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The Monongah Mining Disaster was the worst mining accident of American history; 362 workers were killed in an underground explosion on December 6, 1907, in Monongah, West Virginia. The Marianna Mine Disaster occurred on November 28, 1908, in a coal mine near Marianna, Pennsylvania resulting in the death of 154 men from the explosion.
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A series of blasts in 1976 at the Scotia Mine in Eastern Kentucky is considered to be among the worst mine disasters in U.S. history. It was shortly before noon March 9, 1976, when an explosion ...
Memorial to the children who died as a result of the disaster. Huskar Pit was a coal mine on the South Yorkshire Coalfield, sunk to work the Silkstone seam. It was located in Nabs Wood, outside the village of Silkstone Common, in the then West Riding of Yorkshire. It was connected to the Barnsley Canal by the Silkstone Waggonway. Huskar was the ...
The Barnes-Hecker mine disaster was a November 3, 1926 cave-in at a Cleveland-Cliffs iron ore mine four miles west of Ishpeming, Michigan. The mine collapse killed 51 persons, including 50 miners. Many of the dead were Finnish-Americans. As of 2025, it was the worst industrial disaster in Michigan history. [1]
Springhill's first mining disaster, the 1891 explosion, killed 125 miners, some of them child laborers between 10 and 13 years old. It occurred at approximately 12:30 pm on February 21, 1891, in the Number 1 and Number 2 collieries, which were joined by a connecting tunnel at the 1,300-foot (400 m) level (below the surface).
The accident was the largest loss of life in a Pennsylvania mine at the time and the victims of that disaster will be honored at 6 p.m. on Saturday with the unveiling of a historical marker and ...