BANKS A. - 1901 - 03/12/1901 – Age 34 - Corton Wood Collier. Corton Wood Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in working face. Cause a slip and breaks.

BANKS Campbell - 1909 - 12/03/1909 – Age 23 - Springhill No. 4 Haulageman. Archibald Finnie and Son, Ayrshire. When jumping off a race of hutches, on which he was riding without permission, he fell and was run over.

BANKS George - 1909 - 12/12/1909 – Age 33 - Ashtons Green No. 3 Roadman. Bromilow Foster and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. When engaged filling dirt, into the haulage gang from side of downbrow, he got fatally crushed by the tubs through the gang starting, owing to a fall in the signal (electric) wires, which made the electric bell ring. Code of signals to be changed.

BANKS John - 1900 - 19/11/1900 – Age 18 - Gin 6 Feet Drawer. Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Struck by haulage rope, dashed against side of level from engineman carelessly overwinding causing such tension on the rope at a bend as to displace the holding pulley.

BANKS John - 1902 - 22/12/1902 – Age 14 - Bourtreehill Capringstone No. 7 Haulage Engineman. Bourtreehill Coal Co., Ayrshire. Whilst illegally spragging a waggon, with a 4 foot prop, the sprag knocked him in front of the wheel which went over him. From Main body of report: Only one of these [fatal accidents on railways] can be attributed to a breach of the regulations, and that happened to the son of the manager of the mine when he illegally attempted to sprag a moving waggon with a 4-feet prop, instead of the short pointed sprag prescribed by the special rules.

BANKS John – 1905 – 04/09/1905 – Age 20 – Bedlay Engineer. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While shifting a heavy casting, belonging to a steam crane which was being put up, it canted and fell over on him.

BANKS John – 1908 – 13/07/1908 – Age 39 – Dukes Chargeman sinker. Crompton and Shawcross, Wigan, Lancashire. Deceased with other men were in the bottom of a sinking pit, when a tube slung in the pit was being lowered by means of a hand crab geared on third motion, when the crab suddenly got out of gear causing the rope to fall down the pit, and the deceased was fatally injured by being struck by a portion of a bearer, which got broken, and the falling rope.

BANKS Joseph – 1908 – 25/04/1908 – Age 34 – Thrislington Hewer. Thrislington Colliery Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was hewing in a headways lift in the Harvey Seam when a piece of stone, weighing about a ton, fell away from between two converging slips in the blue shale immediately overlying the seam. The place had been well timbered but the stone fell between the supports.

BANKS Meynick – 1908 – 18/08/1908 – Age 28 – Maypole Dataller. Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

BANNIGAN James – 1900 – 30/10/1900 – Age 36. Glencraig, Fife. Fall of roof.

BANNISTER Thomas – 1909 – 06/05/1909 – Age 46 – Measham Main Stallman. Measham Collieries Ltd., Leicestershire. Deceased and his mate were examining the stall before leaving for the day when a large fall of roof occurred and killed the deceased. Props and bars were set a yard apart.

BANNISTER William – 1906 – 23/08/1906 – Age 25 – Mitchell Main Planeman. Mitchell Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Close to the downcast shaft the coal is brought up a stone drift, the gradient of which is 1 in 12, by means of an endless rope. On the full side there are ‘jack catches’ to prevent a tub or tubs running back in the event of their becoming detached or a chain or coupling breaking. The deceased was cleaning one of these jack catches out, and a set of tubs, which were being brought up, caught and fatally injured him. It is difficult to account for the accident, as there was plenty of room and the refuge holes were in order, and he would have warning of the tubs approaching as the rope drags on the floor until the tubs got close up and the lashing chain was 9 feet long.

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

BARBER George – 1906 – 08/01/1906 – Age 41 – Grassmoor No. 4 Stallman. Grassmoor Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was getting stone from a goaf for the purpose of building a pack, when a piece of roof fell upon him. He was using his hands to pull the stones from the goaf instead of pulling them toward him with a pick.

BARBER George – 1908 – 03/09/1908 – Age 36 – Oulton, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman. George Armitage and Sons Ltd., Yorkshire. He had pulled a large stone from a slip, but foolishly left a small stone sticking to the slip above him. This stone fell on his head and killed him.

BARBER James – 1901 – 26/07/1901 – Age 36 – Miller’s Dale Limestone Quarry Quarryman. Buxton Lime Firms Ltd., Derbyshire. A large stone fell from above where the deceased was working and after striking the bottom of the Quarry it rolled on to the deceased. A shot had been fired a few minutes before the stone fell and the Quarry face, being nearly perpendicular and of a great height, it was difficult to examine after the shot was fired.

BARBER William – 1906 – 20/07/1906 – Age 65 – Birch Vale Header. John Bennett and Sons, Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was working in the end of a narrow heading when a large stone fell from the roof and killed him.

BARCLAY Alexander – 1905 – 05/06/1905 – Age 47 – Blackhill Granite Quarry Quarryman. Great North of Scotland Granite Co. Ltd., Aberdeen. A scaffold was erected on the face of the Quarry, about 40 feet from the top on which the deceased stood while boring a hole for a shot. The face was on a "slide" and some distance above was some inferior rock. This mass of inferior rock suddenly slipped from its position and carried the scaffold and the men with it in its descent to the Quarry bottom a distance of 10 feet. The person in charge, for examining the face, was not at his work and no one examined the face on the day of the accident. 2 killed.

