The 1934 Kakanj mine disaster was a

mining accident A mining accident is an accident that occurs during the process of mining minerals or metals. Thousands of miners die from mining accidents each year, especially from underground coal mining, although accidents also occur in hard rock mining. C ...

on 21 April 1934 at a

Kakanj coal mine The Kakanj Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the Zenica-Doboj Canton. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 440 million tonnes of lignite, one of the largest coal reserves in Europe and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity o ...

Kakanj Kakanj ( sr-cyrl, Какањ) is a town and municipality located in Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the town has a population of 11,796 inhabitants, with 38,937 inh ...

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast Europe, Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 unt ...

. The accident occurred in the "Stara jama" shaft when an explosion killed 127 of 128 miners working on the third (lowest) level.

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This was not the first, nor the last large-scale accident in the Kakanj coal mine. In 1916, 19 miners were killed in the same "Stara jama" shaft, and in 1965, 128 miners were killed in an explosion in the "Orasi" shaft. The "Stara jama" shaft was opened in 1900 as the first modern coal mining shaft in Bosnia.

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Velika rudarska nesreća u Kaknju – 21. travanj 1934. godine
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