BRACKEN Cuthbert - 1902 - 12/11/1902 – Age 15 – Willington, Wheel boy. Starkers and Love, Co.Durham. He attached two full tubs to the endless rope and was riding on the front of the tubs. At a junction, 40 yards away, a knock-off is fixed through which the rope passes and he was caught between this the tubs the rope and decapitated.

BRAD Joseph - 1901 - 15/06/1901 – Age 24 - Saltwell No. 28, Loader. Earl of Dudley, Worcester. Fall of roof. He was standing in the bolt hole of a thick coal opening when a terrific bump threw out the timber and he was buried by a rush of fine coal and slack.

BRADBURN John Henry - 1900 - 16/03/1900 – Age 24 - Peel Hall, Collier. James Roscoe and Sons, Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place from between two slips, two props ordered by fireman had not been put up. (Good roof).

BRADBURY Elijah - 1909 - 25/01/1909 – Age 44 - Riddings, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman. H Wing and Co., Derbyshire. At this Quarry, a thickness of nine feet of sandstone was being worked with about 17 feet of shale and clay on top of it. Instead of working the shale and clay off first the sandstone was allowed to get under it, with the result that about ten tons fell upon and killed the deceased man.

BRADBURY John - 1901 - 25/01/1901 – Age 56 - Cannock & Rugeley, Stallman. Cannock & Rugeley Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of side. He knocked out a stretcher in a heading, which was being enlarged, when a piece of coal fell from the side and broke his leg. Died 14th Feb. 1901.

BRADDER Joseph - 1909 - 28/01/1909 – Age 51 – Nunnery, East Silkstone Ripper. Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He and another man were preparing to rip the roof of a level, when some roof stone, which should have been supported with timber, fell and fatally injured Bradder.

BRADDICK John - 1904 - 21/01/1904 – Crossington, Quarryman. He was fatally crushed on the 21st January against a wall by a railway waggon, the space between not being sufficient for him to pass. The Quarry being only 16 feet in depth the accident is not compromised under the Quarries Act.

BRADFORD Alexander - 1908 - 05/03/1908 – Age 16 – Westerton, Incline boy. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When travelling down a self-acting incline he lost his light and failing to get into a refuge hole was caught and killed by the full set.

BRADFORD George - 1906 - 13/01/1906 – Age 35 - Great Western, No. 2 Collier. Great Western Colliery Co., Glamorgan. Deceased was ascending in a cage and when about 70 yards from the surface something fell on the cage top and smashed it. The other occupant did not miss deceased until the surface was reached. He had evidently been struck on the head and fell out. The shaft was carefully examined, but nothing was found to have fallen out of the walling.

BRADFORD Henry Nurden - 1909 - 06/04/1909 – Age 14 – Reservoir, Horse driver. Moira Colliery Co. Ltd., Leicester The horse ran away and afterwards kicked the deceased who died the same day.

BRADLEY Abraham - 1907 - 18/12/1907 – Age 30 - Dibdale Jigger. B Gibbons jnr Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased and two others were lifting on a derailed tub on a jig dipping 1 in 3. Having set the lower wheels on the rails, the deceased put his weight on the lower edge of the tub while the others raised the upper end with a lever. As the wheels were set on the rails the drawbar broke at an imperfect weld, not detectable by ordinary inspection and the tub ran away taking the deceased with it and crushed him against the empty tub at the bottom of the jig.

BRADLEY Charles - 1907 - 27/11/1907 – Age 43 – Dinnington Hewer. Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died December 4. He was hewing, during the back shift in longwall workings in the 1st North way of the Beaumont seam, which at the point was 5 feet 5 inches thick including a band, 1 foot thick, 1 foot from the bottom of the seam. During the back shift of the previous day the place had been kyrved in the bottom coal and band, nearly opposite the end for a length of 12 feet and a depth of 3 feet and a shot of monobel powder had been fired which failed to bring the jud down. The deputy who had fired the shot visited the place next day at 10.45 pm. and suggested another shot but deceased said he thought he could get the coal down without it. The deputy returned at 12.25 pm. and found the coal still up and in the presence of the deceased tried to get it down with a pick and then on the deputy’s suggestion a pinch when the coal fell and knocked out a prop and immediately a mass of blue metal roof, about 15 feet long and 4 feet wide and a foot thick, fell away and caught him. The stone was released by a slip and breaker and it fell away close to the face and rather over the coal. He sustained a broken leg and arm and ribs. He was taken to Newcastle Infirmary the day of the accident. Pneumonia developed from which he died.

BRADLEY David - 1900 - 18/07/1900 – Age 56 - Cambois Hewer. Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased and his son were working in a place which had just holed into the goaf. While he was examining the roof, between the goaf and timber, a large fall took place. There was a plentiful supply of suitable timber.

BRADLEY Dennis - 1903 - 01/07/1903 – Age 44 - Shut End, No. 13 Holer. John Bradley and Co., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (bind) at working face in whitestone ironstone seam. A piece of bind about the size of half a brick fell on his knee. He worked till the end of the shift, blood poisoning supervened and he died on the 8th. July.

BRADLEY E. - 1901 - 09/09/1901 – Age 42 - Darfield Main Filler. Mitchell Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof and coal in working face. Cause, weight breaks and a slip.

BRADLEY Edmund - 1908 - 02/06/1908 – Age 49 - Thornley Hewer. Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was taking off a lift in a broken district in the Hutton seam, when the roof fell close to the face, swinging out a prop and plank and killing him. The stone fell from a slip running parallel with the barrow way.

