June Coal Mining Disasters

This chart 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 mine and 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.

By-Specific-Month-Qry
Date State Type Mine Name Location Killed
6/18/1844 VA Explosion Black Heath Mine Richmond, VA 11
6/10/1873 PA Mine Fire Henry Clay Mine, Shamokin, PA 10
6/16/1890 PA Mine Fire Hill Farm Mine, Dunbar, PA 31
6/22/1893 PA Explosion Susquehanna No. 1, Nanticoke, PA 5
6/28/1896 PA Roof Fall Twin Mine, Pittston, PA 58
6/10/1901 PA Explosion Port Royal No. 2, Port Royal, PA 19
6/19/1903 NM Powder Explosion Blossburg No. 3, Blossburg, NM 5
6/30/1903 WY Explosion & Fire Hanna, No. 1, Hanna, WY 169
6/7/1906 MT Mine Fire Red Lodge Mine, Red Lodge, MT 8
6/18/1907 PA Fall Down Shaft Johnson No. 1, Pricesburgh, PA 5
6/23/1909 PA Explosion Lackawanna No. 4, Wehrum, PA 21
6/18/1912 CO Explosion Hastings Mine, Hastings, CO 12
6/30/1914 WV Fire Gases Cinderella Mine, Cinderella, WV 5
6/2/1917 IL Explosion Rend No. 2, Herrin, IL 9
6/5/1919 PA Powder Explosion Baltimore Tunnel No. 2, Wilkes-Barre, PA 92
6/30/1919 OK Explosion Alderson No. 5, Alderson, OK 15
6/2/1920 PA Explosion Ontario Mine, Cokesburg, PA 6
6/26/1923 PA Explosion Richards Colliery, Mount Carmel, PA 5
6/6/1924 PA Explosion Loomis Mine, Wilkes-Barre, PA 14
6/8/1925 WV Explosion No. 9 Mine, Sturgis, WV 17
6/20/1928 WV Explosion No. 1 Mine, National, WV 7
6/5/1929 VA Roof Fall Halcon Mine, Bear Creek, VA 5
6/13/1932 VA Explosion Splashdam No. 6, Splashdam, VA 10
6/21/1937 OH Powder Explosion Rupert Mine, Keystone, OH 6
6/2/1938 PA Explosion Butler Slope, Pittston, PA 10
6/14/1941 AL Explosion Docena Mine, Adamsville, AL 5
6/30/1941 PA Explosion Kent Mine, McIntyre, PA 7
6/7/1944 PA Mine Fire Emerald Mine, Clarksville, PA 6
6/1/1966 PA Suffocation Dora No. 2, Dora, PA 5
6/11/1971 WV Roof Fall Federal # 2 Miracle Run, WV 3
6/5/1975 WV Rib Fall Harris # 2 Bald Knob, WV 3
6/21/1983 VA Explosion No. 1 McClure, VA 7

 

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