Dennis Smedley, 101, is thought to be the last surviving employee who worked at Creswell Colliery when 80 men died during an ...

On May 11, 1910, a coal mine in Whitehaven, England, became the site of one of the region’s deadliest disasters. The Wellington Pit explosion caught miners off guard - and only a few would make it out ...

—1942: China’s northeast is the site of the world’s deadliest coal mine disaster when an accident kills 1,549 miners in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during World War II. —1906: A dust explosion in a ...

LONDON (AP) — The British government said Monday that it will hold a public inquiry into the “Battle of Orgreave,” a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners that became a ...