2000s
2000
5,798 workers were killed in 2,863 Chinese coal mine accidents during 2000.[5]
2001
5,670 workers were killed in 3,082 Chinese coal mine accidents during 2001.[5]
2002
6,995 workers were killed in 4,344 Chinese coal mine accidents during 2002.[5]
2003
6,434 workers were killed in 4,143 Chinese coal mine accidents during 2003.[5]
2004
- On October 20, 2004, in Daping mine blast 148 died after gas explosion.[2][4]
- On November 28, 2004, in Chenjiashan mine blast 166 died after gas explosion.[2][4]
6,027 workers were killed in 3,639 Chinese coal mine accidents during 2004.[5]
2005
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- On February 14, 2005, Over 214 miners were killed in the 2005 Sunjiawan mine disaster
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- On March 19, 2005, an explosion at the Xishui Colliery and neighboring Kangjiayao coal mines killed 72.[4]
- On July 11, 2005, an explosion at the Shenlong mine killed 83.[4]
- On August 7, 2005, in Daxing mine flood 123 died.[2][4]
- On November 27, 2005, 171 miners were killed by a blast in the Dongfeng Coal mine in Qitaihe city, Heilongjiang province. The mine owner (plus 5 others) was later tried in court for negligence and sentenced to 6 years in prison.[2][6]
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- On December 8, 2005, a gas explosion kills 54 miners and traps 22 in the Liuguantun Mine, Tangshan Kaiping district.[7]
5,986 workers were killed in 3,341 Chinese coal mine accidents during 2005.[5]
2006
- On February 1, 2006, the Sihe coal mine in Shanxi killed 23 miners.[4]
- On May 18, 2006, an Induation disaster at the Xinjing coal mine in the Shanxi province killed 56 miners.[4]
- On April 29, 2006, 27 miners were killed in an explosion in the privately owned Wayaobao mine in Shaanxi province. Fires, floods and explosions claim about 5,000 deaths every year in Chinese coal mines.[8]
- On July 15, 2006, at the Linjiazhuang coal mine in Shanxi an explosion killed 50 people with seven more missing.[4]
- On November 5, 2006, at the Jiaojiazhai coal mine in Shanxi an explosion killed 40 with seven more missing.[4]
- On November 13, 2006 Nanshan Colliery disaster, a fatal gas explosion, killed 24 people.
2007
- In March 2007, over 100 were killed in 8 tragedies.[9]
- In August 2007, 181 miners died when heavy rains flooded two mines in eastern Shandong province.[10]
- A coal mine gas leak on November 11, 2007, had at least 35 confirmed deaths.[11]
- On December 6, 2007, 105 workers died in a mine blast in Shanxi province's Hongtong county.[12]
2008
- On April 11, 2008, a gas explosion resulted in 14 miners dead and two reported missing in the No. 3 Coal Mine in Huludao's Shaguotan village.[13]
- On September 4, 2008, twenty-four miners were killed and six injured in Fuxin, Liaoning province.[14]
- On September 28, 2008, 31 miners were killed and nine were missing in Dengfeng city, Henan province.[15]
- On November 10, 2008, four were killed and thirteen injured Wannian Coal Mine of Jizhong Energy Group Co., Ltd. in Handan City, Hebei Province.[16]
3,000 workers were killed in Chinese coal mines during 2008.[17]
2009
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- On February 22, 77 miners died and over 100 were injured in an explosion at the Tunlan coal mine in Shanxi.[18] The blast was China's worst industrial accident in a year, until the November, 2009,[19] Heilongjiang mine explosion.
- On March 20, six miners were killed and four were missing at the Lianfa Coal Mine in Qinglong County, Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou province[20]
- On April 4, 12 miners died in the Jinli Coal Mine in Xingnong Township, Jidong County, Jixi City after water flowed in from an abandoned coal mine.[21]
- On April 17, 18 miners die in a dynamite explosion in a dynamite warehouse of a coal mine in Chenzhou city, Yongxing.[22]
- On May 2, 7 people died of gas poisoning at the Xinfeng Coal Mine, Dengfeng city [23]
- On May 15, 10 miners die in a mine blast in a licensed private Chashan Coal Mine in Zhaotong city, in Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province.[24]
- On May 16, 11 miners die of asphyxiation in Shuozhou, Shaanxi province.[25]
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- On May 29, a gas explosion at the Tonghua coal mine associated with the Songzao Mining Bureau of Chongqing in Chongqing kills 30 and injures 59.[17]
- On September 8, a gas explosion at a Henan mine left 67 confirmed dead with 9 still missing.
- On November 21, 108 people died [26] at the Xinxing mine in Heilongjiang province, following a gas explosion caused by trapped, pressurized gases underground.[19][27][28]
