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Benxihu (Honkeiko) Colliery (simplified Chinese: 本溪湖煤矿; traditional Chinese: 本溪湖煤礦) was a coal mine in Benxi, Liaoning, China, first mined in 1905.. Originally an iron and coal mining project under joint Japanese and Chinese control, the mine came under predominantly Japanese c
On April 26, 1942, in the Benxihu (Honkeiko) coal mine in Liaoning Province, ... Colliery disaster was a coal mining accident in Chesterton, Staffordshire, England ...
The worst coal mining disaster in the world took place on April 26, 1942 in Benxihu Colliery. A coal-dust explosion killed 1,549 miners working that day, making it the worst disaster in the history of coal mining and the second worst recorded industrial accident. The explosion sent flames bursting out of the mine shaft entrance.
On July 15, 2006, at the Linjiazhuang coal mine in Shanxi an explosion killed 50 people with seven more missing. [4] On November 5, 2006, at the Jiaojiazhai coal mine in Shanxi an explosion killed 40 with seven more missing. [4] On November 13, 2006 Nanshan Colliery disaster, a fatal gas explosion, killed 24 people.
A series of blasts in 1976 at the Scotia Mine in Eastern Kentucky is considered to be among the worst mine disasters in U.S. history. It was shortly before noon March 9, 1976, when an explosion ...
Pages in category "1942 mining disasters" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Sneyd Colliery Disaster This page was last ...
April 26, 1942: A coal-dust explosion at Benxihu Colliery in Japanese occupied China killed 1,549 making it the worst disaster in the history of coal mining superseding the 1,099 death toll of the Courrières mine disaster in 1906 and the second worst recorded energy accident, in terms of lives lost on a single day, after Banqiao dam in 1975.
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