Disasters

Explosions, floods, collapses and other major incidents at UK mines — including significant post-closure incidents in abandoned workings. Each record is researched to the same standard as a mine or terminology entry, not just a casualty count.

The 100 disasters most recently added, of 1262, newest first.

Disaster	Date	Type	Region	Fatalities
Rhondda Main Colliery shaft accident, 1910 Two sinkers at the new Rhondda Main Colliery, Ogmore Vale, were thrown back down the shaft on 15 August 1910 when a faulty throttle let the bowk run up into the platform.	15 August 1910	Winding / Shaft Accident	Bridgend	2
Blaendare Colliery explosion, 1901 Two masons walling an unventilated staple pit at Blaendare, near Pontypool, were killed on 28 February 1901 when gas under their staging fired at a naked light.	28 February 1901	Explosion	Torfaen	2
Avon Colliery shaft accident, 1880 Four men drowned in the flooded sump of the Great Western Railway's new Avon Colliery shaft at Abergwynfi on 6 September 1880 when a rope holding their walling stage broke.	6 September 1880	Winding / Shaft Accident	Neath Port Talbot	4
Wynnstay Colliery fall of coal, 1897 A contractor and his loader at Wynnstay Colliery, Ruabon, were crushed on 22 September 1897 when four yards of coal he was wedging down came away from a slip.	22 September 1897	Collapse / Roof Fall	Wrexham	2
Minera Lead Mines fall of ground, 1898 Two timbermen driving through the loose fill of an old stope at Minera were crushed on 11 August 1898 when a falling stone knocked out a timber and brought down thirty tons.	11 August 1898	Collapse / Roof Fall	Wrexham	2
Murton Colliery roof fall, 1892 Two timber drawers recovering props from a worked-out jud at Murton Colliery were killed by a heavy roof fall in the early hours of 24 November 1892.	24 November 1892	Collapse / Roof Fall	County Durham	2
Black Park Colliery scalding, 1896 Two men hosing hot ashes at the foot of Black Park Colliery's boiler-chimney shaft, near Chirk, were scalded to death on 27 January 1896 when falling debris turned the steam back on them.	27 January 1896	Other	Wrexham	2
Bold Colliery roof fall, 1895 Two colliers at Bold Colliery, St Helens, were killed by a roof fall on 2 September 1895, and the inquest jury called for officials to be made to visit their men more than once a shift.	2 September 1895	Collapse / Roof Fall	Merseyside	2
Collins Green Colliery roof fall, 1891 Two timbermen raising the bars of a main road at Collins Green Colliery were killed on 29 September 1891 when the last low bars gave way and the roof came down with them.	29 September 1891	Collapse / Roof Fall	Merseyside	2
Wheal Kitty shaft accident, 1895 Two miners hanging on the rope of a hand winch in Wheal Kitty's Vottle shaft fell to their deaths on 3 February 1895 when the winchmen changed gear without fastening the drum.	3 February 1895	Winding / Shaft Accident	Cornwall	2
Kingsbury Colliery sinking accident, 1895 Two sinkers were suffocated on 11 September 1895 when they were lowered, unchecked, into the gas-filled sinking shaft of the new Kingsbury Colliery in Warwickshire.	11 September 1895	Gas / Asphyxiation	Warwickshire	2
Pendleton Colliery shaft accident, 1894 Two men fell into the sump of Pendleton Colliery, Salford, on 23 August 1894 when a new balance scaffold tilted under one of them and he dragged the other in with him.	23 August 1894	Winding / Shaft Accident	Greater Manchester	2
Chisnall Hall Colliery overwind, 1893 Two men in the sinking pit at Chisnall Hall Colliery, Coppull, fell 170 yards on 29 July 1893 when the engineman overwound the hoppet and it parted from the safety hook.	29 July 1893	Winding / Shaft Accident	Lancashire	2
Maesteg Deep Colliery haulage accident, 1914 Two boys walking out of Maesteg Deep on 31 October 1914 were struck and dragged by a journey on the incline.	31 October 1914	Haulage / Transport	Bridgend	2
Maesteg Deep Colliery runaway journey, 1904 Four men were killed at Maesteg Deep on 14 November 1904 when a rider who had let himself into the locked engine house lost control of a journey carrying forty of the night shift down the drift.	14 November 1904	Haulage / Transport	Bridgend	4
