2009 Wujek-Śląsk mine blast

When

2009

Kind

Mining accident

Coordinates

50.25° N, 18.93° E

The 2009 Wujek-Śląsk mine blast occurred at the Wujek bituminous coal mine in Ruda Śląska, Poland on 18 September 2009. At least 20 miners were killed and at least 37 more were hospitalised. It is the country's deadliest mining accident since the deaths of 23 miners from methane at the Silesia's Halemba mine in November 2006.

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