BROADMORE Richard - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 17. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 17 Henry Street, Stanley.

BROADWAY Arthur - 1901 - 12/11/1901 – Age 17 - Clandown Carting boy, Somerset. Met with an accident on the 12th November 1901 by a fall of roof. He died from the effects on the 3rd January. As the accident occurred more than a year and a day before the death it is not comprised under the Act.

BROCK Charles - 1908 - 07/07/1908 – Age 27 - South Duffryn No.1 Labourer. Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was cleaning the road on a haulage level. The rider of an out-going journey brought his tram to a stand, near a junction and hearing groans looked back and saw the deceased lying on the side of the road free from the trams. His lamp and shovel were found on the road 40 yards inbye, and he had presumably been dragged along for that distance. The rider saw no light ahead and felt no bump. The road was narrow, but had sufficient manholes.

BROCKBANK George Fallows - 1909 - 09/03/1909 – Age 35 - Tanfield Lea Deputy. James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of two shots of arkite while coupling up.

BROCKHOUSE William Henry - 1909 - 20/07/1909 – Age 56 - Sandwell Park Pikeman. Sandwell Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased and others were repairing and retimbering a gate road in the Thick Coal. A gap of 5 foot had been formed between the new and the old timber, and while he was at work in this space a bump occurred, and about a ton of slack and crushed coal came down upon him, dislocating his neck and burying him. He had worked in this mine for 34 years. The place was not far from the goaf and bumps occurred frequently.

BROCKLEHURST George Smith - 1909 - 31/07/1909 – Age 24 - Milltown Limestone Quarry Labourer. Mrs Jessop, Derbyshire. A number of large pieces of stone had been displaced from the face of the Quarry, and he told another man they were instructed to drill holes in them, preparatory to firing small charges of dynamite in them for the purpose of breaking the stones. They had been instructed to work at the bottom of the Quarry and not to go on the heap of stones but he went about 3 yards up. He was sitting on a flat stone holding a drill for another man to strike when the stone slipped down and caused him to fall. The stone followed him and fell on the lower part of his abdomen causing severe internal injuries. Died same day.

BROCKLEHURST Mark - 1905 - 12/12/1905 – Age 54 - Birley West Stallman. Sheffield Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. The deceased was attempting to withdraw a prop from a waste and did not use the ringer and chain required by the rules when a fall of roof killed him.

BROCKLEHURST William - 1906 - 11/08/1906 – Age 68 - Barlborough No.1 Dataller. Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. The two deceased had been sent to a place where a new road crossed an old road and were to build a pack across the old roadway. The old roadway was timbered closely and as one of the props supporting a bar was slightly reeling over they set another prop when this was completed the whole of the roof at the junction of the roads collapsed and killed the two men. 2 killed.

BROCKWAY Martin Robert - 1902 - 25/09/1902 – Age 49 - Tame Valley Carpenter. Skey and Co., Warwickshire. Deceased had been attending to the pumps in a shaft and was coming up and standing on the top of the cage when an attachment to the cage caught one of the pump stays and threw the deceased off and down the shaft.

BRODERICK Charles - 1900 - 23/05/1900 – Age 23 - Alvecote Horse driver. Tamworth Colliery Co., Warwickshire. Deceased was riding on a chain attached to the shafts of the horse and a train of four full tubs. He fell off and was fatally injured. He died the next day.

BRODIE James - 1907 - 07/10/1907 – Age 27 - Tannochside No.3 Asst. bottomer. Archibald Russell Ltd., Lanarkshire. A piece of coal fell down the shaft, apparently from the surface and struck him on the head while putting a full hutch in the cage.

BRODIE Joseph - 1900 - 02/07/1900 – Age 20 - Holytown No.5 Bottomer. James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He signalled the cage to be raised in order to go into the cage seat to clean it. This was done and while in the cage seat the cage was lowered upon him. He was alone at the time. The engineman alleged that he received the signal to lower the cage again.

BRODIE William - 1900 - 21/05/1900 – Age 35 - Arniston Miner. Arniston Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. A strip of about 3 foot in width was being taken off one side of an old longwall road for the purpose of straightening it. Deceased was holing out the old stowage under the overhanging side when a stone 9 foot in length by 3 foot. by 3 foot at extremes suddenly came away from an old break formed by the subsidence of the roof over the longwall waste and fell upon him. He died whilst being extricated. The stone did not appear to have been in any way shored or ranced up.

BROGAN Michael - 1905 - 27/03/1905 – Age 32 - Broxburn (oil shale) Miner. Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. The holing is in the centre and bottom, shale is taken away first afterward the top shale which generally over-hangs and is supported by sprags. Deceased was found under the top shale which came away from a dry parting. There were no sprags up to the shale.

BROMAGE Richard - 1908 - 26/05/1908 – Age 29 - Rhymney Merthyr No.2 Collier. Rhymney Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face, as deceased was working coal a sprag discharged, and caused a fall of coal and shale, 5 feet 9 inches by 5 feet 7 inches by 18 inches thick, from the face. This was followed by a fall of shale roof 4 feet 4 inches by 2 feet 4 inches by 10 inches thick. Ras Las seam.

