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 1740s, of 1017.

Disaster	Date	Type	Region	Fatalities
North Biddick Colliery explosion, 1743 Seventeen were killed at North Biddick Colliery, on the Wear at Washington, in January 1743 when men holing a drift into an old waste fired gas, though the drift and waste were full of water.	January 1743	Explosion	Tyne and Wear	17