Documents showing safety records were falsified after a mine disaster which killed 266 people have been on display in Wrexham ...

—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 ...

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 ...

1,106,200. A report issued last week by the Ministry of Labor placed the number of miners unemployed as a result of the continued British coal strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) at 1,106,200. 3½ Hours. The ...

A former joiner who was working at a colliery during Derbyshire's deadliest mining disaster has said he has never forgotten the tragedy. Dennis Smedley, 101, is thought to be the last surviving ...

RATCLIFFE-ON-SOAR, England — When the coal-fired turbines at this sprawling power plant north of London went silent this week, the skies above its eight giant steam stacks finally cleared — and ...

Four august gentlemen have been inspecting the British coal industry with statistical microscopes since last August. Chairmaned by the noted industrialist, Sir Herbert Samuel, they constitute the ...