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 2020s, of 686.

DisasterDateTypeRegionFatalities
Tylorstown landslip, 2020
On 16 February 2020, during Storm Dennis, the upper of two former colliery spoil heaps on the Llanwonno hillside above Tylorstown, in the Rhondda Fach, failed and flowed into the valley below; no one was hurt.
16 February 2020 Surface / Tip Failure Rhondda Cynon Taf 0

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