Note: A mining disaster is defined as an incident with 5 or more fatalities. Sources

Accident types are defined as:

• Explosion - includes explosives, blast, powder fumes
• Fire - includes smoke
• Water - includes flood, dam failure, inundation
• Ground fall - includes cave-in, roof fall/bump, fall of rock/face/rib, collapse, slide of bank, snowslide
• Machinery/Equipment fall - includes cage fall, fall of skip, mine car fall, hoisting accident, crosshead fall, breaking drawbar
• Suffocation - includes gas inhalation