I’m happy you’re here
From 1900-2006, 11,606 underground coal mine workers died in 513 U.S. underground coal mining disasters, with most disasters resulting from explosions. Others include cutting into old workings.
A coal miner’s job is dangerous, but after doing
it day after day, you don’t think anything of it
until the worst happens. Who will survive,
who will not, maybe nobody. This is the story
no miner wants to tell.