BROMELL John - 1907 - 18/12/1907 - Age 25 - Paddon, Limestone Quarry Labourer. Trustees of Fishleigh Estate, Devon. While unramming a hole, charged with gelignite, which had missed fire on the 14th, the charge exploded and blew him 12 to 15 yards into the Quarry, causing immediate death. He was using an iron tool.

BROMLEY John - 1908 - 31/07/1908 - Age 48 - Cwmgorse Quarry Labourer. Cwmgorse Brick Works Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While loading a tram, with refuse at the face of the Quarry, a portion of the face fell out, and he was crushed against the tram by some of the lumps of clay.

BROMLEY Thomas - 1907 - 30/10/1907 – Age 46 - Lower Darwin Dataller. Oswaldtwistle Colliers Ltd., Lancashire. Fall in waste of working place whilst stowing, behind the props, where props had been drawn. The roof had been weighting during the day. Fall 13 feet long by 8 feet wide. Deceased ought not to have been where he was. (Roof good).

BROMWELL H. - 1900 - 09/09/1899 – Age 51 - Foxholes Signalman. W Wood and Sons, Yorkshire. Whilst oiling a horizontal wheel, 7 feet above the floor, when the machinery was in motion.

BROOK Charles - 1906 - 06/07/1906 – Age 25 - Meldon Limestone Quarry Labourer. London and South Western Railway Co., Devon. Fall of ground from above, where he and another were attending to a rock drill. One of his comrades was also injured two others jumped clear on receiving warning. There was some water making at the place and this would tend to allow or even cause sudden falls to occur. The foreman and the men all allege that they considered the place quite safe.

BROOK Frederick - 1906 - 26/11/1906 – Age 39 - Wharncliffe Woodmoor Collier. Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased was drawing some back props in the goaf when a large piece of stone fell, displacing some timber, and caught him. There were two slips which could not be seen before the stone fell. This is the first fatal accident that has occurred underground at this colliery, and it has been working more than 25 years.

BROOK James - 1908 - 16/03/1908 – Age 60 - Wharncliffe Woodmoor Collier. Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. On June 29th, 1907 he was walking out-bye at the end of his shift, when he was caught by a set of empty tubs. The accident was not considered serious, but dropsy supervened and proved fatal.

BROOK Jim - 1907 - 14/08/1907 – Age 51 - Victoria, Bruntcliffe Collier. Joseph Haigh, Yorkshire. He had got about half a yard of coal from the buttock end of some machine holed coal and was turning to go to the gate end to fill them when, without any warning, some stone fell from the roof and killed him. The place was properly propped but if it had been the custom to use bars the accident probably would not have happened.

BROOK S. - 1900 - 08/02/1900 – Age 42 - Storth Collier. D Sharratt and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion whilst stemming a shot of gelignite.

BROOKE Alfred - 1906 - 19/03/1906 – Age 48 - Dark Lane Byeworkman. Mirfield Colliery Co., Yorkshire. He was knocking a bar out, and when doing so he was slightly injured on the leg. After a lapse of four or five days he complained of rheumatic pains, and on April 11th died from rheumatism and high temperature. The doctor was of opinion that the injury accelerated his death.

BROOKE Edmund - 1903 - 26/11/1903 – Age 67 - Meldon Limestone Quarry Labourer. London and South Western Railway Co., Devon. While charging a hole, with presumably partially or completely frozen gelignite, it exploded killing him on the spot. A warming pan was provided but apparently not used on this occasion, although only a few weeks before he was shown the pan and was told by the foreman that it was needed regularly. These men are probably more of the navvy class than Quarrymen and as in or navvy work there are no regulations on the subject of blasting, it is difficult to get them to carry out the rules when engaged in quarries.

BROOKES Henry - 1907 - 05/04/1907 – Age 56 - St. George’s Collier. Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Fall at working place from between two slips, both clearly defined and visible, he ought to have had two props set. Fireman had not made a second visit and did not always do so. (Average roof).

BROOKES John - 1909 - 07/01/1909 – Age 32 - Plaspower Collier. Broughton and Plaspower Coal Co., Denbigh. When holing under the main coal, a fall of coal came upon him from a slip, in the bottom coal, his sprags having been set too high.

BROOKING Samuel - 1905 - 15/12/1905 – Age 51 - Ty Trist Chargeman. Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When engaged making a steam joint, in an archway, about half way down in the No.1 pit, it appears that the banksman of No.2 pit, having received a signal from the hitcher to that effect, turned on the steam from the boilers, the result being to scald these men, and their falling, probably in trying to escape from the steam, to the bottom of the shaft, about 120 yards. 2 killed.

BROOKS Abraham - 1903 - 16/07/1903 – Age 48 - Stopes Collier. Thomas Fletcher and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place, large fall from between two faults, displaced two props. He had been, for some time, trying to wedge down the stone yet he placed himself underneath to build a pack. (Good roof).

BROOKS Albert - 1903 - 22/06/1903 – Age 38 - Craig-yr-hesg, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman. Mackay and Davies, Glamorgan. Deceased were working on a ledge, 15 feet square, when a stone 9 feet by 7 feet by 18 inches fell off a false joint in the nearly vertical side. A shot had been fired a few hours previous in the stone floor of the ledge which may have shaken the stone in the side. Deceased had several times sounded the side and considered it safe. 2 killed.