BRADLEY Edward Harrison - 1900 - 18/12/1900 – Age 14 - Whitehaven, Wellington Greaser. Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Inspection made. He was employed as a greaser on an endless rope haulage plane when, by some means, he was caught by a full set and dragged over 200 yards. There was no empty set within 500 yards at the time and the speed of the rope was under three miles an hour.

BRADLEY Ernest - 1905 - 05/06/1905 – Age 15 - Orgreave Pony driver. Rothervale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. When riding, contrary to rules, on the first tub of a set of three full ones his forehead came in contact with a low sharp piece of roof and he was killed.

BRADLEY George - 1909 - 26/04/1909 – Age 45 - Keystone Sand Quarry Labourer. John Baker, Staffordshire. A mass of strong, hard clay, estimated to weigh about 10 tons, had been safely got down off the Quarry face, and deceased and another were breaking it up, when a portion of the fallen mass, weighing about a ton, rolled over upon the deceased while he was in a stooping position, causing injuries which resulted fatally on the same day.

BRADLEY James - 1901 - 12/08/1901 – Age 45 - Saltwell No. 33 Loader. Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of side in a thick coal stall. The seam here had an inclination of 56 deg. A piece of coal fell from the high side of the place and rolled down the slope upon him. Cause a hump. Died 13th August.

BRADLEY James - 1906 - 02/08/1906 – Age 18 months. Shipley, Child. Shipley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. He was run over by railway trucks while crossing the sidings.

BRADLEY James - 1908 - 04/03/1908 – Age 45 - Hamstead Haulageman. Hamstead Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Underground fire. 25 killed.

BRADLEY James - 1908 - 21/07/1908 – Age 22 - Abercarn Mason. Newport, Abercarn Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He and others were engaged filling trams on the haulage road, and having filled six, turned four empties over on the side to allow another journey to pass. It came along and picked up the full trams, and then some of the empties in the journey got off the rails, whether in consequence of some rubbish having fallen on them or not is unknown. One of them caught against one of those turned over and knocked out a post set for carrying the signal wire. Deceased who, with others, was in a roomy manhole, appears to have taken fright, and going out of it was crushed between the corner of the manhole and the upturned tram. Had he remained in the manhole he would have been quite safe. (Mechanical haulage).

BRADLEY James Ramsey - 1908 - 15/06/1908 – Age 34 - Whitehaven Labourer. Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Scaffold gave way while placing iron girders in position.

BRADLEY John - 1904 - 14/03/1904 – Age 46 - Bridgewater No. 2 Collier. Earl of Ellesmere, Lancashire. Fall of clod from face of working place. Ought to have been pulled down. Died 31st October.

BRADLEY Joseph - 1909 - 14/05/1909 – Age 24 - Meadows Pusher on. Newton Meadows and Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Deceased was putting tubs on the rails, in a low place in the haulage road, when the tubs were started and said to be without a signal and deceased got fatally crushed by the tubs.

BRADLEY Peter - 1901 - 22/11/1901 – Age 26 - Hebburn C Hewer. Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. deceased and his marrow were hewing in a broken lift when a sudden fall of roof took place.

BRADSHAW Edward Hayward - 1902 - 10/04/1902 – Age 21 - Pinxton No. 1 Stallman. Pinxton Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of coal. The two deceased were holing the coal face when holing sprags gave way and a block of coal fell upon both men and killed them. 2 killed.

BRADSHAW George Edward - 1906 - 09/05/1906 – Age 18 - Cinder Hill Holer. Babbington Coal Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was travelling along a roadway, taking three safety-lamps to be re-lighted, when a train of four full tubs drawn by a horse came up to him. He appears to have attempted to ride on the shaft-iron, when he fell and was run over. Riding is prohibited.

BRADSHAW Henry - 1909 - 15/10/1909 – Age 52 - Cefn Slip Collier. Bryndu Colliery Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road; while enlarging one side of a roadway in order to make a "pass by" for trams, a stone fell from the roof and injured him so severely that death must have been instantaneous. Five Quarter. Seam. Safety lamps.

BRADSHAW James - 1908 - 22/02/1908 – Age 23 - Gravel Hole pumping Dataller. Earl of Bradford, Lancashire. Fell from a water tank in the shaft into the water and was drowned. The water contained sulphuretted hydrogen from the old workings. Deceased said to his companion he felt the effects, and the companion testified to feeling the same.

BRADSHAW John - 1903 - 31/03/1903 – Age 42 - Stopes Dataller. Thomas Fletcher and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in main road whilst preparing to pull stone having pulled all that apparently could be got down whilst deceased and fireman were setting a bar the fatal stone fell. (Good roof).

BRADSHAW John - 1906 - 18/06/1906 – Age 22 - Bamfurlong No. 3 Haulage hand. Cross Tetley and Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was attending to some tubs, in the endless rope downbrow, when he got fatally crushed by two full tubs and a timber trolley running back downbrow, off the flat landing place at the top of the brow, after they had been unlashed, which happened through the haulage engineman having a signal to reverse and the weight of the rope carried them back a sufficient distance to run downbrow themselves. A warrick will be placed at the top of the downbrow to prevent them going back.

BRADSHAW John - 1908 - 09/07/1908 – Age 33 - Bamfurlong No. 1 Metalman. Cross Tetley and Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. When rebarring a brow, they had set one bar, and as his fellow workman was examining the roof, between two bars, previous to putting stretchers up, a stone fell from the roof fatally injuring the deceased.

BRADSHAW Samuel - 1905 - 13/04/1905 – Age 53 - Spindlepoint Collier. Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place whilst building a pack, capped four props, occurred in the open between the loose corner and the old pack, probably had weighted. (Good roof).

