Tag: miners

A mine cage was supposed to carry workers safely down into the darkness and back again, but when something went wrong, it could become a…

In April 1913, the hills around Finleyville, Pennsylvania, shook with the force of a mine explosion so violent it shattered windows hundreds of yards away….

In the summer of 1909, the strike at the Pressed Steel Car Company in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, had become a scene of hunger, fear, and…

In the coal regions of western Pennsylvania, danger was never far beneath the surface.  Men went underground each day into narrow passages where darkness, gas,…