The following is a list
of some of the larger mining accidents which resulted
in death. As horrendous as this list is, it still
represents only a small proportion of Welsh miners
killed at their workplace.
Although disasters are large and dramatic in number
they only account for less than 16% of mining deaths
in Wales.
It has been estimated that during the heyday of
coal at least one miner a day lost his life striving
to dig the black gold from the bowels of the earth.
This list, does not include
those who suffered serious injury and such horrendous
diseases such as pneumoconiosis, known locally
as "
Dust"
or "
Black
Lung.
