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| x Felling mine disaster |
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Felling mine disaster was one of the first major Mining accidents or mine disasters in Britain, claiming 92 lives on 25 May 1812.
The colliery was situated in Felling, Tyne and Wear part of Gateshead in what used to be County Durham, and had two...
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May 25, 1812 | |
| x Hartley Colliery Disaster |
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The Hartley Colliery Disaster was a major Mining accident or disaster in Northumberland, England in 1862.
In an age when methane or coal dust and firedamp explosions were common, the tragedy at Hartley Colliery, Northumberland, England was different...
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Northumberland | Jan 16, 1862 |
| x The Oaks explosion | 388 |
The Oaks explosion was one of the very worst colliery disasters and Mining accidents in the United Kingdom.
The pit exploded on 12 December 1866, ultimately killing 388 miners and their would-be rescuers. The Oaks was one of the largest coal mines...
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Yorkshire | Dec 12, 1866 | |
| x Astley Deep Pit Disaster |
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The Astley Deep Pit Disaster was a mining accident that occurred at the Astley Deep Pit, located in Dukinfield, Cheshire, that took place on 14 April 1874, killing 54 men and boys working within the pit. The Astley Deep Pit was a coal mine started...
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Dukinfield | Apr 14, 1874 |
| x Blantyre mining disaster | 207 |
The Blantyre mining disaster, which happened on the morning of 22 October 1877, in Blantyre, Scotland, was and remains Scotland’s worst mining accident and disaster.
Blantyre Colliery, William Dixons pit, numbers 1 and 2 both blasted killing 207...
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Blantyre | Oct 22, 1877 | |
| x The Udston Pit Disaster |
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73 |
The Udston mining disaster occurred in Hamilton, Scotland on Saturday, 28 May 1887 when 73 miners died in a firedamp explosion at Udston Colliery. Caused, it is thought, by unauthorised shot firing the explosion is said to be Scotland's second worst...
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Hamilton | May 28, 1887 |
| x Springhill mining disaster |
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The term Springhill mining disaster can refer to any of three separate Canadian mining disasters which occurred in 1891, 1956, and 1958 in different mines within the Springhill coal field, in close proximity to the town of Springhill in Cumberland...
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Springhill | 1891 | |
| x Brunner Mine disaster |
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At 9.30am on Thursday the 26th of March 1896, an explosion deep in the Brunner Mine killed all 65 miners inside, and was labelled the worst mining disaster in New Zealand’s history.
It seemed most likely that the explosion was caused by firedamp, a...
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Brunner | Mar 26, 1896 |
| x Scofield mine disaster | 200 |
The Scofield Mine disaster was a mining explosion that occurred at the Winter Quarters mine in 1900. The mine was located at 39°42′57″N 111°11′17″W / 39.71583°N 111.18806°W / 39.71583; -111.18806 near the town of Scofield, Utah. In terms of life...
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Scofield | May 1, 1900 | |
| x Fraterville Mine disaster |
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216 |
The Fraterville Mine disaster was a coal mine explosion that occurred on May 19, 1902 near the community of Fraterville, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. 216 miners died as a result of the explosion, either from its initial blast or from the after...
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Briceville | May 19, 1902 |
| x Courrières mine disaster |
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The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst mining accident, caused the death of 1,099 miners (including many children) in Northern France on 10 March 1906. It seems that this disaster was surpassed only by the Benxihu Colliery accident in China on...
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Lens | Mar 10, 1906 |
| x Monongah Mining disaster |
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The Monongah Mine disaster of Monongah, West Virginia took place on December 6, 1907 and has been described as "the worst mining disaster in American History". The explosion was thought to have been caused by the ignition of methane (also called ...
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Monongah | Dec 6, 1907 |
| x Darr Mine Disaster |
The Darr Mine Disaster at Van Meter, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania killed 239 men and boys on December 19, 1907. It ranks as the worst coal mining disaster in Pennsylvania history.
An inquiry carried out after the disaster determined that the...
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Westmoreland County | Dec 19, 1907 | ||
| x Cherry Mine Disaster |
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The Cherry Mine Disaster is the name for the events surrounding a fire in the Cherry, Illinois, USA coal mine in 1909 in which 259 men and boys died.
The Cherry Mine had been opened in 1905 by the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad to supply...
