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Emergency rescue efforts are underway to save a worker who got trapped inside the flooded Rolling Thunder coal mine in West ...

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West Virginia's governor says the search for a trapped worker inside a flooded coal mine remains a rescue operation.

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In 1959, miners in Pennsylvania faced a nightmare when the Susquehanna River broke into an underground coal mine. Water rushed in, trapping workers and destroying the industry in the region. This ...

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