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The disaster occurred just a few months after the U.S. officially declared war on Germany and entered World War I, and at a time when mining companies throughout Western Kentucky were feuding with ...
The Hurricane Creek Mine Memorial is the memorial commemorating the 1970 Finley Mine explosion, which killed thirty-eight coal miners [8] and left one survivor. The memorial is located in Leslie County, Kentucky [9] built on the Finely Mine site. The memorial was planned by the friends and families of the lost miners to honor them.
Pages in category "Coal mining disasters in Kentucky" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
The Scotia Mine was a coal mine that operated in the community of Oven Fork in Letcher County, Kentucky. The mine began operations in 1962, as a subsidiary of the Blue Diamond Coal Company. In March 1976, two explosions occurred within the mine, killing 26 miners. The explosions led to the passage of several acts relating to safety in coal ...
More recently, in December 2018, the Kentucky Department for Natural Resources issued a surface mining and reclamation permit for the site to a different company, Lexington Coal Company LLC, which ...
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Map showing location of Martin County in Kentucky Wolf Creek on October 22, 2000. The Martin County coal slurry spill was a mining accident that occurred after midnight on October 11, 2000, when the bottom of a coal slurry impoundment owned by Massey Energy in Martin County, Kentucky, broke into an abandoned underground mine below. [1]
Coal companies have surface-mined an estimated 1.5 million acres of land in Central Appalachia, which includes Eastern Kentucky, since the mid-1970s, according to research by Appalachian Voices ...