BABE Patrick - 1900 - 29/06/1900 – Age 40 - Old Boston No. 3 Sinker. Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Ten men were engaged in sinking operations, in No. 3 Old Boston pit, at a depth of 245 yards from the surface and when they were filling dirt into the hoppit an upheaval of the floor occurred and an outburst of firedamp gas igniting at the candles, which caused the ten men to he burnt more or less severely, eight of whom afterwards succumbed (at the Haydock Cottage Hospital) to the injuries received. At the inquiry it was recommended that in future sinking operations should be carried on by electric light. 8 killed.

BABER Samuel - 1907 - 25/11/1907 – Age 31 - Newmarket, Haighmoor Collier. Henry Briggs Son and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He and his brother were cleaning up an old road, so that they could commence to take out the pillar which was crushed and had weight cracks in it from the roof to the floor. Two bars had been set, which were let into the side of the road at one end, but not supported at the other end and in not doing this the deceased committed an error of judgement.

BACHE David - 1904 - 25/06/1904 – Age 12 - Pennant Hill Boy. Stafford. While some boys (not employed at the colliery) were playing with a tub on an incline they were thrown out of the tub by it running off the rails and Bache was killed and two others injured.

BACON Arthur - 1907 - 17/08/1907 – Age 29 - Horden Stoneman. Horden Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was dressing the side, at a bottom caunch, for a prop to be set under a baulk, when a large piece of stone broke off at the baulk, and tilting it out it struck him on the back. He died in hospital 30th September.

BACON Charles - 1903 - 27/03/1903 – Age 15 - Kirkby Horse driver. Butterley Co., Derbyshire. Deceased stated that he was taking his horse from the stable, the horse went up an old roadway and in turning the animal round it knocked him down and hurt him. He died on 2nd April from lockjaw.

BACON William - 1904 - 02/09/1904 – Age 45 - Silver Hill Stallman. Stanton Iron Works Co., Nottinghamshire. A full tub was being lowered in the stall, to the gate end down a dip of 1 in 7 by a hand winch, when the brakes failed to act the deceased was pushed along in front of the tub and killed at the gate-end.

BACON William Toplis - 1907 - 03/02/1907 – Age 43 - Coppice Stallman. Shipley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was getting off the cage at the pit bottom when a piece of timber, which had been carried up by the ascending cage, fell down the shaft and struck the deceased as he stepped off the other cage.

BADCOCK William Arthur - 1908 - 21/03/1908 – Age 34 - Baddesley Banksman. Baddesley Colliery Trustees, Derbyshire. Crushed by the middle bar of the cage while changing decks. Deceased was knocked forward by two empty tubs striking him from behind, and which had followed those going on to the cage.

BADDELEY George - 1903 - 22/01/1903 – Age 37 - Bunker’s Hill Fireman. William Rigby and Co., Stafford. Irruption of water into eight feet Banbury seam. 3 killed.

BADDELEY Hiram - 1908 - 25/02/1908 – Age 40 - Emley Moor Manager. Stringer and Jagger Ltd., Yorkshire. The coal for the coke ovens, after being crushed, is elevated by means of a chain and bucket elevator to a hopper from which it is tilted into coke oven tubs and then taken to the ovens. The elevator was erected in October, 1907, and is placed at an angle of about 70 degrees from the horizontal and the distance from the centre of the top drum to that of the bottom drum is 75 feet. The buckets are attached to two link chains, 20 inches apart, centre to centre. Considerable trouble had been experienced from the commencement with the chains owing to the links breaking. On the day prior to the accident the chains broke and they and the buckets were precipitated into the hole into which the coal is delivered by the crusher in the crusher house. At the time of the accident they had been got into position by means of blocks and coupled together. The blocks, although not detached, were eased and the weight taken off them. The bottom portion of the chains and buckets were secured by a chain fastened to an iron bar across the casing, in which the buckets travel, and new pins were being put into the links. The coke oven manager was about half way up on a bucket and the deceased was standing on a bucket about level with the floor of the crusher house, putting pins in when the two links, within six feet of the top, broke, and the chains and buckets fell to the bottom and the deceased was carried with them and killed. The coke oven manager was carried through the opening in the wall of the crusher house but, owing to the buckets jamming at the opening, he was saved from instant death. The accident was caused by the defective quality of the links forming the chain and the presence of fractures and flaws in them.

BADDILY Enoch - 1902 - 21/03/1902 – Age 58 - Brown Lee Dataller. R Heath and Sons Ltd., Stafford. Run over by tubs in jig dip. Two empty tubs were secured in the dip by means of a 6 foot rail while the jig post was being removed. The tubs remained in position for 1.5 hours but got loose just after the deceased passed them. They had not been carefully secured.

BADMAN John - 1901 - 07/07/1901 – Age 63 - Old Mills Overman. W Evans and Co., Somerset. A small stone fell from the side of a road where he was examining and injured his finger. The accident was considered very trivial, but blood poisoning set in and he died on the 19th July.

BAGE Ralph - 1904 - 21/11/1904 – Age 27 - Wingate Grange Stoneman. Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery, Co.Durham. Fall of stone. He was holding a light for another man, who was moving some stone to make a foundation for a back wall when a stone fell from the roof and killed him. It appeared quite safe but it fell from a horizontal parting which was invisible before the accident.

BAGNALL Charles - 1901 - 20/03/1901 – Age 45 - Granville No. 2, Stallman. Granville Colliery Co., Derbyshire. He died of 'heart disease' while employed in the mine The coroner jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from natural causes.

