The Hurricane Creek mine disaster occurred on December 30, 1970, shortly after noon and resulted in the deaths of 39 men. As was often pointed out in...
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This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at diplomatic missions of the United States...
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Mining accident (redirect from Mine disaster)
Act of 1969. December 30, 1970: Hurricane Creek mine disaster in Hyden, Kentucky. 39 miners died due to unsafe mine conditions. Occurred exactly one...
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Wilderness in Arkansas, on the list of U.S. Wilderness Areas Hurricane Creek mine disaster, 1970 mining accident in Hyden, Kentucky List of rivers of Alabama...
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criticized when the Hurricane Creek mine disaster occurred a year to the day after passage of the act, killing 38 men in a mine with a long history of...
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news.google.com. Retrieved 11 October 2020. Talbott, Tim. "Scotia Mine Disaster". ExploreKYHistory. Retrieved 27 June 2023. "Explosion kills 67 at school...
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History of coal miners (category United Mine Workers of America)
United Mine Workers, U.S. union Mary Harris Jones, (Mother Jones), Labor leader Coal mining in Plymouth, Pennsylvania Hurricane Creek mine disaster Geoff...
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the county. On December 30, 1970, a blast occurred at the Finley Mine on Hurricane Creek. The blast resulted in the deaths of 38 men. Following the recovery...
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in 1939. Hyden briefly came to national attention when the Hurricane Creek mine disaster occurred in late 1970, 5 miles (8 km) southeast of the city...
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Hillcrest mine disaster 2000 Black Week: Senghenydd mine collapse, Liverpool train collision, Loss of the SS Volturno and Johannisthal air disaster – During...
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4 Years of Wild and Woolly Mayhem in Dawson Creek, p. 11 Paterson. Disaster. pp. 23–30. Paterson. Disaster. pp. 56–62. "Montreal Fire Kills Mother And...
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List of environmental conflicts (section Disasters)
Cuajone mine Dairi mine Dolores mine Escobal mine protests Fenix Nickel Project Himpunan Hijau Kabwe mine Kamoto mine Kenticha mine Lega Dembi mine Los Pelambres...
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Hurricane Michael was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that became the first Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United...
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weeks later, relief efforts were greatly hampered by Hurricane Iota, which further worsened the disaster in the region. Eta developed from a tropical wave...
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Silverton, Colorado (section Gold King Mine disaster)
well-documented disasters, many of them due to avalanches and mining accidents. Five miners perished in a slide at the Sunnyside mine in January 1906...
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This list of Canadian disasters by death toll includes major disasters (excluding acts of war) that occurred on Canadian soil or involved Canadian citizens...
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China caused more casualties than any other dam failure in history. The disaster killed an estimated 171,000 people and 11 million people lost their homes...
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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...
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Floods in the United States (1900–1999) (category 20th-century disasters in the United States)
experienced a double disaster as 10 or more gas tanks exploded on "Black Sunday", January 24, which led to oil fires on the Ohio and in Mill Creek Valley. Two...
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Purvis, Mississippi (section Hurricanes)
deadly hurricane to hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast until the monster storm Katrina in 2005. Hurricane Edith came in 1971, followed by Hurricane Carmen...
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(September 6, 2009). "Avondale mine disaster claimed 110 lives". The Times-Tribune. Retrieved April 23, 2010. "Twin Shaft Disaster Marker". Hmdb.org. August...
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the collapse of industry. The Knox Mine disaster accelerated this trend after large portions of the area's coal mines were flooded and could not be reopened...
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List of bridge failures (redirect from Bridge disaster)
Collapse of the Schoharie Creek Bridge". Archived from the original on October 7, 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-20. "Tragic Disasters in Malaysia". Archived from...
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River was at the center of one of Virginia's worst natural disasters. In the aftermath of Hurricane Camille, which had devastated the Gulf Coast of Mississippi...
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Tseax Cone (category Natural disasters in British Columbia)
geological disaster in Canada and the second-worst natural disaster in Canadian history by death toll, succeeded only by the 1775 Newfoundland hurricane which...
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declining Pennsylvania coal traffic, especially following the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster and competition from trucks following the expansion of the Interstate...
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the peak. Mine disasters have still occurred in recent years in the US, Examples include the Sago Mine disaster of 2006, and the 2007 mine accident in...
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the economy. This was exacerbated by natural disasters such as the 1843 earthquake and the 1847 hurricane. Mining occurred on the isle of Redonda, however...
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White) to fly 12 Hurricanes into Malta on 17 November, led by a FAA Blackburn Skua, ended in disaster with the loss of eight Hurricanes; they took off too...
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