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Cherry | Nov 13, 1909 | |
| x Pretoria Pit Disaster |
Pretoria Pit disaster was a Mining accident that occurred on 21 December 1910, when there was a massive underground explosion in Pretoria Pit, (The Hulton Colliery), formally No. 3 Bank Pit, in Westhoughton, Lancashire, between Wigan and Bolton, in...
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Westhoughton | Dec 21, 1910 | ||
| x Cross Mountain Mine Disaster |
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The Cross Mountain Mine disaster was a coal mine explosion that occurred on December 9, 1911 near the community of Briceville, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. In spite of a well-organized rescue effort led by the newly-created Bureau...
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Briceville | Dec 9, 1911 |
| x 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster |
The 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster (also known as the Mount Lyell Disaster and North Mount Lyell Fire) refers to a fire that broke out on 12 October 1912 at the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company operations on the West Coast of Tasmania. The...
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North Mount Lyell | Oct 12, 1912 | ||
| x Senghenydd Colliery Disaster | 439 |
The Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, also known as the Senghenydd Explosion, occurred in Senghenydd , near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales on 14 October 1913, killing 439 miners. It is the worst Mining accident in the United Kingdom, and one of the...
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Oct 14, 1913 | ||
| x Hillcrest mine disaster | 189 |
The Hillcrest mine disaster, the worst coal mining disaster in Canadian history, occurred at Hillcrest, Alberta, in the Crowsnest Pass region of western Canada, on Friday June 19, 1914. At the time it was the world's third worst mine disaster. The...
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Hillcrest, Alberta | Jun 19, 1914 | |
| x Victor American Hastings Mine Disaster | 121 |
The Victor American Hastings Mine Disaster was a fire at the Victor American Fuel Company coal mine in Hastings, Colorado, on April 27, 1917, in which 121 people died. A small monument, the Victor American Hastings Mine Disaster Monument, marks the...
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Hastings, Colorado | Apr 27, 1917 | |
| x Speculator Mine Disaster |
In the Speculator Mine disaster of June 8, 1917, a cable was being lowered into the Speculator mine as part of a safety system. At this time, the Butte, Montana copper mines were at full wartime production. When the cable was caught and frayed, a...
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Butte | Jun 8, 1917 | ||
| x Minnie Pit Disaster | 155 |
The Minnie Pit disaster was a coal mining accident in Halmer End, Staffordshire, UK in which 155 men died. The disaster took place on 12 January 1918, at the height of the Great War. The disaster, which was caused by an explosion due to firedamp, is...
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Halmer End | Jan 12, 1918 | |
| x Mount Mulligan mine disaster |
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The Mount Mulligan mine disaster occurred on September 19, 1921 in Mount Mulligan, Far North Queensland, Australia. A series of explosions in the local coal mine, audible from up to 30 km away, rocked the close knit township.
Seventy-five men were...
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Mount Mulligan | Sep 19, 1921 | |
| x Castle Gate mine disaster |
The Castle Gate mine disaster occurred on March 8, 1924, in a coal mine near the town of Castle Gate, Utah (now dismantled), located approximately 90 miles (145 km) southeast of Salt Lake City. All of the 171 men working in the mine were killed in...
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Castle Gate | Mar 8, 1924 | ||
| x Coal Glen mine disaster | 53 |
The Coal Glen Mine Disaster was a coal mine explosion that occurred in May 27, 1925, in Coal Glen, North Carolina, USA. Fifty three miners died. Attempts at re-opening the mine were made sporadically until the 1950s, but were never financially...
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Coal Glen | May 27, 1925 | |
| x Pabst Mine Disaster | 3 |
The Pabst Mine Disaster was an incident that occurred on September 24, 1926 at the Pabst Iron Mine in Ironwood, Michigan, when a mine shaft containing 46 iron ore miners unexpectedly collapsed. 3 miners were killed in the initial collapse, while 43...
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Ironwood | Sep 24, 1926 | |
| x Millfield Mine disaster |
The Millfield Mine disaster, Ohio's worst mine disaster, occurred November 5, 1930, in a Sunday Creek Coal Company mine in Athens County, Ohio. According to the historical marker at the site in Millfield, Ohio, the explosion killed 82 people,...
