On November 30, 1968, the Consolidated Coal Company's Number 9 Mine was sealed, ten days after an explosion that resulted in the deaths of 78 miners.
Learn more:
Farmington Mine Disaster
"Sealing of Farmington Mine Is Complete"
Testimony From the Official Hearing on the
Farmington Mine Disaster
"78 Miners Entombed in Farmington No. 9 After
Blasts Rip Workings"
List of Those Killed in the Farmington Mine
Disaster
Map of the Farmington Mine Disaster
President Nixon Signs the Coal Mine Health and Safety
Act
Video Clip on the Farmington Mine Disaster
On This Day in West Virginia History: November
