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The Stanrigg mining accident, also known as the Stanrigg Pit disaster or the Arbuckle Pit disaster, was a coal mining accident which occurred on 9 July 1918 at the Arbuckle Pit of Stanrigg Colliery near the town of Airdrie in what is now North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Nineteen miners died including six teenage boys.
The Blantyre mining disaster, which happened on the morning of 22 October 1877, in Blantyre, Scotland, was Scotland's worst ever mining accident. [3] [4] Pits No. 2 and No. 3 of William Dixon's Blantyre Colliery were the site of an explosion which killed 207 miners, possibly more, [5] with the youngest being a boy of 11.
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The Knockshinnoch disaster was a mining accident that occurred in September 1950 in the village of New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. A glaciated lake filled with liquid peat and moss flooded pit workings, trapping more than a hundred miners underground. For several days rescue teams worked non-stop to reach the trapped men.
The Mauricewood Colliery Disaster, occurred at the Mauricewood pit, near Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland on 5 September 1889. A total of 63 miners were killed. [ 1 ] At the time the mine was owned by the Shotts Iron Company Ltd.
The Redding 23 mine workings were operated by James Nimmo & Co. Ltd. in the vicinity of the village of Redding, Falkirk, where coal mines had been operating for over 100 years. [ 1 ] Early on 25 September 1923, flood water from the former Coxrod mine workings broke through to the Dublin No. 1 branch of the Redding mine and rapidly filled the ...
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
Burngrange Shale Mine was situated 16 miles south-west of Edinburgh in the Parish of West Calder in the County of Westlothian. It was owned by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co., Ltd., which at the time was a subsidiary of Scottish Oils Ltd and was one of a group of 12 mines working the oil shales in the Counties of Midlothian and West ...