BRADSHAW William - 1908 - 27/07/1908 – Age 26 - Park Lane No. 2 Pusher on. Garswood Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. A tub got fast against a low bar in the jig, and deceased, after he got it free, signalled for the jig to start, when he got runover by the empty set before he reached the manhole. At the inquiry it was advised to have the jig brow enlarged.

BRADY Charles - 1909 - 08/01/1909 – Age 54 - Brownrigg No. 2 Miner. Banknock Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. Fall of coal and falling at working face of stooping.

BRADY Edward - 1905 - 16/02/1905 – Age 37 - Daldowie Miner. Glasgow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face when about to prop it. The specified distance for props seems to have been too great.

BRADY J. - 1900 - 26/03/1900 – Age 44 - Fryston Byeworker. Wheldale Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof. 2 killed.

BRAGG Benjamin - 1907 - 24/06/1907 – Age 23 - Clifton Dayman. Clifton Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was holing the coal face with sprag set up, when the coal rolled over the sprags and killed him.

BRAILSFORD James - 1901 - 29/08/1901 – Age 18 - Streetley Planeman. Shire Oaks Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was riding the full set of 48 tubs, passing along an engine plane, when a fall of roof occurred and killed him.

BRAILSFORD L. - 1905 - 03/08/1905 – Age 36 - Dinnington Main Ripper. Dinnington Main Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He and another man taking out timber, ripping the roof and road and setting permanent timber; they had got down a lift of ripping, and dressing the side for a long bar when large piece of clod fell from the roof, injuring him so severely that he died shortly afterward. The fall disclosed a slip in the place.

BRAIN James - 1900 - 18/12/1900 – Age 30 - Hetty Labourer. Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face coal, 18 feet x 12 feet X 15 inches thick, while he was stowing rubbish. Four feet seam.

BRAIN William Schofield - 1901 - 15/04/1901 – Age 18 - Cowpen, Mill Putter. Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. When riding on the limmers his head was crushed between the side and a tub.

BRAINES Edward - 1908 - 27/01/1908 – Age 24 - Islip, Iron Ore Quarry Labourer. Islip Iron Co., Northampton. Deceased was preparing to undercut the overburden, which was 10 feet thick, when it rolled over to a slip and partially buried him. He died the same day.

BRAITHWAITE Joseph - 1906 - 26/04/1906 – Age 42 - Devonshire, Limestone Quarry Quarryman. Barrow Hematite Steel Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Braithwaite was standing about 6 feet above the Quarry floor and was boring a pop-hole in a loose lump, which formed part of a heap of previously blasted limestone lying against the Quarry face. He had only been boring a few minutes when some of the loose material, under the lump, gave way and the whole mass commenced to slide down. He tried to jump backwards out of the way but was unable to get clear, and the big lump (about two tons weight), in which he had been boring, rolled right on to him causing instantaneous death. The foreman had examined the heap during the morning and thought it was all right, and deceased’s mate said that they had tried, and failed, to bar down the lump before commencing to bore in it.

BRAKWELL Thomas - 1906 - 06/04/1906 – Age 50 - St. John’s Collier Locke and Co., (Newland) Ltd., Yorkshire. On November 14th, 1905, he was bannocking in the Haigh Moor seam when a piece of coal rolled off the face at a slip or back on to him. He died in the Leeds Infirmary from a malignant growth on one of his legs, the result of the accident.

BRAMBLE John - 1903 - 08/06/1903 – Age 16 - Aberaman Collier boy. Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face, coal and clod 6 foot by 10 inches by 16 inches thick fell off a face slip. One sprag was said to have been crushed out. Seven feet seam.

BRAMLEY William - 1906 - 14/11/1906 – Age 13 - Holmewood Horse driver. Hardwick Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Crushed by an empty tub while attempting to uncouple the horse. The horse turned round quickly and because the deceased failed to uncouple the chain, the tub was pushed upon him. He died 30th November.

BRAMLY R. - 1901 - 28/11/1901 – Age 32 - Wharncliffe Silkstone Repairer. Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He had taken refuge in a manhole, on the engine plane, and being alarmed by a slight fall of roof he stepped out in front of the journey.

BRAMMER James. - 1902 - 28/08/1902 – Age 14 - Falls Bank boy. T Brammer and Co., Staffordshire. Suffocated by blackdamp in a disused foot rill. 2 killed.

BRAMMER Jonathan - 1902 - 28/08/1902 – Age 39 - Falls Part owner. T Brammer and Co., Staffordshire. Suffocated by blackdamp in a disused foot rill. 2 killed.

BRAMWELL James - 1908 - 30/06/1908 – Age 38 - Garswood Hall Collier. Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. He was engaged at the face setting a prop, when a stone fell from a pot hole in the roof upon him.

BRAMWELL John - 1906 - 13/12/1906 – Age 55 - Hebburn Hewer. Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was hewing alone in the fore shift in a bord 19.5 feet wide in the Bensham seam, 4 feet 7 inches thick, in the 3rd West flat, South Bensham district of the C pit. He had bared a lie over sooty back more than half-way across the place from the left side in the lower part of the seam, and he had also pricked it near the floor on the right side where he had fixed a stay against the coal. On the left side the top coal projected about 2.5 feet over the back and was an evident source of danger, as the parting above is a good one. In front of this coal a piece of band, about 3.5 feet long by 1.5 feet wide and 7 inches thick, lay on the floor, and the deceased may have been moving this preparatory to bringing down the projecting coal when it fell over and crushed his head on the band. The coal in falling does not appear to have displaced any stay, but it knocked out a prop, set close to the face about the middle of the place. The place was well timbered so far as the roof was concerned, and there was a good supply of loose timber close at hand. Deceased was found by the putter who summoned the deputy who had only left the place a few minutes before, but who did not appear to have insisted on the necessary precautions with regard to the projecting coal. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘In our opinion it was a pure accident.'

