30 years today, sixty eight mine workers were killed after an underground methane gas explosion at the Hlobane coal mine near Vryheid in Kwazulu Natal .The gas explosion was caused by poor safety standards. A week before the explosion a miner who also died in the explosion discovered methane underground.
·, when an explosion killed 15 people at the Mid Continent Dutch Creek No. 1 Mine
The coal mine has designed annual capacity of 300,000 tonnes. Cause of explosion was unclear, while rescue work was underway, it said.
Some employees of the mine were instructed by Consolidation Coal not to cooperate in the state and federal investigations seeking to determine the cause of the initial explosion. The retrieval of the victims bodies took years; 19 miners were never recovered.
A coal dust explosion ocurred underground,, killing 458 people in its wake.
Las Animas Mining Disasters. At the beginning of the great mining history of Colorado, there was no organized way of reporting mine fatalities. That changed in 1884 when 59 miners at the Crested Butte coal mine in Gunnison County lost their lives.
· Miners and family members wait outside a coal mine following an explosion in Soma, western Turkey, early Wednesday,. Rescuers desperately raced against time to reach more than 200
The cause of the disaster was attributed to inadequate watering down of the coal dust from the previous shift's operations, as well as the use of open flames in the workers' headlamps. No workers in the mine survived the explosion; fatalities included 49 Greeks, 22 Italians, 8 Japanese, 7 English, 6 Austrians (Yugoslavs), 2 Scotch, 1
service at this mine, received severe injuries, which resulted in his death. Investigation is continuing, therefore, description, cause and means of preventing a.
· The cause of the explosion had not been determined as rescuers worked Tuesday to bore ventilation holes into the Upper Big Branch Mine. This is a chronological list of notable coal mine accidents
Guizhou officials urged to improve coal mine safety after fatal accident where coal and gas explosion on August 6 killed 13 and injured 7, the Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM) said in an online statement. This was the first major coal mine accident in the country this year and it was caused by improper gas control measures
Working in a coal mine, common causes of air pollution which someone could be constantly exposed to, include particulate matter (dust particles), toxicants such as carbon monoxide (CO), as well as highly flammable gases like methane (CH4).
Mudslide and gas explosion hit mines in Balochistan's Marwar and Sur areas. explosion.This second explosion is the main cause of coal mine total collapse. These repeated fatalities shows
Mining Accidents: A Look Beyond the Headlines Laurynas Vegys By a wide margin, the majority of fatalities are attributable to coal mining. China is by no means alone in having a relatively poor mining safety record, with countries like India, Afghanistan, and Turkey trailing close behind. Coal: Explosion caused by flammable methane gas
The disaster at the Pike River coal mine is the worst accident in a New Zealand mine in almost 100 years. < > The rescue was hampered by a fire in the mine caused by the explosion. Because it
· 48 coal mine deaths in 2010 is worst since 1992. the deadliest U.S. coal mine explosion since 1970, won't be finished until late next year. including fatalities reappear that have not been
Mining fatalities on the rise. MSHA five in coal mining and nine in metal and nonmetal mining. two from a fall of rib, one in a hoisting accident, and one from a gas explosion. Eight coal
Coal 1914 of accident, name, age, nationality, occupation, marital status, number of children,name of the mine, location of the mine, nature of the accident, and cause of the accident. (See links to the 1891 in Mount Pleasant, PA, 109 deaths from an explosion in the mine. Accidents outside of
· Memo Suggests Cause Of 1968 Mine Deaths Forty years ago, an explosion in a Farmington, W.Va., coal mine killed 78 men. The cause was a mystery for years, but a recently released memo reveals that
and 2013. By comparison, in 1966, the mining industry counted 233 deaths. A
