Deaths in Rhondda Collieries

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."