The history of mining accidents and resulting accident at work claims

Historically, mining accidents have been abundant but accident at work claims have been less plentiful. Mines are perilous places where accidents at work were happening at an alarming rate in the UK until stringent health and safety initiatives were introduced.

Unfortunately, such work accidents are still common in developing countries where the majority of modern day mining occurs and such initiatives, and the facility for making compensation claims, are still to be introduced.

Only 137 mining sites are still in operation in the UK and the death toll from mining-resulted work accidents has fallen from one in every 1000 workers at the beginning of the last century to an average of less than one between 2003 and 2007.

There are a number of reasons why mining accidents happen, including the risk of fire, flood, explosion and collapse of the mines themselves. The majority result in workers sustaining serious personal injury but, sadly, fatalities are also common.

Some of the most notable mining accidents reported in the UK involved an explosion at Coppice Colliery, Shipley caused by a methane gas leak, a pit cage accident where a miner opened the safety bar to the pit shaft when it stopped 45 yards from the pit bottom, and several child miners falling to their deaths.

Outdated, unreliable tools and machinery, poor staff training and inadequate health and safety standards may also contribute to accidents at work in mines in the developing world. China accounts for 80% of the world's total number of coal-mining deaths despite the fact that it only produces 35% of the world's coal.

According to the State Work Safety Supervision Administration, 4,746 were killed in Chinese coal mines during 2006. This shows that there is still a long way to go to protect Chinese workers from mining accidents and resulting work injuries.

The most horrific mining disaster in the world to date took place in Benxihu Colliery, China on 26th April 1942. This involved a coal-dust explosion which claimed the lives of 1,549 miners. It is unlikely that the miners' friends and family made any accident at work claims for compensation in this instance, but had this happened today the miner's employers could face paying out millions.

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