Major Coal Mine Fires
and Explosions in Pennsylvania
Incidents where five or more miners were killed

Major disasters in metal and nonmetal mines and quarries by States.

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Year Date Mine Location Killed
1869 September 6 Avondale Plymouth 110
1871 May 27 West Pittston West Pittston 20
1884 August 21 Buck Ridge Shamokin 7
1890 March 3 Shaft No. 3 Wilkes-Barre 20
June 16 Hill Farm Dunbar 31
1893 April 1 Neilson Shamokin 10
1894 October 3 Luke Fidler Shamokin 5
1897 September 20 Jermyn Rendham 6
October 30 Von Storch Scranton 6
1898 October 1 Maffett Slope Wilkes-Barre 5
1904 May 5 Locust Gap Shamokin 5
1905 October 13 Clyde Fredericktown 6
1909 November 9 Auchinclosss Nanticoke 9
1911 April 7 Price-Pancoast Trop 73
May 10 Boston Clarksville 5
1944 June 7 Emerald Clarksville 6
 
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Year Date Mine Location Killed
1891 January 27 Mammoth Mount Pleasant 109
November 3 Susquehanna No. 1 Nanticoke 12
1892 July 23 York Farm Pottsville 15
1893 June 22 Susquehanna No. 1 Nanticoke 5
September 21 Lance No. 11 Plymouth 6
1895 February 18 West Bear Ridge Mahony Plane 5
October 7 Dorrance Wilkes-Barre 7
1896 March 23 Berwind Dubois 13
October 29 Shaft No. 3 South Wilkes-Barre 6
1898 September 23 Umpire Brownsville 8
1899 July 24 Grindstone Grindstone 5
September 23 Sumner Sumner 19
1900 November 9 Buck Mountain Mahanoy 7
1901 June 10 Port Royal Port Royal 19
October 25 Buttonwood Plymouth 6
1902 March 6 Catsburg Monongahela 5
July 10 Rolling Mill Johnstown 112
November 29 Luke Fidler Shamokin 7
1903 November 21 Ferguson Connellsville 17
1904 January 25 Harwick Cheswick 179
1905 April 27 Eleanora Dubois 13
July 6 Fuller Searights 6
October 29 Hazel Kirk No. 2 Monongahela 5
November 15 Braznell Bentleyville 7
1906 August 6 Susquehanna No. 7 Nanticoke 6
October 24 Rolling Mill Johnstown 7
1907 March 2 Holden Taylor 7
June 18 Johnson No. 1 Priceburg 7
December 1 Naomi Fayette City 34
December 19 Darr Jacobs Creek 239
1908 May 12 Mount Lookout Wyoming 12
July 15 Williamstown Williamstown 6
November 28 Rachel and Agnes Marianna 154
1909 January 25 Orenda Boswell 5
March 2 No. 14 Pittston 8
April 9 Eureka No. 37 Windber 7
June 23 Lackawanna Webrun 12
October 31 Franklin No. 2 Johnstown 13
1910 January 11 Nottingham Plymouth 7
February 5 Ernest No. 2 Ernest 12
March 12 South Wilkes-Barre No. 12 Wilkes-Barre 7
1911 May 27 Cameron Shamokin 21
July 15 Sykesville Sykesville 6
November 6 Adrian Punxsutawney 8
1912 January 9 Parrish Plymouth 5
1913 April 23 Cincinnati Finleyville 98
August 2 East Brookside Tower City 20
1914 September 16 Lehigh No. 4 Lansford 7
1915 February 17 Prospect Wilkes-Barre 13
May 24 Smokeless Valley No. 4 Johnstown 9
August 31 Orenda Boswell 19
1916 February 8 Lance Plymouth 7
February 11 Ernest No. 2 Ernest 27
March 9 Hollenback Wilkes-Barre 6
March 30 Robindale Seward 8
August 8 Woodward Wilkes-Barre 6
1917 March 13 Henderson No. 1 Hendersonville 14
1918 August 7 Harmar Harmarville 8
1919 July 8 Lansford Colliery Lansford 8
1920 June 2 Ontario Cokeburg 6
July 19 Renton No. 3 Renton 9
1921 March 9 Rahn No. 1 Seek 5
1922 February 2 Gates Gates 25
March 20 Dilltown Dilltown 5
November 6 Reilly No. 1 Spangler 79
1923 February 21 Alliance Kaska 5
1924 June 26 Lancashire No. 18 Shankstown 25
June 6 Loomis Collieries Nanticoke 14
June 25 Gates No. 1 Brownsville 10
1925 April 26 New Slope Sewickley 5
1925 April 26 Hutchinson Mill Grove 5
May 22 Woodward Edwardsville 7
August 3 Dorrance Wilkes-Barre 10
1926 February 3 Horning No. 4 Horning 20
May 6 Randolph Colliery Port Carbon 5
July 3 Pettebone Colliery No. 6 Kingston 7
August 26 Clymer No. 1 Clymer 44
October 30 Colliery No. 7 Nanticoke 9
1927 April 2 No. 53 Cokeburg 6
May 26 Woodward No. 3 Edwardsville 7
1928 February 20 Kinlock Parnassus 12
May 19 Mather Mather 195
May 25 Baltimore No. 5 Parsons 10
August 9 Hillside Johnstown 5
August 15 Irvons No. 3 Coalport 13
1929 March 21 Kinlock Parnassus 46
1931 May 29 Richards Colliery Mount Carmel 5
1933 September 11 Oakmont Barking 7
1935 June 21 Gilberton Gilberton 13
1936 August 24 Clear Spring West Pittston 5
1937 March 28 Kramer Dubois 9
1938 January 12 Harwick Harwick 10
April 27 No. 1 Slope Pottsville 8
June 7 Butler Slope Pittston 10
1940 July 15 Sonman Portage 63
1941 June 30 Kent No. 2 McIntyre 7
1943 September 24 Primrose Colliery Minersville 14
1947 January 15 Nottingham Plymouth 15
April 10 Schooley Exeter 10
December 11 Franklin Wilkes-Barre 8
1951 March 29 Buttonwood Wilkes-Barre 5
1952 February 2 Carpentertown Carpentertown 6
1957 September 23 Marianna No. 58 Marianna 6
1962 December 6 Robena Carmichaels 37

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