ALLEN John Robert - 1904 - 13/1905/1904 – Age 20 – Loader. Warsop Main, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. He was building a pack in the stall when a fall of roof occurred and before he could be got out a second fall occurred and killed him.

ALLEN Joseph - 1900 - 27/07/1900 – Age 45 – Ostler. Vochriw, Dowlais Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While attempting to pass between two sets of waggons, on the siding, he was crushed between the buffers.

ALLEN Peter - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Owner. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed.

ALLEN Richard – 1902 – 13/1905/1902 – Age 45 – Stone dresser. Edgeworth Sandstone Quarry, David T Alderson, Lancashire. Caught by belt driving stone-dressing machinery.

ALLEN Thomas * – 1907 – North Seaton, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

ALLEN Thomas – 1909 – 27/04/1909 – Age 50 – Traffic foreman. Donnington, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Deceased was observed by a shunter walking along beside, but well clear of, a set of fifteen trucks which were standing on a slight incline of 1 in 54. Five other empties were allowed to gravitate down a portion of the road, inclined at 1 in 69 in the opposite direction. The impact was sufficient to cause the stationary trucks to move a distance equal to the length of one truck against the inclination. While they were in motion a truck near the top end was noticed to jump on the metals. On investigation it was found that deceased had been run over. He was able to crawl from between the trucks but expired in a few minutes. He had received severe injuries to the groin, a knife which he had in his pocket having been pressed into the femoral artery with such force that it completely severed the artery.

ALLEN W. - 1900 - 02/1905/1900 – Age 24 - Waggon repairer. Wharncliffe Silkstone, Wharncliffe Silkstone Coal Co., Yorkshire. Was underneath a wagon repairing it when the locomotive moved and it ran over him. Died 5th May.

ALLEN Walter William - 1907 - 07/01/1907 – Age 41 – Dataller. Holbrook No. 3, J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was supposed to have been sent to test the ends of a firing cable near to which lay a charge of 16 ounces of Monobel powder. The shot-firer turned the current of a magneto battery into the cable when the charge exploded and killed the deceased.

ALLEN William - 1906 - 15/01/1906 – Age 58 – Collier. Wharncliffe Silkstone, Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Co Ltd., Yorkshire. Died from injuries received, by a fall of stone from the roof of his working place, on November 22nd, 1905.

ALLEN William - 1909 - 30/12/1909 – Age 35 – Quarryman. Hendra China Stone Quarry, John Lovering and Co Ltd., Cornwall. A hole 10 or 11 feet deep, charged with about 20 cartridges of gelignite, had been blasted on the 21st December, and from the work which it did, the deceased man, Allen, formed the opinion that the whole of the gelignite had not gone off. He warned the foreman to that effect in case he should send anyone to work there, as he (Allen) was going away for Christmas. The foreman thought it best to let the place remain idle and did so until his return. Both men resumed work there on the 30th December and were getting off the ground which had been loosened, they were expecting to find some of the explosive when a severe explosion occurred, killing both men instantly. Evidently one of them struck some of the gelignite with his pick or bar and caused the explosion. The men are said to have been experienced miners and had worked as Quarrymen for the last four or five years. 2 killed.

ALLEN William Henry - 1906 - 06/02/1906 – Age 42 – Stallman. Bolsover, Bolsover Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was making a hole in the side of a roadway, to receive a prop, when a piece of roof fell, and after striking another man rolled on to the deceased’s leg. The leg was broken, and he died on 8th April, after amputation of the limb.

ALLIN John T. * - 1903. Cowpen, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

ALLINGHAM Frederick - 1908 - 02/04/1908 – Age 35 – Sinker. Guilford, Guilford Syndicate Ltd., Kent. Fell against the walling or cradle on which he was working and which was being raised four or five feet by the winding engine, no one saw him fall but hearing a splash they soon understood what was the matter. He fell into some 12 or 15 feet of water and was dead when got out. They were walling the shaft and the cradle fits the shaft with a margin of only about three to four inches all around to allow room for its being moved upwards or downwards is required. The cradle must have got above the walling at time of the accident.

ALLINGTON George Frederick - 1905 - 06/10/1905 – Age 49 – Sinker. Barrington, Barrington Coal Co., Northumberland. An old shaft called the Bomarsund Pit, 14 feet in diameter and sunk to the High Main seam at 45 fathoms, was being deepened to the lower seams and had reached a depth of 39 fathoms below the High Main seam. A cradle hoist in the shaft, at a crib bed 5 fathoms from the Bottom, was suspended on a crab rope. The kibble, 3 feet 4 inches in diameter, hung on a rope at the centre of the shaft, and the cradle rope gradually approached the kibble in descending and eventually pressed against it. At 22 fathoms from the bottom two buntons had been let into the sides of the shaft and 4 chains attached to them hung down the shaft past the cradle and were to be used in supporting the cradle while walling; these chains as hung were made up of 7 fathoms of plain chain, then 7 fathoms of chain having a big link each fathom and then 7 fathoms of plain chain. The mid-portion of each chain should have been next to the bottom so as to use the big links in altering the position of the cradle as the walling advanced. The foreman sinker, on the previous shift, had fixed the chains and when the deceased came down to relieve him they got into the kibble together, on which a torch lamp hung, and there were electric lights at the cradle, and proceeded to examine the chains until they were about 6 feet below the buntons; at this point the kibble, when hanging plumb on the rope was touched by the cradle rope and the side of the kibble was 2 feet 6 inches from the buntons. In some way not clearly explained they had steadied the kibble on the wrong side of the cradle rope. And when they were drawn away, in response to a shout, the kibble came in contact with one of the buntons and the deceased was knocked out and fell on to the cradle where five sinkers were.

