Sentences with phrase «coal miners died»

Tens of thousands of coal miners died at work through the 20th Century.

Little Accidents reminds us of this and shows how tragedy is able to divide the small community of Beckley, West Virginia when ten coal miners die in a collapsed mine.

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When you look at the number of people who are dying on the job, when you look at the health of communities, when you look at the bp oil spill, the death of coal miners, we are paying in a different way for industries that are dirty.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

A man tells a woman and another man that he and three other coal miners were in a mine waiting for radiation to dissipate above ground, when one of the miners «snapped» and tore two of the men to bloody shreds with his bare hands, killing them; the speaking man says he stared strongly into the mad man's eyes, making the killer turn around and leave the area, and he died three hours later.

His subjects have included street eccentrics, homeless children, street performers, provincial drug traffickers, coal miners, Buddhist monks, prison inmates, Taoist priests, waxwork figures in historical museums, and the dead and dying.

When Whitten was a young child, his father, a coal miner, died and his mother, a seamstress was left to support her children.

Whitten was born in Bessemer, Alabama, the son of a seamstress and a coal miner who died when he was a child.