FAGAN Thomas - 1906 - 21/03/1906 – Age 16 - King Lea Green Taker off, Sutton Heath and Lea Green Collieries Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased drove another boy’s pony, which was taking along six full tubs and in unhooking the chain he got in front of the tubs somehow, and got fatally crushed.

FAIL Robert - 1902 - 28/04/1902 – Age 33 – Lintz Deputy, South Garesfield Colliery, Co.Durham. Died 30th April. Deceased was timbering at the face of a bord in the Brockwell seam and had put up a plank with a middle prop under it which not being perpendicular he knocked it out to reset it when a stone fell from the roof upon him.

FAILES Henry – 1907 – 25/04/1907 – Age 17 – Silksworth Clearer up, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Caught between a truck he was bringing to be filled and one already standing at the duff spout.

FAILESS William – 1907 – 15/03/1907 – Age 29 – Holmside, Oswald Stoneman, Thomas Hedley and Bros., Co.Durham. He attempted to withdraw a detonator from a charge of Dragonite.

FAIRBROTHER John – 1908 – 10/02/1908 – Age 35 – Moss Hall Collier, Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Whilst getting down his top coal, by cutting the side, the sprag appeared to have given way and he was crushed by the coal falling upon him.

FAIRCLOUGH H. – 1906 – 28/04/1906 – Age 31 – Leyland Green Drawer, Winstanley Collieries Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. When engaged packing on the lower side of roadway, a fall of roof occurred from some slips, knocking out three props, and fatally injuring deceased.

FAIRCLOUGH R. – 1902 – 03/03/1902 – Age 17 – Pemberton Asst. shotlighter, Pemberton Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attend. Explosion of firedamp which was ignited by a shot. 2 killed.

FAIRCLOUGH William – 1901 – 18/09/1901 – Age 22 – Taylor Asst. hooker on, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A piece of coal fell down the shaft, a distance of 500 yards, when pulling out the full tubs of the second deck at the surface. It must have fallen through the space of six inches clearance allowed for the cage at pit bottom striking him on the head. He succumbed to the injuries on the 24th.

FAIRHEAD William Alfred – 1908 – 12/01/08 – Age 55 – Coal miner. Fall of roof, spine fractured. 14 Noble St., New Wortley.

FAIRHURST J.W. – 1902 – 25/11/1902 – Age 17 – Meadow Taker off, Lamb and Moore, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The front full tub of the journey of ten tubs on a self acting incline got off the rails and got fast against a leg near the bottom of the incline where it was only a single road and of small area. An attempt was made by the fireman to sprag up the third tub from the bottom, he then asked the deceased to liberate the first tub and when he got it free the sprag gave way and the three tubs got unshackled and crushed the deceased before he could get clear.

FAIRHURST John – 1904 – 16/02/1904 – Age 44 – Bamfurlong Wagon lowerer, Cross Tetley and Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was lowering a waggon under the screens and got crushed between the upright supports and the waggon owing to the upright support being too near the rails. He succumbed to the injuries received at Wigan Infirmary, March 9, 1904.

FAIRHURST John – 1907 – 05/03/1907 – Age 35 – Queen Lea Green Fireman, Sutton Heath and Lea Green Collieries Co., St Helens, Lancashire. He was travelling and examining a roadway when a steel prop collapsed, the clamp not holding sufficiently, causing a large rock stone to fall off a bar upon the deceased.

FAIRHURST Joseph – 1907 – 05/09/1907 – Age 23 – Bold No.1 Drawer, Collins Green Colliery Co., St Helens, Lancashire. When attempting to unlash the chain attaching an empty tub to the endless rope, near the mouth of an endway, he got fatally injured by being crushed against a low bar owing to some mistake in signalling.

FAIRHURST Peter – 1909 – 29/07/1909 – Age 15 – Hindley Field Engine minder, Hindley Field Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Deceased was killed by tubs running back, in the endless rope motion road, through the lashing chain breaking. The road was a good size, with proper refuge places. The trailer behind the tubs failed to stop them in this case.

FAIRHURST Thomas – 1905 – 21/08/1904 – Age 42 – Pemberton Underlooker, Pemberton Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. A jig prop came out liberating a stone which injured his leg. He partly recovered from the accident, but died November 1st, 1905, from heart and liver trouble, and at the inquiry it was considered that the accident had accelerated his death.

FALLON Michael - 1909 - 24/11/1909 – Age 29 - Boldon Hewer, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Head caught between tub and baulk.

FALLOW John - 1907 - 19/06/1907 – Age 27 - Maypole Metalman, Moss Hall Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When preparing to bore a hole in a piece of overhanging rock, on the side of the downbrow, against which they had set two sprags it gave way to a slip capping the sprag and fatally crushed him.

FALLS Robert - 1901 - 08/1905/1901 – Age 40 - Farme Brusher, Farme Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at brushing face.

FAMILTON William - 1900 - 12/01/1900 – Age 32 - Pegswood Hewer, SH Fraser, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was engaged in getting down the coal after a shot had been fired when a fall of ramble took place.

FARELLY John - 1907 - 13/11/1907 – Age 42 - Murton Coke filler, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Caught between a coke truck and a chaldron waggon and fatally crushed.

FARLEY Thomas - 1905 - 15/09/1905 – Age 47 - Abercarn Prince of Wales Labourer, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. While working on the engine plane, repairing the road near a manhole, he was run over by a journey of trams. He evidently continued his work longer than he should have done having mistaken the distance the journey was from him.

FARMER Arthur - 1904 - 16/09/1904 – Age 28 - Newdigate Stallman, Newdigate Colliery Co., Warwick. Fall of roof. Deceased was getting coal from the face and passing it to the loader when the roof fell and fatally injured him. He died the next day. Deceased had not set the necessary timber required by rule. The loader was also injured.

