Union: Mine Safety Still Lacking
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More than a year after the Sago mine explosion that killed 12 miners, protections for miners who become trapped underground have not yet been implemented
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Safety measures have still not been introduced on some military aircraft, two years after a crash killed 10 servicemen, the BBC learns.
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By Tim Huber CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Underground coal mines must provide up to four days of breathable air to keep miners alive in emergencies such as an explosion or a tunnel collapse, federal regulators announced Thursday.
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The death toll in a gas explosion in a Chinese coal mine rose to 64 today with 84 still missing as another 41 miners were reported killed or missing in two other accidents.
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Rescue teams tried to reach 86 trapped  miners on Friday after one of China's worst mine disasters in  years killed at least 62 people, prompting calls for action by  the president, state media said.
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Reportedly a fire in an iron mine in Northern China has killed eight miners and 79 miners are still unable to be reached. According to the news from New Chinese News Agency, five miners managed to escape from
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The construction industry comes under fire from unions for its "failure" to act to prevent workplace fatalities.
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Workers were frustrated there was no industrywide standard for reporting suspicious activity - until now.
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Two workers at West Virginia's   Sago coal mine committed suicide in the last month, nine months   after 12 miners died there in the state's worst mining disaster   for almost 40 years, the mine's owner said on Wednesday.
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As they sat behind a curtain that held back thick smoke but not deadly carbon monoxide, the doomed crew of the Sago Mine talked about the rescue they thought was coming, the sole survivor says.
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The final death toll from a coal mine explosion in central China is likely to rise from 56 to 148, as those still trapped have little chance of survival, an official in charge of work safety says.
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Miners at the site of Sunday&#39;s coal mine blast in northwest China were forced to continue working after a fire broke out last week, reports said Tuesday.
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MOSCOW, May 24 -- For the second time since mid-March, a devastating explosion ripped through a Siberian coal mine Thursday killing dozens of workers and renewing questions about the safety of Russia's mining industry.
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Rescuers faced thick smoke and   blistering temperatures on Thursday as they tried to reach more   than 30 miners trapped underground by a fire at a Siberian gold   mine.
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Top federal safety officials urged the Labor Department in 2006 to adopt critical regulations to prevent deadly dust explosions Â like the one suspected in the deadly blast in a Georgia sugar plant Thursday Â but the government has failed to do so.
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Health and safety officials are urged to act after a report finds one in three industry deaths occur on building sites.
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BEIJING Chinese rescuers a thousand feet underground have struggled closer today to a section of a collapsed mine shaft where they hoped to find 71 coal miners missing in a gas explosion.