BAGNALL Thomas - 1906 - 25/04/1906 – Age 28 – Northwood, Driver. T Beech, Barton, Stafford. This accident was caused by a tub on the endless rope in a dip inclined at an angle of about 35 degrees becoming unclipped from the rope and running back. It was the custom at ‘loose it’ for the rope to be emptied of tubs and loads in order that the men might travel. The rope was run at low speed and the men were assisted by attaching short pieces of cord to the rope and holding on to the same. On this date someone had attached an empty tub without authority and in direct contravention of the posted regulations. After going about 120 yards the tub became detached and ran back. Men were riding either in or on the tub but whether either of the deceased or both were was not certain. The tub ran down the dip a distance of 60 yards passing on its way a number of men walking up, fortunately without doing injury. No evidence as to who was responsible for attaching the tub could be obtained in spit of a reward offered for information. 2 killed.

BAGULEY Thomas - 1900 - 26/01/1900 – Age 36 - Yew Tree Black & White, Collier. Tyldesley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal and dirt from working face. Crushed coal broke over the sprags. First commencement to work a pillar of coal. Died 8th December.

BAILEY Arthur - 1908 - 17/01/1908 – Age 46 – Victoria, Collier. Robert Heath and Sons Ltd., Stafford. Deceased was engaged in cutting out a pillar in the Cockshead seam, which lies at an inclination of 23 degrees. He had been getting coal from a horizontal rib about 3 foot thick, which had been left along the top of the drift, about a distance 35 yards. He called to his mate ‘look out’ and started to retreat towards the face of the drift, but in doing so he stepped in front of a portion, the rib about 4 yards long, which fell on him and carried him with it down the drift until it was stopped by the timbering. He was injured so severely that he died before he could be removed from the pit. Two days previously two posts had been set as sprags against the rib and deceased drew one of these before he commenced to get coal. The other one was reeled out by the fall. The work he was doing had evidently weakened the rib to such an extent that it could no longer sustain the pressure of goaf lying behind it.

BAILEY Charles William - 1908 - 09/10/1908 – Age 15 - Monk Bretton Wagon trimmer. Monk Bretton Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Three empty wagons and one full one were standing on siding which is level at that point. Another full wagon was lowered gently from under the screens and bumped the standing wagons forward a few yards. A few minutes afterwards Bailey was found on the ground very seriously injured. It was thought at first that he had been on the top of the standing full wagons and that the bump had thrown him off, but the injuries disclosed by a post-mortem examination, viz.: - serious laceration of the liver and one lung, pointed to the conclusion that he was crushed between the buffers of the standing wagons. The usual signal that wagons were about to be lowered was given before the full wagon was lowered from under the screens.

BAILEY Edward - 1905 - 12/04/1905 – Age 33 - Chesterton Forge Collier. Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Stafford. Fall of roof (coal) in a waste in the Great Row seam. After drawing a post to drop some Top coal in the waste and while trying to get it down with a bar the coal fell and killed him.

BAILEY Edward - 1908 - 23/12/1908 – Age 52 - Senghenydd Collier. Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face, coal and shale, 4 foot by 1 foot by 3 foot 8 inches thick, fell from what is said to have been a vertical face, on him and caused injuries from which he died in four days. The fall is said to have been accompanied by pounces. Four feet seam.

BAILEY Isaac - 1909 - 04/1905/1909 – Age 30 - Whitfield Collier. Chatterley Whitfield Collieries Ltd., Stafford. Deceased was injured by a fall of roof in the Hardmine Seam while making room for a face prop near the buttock. He died from the injuries five days later. The fall came from three slips and a break. One slip which was perpendicular to the face was a small dislocation with a throw of about 2 inches and was easily visible before the fall occurred. Deceased in view of the presence of the visible fault slip should have put up a temporary middle or foreset prop before continuing the removal of coal to make room for a prop at the face. Such a prop would almost certainly have prevented the fall, which only extended in all over an area of 4 foot 6 inches by 5 foot and attained a thickness of 20 inches against the fault slip.

BAILEY J. - 1901 - 13/04/1901 – Age 17 - Sharlston Hurrier. New Sharlston Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Killed by full tub he was riding on the shafts.

BAILEY J. - 1903 - 08/04/1903 – Age 39 - Rotherham Main Collier. John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in a working place. Cause slip.

BAILEY James - 1908 - 14/02/1908 – Age 53 - Crawford No. 1 Dataller. Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. He was engaged building a chock in the waste, and when trying to draw out a broken prop, with his hand, a stone fell upon him from slips in the roof.

BAILEY John - 1904 - 22/10/1904 – Age 26 - Hetty Asst. repairer. Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. At face cliff, 4 foot by 1 foot by 18 inches thick, fell as deceased was clearing a fall. The repairer knocked out some props from under the rippings of a stall and deceased and another man were clearing the rubbish which consequently fell when the accident occurred. The bringing down of the rippings evidently caused the roof above to become uneasy. Four feet seam.

