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Non-fatal injuries. 106. The Listvyazhnaya mine disaster was a mining accident that occurred on 25 November 2021 in a coal mine in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Smoke from a fire in a ventilation shaft caused the suffocation of over 40 miners. [1] A failed attempt to rescue the trapped miners resulted in the deaths of at least five rescuers when the ...
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 ...
Kostenko mine disaster. / 49.86°N 73.115°E / 49.86; 73.115. On the morning of 28 October 2023, a fire started at the Kostenko mine in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan. [1] The fire killed 46 miners. The fire was presumably caused by a methane gas explosion underground. The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, ordered the ...
The accident was reportedly the worst mining accident ever in Turkey, and is the worst mining accident in the 21st century so far. 301 people died. January 6, 2019: 2019 Kohistan mine collapse, Afghanistan. The accident killed at least 30 gold miners. [42]
July 11, 2024 at 1:08 PM. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Polish coal miners remained unaccounted for and at least 17 were injured when a tremor struck the Rydultowy coal mine deep underground on ...
Families and friends began burying loved ones on Thursday who were among at least 16 people killed in the collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in a remote area of central Venezuela. The ...
In 2020, at least 175 people were killed in another landslide in the same mine. The 2020 disaster was the worst mining-related event in the country. The landslide was triggered by mining waste collapsing into the lake. More recently, a week before the 2021 landslide, another accident at a jade mine in the same area left ten miners missing.
March 8, 2024 at 2:42 PM. SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean state-owned mining company Codelco said that a worker died in an accident on Friday afternoon at Radomiro Tomic copper mine in the country's ...