BARCLAY Robert – 1905 – 23/05/1905 – Age 24 – Dalbeith Miner. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was holing coal when it fell away from between two lypes and fatally injured him.

BARGH Tom – 1904 – 04/10/1904 – Age 24 – Holbrook No. 3 Loader. J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was found under a fall of roof in a waste of the stall at a distance of 3 feet beyond the last row of timber and shortly after a fall of roof had occurred.

BARISTOW A. – 1901 – 18/02/1901 – Age 39 – New Road Quarry Miner. S Holmes, York, Yorkshire. Died 23rd Feb. Explosion of gunpowder.

BARKER Alexander – 1900 – 21/05/1900 – Age 16 – Pendleton Rams Waggoner. A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Slipped when passing over an iron plate. The fall hurt the hip bone an abscess formed. Died 12th June.

BARKER Charles Ashmore – 1906 – 10/04/1906 – Age 17 – Apedale, Burley Hooker on. Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Stafford. Deceased was found lying dead in the level off a haulage slant in the Seven Feet. The front tub of a journey of empties coming down the slant had become uncoupled and raced away down the slant. Deceased was probably waiting in the shunt to land this journey when he heard the tub coming and turned and fled along the level. He apparently lost his light and ran headlong into the side of the road with sufficient force to break his neck. He was found four yards beyond the empty tubs and with no injuries indicative of having been struck by it at all.

BARKER Henry – 1903 – 27/02/1903 – Age 24 – Abram Drawer. Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. Deceased was pushing an empty tub from the shunt when a sudden fall of roof occurred capping two bars and crushing him internally. He succumbed to the injuries received at the Wigan Infirmary, March 7th, 1903.

BARKER Henry – 1909 – 29/10/1909 – Age 37 – 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.

BARKER J. – 1900 – 28/02/1900 – Age 36 – Stafford Ripper. Stafford Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BARKER James – 1901 – 03/09/1901 – Age 14 – Mains No.2 Lamp carrier. Cross Tetley and Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He went to assist one of the haulage hands to unhook the lashing chain of a full tub when in motion and got his head crushed against other tubs standing in the shunt. It was not his regular work. He succumbed to the injuries received on the 26th.

BARKER James – 1905 – 18/10/1905 – Age 67 – Victoria Garesfield Labourer. Priestman Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. The coal seam here is reached by a drift and an engine plane, on the main and tail rope system worked in connection with it runs on the surface for about 100 yards and then for the same distance in a tunnel under a sand hill before reaching the screens. Deceased who did labouring work on the surface had the day before been cleaning an open drain, near the drift end of the tunnel, and at a point where the tramway was crossed by a wooden bridge. He had left his tools the night before about 10 yards into the tunnel, where they were found after the accident. He had hung his coat on a nail under the bridge. The first set of full tubs coming out caught and dragged him into the tunnel, some tail rope standards place by the side of the rail were displaced and several tubs derailed. Under his coat a dead rabbit was found which he had probably taken from a snare, and it is surmised he had been so absorbed in hiding it that he had not noticed the set, although 60 feet of chain next the rope makes a good deal of noise over the sheaves.

BARKER John - 1905 - 02/01/1905 – Age 51 - Shelton Deep Dataler. Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Struck on the head by a haulage clip thrown towards him through breakage caused by failure of the attendant to detach it at the proper place. Died 4th January.

BARKER Joseph - 1903 - 15/09/1903 – Age 58 - Throckley Hewer. Throckley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was working in a headway in the Stone Coal seam, that was just passing on to goaf in the Main Coal seam 12 feet below, and a stone fell from the roof, close to the face upon him. The deputy had been in the place about two hours before the accident and set timber. The Local Inspector reported 'We are satisfied that it has been a pure accident for which there can be no blame attached to any one.'.

BARKER Matthew - 1907 - 03/07/1907 – Age 25 - Sutton No.1 Pumpman. Blackwell Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. A train of twenty full tubs was being pulled up an inclined roadway, and the deceased appears to have been riding on the back end of the train. The coupling link between the third and fourth tubs broke, the back-stay or drag failed to act and allowed the tubs to run away until they left the roadway and the deceased was killed.

BARKER Moses - 1903 - 20/02/1903 – Age 32 - Amberswood Collier. Henry Atherton, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged getting coal off the face which the coal-cutting machine had holed, when a splinter of roof fell upon his head. He was able to walk to the shaft but was eventually sent to the Wigan Infirmary where he died from the effects of the accident, May 19th.

BARKER Thomas - 1906 - 06/12/1906 – Age 27 - Orgreave Collier. Rother Vale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was travelling along a crossgate, to his work, when a piece of stone, about 4 feet long by 1 foot wide by 1.25 feet thick, fell from the ripping lip and caught rim on his head and killed him. The deputy had examined the roadway about three hours previously and had found all in order.

BARKER William - 1903 - 06/03/1903 – Age 36 - Shotton Hewer. Horden Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. When kirving a jud the coal fell over a sprag and broke his collar bone. Died 7th Apr.

BARKER William – 1904 – 19/11/1904 – Age 60 – Wheatley Hill Joiner. Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd, Co.Durham. Slightly injured his thumb on Dec. 19th, 1903 when moving a tram near the joiners shop. Died November 19th, 1904.

BARKER William – 1907 – 13/06/1907 – Age 28 – Creswell Stallman. Bolsover Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was standing near the gate, ripping, when a piece of roof fell upon him causing fatal injury. He died the next day.