BAILEY John - 1905 - 06/11/1905 – Age 24 - Ullcoats, Iron Ore Labourer. Ullcoats Mining Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased, during his second shift in the mine, but who had worked in other mines, descended the shaft in one of the cages from No. 2 level, in which he worked, to No. 3 level, 79 feet below, where it appeared workmen were in the habit of going to relieve themselves in a stream of water flowing there. The shaft was sunk 63 feet below No. 3 level to the low bottom where there was a scaffold over the sump. Deceased left No. 2 level with a lighted candle which seems to have been extinguished in the shaft. There was no fixed light at No. 3 level, although there was at No. 2 level. When the cage arrived at No. 3 level a labourer at No. 2 level, which had signalled him down, called to him to signal the cage away, when deceased replied he was in the dark and could not find the hammer; immediately after a signal was given from No. 3 level and the cage came up and no alarm appears to have been felt, as although deceased said he was in the dark he had asked for no light and it was thought he had matches with him. About half-an-hour after one of the miners in No. 2 level, for whom deceased worked, made enquiry, and then on descending to the low bottom deceased’s body was found on the scaffold. There are hinged gates fencing the shaft opposite both cages at No. 3 level, and it appeared likely that the gate fencing the shaft opposite the other cage had been left open and that the deceased, after signalling, had walked into the shaft thinking that he was going round the end of it. The jury added to their verdict of accidental death the recommendations ‘that an automatic gate or something of that kind be erected if it was practicable, and also that a fixed light be placed at each of the eyes named.’

BAILEY John - 1908 - 22/01/1908 – Age 67 - South Leicester Stallman. South Leicester Colliery Co., Leicester. Deceased was standing at a main junction intending to walk to the pit bottom. In stepping out of the way of an empty tub he got in the way of a full tub passing along the endless rope roadway and was knocked down. He died 29th Jan.

BAILEY John Thomas - 1903 - 13/03/1903 – Age 16 - Springwell Landing boy. John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. While a set of 30 tubs was gravitating inbye on a dip engine plane and drawing the main rope after them 18 tubs became detached and ran amain, fatally injuring the deceased who was near the rapper lever in a landing at the bottom of a drop staple. The tubs are coupled by a chain fixed on one tub fitting into a double eye on the next and secured by an iron pin attached to the tub by a small chain. The pin appears to have come out. Nothing about the coupling was broken. Deceased was near a refuge hole but the noise from other ropes running near may have prevented him hearing the runaway tubs until they caught him. The Local Inspectors reported they were 'of opinion that it was a pure accident.'.

BAILEY Lewis - 1905 - 29/12/1905 – Age 24 - Car House Collier. John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. His working place had gas but it was properly fenced off. He had left some tools in the place and went with his safety lamp on the outbye side of the fence, into the face to get these and was overcome and suffocated by the gas.

BAILEY Marcus - 1901 - 14/03/1901 – Age 20 - Heyfield Drawer. Westleigh Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place from proved fault and two slips. Visited by fireman, Thomas Birchall at 8 am, who ordered a prop to be set but failed to see deceased commence. The prop was never set. Deceased ought not to have been permitted to work alone as a collier, his father being absent ill. Doubtful if he had been employed two years at the face. (Average roof).

BAILEY Samuel - 1908 - 28/03/1908 – Age 48 - Silverwood Collier. Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He and two other men were twisting a tub on a flat sheet when he allowed the tub to pin him against a prop. The injuries were not considered to be serious, but he died on May 5th from heart disease and peritonitis which might have been caused by the injury.

BAILEY T. - 1900 - 24/1905/1900 – Age 29 - Warren House Collier. John Brown and Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BAILEY Thomas - 1906 - 04/12/1906 – Age 53 - Bryn Hall No. 3 Collier. Bryn Hall Colliery Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged working a pillar back; with the loose end against an old road, the roof collapsed, and deceased was crushed under the fall. Not sufficient props set to support the roof in safety.

BAILEY William * - 1900 – Cramlington, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

BAILEY William - 1902 - 10/06/1902 – Age 25 - Newchapel Collier. R Heath and Sons Ltd., Stafford. Explosion of a shot of gunpowder while he was unramming it.

BAILEY William - 1904 - 20/08/1904 – Age 51 - Walsall Wood Timberer. Walsall Wood Colliery Co. Ltd., Stafford. Fall of roof and side (rock and shale) while repairing a road in an inclined cross measure drift from shallow to yard coal. The men were assisting to repair a large fall, about 6 yards long and nearly 30 foot high, caused by a runaway tub (through a broken coupling) knocking out the timber. Before the repairs were completed a further fall took place, knocking out the newly set posts and girders and burying the two men.

BAILEY William - 1909 - 28/09/1909 – Age 15 - Victoria Taker off. Robert Heath and Sons Ltd., Stafford. Deceased was killed by a load carelessly allowed to run into a dip, 10 yds. long with an inclination of 1 in 2.5, while he was assisting to couple an empty tub to the rope on the plates at the bottom. The topblock in use on the landing at the top consisted of a long pole placed across the plates and resting against two props, but with no provision to prevent it being inadvertently displaced endwise. A loader who was waiting to jig a load interfered with the pole before getting a signal to jig and allowed the load to run amain. He was prosecuted under Special Rule 8 and on conviction was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Such stop-blocks are however apt to be a source of danger unless some provision is made to prevent them being pushed aside in either direction.

BAILLIE John - 1905 - 12/07/1905 – Age 13 - Pennyvenie No. 3 Drawer. Dalmellington Iron Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. In coming out a level with a full hutch his light went out. Another drawer coming behind, not seeing him ran against him with his hutch.

BAIN Daniel - 1901 - 21/1905/1901 – Age 23 - Cowdenbeath Joiner. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. While engaged erecting a fence around a fan engine, while it was in motion, he was hit by the crank.

BAINBRIDGE F.S. - 1904 - 05/10/1904 – Age 38 - Fauld, Gypsum Stone dresser. JC Staton and Co., Stafford. Run over by wagons on which he was riding to the mine.