FARMER E. - 1903 - 17/02/1903 – Age 15 - Ackton Hall Driver, Ackton Hall Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Died 19th February. Run over by tubs which he was taking outbye. It is probable that he tripped and fell under the tub.

FARMER John Thomas - 1908 - 27/02/1908 – Age 23 - Darfield Main Trammer, Mitchell Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was filling a tub when a piece of coal burst from the face and killed him.

FARMER Joseph - 1907 - 18/02/1907 – Age 56 - West Cannock Dayman, West Cannock Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased, who had been gobbling dirt, was found lying on a gateway unconscious. On recovering he said he had strained himself when lifting a tub. He died 12 hours afterwards, and the post-mortem examination showed that death had resulted from syncope caused by rupture of the pulmonary artery.

FARMER Moses - 1905 - 27/12/1905 – Age 27 - Holyland Silkstone Shunter, Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. While shunting he attempted to pass between the locomotive and a waggon and was caught between the buffers and fatally injured.

FARNDALE A. - 1901 - 11/07/1901 – Age 17 - Garforth Driver, Garforth Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Run over by a set of tubs when travelling outbye on the engine plane. Tried to save his pony.

FARNWORTH Nat - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 58 - Wingate Miner, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust, result of shot firing. 25 killed.

FARQUHAR ?* - 1901 - 26/08/01. Donibristle, Fife.

FARR John - 1901 - 12/09/1901 – Age 27 - Clough Hall No.18 Shifter, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. A fall of roof had occurred on the main haulage crut near the shaft where it intersected the Bullhurst seam at a place where old dips had been driven in the Bullhurst. This fall caused a cavity in bad ground, over the roof of the crut the roof and sides of which cavity were not properly secured before the crut was retimbered. After the crut had been retimbered by five large bars with runners and laggings over the bars, a large fall from the roof and sides of the cavity broke down or reeled out the timber and filled the crut for 7 yards while a number of men were at work finishing the repairs. Loyden, Shaw, and Farr were dead when got out and Turner died on the 20th September. An under-manager and overman were also injured by the fall. There was a grave error of judgement on the part of the officials in charge of the work in not first properly securing the roof and sides of the cavity above the crut.

FARR Ralph - 1900 - 09/10/1900 – Age 47 - Sneyd No.2 Collier, Sneyd Collieries and Brickworks Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof at working face in Holly Lane Seam. He was drawing a post, standing in front of a pack, when the stone fell from a slip.

FARRAMOND - William - 1909 - 13/09/1909 – Age 39 - Cortonwood Trammer, Cortonwood Collieries Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Farramond and a collier were getting down top coal at a gate end, when the coal suddenly fell from a slip, killing Farramond and slightly injuring the collier.

FARRAND John - 1909 - 30/11/1909 – Age 30 - Barrow Contractor, Barrow Hematite Steel Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was drawing timber from a waste when he was killed by a fall of roof. He was using a hammer instead of the proper timber drawing appliances.

FARRAR Alfred - 1909 - 07/05/1909 – Age 24 - Tinsley Park Ripper, Tinsley Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was taking a tub of dirt along a gateroad when the tub caught a prop. He twisted the tub off the prop and assisted his trammer to push the tub along, when a fall of roof occurred and killed Farrar.

FARRAR Charles - 1906 - 31/01/1906 – Age 23 - Glass Houghton Shunter, Glass Houghton and Castleford Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. In taking two full wagons down the sidings he found three full wagons fouled on his road. To save a little shunting he got a 5 foot prop and propped the wagons forward. In doing so it is likely that the prop slipped and then fell and he was crushed either between the wagon or the prop and wagons.

FARRAR Isaac - 1907 - 15/11/1907 - Haulage lad – Age 20. Barrow hematite Steel Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Along with others the deceased men got on to the cage in the No.3 shaft at the Parkgate seam for the purpose of ascending to the surface at the end of their shifts. A horsekeeper was also in the cage to go to the Thorncliffe seam 38 yards below. The cage was therefore, lowered to that seam where he got off. At the Thorncliffe landing there is a staging or platform so that the men can get on or off the two decks of the cage without its being moved. The signalling is done from the top part of this staging and the hanger on there is the chargeman; the one at the low part is an assistant and beyond opening and closing the gates protecting the entrance to the shaft taking off and putting on the chains at the ends of the decks and pitting over a flag or flat sheet to cover the space between the floor of the deck of the cage and that of the landing has nothing to do. The flag or flat sheet is fitted with two spikes each 3.5 inches long which fit into holes in the floor of the cage decks and act as anchors to the cage. They are hinged to the floors of the landings and lifted and lowered by means of chains at the staging when the cage came, to let the horsekeeper get off without dropping the flag or flat sheet, and at the same time shouted to the hanger-on at the bottom landing ‘Don't put the flag down’, and at the same moment signalled for the cage to be taken to the surface. Unfortunately the hanger-on at the bottom landing had lowered the flag and before he could get it up again the cage started and the result was that the cage was held and tilted for a moment or so and the flag flew back. Violent oscillation was thus set up and in ascending the top of the cage collided against the girder, under the floor of the Parkgate landing, with such force as to damage the cage and with another girder. It became liberated and was taken further up the shaft where it collided with another girder. The engineman then noticed something was wrong and stopped the cage. Seven of the men at one or another of these places were thrown out of the cage and fell to the bottom of the shaft being killed instantly and six others were more or less seriously injured. 7 killed.

FARRAR W. - 1903 - 04/03/1903 – Age 42 - Park Hill Coal miner, Victoria Coal and Coke Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in a working place, three converging slips. More timber might have been set.

FARRELL F. - 1900 - 10/02/1900 – Age 24 - Strawberry Bank Deputy, Liversedge Coal Co., Yorkshire. Went beyond the end of brattice which he was fixing remaining some time after his light went out and suffocated.

