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On July 24, eighteen coal miners at the Quecreek Mine (/ k juː. k r i k /) in Lincoln Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, owned by Black Wolf Coal Company, accidentally dug into the abandoned, poorly documented Saxman Coal / Harrison #2 Mine, flooding the room and pillar mine with an estimated 75 million US gallons (280,000 cubic metres) of water.
The Somerset Coalfield covers a total area of about 240 square miles (622 km 2). [1] It consists of three synclines, informally referred to as 'coal basins'.The Pensford Syncline in the north and the Radstock Syncline in the south are separated by the east–west trending Farmborough Fault Belt. [2]
Mine safety is a broad term referring to the practice of controlling and managing a wide range of hazards associated with the life cycle of mining-related activities.Mine safety practice involves the implementation of recognised hazard controls and/or reduction of risks associated with mining activities to legally, socially and morally acceptable levels.
1970: Hurricane Creek mine disaster kills 38 in Eastern Kentucky. An explosion at Finley Mine on Hurricane Creek, near Hyden in Leslie County, killed 38 miners when the blast occurred Dec. 30, 1970.
13 May 2014 The Soma coal mine disaster was an explosion at a coal mine in Turkey that killed ~301 and trapped a further 600 underground. [58] 31 July 2014 The 2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions occurring in a Kaohsiung City city street in Taiwan, it killed 30 and injured 309 while destroying 1.5 km of road and damaging 1,500 business stores.
Located about 30 km (19 mi) east of Hinton, the Obed Mountain Mine was a 7,460-hectare (18,400-acre) thermal coal mine with the capacity to produce about 3.2 million tonnes (7.1 billion pounds) of coal per year; [3] 2.6 million tonnes (5.7 billion pounds) are proven to exist, and up to 84.7 million more tonnes (187 billion pounds) were posited. [3]
The fire at Somerset House could have been “a complete disaster” on the scale of the Notre Dame blaze if it had not been spotted so early, the arts venue’s director has said, as he warned ...
Historically, coal mining has been a very dangerous activity, and the list of historical coal mining disasters is long. The principal hazards are mine wall failures and vehicle collisions; underground mining hazards include suffocation, gas poisoning, roof collapse and gas explosions.