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1867 -- USA, Virginia, Winterpock: explosion at Bright Hope coal mine; 69 people died 1869 - USA, Pennsylvania, Plymouth: fire at Avondale coal mine; 110 people died 1884 - USA, Virginia, Pocohontas: explosion at Laurel coal mine; 112 people died 1891 - USA, Pennsylvania, Mount Pleasant: explosion at Mammouth coal mine; 109 people died 1892 - USA, Oklahoma, Krebs: explosion at No. 11 coal mine; 100 people died 1900 May 1st. - USA, Utah, Scofield: Winter Quarters No. 4 coal mine; 200 people died 1902 May 19th. -- USA, Tennessee, Coal Creek: Fraterville coal mine; 184 people died 1902 July 10th. - USA, Pennsylvania, Johnstown: Rolling Mill coal mine; 112 people died 1903 June 30th. - USA, Wyoming, Hanna: explosion at No. 1 coal mine; 169 people died 1904 January 25th. - USA, Pennsylvania, Cheswick: explosion at Harwick coal mine; 179 people died 1905 February 26th. - USA, Alabama, Virginia City: explosion coal mine; 112 people died 1907 January 29th. - USA, West Virginia, Stuart: coal mine; 84 people died 1907 December 6th. - USA, West Virginia, Monongah: explosions at coal mine No. 6 and 8; 361 people died 1907 December 19th. - USA, Pennsylvania, Jacobs Creek: explosion at Darr coal mine; 239 people died 1908 November 28th. - USA, Pennsylvania, Marianna: coal mine; 154 people died 1909 November 13th. - USA, Illinois, Cherry: coal mine fire; 259 people died 1910 January 31st. - USA, Colorado, Primero: coal mine; 75 people died 1910 May 5th. - USA, Alabama, Palos: coal mine; 90 people died 1910 November 8th. - USA, Colorado, Delagua: coal mine; 79 people died 1911 April 8th. - USA, Alabama, Littleton: explosion at Banner coal mine; 128 people died 1911 December 9th. - USA, Tennessee, Briceville: coal mine; 84 people died 1912 March 26th. - USA, West Virginia, Jed: coal mine; 83 people died 1913 April 23rd. - USA, Pennsylvania, Finleyville: coal mine; 96 people died 1913 October 22nd. - USA, New Mexico, Dawson: coal mine; 263 people died 1914 April 28th. - USA, West Virginia, Eccles: coal mine; 181 people died 1915 March 2nd. - USA, West Virginia, Layland: coal mine; 112 people died 1917 April 27th. - USA, Colorado, Hastings: coal mine; 121 people died 1917 June 8th. - USA, Montana, Butte: metal mine; 163 people died 1919 June 5th. - USA, Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre: anthracite mine; 92 people died 1922 November 6th. - USA, Pennsylvania, Spangler: coal mine; 77 people died 1922 November 22nd. - USA, Alabama, Dolomite; coal mine; 90 people died 1923 February 8th. - USA, New Mexico, Dawson: coal mine; 120 people died 1923 August 14th. - USA, Wyoming, Kemmerer: fire at Frontier #1 coal mine; 99 people died 1924 March 8th. - USA, Utah, Castle Gate: coal mine; 171 people died 1924 April 28th. - USA, West Virginia, Benwood: coal mine; 119 people died 1926 January 13th. - USA, Oklahoma, Wilburton: coal mine; 91 people died 1927 April 30th. - USA, West Virginia, Everettville: coal mine; 97 people died 1928 May 19th. - USA, Pennsylvania, Mather: coal mine; 195 people died 1930 November 5th. - USA, Ohio, Millfield: coal mine; 82 people died 1940 January 10th. - USA, West Virginia, Bartley: coal mine; 91 people died 1942 April 25th. - Manchuria: coal mine 1,549 people died 1947 March 25th. - USA, Illinois, Centralia: coal mine; 119 people died 1951 December 21st. - USA, Illinois, West Frankfort: coal mine; 119 people died 1959 January 22nd. - USA, Pennsylvania, Port Griffith: coal mine; 12 people died 1968 November 20th. - USA, West Virginia, Farmington: coal mine; 78 people died 1970 December 30th. - USA, Kentucky, Hyden: coal mine; 38 people died 1972 May 2nd. - USA, Idaho, Kellogg: Sunshine metal mine; 91 people died 1976 March 9th. - USA, Kentucky, Oven Fork: coal mine; 15 people died 1976 August 8th. -- Poland, Walbrzych: coal mine; 17 people died 1981 April 15th. - USA, Colorado, Redstone: coal mine; 15 people died 1981 December 8th. - USA, Tennessee, Whitwell: coal mine; 13 people died 1984 December 5th. - Taiwan, Taipei: coal mine; 94 people died 1984 December 19th. - USA, Utah, Huntington: coal mine; 27 people died 1989 September 13th. - USA, Kentucky, Sturgis: coal mine; 10 people died 1992 March 3rd. - Turkey, Kozlu: coal mine; more than 270 people died 1992 May 9th. - Canada, Nova Scotia, Plymouth: coal mine; 26 people died 1997 December 2nd. - Russia, Siberia, Novokuznetsk: coal mine; 68 people died 1998 January 17th. - Serbia, Sokobanja: coal mine; 29 people died 1998 April 4th. - Ukraine, Donetsk: coal mine; 63 people died 2000 March 11th. -- Ukraine, Krasnodon: coal mine;80 people died 2001 April 21st. - China, Shaanxi: 51 people died 2001 July 17th. - China, Guanxi: more than 75 people died 2001 August 19th. - Ukraine, Donetsk region: 53 people died 2001 September
23rd. - USA, Alabama, Brookwood: coal mine; 13 people died
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