BRAND Robert - 1904 - 31/12/1904 – Age 21 - Bowhill Miner. Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Explosion of firedamp.

BRANDERS William - 1907 - 15/03/1906 – Age 59 - Dalmeny oil shale Miner. Dalmeny Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was taking shale off the rise side of his place, when a large piece fell away from between lypes, and striking him he was killed instantly.

BRANDIST Henry - 1907 - 01/05/1907 – Age 20 - Warsop Main Roadman. Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was killed at the bottom of a roadway by three full tubs which had broken away from the control of the man at the top of the incline.

BRANDWOOD Thomas - 1904 - 01/07/1904 – Age 22 - Rose Hill Collier. S Scowcroft and Son, Lancashire. Fall of clod from face of working place. Overhung 18 inches, not spragged ought to have been pulled down.

BRANKLEY Nathaniel - 1908 - 11/12/1908 – Age 35 - Blaenavon, Big Repairer. Blaenavon Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp at naked lights (used throughout the mine), in a rise cross measure drift from the Old Coal to the Meadow Vein, which was commenced about 130 yards from the bottom of the Big Pit. It had only been stopped the evening before. Having passed through the Yard Vein Brankley and Jones had worked in the drift the day before, and on their way out at the end of their (night) shift about 3.15 am. went up to fetch some tools which had been left there. They had naked lights as usual, and passed the fence at the mouth of the drift, contrary to the Special Rules. They were found suffocated or poisoned by Co. and slightly burned, about 60 yards up the drift and 20 or 30 from the face. The third man Williams was found dead with his head fractured, near the stables about 100 yards from the Pit or 30 from the bottom of the drift. 3 killed.

BRANKS William - 1900 - 24/04/1900 – Age 22 - Dumbreck No. 1 Drawer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. While taking a hutch along a load the roof fell on him.

BRANNAN Hugh - 1906 - 27/01/1906 – Age 29 - Whitrigg Miner. R Forrester and Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was holing his coal and had it holed to a depth of 8 feet for a distance of 15 feet across, when it fell upon him there were no sprags up to the coal.

BRANNAN Patrick - 1902 - 20/10/1902 – Age 36 - Rosehall No. 12 Miner. R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

BRANNAN Peter - 1903 - 04/08/1903 – Age 24 - Carfin No. 3 Brusher. United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. While knocking out props at roadhead to facilitate his work the roof fell on him.

BRASELL John - 1909 - 15/05/1909 – Age 37 - New Brancepeth Shaftman. Cochrane and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He and another shafts man reversed the usual order of things and purposed to use the jack rope to lift material and the crab rope for holding the cradle. At the fan drift level both men got on to the cradle and then disconnected the jack rope. At once the cradle ram amain down the shaft, the crab drum not being in gear and the pall not down. His marrow was thrown off at the Busty Seam where the cradle stopped but he fell from there to the Brockwell Seam and was killed. He had made no arrangements with anyone as to using the ropes in a different way to usual.

BRASH John - 1902 – 31/01/1902 – Age 37 – Whitrigg Miner. Robert Forrester and Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. A shot hole was charged with 75lb. of gunpowder in the dip side of his working place. The fuse used was a paper squib to the end of which was attached a piece of cotton wick saturated with oil. As soon as deceased had lighted the wick he and his neighbour ran to a place of safety 60 feet outbye and just as he was about to turn into the opening the shot exploded and a piece of coal projected from it struck him causing injuries to which he succumbed three days afterwards.

BRASSINGTON Christopher - 1907 – 11/02/1907 – Age 56 – Whitwood, High Moor Collier. Henry Briggs Son and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When removing some holing dirt, under the middle coal, the coal suddenly came away and rode over two sprags crushing him so severely that he died the following day in the Leeds Infirmary.

BRASSINGTON William - 1900 - 19/06/1900 – Age 21 – Adderley Green Taker off. Stirrup and Pye, Staffordshire. Crushed by tub in a short jig dip. He had called up the dip for someone to come down and help him in his work and then he started to go up the dip. A collier at the top thought the shunt was to jig a tub and he turned a tub into the dip, which ran down loose and caught Brassington. He had only worked underground about 2 months.

BRAVERY D. - 1904 – 18/07/1904 – Age 38 – Flappit Spring, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Joseph Clayton Ltd., Yorkshire. He was standing upon a bench 9 feet below the surface, for the purpose of watching the face while two men undermined the baring, when a stone came away suddenly and he was caught by the fall and a large stone rolled upon and crushed him so severely that he died before reaching the Keighley Infirmary.

BRAY Charles - 1906 – 07/09/1906 – Age 42 – Middle Park, Limestone Quarry Sett maker. Bowne and Shaw, Derbyshire. Deceased fell from a Quarry ledge or pathway while commencing to descend for the purpose of going home for breakfast. He slipped at the top step and fell a distance of 30 feet. Died two hours later.

BRAY James - 1903 – 13/11/1903 – Age 52 – Abbrook Clay Quarry Clay getter. Whiteway and Co., Devon. He was at work in the bottom of the Quarry or Clay Pit not unlike a large Mine Shaft, when a wooden shute 18 to 24 inches long, which was being carried down by one of the men was allowed to fall and in pitching on some timber rebounded and struck him on the head causing injuries from which he died on the following day.

