REMEMBERING LIVES LOST Memorial Honors 78 Lives Lost During Farmington Mine Explosion 44 Years Ago
Reported by: Bethany Simmons
Web Producer: Bethany Simmons
Reported: Nov. 19, 2012 10:06 AM EST
Updated: Nov. 19, 2012 10:17 AM EST
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Marion County
, West Virginia
It's been 44 years since a deadly mine explosion in Marion County.
Seventy-eight miners lost their lives in the Farmington Coal mine explosion on Nov. 20, 1968.
Ninety-nine men were inside the Marion County mine at the time of the explosion; only 21 men made it out alive. Nineteen of those miners remain entombed inside the mine.
A public memorial was held Sunday in memory of the miners who died that day. Cecil Roberts, the president of the United Mine Workers of America, addressed the crowd.
Congress passed the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act after that deadly explosion.
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Bethany Simmons