BAINBRIDGE - Francis - 1906 - 20/09/1906 – Age 23 - Dunston Stoneman. Dunston Garesfield Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Died September 21. A shotfirer placed his battery in an old gateway at right angles to a cross gateway in which a shot charged with about 1 lb of saxonite had been prepared to blow up bottom stone. He arranged with the deceased to connect the cable to the shot after he had fired a shot in an ordinary gateway, the battery remaining in the same position for the firing of both shots. The first shot was fired and the deceased went to couple up the cable to the shot in the cross gateway, and then the shot-firer waited a couple of minutes and eventually he saw a light pass the old gateway and thought the deceased had retired. He fired the shot and the deceased, who must have been close to it, was fatally injured. The Local Inspectors reported ‘We are of opinion that he met his death accidentally.'

BAINBRIDGE Isaiah - 1906 - 11/09/1906 – Age 15 - Delves Driver. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He fell off a truck on which he was riding when returning from work and was run over.

BAINBRIDGE John - 1905 - 21/1905/1905 – Age 47 - Carterthorne Miner. Carterthorne Colliery Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from haemorrhage, due to perforation of a gastric ulcer into spleen.

BAINBRIDGE John George - 1909 - 13/08/1909 – Age 18 - Glendon Iron Ore Quarry Labourer. James Pain Ltd., Northampton. Deceased was passing under an overhead tramway tippler when some stone from the wagon fell
on to the deceased’s head and killed him.

BAINBRIDGE John Joseph - 1900 - 21/1905/1900 – Age 18 - Moorhill Not employed. J Simpson, Moorhill, Co.Durham. A staple was being sunk from the surface and was about 22 feet down. This and another youth were passing the place, and out of curiosity they pulled the boards up that were covering the top of the staple. Deceased got into the loop and was lowered down, there had been some stythe in the bottom of the staple and he was overcome by it and when he was got out he was quite dead. (Not comprised)

BAINBRIDGE Thomas - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 53 - Wingate Stoneman. Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust, result of shot firing. 25 killed.

BAINBRIDGE Thomas E. - 1902 - 06/01/1902 – Age 46 - Hazelrigg Hewer. Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died 8th January. The cotterill securing the limbers to a set of tubs, which the driver was taking inbye from the of a self acting incline, fell out and the tubs ran back and crushed the deceased. The road was in good order and had the deceased stood to one side he might have escaped but he probably lost his presence of mind.

BAINBRIDGE Walter - 1908 - 16/10/1908 – Age 41 - Roachburn Deputy. Haworth Coal Co., Cumberland. Fall of roof stone while drawing timber.

BAINBRIDGE William - 1903 - 05/08/1903 – Age 65 - Garesfield Hewer. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was walking outbye on an engine plane in the Brockwell seam when a slab of stone, with a maximum thickness of 4 inches, fell From the roof upon him. The stone was relieved from a slip and a cleavage plane. The road was frequently examined and travelled by officials who had noticed no danger. The Local Inspector reported that they thought the mishap was a pure accident.

BAINBRIDGE William - 1904 - 01/12/1904 – Age 30 - Cleworth Hall Dataller. Tyldesley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. First finger of right hand slightly contused, said to be by a stone. The wound was neglected, blood poisoning ensued. Died 17th January, 1903.

BAINES James - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 55 - National No. 2 Sinker. United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed.

BAINES Robert - 1903 - 24/04/1903 – Age 52 - Beamish Hewer. James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died April 30. Deceased was engaged kirving in a whole place 6 yards wide in the Busty seam, which here has a stone band in the centre. He had kirved about 4 feet across the middle of the place in the bottom coal when a portion of the band fell upon him. The deputy had been in the place two hours before the accident. The Local Inspectors reported, 'it is our true opinion that it was a pure accident.'.

BAINES William - 1904 - 26/06/1904 – Age 62 - Stone Hall Road, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman. Stone Hall Road Quarry Co., Yorkshire. He was standing on a bench while men got down some clay which had been undermined. A small piece of stone caught him on the leg and in trying to get out of the way, he fell backwards and struck the back of his head. Died 2nd. Sept.

BAINTON William - 1909 - 21/12/1909 – Age 69 - Blaina Roadman. J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Horse on being attached to a journey bolted and ran about 200 yards, turning into three roads before meeting him in the engine slope, where he failed to get into a manhole which was close to him. He died on the 27th December.

BAIRD Andrew - 1904 - 28/02/1904 – Age 18 - Bowhill Pony driver. Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was injured about the head by tubs on 20th June 1902, and died through his injuries.

BAIRD John - 1904 - 24/11/1904 – Age 41 - Quarter No. 7 Brusher. United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Struck by a stone projected by a shot of arkite having failed to take proper shelter.

BAIRD John - 1907 - 19/03/1907 – Age 70 - Saint Helens Labourer. Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. He was blown by the wind off a gantry, and falling 19 feet was fatally injured. He fell beneath the fence rail of the gantry.

BAIRD Peter - 1907 - 22/07/1907 – Age 37 - Riggonhead Miner. Riggonhead Coal Co. Ltd., Haddington. Deceased’s duties were to take down the coal holed by a coal cutting machine and while thus engaged a stone fell from the roof causing injury to his spine; he died 14 days later.

BAIRD William - 1902 - 23/04/1902 – Age 25 - Fergushill No. 22 Miner. Archibald Finnie and Sons, Ayrshire. Fall of coal which he was holing without having sprags set.

BAIRD William - 1903 - 27/1905/1903 – Age 49 - Clumpy Brusher. Climpy Coal Co. (George L. Watson) Lanarkshire. While deceased was putting a building in the wall with the debris made while brushing the roadway the roof fell and injured him causing his death seven days later.

