List of mining disasters in Poland
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The following mining disasters have occurred in Poland:
- 1880 – Renard coal mine in Sosnowiec: 200 miners killed.
- 1896 – Kleofas coal mione in Katowice – 104 killed.
- 1923 – Rozbark in Bytom – 145 victims.
- 1931 – Wacław coal mine in Mikołów – 151 killed.
- 1941 – Nowa Ruda – 180 killed.
- 1958 – in Mikoszowa coal mine (Zabrze): 72 miners were killed.
- 1971 – Zabrze, Rokitnica coal mine – 18 victims (after seven days rescuers found Alojzy Piątek alive).
- 1974 – in Silesia (Czechowice-Dziedzice): 34 miners were killed.
- 1978 – Katowice Staszic coal mine: 4 people killed.
- 1979 – Dymitrow coal mine in Bytom: 34 miners killed. Twenty days later, 22 people were killed in Silesia coal mine.
- 1982 – again Dymitrow: 19 killed.
- 1985 – Thorez coal mine (Wałbrzych) – 18 miners were killed.
- 1987 – Mysłowice coal mine – 18 miners.
- 1990 – Śląsk coal mine in Ruda Śląska: 4 killed. In the same year 19 miners were killed in Halemba.
- 1991 – again Halemba: 5 victims.
- 1993 – Miechowice (Bytom) – 6 killed.
- 1995 – Ruda Śląska, Nowy Wirek coal mine – 5 victims.
- 1996 – in Bielszowice (Zabrze): 5 miners were killed
- 1998 – Niwa-Modrzejów (Sosnowiec) – death of 6 rescuers.
- 2000 – mining enterprise in Piekary Śląskie – 3 killed.
- 2002 – Jas-Mos coal mine in Jastrzębie Zdrój – death of 10 miners.
- 2005 – Pokój coal mine (Ruda Śląska) – 2 miners killed. In the same year in Zofiówka (Jastrzębie Zdrój) three persons died.
- 2006, 27 July – Pokój coal mine: 4 miners killed.
- 2006, 21 November: a methane explosion killed 23 people in Halemba.
