mining accident
Underground work tragedy
A mining accident is an incident in a mine that causes injury, death, or significant damage.
Mining is among the most dangerous occupations, and accidents range from equipment failures and tunnel collapses to explosions and toxic gas exposure.
The mining accident trapped seventeen workers underground.
Major disasters have historically prompted safety reforms.
- cave-inUnderground passage collapse
- collapseSudden structural failure
- trappedUnable to escape
- explosionViolent burst of energy
- methaneSimplest alkane fuel
gas leak · shaft · rescue · rescue team · search and rescue · underground · suffocation · canary · safety lamp · coalface · rubble · disaster · survivors · tunnel · dust · coal dust · black lung · siren
- accidentsmishap, collision, car crash, motorcycle crash, fumble
- death causescause of death, natural causes, manner of death, natural death, homicide
- fatal causeshomicide, suicide, drowning, electrocution, suffocation
- survivalsurvival, survive, endure, persist, last