Consolidation Coal Company
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Coal Mining Disaster Reports Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4203
Overview
Mine disaster reports, official hearing reports, and hearing and inquest transcripts (1938-1967). Most of the mine disaster reports were created by inspectors from the West Virginia Department of Mines, and some of them involved federal inspectors. Other reports were created by the United States Bureau of Mines and the West Virginia Department of Mines Coal Mine Safety Board of Review. Also includes volumes 3 through 8 of the Decisions of the Interior Board of Mine...
Dates:
1938-1977
Consolidation Coal Company, Consultant Report and Clippings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1159
Overview
The collection consists of a typescript report by J.C. Gaskill, assistant consulting engineer, on accidents, fires, and explosions at the mines of the Consolidation Coal Company and other companies, 1886-1926; and newspaper clippings concerning Consolidation's operations around Fairmont, West Virginia.
Dates:
1915-1956
Farmington Mine Disaster, Newspaper Articles
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4087
Overview
Photocopies of newspaper articles regarding the Farmington Mine Disaster. The articles were photocopied, arranged by date, and labeled with bibliographic data by a professional clipping service. The Farmington Mine disaster was an explosion that happened on 20 November 1968, at the Consol No. 9 coal mine; 78 miners died as a result of the explosion. The Farmington disaster was a catalyst for major changes in mining safety laws, including the 1969 Coal Mine Safety and Health Act. This...
Dates:
1968-1969
Filtered By
- Subject: Coal mining - disasters. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Boone County (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Engineering 1
- Farmington Mine Disaster, Farmington, W. Va., 1968 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Marshall County (W. Va.) 1
- McDowell County (W. Va.) 1
- Mine explosions 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Raleigh County (W. Va.) 1
- Tucker County (W. Va.) 1
- Wyoming County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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