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Comprises papers concerning accidents and safety issues. Includes: fatal accident reports and inquest files for incidents within collieries across the South Wales Coalfield, including collieries that were situated in Glamorgan, Carmarthenshire and Gwent; reports on ignitions and outbursts, HM Inspector of Mines Annual Reports and Explosion Reports; files concerning ventilation and fans at Cwm Colliery; and files concerning precautions against inrushes at Tower Colliery.

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National Coal Board, RecordsDNCB

Estates DepartmentDNCB/1

Finance DepartmentDNCB/2

Industrial RelationsDNCB/3

Legal DepartmentDNCB/4

Public Relations DepartmentDNCB/5

Mining DepartmentDNCB/6

Safety BranchDNCB/6/1

Trade Unions and Industrial ActionDNCB/6/2

Tip Control UnitDNCB/6/3

Engineering DepartmentDNCB/6/4

Mines Rescue ServiceDNCB/6/5

Re-organisation SchemesDNCB/6/6

Plant Purchase ProgrammeDNCB/6/7

Statistical ReportsDNCB/6/8

Opencast sitesDNCB/6/9

Photocopy of register of discharges from underground coal workings and spoil tipsDNCB/6/10

Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Hall Wood, Malvern HillsDNCB/6/11

Plan of South Wales CoalfieldDNCB/6/12

Coal Delivery RecordDNCB/6/13

Surveyors DepartmentDNCB/6/14

Scientific DepartmentDNCB/7

Individual CollieriesDNCB/8

Opencast ExecutiveDNCB/9

Statistics DepartmentDNCB/10

Secretary's DepartmentDNCB/11

Area DirectorDNCB/12

Staff DepartmentDNCB/13

Photographic CollectionDNCB/14

Pre-Vesting Date Coal Mining and Related Industrial RecordsDNCB/15