Gilmilnscroft Colliery explosion, 1880 A Gilmilnscroft collier and his seventeen-year-old son died on 18 June 1880 after the son fired gas in a mine thought free of it, and the afterdamp kept rescuers back for three hours.	18 June 1880	Explosion	East Ayrshire	2
Sneyd Colliery shaft accident, 1895 Two ostlers going down Sneyd Colliery, Burslem, on 21 April 1895 were lowered into the water at the shaft bottom because a new winding rope was too long.	21 April 1895	Winding / Shaft Accident	Staffordshire	2
Bamfurlong Colliery roof fall, 1899 Two colliers working coal left beside a fault at Bamfurlong Colliery were buried by a roof collapse on 25 August 1899.	25 August 1899	Collapse / Roof Fall	Greater Manchester	2
Eston Ironstone Mines roof fall, 1897 Two ironstone miners at Eston were killed on 27 August 1897 by a large fall of roof as they brought down stone loosened by a shot.	27 August 1897	Collapse / Roof Fall	North Yorkshire	2
Cwmbran Colliery roof fall, 1893 A timberman and a fourteen-year-old boy retimbering a road at Cwmbran Colliery on 13 January 1893 were buried by a fall that went unnoticed for hours.	13 January 1893	Collapse / Roof Fall	Torfaen	2
Park Slip Colliery roof fall, 1899 A repairer and his son were killed at Park Slip Colliery, Tondu, on 23 November 1899 when rock fell from a fault slip as they enlarged a heading.	23 November 1899	Collapse / Roof Fall	Bridgend	2
Risca New Pit roof fall, 1894 Two young colliers who stayed behind to make their place safe at Risca on 26 February 1894 were killed by the roof as they set the extra timber.	26 February 1894	Collapse / Roof Fall	Caerphilly	2
Ferndale Colliery roof fall, 1891 Two men clearing an earlier fall at Ferndale's No. 1 pit, in the Rhondda Fach, were killed by a fresh fall of roof on 29 October 1891.	29 October 1891	Collapse / Roof Fall	Rhondda Cynon Taf	2
Agecroft Colliery roof fall, 1890 Two miners taking down top coal at Agecroft Colliery, Pendlebury, were killed on 13 June 1890 when it fell on them unexpectedly from slips.	13 June 1890	Collapse / Roof Fall	Greater Manchester	2
Kelty Colliery hoist accident, 1898 Two thirteen-year-old pithead girls at Kelty Colliery were killed on 28 May 1898 when a loaded hutch fell from a hoist cage onto the box where they sat.	28 May 1898	Machinery	Fife	2
Herrington Colliery roof fall, 1898 Three deputies clearing a fall on the Hutton Seam engine plane at Herrington Colliery were killed by a second fall from the roof on 17 August 1898.	17 August 1898	Collapse / Roof Fall	Tyne and Wear	3
Earnock Colliery roof fall, 1895 Two miners, Abraham McManus and Charles Rae, were killed by a fall of stone at Earnock Colliery, Hamilton, on 22 October 1895.	22 October 1895	Collapse / Roof Fall	South Lanarkshire	2
Ynyshir Colliery roof fall, 1897 A collier and his twelve-year-old son were killed by a fall of fireclay roof on the Barry road at the Ynyshir Standard Colliery in August 1897.	3 or 4 August 1897	Collapse / Roof Fall	Rhondda Cynon Taf	2
Loanhead Colliery roof fall, 1893 Two miners finishing a steep break incline in the Corbie coal at Loanhead were killed on 13 February 1893 when 20 tons of coal and blaes swept down it.	13 February 1893	Collapse / Roof Fall	Midlothian	2
Lochgelly Colliery roof fall, 1894 Two repairers retimbering a haulage road at Lochgelly on the colliers' idle day, 13 June 1894, were killed by a roof fall that went unnoticed for six hours.	13 June 1894	Collapse / Roof Fall	Fife	2
Bothwell Castle Colliery shaft accident, 1895 Two sinkers at the bottom of Bothwell Castle's No. 3 shaft were killed on 22 October 1895 when the sinking kettle caught the shaft timbering on its way up and fell 180 fathoms.	22 October 1895	Winding / Shaft Accident	South Lanarkshire	2
Bedlinog Colliery roof fall, 1898 Two repairers were killed on 19 September 1898 when 25 feet of rock roof came down on a Nottinghamshire face at Bedlinog No. 2 Colliery.	19 September 1898	Collapse / Roof Fall	Merthyr Tydfil	2
Montagu Colliery explosion, 1891 Two men recovering rails from an old part of Montagu Colliery, Scotswood, were killed on 9 December 1891 when gas fired at their lamps.	9 December 1891	Explosion	Tyne and Wear	2
