Mine safety lags 2 years after explosion
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Two years after an explosion tore apart the Sago Mine and killed 12 men, prompting Congress to pass legislation strengthening mine safety standards, many of those standards have yet to be implemented.
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At least 13 people were killed and up to 23 injured in an explosion in a Siberian mine. The blast, which was caused by methane, happened as a repair team was fixing a section of the mine near Russia&#39;s border with Mongolia.
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Carbon monoxide prevents rescuers from reaching 141 men trapped following a deadly mine blast in central China.
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Beijing, Nov. 28 (NNN): A mine explosion at the state-owned Chenjiashan in central Chinaâs Shaanxi province left some 200 persons trapped underground early on Sunday, according to Chinese officials here.
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A government safety crackdown helped cut the number of deaths in China&#39;s accident-plagued coal mines by 13 per cent in the first nine months of this year, but fatalities in other industries rose, the government said Thursday.
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XINTAI, China, Aug. 23 -- The first sign of trouble was a stream of water that burst from a wall deep in the mine, Wang Kuitao recalled. Within minutes, he said, the water was everywhere, rushing down the shaft carrying tons of mud. Another disaster was on the way, Wang quickly concluded, one more...
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THE death toll in a coal mine explosion in central China has risen to 63, with 103 miners still missing. The Government said yesterday an underground fire and toxic fumes from the blast hampered rescue work.
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By SARAH ANTONACCI STAFF WRITER  The explosion at the Illiopolis Formosa Plastics plant that killed five workers almost three years ago might have been prevented if the facility's owners had strengthened safety protections, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - In Poland's worst mining disaster since the 1970s, all 23 miners caught in a gas explosion in a pit in the south of the country were confirmed dead on Thursday.
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At least 25 miners died in a major gas explosion at a mine in China Sunday, while 141 men remained trapped underground. Forty-five of the 127 miners rescued were injured, reported Xinhua, China&#39;s main government-run news agency.
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Accidents in China's notoriously dangerous coal mines killed nearly 3,800 people last year, state media reported Saturday Â a toll that is a marked improvement from previous years, but still leaves China's mines the world's deadliest.
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More than 70 people were in the shaft when the explosion occurred at the coal mine in Shanxi province, near the city of Yangquan. Twenty-eight men were killed in the initial blast, and five others died during a rescue attempt.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va., Jan. 27 -- The federal agency that regulates the nation's mining industry says it has failed to penalize mine operators for thousands of citations issued since 2000, and the oversight could extend back more than a decade.
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A GAS explosion in a coal mine killed at least 56 miners and left at least 92 missing in Chinaâs worst mining accident this year.
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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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The death toll from a devastating coal mine blast in central China has jumped to 122, with 26 people still missing six days after the explosion.
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A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China killed 33 workers in the 10th deadly mine blast reported in three months. The explosion occurred yesterday at 4:20 pm at Nanlou township