ALLINSON George - 1906 - 31/07/1906 – Age 19 - Landing lad. Eldon, Pease and Partners, Co.Durham. He was trying to lift a clip-bogie on to the road as it was moving. He tripped and fell in front of it, and was run over by the set.

ALLISON Cuthbert - 1905 - 18/10/1905 – Age 44 – Stoneman. Trimdon Grange, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He was doing some walling, preparatory to taking down a top canch, when a large stone fell and crushed his head against the pack.

ALLISON J.G. Vipond - 1908 - 06/11/1908 – Age 15 – Driver. Bowden Close, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. He was learning to drive, and was with a waggonwayman and a horsekeeper, who were training a new pony. Five full tubs were being hauled outbye up a slight gradient, when the pony became restive, backed up and apparently unseated the boy who was riding on the first tub. He had fallen backwards, and the last tub had gone over him. The road was in order and there was plenty of room.

ALLISON James - 1901 - 02/12/1901 – Age 61 - Quarry Asst. blaster. Middleton, Whinstone Ord and Maddison Ltd., N. Yorkshire. A hole had been charged and fired three times, twice with gelignite and once with powder, and it was about to be fired again with powder but after putting in 5.5 lbs of powder the chargeman found the hole was wet so put in 22.5 lbs. of gelignite in as well as the powder and charged, stemmed and lighted the fuse, which should have run for 11 minutes but before this man could get out of the way the shot, by some means, exploded and he was buried under 300 tons of Whinstone, brought down by the charge and killed.

ALLISON John - 1900 - 07/03/1900 – Age 54 – Hewer. Binchester, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He had just fired a shot and went back to see what it had done when a stone fell from the roof on to his back. Died before he was got out the pit.

ALLISON Joseph Thompson - 1905 - 12/12/1905 – Age 20 - Hewer and putter. East Pontop, East Pontop Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased and another young man were hewing double in the night shift, in a small stook of coal 7 feet wide, in the Shield Row seam. The place had just been broken away from the left side of an old rolleyway, in which a top caunch 2 feet thick had been taken down from the post roof of the seam which was 3 feet 8 inches thick, and lies at a depth of about 12 fathoms. Some coal had been taken off in the previous shift and a prop on a sole tree and plank above had been set about the centre of the place. The deceased examined the place before they started and thought it safe, and he was close at hand when the accident occurred. After they had filled two tubs the prop and plank were found to be loose and while deceased’s mate was holding the plank, the deceased drove the prop with a mell, when a stone 8 feet long by 3.5 feet thick fell right across the place relieved by a parting above and a jack prop behind with a loose side in front and caught the deceased, who was not got clear until about one hour afterwards. His mate was knocked to one side and escaped. Considering all the circumstances it is doubtful if sufficient care had been taken in timbering the place and it would have been prudent, if deceased or his mate had called the deputy when they found the timber loose. There was no lack of timber. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘so far as we see it was a pure accident.'

ALLISON William - 1903 - 18/02/1903 – Age 36 – Miner. Bailliesmuir, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was holing when a piece of face stone fell upon him.

ALLOTT John - 1909 - 24/02/1909 – Age 53 – Collier. Rotherham Main, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased, with others, was building a pack and it is conjectured that he accidentally knocked out a prop, this allowed a very large stone to fall. The roof was shot shaken and contained treacherous partings. It should have been pulled down.

ALLOTT William - 1907 - 01/02/1907 – Age 44 – Dataller. Aldwarke Main, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He died from injuries received on May 16th, 1906, when repairing an old road by a fall of stone from the roof at a break which was not visible until the accident occurred.

ALLSOPP Thomas - 1900 - 14/11/1900 – Age 42 – Horsekeeper. Holly Bank, Holly Bank Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed by runaway tubs. Cause a broken coupling.

ALSEBROOK Frederick - 1901 - 09/10/1901 - Age 33 – Quarryman. Hill Side Clay Quarry, Thomas Wragg and Son, Derbyshire. Deceased was undercutting a bed of sandstone, by working the fireclay, and neglected to set sprags for his protection when the sandstone fell and killed him. The foreman of the Quarry had ordered sprags to be used when doing this work.

ALTON John - 1900 - 04/10/1900 – Age 45 – Deputy. Randolph, North Bitchburn Coal Co Ltd., Co.Durham. He was caught and killed by a fall of stone while drawing a jud.

ALTON William - 1906 - 21/11/1906 - Age 25 – Loader. Stockingford, Stockingford Colliery Co., Warwick. Fall of coal. Deceased was jigging a tub of coal down the gate when some coal fell from the face and killed him.

ALTY John - 1901 - 18/12/1902 – Age 49 – Fireman. Holland, White Moss Coal Co.,Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made. Deceased got his leg injured through a water tank coming uncoupled in the haulage downbrow and running downbrow against him. He succumbed to his injuries Jan. 20th. 1902.

ALVEY Raymond - 1905 - 05/09/1905 – Age 14 - Horse driver. Blackwell, B Blackwell Colliery Co., Derbyshire. He was run over by eleven empty tubs which became uncoupled and ran away down an inclined roadway. Another boy was injured.

