Victims can drown in flooded shafts, get lost in underground tunnels or perish from poisonous gases present in many old coal mines. Mine shafts can extend hundreds of feet beneath the surface and ...

But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

He said many old ... mines beneath your property, and how much ground cover there is. Pennsylvania Mine Map Atlas - Navigate to your site location in the map and view detailed underground coal ...

Corsa Coal Corp. has provided official notification of plans to lay off 332 employees throughout its 10 locations in Somerset County, effective this Friday. A Worker Adjustment and Retraining ...

18, 2022 6:00 a.m. On an unusually warm day in what would normally be the dead of winter, melting snow perfectly illustrated why an old Pittsburgh ... “But the coal from these mines is what ...

Cambria County, Pa (WJAC) — An update on the Somerset County Coal Company that filed for bankruptcy in January. Corsa Coal and Wilson Creek's motion to sell was approved in federal bankruptcy ...

If I die down there well I'll die down there." Tutty starting working in the Glace Bay coal mines when he was 14 years old. His father had drowned and Tutty became the first in five generations to ...

Minutes after a widow emotionally testified about losing her 29-year-old husband in a deadly 2005 ... Republican senators supporting the bill said small coal mines need the financial relief ...