What the records say
- When
- 1979
- Kind
- Mining accident
- Coordinates
- 32.00° S, 147.00° E
- Description
- 1979 mining disaster in Australia
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Appin mine disaster
1979 mining disaster in Australia
The Appin coal mine disaster was a coal mine disaster in New South Wales that killed fourteen people: Alexander Lawson, Alwyn Brewin, Francis Garrity, Garry Woods, Geoffrey Johnson, Ian Giffard, James Oldcorn, John Stonham, Jurgen Lauterbach, Karl Staats, Peter Peck, Robert Rawcliffe, Roy Rawlings, and Roy Williams in 1979, where a group of 46 workers were working the 3-11 pm shift and eating in the crib room, app…
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “14 coal miners die in a lethal gas explosion at Appin Colliery in New South Wales”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page