BROOKS Andrew - 1908 - 09/04/1908 – Age 27 - Norton Hill Collier. Norton Hill Colliery Co., Somerset. Explosion of firedamp or coaldust. 10 killed.

BROOKS Benjamin - 1904 - 07/11/1904 – Age 43 - Clifton Hall, Trencherbone Collier. A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from working face. Crump caused coal to slide over two sprags.

BROOKS C.H. - 1900 - 04/01/1900 – Age 20 - Clough Hall No.6 Breaker. Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed by an empty tub in jig dip. The tub had been off the rails and Brooks had replaced it, the tub became unhooked by some means and ran back on him.

BROOKS John - 1900 - 09/01/1900 – Age 34 - Whitfield, Institute Collier. Chatterley Whitfield Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof. He was starting to drive a flitching, for a new jig from an old level in Cockshead Seam. The stone fell from the brow, which should have been spragged up a slip, one end of which might have been seen liberating the stone when the coal under it was removed.

BROOKS John - 1905 - 25/06/1905 – Age 38 - Haden Hill Fireman. W Bassano and Co., Staffordshire. Killed by gob-stink and blackdamp. 2 killed.

BROOKS Jonathan - 1900 - 05/07/1900 - Celynen Collier. Newport, Abercarne Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. An inquest was held on the 5th November on the body of Jonathan Brooks who was injured on the 5th July, 1898. As the death did not occur within a year and a day of the accident it is not considered to be compromised under the Act.

BROOKS Samuel - 1905 - 03/11/1905 – Age 41 - Holly Bank No.15 Stallman. Holly Bank Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (coal) in a waste at longwall face in Deep coal. Died 17 Jan. 1906.

BROOKS Thomas - 1903 - 30/11/1903 – Age 56 - Pinxton No.3 Dataller. Pinxton Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased and others were repairing a roadway and removing timber when a fall occurred killing the deceased and injuring two workmen.

BROOKS Thomas - 1908 - 06/11/1908 – Age 40 - Pleasley Dayman. Stanton Iron Works Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was getting coal down when a fall of roof took place and killed him.

BROOKS William - 1901 - 28/10/1901 – Age 35 - Clay Cross No.9 Coal cutter. Clay Cross Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was in charge of a coal cutting machine and when fixing new cutters in the cutter disc he turned on the electric current, to move it round, when the whole machine moved sideways causing the deceased to be struck by the revolving cutters. He died 7th. Nov.

BROOKS William - 1904 - 30/09/1904 – Age 38 - Darran Collier. Darran Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face after firing a shot, he was returning to the face when a stone fell from the roof upon him. Died 4th. Oct. Caedafid seam.

BROOME Samuel - 1901 - 27/02/1901 – Age 58 - Amberswood Manager. Henry Atherton, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased and another person were drawing out a chock, after capping two props in front of it, when the roof gave way from where they had drawn the two props. They had set nothing to protect themselves thinking the roof safe. This shows that the best human judgement cannot be depended upon and men should not work under an unsupported roof. He died from the effects of the injuries received, March 2nd.

BROOME William - 1904 - 27/05/1904 – Age 20 - Ty Trist Collier’s’ butty. Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He appears to have been barring down a piece of coal and when it fell either the bar or his body knocked out a sprag holding up some clod which fell on to him.

BROOMFIELD George - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 43 - Wingate Grange Miner. Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust result of shot firing. 25 killed.

BROONHALL James - 1904 - 16/11/1904 – Age 26 - Wombwell Main Asst. shunter. Wombwell Main Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When some waggons were being moved he went between them to connect them and was crushed between them and killed. There was no reason for him to do such a foolish thing.

BROPHY William - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 14. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas 168 killed. Ramsey St.

BROTHERSTONE Henry - 1903 - 06/11/1903 – Age 32 - Arniston Labourer. Arniston Coal Co., Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was in a dross hopper clearing dross from the shoot leading into the hopper and instead of standing on a plank provided for the purpose he stood on the dross. The man in charge of the waggons put a waggon under the hopper and opened the valve to allow the dross to fall into the waggon when deceased's legs were seen protruding. Before he was rescued he had been suffocated.

BROUGH Frederick - 1906 - 02/05/1906 – Age 26 - Foxfield Roadsman. Foxfield Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was riding on the last load of a journey of twelve when a load left the metals and knocked out one leg of a set of timber, causing 6 or 7 sets to reel out and letting down a large quantity of small roof bass, under which deceased was buried.

BROUGH William - 1900 - 21/05/1900 – Age 17 - Cannock Old Coppice Driver. Joseph Hawkins and Sons, Staffordshire. Internal injury by tub becoming derailed. Died 22nd May.

BROUGH William - 1901 - 23/08/1901 – Age 31 - Tibshelf No.1 Stallman. Babbington Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was taking out the holing sprags to get the coal down and when stepping back from taking out the last sprag he was caught between a prop supporting the roof and the falling coal.

BROUGHTON James - 1905 - 16/06/1905 – Age 48 - Wollaton Stallman. Wollaton, Wollaton, Nottingham. Fall of coal. Deceased was standing in front of a length of overhanging coal face, trying to wedge it down. It had been holed, and a shot had been fired a few minutes previously but it failed to bring it down. The coal fell and knocked out a prop which struck and fatally injured the deceased. He died the next day.

