Himanshi singh Nov 12, 2022
On the 27th of December, 1975, the Chasnala colliery in Dhanbad was where an explosion inside a mine caused the water tank above it to flood its shafts, and in the process kill around 372 miners
On the 6th of June, 1972, a dynamite blast was suspected to have fueled this disaster, which caused the death of 426 miners
On the 21st of January, 1960, tragedy struck the Coalbrook colliery in Clydesdale, South Africa. On that day, around 900 underground pillars throughout the coal mine became loose and fell apart
On the 14th of October, 1913, 440 miners died when a coal dust explosion rocked the Welsh Senghenydd mine. The Universal Colliery at Wales was the place where this accident occurred
Another serious coal mine disaster that struck Japan was at the Mitsui Miike Coal mine in Fukuoka. A coal dust explosion ocurred underground, and led to a series of massive explosions that crumbled
During the construction of the Hawks Nest Tunnel, the construction workers were asked to mine the silica deposits from the tunnel, and in the process using practically no safety measures.
In 1899, around 512 people died due to a debris flow at the Sumitomo Besshi bronze mine, in Shikoku, Japan. The tragedy occurred due to a landslide, which was quite common in mining areas of those days, when erosion control and ensuring structural
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