HAIG COLLIERY EXPLOSION – WHITEHAVEN – 1931

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HAIG PIT. Whitehaven, Cumberland. 5th. February, 1931. The No.3 North District where the disaster occurred was part of the Main Band Seam and was two and a half miles underground at a depth of 1,100 feet.....The men near the site of the explosion met a violent and sudden death and the bodies were so frightfully disfigured that identification was very difficult. The men that were further from the immediate scene were killed by concussion and gas.....
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Northern Mine Research Society
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Link: https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/accidents-disasters/cumberland/haig-colliery-explosion-whitehaven-1931/
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Added by: Simon Cotterill
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