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Jan 20, 2019 · But before the modern epidemic plaguing coal miners, there was the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster, a long-forgotten example of the occupational dangers of silica dust — and the government's...
Apr 16, 1989 · April 16, 1989 12 AM PT. During the years of the Great Depression, a marvel of civil engineering comprising a dam, tunnel, power station and plant, was erected in the hills of West Virginia. For...
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Mar 11, 2020 · The worst occupational health disaster in American history occurred in the 1930s when hundreds of men died and over a thousand fell ill from acute silicosis contracted during the building of Union Carbide's Hawk's Nest Tunnel through Gauley Mountain in West Virginia.
According to this apocryphal narrative, the southeast corner of the bluff on the grounds of Riverside Cemetery is not only the final resting place of many of Cleveland's early civic and industrial leaders, but also that of Summer Rain, mother of Black Hawk. Images.
A gripping account of the intense battle between U.S. forces and Somali street fighters in Mogadishu on October 3, 1993, in which eighteen American soldiers and an estimated five hundred Somalis...
Mar 6, 2006 · Silicosis forced itself onto the American consciousness in the spring of 1931, through what became one of the nation's worst industrial accidents: the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster.
Apr 16, 2018 · The poem is not a snapshot of the disaster, but rather a series of snapshots capturing Gauley Bridge and Hawk’s Nest in different moments: the miner’s camp, the tunnel, the homes of the bereaved and the ill, gatherings of survivors who were advocating for justice, and Congressional hearings.