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Athens County | Nov 5, 1930 | ||
| x Moweaqua Coal Mine Disaster | 54 |
The Moweaqua Coal Mine Disaster happened on December 24, 1932, in Moweaqua, Illinois. The disaster was caused by a methane gas explosion killing 54 miners. The Moweaqua Coal Mine Museum (which was founded in 1986) contains many mining artifacts from...
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Moweaqua | Dec 24, 1932 | |
| x Gresford Disaster |
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266 |
The Gresford Disaster was one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters and mining accidents. It occurred on September 22, 1934 at Gresford Colliery near Wrexham, in north-east Wales, when 266 men died.
Work began sinking the pit at Gresford in 1908...
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Wrexham | Sep 22, 1934 |
| x Smith Mine disaster |
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The Smith Mine disaster was the worst coal mining disaster in the State of Montana, and the 43rd worst in the United States, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
On February 27, 1943, at approximately 9:37...
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Montana | Feb 27, 1943 | |
| x Burngrange mining disaster | 15 |
Burngrange is an area of the Scottish village West Calder. Situated at the far west of the village it mainly consists of housing constructed for the areas mining industry in the early 20th century.
On 10 January 1947, Burngrange was witness to its...
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West Calder | Jan 10, 1947 | |
| x Centralia mine disaster | 111 |
In the Centralia mine disaster on March 25, 1947, the Centralia No. 5 coal mine exploded near the town of Centralia, Illinois, killing 111 people. The Mine Safety and Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor reported the...
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Mar 25, 1947 | ||
| x Knox Mine disaster |
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The Knox Mine disaster was a mining accident that took place in the Greater Pittston, Port Griffith, Pennsylvania village of Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania, near Pittston, on January 22, 1959.
The River Slope Mine, an anthracite coal mine owned by...
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Greater Pittston | Jan 22, 1959 | |
| x Luisenthal Mine Disaster |
The Luisenthal Mine was a coal mine in near Völklingen, Germany
On February 7, 1962 a methane explosion occurred after the opening of a methane-containing cavern in the Alsbach field. This triggered an even bigger coal dust explosion with...
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Völklingen | Feb 7, 1962 | ||
| x Kakanj Mine disaster | 128 |
The Kakanj mine disaster was a mining accident on June 7, 1965 at a coal mine in Kakanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A methane gas explosion at the Orasi mine shaft of the Kakanj mine casused a cave-in, which killed 128 miners. There were no survivors....
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Kakanj | Jun 7, 1965 | |
| x Farmington Mine Disaster |
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The Farmington Mine disaster was an explosion that happened at approximately 5:30 a.m. on November 20, 1968, at the Consol No. 9 coal mine north of Farmington and Mannington, West Virginia, USA.
The explosion was large enough to be felt in Fairmont,...
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Farmington | Nov 20, 1968 |
| x Mina de Barroterán coal mine disaster | 153 |
Mina de Barroterán coal mine disaster was the second worst disaster in Mexico's coal mining history. The disaster occurred on March 31, 1969, and 153 miners were killed. During the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, nearly 900 miners died in explosions...
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Coahuila | Mar 31, 1969 | |
| x Hurricane Creek mine disaster |
The Hurricane Creek mine disaster occurred five miles from Hyden, Kentucky on December 30, 1970, shortly after noon, and resulted in the deaths of 38 men. As was often pointed out in coverage of the disaster, it occurred a year to the day after the...
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Hyden | Dec 30, 1970 | ||
| x Lofthouse Colliery disaster |
The Lofthouse Colliery disaster was a mining accident which took place in Lofthouse Gate, West Yorkshire, England in 1973.
On March 21, 1973 miners at Lofthouse, West Yorkshire Colliery were working at a coal face which unknown to them was close to...
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West Yorkshire | Mar 21, 1973 | ||
| x Markham Colliery disaster |
On July 31, 1973, 18 coal miners lost their lives and a further 11 were seriously injured in a Mining accident at the Markham Colliery near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England.
A descending cage carrying the men failed to slow down as it approached...
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Chesterfield | Jul 31, 1973 | ||
| x Dobrnja-Jug Mine Disaster | 180 |
The Dobrnja-Jug mine disaster was a mining accident that happened on August 26, 1990 at the mine shaft Dobrnja-jug of the Kreka lignite mine near Mramor in the municipality of Tuzla in northeast Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In the worst mining accident...