AMBLER John - 1906 - 17/04/1906 – Age 18 – Putter. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. When riding outbye on the set, contrary to Special Rule, he was crushed between the tubs and the roof and killed.

AMOS Harry - 1908 - 11/03/1908 – Age 27 – Collier. Seven Sisters, Evans and Bevan, Glamorgan. Fall of side at face. A small piece of coal struck him on the leg, but it did not prevent him working on the two following days. He was absent until the 30th March, when he reported to the manager that he had received an injury. On the 10th April he was removed to the Swansea Hospital, where he died on the 6th May from blood poisoning. Brass Vein. Safety lamps.

AMOS Moses - 1902 - 26/09/1902 – Age 41 – Collier. Pandy, Naval Colliery (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, 10 foot by 9.5 foot by 7 foot, fell on and crushed out two pairs of recently stood timbers. There had been 4 foot of rubbish packed on them but there was an empty space of 5 foot between the packing and the roof, which should have been filled. New seam.

AMOS William - 1901 - 28/02/1901 – Age 15 – Labourer. Slope Blaendare Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp at a naked light. They were engaged walling a staple pit from the new vein to the lower seams and had got to within about four yards from the top. Gas accumulated under the scaffolding, owing to no provision having been made for ventilation, and it ignited at the naked lights which they were using. 2 killed.

ANCOTT Frederick - 1903 - 14/07/1903 – Age 46 – Roadman. Nuneaton, Stanley Bros., Warwick. A full tub, one of a set of four, got off the rails and was being put back upon the rails again after the endless rope had been stopped, when the rope moved on again bringing up another tub which bumped into those near the deceased and crushed him. He died 20th July.

ANDERSON Alexander - 1902 - 04/11/1902 – Age 15 – Drawer. Kelty, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was pulling down some coal at the face of a longwall working when a large stone fell from the roof, close to the coalhead, and killed him instantly. The roof was barred within 3 feet of the face and the edge of the stone was formed by a keen lype which cut the roof immediately on the inside of the bar nearest to the face.

ANDERSON Alexander - 1908 - 26/12/1908 – Age 40 – Miner. North Motherwell, Merry and Cuninghame, Lanarkshire. A stone mine from the shaft cut the Upper Drumgray coal and arrangements were made to open out with a view to work it. The deceased, Anderson’s son, who was a very capable workman was entrusted by the manager to do the work, and began operations on the morning of the accident. During the morning some coal was worked off and while the father was wedging down coal a mass of stone fell and both were killed instantly. 2 killed.

ANDERSON Anthony - 1906 - 29/10/1906 – Age 29 – Fitter. Pelton, Owners of Pelton Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. He was repairing some machinery, and when stepping, to cross an open hatchway, he slipped and fell 21 feet to the ground beneath. His skull was broken.

ANDERSON David - 1908 - 22/06/1908 – Age 47 – Miner. Bellfield No. 3, William Barr and Sons, Lanark. While working at the face, a piece of head coal gave way and crushed him against a prop. It was stated that sprags supported the head coal, but that these were displaced by the fall.

ANDERSON David - 1909 - 13/11/1909 – Age 24 – Miner. Gateside, Flemington Coal Co. Ltd., Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place while beneath it knocking out breaker props.

ANDERSON George - 1902 - 30/10/1902 – Age 33 – Miner. Eston Ironstone, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., N. Yorkshire. Deceased and his mate had lighted a powder shot, which they thought had miss fired, both of them without waiting the proper time went back to see if it had done so when it suddenly exploded and a piece of stone struck Anderson on the back of the head and fractured his skull. Died the same day.

ANDERSON George - 1904 - 14/06/1904 – Age 33 – Fitter. Shildon Lodge, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was hurrying along a long wall face to repair a coal cutter, two men had prepared and lit a powder shot in the top canch of a gateway, one went along the face and the other to the cross gateway to prevent anyone approaching the shot, the one in the face saw someone coming and shouted repeatedly to him to keep back but he apparently had not heard and got close to the shot when it exploded and the stones from it hit him about the head and shoulders causing fatal injuries. Died 3.75 hours afterwards.

ANDERSON George - 1908 - 21/01/1908 – Age 50 – Miner. Cowdenbeath, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was beginning a new "slice" from a stoop. He had worked off some bottom coal and left the top coal overhanging, and while preparing a place for a sprag the overhanging part fell on him.

ANDERSON Gilbert - 1903 - 06/11/1903 – Age 50 – Miner. Dumbreck No. 2, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. When standing at the foot of an incline the roof fell on him. Another man was injured.

ANDERSON James - 1903 - 02/02/1903 – Age 18 – Miner. Lochhead, Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was taking down some coal at a nose in a longwall working. A ___ had just been drawn from it but as the coal did not come away readily he sat down and began to relieve it by deepening the holing. While so engaged the coal came away suddenly causing injuries which terminated fatally.

ANDERSON James - 1905 - 10/02/1905 – Age 44 – Miner. Earlseat, Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife Deceased had fired a shot and on returning to examine the work it had done the roof fell on him and injured his spine. He died on 15th.

ANDERSON James - 1909 - 19/03/1909 – Age 55 – Labourer. Aitken, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. While following his ordinary duties he fell from the gangway, alongside the wagons, to the roadway, a distance of 7 feet and was killed.
ANDERSON John - 1902 - 12/07/1902 – Age 57 – Hewer. Middridge - Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He got into a refuge hole to let the empty set pass him, on a self acting incline, but stepped out before the set passed and was caught and killed.

