Learning from disasters timeline
Historical NSW mining disasters listed in chronological order:
| Mine | Incident type |
| 1886 Lithgow Valley Colliery | Fire |
| 1887 Bulli Colliery Explosion | Fire and explosion |
| 1889 Hamilton Colliery | Strata failure |
| 1895 South Broken Hill Silver Mine | Air blast |
| 1896 Stockton Colliery | Poison gas |
| 1898 Dudley Colliery | Fire and explosion |
| 1898 East Greta Colliery Fall of Roof | Strata failure |
| 1900 Balmain Colliery | Winder |
| 1900 Greta Colliery Fire | Fire |
| 1901 Broken Hill South Mine | Strata failure |
| 1902 Mount Kembla Coal Mine | Fire and explosion |
| 1902 Broken Hill Central Mine | Strata failure |
| 1905 Stanford Merthyr Mine | Fire and explosion |
| 1923 Bellbird Mine | Fire and explosion |
| 1965 Bulli Colliery | Fire and explosion |
| 1979 Appin Colliery | Fire and explosion |
| 1980 Cobar CSA Mine | Fire |
| 1991 South Bulli Colliery | Outburst |
| 1996 Gretley Colliery | Flooding |
| 1999 Northparkes | Air blast |
| 2014 Austar | Strata failure |