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.

1 disaster in the 1720s, of 929.

DisasterDateTypeRegionFatalities
Lumley Park Colliery explosion, 1727
In 1727 an explosion at Lumley Park Colliery, near Chester-le-Street, killed sixty people, one of the worst colliery disasters of the early eighteenth century in the north-east.
1727 Explosion County Durham 60

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