CHARLESTON, W.Va. -Coal mining deaths surged in the U.S. in 2017, one year after they hit a record low. The nation's coal mines recorded 15 deaths last year, including eight in West Virginia. Kentucky had two deaths, and Alabama, Colorado, Montana, Pennsylvania and Wyoming had one eac...
Kentucky and West Virginia each had two coal mining deaths in 2020, and there was one in Pennsylvania. The death of a coal miner on the job in Pennsylvania in February was attributed to natural causes and did not count as a mining-related accident. MSHA reported 2020 was the first year i...
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania owns the remaining parts of the borough. The last residents are, in a word, squatters. A long legal battle over the Congressional relief compensated remaining residents for their homes and land and allowed them to remain in them until they die. That said, these...
Steam locomotives designed by Richard Trevithick were used in the fields of South Wales and Tyne and later in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but they created too much smoke. Compressed-air locomotives, which appeared in the 1880s, proved expensive to operate. Electric locomotives, introduced in...
West Virginia was the state with the most coal-mining jobs in the United States, with some 14,014 employees in 2023.
One hundred seventy-eight resident cases, identified from certificates of death, were compared to three controls: digestive cancer deaths, arteriosclerotic heart disease deaths, and neighborhood (living) controls. Controls were matched to each case on age, race, sex, and residence. Interviews were ...
Following a decade that saw thousands of deaths in U.S. coal mine accidents, including 3,242 in one year alone, the first of a series of federal statutes is enacted to govern mine safety. Congress establishes the Bureau of Mines as a new agency in the Department of the Interior. 1911 ...
Burning coal generates air pollutants that cause thousands of premature deaths and hospitalizations every year. Coal mining, especially mountaintop mining, has been linked to increased exposure to toxic pollutants, increased morbidity and mortality, and adverse impacts on mental health for people living ...
A case-control study of stomach cancer in a coal mining region of Pennsylvania. Cancer 1985; 56: 7 0 3 - 1 3 .Weinberg GB, Kuller LH, Stehr PA. A case-control study of stomach cancer in a coal mining region of Pennsylvania. Cancer 1985;56:703-13....
“This will prevent premature deaths, illness & slash CO2 emissions,” former Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hangertweeted. But many across the political spectrum feared what would happen next to the small community of Homer City, in southwestern Pennsylvania,...