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Explosion disasters

Firedamp, coal dust or blasting explosions underground.

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1 disaster in the 1740s, of 569.

DisasterDateTypeRegionFatalities
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

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