This document shows a list of the coal mine disasters with the information of the state where the disaster happened, the date of the disaster, the type of disaster, the mine name of where the disaster happened, the city the disaster occurred in, and the number of workers killed in the disaster. Please find the February Coal Mine Disasters chart below.

By-Specific-Month-Qry
Date State Type Mine Name Location Killed
2/19/1847 PA Explosion Spencer Pottsville, PA 7
2/10/1881 OH Explosion Robbins Robbins, OH 6
2/3/1882 VA Explosion Midlothian Coalfield, VA 32
2/16/1883 IL Flood Diamond Braidwood, IL 69
2/20/1884 PA Explosion West Leisenring West Leisenring, PA 19
2/1/1890 PA Explosion Nottingham Plymouth, PA 8
2/4/1891 PA Drown/asphyx Spring Mountain # 1 Jeanesville, PA 13
2/14/1893 IA Explosion Chicago and Iowa Albia, IA 8
2/13/1894 PA Roof Fall Gaylord Plymouth, PA 13
2/18/1895 PA Explosion West Bear Ridge Mahony Plane, PA 5
2/27/1895 NM Explosion White Ash Madrid, NM 24
2/18/1896 CO Explosion Vulcan New Castle, CO 49
2/12/1899 AL Explosion Blocton # 2 Blocton, AL 5
2/25/1901 WY Mine Fire Diamondville # 1 Diamondville, WY 26
2/18/1905 PA Roof Fall Lytle Minersville, PA 5
2/20/1905 AL Explosion Virginia City Virginia City, AL 112
2/20/1905 WV Explosion Grapevine Wilcoe, WV 7
2/8/1906 WV Explosion Parral Parral, WV 23
2/19/1906 CO Explosion Maitland Walsenburg, CO 14
2/27/1906 AL Explosion Little Cahaba Piper, AL 12
2/4/1907 WV Explosion Thomas # 25 Thomas, WV 25
2/10/1908 KY Explosion Moody South Carrolton, KY 9
2/2/1909 AL Explosion Short Creek Short Creek, AL 18
2/1/1910 KY Explosion Browder Browder, KY 34
2/5/1910 PA Explosion Ernest # 2 Ernest, PA 12
2/8/1910 KY Explosion Barthell # 1 Stearns, KY 6
2/9/1911 CO Explosion Cokedale Trinidad, CO 17
2/22/1912 OK Mine Fire Western # 5 Lehigh, OK 9
2/19/1913 IL Explosion Seagraves Eldorado, IL 5
2/6/1915 WV Explosion Carlisle Carlisle, WV 22
2/17/1915 PA Explosion Prospect Wilkes-Barre, PA 13
2/18/1915 MO Powder Explosion New Home # 2 Rich Hill, MO 5
2/8/1916 PA Explosion Lance Plymouth, PA 7
2/11/1916 PA Explosion Jefferson & Clearfield #2 Ernest, PA 27
2/29/1916 MD Explosion Davis # 42 Kempton, MD 16
2/12/1921 CO Explosion Moffatt Oak Creek, CO 5
2/23/1921 IL Mine Fire Kathleen Dowell, IL 7
2/2/1922 PA Explosion Gates # 2 Brownsville, PA 25
2/2/1922 AL Explosion Belle Ellen # 2 Belle Ellen, AL 9
2/7/1922 KY Explosion Marietta Pinson Fork, KY 9
2/8/1923 NM Explosion Stag Canon #1 Dawson, NM 120
2/21/1923 PA Explosion Alliance Kaska, PA 5
2/20/1925 IN Explosion City Sullivan, IN 52
2/3/1926 PA Explosion Horning # 4 Horning, PA 20
2/16/1926 KY Explosion Nelson Nelson Creek, KY 8
2/20/1928 PA Explosion Kinloch Parnassus, PA 12
2/24/1928 AR Explosion Mama Jenny Lind, AR 13
2/6/1930 UT Explosion Standard Standardville, UT 23
2/27/1932 VA Explosion Boisevain Boisevain, VA 38
2/11/1938 WY Explosion Vail (Star Valley) Afton, WY 5
2/14/1941 IL Explosives No. 11 (strip) Du Quoin, IL 7
2/27/1943 MT Explosion Smith Red Lodge, MT 74
2/8/1948 AR Explosion Sun Excelsior Excelsior, AR 8
2/2/1952 PA Explosion Carpentertown Mt Pleasant, PA 6
2/4/1957 WV Explosion No. 34 McDowell County, WV 37
2/12/1958 WV Roof Fall Lundale Lundale, WV 6
2/3/1964 PA Explosion Bednarczyk # 2 & 3 Gowen City, PA 3
2/26/1964 PA Explosives Glen Burn Colliery Shamokin, PA 3
2/3/1966 VA Roof Fall No. 2 Herald, VA 3
2/8/1966 KY Roof Fall Stephens Elkhorn Mine Manton, KY 4
2/26/1972 WV Dam Failure, Flood Buffalo Creek Saunders, WV 114
2/16/1984 PA Explosion Greenwich Collieries Green Township, PA 3
2/6/1986 WV Stockpile Collapse Loveridge # 22 Fairview, WV 5
2/13/1991 VA Roof Fall No. 1 Mine St. Charles, VA 4