BRAY John - 1903 - 27/05/1903 – Age 42 - Bluebarrow China Clay Quarry Labourer. J Lovering and Co., Cornwall. He was smothered by a fall of clay under which he was buried.

BRAY Richard - 1906 - 20/06/1905 – Age 48 - Heworth Stoneman. Heworth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died July 15th. Deceased was drilling a machine hole in the roof stone of a new gateway in long wall working, in the 4th South district of the Five Quarter seam, when a stone, 2 feet by 1 foot 8 inches and 7 inches thick, relieved by a joint and a break fell from the left corner of the brow and caught his knee and ankle. The place had been examined by a chargeman before work started when it appeared safe, and afterwards a fellow workman had examined it jowled the stone that fell, after trying to get it down with a pick, left it, as he considered it safe. Deceased was attended by a doctor the same day, who found bruises on the left ankle and foot and abrasions of the left leg. On the third day an abscess formed followed by others, and the injuries took an unhealthy course, and death was due to exhaustion and heart failure. The Local Inspectors made no report.

BRAY Thomas - 1907 - 07/02/1907 – Age 49 - Celynen Overman. Newport Abercarne Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A frightened runaway horse knocked him against some trams on an engine plane, by which he received injury to his chest. He resumed work after being idle for five or six weeks, but at this end of a week he broke down again, and died on the 25th Match. It appears that when being taken along this engine plane the haulage rope touched the horse, which frightened it, and deceased tried to turn it into a side road.

BRAY William - 1900 - 29/10/1900 – Age 22 – Cadley Hill Stallman. Halls Collieries Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was pulling coal from the face and when the coal fell it liberated a portion of the roof which fell on the deceased. He died 1st November.

BRAYFORD John - 1905 – 21/12/1905 – Age 36 – Apedale Sladderhill pumping shafts Shaftman. Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed between the cage and scaffold whilst going down to examine pumps.

BRAYFORD John Thomas - 1909 – 29/01/1909 – Age 15 – Apedale, Burley Horse driver. Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was run over by a journey of two loaded tubs on a hers level in the Little coal. He seemed to have stumbled and fallen in front of the pony, as he was running along before it, in order to open a ventilation door through which he had to pass.

BRAZENALL Joseph - 1902 – 20/11/1902 – Age 25 – Tibshelf No.4 Corporal. Babington Coal Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was struck by the last tub of a runaway train which had become uncoupled from the rope while descending an inclined engine plane. No over or under chain was in use at the time the train was descending the roadway. He died the same day.

BRAZIER John James - 1905 – 29/04/1905 – Age 31 – Roundwood Collier. Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was cutting a prop out when the roof broke down over the prop and killed him.

BREALEY Frederick - 1901 – 31/07/1901 – Age 14 – Tugby’s, Clay Quarry Horse driver. Hosea Tugby and Co., Leicester. Deceased was found dead in a pond in a disused part of the Quarry after being missed from his work. There was no evidence as to how he got drowned or what he was doing at the pond. It was however, customary for the deceased to lead his horse to the water for drinking and washing.

BRECKONS William - 1906 - 12/07/1906 – Age 14 - Heddon Driver. Throckley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was coming outbye with a pony and four loaded tubs on a driving road in the South-East district of the Main Coal seam. He was sitting on the coal in the first tub. The pony appears to have runaway, and the first tub jumped the rails and drew out the props under the ends of two crowns resting on a running balk at their other ends. One of the crowns fell on the boy and broke his neck and some stone fell with it off the flattish leader of a 5-feet trouble, which crossed the road at the point. The road was constantly travelled by both officials and workmen and was in good order, with 14 or 15 inches space between the rails and prop. One Local Inspector reported, ‘we believe it was a pure accident.’

BREEZE John - 1905 - 10/05/1905 – Age 50 - Moss No. 6 Pusher on. Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was working at the top of a jig and had been lowering full tubs down to the jig and the three full tubs he had left standing, with two scotches in (instead of three), ran away and crushed him between tubs. He died from the effects of the injuries received.

BREEZE Johnathan - 1904 - 30/05/1904 – Age 38 - Celynen Timberman. Newport and Abercarne Black Vein Steam Coal Co., Monmouth. When examining a stall road a heavy fall occurred displacing three or four pieces of timber. The roof is very soft and a bump probably caused the fall.

BREMNER Alexande - 1906 - 19/05/1906 – Age 34 - Lumphinnans Engineman. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The shaft of No.1 pit was being enlarged and as the work progressed the pumps, pipes, &c. were removed. For the purpose of raising the parts a steam crab was used with hawser, and at the time of accident it was arranged to draw the foot rod of the lower ram of the pump at 102 fathoms down during the breakfast hour when no one was in the shaft. Accordingly steam was applied to the crab, when the working and the idle gear wheels broke, and the pieces flew in all directions, some of which struck the deceased. The strain on the machine was too great as beside the weight of the foot rod, the cross-rods, rods, etc., under had, by an overlook, not been detached from the foot rod.

BREMNER George - 1906 - 07/06/1906 – Age 32 - Minto Overman. Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The descending tub stuck on a self-acting incline while it was moving down and deceased went behind and stamped the chain, the result being that the chain broke and the tub above ran him down.

BRENNAN James - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 24. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 6 Sand Street, Stanley.

BRENNAN Thomas - 1900 - 07/02/1900 – Age 21 - Washington Hewer. Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. A road was being made through old workings when a stone fell from between two slips. The place was well timbered and several props were canted out by the fall.

