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Scotia Mine Disaster of 1976

March 10, 2010 admin 0 Comment 119, 1976, 26 iners, 34, 76, administration, blast, blue, caudill, comprehensive, cumberland, diamond, died, disaster, dori, dust, eastern, explosion, fork, griffith, hayes, health, herald, hjalmarson, huff, hughes, illed, inspector, kentucky, ky, leader, lexington, memorial, mike, mine, miner, minerva, mining, misty, mountain, msha, oven, pat, remember, river, robert, safety, scotia, seams, silica, us 119, wade, whitesburg

I found this article in the Lexington Herald Leader and thought I would share it with you.Â This mining disaster

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Wilson "Rome" Meade, 58,Dies In Mining Accident

June 10, 2009 admin 0 Comment 40 years, 59, accident, accident june, administration, appalachian, appalachian regional hospital, appalachianfolk.com, arlan, block, blocks, coal, coal industry, coal miner, concrete, construction, conveyer, corporation, crush, crushing, d and c, d&c, d&c mining, d&c mining corp, dead, death, deid, dies, equiptment, family, friends, harlan, harlan appalachian regional, harlan co, harlan county, harlan regional hospital, health, herald leader, kentucky, ky, load, meade, mine, mine safety, miner, mining, mining accident, news, obituary, regional hospital, rome, rome meade, sad, safety, trailer, u.s. mine safety and health administration, underground, us, veteran, wilson, wilson meade

Its a sad day in Harlan County, Kentucky.Â Mr Wilson “Rome” Meade, a veteran underground coal miner, died last night

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