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The History of Mining Accidents and Accident at Work Claims
Mining accidents within history are plentiful, but the accidents at work claims relating to this have been less abundant.Until the introducing of Health and Safety initiatives, mines were perilous places where accidents at work were occurring at an alarming rate. Now,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there are only 137 mining sites still in operation in the UK. This decrease has impacted the amount of fatalities within the industry. The death toll from mining-related accidents has fallen from one in a thousand workers to less than one, between the years of 2003-2007.Why do mining accidents happen?A combination of fires, floods, explosions and the collapsing of mines themselves have been responsible for the thousands of mining accidents in history. Most accidents sustain major injuries, but fatalities do occur and are not rare, unfortunately.A most notable mining accident within the UK was that of an explosion at Coppice Colliery, Shipley,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], caused by a methane gas leak. Another drastic
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