Documents showing safety records were falsified after a mine disaster which killed 266 people have been on display in Wrexham. They were among a host of exhibits marking the anniversary of the ...

Dennis Smedley, 101, is thought to be the last surviving employee who worked at Creswell Colliery when 80 men died during an underground fire at the pit's main trunk conveyor transfer point on 26 ...

An avalanche of rain-loosened coal slag cascaded down a Welsh mountainside today, burying a school, shops and homes in this mining village.

LONDON (AP) — The British government said Monday that it will hold a public inquiry into the “Battle of Orgreave,” a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners that became a ...

—1942: China’s northeast is the site of the world’s deadliest coal mine disaster when an accident kills 1,549 miners in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during World War II. —1906: A dust explosion in a ...