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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.
2 disasters in the 1770s, of 505.
Disaster
Date
Type
Region
Fatalities
Neston Colliery explosion, 1777 An explosion at Neston Colliery killed four colliers, among the earliest recorded fatal mining accidents on the Wirral peninsula.
17 May 1777
Explosion
Cheshire
4
Chartershaugh Colliery Explosion, 1778 A firedamp explosion at Chartershaugh Colliery on 8 December 1778 killed 24 men, one of the deadliest recorded Durham coalfield disasters of the eighteenth century.
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