BROUGHTON John - 1901 - 15/10/1901 - Age 18 - South Duffryn No.1 Collier. Hills, Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 15 feet by 15 feet by 8 to 10 inches thick, fell suddenly breaking down 5 pairs of timbers. Deceased was standing under them talking to a fireman when it occurred. Nine feet seam.

BROWN Alfred - 1909 - 16/12/1909 – Age 46 - Lumley Sixth, Deputy. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He had three props to draw to clear a jud. These last three props were standing in the form of a triangle, two props near to him and one some six feet away. He had a drawing punch with a handle, eight feet long, and with this he tried to knock out the prop six feet away. He failed, but expressing his determination to have the prop out, he began to loosen it with a drawing hammer. Having loosened it, he was turning round to come back when a large frame of stone fell and fatally injured him. The stone in falling canted out the two near props. It is very disappointing to have occurrences like this to record, he was an experienced man and would know quite well the risk he was running.

BROWN Andrew - 1900 - 01/05/1900 – Age 32. Cowdenbeath, Fife. Fall of roof.

BROWN Andrew - 1902 - 18/02/1902 – Age 20 - Dunduff, Whinstone Quarry Labourer. Middle Ward, District of Lanarkshire CC, Lanarkshire. When shunting a waggon at the stone-breaking factory he slipped and fell and the wheels went over him.

BROWN Andrew - 1907 - 12/04/1907 – Age 45 - Pirnie Miner. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased apparently had withdrawn his sprags, when the coal fell and crushed him against a prop.

BROWN Archibald - 1902 - 01/08/1902 – Age 42 - Blair No.7 Coke oven attendant. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Whilst filling a lighted lamp from barrel of creosote oil the oil ignited and burnt him.

BROWN Christopher - 1903 - 07/07/1903 – Age 13 - Wallsend Driver. Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died 8th July. A putter had been slightly injured and was being taken outbye in an empty tub and at the siding the tub had to be lifted from the full to the empty way as full tubs were standing in the full way. While this was being done deceased came outbye with two full tubs, he was sitting on the timbers. Shouts warned him to keep back but he was apparently unable to stop his pony and a person ran and caught it by the head, deceased jumped off but was crushed between the tubs and a prop. The Local Inspectors examined the place and reported 'We have found the place satisfactory and in good order.'.

BROWN Christopher - 1907 - 13/06/1907 – Age 40 - Tursdale Waggonwayman. Bell Bros., Ltd., Co.Durham. He was lowering a full tub at the set when he slipped and fell in front of them and was killed.

BROWN David - 1900 - 01/01/1900 – Age 58 - Kelty Engineman. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased who was alone when the accident occurred appeared to been on the top of the cylinders of a vertical pumping engine filling the lubricators and to have fallen to the floor, a distance of about 13 feet. His skull was fractured.

BROWN David - 1900 - 23/07/1900 – Age 55 - Cornsay Hewer. Ferens and Love, Co.Durham. A fall of stone took place in the face of the working place from between two slips and caused such injuries that he died within nine hours.

BROWN David - 1905 - 09/06/1905 – Age 16 - Battery, Whinstone Quarry Rope runner. Alexander Brunton and Son, Fife. The material is conveyed from the Quarry to the loading wharf by a travelling steam crane and deceased duties were to sit in front and attach the crane chain from the box, the loaded box had been discharged at the wharf and the crane was returning to the Quarry when by some means he fell off and was run over.

BROWN David - 1906 - 24/12/1906 – Age 44 - Glencraig Labourer. Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased began his work as usual at 6 a.m. and marshalled several tubs of debris for the pony to haul to the redd bing; shortly after he was discovered quite dead, death being due to heart failure.

BROWN Edmund - 1909 - 15/02/1909 – Age 41 - Welch Whittle Dataller. Blainscough Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst building a pack, along with another man near the working face, the roof fell from between two slips, they had just removed two props to give them plenty of spade room, it had been wiser to leave the props until the pack had hold of the roof. (Roof good)

BROWN Edward - 1902 - 12/09/1902 – Age 20 - Kiveton Park Haulage man. Kiveton Park Coal Co., Yorkshire. A piece of timber fouled the empty tub on an endless rope engine plane and Brown was thrown under the full tubs which were travelling to the pit shaft.

BROWN Frank - 1902 - 11/09/1902 – Age 31 - Springwell Stoneman. John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. A staple, 11.25 feet by 7 feet sectional area was being sunk upwards from Hutton to the Main Coal seam and had gone over 17 fathoms passing through the Low Main seam at 10 fathoms, Buntons in pairs, 6 feet apart vertically, were placed 5 feet apart horizontally across the short length of the shaft with backing deals inside, formed a space which was filled with debris carried forward as the sinking upwards proceeded, acted both as a brattice for ventilation and as a scaffold on which the men worked. A vertical ladder attached to one of the sets of buntons afforded means access to the staple. Two shots of carbonite had been fired by electricity 10 minutes before the accident and deceased was climbing the ladder with the cable to connect it to another shot of carbonite when he fell broke through a scaffold at the Low Main where his marrow was and fell to the Hutton seam.

BROWN Fritz - 1901 - 24/08/1901 – Age 35 - Dover Pumpman. Consolidated Kent Collieries Ltd., Kent. He climbed down two chain cables, 8 feet below a scaffold, to adjust chains, he slipped and fell 117 feet into 35 feet of water. He ought to have descended in the cage which was available.