BRERETON W.G. - 1900 - 10/03/1900 – Age 26 - Clough Hall No.18 Wagoner. Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed by tubs drawn by a horse. He was walking in front of the horse and was seen suddenly to fall, the horse also fell down. There was nothing about the road to account for the accident. The horse may have stepped on his heel.

BRETT George - 1902 - 15/09/1902 – Age 16 - Shelton No.3, Racecourse Bogy rider. Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Found dead by the side of a journey of tubs on endless rope haulage road. His duty was to ride on a bogie in front of the journey. No one saw how the accident occurred.

BREWER Henry - 1909 - 07/12/1909 – Age 63 - Waun Lwyd Labourer. Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Stumbled over a piece of wood and fell down and broke his thigh while leaving work. Died 30th January 1910.

BREWER William Herbert - 1903 - 11/10/1903 – Age 25 – North Blaina New Drift Furnaceman. J and W Stone, Monmouth. Deceased had charge of a temporary furnace and was required to carry the coal for it from a point in an old road some distance away. To save himself trouble he appears to have been getting coal off the road side near the furnace and while so engaged a large stone fell on him from the side. It occurred between Saturday evening and Sunday morning when he was found to have been dead some hours. He was alone in the mine and had not been seen by anyone for 9 or 10 hours which does not seem satisfactory.

BREWIS John - 1907 – 14/06/1907 – Age 32 – Seaton Delaval Stoneman. Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, who was an experienced stoneman, and another stoneman were working together taking down a top canch at the face of a cross gateway in the longwall workings in the 7th West way of the Main Coal seam in the C.D Pit. The seam is 6 feet thick and about 3 feet of top stone was taken down. They had fired a shot in the left side, which left most of the stone hanging at the right side. Deceased first thought of putting in another shot but eventually decided to pinch the stone down. He stood with his back towards the face and applied a pinch, 5 feet long to a piece of stone which when it fell liberated a large stone which in turn liberated a stone 6 feet long, 3 feet 3 inches deep and from 9 inches to 2 feet thick, which fell upon him from the upper part of the brow causing instant death. There was a visible coal piping above the stone and irregular fractures at the sides. The chargeman was present at the time and had examined the stone immediately before it fell and he and deceased’s mate liberated him 10 minutes. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘we consider his death was the result of a pure accident.’

BREWSTER Henry Ellis - 1905 – 11/10/1905 – Age 21 – Britain Loader. Butterley Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was pushing out an empty tub towards the coal face and when passing under the gate lip a large piece of stone fell on him. He died the same day.

BREWSTER Matthew - 1907 - 07/11/1907 – Age 34 - Lingdale ironstone Miner. Pease and Partners Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was helping to set a prop, when a piece of roof fell on to his foot. He died in hospital on 5th December.

BREWSTER William - 1903 - 12/02/1903 – Age 29 - Bole Hill, Gritstone Quarry Labourer. Derwent Valley Water Board, Derbyshire. Four railway waggons were going up an incline, drawn by a rope, when a link in one of the couplings broke and allowed three waggons to run away and over the deceased who was at the bottom of the incline. Two others were injured.

BRIAN Arthur - 1908 - 13/01/1908 – Age 31 - Florence Loader. Florence Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. A slab of coal, 6 foot 9 inches long, 3 foot 6 inches deep, and 1 foot 6 inches thick, fell off the face of the breasting in the Main Coal on to a heap of coals on the floor from which the deceased had been loading. The fall caused a lump, weighing 4 or 5 cwt which lay on the top of the heap, to slip down, and it caught the deceased and crushed him against a prop. The buttocker had previously attempted, without success, to get down the coal which caused the accident and had decided that a shot would be necessary to blow it down. The deceased was severely crushed about the lower parts of the body and died from the injuries on Feb. 28th.

BRIAN W. S. * - 1901. Newsham, Co.Durham?

BRICE Herbert J. - 1905 - 10/06/1905 – Age 19 - Greyfield Collier. Greyfield Colliery Co. Ltd., Somerset. When wedging down coal and stone he was caught by it as it fell, and killed instantly. This was a clear case of the man working where he had not room and wedging the coal down more or less upon himself.

BRICE John - 1907 - 20/09/1907 – Age 22 - Middridge Onsetter. Weardale Steel Coke and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He fell from the Busty hanging-on into the shaft, when, as he thought, he was about to step into the cage.

BRICKLEY W.H. - 1904 - 10/07/1904 – Age 40 - Wharncliffe Silkstone Belt repairer. Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was in charge of the work of putting on a new fan driving belt for a firm of contractors. The belt had been successfully put on and he was standing over it with the intention of dressing it with paste when his foot slipped and he fell on to the belt and was crushed between it and a pulley.

BRICKNELL Thomas - 1908 - 23/01/1908 – Age 21 - Exhall Roadman. Exhall Colliery Co., Warwickshire. Fall of roof. A full tub, in a train of eight, got off the rails in an incline. It struck a prop which was supporting a bar, and the roof fell and killed the deceased who was standing in the pass-bye seeing the train starting away.

BRIDGE James - 1901 - 22/04/1901 – Age 28 - Ashtons Green Wagoner. Bromilow Foster and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased, with three other persons, got in a manhole to let the full journey pass uphill when a coupling broke and the tubs ran back and getting off the rails knocked out three bars opposite the manhole causing a fall of roof which killed the deceased. The manhole was not sufficiently set back.

