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Welsh Mining Disasters

The following is a list of mining accidents where there were Five or more fatalities.

Where blank means five or more, but the exact numbers are unknown to me at present.

As numerous as this list (over 6,000) 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 17% of mining deaths in Wales. The total number (including those who died because of mining related illnesses) would be very much greater.