FARRELL Richard - 1900 - 05/09/1900 – Age 20 - Cornsilloch Chain runner, Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. Deceased was employed as a chain runner at an inside haulage and had finished his shift and was on his way to the pit bottom. A rake of hutches, drawn by engine power, overtook him and he got on to it and was crushed between the top of a water chest which was on the rake and the timber supporting the roof.

FARRIMOND James - 1902 - 09/12/1902 – Age 36 - Orrell No.6 Collier, Orrell Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Explosion of firedamp when attempting to remove an accumulation from the face of one of the working places in the Cannel Mine. 2 killed.

FARRIMOND James - 1908 - 03/04/1908 – Age 71 - Langtree Dataller, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When he was engaged, assisting the jigger, the link of the tightening chain broke, and the movable carriage and pulley got drawn down fatally injuring deceased. One of the empty sets had struck the pulley, apparently through jigging the sets too fast, which accounted for the link breaking.

FARRIMOND William - 1901 - 10/04/1901 – Age 24 - Orrell Dataller, Orrell Colliery Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. When engaged getting materials out of the Orrell four-feet mine, just after the seam had been abandoned, the fireman appears to have fired a charge of roberite on an iron cog wheel, in a level near the main haulage brow in a dusty part of the mine without the knowledge of the managers and contrary to the rules. An explosion of coal dust occurred which travelled through the main roads killing Halliwell and Farrimond and the other two persons. Sharrock and Parkinson succumbed to the injuries received about a week after the explosion. 4 killed.

FARRIMOND William - 1909 - 13/01/1909 – Age 17 - Orrell Washer attendant, Orrell Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When lowering a waggon under the hopper he was fatally crushed against a waggon standing on the adjoining rails.

FARRINGTON Robert - 1901 - 06/12/1901 – Age 50 - Wet Earth Collier, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof at working face from slip known to be there. Fatal delay in putting up a prop which he had sent for and which lay beside him. (Good roof)

FARROW George - 1904 - 20/05/1904 – Age 38 - Byers Green Shifter, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When walking to the pit he took ill and died from heart failure.

FARROW James - 1903 - 23/03/1903 – Age 28 - Aberfoyle Slate Quarry Labourer, Aberfoyle Slate Quarries Co. Ltd., Perth. Deceased and another workman were filling debris into a bottom in the Quarry bottom when he was struck on the head by a stone. The stone came from about the top but the exact spot could not be located and striking the opposite side of the Quarry rebounded across to where deceased was at work.

FARTHING Frank - 1901 - 21/10/1901 – Age 19 - Cwmbran Collier, Guest Keen and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of coal from unseen slips at the face of his working place.

FAUGHNA James - 1901 - 13/12/1901 – Age 25 - Auchinlea sandstone Quarry Stone dresser, Thomas Gibb and Sons Ltd., Lanarkshire. While the craneman was slewing a stone, holding it by the brake, it slipped away and fell on deceased.

FAULKNER James - 1906 - 15/08/1906 – Age 65 - Grimesthorpe, Clay Quarry Clay getter, Sheffield Brick Co., Yorkshire. A large fall had taken place three weeks prior to the accident, and he noticing a large piece of clay on the heap which looked like rolling over. He went up the heap to liberate it, and while doing so it rolled down and killed him.

FAULKNER John * - 1902. Dinnington Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

FAULKNER William - 1902 - 24/02/1902 – Age 18 - Walsall Wood Haulage gripper, Walsall Wood Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Run over by tub on endless rope haulage road. He had lost his light and was caught by two full tubs which had become detached and ran back through the slipping of a screw clip on the rope. Died 10th March.

FAWCETT Fred H. - 1908 - 24/01/1908 – Age 23 - Howley Park Screener, Howley Park Coal and Cannel Co., Yorkshire. Two wagons, about 2 feet 6 inches apart, were standing under the screens, one was empty and the other being filled from the shoot of the screens, and he was attending to them. He was passing between them when a wagon lowered by another man bumped slightly into one of the standing wagons causing it to close on the other, and he was nipped between the buffers. (Died 9th April.).

FAWCETT Thomas - 1907 - 28/01/1907 – Age 48 - Wallsend Back overman, Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A stone drift rising 1 in 7 starting in the Low Main Seam about 1½ miles north of Wallsend Colliery had cut the Bensham seam 23 fathoms above; a limited extent of driving had been done in the Bensham seam old workings had been holed into with bore rods and water run off which was followed by fire-damp in such volume as to prevent access to the old workings. The main drift which was intake for air was supplemented by a road which acted as the return air way consisting of two shorter lengths of steep stone drift, a staple and about 200 yards of level road. A new pit was being sunk from the surface to the Bensham seam beyond where the drifts had reached it and it was desired to drive under where the pit would come down, and as this could not be done in the Bensham a second pair of drifts rising 1 in 1¼ were put up from the Bensham to the Yard seam 9 fathoms above in which seam there were no old workings; at the time of the accident two places 8 feet wide had been driven, one 40 yards and the other 13 yards in the Yard seam with one stenton 11 yards long connecting them. Both places were bratticed close up to the face. The barometer fell considerably from Saturday midday to Monday evening when the accident happened. It was usual at the week-end to open cooks in pipes communicating with the old workings in the Bensham seam to allow the gas to escape, these cocks were closed on the Sunday. On Sunday night the places in the Yard seam were found to be foul and they were not occupied by hewers on the Monday morning but on the evening of that day the overman and back overman accompanied by the two night shift hewers went to the place to remove the gas. A regulator was closed to force more air into the Bensham and Chappellow's idea seems to have been to remove the canvas opposite the stenton in the Yard seam so as to allow the air a freer play. One hewer was left at the bottom of the intake drift to the Yard seam with both the hewers' lamps and Chappellow's lamp, the other hewer was stationed about half-way up the Intake drift with Fawcett's lamp, and Chappellow and Fawcett went forward in the dark and attempted to remove the brattice, they partially succeeded but the gas immediately backed and showed on the lamp with the hewer half way up the drift and both men were overcome. A deputy was called and he went up the drift and was overcome but fortunately rolled back into purer air. A borer then went up and managed to draw Chappellow out, on whom artificial respiration was tried without effect. The manager and others were soon on the scene and Fawcett's body was recovered just in the stenton. The Local Inspectors reported "The accident in our opinion is an unforeseen accident." 2 killed.

