The coal mining town of Springhill, located in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, experienced two major underground explosions in 1956 and 1958. These events, which trapped and claimed the lives of numerous miners,... Read more »
The catastrophic event at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, Kentucky, on March 9, 1976, resulted in the deaths of 26 miners. A methane explosion, followed by a subsequent accumulation of... Read more »
