VIDEO: Both workers in Kentucky coal preparation plant collapse found dead MARTIN COUNTY, KY (WOWK) — The Kentucky Education and Labor Cabinet fined Skeens Enterprises $31,500 for safety ...

Investigators believe the two men were digging for coal on a hillside along Stone Gap Road in Manchester, Kentucky, when the hill collapsed on top of them, Walter Marker, a sheriff's deputy ...

Part 1. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky: The decline of coal jobs caused economic collapse in eastern Kentucky. In the 1970s, Pike County was one of the ...

For the second year, Kentucky lawmakers try to weaken a mine safety law enacted in response to a worker's death in a Harlan ...

Over several days in late July 2022, complexes of “training” thunderstorms — meaning they came one after another like train cars — rolled through Eastern Kentucky, pouring out a ...

They have a saying in eastern Kentucky ... plants. Without mechanizing themselves, the small mines will be forced to maintain low 8 Inland Steel photo A Joy loader in Inland Steel mine scoops up coal.

And it has done so despite the fact that coal plants can quickly ramp up during fierce winter weather — when wind turbines and solar panels fail, or when gas pipelines freeze. Kentucky and ...