BAKER Arthur - 1905 - 11/11/1905 – Age 27 - Eston (ironstone) Miner. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He had been trying to get down the stone which fell and it was tried by three Deputies who were in the place. They thought it would not fall but soon after it did and killed him.

BAKER Benjamin - 1903 - 27/07/1903 – Age 55 - Dudley Wood Odd man. N Hingley and Sons Ltd., Worcester. Irruption of mud or sludge from an old shaft. 4 killed.

BAKER Francis - 1904 - 16/03/1904 – Age 15 - Felling Greaser. John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased, usually employed as a driver, was on the day of the accident and for the previous day employed greasing the rollers on two self-acting inclines having been warned on the first day both by the undermanager and rolleyway man to keep clear of the sets. He left the bottom of the second incline, which inclines three inches per yard, and runs with 10 tubs in each set, about 3 minutes before the tubs were run and passed out of view under three canvass doors near the bottom. The sets appeared to meet with some obstruction near meetings and the lad from the bottom went up and found the deceased under the first and second tubs of the full set, which were derailed about 60 yards from the bottom of the incline and just below meetings. His cap and grease box were found 8 or 9 yards higher up. Refuge holes were provided as required by law and there was also sufficient room to stand at the sides clear of the tubs. The Local Inspectors reported that in their opinion it was a pure accident.

BAKER Frank - 1904 - 22/03/1904 – Age 26 - Orgreave Miner. Rothervale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Died from injuries February 23rd last. He was holding a light, while another man put a prop under a girder, when a piece of stone fell out at a slip which could not be seen before and injured him. Blood-poisoning set in from which he died.

BAKER Frank - 1907 - 12/09/1907 – Age 52 - Hartham Stone Quarryman. Marsh Son and Gibbs Ltd., Wiltshire. He and his comrade had raised a block of waste stone (gob), 6 feet 4 inches by 4 feet by 6 inches, on to a pile of blocks about 4.5 feet high, and as they were working it forward, with bars and rollers underneath, to get it back into the gob or waste, he stepped a little way back and falling over the edge of the block, alighted with his back on the crane handle and toppled over on to his head, fracturing the base of his skull. The height he fell from was only 4.5 feet.

BAKER George - 1905 - 30/08/1905 – Age 26 - Hoyland Silkstone Trammer. Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased man was drawing timber in a longwall face. He had knocked out one of two props then struck the second one; when it fell out. A fall of stone occurred at two slips which caught and killed him. He should have used a ‘dog and chain’ to draw the prop.

BAKER George William - 1908 - 17/09/1908 – Age 19 - Glapwell Loader. Sheepbridge Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was assisting a stallman to build a pack in the stall, when a bump caused a heavy fill of roof which killed the deceased and pushed out several props which had been set there.

BAKER John - 1902 - 13/10/1902 – Age 45 - Gelli Steam Collier. Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 6 foot by 6 foot by 12 inches thick. Deceased was at work on his road when the D-link of a haulage rope caught at an angle sheave and pulled out the prop it was attached to thus liberating the stone. Two feet nine seam.

BAKER Josiah - 1908 - 23/12/1908 – Age 21 - Rounds Hill Loader. Rounds Hill Colliery Co., Stafford. Deceased was loading old timber at the junction of two roads on some old Thick Coal workings. The roof was supported by oak bars about 2 foot 6 inches apart, well covered over by poles and slabs. Suddenly, without warning, one of the bars fell out and the deceased was buried beneath the debris and timber that slipped down from over the bar. There was nothing to account for the bar reeling except that deceased, in swinging a prop round to throw it into the tub, may have struck the leg on which the end of the bar rested and knocked it away.

BAKER Percy - 1905 - 18/04/1905 – Age 21 - Wallyford Miner. Edinburgh Collieries Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was shovelling coal at the roadhead when a stone weighing 2 lbs. fell from the roof and struck him on the back of the neck. He died next day from the injury.

BAKER Robert - 1908 - 24/03/1908 – Age 16 - East Tanfield Driver. James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Pony fell and the deceased was thrown from the tubs and crushed.

BAKER Robert Liddell - 1904 - 16/05/1904 - Thornley Hewer. Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co. Durham. On 16th May, 1904, a pony in turning knocked him down and his knee was injured. He was off work for five weeks. On 11th April he ceased working and was sent to Sedgefield Asylum where he died on 2nd June. Death due to natural causes.

BAKER Robert William - 1909 - 01/06/1909 – Age 16 - North Seaton Stone putter. Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Cage accidentally moved while he was getting out in mid-shaft and he fell to the bottom.

BAKER Samuel - 1908 - 12/01/1908 – Age 47 - Silverwood Coke loader. Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was lowering wagons, by gravity, to the coke ovens when he was fatally crushed between one of them and a train of full wagons which had been left much too near the points. There was a space of only 4 inches between the standing and the moving wagons.

BAKER Sidney - 1907 - 25/05/1907 – Age 27 - Waun Llwyd Collier. Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof at the face of his working place in the Elled Seam. He and others were erecting a lag at the time but the fall would not have occurred had reasonably sufficient timber been properly set. The maximum distances for timber was axed under Special 2, at 12 feet each way which is not a reasonable distances in this part of the mine and tends to induce men to omit securing their places.

BAKER Thomas - 1903 - 27/05/1903 – Age 51 - Peelwood Collier. Tyldesley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from working face from a slippery back which another sprag would have secured. Died 29th May.

