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    The Upper Big Branch Mine disaster occurred on April 5, 2010, roughly 1,000 feet (300 m) underground in Raleigh County, West Virginia at Massey Energy's...
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    since the 1968 Farmington Mine disaster. It was exceeded four years later by the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, also a coal mine explosion in West Virginia...
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    2007 Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster in Russia, the 2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion in China, and the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in the United States...
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  • Carolina Big Branch (Crabtree Creek tributary), a stream in Wake County, North Carolina Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge Upper Big Branch Mine disaster...
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  • underground mines and 12 surface mines. Massey Energy owned and operated Upper Big Branch Mine where 29 miners were killed in April 2010. The Mine Safety and...
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  • China (March 15) Wangjialing coal mine flood at Shanxi, People's Republic of China (March 28) Upper Big Branch Mine disaster at Raleigh County, West Virginia...
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    5, 2010: Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, West Virginia, United States. An explosion occurred in Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine. Twenty-nine...
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    is home to the Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial, a monument dedicated to the miners who were killed in the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in nearby Montcoal...
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  • illegally. April 5, 2010: Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, West Virginia. An explosion occurred in Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal. 29 of 31 miners at...
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  • in Kentucky, October 2000 Magellan Metals mine, lead dust in Australia, 2006 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, April 2010 Padcal tailings...
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  • were written for the off-Broadway play Coal Country about the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in 2010. Earle collaborated on the play written by Jessica Blank...
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    coal mining disaster in state history. More recently, the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, which killed twenty-nine miners, occurred in Raleigh County...
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    at Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine resulted in the death of 29 workers. He served one year in prison for conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards...
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  • Mine Safety and Health Administration levied a fine of more than US$10.8 million on Performance Coal Co. following the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster...
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    both the devastating Deepwater Horizon environmental disaster and the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster that killed 29 miners in West Virginia, Turner stated...
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    western Pennsylvania as well as the Sago Mine disaster and Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia and other regions have also been highlighted...
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    conditions for miners, particularly in the coal industry. After the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster of 2010, where an explosion caused by negligence led to the...
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    which included a large block of coal in remembrance of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster that was placed on a decorative pedestal for players, coaches...
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    during the 2005–2014 decade were 48 in 2010, the year of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, which killed 29 miners. Chronic lung diseases...
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    April 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, the worst in the U.S. in forty years, Solis announced that the Labor Department's Mine Safety...
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  • and Blank's documentary play, Coal Country, about the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, opened at The Public Theater on March 3, 2020, directed by...
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    This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at diplomatic missions of the United States...
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    News Coverage", was given for the station's coverage of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in Montcoal, West Virginia. The second, in the category of "Audio...
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    2007 Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster in Russia, the 2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion in China, and the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in the United States...
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  • coal, behind BHP and Teck Resources. Alpha settled Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine disaster liabilities with the U.S. Attorney for $209 million on December...
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  • ofiar eksplozji gazu w Gdańsku". 29 October 2014. Talbott, Tim. "Scotia Mine Disaster". ExploreKYHistory. Retrieved 27 June 2023. "Explosion kills 67 at school...
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    conviction for conspiring to undermine federal mine safety laws, which caused the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster. On December 28, 2015, Goodwin announced that...
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    experience with mining disasters. Washington Post writer Peter Galuszka (author of a book on the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster) said the attraction "hits...
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    during the 2005–2014 decade were 48 in 2010, the year of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, which killed 29 miners. Accidents are not...
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    and the Afterschool Caucuses.[better source needed] After the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Capito founded the Congressional Coal Caucus. Capito served...
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