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Clover Hill Company
Cox Pit Explosion
Clover Hill, Chesterfield County, Virginia
November 30, 1850
No. Killed - 7
A blast at the Clover Hill Company’s Cox pit kills seven in 1850. Two more are killed at the pit in a landslide the following year. Also in 1854, an
explosion in pits near Midlothian kills 20
. Those same pits experience an
explosion in 1855 that kills 55
.
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