Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hussain Ahamad Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2024. In the application, the allegation was in respect of illegal mining of earth from the nearby agricultural field by brick kilns in an area in Muzaffarnagar district. Pits were …
Two workers had been reported trapped inside a 30ft-deep gem mine in Angammana in Ratnapura this evening. Initial reports said the mine had collapsed following a water leakage while the workers were engaged in digging. The fate of the trapped workers is not known. Ratnapura fire brigade had been brought …
Six people were confirmed dead and one injured after a coal mine gas blast on Saturday night in southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities said. The accident occurred at about 11:50 p.m. at Hongxing Coal Mine in Pu'an county of Qianxinan prefecture, according to the county government. The injured person …
At least three coal miners were killed in an accident in Duki tehsil of Lorali district, some 240 kilometres north of Quetta, on Tuesday. The miners were busy extracting coal from a mine. Suddenly, the trolley they were loading with coal went out of control. Resultantly, three miners sustained serious …
The mine, closed for years, was reopened six months back, says a minerd A coal miner was killed when a portion of the Bharat Coking Coal Limited’s underground coal mine collapsed in Nirsa, Dhanbad on Monday. Three mine workers remained trapped inside the mine at Basantimata colliery till late Monday …
Four miners have died of suffocation inside hazardous rat-hole coal pits in a remote mining area near the Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya’s South West Khasi Hills district and another was crushed in a quarry, officials said today. The incident took place on Thursday evening but the matter was brought to …
Rescuers carry the body of a miner onto an ambulance at the entrance of Zhengsheng Coal Mine in Fenyang of North China's Shanxi province on October 8, Tuesday, ten days after the mine flooded. Ten miners have been confirmed dead. [Photo/Xinhua] FENYANG, Shanxi - Ten miners were confirmed dead after …
"You come out with the truth or we will dig it out," the National Green Tribunal today warned the Meghalaya government after it stated that 15 persons, who were allegedly trapped inside a coal mine in Garo Hills in a 2012 mining accident, could have escaped as no bodies were …
Four miners have been trapped after a coal mine pit collapsed late Monday night in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, local authorities said Tuesday. The accident occurred around 11:54 pm at the Huangyuchuan coal mine, located in the township of Xuejiawan in Jungar Banner. The mine is owned by …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) today directed Meghalaya government to furnish the reports of the National Disaster Response Force and the FIR registered regarding a July 2012 mining accident that allegedly killed 15 miners. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar called for the complete records and files after …
The death toll in the coal dump crash at a Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) site in Odisha’s Sundargarh district reached 14 on Sunday night as four more bodies were recovered and the rescue operation resumed, a MCL spokesman said. “On Sunday morning toll was 10. It rose to 14 in …
Four more bodies were today extricated from under a coal dump which crashed at an open cast mine of the Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd in Odisha’s Sundargarh district yesterday, taking the toll to 14, though police confirmed 10 deaths. An official of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) maintained that 14 bodies had …
Consistently clocking negative growth for the past two years, the mining industry now has some good news: this has been the safest period with the number of fatal accidents hitting an all-time low of 112 in 2011 and rising marginally to 116 in 2012. “Mining accidents and fatalities have gone …
The death toll from two separate colliery accidents in south-west China has risen to 40, even as the authorities blamed illegal mining for the tragedies. Rescuers have saved 80 miners, while 28 others were confirmed dead in the gas explosion that took place yesterday in Taozigou coal mine in S-W …
The death toll from a colliery accident in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Saturday has risen to 28 after an injured miner died after rescue efforts failed, local authorities said on Sunday. A total of 108 miners were working underground when a gas accident happened around 2 pm in Taozigou …
Two brothers were killed on Monday when a part of a coal mine of Bharat Coking Coal in the Dugdha police station area collapsed. The duo was illegally excavating coal from the abandoned mine when the accident happened around 5 am. Family members of Sahru Mahto (32) and his younger …
The State government has asked mining companies to put in place safety measures as part of monsoon preparedness at their mines to ensure safety of lives and property of the people residing in the vicinity of the mining leases. In an order issued on Monday, Directorate of Mines and Geology …
SHILLONG: Concerned over the frequent accidents in the coal mines of the State leading to death of coal labourers, the State Labour Department has decided to organise sensitization cum training programmes in East Jaintia Hills, where a large number of coal mines are located. Coal labourers continue to perish in …
Watchdog says blasts in Jilin killed 42 workers, 11 remain missing The State Council will launch full investigations into two gas blasts at a coal mine in Jilin province that involve concealing the number of dead from the first blast, China's work safety watchdog announced. The Babao Coal Mine in …
BEIJING, 6 APRIL: Nine miners were today trapped underground after flooding occurred in a coal mine in southwest China's Guizhou Province. Thirty-two others were lifted out of shaft safely, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted local authorities as saying. Forty-one miners were working underground when the incident took place early this …
Authorities are facing unusual criticism over mining projects Chinese authorities are facing unusual criticism over mining projects in Tibet from both Tibetan writers and a number of prominent Chinese public figures, in the wake of landslips on Friday that left at least 83 people buried in a county near Lhasa. …