BROWN George * - 1907 - 11/09/1907 – Age 23. Dawdon Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham.

BROWN George - 1909 - 14/06/1909 – Age 46 - Cadzow No.2 Miner. Cadzow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal after withdrawing a sprag and preparing to wedge it down.

BROWN George jnr. - 1903 - 26/06/1903 – Age 15 Niddrie Brakesman. Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was employed as brakesman at the top of a brake incline, 40 fathoms in length and having an inclination of 73 degrees. The brake lever was situated at the uppermost bench, the formation of which had not been completed. It was not part of deceased's duty to place the tubs on the carriage but it appeared that he had attempted to do so, probably to assist the miner who was a relative. He forgot that the carriage was not at the bench and pushed the loaded tub into the incline and fell with it to the bottom.

BROWN Gilderay W. - 1909 - 01/05/1909 – Age 35 - Sacriston Fitter. Sacriston Collieries Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He slipped on some brick paving and injured his elbow. He died in a short time in an engine house. Medical opinion was to the effect that death was due to the severe pain caused by the blow over the left ulnar nerve.

BROWN H. - 1901 - 11/12/1901 – Age 75 - Stanley Labourer. Stanley Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Run over by wagons while taking a wheel barrow across the line.

BROWN Henry - 1907 - 13/12/1907 – Age 61 - New Selston Stallman. James Okes and Co., Nottinghamshire. He burned his arm slightly with a naked light in the mine, and he died on 23rd December of "septic cellulitis," which the coroner's jury said had arisen from the burn.

BROWN Henry - 1908 - 30/10/1908 – Age 31 - Lea Green, Queen Drawer. Sutton Heath and Lea Green Collieries Co., St Helens, Lancashire. When the collier was pulling a stone off the top of the coal, deceased was standing near holding a light and when the stone fell it knocked out a prop which struck deceased on the head fatally injuring him.

BROWN Herbert - 1903 - 16/01/1903 – Age 20 - Ferndale No.5 Rider. D Davis and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was riding up on a full tub when it got off the road and caught against some masonry. Before the engineman could be signalled the tram got free and owing to the rope having been stretched it sprang 19 feet and threw the deceased to the other side of the road and fatally injured him.

BROWN Hugh - 1902 - 29/01/1902 – Age 44 - Whitehall No.2 Miner. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof in working place, through failure to set props as instructed by the fireman and also required by the Special Rules.

BROWN Hurst - 1903 - 01/07/1903 – Age 33 - Townhead Putter. Townhead Colliery Co., Cumberland. Deceased was employed as a trailer or putter in a landsale colliery, owned and worked by his relatives and was coming outbye with a loaded tub in the Yard Band when a heavy fall of roof took place and buried him. The roof stone is very short and further falls occurred before his body was recovered. The place was very wet and heavily timbered and it appeared that the tubs had been catching props and this was the probable cause of the accident. The jury thought that sufficient attention had not been paid by the owners to complaints as to the tubs catching the timber. The colliery is now abandoned.

BROWN James - 1900 - 04/04/1900 – Age 39 - Craighead No.2 Miner. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face. Injured 4th Apr 1900, died 23rd Feb 1901.

BROWN James - 1901 - 25/10/1901 – Age 16 - Middridge Landing boy. Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by a fall of stone in a hewers place. He had no work to do where he was killed but had followed the putter in and was sitting in the place when the stone fell and caught him.

BROWN James - 1903 - 09/11/1903 – Age 16 - Greenfield No.1 Pony driver. Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. When taking out the tail chain his pony started and his head was crushed between hutches. Died 7th February, 1904.

BROWN James - 1903 - 20/10/1903 – Age 50 - Lochore Sinker. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased descended on the edge kettle inside of which was a plank of wood and a muzzle and over the side was a sling chain. At a point 80 feet from the bottom he stopped, to discharge these articles, which were used to fix a tank to prevent it falling on the sinkers during sinking operations. He put off the plank and sling chain and as he was about to descend he jumped into the kettle to lay off the muzzle when the kettle turned over and he was precipitated to the bottom. In lifting off the sling chain it is thought he had inadvertently pulled out the pin which fixes the bow, the body of the kettle.

BROWN James - 1904 - 29/08/1904 – Age 39 - Kemnay, Granite Quarry Fireman. John Fyfe, Aberdeen. Deceased was engaged pinching off loose stone a short distance up from the Quarry bottom. A dog was requisitioned and put in behind a stone to move it from its position, by means of the crane situated on the floor. When the crane was set in motion deceased moved away to a ledge to be out of harm's way and as soon as the stone was pulled away it relieved about 20 tons of rock above and this mass falling over towards him he was struck on the head and killed instantly.

BROWN James - 1905 - 30/05/1905 – Age 25 - Bannockburn No.1 Brakesman. Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. While running a race, on a self acting incline, the brake gave way and the lever struck him on the head.

BROWN James - 1907 - 10/10/1907 – Age 61 - Lochhead Fireman. Weymss Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. A fall had taken place in a roadway, to the upper portion of the Dysart Main Coal Seam, and deceased was on the top punching off some loose parts when more coal fell and striking the crowbar drove it through his body inflicting injuries to which he succumbed in a few hours.