BARKS Samuel - 1906 - 09/11/1906 – Age 47 - Bolsover Stallman. Bolsover Colliery Co., Derbyshire. He was attempting to get on to the cage at the pit bank after the signal had been given for it to descend. He was struck by the secured hoop of the two decked cage and fatally injured.

BARLEY Albert - 1907 - 01/11/1907 – Age 15 - Dinnington Main Pony driver. Dinnington Main Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was taking a set of empty tubs along a level when a fall of stone occurred and fatally injured him. There was a heavy weight on the road and this caused some timber to be displaced with the fall.

BARLOW Eli - 1907 - 25/06/1907 – Age 31 - Apedale Forge Miner. Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Stafford. Deceased was driving a road, 12 feet wide through a 20-yard pillar in the Red Shagg ironstone. The stone, besides being full of joints, was much crushed on the deep side, where a rib 4 yards thick was being left. A dressing 5 feet 9 inches in length had been holed and one sprag set at one end of the overhanging stone. While deceased was doing something at the other end of the dressing, probably completing the holing to a joint at the back, it came off reeling the one sprag and falling partly on him. The maximum distance for sprags in this seam is 4 feet 6 inches. A second sprag might have prevented the accident.

BARLOW Frank Edward - 1904 - 04/05/1904 – Age 26 - Sheet Hedges Granite Quarry Quarryman. Groby Granite Co., Leicestershire. He was working at a place where he had been ordered, by the foreman, not to work because of its danger when a quantity of stone fell and fatally injured him. He died the same day.

BARLOW J.H. - 1905 - 21/07/1905 - Age 35 - Manvers Main Collier. Manvers Main Collieries Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He and other men were under the supervision of a deputy, clearing a fall of stone away on a road when a large fall occurred and fatally injured him.

BARLOW James - 1909 - 29/01/1909 – Age 38 - Pendleton Collier. A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst pulling coal from the face, with a crowbar, the coal caught a prop, recently set, the prop was knocked out and a quantity of roof fell from a slip on to the deceased. (Roof good).

BARLOW Job - 1901 - 16/04/1901 – Age 57 - Shirland Stallman. Blackwell Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was repairing the gate-end lip and making it, by order of the deputy, when roof fell and killed him. A shot had been fired the previous day and roof shaken but this was pointed to the deceased who was instructed to get it down.

BARLOW John - 1905 - 06/04/1905 – Age 29 - Trimdon Hewer. Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham A fall of stone occurred at the face, breaking the timber set to support it and caused injuries to his back and ribs, from which he died seven months afterwards.

BARLOW Robert - 1901 - 04/12/1901 – Age 27 - Water Works Sandstone Quarry Labourer. Hoylake and West Kirkby Gas and Water Co., Cheshire. While the deceased and others were at the top of the Quarry removing some rock, loosened by blasting, a portion on which he and another man were standing unexpectedly gave way and they fell with it to the bottom of the Quarry. Barlow was killed on the spot; his mate escaped with very slight injuries.

BARLOW William - 1906 - 24/05/1906 – Age 26 - Norton Loader. Robert Heath and Sons Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was loading at the face in the Hardmine Seam when a fall of roof occurred from between two bars and directly over the end of a long lid to a post set between the bars. The fall came from a slip in the roof running between and parallel to the two bars.

BARLOW William - 1909 - 23/10/1909 – Age 33 - Duxbury Park Carpenter. Duxbury Park Colliery Co., Lancashire. Standing in a waggon repairing screen, waggon three-quarter filled with slack, foreman of surface lowered six waggons on the same line of rails; intended to stop them a few yards from the fixed waggon but allowed the waggons to travel too fast so that when he put the break on it did not act quick enough, rails greasy also; alleged that he slipped when running to put a second break down. The six waggons bumped into the standing waggon, sending it forward several feet. Deceased was crushed under a girder in a space of 6 inches; another man managed to jump on to the girder, and another man escaped injury by crouching by the side of waggon.

BARNABY Edward - 1901 - 11/01/1901 – Age 16 - Ferndale No.7 Collier. D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 45 foot by 9 foot by 13 inches thick, which had been entirely unsupported. Six feet seam. 2 killed.

BARNABY Walter - 1905 - 06/06/1905 – Age 19 - Pwllfaron Labourer. Morgan S William, Carmarthen. Fall of roof on road (a double parting); while removing a ‘bridge’ during the weekend, a portion of roof, about 20 foot square and 2.5 foot thick, fell suddenly, three out of the six men engaged were buried by the fall. The roof had not been timbered where the fall occurred. 3 killed.

BARNARD Thomas - 1909 - 17/02/1909 – Age 19 - Brownhills No.3 Loader. W Harrison Ltd., Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust.

BARNBROOK William - 1904 - 26/04/1904 – Age 46 - Lodge Holes Cager. Lodge Holes Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Crushed under cage. No travelling road past the shaft.

BARNES Edward - 1909 - 20/05/1909 – Age 21 - Seaton Deleval Stone teamer. Seaton Deleval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fell over stone heap while tipping a tub of stone.

BARNES J. - 1902 - 19/08/1902 – Age 25 - Featherstone Main Collier. Featherstone Main Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Fall of coal from the face in a working place. Cause a weight bump.

