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Mining Accidents and Their Prevention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

Mining Accidents and Their Prevention

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1889
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Great Pit Disasters: Great Britain, 1700 to the Present Day
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Great Pit Disasters: Great Britain, 1700 to the Present Day

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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It Couldn't Happen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 20

It Couldn't Happen

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1954
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Northumberland and Cumberland Mining Disasters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 177

Northumberland and Cumberland Mining Disasters

Part One includes an overview of early disasters, multiple fatalities, from 1710. Part Two, 1806-1841 concerns disasters, under the theme of 'Pit Children'.Part Three, 1844-1888, covers a variety of accidents including explosions and floodings and is called 'Fire, Air and Water'. The final section, Part Four, covers modern disasters, from 1910-1951. The day-to-day life of a miner was fraught with danger, especially when pits were in private hands. Despite government inspection and regulation accidents occurred and they devastated local families and communities. The tragedies included great acts of bravery by volunteer and official rescue teams and they attracted widespread press and media coverage. The great disasters include Hartley (204 deaths), Wallsend (102 fatalities) and Whitehaven (104). The author has taken great care to chronicle each event and compile lists of the dead, including their dependents. The book should be of great value to anyone interested in coal mining, social and family history.

Coal-mine Accidents in the United States, 1932
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 90

Coal-mine Accidents in the United States, 1932

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1934
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Coal-mine Accidents in the United States, 1931
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 106

Coal-mine Accidents in the United States, 1931

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1933
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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South Yorkshire Mining Disasters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

South Yorkshire Mining Disasters

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-10-31
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  • Publisher: Wharncliffe

In the period that we now call the Industrial Revolution mining disasters wrecked the lives of thousands of South Yorkshire families and devastated entire communities. The Husker pit flooding of 1838 in which 26 young girls and boys were killed shocked Victorian society and and was a significant factor in the 1842 Report on Employment of Women and Children in Mines; but earlier, long forgotten disasters are also explored. The Barnsley area was particularly hard-hit during the middle decades of the century with major mining accidents, usually great explosions of firedamp occurring, for example, at Lundhill Colliery (189 men and boys killed); Oaks (361 fatalities, Britain’s worst pit disaster) and Swaithe Main (143 dead). Scenes of grief, mourning and remarkable heroism provided spectacular copy for Victorian newspapers and magazines such as The Illustrated London News, focusing on the very uncertain and dangerous life of the miner. Despite the importance and widespread occurrence of South Yorkshire mining disasters, which also included dreadful winding accidents and gas emissions, their story has never been told in a single volume.

Death Underground
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Death Underground

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-07-24
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  • Publisher: SIU Press

Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters examines two of the most devastating coal mine disasters in United States history since 1928. In two southern Illinois towns only forty miles apart, explosions killed 111 men at the Centralia No. 5 mine in 1947 and 119 men at the New Orient No. 2 mine in West Frankfort in 1951. Robert E. Hartley and David Kenney explain the causes of the accidents, identify who was to blame, and detail the emotional impact the disasters had on the survivors, their families, and their communities. Politics at the highest level of Illinois government played a critical role in the conditions that led to the accidents. Hartley and Kenney address ...