ISHN 50th anniversary: Days to Remember -- historic dates since 1967
Since 1967 when ISHN launched, these are historic dates…
FARMINGTON MINE DISASTER in West Virginia traps 99 miners; 21 are able to escape but 78 perish. The bodies of 19 men are never recovered. In a lawsuit filed 48 years after the tragedy – and based on newly revealed evidence the widows and children of the victims charge that Consolidation Coal employees disabled an alarm that could have alerted the miners to evacuate before the first deadly explosion occurred.