Sealing blocks failed in Sago Mine blast
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The 12 men who died in the Sago coal mine explosion in January would have survived if foam blocks designed to seal off an abandoned section had withstood the blast, according to an independent report released Wednesday.
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The use of a cutting torch and flawed construction of a safety barrier caused a May 20 explosion at an eastern Kentucky coal mine that killed five miners, a state investigation has concluded.
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JHARIA, India  - Indian rescue teams struggled on   Friday to locate and remove the charred bodies of 54 miners   killed after the roof of a state-owned coal mine collapsed   following an explosion, authorities said.
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Mine safety officials say a sealing material used at a southeastern Kentucky mine where an explosion killed five miners is an easy and cost-effective way to contain combustible gases, but others in the industry say convenience comes at a cost.
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A blast at a Siberian mine killed 13 men in the latest disaster to strike Russia's accident-prone industry that has been chronically short of funds following the Soviet collapse.
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Two men who worked at West Virginia's Sago Mine during the January disaster that killed 12 miners have committed suicide in the past month, state police said Tuesday.
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YUBILEYNAYA MINE, Russia  - An explosion at a Siberian coal mine killed at least 35 people on Thursday, emergency officials said, weeks after 110 miners died in a blast at a neighboring mine operated by the same company.
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By 1 pm on Sunday, 123 miners were rescued alive after a major gas explosion took place at the Chenjiashan Coalmine, Shaanxi Province, around 7:10 am but another 170 remained trapped underground.
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A sixth bore hole, drilled into a space where six trapped Utah miners were thought to be working when the mine collapsed on August 6, has revealed that the chamber contains no space where the men could have survived, an attorney representing some of the miners' family members said Saturday.
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ALMATY, Dec 5: Twenty-three coal miners died on Sunday when a methane gas blast tore through a mine owned by a global Indian steel producer in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, the latest accident to strike the Soviet-era industry.
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Struggling 1,000 feet below ground, rescuers drew close Saturday to a section of a collapsed mine shaft where they hoped to find 71 coal miners missing in a gas explosion. The number of confirmed dead rose to 77.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va., Aug. 31 -- West Virginia alerted its underground coal-mining operations about potential problems with emergency air packs Thursday after decay was found inside packs carried by state mine inspectors.
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A wall of thick smoke blocked rescuers on Monday from 141 Chinese miners trapped after a gas explosion in a coal mine in northern China that killed at least 25, and officials saw scant hope of finding more survivors.
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Rescue teams struggled to locate  and remove the charred bodies of 54 Indian miners killed after  the roof of a state-owned coal mine collapsed following an  explosion, authorities said on Friday.
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POISONOUS fumes were preventing rescuers from reaching 141 miners trapped underground at a coalmine in northern China yesterday after an explosion that killed 25 of their colleagues.
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TONGCHUAN, China  - At least 25 miners were killed and some 140 were trapped when a gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northern China, in what could be the worst disaster to hit the world&#39;s biggest coal producer in recent years.
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The brand of air pack used by miners during the Sago Mine disaster is prone to have damaged air hoses and can make it difficult for miners to breathe, according to a federal report obtained by The Associated Press.