Mr. WRIGHTasked the Secretary for Mines if he will state the number of mines where flooding or inrush of water has occurred, the districts, and loss of life from 1900 to 1929?
§ Mr. TURNERFollowing is a statement of fatal accidents from inrush of water (including inrushes of surface water, moss, and other liquid matter) at mines under the Coal Mines Act.
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Date. Name of Mine. County. Number of Deaths. 1911. 24 March … … Dyllas Isha … Glamorgan … 2 24 April … … Minnie … Stafford … 1 30 November … … Leabrook … Stafford … 1 23 December … … Bamfurloug … Lancashire … 1 1912. 8 June … … Dean Moor … Cumberland … 1 1913. 27 February … … Lassodie Mill … Fife … 1 16 June … … Car House … Yorkshire … 8 1914. 28 April … … Felling … Durham … 1 28 May … … Dunvant Penlaw … Glamorgan … 2 28 December … … Maxwell … Ayr … 1 1915. 7 January … … South Hetton … Durham … 1 6 September … … Piercy … Stafford … 2 1916. 26 April … … Neilsland … Lanark … 5 22 September … … Hook … Pembroke … 2 27 September … … Harraton … Durham … 1 7 December … … Banknock … Stirling … 1 1918. 9 July … … Stanrigg and Arbuckle … Lanark … 19 1922. 31 July … … Backwork, Algernon … Northumberland … 1 1923. 21 April … … Shut End No. 5 … Stafford … 4 25 April … … Apedale Footrail … Stafford … 8 25 September … … Redding No. 23 … Stirling … 40 1924. 27 November … … Killan … Glamorgan … 5 28 November … … Blackbrook … Glamorgan … 1 1925. 30 March … … Montagu Main … Northumberland … 38 1927. 23 April … … Montagu Main … Northumberland … 1 1929. 16 January … … Rishton … Lancashire … 1 17 January … … Maryhill … Stafford … 3