ANDERSON John - 1903 - 11/11/1903 – Age 40 - Loco. Driver. Lochgelly, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The waggons are hauled between the principal siding and two of the pits by means of a self-acting incline. Deceased for some reason unknown caught hold of one of the ropes, just as the rake started, and was suddenly raised to a height of 20 feet and letting go his hold he fell to the ground.

ANDERSON John - 1903 - 17/11/1903 – Age 25 – Putter. Medmosley, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by slipping when getting off trucks, on a surface railway, while he was improperly riding to his work in the mine.

ANDERSON John - 1909 - 20/10/1909 – Age 30 – Miner. Berryhill No. 2, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayr. Outburst of firedamp. 4 killed.

ANDERSON John - 1909 - 22/04/1909 – Age 55 – Labourer. Newcraighall, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was cleaning up the dross on the roadway, behind some loaded wagons, when some empty wagons were let down and ran too fast colliding with a stationary wagon under the screen, causing it to move forward, deceased tried to escape but was crushed between the moving wagon and a stationary wagon beside him.

ANDERSON John H. - 1908 - 27/08/1908 – Age 29 – Fireman. Meadows, Newtown and Meadows Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. The roof of the level had been weighting, and when deceased was jack-propping a bar, the roof fell upon him, capping two bars.

ANDERSON Joseph - 1909 - 05/08/1909 – Age 35 – Miner. Glenboig, Glenboig Union Fireclay Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof. 4 killed.

ANDERSON Patrick - 1903 - 01/07/1903 – Age 69 – Labourer. Rudman’s Britannia Quarry, John Rudman, Lancashire. Fell head first from a ledge 59 feet from the bottom of Quarry. He had put a barrow near to edge of the ledge, he was filling it when it toppled over and took him with it.

ANDERSON Ralph - 1907 - 26/07/1907 - Age 57 – Fireman. Wearmouth Boiler, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died July 7. Steam pressure at 45 lbs. to 50 lbs. pressure from two egg-ended boilers, each 45 feet long and 5 feet diameter, placed underground near the shafts in the Maudlin seam and was carried away in 8 inch pipes, about 20 yards from the boilers was a short branch pipe closed by a blank flange with a rubber weeze joint. The rubber failed and steam escaped. Deceased, who was stopping for a double shift, to oblige his marrow, was only clothed in a pair of drawers, he heard the escaping steam, when at the top of a staple to the Hutton seam, where air from the staple cooled the escaping steam, and ran in the direction of the boilers to shut off steam, but as he proceeded, and when near a feed water heater, found the heat too great and had to retreat and was found in a state of collapse near some iron doors that he was attended to, and the enginewright was sent for, who being fully clothed, was able to reach the boiler and shut off the steam. This enginewright stated at the inquest that he, in company with the deceased, had examined the blank flange 3 hours before it gave way, when it seemed all right. Deceased was scalded about his head and body but was not considered much worse and refused at first to go to the hospital where he was ultimately taken.

ANDERSON Robert * - 1905. Bedlington, Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

ANDERSON Robert - 1900 - 03/09/1900 – Age 51 – Shifter. Shildon Lodge, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He had gone down the pit for the purpose of commencing work, he complained of feeling ill, and sat down and died almost immediately. (Not comprised)

ANDERSON Robert - 1907 - 23/10/1907 – Age 17 – Miner. Dechmont No. 2, Archibald Russell Ltd., Lanarkshire. When travelling down a self-acting incline he was overtaken by the full race and run over.

ANDERSON Robert - 1908 - 01/08/1908 – Age 22 – Miner. Bowhill, Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was clearing away coal, after blasting, when a stone ball overlying the coal fell upon him. He disobeyed orders in not taking down coal and stone together.

ANDERSON Robert - 1909 - 01/03/1909 – Age 36 – Oversman. Broxburn Oil Shale, Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. The mine starts from the surface, and the mineral is hauled by an engine and dook rope. A loaded rake had been hauled a short distance up a steep gradient, when a chain bar of one of the tubs broke and 8 tubs came back and the deceased was fatally crushed.

ANDERSON Robert - 1909 - 20/10/1909 – Age 29 – Miner. Berryhill No. 2, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayr. Outburst of firedamp. 4 killed.

ANDERSON Thomas - 1903 - 22/04/1903 – Age 61 - Water leader. Browney, Bell Bros. Ltd., Co.Durham. He died in the lamp cabin from heart disease. No inquest held.

ANDERSON Thomas - 1909 - 03/08/1909 – Age 24 – Miner. Lassodie, Thomas Stewart and Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased knew his roof required more props and had just taken measurement to get one to set up when a large stone fell and killed him instantly.

ANDERSON Thomas – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 20. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 19 Gordon Terrace Stanley.

ANDERSON William – 1904 – 21/11/1904 – Age 21. Wellsgreen Labourer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The dirt from the picking tables is thrown into a hopper and falls into a tub on the surface level and within a few feet of the main line to the colliery. The tubs are hauled across the line of rails to and from a hoist and the loaded tubs are raised and debris deposited on the dirt bing. Deceased was about to pull a loaded tub, from under hopper, when in front of a train of empty waggons they caught him and fatally crushed him. The locomotive was behind pushing the waggons in front and the brakesman was beside the driver instead of on the leading waggon. The driver whistled as he approached the screen apparently by reason of the noise made by the coal cleaning machinery deceased did not hear the whistle. The arrangement for crossing the line of rails with the tubs was a bad one.