BARNES Joseph Johnston - 1904 - 08/04/1904 – Age 25 - Chopwell Hewer. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died 26th December, 1905. On the 8th April 1904, deceased’s thigh was broken by a fall of ramble, while hewing in a rib of coal in the Five Quarter seam. The accident was not reported to me at the time as I think it should have been. He never resumed work. The broken thigh mended satisfactorily. No inquest was held as the doctor certified that death was due, primarily, to pulmonary tuberculosis of six months’ duration, and secondarily, to cardiac failure.

BARNES Joseph S. - 1904 - 07/01/1904 – Age 34 - Greenfoot Quarry Quarryman. R Summerson and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Bored a hole, a distance of 12 feet. He had been fired three times before. He and his partner were putting a charge of 40 lb, in when the charge exploded and killed him. His partner was injured.

BARNES or BLAINES James - 1905 - 11/07/1905 - National No.2 Sinker. United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones. 5 Wind Street, Ynyshir, married with eight children.

BARNES Peter - 1904 - 22/03/1904 – Age 19 - Grange Machineman. Crompton and Shawcross, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was in charge of the coal cutting machine holing; when a stone fell from the roof upon him from some slips. It came over one of the bars, which were set under four feet apart. He succumbed to the injuries received on the 24th instant.

BARNES Robert - 1902 - 24/12/1902 – Age 50 - Philpstoun Miner. James Ross and Co., Linlithgow. Three shots were prepared, one in the bottom charged with 1.5 lbs. of gunpowder one in the top charged with 1 lb. of gunpowder and one in the centre as a yankee or holing shot charged with about 2 lbs. of gunpowder. Deceased apparently ignited the bottom shot first, and in lighting the centre shot he was delayed as the fuse was difficult to catch, in lighting the fuse of the top shot, which was immediately above the bottom one, the latter exploded and he was thrown down the upset, a distance of about 40 feet. He was alone in the section at the time, he having sent his drawer home and with his body badly injured and a fractured leg he crawled in the dark a distance of 150 feet the greater part rising 1 in 4 until he attracted the attention of some workmen passing in to their work. He died twenty hours afterwards. Deceased and the miners generally in the mine were of the opinion that the black tape fuse in use ran one foot per minute whereas by experiment it runs two feet per minute.

BARNES Robert - 1906 - 17/12/1906 – Age 36 - Urpeth Hewer. Charles Perkins and Partners, Co.Durham. Explosion of firedamp 4 killed.

BARNES Thomas - 1907 - 09/01/1907 – Age 62 - Wearmouth Hewer. Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died January 10. Deceased was working off a narrow strip of coal lying next a small hitch in longwall workings in the East Flat of the South west district in the B. Pit, Maudlin seam, and while engaged at the loose end a blue metal stone, about 8 feet square and 10 inches thick, fell on him from the roof next to the face. The stone in its fall canted out a pair of gears set parallel to the direction in which the place was advancing, besides knocking out a prop under a pair of gears set across the tub road. The deputy was in the place at the time of the accident, 1.30 am. and had in addition examined it before work was started when he set the pair of gears that were canted out. There was a good supply of timber. The Local Inspectors reported ‘We find in our opinion that it was a pure accident.’

BARNES William - 1904 - 24/03/1904 – Age 37 - Brandon Hewer. Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. When about to set some timber a stone fell away at some slips and caused fatal injuries.

BARNES William - 1906 - 12/10/1906 – Age 66 - North Gawber Collier. Fountain and Burnley Ltd., Yorkshire. A small piece of stone fell from the roof and cut his head. He bled freely, but no serious results were anticipated. He was off work till the 22nd October, when he returned to work, and after working a hard shift he walked to the shaft, and while waiting to ascend the shaft he died. The doctor, who made a post mortem examination of the body, was of the opinion that death was due solely to natural causes, but another doctor who was present, and who attended the deceased man for the accident, was of the opinion that death was accelerated by loss of blood due to the injury, and the jury at the inquest took this view and returned a verdict accordingly.

BARNESLEY Frederick - 1907 - 10/12/1907 – Age 22 - Wyken Roadman. Wyken Colliery Co., Warwick. A train of full tubs was starting from the bottom of an incline, and deceased was near to a tub that fell over. He attempted to get out of the way of this tub and was crushed between the top of a full tub, and the roof of the roadway.

BARNETT Charles - 1904 - 17/02/1904 – Age 28 - Elliot Collier. Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A shell of stone fell from between two slants. The place was well timbered according to the present practice with props and short lids, but evidently something more was needed.

BARNETT George - 1903 - 14/10/1903 – Age 45 - Wyndham Asst. repairer. Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Died from shock due to rupture of gall duct resulting from a strain sustained in working.

BARNETT John - 1905 - 24/05/1905 – Age 30 - Featherstone Main Miner. Featherstone Main Colliery Co., Yorkshire. He was getting coal when a heavy weight bump took place causing a fall of roof and some timber to be displaced a short distance from where he was  working, hearing the fall he jumped back and was caught. If he had not moved he would have been safe.

BARNETT Joseph James * 1902 - 17/04/1902 – Age 17. Wearmouth, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co. Durham.

BARNFATHER Fenwick - 1904 - 26/01/1904 – Age 33 - Choppington Hewer. Bebside Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died January 31. Deceased and three other hewers were working together in a lift, 10 yards wide in the broken or second working in the Low Main seam, when a triangular shaped stone 9 feet by 8 feet by 12 feet and 10 inches thick consisting of shale or blue metal fell from the roof next the face and next to an old place on the right side; the stone was relieved at two of its sides by slips which were not discernible owing to brat above the coal sticking to the roof stone. However the stone was known to sound heavy and one of the two props of a pair of gears as well as a single prop were set under it both of which were canted out by the fall. A deputy had examined the place shortly before the accident and put up the pair of gears referred to. There was an ample supply of loose timber. The Local Inspectors reported that they ‘found it a pure accident, with no blame attached to no one.'

