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Pages in category "Coal mining disasters in England" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Mining disasters in Scotland (1 C, 1 P) W. Mining disasters in Wales (1 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 16 August 2020, at 18:14 (UTC). Text is available under ...
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
Mining accidents can occur from a variety of causes, including leaks of poisonous gases such as hydrogen sulfide [2] or explosive natural gases, especially firedamp or methane, [3] dust explosions, collapsing of mine stopes, mining-induced seismicity, flooding, or general mechanical errors from improperly used or malfunctioning mining equipment (such as safety lamps or electrical equipment).
Coal mining disasters in England (38 P) This page was last edited on 2 May 2020, at 03:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4 ...
Pages in category "Mining disasters in England" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Dolcoath mine; E.
By 1913 the Welsh collieries were extracting 56.8 million long tons (57.7 million tonnes; 63.6 million short tons) of coal a year, up from 8.5 million long tons (8.6 million tonnes; 9.5 million short tons) in 1854; [3] collieries in the region mined a fifth of all coal produced in the UK, and employed a fifth of its miners in the mid-nineteenth ...