accident, 177 fatalities. May 1944 accident, 109 fatalities. Honshu Uchigo coal mine caught fire accident in March 1927, 134 fatalities in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture East Mizome coal mine seawater inflow accident in April 1915, 235 fatalities in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture Chosei coal mine submerged cave accident in February 1942, 183 fatalities in Ube. Kyushu Hōjō coal mine explosion in December 1914, 687 fatalities in Miyata, Fukuoka. Hokoku coal mine accidents in Itoda, Fukuoka Prefecture. June 1899 accident, 213 fatalities. July 1907 accident, 365 fatalities. Onoura coal mine accidents in Miyata, Fukuoka Prefecture. November 1909 accident, 243 fatalities. December 1918 accident, 376 fatalities. January 1939 accident, 94 fatalities. 1965 Yamano coal mine accident on June in Maka, Fukuoka, 237 fatalities. 1906 Takashima coal mine explosion on March, 307 fatalities in Nagasaki 1963 Mikawa coal mine accident on November in Fukuoka, 458 fatalities. Netherlands The twelve mines in the Netherlands, four of which were state owned, were considered among the safest in the world, with only three larger accidents occurring during 70 years of mining: On 13 July 1928 a methane gas explosion killed 13 miners in the state-owned mine Hendrik in Brunssum. On 24 March 1947 13 miners from Staatsmijn Hendrik were killed in a fire caused by an overheated conveyor belt. On 3 March 1958 7 miners lost their lives when a cave-in occurred at Staatsmijn Maurits in Geleen. New Zealand The most notable mining accident in New Zealand is the 1896 Brunner Mine disaster, which killed all 65 miners inside. On 19 November 2010, there were four explosions over nine days at Pike River mine; 29 miners were killed and two escaped with minor injuries. On 19 January 1967, there was an explosion in the Strongman Mine, near Greymouth, on the West Coast. 19 people were killed. Niger A gold mine collapse in Maradi Region in 2021, killed dozens. Poland On November 25, 2006, the worst mining disaster occurred in modern Polish history, 23 miners lost their lives at Halemba Coal Mine, a colliery in the town of Ruda Śląska in the southern industrial province of Silesia. A methane explosion at a depth of 1,030 meters caused the November 21 tragedy. The miners were attempting to retrieve €17 million ($US22 million) worth of equipment from a tunnel when a blast caused the shaft to collapse. The tunnel was supposed to have been closed in March due to dangerously high