Explosion disasters

Firedamp, coal dust or blasting explosions underground.

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1 disaster in the 1980s, of 502.

Disaster	Date	Type	Region	Fatalities
Cardowan Colliery explosion, 1982 A firedamp explosion on a longwall coal face in the Cloven Seam's V52 District at Cardowan Colliery injured 40 men on 27 January 1982, none fatally. The accident forced the colliery's closure while it was investigated, fed into a national review of ventilation and gas-monitoring practice, and became a landmark case study in mass burns treatment.	27 January 1982	Explosion	North Lanarkshire	0