FAWCETT William - 1900 - 12/08/1900 – Age 20 - Moorgreen Loader, Barber Walker and Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was wedging coal down when a long length of roof fell and fatally injured him. He died on the 25th instant.

FAY John - 1906 - 19/01/1906 – Age 17 - Moss Drawer, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Deceased got his knee injured with his tub, and slipped on the crossing of the shunt. Blood poisoning afterward set in, and he died February 5, 1906.

FEAR Samuel H. - 1907 - 12/05/1907 – Age 43 - Arrail Griffin Fitter, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Killed instantly by three ‘dandies’ or ash trams which ran wild down the incline leading to the boilers without having been attached to the rope by which they are let down and drawn up. The labourer who, with another man, had to remove the ashes, pulled the trams into the incline and kept the runaway switches over to let the trams down to the boilers thinking they were attached to the rope. Deceased was repairing a ‘tapping cock’ in front of the boilers at the time. The labourer was censured severely by the coroners jury for negligence although not amounting to ‘culpable negligence.'

FEARICK John - 1907 - 07/09/1907 – Age 38 - Golborne Shot lighter, Richard Evans and Co., Golborne, Lancashire. When deceased was examining the face of a downbrow tunnel, he got fatally crushed by three full tubs owing to a Warwick giving way through a piece of roof falling, against which it was set.

FEARN Hamlet - 1905 - 01/08/1905 – Age 51 - Staffordshire Silkstone Collier, Stafford Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was drawing a prop out to make room for a gateway pack, when a fall of roof took place and killed him.

FEARON William Walter - 1907 - 05/06/1907 – Age 45 - Wood Drift Hewer, Camerton Colliery and Brickworks Co., Cumberland. Died June 8. Deceased was working in a longwall place in the Potash seam, which is made up of 9 inches of top coal, 2 feet 8 inches of black stone band, 1 foot of coal, 3 inches of black metal, and 3 inches of coal. About 10 yards to the right of the gateroad the face was worked forward, about a foot for a length of 9 or 10 feet in the 1 foot of coal. The thick band and top coal overhung a few inches, and the overhanging part of the band fell away from a slip for a length of about 6 feet and pinned deceased against the pack wall behind, which was within 3 feet of the face. The weight of the band that fell was estimated at about one ton. He was soon released and was not thought to be seriously injured, but he died three days after. A 4 foot prop was near which he may have used as a stay, but as he was supposed to be taking down the band he may have drawn it. There was other loose timber lying near. The deputy examined the place before work started, when he thought it safe.

FEARY William - 1906 - 07/03/1906 – Age 24 - Greetwell Ironstone Miner, Mid Lincolnshire Iron Co. Ltd., Lincoln. He was working with his father, and they were raking out a small pillar between two old roads. The whole of the face had been holed and the sprags withdrawn, and about 2.25 of tons of ironstone got down. They were resetting the sprags, with the intention of making the holing deeper, when another fall occurred and killed the deceased and seriously injured his father.

FEATHERSTONE John - 1904 - 03/05/1904 – Age 34 - Sedling (metalliferous) Miner, Weardale Lead Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fatally crushed by a lump he and his partner were taking down.

FEATHERSTONE John - 1908 - 22/12/1908 – Age 45 - Whitehall Level, Fluorspar Miner, Joseph Harrison, Co.Durham. He, and another miner were enlarging an old level, which was about 4 feet high by 2 feet wide to 10 feet high by 9 feet wide. They were putting in good timber, with a stull above, and loading the stull with deads, and leaving a space above the deads. The idea was to develop as far as possible and then, when prices were high, to stope away back of the level above the deads. He, and his marrow were busy drilling a hole at the side of the old level, at the inbye end of the part they had already enlarged, when a cone-shaped piece of the lode came down, breaking six sets of timber. Luckily one set was left in next the face or both men would have been killed. No stone fell on to Featherstone, but it rolled down and against his legs, breaking both of them. He was taken to the Victoria Hospital Newcastle-on-Tyne, but died on Christmas Day. The lode fell in for its whole width, nine feet and for a length of 21 feet to a height, at the highest point, of 15 to 18 feet. The level was close to the surface and having regard to this fact, and to the probability of old workings in the lode it would have been a better plan to have supported the back of the level, and not to have left the open space immediately above the deads.

FEATHERSTONE William - 1900 - 12/02/1900 – Age 42 - Benwell Hewer, WC Carr, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The place was closely timbered but a cauldron bottom fell breaking a crowntree and prop. There was plenty of loose timber in the place.

FEELY Thomas - 1907 - 21/10/1907 – Age 24 - Garswood Hall Contractor, Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. He was engaged ripping the roof, a shot had been fired which appears to have disturbed the roof and when he was setting a prop the roof gave way and fell upon the deceased, capping four props.

FEENEY John - 1905 - 21/06/1905 – Age 34 - Hambledon Quarry Quarrier, Henry Heys and Co. Ltd., Hapton, Lancashire. Fall of ground within control overhanging and undermined.

FEENEY Owen - 1905 - 28/06/1905 – Age 40 - Roman Camp oil shale Miner, Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. No one saw this accident but from the position in which he was found, and other circumstances, it seems he was struck by the 'cuddie' tub as it passed down the brae.

