Description: Senghenydd colliery disaster. The Senghenydd colliery disaster occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd near Caerphilly Glamorgan Wales on 14 October 1913. The explosion which killed 439 miners and a rescuer is still the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom. In an earlier disaster in May 1901 three underground explosions at the colliery killed 81 miners. The inquest established that the colliery had high levels of airborne coal dust which would have exacerbated the explosion and c
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Sunday, October 13, 2019
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