BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WTRF) — Coal miners, veterans ... 7News reporter Mary Flavin shares how the Anniversary Memorial ...

On April 5, 2010, 29 miners lost their lives at the Upper Big Branch mine in Whitesville following a coal dust explosion ... state in the years following. A memorial was erected in 2012 to ...

Retired coal miner Stanley “Goose” Stewart questions whether it's safe for anyone to work in the industry right now. The Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial is illuminated Dec. 3, 2015 ...

The area is full of reminders of its coal mining past — the Miners Day celebration in Frederick; the “Daddy’s Home” statue and Miners Memorial in Frederick’s Crist Park; Coal Ridge ...