FEENY John - 1908 - 18/08/1909 – Age 21 - Herbertshire No.3 Drawer, Robert Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Stirling. While apparently illegally drawing in front of his hutch he fell and was run over. (Died 11th April, 1909)

FELL J. - 1900 - 26/11/1900 – Age 34 - Childswell Dataller, Crawshaw and Warburton, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

FELL William - 1908 - 30/03/1908 – Age 61 - Black Prince Shifter, Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He and his marrow had ridded through a bord room and put up timber. He was sitting down, apparently examining their work, when a piece of shale fell from between two pairs of gears. The shale fell from between converging slips.

FELLAS R.J. - 1903 - 23/01/1903 – Age 37 - Aldwarke Main Collier, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 23rd June. Bruised his back against the roof. He worked afterwards and blood poisoning eventually set in and he died.

FELLOWS John - 1903 - 02/02/1903 – Age 62 - Cannock Chase, Canal Warf Labourer, Cannock Chase Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. While pushing a tub at canal wharf he slipped and injured his ankle. He was attended by a doctor who said that the ankle progressed favourably from first to last. He died on the 28th March. A post mortem examination was made by two doctors who said it was possible that the injury had accelerated his death. The verdict of the jury was that death was caused by cardiac failure due to toxaemia consequent on disease of the pancreas and liver, accelerated by a sprained ankle accidentally caused by his slipping on a stone while engaged at Cannock Chase Colliery on the 20th. February, 1903.

FELLOWS Richard - 1908 - 10/01/1908 – Age 37 - Himley No.4 Loader, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. An old road in the Thick Coal, which had been standing for some years, had been cleaned up and the sides stripped and a thirling 4 yards wide, had been started off, one side in the bottom portion of the seam. Deceased was filling a tub with slack at the entrance to the thirling when a bump took place, and a quantity of coal, 6 feet in length, 3 feet in thickness, and 5 feet in height, suddenly burst from the opposite side of the old road, falling upon and killing him instantly. The overman, who was present at the time, was knocked down and had his arm broken. His brother stated at the inquest that he had examined the place shortly before the accident occurred. He ‘knocked on it, and it appeared to be quite safe, though there was a break at the back. The place was not timbered, as there was no necessity to timber it. The coal would not have come off but for the bump which sounded like a cannon.'

FENEY James - 1906 - 01/05/1906 – Age 30 - Nine Mile Point Labourer, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He worked on the picking-belt at night but had been helping on the pit bank and ran a tram into the tippler. While doing this work another tram was let run, the rails falling towards the tippler, and it crushed him so that he died immediately.

FENN Enos - 1904 - 06/05/1904 – Age 33 - Donnington, Freehold Cogger, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Fall of roof (old gob) whilst repairing a road in the Double Coal. The road was a level in a seam, inclined at 28 degrees, and three bars were suddenly reeled out during repairs where there had been a large fall. The bars were not lipped as they should have been to resist side pressure.

FENN R. - 1903 - 09/12/1903 – Age 16 - South Hiendley Driver, H Musgrave Ltd., Yorkshire. Instead of going for the engineman Fenn and another boy attempted to take a train of tubs down the engine plane without attaching the ropes. Fenn ran in front to turn the points but the lockers, which were being used, failed to sufficiently control the tubs and they overtook Fenn and ran over him.

FENNELL Charles - 1900 - 08/08/1900 – Age 42 - McLaren’s Collier, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof running out to feather edge in his working place, injured his spine. He died on the 17th Aug.

FENTERN Thomas - 1900 - 04/01/1900 – Age 41 - Manner, Kilburn Coal Stallman, Manners Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was getting coal down, near a fault, when a large quantity of the roof fell with the coal.

FENWICK Cuthbert - 1905 - 30/03/1905 – Age 27 - Backworth Hewer, Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. Deceased worked in a narrow bord, 9 feet wide, in the Bensham seam, he had prepared two shots in the coal and the shot firer had fired one and returned to the face to couple the cable to the second shot, followed by the deceased, when a stone, 11.5 feet wide by 4.5 feet wide and with an average thickness of 9 inches, fell from the roof close to the face and caught deceased, the shot firer narrowly escaping. The stone was relieved by a slip, the presence of which was known before the accident, but as timber was set under the stone it was thought to be safe and the shot firer had examined the roof before the accident. The timber under the stone was broken. The Local Inspectors stated ‘they found it in the accident.'

FENWICK Emmanuel - 1900 - 17/11/1900 – Age 57 - Esh Hewer, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Pushing a tub out of his working place when he slipped and fell. He walk home but was never at work again. He died from cellulitis and acute nephritis and at the inquest the jury returned a verdict that the cellulitis was accelerated by a sprain.

FENWICK George - 1901 - 31/01/1901 – Age 49 - Hebburn A Timber drawer, Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The deceased was drawing timber in a bord when a fall of roof took place extending over the timber behind him.

FERGUSON Alexander - 1900 - 10/11/1900 – Age 49 - Kingseat Blacksmith, Wallace Bros., Fife. Deceased descended the shaft to the lower bottom and put shoes on some horses and afterwards he and a roadsman came to the midworking, 53 fathoms above, and also shod horses there. After an interval they came back to the shaft to be raised. The usual signal was given and the roadsman stepped on to the cage and deceased followed and shut the gate behind. When on the cage the roadsman asked if the gate was shut to which deceased replied almost and the cage was raised, the roadsman heard a slight noise and on turning round saw deceased disappear down the shaft. From the marks it was evident that deceased was caught at the door heads and carried up a distance of 10 feet and there forced over a bunten at the end of the shaft. It is probable deceased had put his head outside the cage to see if the gate was properly shut when he was caught.

FERGUSON George - 1902 - 16/09/1902 – Age 41 - Sheriffyards Miner, Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Clackmannan. Deceased was about to take down his holed coal when it suddenly fell and striking his head killed him instantaneously.

