The
Sago Mine disaster was a
coal mine explosion on January 2, 2006, in the Sago Mine in
Sago, in
Upshur County, West Virginia, USA, near the
county seat of
Buckhannon. The blast and collapse trapped 13
miners for nearly two days. One of the 13 trapped miners survived. It was the worst mining disaster in the United States since the
Jim Walter Resources Mine Disaster in
Alabama on September 23, 2001, and the worst disaster in West Virginia since the 1968
Farmington Mine Disaster. It was exceeded four years later by the
Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, also a coal mine explosion in West Virginia, which killed 29 miners in April, 2010.