BROWN James - 1907 - 18/03/1907 – Age 40 - Dalzell & Broomside Bogieman. Wishaw Coal Co Ltd., Lanarkshire. The haulage road is worked by an endless rope system and the rakes are hauled by bogies on which the bogie man had to control the speed by means of the rope clamp. During the shift the rope suddenly stopped and on an examination a loaded rake was found upset at a part of the road, where there is a turn and an underground wheel for the rope to pass round and some distance inbye the deceased was found on the loaded roadway quite dead, he appeared to have fallen off the bogie and was crushed between the tubs as they moved outbye and the stoop side.

BROWN James - 1908 - 22/12/1908 – Age 42 - Gartshore No.1 Miner. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Dumbarton. Fall of roof in working place, while examining it after a small stone had fallen on his neighbour's hand.

BROWN James - 1909 - 21/01/1909 – Age 24 - Hopetoun Miner. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was cleaning up rubbish, along his longwall face, preparatory to digging more coal. He suspected his roof, sounded it and found it bad and was on his way out from under it when it collapsed injuring him so severely that he died 1.5 hours later.

BROWN John - 1900 - 03/01/1900 – Age 31 - Hazelrigg Stoneman. Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was preparing to rid the stone from a shot when a large stone fell from slips between the props. The place was examined by the chargeman 10 minutes before and considered safe.

BROWN John - 1900 - 06/06/1900 – Age 18 - Leasingthorne Putter. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died today from alleged injuries received on May 21st last by being crushed between a tub and prop but the doctor gave a certificate that he died from natural causes and no inquest was held. (Not comprised)

BROWN John - 1900 - 29/07/1900 – Age 38 - North Bidduck Stoneman. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Died today from injuries received owing to a fall of stone from the roof in his working place on November 29th 1899.

BROWN John - 1902 - 20/01/1902 – Age 17 - Afton Miner. Lanemark Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof in working place.

BROWN John - 1904 - 05/04/1904 – Age 40 - Brynn Hall Loco. Driver. Brynn Hall Colliery Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The stayheads of the firebox, on the locomotive, were stripped and steam rushed through the holes and scalded him to death. Deceased appeared to have had the safety valve fastened with wooden wedges to get up greater pressure of steam and repairs to the stayheads had not been done in a proper manner.

BROWN John - 1905 - 16/08/1905 Age - 52 - Thankerton No.7 Miner. J McAndrew and Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road, a hutch, on which they were riding, Brown illegally, having gone off the rails and knocked out the timbering. 2 killed.

BROWN John - 1905 - 20/05/1905 – Age 19 - Rigfoot Hanger on. Lanemark Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. When on a self-acting incline, making a signal, a coupling on the down coming race broke and two full hutches ran down and caught him.

BROWN John - 1907 - 22/11/1907 – Age 29 - Longrigg Miner. James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While engaged at the coal face some pieces of coal came away and striking his left leg injured his knee; the injury was thought to be trifling, but serious symptoms came on, and he died eleven days after the accident.

BROWN John - 1908 - 02/03/1908 – Age 16 - Dunkerton Incline hitcher. Dunkerton Collieries Ltd., Somerset. Riding up the incline on a journey of full trams, against rules (which have not been enforced strictly). His head appears to have come in contact with some timbers resulting in his neck being dislocated. (Hand haulage).

BROWN John - 1908 - 03/04/1908 – Age 16 - Dinnington Main Pony driver. Dinnington Main Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When leaving his pony in the stable it kicked him over one eye and on his shoulder. Died July 4th.

BROWN John - 1909 - 18/12/1909 – Age 27 - Cannock Wood Engineplaneman. Cannock and Rugeley Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. A tree from under the end of a bar, on the main endless-rope engine plane, had been knocked out either by the empty tubs of a journey being derailed or by a piece of rock falling from the building by the roadside, causing the bar and a small quantity of roof to fall on the road. Most of the fallen material had been cleared away by two other men, and the deceased was just starting to shovel the remainder from the rails, when a further piece of rock fell fracturing his thigh and causing other injuries from which he died two days later. The overman and deputy stood by at the time, the former having examined the roof before the men commenced to clear away the fall; he examined it with a light stick only, and was no doubt deceived by it.

BROWN John Job - 1902 - 12/07/1902 – Age 16 - Coppice Horse driver. Shipley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was driving a horse along a roadway, near the coal face, when a settling of the roof occurred and caused a piece of stone to fall and kill the deceased.

BROWN Joseph - 1906 - 19/03/1906 – Age 50 - Plas Power Ostler. Broughton and Plas Power Coal Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. When leading a horse, attached to four tubs of manure, he appears to have lost his light and stumbled and fell, two of the tubs ran over him and he was fatally injured.

BROWN Joseph Gilbert - 1906 - 28/12/1906 – Age 20 - Walbottle Putter. Walbottle and Firebrick Co. Ltd., Northumberland. The seams here are highly inclined and many short shelf acting inclines or dilleys are in use. At one of these inclines, about 30 yards long, and the tubs are run in sets of two. The sets were made up against a wooden chock and about 6 feet below it, was an iron middle way chock placed as a safeguard and not intended to be pinned down until it was found after the same time the two full tubs had not been coupled and when they were set free the foremost ran amain down the incline and coming in contact with the two empty tubs, attached to the rope, drove them back and caused the rope to pull the last full tub, which remained at the top of the incline, violently back towards the incline wheel and deceased was caught by it.