FERGUSON James - 1902 - 22/09/1902 – Age 26 - Stand Miner, Stand Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Deceased had sunk a shaft to the Musselband Coal at a depth of 7 fathoms. Operations had been conducted without artificial light but lamps were frequently used to light shots and no chokedamp appeared to have been see. He had however been warned by the managing owner never to descend after an interval without testing for it. The pit mouth had been closely covered with planking for 40 hours. Deceased removed the planking and descended in the kettle, without a light, and on reaching the bottom was overcome by the chokedamp. He was rescued with the least possible delay but never regained consciousness and died 7 hours afterwards.

FERGUSON James - 1907 - 08/05/1907 – Age 53 - Newburgh Hewer, Broomhill Collieries Ltd., Northumberland. Died May 9. Deceased worked alone, using a candle in a place 20 feet wide in a coal seam, 2 feet 5 inches thick, and about the middle of the seam and centre of the place he had drilled a hole 3 feet deep practically in the solid, the coal not being kyrved. It was charged with a home-made cartridge of loose gunpowder and fired by a patent squib. Deceased was found by the putter close to the shot, which had been fired, injured about the head. A prop or two had been blown out and some coal dislodged some of which was lying on his arm. He was never able to give any account of what happened and died next day. Probably the shot had exploded while he was lighting the squib. The Local Inspectors concluded their report as follows:- ‘After the most careful consideration we come to the conclusion that it had been a pure accident.'

FERGUSON John - 1905 - 15/03/1905 - Age 24 - Hamilton Palace Miner, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He opened the gate at the mid-working of a blind pit, pushed a hutch into the open shaft and fell after it to the bottom. There was no bottomer as required by the Special Rules.

FERGUSON John - 1905 - 16/12/1905 – Age 55 - Watergate Shiftman, Flimby & Broughton Moor Coal & Firebrick Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased, who had been out of employment and while working his first shift at the Colliery, along with a chargeman, had brought out a tub of stone to run down an incline, he asked the lad at the brake if he was ready and shortly after the chargeman came out and found deceased lying behind the tub quite dead. The doctor stated that death was due to natural causes, and no inquest was held.

FERGUSON Joseph - 1902 - 15/02/1902 – Age 19 - Lassodie Mill Drawer, Rosewell Gas Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was unhooking a loaded tub at the foot of a short wheel brae, dipping 1 in 3, when the empty tub ran back and struck him causing injuries to which he succumbed five days afterwards. The drawer at bras head appeared to have neglected to close the blocks or to turn the empty tub on the plates before uncoupling it.

FERGUSON Richard - 1904 - 06/10/1904 – Age 24 - Horden Banksman, Horden Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. A portion of the west wall of the heapstead was blown over by a gust of wind on to the top platform of the sinking pit. Ferguson was killed and two other man injured by the debris.

FERGUSON William - 1905 - 09/05/1905 – Age 35 - East Roughrigg Checkweigher, A Forrester and Co. Ltd., Stirling. He was proceeding homeward after his shift was over and took ill a few yards from the pit and died in a short time.

FERNS Peter - 1908 - 19/09/1908 – Age 31 - Bowhill Coal cutter, Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Killed by machinery.

FERNYHOUGH William - 1909 - 04/03/1909 – Age 40 - Silverdale Nos. 14 & 15 Collier, Silverdale Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased had holed a piece of coal, triangular in shape with sides 9 feet long, at the corner of a rib of cod in a Little Mine drift. A shot-hole had been bored and whilst this was being charged deceased got down under the coal to clear out some slack left there while holing. A portion of the coal, which was standing on three sprigs, fell from a diagonal slip and a parting in the coal 6 inches from the roof, and caused such injuries to deceased that he died upon the following day. It is probable that one or two sprags set half-way under the holing would have prevented this accident.

FERRIER John - 1904 - 25/10/1904 – Age 16 - Westfield, Limestone Mine Drawer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was riding up the dook on the loaded rake, standing on the coupling between the first and second tubs at a low part of the roof, he was caught and thrown off to the side and fatally crushed.

FERRILL Henry - 1901 - 30/05/1901 – Age 43 - East Pool & Agar, Tin Miner, East Pool & Agar United Mines Adventurers, Cornwall. Fall of stone from the back of the level fractured his leg. He was supposed to be going on satisfactorily towards recovery but on the 12th August he died suddenly. A post-mortem examination was made which proved that death was the result of the accident.

FERRIS Patrick - 1906 - 05/07/1906 – Age 49 - Rosehall No. 12 Miner, R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. A fall of stone from the bursuing face slightly injured his knee. An operation was afterwards found necessary but blood-poisoning resulted and he died April 1907. Accident not reported to Inspector.

FERGUSON John - 1903 - 24/08/1903 – Age 25 - Lightshaw No.4 Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of head coal beneath which he went after the props were withdrawn.

FEWKES Joseph - 1904 - 23/08/1904 – Age 18 - Whitwick No.6 Loader. Whitwick Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Deceased and another man were taking a full tub through a brattice cloth, hung at the gate end, when a lighted candle, placed on the buffer of the tub, set fire to the brattice cloth and burned two men. Deceased died 2nd Sept.

FEWSTER George - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 33 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 33 Chester Rd.

FIDLER Thomas - 1902 - 15/05/1902 – Age 28 - Glapwell Engineman, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was an electrician, in charge of the machinery driven by electricity, and by some means his hand got into the fusewires which connected with the switch-boxes and he was electrocuted.

FIELD James - 1904 - 29/07/1904 – Age 31 - Pemberton Collier, Pemberton Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was pushing his tub out along the level when a large stone fell from between two slips in the roof on to him capping one prop. He succumbed to the injuries received Dec. 11 1904.

