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West Cliff PUR Fire

12/12/1986 - West Cliff Colliery - Fire

Cavity Filling a Longwall Roof Fall with PUR.

No one was injured or killed during the fire fighting operations but years later a number of the men involved in the fire fighting developed rare cancers and died. Investigations have not directly identified a link between the event and the deaths but it is identified as a cancer cluster.

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