The two deaths recorded in Kentucky's surface coal mines last year set a new state safety record, the state Environmental and Protection Cabinet announced last week.Kentucky Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Susan Bush said in a release that Kentucky leads the nation in the number of coal mines and is the nation's third-largest producer of coal.Records dating back o 1890 indicate Kentucky suffered its deadliest decade in the 1920s, when 1,614 mining fatalities were recorded. Deaths have since steadily decreased. Kentucky logged 242 fatalities in the 1980s, 117 fatalities in ...
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