FIELD John Henry - 1908 - 21/03/1908 – Age 51 - Dawdon Stoneman, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. The Hutton Seam was being opened out and a scaffold had been put in the shaft at that level. The sump was some 17 fathoms deeper, and in order to draw water from it, a hole was left in the scaffold to admit the passing of a water tub. When water was not being drawn the hole in the scaffold was covered up and the men in the Hutton Seam had free access to the scaffold. When the hole was open a fence consisting of a chain was put up on the east side and no one, unless told to do so, had any right to go beyond it. At 5 am. on March 21st, Field and three other men came out to the shaft to ride and remained on the inbye side of the fence till called to by the onsetter, who was at one side of the kibble and his marrow on the other, holding it in a position for the men to get in. One man got in, two others were following and awaiting their turn, when Field for some reason went round behind the assistant onsetter's back and slipped through the hole in the scaffold. He struck his head in falling and was stunned, and then drowned in the sump. He knew the pit well. Neither of the men saw him until he was falling.

FIELDING G. - 1900 - 18/12/1900 – Age 23 - Nunnery Shunter, Nunnery Coal Co., Yorkshire. Moving wagons over points with a prop when he was caught by the loco.

FIELDSEND G. - 1903 - 06/10/1903 – Age 31 - Hoyland Silkstone Collier, Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in a working place. Cause, neglected to set timber.

FIELDSEND Joseph - 1905 - 28/02/1905 – Age 60 - Stockbridge Deputy, Samuel Fox and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Dirt was being packed in a benk when a fall of stone took place and liberated a small quantity of gas which ignited at the deceased’s naked light. The dataller was burned about the head and arms; the latter recovered. Fieldsend died on 4th March.

FILER George - 1901 - 24/05/1901 - Universal Waller, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway. Cd 947. 81 killed.

FILLINGHAM John - 1903 - 04/12/1903 – Age 20 - Eccleston Hall Oiler, Eccleston Hall Colliery Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged in haulage downbrow and got crushed by two tubs getting uncoupled from the set attached to the rope as he was apparently entering a manhole. Some of the tubs were off the rails which accounted for them getting uncoupled. It was suggested at the inquiry that colliery couplings should be improved.

FINCH George - 1908 - 05/03/1908 – Age 25 - Pantyffynnon Labourer, Blain Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. He was riding on a runaway tram containing rubbish, which left the rails and ran into a prop set at the side of the roadway. The prop was knocked out and Finch sustained fatal injuries.

FINDLAY James - 1903 - 26/05/1903 – Age 55 - Glengarnock No.6 Ironstone Roadsman, Glengarnock Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof on road while enlarging it.

FINES John W. - 1907 - 12/12/1907 – Age 27 - Eston Ironstone Platelayer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. When driving an empty set inbye, he was run into by a full tub running amain and killed.

FINING John - 1900 - 04/05/1900 – Age 37 - South Wingfield Stallman, South Wingfield Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased hung the electric firing cable on to the fuse wires of a shot of 34 ounces of Nobel Gelignite and immediately shouted to the shotfirer that he was all right. The shot was fired and deceased was fatally injured by rock from the shot. He died the next day.

FINKLE Thomas - 1906 - 17/10/1906 – Age 44 - Silksworth Hewer, Londonderry Collieries, Co.Durham. When dressing the coal side back, to enable him to put in a plank, a stone fell from between two slips and killed him.

FINLATER Alexander - 1908 - 17/10/1908 – Age 26 - Kemnay Granite Quarry Labourer, John Fife Ltd., Aberdeen. Deceased had assisted to put a sling chain on a large stone, in order to have it raised by a crane, when it rolled over and crushed him.

FINLAY Thomas snr. - 1909 - 10/09/1909 – Age 22 - Niddrie Bottomer, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was putting a loaded tub on to the carriage when the middle finger of his left hand was crushed between the tub and the side of the carriage, blood poisoning set in and he died fifteen days later.

FINLAY William Andrew - 1900 - 06/09/1900 – Age 13 - East Hetton Helper up, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He was assisting a driver to lift a tub on to the way when a piece of stone fell from the side on to and crushed him internally. Died the following day.

FINLAYSON William - 1903 - 05/10/1903 – Age 26 - Westburn No.2 Roadsman, Westburn Colliery Co., Lanarkshire. An outburst of water filled up some dip workings from which the water was being pumped. The lowering of the water restored the ventilation and brought out gas which evidently ignited at his naked light, although he had been instructed to use a safety lamp.

FINN William - 1905 - 11/10/1905 – Age 32 - Peateth, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Northern Stone Firms Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased, and another man, paid by the box were removing baring consisting of soil and strong clay from the top of the Quarry, during the night a Wells patent light afforded the necessary illumination for their work. The baring was about 7 feet deep and had a face 25 feet long. There was an open side next to the Quarry on the left. The face was undercut for about 1 foot for about 14 feet from the open side and it was intended to cut a chamber at the termination of the holing and afterwards pinches would be driven away from the top and old railway rails, inserted in the holes made and driven down with malls and water applied. Before the holing was completed, about 11 pm., some 10 to 11 tons of ground fell and deceased and another man, whose thigh was broken, were buried. They were extricated in three or four minutes but deceased was dead. after the accident a ‘dry’ was observed beginning under the soil, about 4.5 feet from the face, and extending nearly vertically downwards and there was an old drain near. A stay had been put next to the loose side.

FINNIGAN John - 1902 - 06/01/1902 – Age 21 - Wet Earth Drawer, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of side on drawing road whilst waggoning. Sprags came out and let the side down.

FINNIGAN John - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 32. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 28 Church St.

FINNIGAN Michael - 1908 - 24/09/1908 – Age 21 - Sutton Manor Daywageman, Sutton Manor Collieries Co., St Helens, Lancashire. A large rock stone fell upon the deceased, in a roadway where they had trusted to the roof standing without bars.

