"There is no block of coal worth any man's life," said another miner. Coal shoots out as it travels from a silo at the Iron Senergy coal mine plant, April 16, 2025, in Kirby, Pa.

Retired coal miner Emory “Curly” Carter, 70, sits at his kitchen table on April 15 in Madison, West Virginia. Carter retired from mining in 2012 and began receiving federal benefits for black ...

To Wolfe, that’s a problem. About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung, Wolfe said. And from 1970 to 2016, more than 75,000 died.

Between 1900 and 1960, cave-ins, explosions, other disasters and mining accidents killed nearly 100,000 coal miners on the job. It’s unclear exactly how many more miners died in those years from ...

Without monitoring, Laney says, coal miners will die, and no one will keep score. LANEY: It's going to have impacts on my neighbors. It's going to be killing young men. And that story will go untold.

The surprise move to delay miner safety measures comes against the backdrop of Trump's renewed push to return coal as a primary energy source in the United States. In the executive order signed ...

Nationwide, one in 10 working miners is now estimated to have black lung. In the heart of the central Appalachian coal fields, it’s one in five.