BAKER Thomas - 1906 - 26/01/1906 – Age 50 - Llanbradach Collier. Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was pulling down a piece of coal in the four-feet seam when he stumbled, fell across the rails of the Barry face and fractured his ribs. Ignorant of the extent of his injury, he walked 1,100 yards to the shaft, and three miles home. He did not work afterwards. Inflammation of the lung, caused by the laceration, supervened, and he died on March 2nd.

BAKER Thomas - 1909 - 19/04/1909 – Age 25 - Griff Clara Dayman. Griff Colliery Co. Ltd., Warwick. Deceased and the stallman had been ordered by the deputy to set a prop to support the roof at the side of a slip, but instead of doing this they were preparing to put up a prop and a bar which would take a longer time and before this was complete the roof-coal and clod fell and killed the deceased.

BAKER William * 1906. Seghill Joseph Laycock and Co., Northumberland.

BAKER William - 1902 - 03/09/1902 – Age 24 - McLaren Collier. Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp in the Yard Vein seam. Caused by working near to or in a large accumulation of gas. 16 killed.

BAKER William - 1905 - 21/12/1905 – Age 50 - Seghill Hewer. Joseph Laycock and Co., Northumberland. Died December 28. Deceased was filling a tub in the Blake or Main Coal seam, in a longwall place, when a stone 9 feet long and 3 feet wide and 9 inches at the thickest part fell away between the timber and the face relieved by a jack. The deputy had been in the place about 4 hours before the accident and had set 4 props.

BAKER William - 1908 - 03/11/1908 – Age 61 - Hoffman Limestone Quarry Quarryman. Buxton Lime Firms Ltd., Derbyshire. Struck by stone from a shot of gelignite. He died 14th November. Another man was injured.

BAKER William Ernest - 1909 - 26/05/1909 – Age 29 - Hall End Engineman. Morris and Shaw Ltd., Warwick. Deceased was in charge of a main and tail rope system, of haulage, driven by a pair of steam engines. The ropes passed close to where he stood for operating the gear and in causing the rope to coil over on the drum he slipped and was drawn into the revolving drum.

BAKEWELL George - 1908 - 24/06/1908 – Age 56 - Woodhorn Hewer. Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Premature explosion of gunpowder shot.

BAKEWELL Henry - 1905 - 04/01/1905 – Age 19 - Ashton Moss Taker off. New Moss Colliery Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by tubs in winch brow, whilst putting points right, seven full tubs ran on to him, set going by a train of empty tubs catching whilst being drawn by haulage rope past the top of brow.

BALDWIN George - 1907 - 27/07/1907 – Age 40 - Tirpentwys Labourer. Tirpentwys Colliery Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Run over on the colliery company private branch line in the colliers train in which he and others were travelling from their work. The loco driver had placed his engine at the rear end of the train and forgot to couple it to the carriages before starting. From the level siding at the colliery, about 60 to 100 yards in length on which the train was standing there was an incline of 700 yards at a gradient of 1 in 57 and the carriages appearing to get out of control a number of men jumped out. The deceased in doing so, in some manner, got under the carriages. The man in the guards van on realising what had happened applied the brakes and quickly brought the train to a stand still on the level road at the bottom of the incline. The accident happened through the loco driver, who was in charge, neglecting to couple the engines to the carriages there being no guard.

BALDWIN Henry - 1902 - 01/01/1902 – Age 63 - Hawkesworth, Sandstone Quarry Labourer. B Whitaker and Sons, Yorkshire. The jib rope of a crane broke and the jib fell upon Baldwin and killed him.

BALDWIN Isaac William - 1905 - 26/07/1905 – Age 62 - Wharncliffe Silkstone Engineman. Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. This accident happened at 4.30 am. A stoker went into the fan engine-house and heard the deceased, whose duty it was to attend to the fan engine, call out for help. He was lying in the crank race with his head towards the outside of the bed-plate and his legs beneath the moving connecting rod he said he had slipped off the bed-plate and thus been caught. His oil can was lying near him, and he apparently had been either going to or coming from the fly-wheel shaft bearing. He died in the engine house. There are two engines for this fan but they are worked alternately and they are well fenced. The way to the shaft bearing is beneath whichever connecting rod which happens to be hung up, but he must have been getting over the moving connecting rod when he slipped and was caught. It was neither convenient nor would he save time by doing so.

BALDWIN John - 1902 - 29/10/1902 – Age 50 - Prospect Fireman. Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made. The contractors had been taking timber out and got a portion of the roof down and when the deceased was examining the place some more roof fell striking the him. He succumbed to the injuries received November 1st, 1902.

BALDWIN Tom - 1906 - 04/05/1906 – Age 44 - Butters Tor Tin Mine, Underground agent. Cornwall. Died suddenly from apoplexy on the 4th May.

BALDWIN Walker - 1909 - 22/12/1909 – Age 14 - Upleatham Ironstone Trapper. Pease and Partners, North Yorkshire. He was leading a horse, which was drawing four tubs of chocks inbye, two drivers were behind the tubs. One driver, after a stop to put in sprags, shouted to him to stand aside and let the horse go. Whether he did so or not is not certain but it is probable that he did and was then walking by the side of the horse trying to light his lamp, which had been extinguished. He probably had his head down looking at the lamp and had run into a prop, standing 27 inches from the rail and had been knocked backwards under the first tub. He had a box of matches still in his hand when picked up.

BALFOUR John - 1909 - 10/12/1909 – Age 25 - Caprington No. 41 Miner. Caprington and Auchlochan Collieries, Ayrshire. Inflow of surface water into workings near the surface, during the night. 10 killed.