Beamish Colliery explosion, 1891 Two stonemen looking for rails in old workings at Beamish Second Pit were fatally burned on 10 February 1891 when a candle fired gas lying in the roof.	10 February 1891	Explosion	County Durham	2
Bettisfield Colliery roof fall, 1895 Two repairers were killed at Bettisfield Colliery, Bagillt, on 1 July 1895 when loose top roof they had not drawn down fell on them as they set timbers in the main road.	1 July 1895	Collapse / Roof Fall	Flintshire	2
Westminster Colliery roof fall, 1896 Two byemen drawing timber from an abandoned road at Westminster Colliery, near Wrexham, were buried by a roof fall along a slip on 3 December 1896.	3 December 1896	Collapse / Roof Fall	Wrexham	2
Deaf Hill Colliery roof fall, 1897 Two hewers were killed by a fall of stone from between two slips in a longwall face at Deaf Hill Colliery, County Durham, on 12 February 1897.	12 February 1897	Collapse / Roof Fall	County Durham	2
Cadeby Main Colliery explosion, 1899 An explosion of gas at Cadeby Main Colliery on 11 March 1899, thirteen years before its great disaster, fatally burned two colliers.	11 March 1899	Explosion	South Yorkshire	2
Seaton Delaval Colliery shot accident, 1897 Two stonemen were killed by a gelignite shot in the Hastings pit at Seaton Delaval Colliery, Northumberland, on 1 February 1897.	1 February 1897	Explosion	Northumberland	2
Hebburn Colliery scalding, 1890 Two blacksmiths at Hebburn Colliery on Tyneside were scalded to death on 13 September 1890 when a valve was opened on the steam pipes to an underground engine.	13 September 1890	Machinery	Tyne and Wear	2
Edmondsley Colliery shaft accident, 1891 A master sinker and a sinker were killed at Edmondsley Colliery on 13 June 1891 when the banksman ran a kibble tram into a chock and it went down the shaft.	13 June 1891	Winding / Shaft Accident	County Durham	2
Llanbradach Colliery cage accident, 1898 Two men were thrown out and killed at Llanbradach Colliery on 28 September 1898 when a cage of fifteen struck staging left jutting into the shaft at the Four Feet seam.	28 September 1898	Winding / Shaft Accident	Caerphilly	2
Nantmelyn Colliery roof fall, 1893 A fall of rock in an untimbered heading at Nantmelyn Colliery, Cwmdare, on 22 December 1893 killed at least two colliers, one of them seventeen.	22 December 1893	Collapse / Roof Fall	Rhondda Cynon Taf	2
Ballochmyle Colliery shaft accident, 1897 An overman and a miner fell to their deaths at Ballochmyle, Auchinleck, on 19 October 1897 when the timbering of an air drift at the shaft top gave way and debris broke through the cage cover.	19 October 1897	Winding / Shaft Accident	East Ayrshire	2
Gartshore Colliery naphtha explosion, 1898 Two miners waiting to go down Gartshore No. 11 Pit were killed on 29 November 1898 when naphtha poured onto the lamp-room stove to rekindle it exploded.	29 November 1898	Fire	East Dunbartonshire	2
Whitwick Colliery explosion, 1893 Two teenage pony drivers were killed at Whitwick Colliery, Coalville, on 11 February 1893 when a roof fall released gas over the main road and it fired at their naked lights.	11 February 1893	Explosion	Leicestershire	2
Fernhill Colliery cage accident, 1892 Two young colliers were thrown from the cage in Fernhill's No. 2 pit at the head of the Rhondda on 21 June 1892 when an unravelled guide rope let the passing cages collide.	21 June 1892	Winding / Shaft Accident	Rhondda Cynon Taf	2
Peelwood Colliery inrush, 1895 The undermanager and a fireman were killed at Peelwood Colliery, Tyldesley, on 2 November 1895 when water they had tapped by borehole in old workings broke through.	2 November 1895	Flooding / Inundation	Greater Manchester	2
Bold Colliery roof fall, 1899 Three drawers eating their breakfast at Bold Colliery, St Helens, were killed on 20 February 1899 when runaway boxes knocked out a roof bar above them.	20 February 1899	Collapse / Roof Fall	Merseyside	3
Agecroft Colliery shot accident, 1899 A shot went off while it was being charged in the No. 4 pit sinking at Agecroft on 1 February 1899, killing a chargeman and two sinkers.	1 February 1899	Explosion	Greater Manchester	3