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Tuzla | Aug 26, 1990 | |
| x 1994 Kenpeng mine disaster |
The 1994 Kenpeng mine disaster occurred between the week of August 1 to August 5, 1994 at Guangxi Kenpeng mine at the People's Republic of China.
About 8 tonnes of dynamite exploded in a warehouse at the lead and zinc Kenpeng mine, in the northern...
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Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County | Aug 1, 1994 | ||
| x Marcopper mining disaster |
The Marcopper mining disaster was one of the Philippines' largest mining disasters to date. The disaster occurred on the Philippine island of Marinduque a province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA region in Luzon.
The Marcopper Mining...
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Marinduque | Mar 24, 1996 | ||
| x La Espuela Coal Mine disaster |
This mine disaster happened at 1:30 p.m. January 23, 2002, and caused the death of 13 miners. The disaster was caused by flooding of the shaft. Without the ability to flee, the miners drowned in minutes.
According to Dick Reavis, "The mine's...
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Mexico | Jan 23, 2002 | ||
| x 2005 Sunjiawan mine disaster |
The Sunjiawan mine disaster (孙家湾矿难) was a mine disaster that occurred on February 14, 2005 in Fuxin city, Liaoning province, in the northeastern part of the People's Republic of China. Initial reports indicated that at least 214 coal miners were...
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Fuxin | Feb 14, 2005 | ||
| x Sago Mine disaster |
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The Sago Mine disaster was a coal mine explosion on January 2, 2006, in the Sago Mine (pronounced /ˈseɪɡoʊ/) in Sago, West Virginia, USA near the Upshur County seat of Buckhannon. The blast and ensuing aftermath trapped 13 miners for nearly two days...
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Sago | Jan 2, 2006 | |
| x Aracoma Alma Mine accident |
The Aracoma Alma Mine accident occurred when a conveyor belt in the Aracoma Alma Mine No. 1 at Melville in Logan County, West Virginia caught fire. The conveyor belt ignited on the morning of January 19, 2006, pouring smoke through the gaps in the...
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Melville | Jan 19, 2006 | ||
| x Pasta de Conchos mine disaster | 65 |
The Pasta de Conchos mine disaster occurred at approximately 2:30 a.m. CST on February 19, 2006, after a methane explosion within a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, San Juan de Sabinas municipality, in the Mexican state of Coahuila. The mines were run...
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Nueva Rosita | Feb 19, 2006 | |
| x Beaconsfield mine collapse |
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The Beaconsfield Mine collapse occurred on 25 April 2006 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia. Of the 17 people who were in the mine at the time, 14 escaped immediately following the collapse, one was killed, and the remaining two were found alive...
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Beaconsfield | Apr 25, 2006 |
| x Darby Mine No. 1 disaster |
The Darby Mine No. 1 disaster on May 20, 2006 killed five miners and left one survivor.
As reported in a May 23, 2006 story in The Courier-Journal, "Investigator thinks methane to blame for Darby mine explosion," by Deborah Yetter and Tom Loftus, at...
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Kentucky | May 20, 2006 | ||
| x Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster |
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The Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster was caused by a methane explosion that occurred on March 19, 2007 in the Ulyanovskaya longwall coal mine in the Kemerovo Oblast. At least 108 people were reported to have been killed in the blast, which took place at a...
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Kemerovo Oblast | Mar 19, 2007 | |
| x 2007 Zasyadko mine disaster |
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The 2007 Zasyadko mine disaster was a mining accident that happened on November 18, 2007 at the Zasyadko coal mine (Ukrainian: Шахта ім. Засядько) in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
At present, 101 miners are dead: the worst accident in...
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Donetsk | Nov 18, 2007 |
| x 2008 Ukraine coal mine collapse |
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The 2008 Ukrainian coal mine collapse occurred at the Karl Marx Coal Mine in the city of Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine on June 8, 2008. The mine collapse was said to have been caused by a gas pipe explosion. The explosion...
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Yenakiieve | Jun 8, 2008 | |
| x Petrila Mine disaster |
On November 15, 2008, 12 miners died after two explosions at a mine in Petrila, Hunedoara County, Romania. On November 24 another miner died at Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest raising the death toll to 13.
Two explosions in a coal mine in...
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Petrila | Nov 15, 2008 | ||
