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  2. Energy accidents - Wikipedia

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    Coal mining accidents resulted in 5,938 immediate deaths in 2005, and 4746 immediate deaths in 2006 in China alone according to the World Wildlife Fund. [10] Coal mining is the most dangerous occupation in China, the death rate for every 100 tons of coal mined is 100 times that of the death rate in the US and 30 times that achieved in South Africa.

  3. List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes

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    Coal mining Strike 2 (Chief of Police Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers) On the steps of the McDowell County Courthouse, the gunmen of the Baldwin-Felts Agency avenged the deaths of their colleagues by shooting to death two men as they and their wives prepared to enter the court building. August 25 – September 2, 1921 Logan County, WV Coal mining

  4. Coal mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the decade 2005–2014, US coal mining fatalities averaged 28 per year. [46] The most fatalities during the 2005–2014 decade were 48 in 2010, the year of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, which killed 29 miners. [82] 2016 was the first year in U.S. coal mining history that had no fatalities due to coal mine roof falls. [83]

  5. List of coal mining accidents in China - Wikipedia

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    Fires, floods and explosions claim about 5,000 deaths every year in Chinese coal mines. [8] 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]

  6. Mining accident - Wikipedia

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    In recent years, the Turkish coal mining industry has had the highest number of fatal accidents per million tons of coal produced. When using the "deaths per million tons of coal production" measure, on any given day, a Turkish coal miner is 360 times more likely to be killed in a Turkish mine than an American coal miner is in an American mine ...

  7. Australia's QCoal says workers sent home after death at ... - AOL

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    The Byerwen mine produces up to 10 million tonnes of hard coking coal, a steel-making ingredient, each year, according to QCoal. (Reporting by Sam McKeith in Sydney; Editing by Kim Coghill) Show ...

  8. Health and environmental impact of the coal industry - Wikipedia

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    When coal is compared to solar photovoltaic generation, the latter could save 51,999 American lives per year if solar were to replace coal-based energy generation in the U.S. [33] [34] Due to the decline of jobs related to coal mining a study found that approximately one American suffers a premature death from coal pollution for every job ...

  9. Gun deaths are rising in Wisconsin. Suicide and rural areas ...

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    As gun deaths in Wisconsin reach record levels, the Journal Sentinel examined how the deaths affect every county in the state. Gun deaths are rising in Wisconsin. Suicide and rural areas are a big ...