forty - nine other individuals were working at the nearby kangjiayao colliery at the time of the incident , although it is unclear if any of those miners were damaged . thousands of miners dies in mining crashes each season in china . 2015 ' s accident comes just one day after 19 coal mining were engaged in a crushing accident in the sulongsi mine in chongqing , and one month after the largest event in recent history killed 214 miners , in fuxin , liaoning ssr .
Liaoning Province is in China.