Accidents and Fatalities at the Collieries

J.E. McFarlane’s book ‘The Blood on your Coal’ lists 203 fatal accidents at Denaby Main Colliery and, including the Cadeby Main disaster, 218 fatal accidents at Cadeby Main These pages provide a link to the pages on this Site which cover the reports of the accidents and inquests. We have had a number of requets to provide this information and hopfully this will helpyou to locate the details. Where a newspaper report is not available the information has been obtained from the Coal Mining History Resource Centre or the lists in ‘The Blood on your Coal’ http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/disasters/index.html Index

1. Denaby Main Accidents and Fatalities
Denaby Main 1869 to 1879
Denaby Main 1880 to 1889
Denaby Main 1917 – Michael Patten
Denaby Main 1920 to 1929

2. Cadeby Main Colliery

1912 – Cadeby Main – Gas Explosion
1917 – Cadeby Main – George Brough

3. Accidents and Fatalities in the 1900’s

1900
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1907