Casualties in U.S. mining disasters 1839-1972| ��ƽ��

Number of casualties in the most fatal mining disasters in the United States from 1839 to 1972

Mine (Type, city, state, year)	Number of casualties
Monongah No. 6 and 8 (Coal, Monongah, West Virginia, 1907)	362
Stag Canon No. 2 (Coal, Dawson, New Mexico, 1913)	263
Cherry (Coal, Cherry, Illinois, 1909)	259
Darr (Coal, Van Meter, Pennsylvania, 1907)	239
Winter Quarters 1 & 4 (Coal, Scofield, Utah, 1900)	200
Mather No. 1 (Coal, Mather, Pennsylvania, 1928)	195
Fraterville (Coal, Coal Creek, Tennessee, 1902)	184
Eccles No. 5 & No. 6 (Coal, Eccles, West Virginia, 1914)	181
Harwick (Coal, Cheswick, Pennsylvania, 1904)	179
No. 2 (Coal, Castle Gate, Utah, 1924)	172
Hanna, No. 1 (Coal, Hanna, Wyoming, 1903)	169
Granite Mountain (Copper, Butte, Montana, 1917)	163
Rachel and Agnes (Coal, Marianna, Pennsylvana, 1908)	154
Banner (Coal, Littleton, Alabama, 1911)	128
Hastings (Coal, Hastings, Colorado, 1917)	121
Stag Canon No. 1 (Coal, Dawson, New Mexico, 1923)	120
Benwood (Coal, Benwood, West Virginia, 1924)	119
Orient No. 2 (Coal, West Frankfort, Illinois, 1951)	119
Layland No. 3 (Coal, Layland, West Virginia, 1915)	115
Buffalo Mining Co (Coal, Saunders, West Virginia, 1972)	114

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This statistic depicts the number of casualties in the most fatal mining disasters in the history of the United States from 1839 to 1972. The explosions in Monongah's coal mines number six and eight in December 1907 resulted in 362 fatalities, making it the most deadly mining disaster in U.S. history.