Richardson Colliery Asphyxiations

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Richardson Colliery Asphyxiations

Glen Carbon, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
October 3, 1891
No. Killed - 7

State Mine Inspector's Narrative Report (4.0 Mb)

1891 8th District Anthracite Fatalities

1891 8th District Anthracite Non-Fatalities

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Note: This accident is incorrectly listed on the CDC/NIOSH Disaster List

as having occurred on 10/22/1891. The MSHA Fatality Archive Database

and the State Inspector's report show it occurred on October 23, and news articles along with the Pennsylvania Mine Accident Index

and the District 8 victim lists agree that it was October 3. Both MSHA and the CDC will need to correct this. See more possible errors and omissions.

In the News

	The Pittsburgh Press, Oct. 4, 1891
	Altoona Tribune, Oct. 5, 1891
	Harrisburg Telegraph, Oct. 8, 1891
	The Hamilton County Ledger, Oct. 9, 1891

	Altoona Tribune, Oct. 9, 1891
	Centralia Fireside Guard, Oct. 9, 1891
	The Advertiser-Courier, Oct. 14, 1891

Seven unfortunate men lost their lives by being suffocated by gas, by reason of a pillar giving way in a breast. The coal, in consequence of the breast and coal chute being empty, rushed into the gangway, knocking out several sets of timber, closing the only available outlet for the unfortunate victims' escape.

The official list of dead and injured:

Non-Fatal: