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in one of the shafts was started before the coal wagon had been completely loaded into the cage. Electric cables ruptured, starting an underground fire within the shaft. The moving cage also ruptured oil and air pipes which made the fire worse and destroyed much of the winch mechanism. Smoke and
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broke out at a time when there were 274 workers underground. As a result of measures introduced to respond to the labour shortage in post-war
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spread down the mine, killing all the miners trapped by the fire. At the time of the incident, 274 people were working in Bois du Cazier, also known as
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gave renewed life to the coal industry which increasingly struggled to recruit miners within
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