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Explosion disasters

Firedamp, coal dust or blasting explosions underground.

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1 disaster in the 1750s, of 502.

DisasterDateTypeRegionFatalities
Team Colliery explosion, 1757
An explosion at the Whin Pit, Ravensworth — part of what became Team Colliery — killed sixteen men and boys, one of the earliest well-documented colliery disasters on the Durham coalfield.		 10 June 1757 Explosion Tyne and Wear 16

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