Mining Explosions and Accidents

Haileyville, OK Coal Mine Explosion, Aug 1908

MINERS BURIED AT HAILEYVILLE.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE CAUSED BY CONFLAGRATION.

BARREL OF OIL ON FIRE FLAMES SPREAD THROUGH MINES AND MEN ARE SUFFOCATED WITH NO CHANCE FOR LIVES.  read more »

Bradshaw, WV Coal Mine Explosion, Sept 1964

BLAST CAUSE SOUGHT.

THREE MINERS KILLED IN WORKED-OUT AREA OF BRADSHAW-6 MINE.  read more »

Woodbine, KY Coal Mine Cave In, Oct 1980

KENTUCKY MINE CAVE-IN KILLS 3.

Woodbine, Ky. (UPI) -- Rescue teams by early today recovered the bodies of all three miners killed in a cave-in at the Jeff Coal Co. mine in southeastern Kentucky.  read more »

Hueytown, AL Coal Mine Explosion, June 1972

20 HURT IN COAL MINE BLAST.  read more »

Lordsburg, NM Copper Mine Accident, Dec 1961

GAS IN COPPER MINE KILLS 1, 8 OVERCOME.  read more »

Partridge, KY Double Mine Disaster, Mar 1976

15 DIE IN MINE BLAST.  read more »

Pottsville, PA Otto Colliery Mine Explosion, Sept 1885

THE DEADLY GAS.

An Unlooked-for Explosion in a Pottsville Colliery Causes the Death of a Boy and Fatally Injures Five Men.

[Pottsville (Pa.) special.]  read more »

Wilkes-Barre, PA Falling Ice Kills Miners, Feb 1908

Miners Killed in Wilkesbarre, Pa., Shaft.

ICE FELL ON MINER'S CAGE.

Two Killed, One Died Later, Three Probably Fatally Injured.  read more »

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