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Table 22
BITUMINOUS ACCIDENTS IN WHICH FIVE OR MORE PERSONS WERE KILLED
1884 - 2000

Year Date Mine Operator Location of Mine Falls of Roof Suffo- cation Mine Cars Explosions of Gas and Dust Explosions of Dust Explosives Mine Fires Falling Down Shafts
1884 Feb. 20 West Leisenring Connellsville Coke & Iron Co. West Leisenring       19        
1885 Oct. 27 Youngstown Youngstown Coke Co., Ltd. Uniontown       14        
1888 Nov. 3 Kettle Creek Kettle Creek Coal Co. Cook’s Run       17        
1890 June 16 Hill Farm Dunbar Furnace Co. Dunbar             31  
1891 Jan. 27 Mammoth H. C. Frick Coke Co. Mount Pleasant       109        
1896 Mar. 27 Berwind Berwind-White Coal Mining DuBois       13        
1898 Sep. 23 Umpire Umpire Coal Co. Brownsville       8        
1899 July 24 Grindstone Redstone Oil, Coal & Coke Co. Grindstone       5        
1899 Dec. 23 Sumner Pittsburgh & Erie Coal Co. Sumner       19        
1901 June 10 Port Royal No. 2 Pittsburgh Coal Co. Port Royal       19        
1902 Mar. 6 Catsburg Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. Monongahela       5        
1902 July 10 Rolling Mill Cambria Steel Co. Johnstown       112        
1903 Nov. 21 Ferguson Dunbar Furnace Co. Connellsville       17        
1904 Jan. 25 Harwick Allegheny Coal Co. Cheswick       179        
1905 Apr. 27 Eleanora Shaft Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co. DuBois       13        
1905 July 6 Fuller Taylor Coal Co. Searright       6        
1905 Oct. 13 Clyde Clyde Coal Co. Fredericktown             6  
1905 Oct. 29 Hazel Kirk No. 2 Pittsburgh & Westmoreland Coal Co. Monongahela       5        
1905 Nov. 15 Braznell Braznell Coal Co. Bentleyville       6        
1906 Oct. 24 Rolling Mill Cambria Steel Co. Johnstown       7        
1907 Aug. 17 Sonman Shaft Sonman Shaft Coal Co. Sonman               5
1907 Dec. 1 Naomi United Coal Co. Fayette City       34        
1907 Dec. 19 Darr Pittsburgh Coal Co. Jacobs Creek       239        
1908 Nov. 28 Rachel and Agnes Pittsburgh-Buffalo Co. Marianna       154        
1909 Jan. 25 Orenda Merchants Coal Co. Boswell       5        
1909 Apr. 9 Eureka No. 37 Upper Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. Windber           7    
1909 June 23 Lackawanna No. 4 Lackawanna Coal & Coke Co. Wehrum       21        
1909 Oct. 31 Franklin No. 2 Cambria Steel Co. Johnstown       13        
1910 Feb. 5 Ernest No. 2 Jefferson & Clearfield Coal & Iron Co. Ernest       11        
1911 Mar. 22 Hazel Pittsburgh-Buffalo Co. East Canonsburg 9              
1911 July 15 Sykesville Shaft Cascade Coal & Coke Co. Sykesville       21        
1911 Nov. 9 Adrian No. 1 Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co. Punxsutawney       8        
1913 Apr. 23 Cincinnati Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. Finleyville       97        
1915 May 24 Smokeless No. 1 Smokeless Coal Co. Johnstown       9        
1915 July 30 Patterson No. 2 United Coal Co. Elizabeth     9 1          
1915 Aug. 31 Orenda No. 2 Merchants Coal Co. Boswell       19        
1916 Feb. 11 Ernest No. 2 Jefferson & Clearfield Coal & Iron Co. Ernest       27        
1916 Mar. 30 Robindale Conemaugh Smokless Coal Co. Robindale       8        
1917 Mar. 13 Henderson No. 1 Henderson Coal Co. Montour       14        
1918 Aug. 7 Harmar Consumers Mining Co. Harmarville       8        
1920 June 2 Ontario Ontario Gas Coal Co. Cokeburg       6 2        
1920 July 19 Renton No. 3 Union Collieries Co. Renton       9        
1920 Aug. 9 Maryland Shaft Maryland Coal Co. of Penna. St. Michael     6          
1922 Feb. 2 Gates H. G. Frick Coke Co. Masontown       25        
1922 Mar. 20 Dilltown No. 1 Dilltown Smokeless Coal Co. Dilltown       5        
1922 Nov. 6 Reilly No. 1 Joseph H. Reilly Coal Co. Spangler       77        
1924 Jan. 26 Lancashire No. 18 Lancashire Coal Co. Starford       36        
1924 July 25 Gates No. 1 H. C. Frick Coke Co. Masontown         10      
1925 Apr. 26 Hutchinson Westmoreland Coal Co. Sewickley Twp.       5        
1926 Feb. 3 Pgh. Terminal No. 4 Pittsburgh Terminal Co. Horning       20        
1926 Aug. 26 Clymer No. 1 Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corp. Clymer       44        
1927 Apr. 2 Mine No. 53 Ellsworth Collieries Co. Cokeburg         6      
1928 Feb. 20 Kinloch Valley Camp Coal Co. Parnassus       12 3        
1928 May 19 Mather Collieries Picklands, Mather & Co. Mather       194        
1928 Aug. 9 Hillside Tunnell Smokeless Coal Co. Johnstown       5        
1928 Aug. 15 Irvona No. 3 Irvona Coal & Coke Co. Coalport       13        
1929 Mar. 21 Kinloch Valley Camp Coal Co. Parnassus         46      
1933 Sep. 11 Oakmont Hillman Coal & Coke Co. Barking       7        
1937 Mar. 28 Kramer Northwestern Mng. & Exchange Co. DuBois       9        
1938 Jan. 12 Harwick Harwick Coal & Coke Co. Harwick       10        
1940 July 15 Sonman E Sonman Shaft Coal Co. Portage       63        
1941 June 30 Kent No. 2 Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co. McIntyre       7        
1944 June 7 Emerald Emerald Coal & Coke Co. Clarksville             6  
1945 Mar. 12 Crucible Crucible Steel Co. of America Crucible 5              
1952 Feb. 2 Carpentertown Carpentertown Coal & Coke Co. Carpentertown       6        
1957 Sep. 23 Marianna No. 58 Bethlehem Mines Corp. Marianna       6        
1962 Dec. 6 Robena No. 3 United States Steel Corp. Garards Fort       37        
1966 June 1 Dora No. 2 Doverspike Bros. Coal Co., Inc. Dora   5            

NOTE: July 24, 1912, 18 persons drowned by flooding of Superba No. 2 Mine, Superba Coal Company, and Lemont No. 1 Mine, H. C. Frick Coke Company, near Uniontown caused by cloudburst.

(1) Seven men were railroad employees.
(2) Explosion of gas in air shaft – sinking operations.
(3) Two men were employees of the adjoining Boyd Mine and were killed by afterdamp from this explosion. Boyd Mine, operated by W. H. Boyd Coal Company, was not under the law.