ANDERSON William – 1904 – 29/02/1904 – Age 29 – Cousland oil shale Miner. Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Shots were prepared at the face, one for bursting and one for bairding, the former was charged with 2 lbs. of gunpowder and the latter with 1 lb. Deceased had lighted both shots and was on his way to reach a place of safety, and when 9 foot away one or probably both exploded and he was struck with the flying shale. He was in the direct line of the bursting shot when discovered. By some means, apparently delay had been occasioned in lighting the fuses. The fuse used was black tape which runs 1 foot for 30 seconds.

ANDERTON James – 1904 – 31/10/1904 – Age 32 – Trimdon Grange Hewer. Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He had been out of the place to get his bait and on going back a fall of stone took place, 7 yards back from the face, and killed him.

ANDREWARTHA William – 1904 – 25/01/1904 – Age 57 – Trevethoe Tin Lander. Trevethoe Co. Ltd., Cornwall. In a moment of absent mindedness he pushed a banking waggon into the sinking shaft, having forgotten to lower the trap-door provided for closing over the shaft. Except that such things are known to occur it would seem almost unaccountable that such an accident could happen.

ANDREWS Benjamin – 1900 – 17/11/1900 – Age 54 – Trethowel China Clay Quarry Labourer. Trethowel China Clay Co., Cornwall. Fall of side and overburden. They had a burden platt or bench, some yards wide, but had worked most of it away and were engaged taking it down a further slice, leaving only a yard or so remaining, with the natural result that when a quantity of overburden and side gave way it fell upon them and carried them off the ledge to the bottom of the Quarry some 20 feet below. The place was to have been left in a day or so, not being deemed safe to work there in the winter, the margin of safety the manager's opinion being the difference between a fine and a wet day. (Proceedings were instituted enforcing penalties when a fine of £5 and £1 13s. 9d. costs was imposed on each of the two partners.) 2 killed.

ANDREWS George – 1900 – 20/03/1900 – Age 19 – Brinsley Dayman. Barber Walker and Co., Nottingham. Fall of roof. Deceased was walking up a new crossgate when a quantity of the roof fell and killed him.

ANDREWS George – 1905 – 07/03/1905 – Age 19 – Cwmbran Collier. Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in an old stall which was being stowed with rubbish. There was a shortage of timber in the district and evidently they were knocking some out when the fall occurred. 2 killed.

ANDREWS James – 1908 – 23/01/1908 – Age 37 – Taylor Dataller. Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When going to his work, along the railway siding, he got run over by a locomotive about 7.40 pm., it being very dark at the time. The two men who were with him stated they saw the lights of the locomotive 50 or 60 yards away, and heard the engine whistle.

ANDREWS John – 1902 – 19/06/1902 – Age 14 – Woodhorn Driver. Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Neck dislocated by falling in front of a full tub. It appeared probable that he had not fixed the Cotterill in the limbers of his pony after they were attached to the tub. The pony was found standing near but the limbers were not connected to the tub.

ANDREWS John – 1908 – 21/11/1908 – Age 31 – South Wales Labourer. Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. Crushed in cog wheels of washing machine. There appears to have been a kind of fence, but doubtless the wheels were not properly fenced. On the other hand he had no business there and especially not to make use of the fence - a rail - to cut timber upon, as he was doing. The place was usually kept locked, but he took the key without permission, and went there out of the cold and wet to cut up this timber.

ANDREWS Joseph – 1907 – 03/12/1907 – Age 24 – Ashton Moss Rope runner. New Moss Colliery Ltd., Lancashire. He was running along the level, expecting a train of 35 full tubs following which, were under the control of the rope, either from not having been coupled by the deceased or from a twisted coupling becoming loose by the tubs bumping ten tubs which ran amain and overtook the deceased and ran on to him. Probably a small hauling engine made so much noise he had no warning, he was shouted to by the attendant. He might have travelled on a parallel line without tubs.

ANDREWS Thomas – 1905 – 29/12/1905 – Age 38 – Treaman Collier. Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face rock, 16 foot by 5 foot by 27 inches thick, fell as deceased and his assistant were filling a tram with the rubbish produced by a shot, which had been fired in the bottom a short time previously. Five road side props, which are said to have been crushed out, may have been loosened by the shot. Two-feet-nine seam.

ANDREWS William – 1904 – 10/10/1904 – Age 42 – Westminster Colliery. Westminster & Brymbo Coal & Coke Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged ripping the roof down and when drawing down a stone with the bar he appears to have slipped on the dirt he was standing on and fell under the stone which fatally injured him.

ANGUS C. 1900 – 17/09/1900 – Age 24 – Manvers Main Hurrier, Manvers Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

ANNABLE Ezra – 1900 – 03/09/1900 – Age 14 – Pleasley Incline boy. Several loaded tubs broke away from the top of a self-acting incline and when they reached the bottom they ran into some empty tubs standing there and behind which deceased was endeavouring to get for safety. Died on the 5th instant.

ANSLOW Thomas – 1906 – 17/07/1906 – Age 33 – Cannock Chase No. 9 Loader. Cannock Chase Colliery Co. Ltd., Stafford. Deceased was watching a stallman pulling down a piece of coal end, a buttock end in a 5 feet seam. He stood about 4 feet from the coal face and about 8 feet from the stallman. The latter told him to stand back, but deceased said he was ‘all right’. When the coal came away it knocked out a temporary prop set near the face, which struck the deceased and knocked him against the corner of the pack, fracturing his skull. Had the stallman exercised ordinary care he would have insisted upon deceased getting out of the way before pulling down the coal.