BALL Alfred - 1904 - 18/01/1904 – Age 18 - Fforchaman Labourer. Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was sitting, having a meal behind a derailed empty tram when two men pushed a tram of rubbish against it. When, some few minutes afterwards, they went to put the empty tram back on the rails they found the deceased with his head wedged between the tram and the side. They had no idea that he was there and he gave no warning when they pushed the full tram back.
 
BALL Arthur - 1905 - 02/05/1905 – Age 20 - Clough Hall No. 6 Hooker up. Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Stafford. Run over by tubs through the breakage of engine dip rope.
 
BALL Fred - 1909 - 18/05/1909 – Age 24 - Brodsworth Main Collier. Brodsworth Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was temporarily acting as a driver and was turning the horse round when it is probable that the shafts struck the prop and knocked it out. This allowed the roof to fall and he was killed on the spot. The fall disclosed slips and it is probable the prop had been partly displaced with a settlement of the strata before it was knocked out.

BALL George - 1900 - 19/07/1900 – Age 36 - Speedwell Collier. Bristol, Somerset. Died from sunstroke which he received when unloading pitwood from trucks. Not comprised.

BALL George Frederick - 1902 - 03/04/1902 – Age 19 - Brayton Knowe Sinker. Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. The deceased and his father were engaged in sinking a small shaft, it had reached a depth of 15 fathoms. After lighting two shots they were being drawn to the bank in a kibble and when about 10 fathoms up the deceased, by some means, fell out. He was probably killed by the fall. The shots went off as he was getting out of the kibble at the surface and it was with difficulty that he was prevented from descending before the shots had exploded.

BALL Henry - 1906 - 29/08/1906 – Age 29 - Grange Ripper. Robert Heath and Sons Ltd., Stafford. Deceased was firing two shots, charged with compressed powder. A taped fuse was used, the length of the fuses being 2.5 and 4.5 feet respectively. Deceased appeared to have lighted both shots at the same time, in direct contravention of the Special Rules and a notice posted in the mine, and to have returned prematurely, thinking that he had failed to light the long fuse.

BALL James - 1901 - 09/06/1901 – Age 53 - Clay Cross No. 2 Stallman. Clay Cross Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was boring a shothole in the bottom coal when the roof above fell and killed him. Although a faulty place was known to exist in the roof yet the deceased failed to set timber up to support it.

BALL John - 1900 - 12/01/1900 – Age 19 - Creswell Asst. onsetter. Bolsover Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was assisting the onsetter by pulling off the empty tubs from a two decked cage and appears to have been doing something to the full tubs when the cage started going up the shaft taking the deceased with it and crushing him between the cage and the floor of the upper deck landing.

BALL John - 1905 - 08/05/1905 – Age 49 - Allerton Bywater Screener. New Silkstone and Haigh Moor Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He, along with others, was pushing a waggon and he went to the front of it next to a wall where the space was 2 feet but it decreased until it was only 9 inches and he was caught and fatally injured.

BALL John – 1906 – 24/03/1906 – Age 25 – South Wales Cwmtillery Rider. Lancasters Steam Collieries Co. Ltd., Monmouth. While riding an empty journey, down the main haulage slope, it ran wild and was stopped suddenly by getting off the rails. The brass bushing, in the bearing of the drum, working out and dropped the latter three-quarters of an inch away from the break, which then had no power over it. When found deceased’s neck was broken, apparently from his head coming into contact with the end of the tram when it suddenly stopped.

BALL John William – 1906 – 27/11/1906 – Age 31 – Hoyland Silkstone Trammer. Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was taking an empty tub from the pass-bye into the face when a piece of stone fell from the slip and caused such severe injuries that he died on the way to the Barnsley (Beckett) Hospital.

BALL R. 1904 – 11/01/1904 – Age 39 – Houghton Main Miner. Houghton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Deceased was holding a light, while his mate wedged the coal down, when a sudden weight bump came across the place and the coal at the face fell and at the same time the roof fell and killed the deceased. The fall disclosed a slip running into the roof at the face side and another parallel to it at the goaf side. The place was well timbered and the roof seemed good.

BALL Stephen – 1908 – 02/03/1908 – Age 14 – Ouston E Putter. Charles Perkins and Partners, Co.Durham. Jumped off a set of waggons on which he was riding and fell before them.

BALL Thomas – 1901 – 23/11/1901 – Age 48 – Woodshaw Dataller. Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were engaged making the side of a roadway, with dirt, when the roof gave way from a slip running alongside the side capping four or five props and crushing the two men. 2 killed.

BALL Thomas – 1904 – 16/02/1904 – Age 22 – Llwynypia No. 1 Labourer. Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A rider took a tram of rubbish up a dip, and when going over some pointers it got off the rails. The rope had been attached to the side of the tram and there was a barhook behind the tram. The barhook was removed, to allow the tram to be lowered past the pointers in the hope that it would get on to the rails but it did not. The rider then depending on the front wheels being off the rails, to keep the tram from running back, uncoupled the rope from the side to hitch it on to the drawbar. Directly he detached the rope the tram ran back and crushed the deceased against the side. The rider should not have detached the rope. Died July 12.

