Mining: Accidents

(asked on 10th October 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Portrait
Tom Blenkinsop
(Labour - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2016 to Question 44288, how many of these incidents led to fatalities.

Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 13th October 2016

There have been three incidents leading to fatalities.

  • Four people died as a result of an inrush of water at the Gleision Mine in South Wales on 15 September 2011;
  • One person died as a result of a fall of ground at Kellingley Colliery, North Yorkshire on 27 September 2011;
  • One person died as a result of a sudden and powerful release of gas from rocks at Boulby Mine in East Cleveland on 17 June 2016.
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