ANSLOW William – 1901 – 24/1905/1901 – Universal Repairer. Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway Cd 947. 81 killed.

ANSON Thomas – 1908 – 11/02/1908 – Age 62 – Conduit No. 3 Timberer. Conduit Colliery Co., Stafford. Deceased and another were renewing a bar which supported the roof in the main haulage road in the Deep Seam. To protect themselves, he had set middle posts under the two adjoining bars. When knocking out a short sprag, which supported one end of the bar which was being taken out, some roof stone fell and knocked out one of the middle posts which struck the deceased on the stomach, causing internal injuries, to which he succumbed two days later.

ANTHONY George – 1902 – 24/1905/1902 – Age 22 – Walker Waggon driver. Walker Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died 12th June. The horse under the deceased's charge was drawing a waggon into a coal shed when the deceased tripped suddenly and fell causing also another driver, who was with him, to fall, each man had his left leg broken by the waggon passing over it. Blood poisoning supervened in the deceased's case and he was taken to Newcastle Infirmary on 7th Jun., and his leg was amputated but he died five days after the operation.

ANTHONY Harry (escaped) – 1909 – 29/10/1909. Darran, Rhymney Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident has been the subject of a Special Report. 27 men lost their lives and 4 were injured.

ANTHONY John – 1904 – 26/09/1904 – Age 42 – Arniston Farm servant. Arniston Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was at the depot for coal, with two carts, and while the locomotive was shunting he by some unknown means got between the waggons and was fatally crushed.

ANTHONY S. – 1909 – 29/10/1909 – Age 18 – Darran Labourer. Rhymney Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident has been the subject of a Special Report. 27 men lost their lives and 4 were injured.

ANTHOY John – 1906 – 12/11/1906 – Age 34 – Rhos Collier. Rhos Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. Fall of roof at face. A piece of clod measuring 3 foot 6 inches by 14 foot by 11 inches from above the coal face, fell upon his head. fracturing his skull. Grasucha Seam.

ANTROBUS Samuel – 1908 – 16/1905/1908 – Age 60 – Helsby Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Runcorn and Helsby Red Sandstone Co. Ltd., Chester, Cheshire. His crowbar slipped when he was removing a stone from a table. He fell backward and struck his head against a stone. Died on the 29th.

ANTROBUS Thomas – 1903 – 22/01/1903 – Age 30 – Bunker’s Hill Collier, William Rigby and Co., Stafford. Irruption of water into eight feet Banbury seam. 3 killed.

APPLEBY Christopher – 1901 – 08/08/1901 – Age 14 – Seaton Burn Apprentice Mason. Seaton Burn Coal Co Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Appleby and others were engaged in enlarging an underground engine house in which the arching had been removed and the roof temporarily supported by timber. While the deceased was in a stooping position some stone fell from the roof, a distance of 10 feet.

APPLEBY John * 1902 - 21/1905/02 – Age 14. Harraton, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham.

APPLEBY John - 1902 - 21/1905/1902 – Age 14 - Haraton Driver. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Riding on the limbers bringing a full set outbye when his head was caught between the top of the first tub and a plank supporting the roof.

APPLEBY John George - 1901 - 06/1905/1901 – Age 19 - Tursdale Pump attendant. Bell Bros. Ltd., Co.Durham A staple from the Busty to the Brockwell seam was full of water and it was being taken out by means of water cages. When the water was lowered 16 feet some gas came off and ignited at an open light and caused fatal injuries to Appleby and injuries to another two men.

APPLEBY Peter - 1908 - 13/08/1908 – Age 25 - Chopwell Stoneman. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of roof stone at working face.

APPLEBY Richard - 1906 - 02/03/1906 – Age 61 - Hedley Hope Labourer. Sir B Samuelson and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When assisting to move two railway trucks, he was squeezed and killed between the side of a truck and a retaining wall.

APPLEGARTH Charles Thomas - 1908 - 20/02/1908 – Age 33 - Washington Glebe Stoneman. Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of firedamp. 14 killed.

APPLETON James - 1901 - 27/03/1901 – Age 32 - Bickerstaffe Fireman. Foster Williams and Co., Bickerstaffe, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased, with others, was engaged fixing air pipes in the shaft, standing on the cage top to which a flap had been added to make it larger, when by some means he overbalanced himself and fell to the bottom of the shaft.

APPLEYARD Tom - 1907 - 11/11/1907 – Age 62 - West Arley Labourer. Yorkshire Iron Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. A conveyor, for taking coal to the coke ovens, became choked and stopped the engine by causing the driving belt to come off. After getting the machinery to work again he and others were standing watching the conveyor when he moved away, apparently to clean up coal lying about on the platform above the end of the conveyor. He had previously lifted a trap door to get to the end of the conveyor and he, by some means, fell through this and fractured his skull and his leg was caught by the conveyor. Died Nov 12.

ARBLASTER Frederick - 1903 - 25/03/1903 – Age 51 - Brownhills No. 3 Plant Labourer, William Harrison Ltd., Stafford. Crushed between a railway truck and wharf wall while cleaning the railway. A locomotive engine was sending trucks into different roads by running shunts. In spite of the fact that the foreman knew trucks were to be sent on the line, on which the men were working, he took no steps to warn or protect them although they could not see the trucks coming owing to the curve of the line and the locomotive driver could not see them.

