Sago Mine disaster
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sago-mine-disaster-177-13958634
title:
Sago Mine disaster
text:
The Sago Mine disaster was a coal mine explosion on January 2, 2006, at the Sago Mine in Sago, West Virginia, United States, near the Upshur County seat of Buckhannon. The blast and collapse trapped 13 miners for nearly two days; only one survived. It was the worst mining disaster in the United States since the Jim Walter Resources Mine disaster in Alabama on September 23, 2001, and the worst disaster in West Virginia since the 1968 Farmington Mine disaster. It was exceeded four years later by t
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description:
2006 coal mine explosion
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sago_Mine_disaster
date created:
2006-01-03T03:38:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T03:28:28Z
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