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The Scofield Mine disaster was a mining explosion that occurred at the Winter Quarters coal mine on May 1, 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 ,
The company also provided $500 to each family affected by the mine explosion. [6] Following the mine disaster, mining operations in Winter Quarters continued until a new mine was opened at Castle Gate in 1922. Miners from Winter Quarters and Scofield relocated to the new mine, and as a result, coal production in Pleasant Valley began to decrease.
Scofield's name is frequently applied to the 1900 mine disaster in the Pleasant Valley Coal Company's Winter Quarters mine. The community was named for General Charles W. Scofield, a timber contractor and local mine official. It is the smallest incorporated area in Utah by population.
1917: No. 7 mine explosion in Webster County kills 62 men On the morning of Aug. 4, 1917, a methane gas explosion at the Western Kentucky Coal Company’s No. 7 mine in Webster County killed 62 of ...
Coffins waiting for rail transport to the Winter Quarters mine site near Scofield, Utah, after the Scofield Mine Disaster on May 1, 1900. Strike The Carbon County ...
Officials don't yet know what led to an massive methane gas explosion at a Massey Energy (MEE) mine in West Virginia that has killed 25 miners and left four others missing. However, it's already ...
The program uses federal money collected from active coal mines to restore disused mine lands, and to date, an estimated $103 million has been invested in Iowa’s program.
...that the fifth-worst mining accident in American history, the Winter Quarters Mine disaster, occurred in Scofield, Utah on May 1, 1900 when at least 200 workers died as the result of a coal dust explosion?...that the Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation operates the Bingham Canyon Mine, the largest open-pit copper mine in the world near ...