Underground Coal Mine Disasters 1900 - 2010: Events ...
2012-8-30 · From 1900–2006, 11,606 underground coal mine workers died in 513 U.S. underground coal mining disasters, with most disasters resulting from explosions Kowalski( -Trakofler, et al.,2009a). In 2007, 9 additional workers died in the Crandall Canyon disaster (Gates, et al. 2007a), bringing the total to 11,615 miners killed in 514 disasters.