County Coal Corp. waste containment pond polluted more than 100 miles of creeks, streams and rivers running through Kentucky and West Virginia.
The state of West Virginia also sued the Buffalo Creek-Pittston Coal Company for $100 million (equivalent to $503 million today) in disaster and relief damages, but a smaller settlement was reached for just $1 million ($5 million today) with Governor Moore, three days before he left office in 1977.