Rhondda
Mining disasters
Columns: 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