| Rank |
County and State |
Total
Disasters |
Total
Killed |
Deadliest Accident |
| 1 |
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania |
61 |
785 |
Avondale (110) |
| 2 |
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania |
34 |
256 |
York Farm (15) |
| 3 |
McDowell County, West Virginia |
23 |
477 |
Bartley No. 1 (91) |
| 4 |
Jefferson County, Alabama |
22 |
597 |
Banner (128) |
| 5 |
Pittsburg County, Oklahoma |
16 |
406 |
Osage No. 11 (100) |
| 6 |
Las Animas County, Colorado |
15 |
433 |
Hastings (121) |
| 7 |
Fayette County, Pennsylvania |
13 |
212 |
Naomi (34) |
| |
Franklin County, Illinois |
13 |
389 |
Orient No. 2 (119) |
| 9 |
Fayette County, West Virginia |
12 |
388 |
Layland No. 3 (115) |
| |
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania |
12 |
155 |
Price-Pancoast (73) |
| Ten County Totals |
221 |
4,098 |
|
| A mining disaster is defined as an incident with 5 or more fatalities. Unofficially, the USMRA database includes 78 accidents, each resulting in four fatalities, which can be found listed here. We make no claim that these are the only accidents having 4 deaths that have occurred. Source: MSHA Fatality Archive Database. |