Kelty Colliery sinking accident, 1894 Three sinkers were knocked off the kettle as they rode up the shaft at the Fife Coal Company's Kelty colliery on the morning of 8 May 1894.	8 May 1894	Winding / Shaft Accident	Fife	3
Warren House Colliery sinking accident, 1893 Three sinkers fell out of the trunk in the shaft being sunk at Warren House Colliery, Rawmarsh, on 18 August 1893.	18 August 1893	Winding / Shaft Accident	South Yorkshire	3
Ynyshir Colliery boiler explosion, 1892 A steam boiler exploded at Ynyshir Colliery in the Rhondda Fach at half past noon on 1 November 1892, fatally injuring two stokers and the ashman.	1 November 1892	Machinery	Rhondda Cynon Taf	3
Bolsover Colliery rope accident, 1892 Three colliers were killed at the new Bolsover Colliery on 1 August 1892 when a hemp rope broke as they were raising a wire conductor in the shaft.	1 August 1892	Winding / Shaft Accident	Derbyshire	3
North Biddick Colliery gas accident, 1890 Three young men were suffocated by gases from old workings at North Biddick Colliery, Washington, on the evening of 16 December 1890.	16 December 1890	Gas / Asphyxiation	Tyne and Wear	3
Sandwell Park Colliery explosion, 1894 An explosion of firedamp at Sandwell Park Colliery, West Bromwich, on 27 October 1894 burned four men, all of whom died within five days.	27 October 1894	Explosion	West Midlands	4
Seaham Colliery boiler accident, 1901 A new Lancashire boiler slipped off its chocks while being set at Seaham Colliery on 18 March 1901, crushing a fitter and a driller to death.	18 March 1901	Machinery	County Durham	2
Redheugh Colliery shot accident, 1900 Two stonemen went back to a gunpowder shot that seemed to have hung fire at Redheugh Colliery, Gateshead, on 23 March 1900, and it went off as they reached it.	23 March 1900	Explosion	Tyne and Wear	2
Niddrie Colliery incline shaft accident, 1908 Two inclinemen inspecting a 109-degree pipe shaft at Niddrie on 29 August 1908 died when their carriage left the rails: one fell to the bottom, and the other collapsed from heat and exhaustion trying to climb out.	29 August 1908	Winding / Shaft Accident	Midlothian	2
Niddrie Colliery incline accident, 1901 Two roadsmen testing a carriage incline at Niddrie on 1 September 1901 were killed when the rope came off the drum and the carriage ran away to the bottom.	1 September 1901	Haulage / Transport	Midlothian	2
Wallyford Colliery shaft accident, 1901 Two sinkers enlarging a shaft at Wallyford fell to the scaffold below on 21 January 1901 when the stone above a crosscut gave way; the previous shift had left fearing exactly that.	21 January 1901	Winding / Shaft Accident	East Lothian	2
Bowhill Colliery roof fall, 1901 About seventy tons of roof fell at Bowhill Colliery, Cardenden, on 15 January 1901, killing the fireman who had passed the road as safe an hour earlier and a wheeler.	15 January 1901	Collapse / Roof Fall	Fife	2
Llanbradach Colliery roof fall, 1900 A collier and his fifteen-year-old boy were killed at Llanbradach Colliery on 30 August 1900 when the stone they were about to prop with a cog fell on them.	30 August 1900	Collapse / Roof Fall	Caerphilly	2
Penallta Colliery crane accident, 1908 Two young fitters fell about fifty feet to their deaths in the Penallta engine house on 7 January 1908 when the plank they sat on, working on the overhead crane, broke in the middle.	7 January 1908	Machinery	Caerphilly	2
Great Western Colliery roof fall, 1907 A timberman and his assistant were buried by a fall of roof in the Nine Feet seam at the Great Western Colliery, Hopkinstown, on 12 October 1907 while securing a road.	12 October 1907	Collapse / Roof Fall	Rhondda Cynon Taf	2
Pendlebury Colliery roof fall, 1856 A fall of roof in the Bin mine at Pendlebury Colliery, near Manchester, killed P. Berry and W. Higson on 6 February 1856.	6 February 1856	Collapse / Roof Fall	Greater Manchester	2
Polmaise Colliery explosion, 1906 Two men were killed in Polmaise No. 2 Pit on Sunday 28 January 1906 when gas left by a slowed weekend fan fired at their naked lights; they had gone in uninspected workings on the under-manager's orders.	28 January 1906	Explosion	Stirling	2