BARNS Joseph - 1902 - 15/04/1902 – Age 17 - Wearmouth Rope guider. Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died 17th April. Deceased had hidden some chalk near the eccentric rods of an underground hauling engine and he is supposed to have been at the point when the engine was started and he was caught by the connecting rod.

BARNS Joseph - 1902 - 15/04/1902 – Age 38 - Allhallows Rolleywayman. Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Died 1st June. Deceased was head rolleywayman and foolishly put his hand and arm inside a friction clutch, in connection with the haulage machinery. While in this position the rope was restarted and the deceased's arm was torn off. The accident occurred about 12 yards from the code of signals on which it was distinctly stated that certain signals were to be given to the engineman before any oiling or alteration of the machinery was attempted. Deceased had omitted to carry out these instructions.

BARNSLEY W. - 1900 - 06/09/1900 – Age 33 - Wharncliffe Silkstone Labourer. Wharncliffe Silkstone Coal Co., Yorkshire. Was run over, in a sub-way, by a tub which ran back owing to the clip slipping on the haulage rope.

BARR George Samuel - 1908 - 15/06/1908 – Age 13 - Bedlington Driver. Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Knocked down by a pony and fell before a tub.

BARR James - 1902 - 26/06/1902 – Age 22 - Hattonrigg No.4 Pony driver. Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While the officials were repairing a fall on a road the deceased came to see what was being done when a fall of roof killed him.

BARR James - 1904 - 24/02/1904 – Age 36 - Udston No.2 Miner. Udston Collier Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road while passing along it.

BARR Thomas - 1909 - 19/11/1909 – Age 24 - Ross Pitheadman. Thomas Barr’s Trust, Lanarkshire. Fell from mid-working or cage while ascending shaft.

BARR William – 1905 – 23/11/1905 – Age 65 – Bellfield No.4 Owner. William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. While standing close to unfenced machinery at the pithead, his overcoat got caught by a revolving shaft and he was drawn in and fatally injured.

BARRACLOUGH Henry – 1903 – 23/01/1903 – Age 49 – Waterloo Main Deputy. Brooks and Pickup, Yorkshire. Died 27th January. Explosion of bobbinite underground.

BARRACLOUGH James – 1906 – 05/02/1906 – Age 64 – Coates Undermanager. Low Moor Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He, for some unexplained reason, went into some old workings, and was found drowned in a ‘Swilley,’ where the water was only 2 feet deep. He had left his lamp on a stone by the water edge. All the circumstances point either to suicide or his having lost his memory. The jury at the inquest returned a verdict of ‘Accidentally drowned.'

BARRACLOUGH Walter – 1909 – 05/07/1909 – Age 49 – Silverwood Collier. Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was travelling in-bye and went along the haulage road instead of the travelling road. He was run over by a train of empty tubs which were being lowered, by gravity, to the pit bottom.

BARRACLOUGH William – 1906 – 18/01/1906 – Age 43 – Hickleton Main Collier. Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He and another man were pushing a tub up the face, and in twisting it at the flat sheet he put his right hand against the coal face and his left against the corner of the tub. When he was pushing his left hand slipped and he fell with his left side on to the corner of the tub, over the region of the heart, and was killed instantly.

BARRASS William – 1902 – 26/12/1902 – Age 32 – Ashington Deputy. Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died 13th April 1904. Deceased and another deputy were drawing timber in the goaf, a few feet back from the face of the longwall workings in the Yard seam, when a stone, 4 feet by 3 feet and 7 inches thick, suddenly fell upon him and broke his back. They were only using the axe and had not with them an appliance ready for use suitable for drawing timber without undue risk as required by one of the new Timbering Special Rules which were then in force. Deceased was never able to move again and eventually died from acute inflammation of the kidneys, the result of the accident. An inquest was held.

BARRELL Thomas – 1903 – 25/05/1903 – Age 43 – Potters Wood Sandstone Quarry Labourer. W Galbraith, Somerset. Struck by a stone, from a shot, on the head with fatal results. He was standing 80 yards away waiting for the shot to explode with a high heap of rubbish between.

BARREN Thomas – 1906 – 17/06/1906 – Seaham Putter. Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Received a slight injury to his hand on 30th September 1902. Died 17th June 1906.

BARRET John – 1900 – 27/07/1900 – Age 37 – Ferndale No.7 Collier. D Davis and Son Ltd., Glamorgan. While riding, with 3 others in an empty tram drawn by a horse up a main drift rising 1 in 9, it was met by a full journey (six trams of rubbish), and deceased was caught between the trams. Breach of special rules.

BARRETT Benjamin – 1906 – 03/10/1906 – Age 43 – Peckfield Collier. Micklefield Coal and Lime Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was wedging some coal down when a piece of stone fell from the roof and fatally injured him.

BARRETT Charles - 1902 - 08/08/1902 – Age 44 - Goodshaw Hill Dataller. George Hargreaves and Co., Lancashire. Fall of roof in haulage road. While repairing. He was knocking out a prop under one end of a bar to set it further back when the roof fell. He ought to have set a jack or middle prop under the bar before disturbing the end prop. (Ordinarily good here, near outcrop, rotten).

