More than 2,000 Chinese miners have died in work-related incidents this year to date, but a remarkable story of survival has come out of that country. Brothers Meng Xianchen and Meng Xianyou dug their way out of an illegal coal mine five days after they became trapped in a tunnel collapse. They survived by drinking urine and eating coal. Rescuers gave up trying to reach the miners on the second day after the collapse because they thought there was no way anyone could have survived and conditions were judged too risky for rescuers to continue. No longer hearing the sound of shovels, […]