BROWN Joshua - 1907 - 25/04/1907 – Age 55 - Tillery Timberman. Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in a stall road, in the old coal where he and two assistants were repairing. The work was of a dangerous character owing to the condition of the place, and he, as an experienced timberman, was alive to the fact and carried it out to the best of his judgement and at his discretion. They drew out two pairs of timber when going to supper, about 1 am., to let the roof fall and were working at it after supper when the accident occurred. This class of work has to be done and all that is practicable is to employ experienced and careful men at such jobs.

BROWN Martin - 1904 - 19/12/1904 – Age 21 - Burradon, Lizzie Pony putter. Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A private railway owned by the Seaton Burn Coal Company Ltd., passes over the royalties held by the Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Company Ltd., and the coal from the latter company’s Lizzie Pit is led over it. The Seaton Burn Coal Company run a workmen's train consisting of a locomotive engine and two old railway carriages from Killingworth where they have a number of workmen's houses to their Dinnington and Seaton Burn Collieries which lie beyond the Lizzie Pit. This train passes near the Burradon Colliery where deceased lived and for some time the Burradon and Coxlodge Company's miners living at Burradon and working at the Lizzie Pit were allowed to use it, a halt being made near Burradon Colliery and at the Lizzie Pit junction. This privilege had been formally with drawn on the 16th December and notices posted in the carriages to that effect. On December, 19th the next working day deceased made use of the train but as it no longer stopped at the Lizzie Pit junction he jumped off the fore part of the second carriage while it was going at a speed of about eight miles per hour and stumbling on alighting he fell and one of the last wheels of the second carriage passed over his legs. He was taken to Newcastle Infirmary but died the same day. No official notice reached me from the Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Company but the Coroner sent me notice of the inquest.

BROWN Matthew - 1906 - 15/01/1906 – Age 34 - Hillhouserigg Screenman. United Collieries Ltd., Linlithgow. This man had been in failing health and suddenly expired at his work.

BROWN Ralph - 1900 - 29/03/1900 – Age 26 - Roddymoor Hewer. Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Died today from injuries received on the 10th June 1899 by a fall of stone from the roof of his working place at a slip.

BROWN Richard - 1900 - 01/05/1900 – Age 55 - Pelton Fell Deputy. Lord Dunsaney and Partners, Co.Durham. While drawing timber out of an old flat, in the Busty Seam, a fall of stone from the roof took place and killed him.

BROWN Richard - 1908 - 23/06/1908 – Age 29 - Polmaise No.4 Miner. Archibald Russell Ltd., Stirling. Fall from side of a road while sitting taking his breakfast.

BROWN Richard - 1909 - 07/09/1909 – Age 26 - Heyfield Dataller. Westleigh Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. On drawing road, whilst repairing, from a break. Temporary props required. (Roof good).

BROWN Robert - 1904 - 02/03/1904 – Age 41 - Niddrie Miner. Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased had apparently been in front of the coal, while taking out a sprag, when a portion fell from the face onto him.

BROWN Robert - 1904 - 11/01/1904 – Age 30 - Washington Hewer. Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died January 13th. Deceased was hewing in a place, the road into which inclined at the rate of 1 in 9. The putter brought an empty tub with his pony to a siding, 16 yards from the face, and went with his pony to the face and brought away a full tub. When past the empty tub, in the siding, he left the pony and full tub and took the empty tub to the face and placed a chock before it. He then followed his pony outbye and heard the full tub, which had become detached from pony's limbers, coming back; he threw himself clear, and the full tub dashed into the empty tub, forcing it over a chock against the face and crushing the deceased. In dipping places a ‘cow’ or iron bar, 18 inches long, with a link at one end and pointed at the other is hooked on to the crook of the tub so as to stop it running back, should it become detached from the pony limbers. In this case the putter stated he used the ‘cow’ but that it had not acted. He further said he found the ‘cow’ lying 24 yards from the face after the accident, but Mr. Abbott found a cow next day partly buried in coal next the face. The Local Inspectors while reporting that they thought it a 'pure accident’ recommended that the cows be lengthened to 2 feet and, instead of a pointed end be provided with two claws.

BROWN Robert - 1905 - 26/01/1905 – Age 53 - Shieldmains No.2 Reddsman. AG Moore and Co., Ayrshire. While ascending the shaft the cage got detached from the rope, owing to a cotter of the pin, which went through the muzzle, giving way. Another man was injured.

BROWN Robert - 1908 - 17/07/1908 – Age 20 - Tanfield Moor Hewer. James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of roof stone at working face.

BROWN Robert - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 43. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 2 Fanny Pit Cottages, Stanley.

BROWN Samuel - 1907 - 27/02/1907 – Age 15 - Pleasley Horse driver. Stanton Iron Works Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was conveying full tubs along the roadway and was found dead with the shafts pressing him against the side of the roadway.

BROWN Samuel - 1909 - 25/11/1909 – Age 33 - Hickleton Main Collier. Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Both deceased men were working in a faulty place when a sharp bump threw out a number of props and caused a large area of the roof to fall. Both men were buried. The place was very well timbered, but was far too wide. 2 killed.

