To beat charges that he recklessly ignored safety standards before his coal mine blew up, killing 29 men in the...
Upper Big Branch Mine News
A worker at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine has agreed to surrender his underground assistant foreman license for three...
State standards aimed at reducing buildups of explosive coal dust in underground mines but regulators haven’t been enforced. More than...
Alpha Natural Resources has significantly cut its accident and injury rates in the six months since a landmark $210 million...
Nine men who survived West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine disaster want to abandon mediation of their personal injury claims...
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration could have prevented or reduced the likelihood of an April 2010 explosion in...
Coal miner Alpha Natural Resources has agreed to pay $1.5 million to each of the families of 29 miners killed...