Blaenclydach Colliery Tub Accident – Blaenclydach – 1941

BLAENCLYDACH. Blaenclydach, Glamorganshire. 25th. December, 1941.

In the morning when the shift was being lowered down the pit, down a road which dipped nine inches to the yard by an electric haulage engine, the tubs got out of control and gathered speed down the dip.

Most of the men either jumped off before it was brought to a standstill but five men were killed and over 70 injured, twenty-seven of whom were kept in Hospital.

REFERENCES
Colliery Guardian, 5th December 1941, p486.

Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre.