Rescue crews began working their way through a West Virginia coal mine ... MSHA cited the mine with two safety violations - one involving inadequate maps of escape routes, the other concerning ...

Dangerous gases forced rescue crews to abandon the search today for four coal miners missing since an explosion killed 25 colleagues in the worst U.S. mining ... Carlson in West Virginia; Mitch ...

Rescue teams were poised Wednesday night to enter the West Virginia mine to see if anyone survived ... One of the violations was not having adequate maps of escape routes. West Virginia Gov.

There have been 122 safety violations at Upper Big Branch mine so far this year. Apr. 6, 2010 — -- Critics say a surge of federal safety citations and revealing internal corporate memos all ...

If you can't, you denote it on a map and move quickly ... pledged a thorough investigation. The mine is about 30 miles south of Charleston, West Virginia. "Twenty-five hardworking men died ...

The scars left by the mining industry are ubiquitous in West Virginia, nowhere more so than in the southern coalfields where abandoned mine tipples tower beside mountains disfigured by long gone ...

Hyre Stalnaker was working in the carpenter shop at the coal mines of Monongah, West Virginia, when the explosion came. First he heard the blast; then he felt the tremor. Seconds later ...

They had spent more than four hours working their way through the Upper Big Branch mine by rail car and on ... and videojournalist Mark Carlson in West Virginia; Mitch Weiss and Mike Baker in ...