No.9: The 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster

No.9: The 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster explains how such a disaster could happen-how the coal company and federal and state officials failed to protect the 78 men who died in the mountain. Based on public records and interviews with those who worked in the mine, No.9 describes the conditions underground before and after the disaster and the legal struggles of the miners' widows to gain justice and transform coal mine safety legislation.

Author: Bonnie E. Stewart
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 11/01/2012
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781933202778
ISBN10: 1933202777
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- Technology & Engineering | Mining
- History | United States | 20th Century

About the Author

Bonnie E. Stewart is Assistant Professor of Journalism at West Virginia University. She is a former investigative reporter whose work earned The George Polk Award and the national Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service.