List of mining disasters in Poland

The following mining disasters have occurred in Poland:

*1880 – Renard coal mine in Sosnowiec: 200 miners killed.
*1896 – Kleofas coal mine in Katowice – 104 killed.
*1923 – Rozbark in Bytom – 145 victims.
*1931 – Wacław coal mine in Nowa Ruda – 151 killed.
*1941 – Nowa Ruda – 180 killed.
*1958 – in Makoszowy 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.