BRIDGE James - 1909 - 02/03/1909 – Age 35 - Primrose No. 30 Pikeman. HS Pitt and Co., Staffordshire. Deceased was dropping some "Fine Coal" (a portion of the Thick Coal) in a thirling 15 foot in width. The Fine Coal, which was 3 foot in thickness, had already been nicked near the centre of the place, a bridge or spurn of about a foot having been left in. The portion of coal to be taken down was 8 foot in width and about 4 yards in length, and underneath this three props were set. The doggie visited the place, about half an hour prior to the accident, and told deceased to prepare and charge his shot hole before touching the spurn or drawing the props. Instead of doing so, the deceased cut out the spurn, drew the props, fired a flanking hole in the part of the seam immediately below the Fine Coal and then proceeded to punch a vertical hole in the latter. The overhanging and unsupported Fine Coal came away suddenly, a large portion of it falling upon and killing him instantly. Had he obeyed the orders of the doggie, the accident need not have happened.

BRIDGE Joseph - 1905 - 17/02/1905 – Age 19 - Peelwood Screener. Tyldesley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by wagons under the screens when lowering he foolishly tried to pass before to get to brake on the other side of the waggon; he was caught between the buffers of this and another waggon.

BRIDGE William - 1906 - 15/08/1906 – Age 53 - Brackley Labourer. Earl Elesmere, Lancashire. Whilst assisting the joiner to erect a haulage wheel frame he stumbled, grazed the skin of his elbow, neglected it for a week. Blood poisoning caused death on 31st August.

BRIDGES Samuel - 1905 - 31/08/1905 – Age 51 – Pretty Bench Limestone Quarry Quarryman. R and F Pearce, Devon. When drilling out a missed shot the charge exploded and drove the steel drill he was using into his head.

BRIDGES William - 1903 - 11/12/1903 – Age 23 - Backworth Hewer. Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. Three shots across the face of a winning place in a coal seam were bored near the roof and charged with bobbinite and fitted with electric fuses. Two hewers worked in the place. The shotfirer placed his battery within a passage at right angles and 15 yards from the shots. One of the hewers remained with him and connected the cable with the shots in turn. The other hewer was instructed to go some distance outbye to warn persons not to approach. The first and second shots were fired safely but while the deceased was connecting the cable to the third shot the other hewer came back and entered the place where the shotfirer was, who thinking it was the deceased from the face turned on the current and fired the third shot.

BRIDGWATER Arthur - 1905 - 13/07/1905 – Age 24 - Haden Hill Stallman. W Bassano and Co., Staffordshire. Fall of roof and side (old gob) at the face of a gate road in the Thick coal. A lot of timber was suddenly reeled out and the men buried under a mass of small coal and debris. 2 killed.

BRIEN George - 1907 - 17/07/1907 – Age 38 - Dowlais Cardiff Wagon repairer. Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and his mate, were repairing a buffer spring on a wagon in a blind end siding at the colliery. In order to have room to work, they lowered down the two wagons, nearest to the cross for a short distance, and so slightly fouled the crossing. A shunter, wishing to bring a wagon of small coal up the No 4 siding off which the blind road is turned, attaching two horses to the wagon of small coal, and commenced pulling it up the straight road. There was not being sufficient clearance, the buffers collided, with the result that the deceased was crushed between the second wagon on the repairer road and the third, upon which he was working. He died August 3rd.

BRIEN Luke - 1908 - 23/06/1908 – Age 14 - Baddesley Rope boy. Baddesley Colliery Trustees, Warwickshire. He was found dead under a train of fourteen full tubs on an endless rope roadway. The clip had been removed for the purpose of pulling up at the junction, and in doing this the deceased appears to have slipped under the train.

BRIEN Michael - 1903 - 28/12/1903 – Age 33 - Dundonald Labourer. Dundonald Coal Co., Fife. Deceased was engaged about the sidings and was discovered dead between two waggons. No one saw the accident but it appears that a loaded waggon was run out from the screen and had moved down and collided with another and evidently the deceased had been crushed between them.

BRIGGS Andrew - 1907 - 18/12/1907 – Age 55 - Hazelrigg hewer. Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Explosion of gas.

BRIGGS Arthur - 1908 - 18/12/1908 – Age 43 - Grassmoor No.2 Stallman. Grassmoor Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was slotting the coal after it had been undercut by a holing machine, when the coal fell and killed him.

BRIGGS Charles - 1904 - 18/08/1904 – Age 62 - Newbattle Miner. Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased took down a piece of head coal at face and released a lype which was unseen causing a stone to fall from the roof upon him. He died 18 days afterwards.

BRIGGS D - 1905 - 29/08/1905 – Age 36. Thorncliffe Colliery, Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was working at the coal face when a large piece of roof coal fell upon him and killed him instantly. The fall came away to a slip at the ‘hugger,’ and it ought to have been supported by timber.

BRIGGS George - 1907 - 11/01/1907 – Age 37 - Byers Green Filler. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A fall of stone occurred in a longwall face and killed him. The timbering distance had been exceeded.

BRIGGS George William - 1905 – 18/12/1905 - Age 26 - Newstead Screenman. Newstead Colliery Co. Nottinghamshire. Deceased was standing on an empty railway wagon under the screens, and using the corner of the wagon as a urinal. The wagon was moved forward with the deceased travelling backwards and his head came in contact with a beam supporting the screens.

BRIGGS James Robert - 1908 - 01/09/1908 – Age 15 - Great Lever Haulage hand. Earl of Bradford Lancashire. He was caught and carried through between the haulage rope and deflecting pulley at a curve.

BRIGGS John William - 1905 - 10/08/1905 – Age 53 - Renishaw Park No.1 Loader. J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was protecting a branch roadway while a shot of bellite was being fired in a stall. He fired to sufficiently protect himself but was struck on the head by coal from the shot. He died three hours later.

