Winding / Shaft Accident disasters

Overwinding, broken ropes or chains, cage/skip accidents, and falls down an open or uncapped shaft.

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3 disasters.

• Botallack Mine shaft accident
  18 April 1863 · Winding / Shaft Accident · Cornwall · 9 fatalities
  The chain hauling a man-carriage up the Boscawen Diagonal Shaft broke; the carriage ran back out of control and struck timber at the bottom, killing all nine men and boys aboard.
• Snailbeach Mine winding-rope accident, 1895
  6 March 1895 · Winding / Shaft Accident · Shropshire · 7 fatalities
  Seven miners were killed at George's Shaft when the winding rope — in continuous service for eight and a half years, twice the normal replacement interval — snapped internally and dropped their cage 252 yards to the bottom of the shaft.
• Levant Mine man-engine disaster
  20 October 1919 · Winding / Shaft Accident · Cornwall · 31 fatalities
  During a shift change at Levant Mine, a link between the man-engine's reciprocating rod and its surface beam broke, collapsing the engine down the shaft while 130-150 miners were using it.