BROWN Simon - 1901 - 05/06/1901 – Age 31 - Nelson Collier. William Ramsden and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of overhanging dirt from the face of their working place while drawing sprags. Died 26th Sept.

BROWN T.H - 1909 - 27/09/1909 – Age 22 - Ely Haulier. Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. Twenty eight men were descending. The reversing gear of the winding engine failed to act. The descending cage sped to the bottom and the ascending cage went upwards into the sheaves (which it broke) and then fell back down the pit onto the full cage. Five men in the upper deck were killed instantaneously. Those in the lower cage escaped with horrific injuries. Two died later in hospital. 7 killed, 14 injured.

BROWN Thomas * - 1907 - 11/09/1907 – Age 25. Dawdon, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham.

BROWN Thomas - 1903 - 15/10/1903 – Age 50 - Newton (Wood) Dataller. Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Whilst levelling and repairing the main haulage road a fall of roof occurred breaking down one of the bars and the covering timber and burying the deceased.

BROWN Thomas - 1903 - 17/11/1903 – Age 41 - Cambrian No.1 Master haulier. Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and another haulier were teaching a new horse to work. He had taken one tram in and was on the second journey with a tram of rubbish. Both men were walking in front of the horse when deceased told his mate to turn aside. He did so and continued to walk in front for a short distance when a scream was heard and he was found under the tram dead. He either fell or the horse knocked him down and passed over him.

BROWN Thomas - 1905 - 13/11/1905 – Age 57 - Netherton Hewer. Netherton Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died 17th November. Deceased was at Netherton Colliery with a horse and cart for coal; while in the weigh house, paying for the coal, the horse moved away and deceased ran after it and was crushed by the cart against a gate post, his head was injured and three ribs broken, and he died four days later from heart disease and shock, as stated at the inquest by the doctor who attended him.

BROWN Thomas - 1906 - 05/02/1906 – Age 45 - Bedlington Rolleywayman. Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died Feb. 10th. About noon, a driver's pony fell down and lay on its side at a point 1.25 miles from the shaft. Deceased was near, and he proceeded to lift it, the first attempt failed, but the second was successful. Deceased said nothing to the driver but went at once and put his clothes on and walked outbye. At the shaft he said to the back overman he had strained himself while lifting the pony, and had felt pain and vomited since. He was seen by the Colliery doctor the same night who found a small rupture on the right side. Next day, assisted by another doctor, he put deceased under chloroform and manipulated the hernia, easing the pain. As deceased still suffered from sickness, he was sent to Newcastle Infirmary on the 7th Feb., and at night was operated on, when an old hernia was found to be strangulated. He never picked up after the operation, and died two days after. An inquest was held and a verdict of accidental death returned.

BROWN Thomas - 1906 - 20/09/1906 – Age 59 - Main Labourer. Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A Locomotive, while returning to the colliery, ran into a trolley having ten men of the platelayers gang on board. The collision occurred at a sharp bend in the roadway, and was of such violence as to cause the death of three men and slight injuries to four others. This accident happened on a private railway two miles in length. 3 killed.

BROWN Thomas - 1908 - 03/07/1908 – Age 30 - Allanton Brakesman. William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. When walking between two lines of rails, on one of which waggons were at rest and on the other wagons were being shunted, the coupling pole, in his hand, got caught and he fell and was run over by the moving waggons.

BROWN Thomas - 1909 - 09/07/1909 – Age 43 - Granville No.1 Dataller. Granville Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. While repairing a roadway, deceased was standing between a newly-set bar and a catch prop when a fall of roof fatally injured him. Died two hours later.

BROWN Thomas Cole - 1905 - 07/07/1905 – Age 27 - Seaton Delaval Hewer. Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died November 23. Deceased and his brother worked in a wall, 10.5 feet wide, which had advanced about 10 feet from a narrow bord in the Main Coal seam, which is made up of top coal 3 feet 5 inches, separated by a band from 2 feet 8 inches of bottom coal. The place had been driven in the bottom coal and leaving the top coal, as the roof, to be taken down later. While deceased was kirving in the right nook a triangular shaped slab of coal about 9 inches thick fell without any warning from the bottom of the top coal relieved by a keen parting above a slip on one side and a loose side next the narrow bord. It displaced two or three props set under it in its fall. The deputy had visited the place about 3 hours before the accident. There was a good supply of loose timber of suitable length to set under the top coal if thought necessary.

BROWN Walter - 1901 - 30/04/1901 – Age 34 - Lumphinnans Miner. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was taking off coal at the face when the roof fell on him.

BROWN William - 1900 - 19/11/1900 – Age 15 - Parr No.4 Lasher on. Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, St. Helens. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was attempting to unlash the chain, attaching a tub to the endless rope haulage, and failed, the tub running on to a flat place and the chain being pulled over the tub the deceased got entangled with it and was crushed against a tub in front.

BROWN William - 1903 - 07/03/1903 – Age 72 - Medmosley Fan engineman. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from the effects of an injury received while following his employment on Sept. 21st, 1901.

BROWN William - 1903 - 09/11/1903 – Age 53 - Bourne Moor Master shifter. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. The deceased had two men working at a fall at a gateway caunch and instructed them to put on a pack, he afterwards visited the place and was in the act of examining it when a stone fell and killed him.