BRIGGS Robert Wallace - 1907 - 11/09/1907 – Age 30 – Dawdon Chargeman. Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. They were thrown from a cradle, on which they were standing, to the bottom of the pit and killed. 3 killed.

BRIGHT Hugh - 1902 – 25/04/1902 – Age 34 – Bedlinog No.1 Ripper. Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 7.25 feet by 3.75 feet by 22 inches thick, fell as he was knocking out a pair of timbers which had become too low. He died on May 6th. Nine feet seam.

BRIGHT John - 1904 - 24/03/1904 – Age 55 - Pochin Asst. timberman. Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Silcox and deceased, after having taken out a pair of timbers and relagged the place, were going for a tram, when another collar suddenly snapped and released a quantity of loose ground which buried them. Changing the timbers had evidently disturbed the roof.

BRIGHT Thomas - 1909 - 03/02/1909 – Age 33 - Calderbank No.2 Fireman. United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Ignited firedamp when making an inspection of workings.

BRINDLE Adam - 1908 - 03/04/1908 – Age 50 - Great Lever Fireman. Earl of Bradford, Lancashire. Fell from cage in shaft. He had been left by the engineman midway in the shaft from confusion of signals by reason of not adhering to rule code.

BRINDLE Isaac - 1902 - 29/01/1902 – Age 42 - Aspen Collier. Oswaldtwistle Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place when drawing props, his mate being engaged in drawing props back in waste. Deceased was taking out a prop at the side of the roadway, usually one other man only draws props whilst other assists. In this case it was needless for deceased to draw the prop his mate being in the waste. Deceased was sat on the floor so he had no chance to get out of the way of the stone which fell after the prop was knocked out. He could have stood on his feet in the roadway. Stone 8 feet by 4 feet. (Good roof).

BRINDLE Richard - 1900 - 18/07/1900 – Age 55. Town Bent Mountain Collier, Oswaldtwistle Colliery Co., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place after drawing props. (Good roof) Of 369 Union road, Oswaldtwistle. A married man met with a shocking death whilst following his employment as a collier at the Oswaldtwistle Colliery Company's Town Bent Pit. He was engaged in filling a wagon, along with a man named Henry Hayes, when some props used in the workings gave forth a cracking noise. Hayes shouted to his mate "It's coming, Dick" and both set off at a run, Brindle was however too late to save himself, a portion of the roof coming in with a crash on the top of him crushing him terribly about the head. Hayes escaped with a slight injury to the back. (Accrington Advertiser, July 20th. 1900).

BRISCOE D. - 1906 - 17/10/1906 – Age 23 - White Moss Park Drawer. White Moss Coal Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. While he was standing at the mouth of an old roadway, for a drawer to pass with a full tub of coal, he appears to have had his head out too far as the tub caught his head, crushing it against the prop supporting the roof. He died the same day.

BRISCOE John - 1905 - 17/01/1905 – Age 44 - Legh Contractor. Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was working in a tunnel, which was barred and covered, but as the tunnel was just reaching up to old workings in the four-feet seam, the roof came down bodily, the timber not being close enough, and deceased was fatally injured.

BRISCOE William - 1909 - 22/07/1909 – Age 26 - Ashton Moss Filler. New Moss Colliery Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst getting coal at the face, the roof fell from between four slips; there were two props under the roof, but more bits were required under such conditions. (Roof average).

BRITLAND J. - 1901 - 10/01/1901 – Age 26 - Orgreave Contractor. Rothervale Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of rock in level. Cause, weight breaks.

BRITTAIN J. - 1901 - 14/03/1901 – Age 36 - Monk Bretton Packer. Monk Bretton Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Died 29th Apr. Fall of roof in a roadway. Cause a slip.

BRITTEN George - 1903 - 15/01/1903 – Age 32 - Raglan Collier. Headleys Collieries Co., Glamorgan. Fall at face rock, 13 foot wide of unknown thickness and length, fell on deceased as they were holing under the seam. Certain timbers were crushed out but what they were is unknown as it would have meant blasting the rock away to get at them. No.3 Rhondda Seam. 2 killed.

BRITTON David - 1901 - 22/03/1901 – Age 54 - Denton Collier. Denton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from the higher side of a level where he had gone to knock to ascertain how far his working place was from holing. The fireman had knocked to him earlier in the day. Very probably deceased was pulling loose coal.

BROADBENT Samuel - 1901 - 22/02/1901 – Age 37 - Hyde Lane Collier. Hyde Lane Colliery Co., Cheshire. Inspection made and inquest attended. When drawing a prop out, in order to get dirt for packing the wall side of the roadway, a fall of roof occurred on him before he could clear himself.

BROADHEAD Thomas - 1906 - 15/10/1906 – Age 15 - Darefield Main. Nipper Mitchell Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He had finished his day’s work and, along with two other boys, was on his way to the shaft; they had hold of his pony’s tail chain so as to be pulled up a drift. The deceased was urging the pony along when it kicked and hit him on his chest and killed him. All the boys knew they were doing wrong.

BROADHURST George - 1903 - 30/10/1903 – Age 46 - Swanwick Deputy. CRP Morewood, Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was in charge of two sets of men clearing a fall of roof, which had occurred in the main road of the mine, when a further fall occurred killing deceased and injuring a workman.

BROADLEY James - 1900 - 22/02/1900 – Age 45 - Wester Queenslie Miner. John Allan, Lanarkshire. While forcing gelignite cartridges into a shot hole, drilled in sandstone with a wooden stemmer, they exploded. Another person was injured.