BARRETT George * 1903 - 14/10/03 – Age 45 - Wyndham Asst. Repairer. Norths Navigation Collieries (1899) Ltd., Glamorgan.

BARRETT GH - 1905 - 16/05/1905 – Age 33 - Heacham Chalk Quarry Loco fireman. Parish Quarry, Norfolk. Fall of overhanging overburden while he was getting chalk.

BARRETT James Francis - 1902 - 02/07/1902 – Age 28 - Pleasley Loader. Stanton Iron Works Co., Derbyshire.  He was acting as a horse-driver and stumbled or was knocked down by the horse and run over by the full tubs.

BARRETT Peter - 1904 - 09/05/1904 – Age 51 - Black Prince Hewer. Weardale Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While hewing he suddenly came across two slips back which canted out a plank and a large stone fell and killed him.

BARRETT Robert - 1905 - 10/08/1905 – Age 42 - Milverton Quarry Quarrier. Michael Heeney, Dublin, Ireland. Explosion of gunpowder charge, probably returned after lighting the fuse, thinking it had missed fire, light given to end of fuse. Not reported, no notice given of inquest.

BARRETT Thomas * 1904 – Bedlington. Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

BARRETT William - 1904 - 20/08/1904 – Age 39 - Hebburn Hewer. Wallsend & Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was walking inbye, to his work along with others, when he seemed to trip and fell forward and his head struck a prop, he was at once attended to but died almost immediately. It was at first thought that he had broken his neck but a post-mortem examination revealed no injury and that death was due to heart disease. An inquest was held and the medical evidence was given to this effect and so the Jury found. The Local Inspector after reciting the conditions of the road concluded, “in our opinion, he must have tripped himself up.”

BARRIE William - 1902 - 20/09/1902 – Age 45 - Belhaven Ostler. United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire.  Deceased was turning off the water supply, used for the stables, and obtained from the main rising column of pipe in the shaft when he accidentally fell into the shaft to the bottom, a distance of 22.25 fathoms.

BARRIE William - 1903 - 30/06/1903 – Age 69 - Dumbreck No.2 Miner. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. When stepping off the cage he slipped and fell into the cage seat. The accident was not reported until after his death on 13th September.

BARRINGTON Arthur - 1907 - 11/03/1907 – Age 23 - Cefn Slip Collier. Executors of the late Thomas Jones, Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road. While filling from a large heap of coal, which had been drawn down from a place rising 1 in 2, a pounce was heard in the roof and several props collapsed which caused an 18 inches bed of shale to fall. He was caught by the broken timbers when hurrying away and was crushed against a tram. The timbering of the rising place was not sufficiently close enough to support the roof in so wide an area of open space when extracting large pillars of coal. Cribbwr seam. Safety lamps.

BARRON Frank - 1905 - 30/10/1905. Little Burn, North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Spine fractured by fall of stone. June, 1905. Death reported October, 1905.

BARRON Thomas - 1904 - 30/06/1904 – Age 13 - Bourne Moor, Lady Anne Driver. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. When in a pass-bye siding a piece of stone fell at two slits and caught him killing him instantly.

BARRON Wheatley - 1900 - 10/06/1900 – Age 40 - Murton Deputy. South Hetton Coal Co., Murton, Co.Durham. Died today from alleged inhaling of gas in the pit on March 29th last. At inquest there was no evidence of his having worked where gas was and the medical evidence showed that he died from pneumonia set up by natural causes. (Not comprised)

BARRONS William - 1900 - 11/09/1900 – Age 44 - Neilston No.3 Miner. James Wood Ltd., Stirling. Fall of roof in working place. The stone fell from between lipe and a fault.

BARROW Robert - 1909 - 29/10/1909 – Age 54 - Penrikyber No.1 Signalman. Penrikyber Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Owing to a serious underground fire, referred to elsewhere in this Report, the men were ordered to leave the workings by the return airways. Deceased, however, persisted in going out along a main intake and endless rope haulageway. The heat of the fire caused the haulage ropes to break, and the full and empty trams ran down the drift and killed the deceased.

BARROW William - 1906 - 31/12/1906 – Age 50 - Clock Face Clay Quarry Labourer. Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., St Helens, Lancashire. He was run over by a train of empty trucks while walking to his home along the railway.

BARROWCLIFFE Thomas - 1908 - 24/04/1908 – Age 55 - Shire Oaks Dataller. Shire Oaks Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was repairing a main roadway, when the side of the road fell over and killed him.

BARROWMAN William - 1907 - 20/07/1907 – Age 30 - Carmyle No.1 Fireman. James Dunlop and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While dislodging an accumulation of gas with a naked light the gas ignited at his lamp.

BARRS Arthur - 1900 - 04/10/1900 – Age 41 - Griff No.4 Dataller. Griff Colliery Co., Warwickshire. Crushed by an empty tub against a prop due to a collision between a train of full tubs and a train of empty tubs which stood foul of the full road at the top of an engine plane.

