Below you will find a chart of coal mine disasters that occurred during the month of May. 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.

By-Specific-Month-Qry
Date State Type Mine Name Location Killed
5/11/1854 VA Explosion Chesterfield Richmond, VA 19
5/27/1871 PA Smoke from Fire West Pittston West Pittston, PA 20
5/20/1876 VA Mine Fire Midlothian Coalfield, VA 8
5/9/1877 PA Mine Fire Wadesville Wadesville, PA 7
5/6/1879 PA Explosion Audenried Audenried, PA 6
5/3/1880 PA Explosion Lykens Valley Shamokin, PA 5
5/24/1882 PA Explosion Kohinoor Shenandoah, PA 5
5/9/1889 PA Cage Fell Kaska William Middleport, PA 10
5/15/1890 PA Explosion Jersey # 8 Ashley, PA 26
5/22/1891 AL Explosion Pratt # 1 Shaft Pratt City, AL 11
5/10/1892 WA Explosion Roslyn Roslyn, WA 45
5/28/1898 PA Water Inundation Kaska William Middleport, PA 6
5/23/1899 NC Explosion Cumnock Cumnock, NC 23
5/1/1900 UT Explosion Winter Quarters # 1 & 2 Scofield, UT 200
5/23/1900 NC Explosion Cumnock Mine Cumnock, NC 23
5/15/1901 WV Explosion Chatham Farmington, WV 10
5/27/1901 TN Explosion Richland Dayton, TN 20
5/19/1902 TN Explosion Fraterville Coal Creek, TN 184
5/5/1904 PA Dynamite Explosion Lance Plymouth, PA 5
5/5/1904 PA Mine Fire Locust Gap Locust Gap, PA 5
5/11/1904 IL Powder Explosion Big Muddy Herrin, IL 10
5/25/1904 PA Suffocation Williamstown Williamstown, PA 10
5/15/1906 PA Dynamite Explosion Shenandoah City Shenandoah, PA 7
5/11/1907 WV Explosion Whipple Scarbro, WV 16
5/19/1907 CO Mine Fire Engleville Engleville, CO 5
5/12/1908 PA Explosion Mount Lookout Wyoming, PA 12
5/13/1908 PA Roof Fall Prospect Midvale, PA 5
5/5/1910 AL Explosion Palos # 3 Palos, AL 90
5/10/1911 PA Suffocation from Fire Plymouth # 5 Larksville, PA 5
5/10/1911 PA Fire Boston Larksville, PA 5
5/27/1911 PA Suffocation from Fire Cameron Shamokin, PA 5
5/6/1913 KY Overcome by Gas Taylor Hartford, KY 5
5/17/1913 OH Explosion Imperial Belle Valley, OH 15
5/29/1914 PA Cage Maryd Maryd, PA 6
5/24/1915 PA Explosion Smokeless valley # 1 Johnstown, PA 9
5/20/1918 WV Mine Fire Villa Charleston, WV 13
5/3/1920 IN Explosion Submarine Clinton, IN 5
5/21/1920 WV Roof Fall Mallory # 3 Mallory, WV 5
5/25/1922 AL Explosion Acmar # 3 Acmar, AL 11
5/5/1923 CO Explosion Southwestern Aguilar, CO 10
5/26/1925 PA Explosion Woodward Edwardsville, PA 7
5/27/1925 NC Explosion Farmville Coal Glenn, NC 53
5/31/1925 AL Explosion No. 2 Piper, AL 7
5/6/1926 PA Explosion Randolph Colliery Port Carbon, PA 5
5/13/1927 WV Explosion Shannon Branch # 3 Capels, WV 8
5/26/1927 PA Explosion Woodward Edwardsville, PA 7
5/27/1927 CO Explosion Delagua Delagua, CO 7
5/19/1928 PA Explosion Mather # 1 Mather, PA 195
5/22/1928 WV Explosion No. 1 Yukon, WV 17
5/22/1928 KY Explosion No. 30 Kenvir, KY 8
5/25/1928 PA Explosion Baltimore # 5 Parsons, PA 10
5/27/1929 AL Explosion Connelsville Yolande, AL 10
5/29/1931 PA Explosion Richards Colliery Mount Carmel, PA 5
5/7/1935 PA Rock Fall on Cage South Wilkes-Barre Wilkes-Barre, PA 7
5/11/1935 WV Fire in Shaft Barrackville Barrackville, WV 6
5/22/1941 IN Explosion Panhandle # 2 Bicknell, IN 14
5/11/1942 AR Explosion Peerless Greenwood, AR 6
5/12/1942 WV Explosion Christopher # 3 Osage, WV 56
5/18/1942 WV Explosion Hitchman Benwood, WV 5
5/5/1943 TN Explosion NuRex LaFollette, TN 10
5/11/1943 AL Explosion Praco # 10 Praco, AL 12
5/19/1945 UT Explosion No. 1 Sunnyside, UT 23
5/20/1948 VA Roof Fall No. 2 Dante, VA 6
5/24/1965 TN Explosion No. 2A Robbins, TN 5
5/17/1967 VA Roof Fall No. 3 Oakwood, VA 3
5/23/1967 KY Roof Fall No. 22 Deane, KY 3
5/6/1968 WV Water Inundation Saxsewell # 8 Leivasy, WV 4
5/12/1975 UT Roof Fall Deer Creek Huntington, UT 3
5/20/2006 KY Explosion Darby # 1 Holmes Mill, KY  5