Without programs provided by NIOSH, people in the mining industry and researchers are scrambling to find what else can be ...

Reported closures and firings at federal offices are creating concerns about the safety and health of coal miners.  On ...

In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over ...

Employers controlled almost every aspect of a Canadian coal miner's life in the early 1900s. The company owned the stores and houses in the mining town and determined the wages and working conditions.