BALL Thomas - 1906 - 02/11/1906 – Age 28 - East Tanfield Hewer. James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased and another hewer were working together during the fore shift in a longwall place, in the north district of the Beaumont seam, 20 inches thick and had nearly finished their shift, when a post stone, 5 yards long, 2 yards wide, and varying in thickness up to 2.5 feet, and weighing some tons fell from the roof across the road head close to the packs and killed deceased and caught, but did not seriously injure his mate. There was no top canch taken down in the road, height being obtained by a bottom canch; deceased was on this canch waiting for the putter, his mate being in the cut. The stone was relieved by a curved parting with coal pipes lying over outbye and meeting a joint, and canted out three props in its fall. The deputy was in the place before the men started work when it appeared safe, but he had not visited it during the course of the shift. There was a sufficient supply of loose timber and deceased and his mate had set six props during the shift. The Local Inspectors, after an intelligent description of the accident concluded: ‘There was no evidence of neglect on the part of the workmen or official. We were satisfied it was a pure accident.’

BALL William (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.

BALL William - 1900 - 11/06/1900 – Age 45 - Denton Roger Collier. Denton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. 40 colliers etc. riding down a steep engine brow in a train of 19 special trams, a wood bar dropped from the roof obstructing 400 yards down. The bumping of the trams caused injury to one man, affection of spine, after walking about for some weeks he was suddenly attacked with tetanus (lock jaw) from which he died on 13th. December. A train had safely descended a few minutes previous.

BALL William - 1905 - 20/10/1905 – Age 30 - Foxfield Miner. Foxfield Colliery Co. Ltd., Stafford. Run over by two tubs which he was taking down the engine dip (about 1 in 12) by hand, against orders, and apparently going in front of the tubs contrary to rules. A companion who was taking other tubs down was prosecuted and fined.

BALL William - 1908 - 05/06/1908 – Age 47 - John Metalman. Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When roofing down in a roadway, and using the wedge, a stone fell upon the deceased, fatally injuring him.

BALLARBY James - 1905 - 03/07/1905 – Age 27 - Cadeby Main Careman. Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was lifting iron girders with a travelling crane by the side of a road dipping 1 in 80. He had to move the crane a distance of about 10 yards and while doing so lost control of it. He shouted to some to put a sprag in and this was done by two men, but the crane either went over or crushed them. He then jumped off in front of the crane and tripped and was fatally crushed. The crane is fitted with an efficient brake and can be stopped by keeping the engine in gear and reversing but the brake, after the accident, was off and the engine out of gear.

BALLENY Arthur Wetheral - 1904 - 28/07/1904 – Age 19 - East Pontop Hewer. East Pontop Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was hewing in a lift, 5 yards wide in the broken workings in the Shield Row seam, when a stone from the roof, 6 feet by 2 feet and 2 feet thick, fell from the roof upon him. A depression in the roof had just been passed which extended half across the place and it was part of this depression, next the face, that fell relieved by a jack filled with clay and a coal parting above. The place had been examined by the deputy before deceased started work but not during the course of his shift which however had not terminated. Deceased appears to have delayed setting timber, of which there was a sufficient supply, as prescribed by rule and rendered necessary owing to more roof being exposed by working off the coal after the deputy's visit. He was found under the stone by the undermanager. Local Inspectors reported ‘we think it was a pure accident there being plenty of timber set and sufficient lying at hand.'

BALLINGALL William - 1901 - 03/07/1901 – Age 50 - Leven Wagon weigher. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Run over by a wagon near a coal washer. He had left his cabin, to call attention to something wrong with the washer. He had a wooden leg.

BALLS Dexter - 1908 - 04/12/1908 – Age 14 - Groby Quarry Labourer. Groby Granite Co., Leicester. Deceased was working in a gravel hopper when one of the doors at the bottom was opened. Deceased fell part way through the opening and was suffocated.

BAMFORD David - 1909 - 15/1/1909 – Age 36 - Cadeby Main Collier. Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Whilst making an inspection on behalf of the work-men, under General Rule 38, they were killed by the tubs in an endless rope haulage which had run amain. 2 killed.

BAMFORD John Joseph - 1907 - 14/05/1907 – Age 32 - Bond’s Main Ropeman. Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was killed near to where he was employed in putting tubs on to an endless rope. A fall of roof occurred which pushed out the timber supporting the junction.

BAMFORD Willam - 1903 - 06/11/1903 – Age 16 - Seaton Delaval Rope attendant. Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. On an endless rope haulage road at a point where there was a considerable dip outbye a tub ran amain and caught the deceased. The tubs are attached to the rope by means of a jockey at the side and the lad who was in charge of the tub, before it ran amain, had missed getting the rope into the jockey but the weight of the rope lying on the tub carried it forward to a steeper part of the road when it ran and for a considerable distance in front of it, and beyond the point where the deceased was, there were no other tubs on the rope, it gained considerable speed. The Local Inspectors reported 'It has been a pure accident although we suggest that a runaway switch be worked by a lever from the bankhead also that a refuge hole be made on the right hand side of ropeway.'.

BAND Stuart - 1907 - 25/03/1907 – Age 18 - Lochhead Miner. Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was filling coal, which he had taken down from the roof, into a tub, when some more coal fell, which struck him on the head and killed him instantly.

BANK Thomas - 1908 - 29/08/1908 – Age 35 - Niddrie Inclineman. Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. An incline shaft, from the surface, is used exclusively for steam and discharge pipes for pumps and upcast and an examination is made weekly by two men by means of a carriage lowered and raised by a steam engine on the surface. Owing to the steam pipes and exhaust steam from the pumps etc. underground the temperature is 109 degrees F. As usual two men descended on the carriage to make the inspection and when some distance down something went wrong with the carriage, which caused it to leave the rails and one of the men fell to the bottom the other man attempted to climb to the surface but becoming exhausted by the exertion and heat he sat down, and was found with his right foot firmly fixed between pipe and side wall quite dead. The men were accustomed to the work. 2 killed.