Vol. 75/No. 37      October 17, 2011

The death comes after four miners were killed September 15 in Wales.

There are just seven deep mines and 20 drift mines with about 3,500 miners in the United Kingdom.

This is the third death in this mine since 2008. In 2010, some 200 workers were evacuated from Kellingley after an underground methane explosion.

“We’ve lost three miners in three years at the same colliery. I think something needs to be looked into,” Betty Cook, whose son Don died in a rock fall at Kellingley in 2008, told BBC.

UK Coal pled guilty to safety violations that caused the deaths of four miners at two other mines. The company faces sentencing at Sheffield Crown Court in October.
 
 
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