BARTHOLOMEW Henry Edward - 1905 - 18/02/1905 – Age 19 - Linton Putter. Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was a pony putter in the High Main seam. He had taken a full tub so far outbye and appears to have loosened his pony off, to go back for another tub, when a fall of roof took place possibly caused by the pony knocking a prop from under a running balk which supported several planks. The roof is soft blue metal and the size of the fall was about 6 feet square and 2 feet thick and deceased was completely buried some hewers passing over the fall on their way outbye not being aware he was under it. The full tub was found a few feet outbye, clear of the fall, and the pony had gone to the shaft. The props under the balk were stated to have been set on sole trees as the bottom is soft. Several officials had passed the place during the shift. The Local Inspector reported, ‘we find that the place has been sufficiently timbered where the fall has taken place and we urge that putters use caution when siding their tubs here. We find this a pure accident.'

BARTLETT Arthur B. - 1903 - 01/04/1903 – Age 13 - Murton Driver. South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When walking outbye on engine plane he was caught by the empty set and killed.

BARTLETT Charles - 1904 - 13/05/1904 – Age 25 - Llanerch Banksman. Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Head smashed by tram against the centre post of the headstocks. Apparently after putting an empty tram on the cage he let his foot remain on the lever of the catches, for preventing trams running forward to the shaft until required to put on the cage and consequently, as the rails are on a gradient, for the purpose of the trams gravitating to the cage this one did so. The descending cage catching the front end of the tram caused the other end to fly up and crush his head as stated.

BARTLETT George E. - 1906 - 17/09/1906 – Age 14 - Chilton Driver. H Stobart and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A driver coming outbye, with a set, found him lying in the empty way with his legs stretched across between the ways. The boy was lying on his back and his pony had its near hind foot on his neck. It is presumed that he fell between the pony and the bow of the limber, he was a very small boy and that the pony had kicked him on the head and broken his skull.

BARTON Fred - 1905 - 07/07/1905 – Age 30 - Coegnant Repairer. Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side on road; piece of clift, from between two oblique slips, fell from the side of the road which was being retimbered.

BARTON George - 1904 - 05/07/1904 – Age 44 - Wath Main Hanger on. Wath Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When taking a tram of timber out of the middle deck of the cage, the engineman started the cage away and he was caught and killed. It was discovered afterwards that 15 men, who were waiting at the shaft bottom to ascend the shaft, on hearing a signal from the surface that men were coming down with the other cage made a rush to get to the cage, and in doing so one them accidentally caught the electric signal and gave the signal to the winding engineman who therefore, moved the cages.

BARTON Harry - 1907 - 18/09/1907 – Age 24 - Lightmoor Collier. H Crawshay and Co. Ltd., Gloucester. Fall of coal from face. It burst off just above a sprag the place appears to be well timbered.

BARTON John Henry - 1908 - 22/01/1908 – Age 44 - Barrow Collier. Barrow Haematite Steel Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased, his son, and son-in-law, were travelling down a self-acting incline when they met the empty set just about meeting. To avoid this they stepped into the full road and were run into by the full set. The deceased was so seriously injured that he died before arriving at the hospital, the other two men escaped with slight injuries. They should have been in a refuge hole. Travelling when the sets are in motion on a self-acting incline is most dangerous and should not be allowed.

BARTON Thomas - 1908 - 02/03/1908 – Age 22 - Brancepeth A Pit Hewer. Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. He was hewing in a skirting just on the inbye side of a 2.5 feet rise hitch. The right-hand side of the face was about 4 feet 8 inches from the hitch and the face was 5.25 feet wide. There were no props set in the place at all which was contrary to the timbering rule in force. It fixed the maximum distance apart at which roof supports should be set at 3 feet. The stone swung away from the edge of the hitch.

BARTRAM James - 1905 - 13/05/1905 – Age 57 - Eston (ironstone) Miner. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., N. Yorkshire. A piece of stone burst from the side, cut his head and injured his foot necessitating amputation. Died on 3rd June.

BARTRAM Matthew - 1903 - 14/01/1903 – Age 46 - Shildon Lodge Hewer. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by fall of stone from roof at loose end of broken jud.

BARWOOD Edward - 1909 - 19/10/1909 – Age 48 - Gwenallt Wedgeman. Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in a roadway which he was called to by the haulier to examine and put right. He acted as an official more or less and was in the habit of taking the position of fireman in the case of one being absent. The road was in a bad state and not in working order, but as far as the accident is concerned, he appears to have misjudged the conditions and knocked a lag, which was loose, with his hand to remove it, whereupon the fall occurred and injured him fatally. The management was much to blame for the condition of the road.

BASEY Arthur - 1906 - 26/03/1906 – Age 14 - Littleburn Driver. North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was run over by full tubs in a landing, which ran back, notwithstanding that they were spragged. He received injuries from which he died on the following day.

BASKERVILLE Thomas - 1902 - 06/06/1902 – Age 57 - Waun Llwyd Repairer. Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He seems to have disturbed the ground by chipping it to make room for a cog on top of the framing of the first pair of timbers which had just been set in an old heading in the 3/4 seam and which was crossed by a double road for the purpose of extending the mechanical haulage. The timbering of the double road had been completed. Three pairs of timber within 9 feet were discharged by the fall weighing 20 tons.

