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Listed below are the worst disasters in Poland's history, listed by death toll. This list excludes warfare, the Holocaust and intentional acts of destruction, but may include accidents in which the military, Polish or foreign, was involved (e.g. Osiecznica bus disaster - a collision between a Polish bus and a Soviet Army truck).
Some of the disasters listed here occurred outside of current Polish borders (e.g. the Smolensk Tu-154 crash) or in times when Poland was not internationally recognized (e.g. during the partitions of Poland), but the predominant number of victims were either Poles or Polish citizens.
Disaster | Type | Location | Deaths | Date | Ref. |
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LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 | Aviation accident | Warsaw | 183 | 9 May 1987 | [1] |
Kleofas coal mine disaster | Mining accident | Katowice | 104 | 3–4 March 1896 | [2] |
Barbara-Wyzwolenie coal mine disaster | Mining accident | Chorzów | 103 | 21 March 1954 | [3] |
Disaster | Type | Location | Deaths | Date | Ref. |
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Smolensk Tu-154 crash | Aviation accident | Smolensk | 96 | 10 April 2010 | |
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 | Aviation accident | Warsaw | 87 | 14 March 1980 | |
Makoszowy coal mine disaster | Mining accident | Zabrze | 72 | 28 August 1958 | |
Otłoczyn railway accident | Train wreck | Otłoczyn | 67 | 19 August 1980 | |
Katowice Trade Hall roof collapse | Building collapse | Chorzów | 65 | 28 January 2006 | [4] |
1928 Poland Derecho | Derecho | 62 | 4 July 1928 | ||
Wielopole Skrzyńskie cinema fire | Structure fire | Wielopole Skrzyńskie | 58 | 11 May 1955 | [5] |
1997 Central European flood | Flood | Western Poland | 56 | July 1997 | |
1934 flood in Poland | Flood | South of Poland | 55 | 14-20 July 1934 | [6] |
1980 Górna Grupa psychiatric hospital fire | Structure fire | Górna Grupa | 55 | 31 October 1980 | [7] |
Sinking of the MS Jan Heweliusz | Shipwrecking | Baltic Sea (near Rügen) | 55 | 14 January 1993 | |
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 | Aviation accident | Polica (near Zawoja) | 53 | 2 April 1969 | |
Rotunda PKO Bank explosion | Gas explosion | Warsaw | 49 | 15 February 1979 | [8] |
Disaster | Type | Location | Deaths | Date | Ref. |
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Bratoszewice level crossing collision | Bratoszewice | 9 | 30 July 2012 | [34] | |
1983 Łódź gas explosion | Gas explosion | Łódź | 8 | 7 December 1983 | |
1963 smallpox epidemic in Wrocław | Epidemic | Wrocław | 7 | 17 July – 19 September 1963 | [35] |
2017 Świebodzice tenement collapse | Building collapse | Świebodzice | 6 | 8 April 2017 | [36] |
ToNiePokój escape room fire | Structure fire | Koszalin | 5 | 4 January 2019 | [37] |
2008 Poland tornado outbreak | Tornado | Opole Voivodeship, Silesian Voivodeship and Łódź Voivodeship. | 4 | 15–16 August 2008 | |
2022 missile explosion in Poland | Explosion | Przewodów | 2 | 15 November 2022 |