ARBLASTER Samuel - 1903 - 19/08/1903 – Age 44 - Walsall Wood Rock ripper. Walsall Wood Colliery Co. Ltd., Stafford. Ruptured himself while lifting a heavy piece of stone. Died 21st August.

ARCH Charles - 1909 - 13/01/1909 – Age 33 - Holly Bank Sneyd Stallman. Holly Bank Colliery Co. Ltd., Stafford. Deceased was engaged in ripping in the stall road, a few yards from the face where a new road was being turned away. A shot had just been fired by the shot-firer, after which he and deceased examined the place and found two loose pieces of rock hanging. Deceased was engaged in pulling down these loose pieces when a large piece of rock fell from between two slips without giving a warning and killed him instantly. He appeared to have loosened the key which was keeping the larger piece between the slips from falling.

ARCHBOLD William - 1905 - 19/08/1905 – Age 28 - Choppington Hewer. Bebside Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased and his brother worked together in a longwall face in the Harvey seam. The stonemen had been in their road the night before and shot in the caunch to the face of the coal and built a pack wall to the face on the right side and nearly to the face on the left side. The place was examined by the deputy at 1.15 am., when the stonemen were in and again at 4 a.m. The deceased and his brother started work at 8.30 a.m. and the survivor stated at the inquest that on first going to the place, they did not think it looked safe and they sent for the deputy, who came at 11.08 am, and examined the roof and found it sprung at one point and he set a pair of gears next the face, having however to wait until the putter brought suitable timber from the flat as the props at the place were not of sufficient length. The survivor stated they should have liked more props set but that there were no more. The deputy, however stated that the putter brought five props in and he would have set more had they been required. About 1.25 hours after the deputy's visit they fired a shot in the coal and then retired to get their bait. On returning, they made no examination of the roof and while deceased was filling a tub a stone 7 yards long by 6 feet wide and 14 inches thick fell from the roof upon him displacing the pair of gears last set. The stone was relieved by a slip all round it was a flat cauldron arse. The Local Inspectors expressed the opinion that it was a pure accident and no blame attached to anyone.

ARCHDALE Thomas - 1909 - 24/07/1909 – Age 53 - Elsecar Main Ripper. Earl Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire. With others he was engaged in enlarging and re-timbering a main haulage road. Whilst he was preparing to set a prop a heavy fall of stone occurred. He was struck on the head by the edge of the falling stone and killed on the spot.

ARCHER A.A. - 1904 - 29/03/1904 – Age 20 - Albion Haulier. Albion Steam Coal Co Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased got on a journey of four trams, laden with rubbish, to ride up the incline to the tip where he worked. When about 50 yards from the starting point the tram got off the rails, on account of the dirty condition of the road, and deceased fell under the third tram. He died on the 12th April. He was illegally riding.

ARCHER George Henry - 1906 - 24/02/1906 – Age 25 - Renishaw Park No. 2 Onsetter. J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was crossing the pit bottom while the cage was descending. It caught him before he got clear across and killed him. There was a proper road round the shaft.

ARCHER John Stephenson - 1909 - 15/10/1909 – Age 35 - Nenthead Lead and Zinc Engineman. Vieille Montague Zinc Co., Cumberland. Fracture of Pelton wheel.

ARCHER Thomas George - 1901 - 16/04/1901 – Age 14 - Ercall View Pit labourer, Thomas Jones, Shropshire. Scalded by the explosion of vertical boiler. Died 19th April.

ARCHIBALD William - 1901 - 15/03/1901 – Age 50 - Donibristle Miner. Donibristle Colliery Co., Fife. Deceased was taking off coal from the side of a stoop when the coal suddenly gave a burst, to escape injury he threw himself back and his head came in violent contact with a rail. He died from his injuries four days afterwards.

ARCHIE William - 1905 - 20/07/1905 – Age 21 - Corrennie Granite Quarry Labourer. John Fyne, Aberdeen. Deceased was employed, with another, landing the stones raised by a crane, a large stone weighing about 2 tons was raised and placed in a bogie to be removed to the dressing shed when the stone broke and it is thought that in order to avoid being struck by one of the parts he stepped back and fell into the Quarry hole.

ARKWRIGHT John - 1903 - 30/12/1903 – Age 25 - East Ince Hall Machineman. W and T Latham, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A large stone fell upon the deceased from the roof at the longwall face, which was being holed by a coal-cutting machine, which capped three or four props. The face will be barred in future.

ARMITAGE H. - 1903 - 16/07/1903 – Age 62 – Burmantofts Clay Quarry Crane driver. JC Boyle, Yorkshire. He was raising a hoppet using the crane and it was noticed that the jib was being turned when the crane fell over and fatally crushed Armitage by the boiler. He did not appear to have fully started the engine and probably confused the levers and caused jerks by turning the steam off and on.

ARMITAGE John – 1906 – 18/12/1906 – Age 61 – Hickleton Main Dataller. Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. A deputy instructed him to clean up the in-bye end of the endless rope in the North District of the Barnsley Seam, he assisted him to put one empty tub on to the full road and told him when he had filled it to lower it to some full ones round a curve. He was then to clean up the higher portion of the road and throw the scattered coal into any of the 91 empty tubs which were standing on the empty road. On returning towards the end of the shift the deputy found him pinned between a prop at the road side and the front of the 84th empty tub with the seven below it off the rails and twisted completely around across both sets of rails. He was quite dead and cold. The empty tub on the full road had nothing in it but the man's shovel, and his lamp was hanging upon a prop close to him on the empty road side, and from this he appears to have done no work after the deputy left him. The most probable cause of the accident seems to be that he had been taking off one or more empty tubs, attempting to fill them, and when he released the whole of the empty train moved forward, twisted round and caught him as he attempted to take his lamp off the prop. The train was kept in position by wooden lockers and the road dips 1 in 48 at the lower end and 1 in 12 higher up.