BASNETT Albert - 1900 - 25/06/1900 – Age 32 - Golborne Collier. Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Golborne, Lancashire. Inquiry made. Deceased was driving a ribbing alongside of the old work and had set his bars to within two feet of the coal face when a fall occurred capping the last bar set and crushing the deceased. A fatal fall of roof at Golborne. Albert Basnet; aged 32 years, a collier was killed as he was driving a ribbing alongside some old work and had set bars within two feet of the face when a fall occurred capping the last bar set and crushing him. At an Inquest at the New Inn Golborne into the death of Albert Basnett aged 23 a collier of the town. He was working in the Seven Foot No 1 pit at 11.15 a.m. and was preparing to set bars at the coalface when, without warning, two or three tons of dirt fell from the roof. The deceased drawer who was standing close by uncovered the poor fellows head when a second fall occurred. The drawer immediately ran for assistance and the deceased was eventually taken out alive but he died before he could be got to the surface. Robert Rudd stated that the deceased was his brother-in-law and he worked with him. The fireman Steven Spiby had visited them and the bars were about a foot from the face, he was preparing to get another bar. He did so and the deceased was in the act of striking with a pick when the fall occurred. Steven Spiby stated that he had visited the place at 7.30am the face of the coal was only a foot from the bar and there was no necessity for more timbering. He could see no slips in the roof. After the accident he found a slip on the lower side. The foreman of the jury was quite satisfied that it was a pure accident and a verdict of 'Accidental Death' was returned. (Newton & Earlestown Guardian).

BASON Thomas - 1901 - 22/05/1901 – Age 34 - Top Pit Stoney Stanton Quarry Stone dresser. Enderby & Stoney Stanton Granite Co., Leicester. Deceased received a small piece of metal in his left knuckle after throwing down one hammer on the top of another. He died on the 30th May from 'cellulitis' caused by the injury.

BASSET W.G. – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 14 – National No.2 Doorboy. United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed.

BASSETT William G. – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 14 – National No.2 Doorboy. United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, 29 Hillside Terrace, Wattstown. Buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

BASTIAN Francis – 1909 – 27/09/1909 – Age 31 – Carn Brea & Tincroft Miner. Carn Brea & Tincroft Mines Ltd., Cornwall. Fall of side, some fathoms above where he was working. It came from a soapy head or slip which it is said could not be previously seen. In rolling down the stope it caught and carried him with it to the pass or opening through which the ore is dropped into the trams. Having fallen through the opening he was found in the level 12 fathoms below on some rock. In order to enable the men to make better examination of large places like this more light is desirable, and acetylene lamps now used for the purpose by the officials might with advantage be provided for the men.

BASTIAN Joseph – 1907 – 12/06/1907 – Age 15 – St. Kenerne Stone Quarry Labourer. St. Kenerne Stone Co., Cornwall. He and another were tramming along a gantry between the crusher and the bins when, owing to the revolving and tip waggons, which they were moving, not having been properly fastened, the waggon left the rails and went over the side of the unfenced gantry, falling 15 or 16 feet. Bastian falling with it received fatal injuries although at first not considered very serious.

BATE Edward – 1905 – 06/02/1905 – Age 29 – Littleton No.2 Loader. Littleton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (rock), while filling stone at a fall on a level in the 8 feet seam, a piece of stone weighing about 3lbs. fell and struck his head causing a wound, Erysipelas supervened and he died on the 19th February.

BATE Frank – 1909 – 30/07/1909 – Age 18 – Ramrod Hall Driver. Titford Colliery Co., Staffordshire Deceased was driving an empty tub inbye along a road in the Heathen Coal. When about 20 yards from the working face, the tub was derailed, knocked out a prop, and let down a bar and a quantity of roof. Two large lumps fell upon his shoulders and back, and he was covered with small debris. He was dead when extricated and was found to have been doubled over and suffocated. For what did not appear to me to be any sufficient reason, the place had been cleaned up and retimbered before I saw it on the following day, but the fireman stated that the props had been 5 or 6 inches clear of the tub.

BATE William – 1906 – 11/07/1906 – Age 60 – New Lester Dataller. James Roscoe and Sons, Lancashire. Whilst preparing to put up a bar, repairing a roadway in a tunnel, a large stone fell from between two clearly defined slips, there was a prop timber at one corner of it, it is surmised that this prop was disturbed in making room for the bar. Died 14th. (Good roof.)

BATEMAN Christopher – 1906 – 21/12/1906 – Age 23 – Cakemore Brakesman. HS Pitt and Co., Worcester. Deceased was employed at a jig, 20 yards in length, dipping 1 in 5 on which the tubs were run in sets of two. The output being very small, he acted both as brakesman and hanger-on. He had attached a post to the rear of an empty set, but unfortunately omitted to hook the tubs on to the chain. On setting away the full tubs the empty chain came up with great velocity and swung round the jig post, lashing him to it and causing injuries which resulted fatally on the following day.

BATEMAN J.W. – 1901 – 06/12/1901 – Age 16 – Garforth Driver. Garforth Coal Co., Yorkshire. Killed by fall of overhanging side. Cause, a slip.

BATEMAN T. – 1900 – 26/09/1900 – Age 34 – Fochriw No.1 Master haulier. Dowlais Iron Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, he was riding on an engine plane when the journey got off the road and knocked out a pair of timbers causing a fall of about 3 tons.

BATEMAN Thomas – 1905 – 30/06/1905 – Age 20 – Westminster Pony driver. Westminster and Brymbo Coal and Coke Co., Denbigh, Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was driving a pony underground into a shunt with a full tub of coal when he appears to have seriously injured his head when coming into contact with a low bar supporting the roof. He succumbed to the injuries received July 6, 1905.

BATES Bart – 1908 – 03/01/1908 – Age 30 – Burnmoor Coal filler. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Received a slight wound on his finger when setting a prop. He continued to work until 9th January and then stayed away. He died on 16th January from blood poisoning originating from the small wound on his finger.