Rosehall Colliery electrocution, 1903 Two miners were electrocuted in Rosehall No. 5 Pit, Coatbridge, on 11 September 1903 when the bell-signal wires became charged from the uninsulated power cables that ran beside them down the shaft.	11 September 1903	Machinery	North Lanarkshire	2
Glamorgan Colliery cage accident, 1903 Two men fell to their deaths in the No. 2 shaft at Llwynypia on 22 January 1903 when the crowded double-deck cage struck a water garland in the shaft and tipped; three more clung to the frame all the way down.	22 January 1903	Winding / Shaft Accident	Rhondda Cynon Taf	2
Nantwen Colliery roof fall, 1909 A slab of rock fell on two colliers at Nantwen Colliery, Bedlinog, on 14 October 1909 while their boy was fetching another post; one died at once and the other that afternoon.	14 October 1909	Collapse / Roof Fall	Merthyr Tydfil	2
Llanerch Colliery roof fall, 1908 About fifteen tons of rock fell in Llanerch Colliery's main slope on 21 January 1908 as the men were walking in to work, killing two young colliers.	21 January 1908	Collapse / Roof Fall	Torfaen	2
Windsor Colliery roof fall, 1907 Two men died at Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr, early on 26 February 1907 when up to fifteen tons of rock fell on a gang strengthening the timbers at a junction in the Four Feet seam.	26 February 1907	Collapse / Roof Fall	Caerphilly	2
Bwllfa Dare Colliery roof fall, 1906 A collier and his fourteen-year-old boy were killed at Bwllfa Dare Colliery on 14 December 1906 when coal he was pulling down knocked out two props and the roof fell.	14 December 1906	Collapse / Roof Fall	Rhondda Cynon Taf	2
Penallta Colliery sinking accident, 1909 Two sinkers died at the bottom of Penallta's No. 2 shaft, then 460 yards deep, on 11 February 1909 when the winder lowered an empty bowk onto the sixteen men working there instead of stopping it above them.	11 February 1909	Winding / Shaft Accident	Caerphilly	2
Pendlebury Colliery explosion, 1852 A father and his young son, both named W. Seddon, were killed by an explosion of firedamp at Andrew Knowles and Sons' Pendlebury Colliery on 29 December 1852.	29 December 1852	Explosion	Greater Manchester	2
Tinsley Park Colliery roof fall, 1880 Two young fillers, William Handley and Thomas Saxon, were killed by a fall of roof at Tinsley Park Colliery, east of Sheffield, on 20 February 1880.	20 February 1880	Collapse / Roof Fall	South Yorkshire	2
Harraton Colliery fall of stone, 1868 A fall of stone killed a stoneman and a rolleywayman at the Earl of Durham's Harraton Colliery, near Chester-le-Street, on 17 June 1868.	17 June 1868	Collapse / Roof Fall	Tyne and Wear	2
Bretby Colliery roof fall, 1873 A fall of roof at the Countess of Chesterfield's Bretby Colliery killed the underviewer and a young collier on 20 February 1873.	20 February 1873	Collapse / Roof Fall	Derbyshire	2
Blaydon Main Colliery explosion, 1872 An explosion of gas killed two hewers at G. H. Ramsay's Blaydon Main Colliery, on the south bank of the Tyne, on 29 April 1872.	29 April 1872	Explosion	Tyne and Wear	2
Hetton Colliery roof fall, 1884 A large fall of stone from an unseen slip killed a deputy and a young hewer at the Hetton Coal Company's colliery on 16 June 1884.	16 June 1884	Collapse / Roof Fall	Tyne and Wear	2
Framwellgate Moor Colliery rope accident, 1863 A furnaceman and an eleven-year-old boy fell to their deaths at Framwellgate Colliery, near Durham, on 14 November 1863 when the winding rope broke.	14 November 1863	Winding / Shaft Accident	County Durham	2
Manners Colliery explosion, 1905 An explosion of firedamp in the Piper seam at Manners Colliery, Ilkeston, on 21 September 1905 burned three men, all of whom died within a fortnight.	21 September 1905	Explosion	Derbyshire	3
Tinsley Park Colliery fire, 1869 Three men were suffocated at Tinsley Park Colliery, east of Sheffield, on 15 September 1869 when the coal caught fire, and the shafts had to be sealed.	15 September 1869	Fire	South Yorkshire	3
Aberaman Colliery roof fall, 1908 Three men died after a fall of roof at Powell Duffryn's Aberaman Colliery on 3 May 1908 while they were pulling down a low bridge of ground on an engine plane.	3 May 1908	Collapse / Roof Fall	Rhondda Cynon Taf	3
