Wales Coal Mine Disaster and Coalbrook, South Africa

Wales coal mine disaster
Senghenydd Colliery disaster occurred on October 14, 1913, during the period of peak coal production in the UK. The cause is most likely coal dust explosion ignited methane. The death toll was 439, so the deadliest mining accident in the UK. This is the worst of a spate of mining disasters in Wales that occurred during the period from 1850 to 1930 mine safety ugly. On June 25, 1894, 290 died at Albion Colliery in Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, in a gas explosion. On 22 September 1934, 266 were killed in the Gresford Disaster near Wrexham in North Wales. And on 11 September 1878, 259 were killed in the Prince of Wales Mine, Abercarn, Monmouthshire, in an explosion.



Coalbrook, South Africa

Biggest mining disaster in the history of South Africa is also one of the most deadly in the world. On January 21, 1960, landslide at the mine trapped 437 miners. Of those victims, 417 succumbed to methane poisoning. After the disaster, the state bought KP drilling the appropriate rescue equipment. There are shouts after the accident when it was reported that some miners have escaped into the first entrance, but was forced to return to the mine by the supervisor.

 

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