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• Source: Charleston Gazette
• Date: November 05, 2006
• URL: Read the story
• Bylines: Ken Ward Jr.
• Topics: Business , Safety
• Data Types: Federal Data
• Description/Excerpt: Mine disasters like Sago get headlines. But far more coal miners die as Bud Morris did - alone, crushed by heavy equipment, ground up by runaway machinery, buried beneath collapsed mine roofs: Only 13 percent of the more than 100,000 coal miners killed in the United States in the last 100 years have died in mine disasters, which regulators define as accidents causing five or more deaths. Between 1996 and 2005, there were 297 fatal coal-mining accidents that killed a total of 320 workers, U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration data shows.