Rhas Las Colliery shaft accident, 1852 Three colliers were thrown down the shaft at the Dowlais Iron Company's Rhas Las Colliery on 1 October 1852 when a guide chain broke and the carriage struck the shaft side.	1 October 1852	Winding / Shaft Accident	Merthyr Tydfil	3
Barrow Colliery shaft accident, 1881 Four sinkers died on 29 September 1881 when seven yards of shaft lining collapsed onto the scaffold where they were walling a 245-yard shaft for the Barrow Hematite Steel Company near Tondu.	29 September 1881	Winding / Shaft Accident	Bridgend	4
Maltby Colliery sinking accident, 1909 Three sinkers died at the new Maltby Main Colliery on 31 March 1909 when their hoppit caught a pump staging on the way up the shaft.	31 March 1909	Winding / Shaft Accident	South Yorkshire	3
Sneyd Colliery explosion, 1904 An explosion of firedamp and coal dust, ignited by a broken safety lamp, fatally injured three men at Sneyd Colliery, Burslem, on 23 August 1904.	23 August 1904	Explosion	Staffordshire	3
Dawdon Colliery shaft accident, 1907 Three men sinking the Londonderry family's new Dawdon Colliery at Seaham were thrown from their cradle to the bottom of the pit on 11 September 1907.	11 September 1907	Winding / Shaft Accident	County Durham	3
Wingate Grange Colliery shaft accident, 1903 Three sinkers deepening Wingate Grange's shaft to the Harvey seam fell about 38 yards to their deaths on 11 February 1903 when their kibble dropped suddenly.	11 February 1903	Winding / Shaft Accident	County Durham	3
Outwood Colliery explosion, 1867 Three miners were suffocated by afterdamp at Thomas Fletcher and Sons' Outwood Colliery on 8 May 1867 after an explosion in the Gingham four-foot mine.	8 May 1867	Explosion	Greater Manchester	3
Thornley Colliery explosion, 1865 Firedamp exploded in the downcast shaft at Thornley Colliery, County Durham, on 23 August 1865, killing a rapperman and two shaftmen who were brothers.	23 August 1865	Explosion	County Durham	3
Glenboig Fireclay Mine roof fall, 1909 Four men were buried by a roof fall in the Glenboig Union Fireclay Company's mine on 5 August 1909 while robbing a stoop in ground that had stood untouched for twenty years.	5 August 1909	Collapse / Roof Fall	North Lanarkshire	4
Portland Colliery explosion, 1908 Four men died in an explosion at the Portland Colliery Company's pits near Kilmarnock on 18 February 1908, either from gelignite that fired early or from a naked light igniting gas.	18 February 1908	Explosion	East Ayrshire	4
Cambrian Colliery steam pipe burst, 1900 Four men died of scalds at Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, on Sunday 11 November 1900 when the main steam pipe burst in the No. 2 winding-engine house while new exhaustion gear was being fitted.	11 November 1900	Machinery	Rhondda Cynon Taf	4
Pendlebury Colliery fire, 1872 Six men and boys were suffocated at Andrew Knowles and Sons' Pendlebury Colliery on 6 November 1872 when a burning brattice cloth set the coal alight and cut off their way out.	6 November 1872	Fire	Greater Manchester	6
Thornley Colliery fall of stone, 1863 A fall of stone at the Thornley Coal Company's colliery in County Durham killed a shifter and a twelve-year-old trapper on 8 September 1863.	8 September 1863	Collapse / Roof Fall	County Durham	2
Fairbottom Colliery rope accident, 1861 Three colliers died at Leeses and Booth's Fairbottom Colliery, near Ashton-under-Lyne, on 13 February 1861 when the winding rope broke in the Wood Park pit.	13 February 1861	Winding / Shaft Accident	Greater Manchester	3
Mosley Common Colliery winding accident, 1869 Two men died at the Bridgewater Trustees' Mosley Common Colliery in September 1869 when the winding drum came out of gear as they went down the pumping pit.	25 or 26 September 1869	Winding / Shaft Accident	Greater Manchester	2
Bickershaw Colliery fall of stone, 1864 A thirteen-year-old horse driver and a collier were killed by a fall of stone at Ackers, Whitley and Company's Bickershaw Colliery on 27 April 1864.	27 April 1864	Collapse / Roof Fall	Greater Manchester	2