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The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst mining accident, caused the death of 1,099 miners in Northern France on 10 March 1906. [1] This disaster was surpassed only by the Benxihu Colliery accident in China on 26 April 1942, which killed 1,549 miners. [2] A coaldust explosion, the cause of which is not known with certainty, devastated a ...
Oignies and Courrières massacre. Occurring amid the Battle of France, the Oignies and Courrières massacre involved mass killings of French civilians in the two nearby town of Oignies and Courrières in Nord-Pas de Calais on 27–28 May 1940. The number of victims is reckoned at between 114 [1] or 124. [2]
The Second Dawson Disasters was a mining accident on February 8, 1923, in Dawson, New Mexico in which 123 men died. The Speculator Mine Disaster occurred in the copper mines of Butte, Montana on June 8, 1917. An electric cable being lowered into the mine was accidentally ignited at 2,500 feet below the surface.
Senghenydd colliery disaster. The Senghenydd colliery disaster, also known as the Senghenydd explosion (Welsh: Tanchwa Senghennydd), occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales, on 14 October 1913. The explosion, which killed 439 miners and a rescuer, is the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom.
Courrières mine disaster: Courrières, France 687: 15 December 1914 Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine disaster: Kyūshū, Japan 682: 9 May 1960 Laobaidong colliery coal dust explosion Datong, China 581: 16 April 1947 Texas City disaster: Texas City, Texas, U.S. 512: 28 August 1899 Sumitomo Besshi bronze mine area, landslide with debris flow disaster
In 1906, the terrible Courrières mine disaster killed nearly 1,100 miners working for Compagnie de Courrières, France's leading mining company. The company first recruited 900 miners in Kabylia , followed by the first Poles in 1909 and 1910.
June 6, 1972: Wankie coal mine disaster, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe). 426 people were killed, making it the country's worst-ever mining disaster. November 29, 1980: Livezeni coal mine disaster, Petroșani, Socialist Republic of Romania. An explosion in the Livezeni Coal Mine killed 53 (including 15 military) and injured 27. It was the ...
The 1906 Courrières mine disaster in France. Mining has always been dangerous, because of methane gas explosions, roof cave-ins, and the difficulty of mines rescue. The worst single disaster in British coal mining history was at Senghenydd in the South Wales coalfield. On the morning of 14 October 1913 an explosion and subsequent fire killed ...