SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - Operators of the Crandall Canyon Mine engaged in risky "retreat mining," causing a coal blast that trapped and killed six miners, and three rescuers also were killed and six ...

The method of mining used at the Utah mine that collapsed Monday, trapping six miners, has a history of being disproportionately deadly, according to federal safety studies. The Crandall Canyon mine ...

As frustration mounts over the slow pace of the digging to free six trapped miners, more questions arose Tuesday about whether risky mining methods may have left parts of the coal mine dangerously ...

Following the multiple tragedies unfolding at the Crandall Canyon coal mine in Utah, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is reminding mine operators and mine workers that ...

WASHINGTON – The mining technique used in the Crandall Canyon Mine in Huntington, Utah, where six miners are trapped, involved collapsing the roof of the mine – a method that dislodges such a ...

Layers of rock overhead rumble like thunder, dirt and pebbles rain down. What is a miner to do? "You run for your life," said Tim Miller, who toiled in Kentucky's mines for more than two decades.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah's senators said Friday they will try to earmark $1 million next week for a study on the safety of mining coal deep below ground. Nine people died at the Crandall Canyon mine ...

Several coal miners, including at least one of the six men trapped in the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah, expressed concern about dangers underground before the August 6 cave-in. More than week after ...

CUMBERLAND, KY. - Layers of rock overhead rumble like thunder. Dirt and pebbles rain down. A rock fall is imminent. So what is a miner to do? "You run for your life," said Tim Miller, who toiled in ...

Robert Murray is the son of an Ohio coal miner. He is a successful businessman with 11 mines in five states. He also has a reputation for being outspoken and provocative, and that is how he was in a ...