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Explosion disasters

Firedamp, coal dust or blasting explosions underground.

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1 disaster in the 1720s, of 530.

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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