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A series of mining disasters caused hundreds of deaths, shocking the nation. Rescued miners from the Pabst Iron Mine in Ironwood, Michigan, in 1926. Robert Sennecke/ullstein bild via Getty Images
2.1 1900–1949. 2.2 1950–1969. ... 7 March 1991 Halemba Ruda Śląska: 5 ... Mine Location Deaths Cause Ref. 2000 Piekary Śląskie: 3
In addition to deaths, many thousands more are injured (an average of 21,351 injuries per year between 1991 and 1999), but overall there has been a downward trend of deaths and injuries. In 1959, the Knox Mine Disaster occurred in Port Griffith, Pennsylvania. The swelling Susquehanna River collapsed into a mine under it and resulted in 12 deaths.
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
The collapse of a coal mining plant in Eastern Kentucky Tuesday has left one worker dead. Kentucky has a long history of coal mining disasters. These are 5 of the deadliest
A plan of the mine showing the site of the explosion, from the royal commission into the accident. The Torbanlea Colliery Disaster was a 1900 mining accident near the town of Torbanlea in the colony of Queensland (now a state of Australia) that claimed the lives of five workers. [1]
A stage play based on the disaster, by the journalist and broadcaster Margaret Coles, was first performed at the Sherman Cymru, Cardiff in 1991. [107] The disaster at Senghenydd has provided the backdrop to two printed works of historical fiction: Alexander Cordell 's This Sweet and Bitter Earth (1977) [ 108 ] and Cwmwl dros y Cwm (2013) by ...
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 ,