FINNINGAN James - 1907 - 06/05/1907 – Age 33 - Grangemouth Miner, Grangemouth Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. Deceased and another miner were descending the shaft in the cage, when an iron strap, which had become detached from the wooden pump rod, and was projecting into the cage space, caught the cage bottom, causing it to tilt, and deceased was thrown out and fell down the shaft, a distance of about 32 fathoms.

FIRBANK James - 1900 - 26/01/1900 – Age 44 - South Durham Hewer, South Durham Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was kirving in the long wall when a large stone fell from the roof at a slip and killed him.

FIRTH J. - 1900 - 22/05/1900 – Age 50 - Finsdale Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, Howley Park Quarry Co., Yorkshire. When wheeling a barrow on a ledge it fell over and knocked him down. He fell about 17 feet. Died 25 May.

FIRTH John - 1904 - 04/04/1904 – Age 53 - Long Close, Sandstone Miner, Midgley and Roper, Yorkshire. He and his mate had drawn four props in front of a gateway and some sandstone had fallen. He then commenced to sound the roof before starting to remove the stone when a slab of 7 feet x 8 feet x 2.5 inches x 4 inches in thickness fell from between two slips and killed him. The slip could not be seen before the accident.

FIRTH T. - 1901 - 25/03/1901 – Age 14 - Barrow Driver, Barrow Haematite Co., Yorkshire. Found dead under a full tub. Probably the horse started when he was lifting the tub on to the rails.

FISHER Alexander - 1900 - 09/04/1900 – Age 63 - Whitehill (whinstone Quarry) Roadman, Fife County Council, Fife. Deceased was engaged Quarrying whinstone, for road metal, when he came upon several cartridges of gelignite and while attempting to take them from their position, with an iron pinch, an explosion occurred. The cartridges were part of an unexploded charge of a shot which had been fired with three others about three months before and no one was aware that part of the charge was left. By exposure to the frost the cartridges had become quite hard.

FISHER Alfred - 1902 - 24/10/1902 – Age 18 - Pildacre Dataller, John Naylor and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Found dead under a fall of roof in a working place. Had evidently been drawing timber without using the proper appliances.

FISHER Benjamin - 1905 - 11/11/1905 – Age 46 - Emiley Moor No.3 Drift Boiler fireman, Stringer and Jaggar Ltd., Yorkshire. Turning on the blow off tap to sludge out a 30 feet by 8 feet boiler working at a pressure of 100 lb. per inch, when the blow-off pipe burst off close around the flange connecting it to the boiler and scalded him about the legs and arms. Died on the 21st.

FISHER David - 1909 - 12/11/1909 – Age 26 - Dunnikier Asst. machineman, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was getting the bar of a coal cutter into position, and for some purpose was working the ratchet of the slewing part, when a pinion of the slewing gear broke, and the bar came suddenly back, the picks caught him inflicting terrible injuries.

FISHER G.E. - 1905 - 28/08/1905 – Age 16 - New Oaks Driver, Cammel Laird and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was going along a pass-bye when a large stone fell from the roof and killed him. The stone fell away at a fine weight crack which had not been seen previous to the accident.

FISHER George Harold - 1905 - 13/10/1905 – Age 29 - John Blindell’s Black Vein Ripper, Blindell and Wakeford, Monmouth. The shot lighter, contrary to Special Rules, not having connected the wires from the detonator to the electric cable himself, accepted a statement from deceased that he had done so, and thinking that he had gone into a place of safety, went back to the battery and fired the shot. On returning to the place he found deceased so badly injured that he died within a few minutes. The shot lighter was subsequently proceeded against before the magistrates and fined for non-compliance with the Special Rules.

FISHER H. - 1902 - 23/08/1902 – Age 28 - Park Mill Dataller, Stringer and Jaggar Ltd., Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp when building a dam. Cause naked light.

FISHER Henry - 1904 - 22/11/1904 – Age 15 - Norwood Rope boy, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. He was passing round a sharp turn in an endless rope road with a train of empty tubs when the rope on the full side broke a guide pulley from its bearing. The pulley struck the deceased and fatally injured him. He died the same day.

FISHER John - 1903 - 23/12/1903 – Age 19 - Trimdon Grange Putter, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of ramble top coal and band from a slip which could not be seen before the fall and killed him.

FISHER Morris - 1907 - 14/11/1907 – Age 22 - Llwynypia No.1 Labourer, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was said to have been cut slightly on the head by a stone falling from the roof. He continued to work for 37 days, and then failed. He went home for the Christmas holiday, and complained of pain in his head. He went to the Stroud hospital, where he was operated on. He died on January 20th, 1908, from septic pneumonia.

FISHER Thomas - 1901 - 24/05/1901 - Universal Waller, Universal Steam Coal Co Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway. Cd 947. 81 killed.

FISHER Thomas - 1904 - 10/03/1904 – Age 42 - Buckhill Hewer, Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased was working at the coal face, a few feet to the left of the road head in a longwall working in the Little Main Band, which is 1 foot 10 inches thick, when a mass of rattler (a bituminous shale) and stone measuring 6 feet by 3 feet and 9 inches thick at extremes fell from the roof upon him and he was instantly killed. The fall came away at one end from a small hitch of 6 inches throw and was relieved next the coal face by a bat slip and at the other side by an ordinary cleat in the rattler. No timber was set under the stone, which showed unwisdom on the part of the deceased considering the proximity of the hitch. The deputy had examined the place before deceased started and before all the coal had been removed below the stone and the place then seemed safe. There was a good supply of loose props.

FISHER Thomas - 1907 - 01/07/1907 – Age 48 - Gidlow Dataller, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. He was building a packwall when a stone fell upon him from between two slips in the roof, capping a prop.

FISHER Wallace - 1906 - 16/06/1906 – Age 20 - Holbrook No.3 Fitter, J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was oiling an eight feet wheel carrying a hauling rope, when he appears to have taken hold of the rope with one hand and was drawn round the wheel. He was fatally injured by being crushed on the underside of the wheel at a girder.