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 1760s, of 505.

Disaster	Date	Type	Region	Fatalities
Walker Colliery explosion, 1766 Ten people were killed at Walker Colliery on the Tyne on 18 March 1766, eleven months after an explosion at the same pit had killed eight. The Durham Mining Museum records both among the colliery's disasters and names the dead; neither entry gives a cause for the 1766 accident.	18 March 1766	Explosion	Tyne and Wear	10