Rhondda
Mining disasters

Rhondda

Section Title: Mining disasters
Table Section Text: None

Colliery	Location	Date	Year	Death toll	cause

Dinas Colliery	Dinas	1 January	1844	12	gas explosion

Cymmer Colliery	Cymmer	15 July	1856	112	gas explosion

Ferndale No. 1 Pit	Blaenllechau	8 November	1867	178	gas explosion

Ferndale No. 1 Pit	Blaenllechau	10 June	1869	53	gas explosion

Pentre Colliery	Pentre	24 February	1871	38	gas explosion

Tynewydd Colliery	Porth	11 April	1877	5	flooding

Dinas Middle Colliery	Dinas	13 January	1879	63	gas explosion

Naval Colliery	Penygraig	10 December	1880	101	gas explosion

Gelli Colliery	Gelli	21 August	1883	5	gas explosion

Naval Colliery	Penygraig	27 January	1884	14	gas explosion

Maerdy Colliery	Maerdy	23–24 December	1885	81	gas explosion

National Colliery	Wattstown	18 February	1887	39	gas explosion

Tylorstown Colliery	Tylorstown	27 January	1896	57	gas explosion

National Colliery	Wattstown	11 July	1905	120	gas explosion

Cambrian Colliery No.1	Clydach Vale	10 March	1905	34	gas explosion

Naval Colliery	Penygraig	27 August	1909	6	cage fall

Glamorgan Colliery	Llwynypia	25 January	1932	11	firedamp

Blaenclydach Colliery	Clydach Vale	25 November	1941	7	runaway trolly

Lewis Merthyr Colliery	Trehafod	22 November	1956	9	gas explosion

Cambrian Colliery	Clydach Vale	17 May	1965	31	gas explosion

Sentence(s)

The worst incident in the Rhondda was the 1867 Ferndale disaster in which an explosion saw the loss of 178 lives.

final_sentence: The worst incident in the Rhondda was the 1867 Ferndale disaster in which an explosion saw the loss of 178 lives.