Disasters - 1930-39	Disasters - 1930-39

Please note: only those accidents where 5 or more lives were lost are shown in the tables below.

Northern England
	Date			Cnty	Colliery	Cause	Lives	Sufferers
	29	Jan	1931	CUL	Haig Pit	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing	27	Names
Rest of UK
	Date			Cnty	Colliery	Cause	Lives	Ref.
	24	Feb	1930	YKS	Wath Main	Explosions, firedamp, ignited by safety lamp	7	Names
	26	Feb	1930	LAN	Lyme Pit	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing	13	Names
	10	Mar	1930	YKS	Allerton Bywater	Explosion, firedamp, explosion caused by shot firing	5	Names
	30	Aug	1930	LKS	Auchinraith, Blackband Seam	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing	6	Names
	01	Oct	1930	STS	Grove (Brownhills)	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light used to light cigarette	14	Names
	12	Dec	1930	YKS	Houghton Main	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing	7	Names
	31	Oct	1931	FIF	Bowhill	Explosion	10	Names
	20	Nov	1931	YKS	Bentley, Barnsley Seam	Explosion, firedamp, caused by gob fire or safety lamp	45	Names
	25	Jan	1932	GLA	Llwynypia	Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by match	12	Names
	10	Oct	1932	LAN	Bickershaw, No. 3 Pit	Shaft accident, overwind, down cage crashed through landing platform into the sump	19	Names
	12	Nov	1932	LAN	Garswood Hall, No. 9	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by electric spark	27	Names
	16	Nov	1932	LKS	Cardowan	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing	11	Names
	09	Dec	1932	YKS	Cortonwood	Explosion	7	Names
	16	May	1933	STS	West Cannock	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by electric spark from signal bell	6	Names
	19	Nov	1933	DBY	Grassmoor, Deep Hand seam, No. 8 Pit	Explosion, firedamp, cause of ignition uncertain, possibly electric cap-lamp headpiece	14	Names
	26	Jul	1934	NTT	Bilsthorpe	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing	9	Names
	14	Aug	1934	LKS	Rosehall	Explosion	5	Names
	22	Sep	1934	DEN	Gresford	Explosion, firedamp, cause of ignition uncertain, possibly spontaneous combustion	265	Names
	23	Aug	1935	YKS	South Kirkby		10	Names
	12	Sep	1935	YKS	North Gawber (Lidgett)	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing	19	Names
	21	Mar	1936	LKS	Bardykes	Fall of roof	5	Names
	06	Aug	1936	YKS	Wharncliffe Woodmore	Explosion, firedamp propagated by coal dust, ignition caused by sparking at starting switch or commutator of the loader motor	58	Names
	21	Jan	1937	DBY	Markham	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by flash from defective coal-cutter	9	Names
	15	Feb	1937	DBY	South Normanton			Names
	02	Jul	1937	STS	Holditch	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by fire at coal cutting machine, caused by friction of the picks in the cut	30	Names
	30	Jan	1938	STI	Dumbreck	Underground fire, caused by short circuit in the junction box	9	Names
	10	May	1938	DBY	Markham No.1 Blackshale Pit	Explosion, coal dust, ignited by sparking caused by breaking of joint box in collision with runaway tubs	79	Names
	07	Jun	1939	LAN	Astley Green		5	Names
	28	Oct	1939	FIF	Valleyfield	Explosion, firedamp, propagated by coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing	33	Names

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