ARMITAGE John William – 1906 – 26/1/1906 – Age 54 – Stanley Collier. Stanley Coal Co., Yorkshire. In helping his hurrier to get a tub on to the road he bruised his shoulder and scratched his arm. Blood poisoning set in and he died on November 5th.

ARMITAGE R. – 1903 – 17/09/1903 – Age 35 – Carlton Main Screenman. Carlton Main Colliery Co Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 22nd September. He was standing near a fire on the surface when he was seized with an epileptic fit and fell into the fire and was fatally burnt.

ARMITAGE W – 1902 – 25/09/1902 – Age 16 – West Ardsley Pony driver. Yorkshire Iron and Coal Co Ltd., Yorkshire. He was driving a set of full tubs along a roadway when the first tub left the rails and broke a prop and Armitage was killed by the fall of roof which followed.

ARMITAGE W. – 1900 – 01/1905/1900 – Age 42 – Barnsley Main Collier. Barnsley Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Strained himself when working with a drill. Died 9th May.

ARMOUR James – 1902 – 13/11/1902 – Age 31 – East Holywell Hewer. East Holywell Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was found lying on his back unconscious in his working place and died in a few minutes. He had been seen a quarter of an hour before and was then all right. No evidence of any accident. Inquest held and post mortem examination made from which it appeared death was due to syncope from a diseased heart and not from any accident or violence and so the jury found.

ARMS Walter - 1908 - 23/01/1908 – Age 30 - Pinxton No. 3 Loader. Pinxton Collieries Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. He was sitting in the gate taking a meal when a fall of roof fell on to his back. Died on 20th September from septic poisoning, the result of these injuries.

ARMSON Joseph - 1906 - 15/03/1906 – Age 63 - South Leicester Deputy, South Leicester Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Fall of roof. Deceased was making an inspection of the mine, and was found dead under a fall of roof at the working face.

ARMSTRONG Albert - 1909 - 10/11/1909 – Age 17 - Trimdon Grange Small runner. Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He was attempting to ride in the ‘Billy pit’ cage from the ground level to the heapstead level. He was jerked against the engine
house wall, severely crushed and finally thrown out of the cage to the ground below. Of course he should not have done what the did.

ARMSTRONG Enoch - 1905 - 25/06/1905 – Age 34 - Haden Hill Driver. W Bassano and Co., Staffordshire. Killed by gob-stink and blackdamp. 2 killed.

ARMSTRONG Henry - 1907 - 27/01/1907 – Age 24 - Queen Fireman. Pemberton Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire, He was drawing out props with a gablock and chain from under the kench, when a sudden fall of roof occurred upon him.

ARMSTRONG John - 1906 - 20/09/1906 – Age 44 - Tanfield Lea Deputy. James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was employed in the night shift, and was found on the engine plane, about two hours after his shift had commenced in an unconscious state by a shifter. He was taken home and died about two hours afterwards. There was no suggestion of any accident, the doctor’s opinion being that he had been seized with an apoplectic stroke. No inquest was held.

ARMSTRONG John - 1909 - 10/11/1909 – Age 32 - North Seaton Hewer. Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of roof stone at long wall face.

ARMSTRONG John - 1909 - 29/07/1909 – Age 57 - Grassmoor No. 1 Dayman. Grassmoor Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was told by the stallman to set a bar at the buttock, to which he demurred saying it was unnecessary. He started cutting a hole in the coal face, to receive the bar, when the roof fell and killed him.

ARMSTRONG John Charles - 1901 - 17/04/1901 – Age 29 - Nailstone Stallman. Nailstone Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Fall of roof coal. Deceased was breaking out a fall of coal when a portion of the roof coal broke over two props and fell upon him. He died 12th May.

ARMSTRONG John James - 1906 - 06/09/1906 – Age 35 - Ashington Stoneman. Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. He was working in the cut driven forward alongside a 6 feet dip hitch by picks on the right side of a coal cutter face in the longwall workings in the 4th south way of the Bothal Pit Yard seam. A 3 feet top canch had been taken down in the cut to within a foot of the coal, and pairs of gears were set to the new roof 1.5 to 2.5 feet apart. He was ridding stone between two planks 2.5 feet apart when an irregularly bedded post stone 3 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 6 inches and varying in thickness up to 11 inches fell from the roof partly over both planks, displacing a prop under the end of one of them. It was relieved by a natural joint, by feather edges and a new break. A small piece of this stone 15 inches by 10 inches by 2.5 inches is supposed to have fallen separately and fractured his skull. The chargeman had left him an hour before when everything seemed safe and there was no lack of loose timber. The Local Inspectors in their report simply described the nature of the accident and remarked, ‘there was plenty of timber of various sizes in the place.’

ARMSTRONG John Robert - 1909 - 03/07/1909 – Age 37 - Guddamgill Lead and Zinc Miner. Vieille Montague Zinc Co., Cumberland. Explosion of gelatine dynamite while preparing a charge.