Fast Facts: Recent Mine Disasters
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A look at U.S. coal mining disasters in recent years:
2001: Explosions at a Jim Walter Resources Inc. mine in Brookwood, Ala., kills 13 people.
1992: A blast at a Southmountain Coal Co. mine in Norton, Va., kills eight.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}1989: An explosion at a Pyro Mining Co. mine in Wheatcroft, Ky., kills 10.
1986: A coal pile collapses at Consolidation Coal Co.'s mine in Fairview, W.Va., killing five.
1984: A fire at Emery Mining Corp.'s mine in Orangeville, Utah, kills 27.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The deadliest coal mining disaster in U.S. history was an explosion in 1907 in Monongah, W.Va., that killed 362 people.