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A mining accident is an accident that occurs during the process of mining minerals or metals. Thousands of miners die from mining accidents each year, especially from underground coal mining, although accidents also occur in hard rock mining.
Fires, floods and explosions claim about 5,000 deaths every year in Chinese coal mines. [8] On July 15, 2006, at the Linjiazhuang coal mine in Shanxi an explosion killed 50 people with seven more missing. [4] On November 5, 2006, at the Jiaojiazhai coal mine in Shanxi an explosion killed 40 with seven more missing. [4]
Coal mining accidents resulted in 5,938 immediate deaths in 2005, and 4746 immediate deaths in 2006 in China alone according to the World Wildlife Fund. [10] Coal mining is the most dangerous occupation in China, the death rate for every 100 tons of coal mined is 100 times that of the death rate in the US and 30 times that achieved in South Africa.
The disaster was one of three high-profile mining accidents to occur in a five-month period in the U.S. that year. Ultimately, the string of incidents killed 19 mine workers and renewed a push for ...
A mine-shaft elevator fell at the Bazhanov coal mine. [119] Makiivka, Ukraine: 10 27 March 1964 A steel cable hit a mine-shaft elevator at the Sachsen coal mine, killing 10 workers, including 5 Turkish nationals. [120] Heeßen, West Germany: 10 6 September 2014 An elevator plunged 32 stories at a construction site. [121] Istanbul, Turkey
In the decade 2005–2014, US coal mining fatalities averaged 28 per year. [46] The most fatalities during the 2005–2014 decade were 48 in 2010, the year of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, which killed 29 miners.
The mine was operated by the Performance Coal Company, a subsidiary of Massey Energy. [2] The explosion ignited from an unknown source with high methane levels being a contributing causal factor. Twenty-five men were initially identified as killed. [13] Four days later, four missing men were found dead for a total of 29 deaths.
However, it also made the job even more dangerous. Coal mining disasters, such as the Harlan County mining disaster of 1976, were not uncommon and resulted in numerous fatalities. Throughout the 20th century, coal mining remained a major industry in eastern Kentucky, providing jobs and economic growth to the region.