FISHWICK Peter - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 50 - Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

FITTON John - 1900 - 02/06/1900 – Age 37 - Dukinfield, Chapel Gang rider, Dukinfield Collieries Ltd., Cheshire. He was riding up the engine brow on a tram, in front of a gang of tubs, and by some means got crushed between the tubs and side of road.

FITZGERALD John - 1906 - 09/02/1906 – Age 28 - Cwmcynon Haulier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A carriage, containing deceased and 21 other men, was ready to ascend the shaft. The hitcher gave the signal, but the cage was not immediately wound up as the banksman waited a minute or two to allow some firemen, who were approaching the pit, to enter the descending cage. Immediately the cage commenced its ascent, someone, either in the cage or on the plates, gave an alarm that something was falling down the pit. There was a momentary panic in the cage; one man jumped out on the south side and deceased and another man jumped out on the North side. Deceased must have been caught by the crown of the arch or by a beam laid in the pit to deflect falling stones from the hitchers. The alarm was groundless; nothing fell down the pit.

FITZPARTICK Richard - 1909 - 15/02/1909 – Age 28 - Kinniel Miner, Kinniel Cannel and Coking Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased and two other miners had just got on to the cage to be raised to the surface when a stone fell upon the cage and they were crushed. The stone fell away from the front of an old mid working 123 fathoms up. 2 killed.

FITZPATRICK John - 1900 - 29/06/1900 – Age 28 - Old Boston No.3 Sinker, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Ten men were engaged in sinking operations in No.3 Old Boston pit, at a depth of 245 yards from the surface, and when they were filling dirt into the hoppit an upheaval of the floor occurred and an outburst of firedamp gas igniting at the candles which caused the ten men to be burnt, more or less severely, eight of whom afterwards succumbed (at the Haydock Cottage Hospital) to the injuries received. At the inquiry it was recommended that in future sinking operations should be carried on by electric light. 8 killed.

FITZPATRICK Joseph - 1900 - 12/06/1900 – Age 25 - Douglas Bank Jigger, Rose Bridge & Douglas Bank Collieries Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. This accident occurred on a self acting motion road when the deceased was attempting to get an empty tub, in a set on the rails (when in motion), and he got crushed against a low roof only three feet in height. He succumbed to the injuries received on the 15th instant.

FITZSIMMONS James - 1908 - 21/12/1908 – Age 22 - Walkmill Loco. Fireman, Moresby Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. While riding on the step of waggons, pushed by a locomotive, he is supposed to have fallen off and been run over.

FITZSIMMONS William Vincent - 1907 - 26/11/1907 – Age 22 - Whitehaven, William Trailer, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Explosion of firedamp. 5 killed.

FLAHERTY L. - 1906 - 31/01/1906 – Age 22 - Douglas Bank Drawer, Rose Bridge and Douglas Bank Collieries Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. His tub had got off the rails and he appears to have gone in front to lift it on when the scotches fell out and the tub overcame him and crushed him fatally against the pack and bottom of the brow. Dip of road being 1 in 6.

FLAHERTY Patrick - 1900 - 29/06/1900 – Age 35 - Old Boston No.3 Sinker, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Ten men were engaged in sinking operations in No.3 Old Boston pit at a depth of 245 yards from the surface and when they were filling dirt into the hoppit an upheaval of the floor occurred and an outburst of firedamp gas igniting at the candles which caused the ten men to be burnt, more or less, so severely eight of whom afterwards succumbed (at the Haydock Cottage Hospital) to the injuries received. At the inquiry it was recommended that in future sinking operations should be carried out using electric light. 8 killed.

FLAMAUK William - 1909 - 30/12/1909 – Age 19 - Hendra, China Stone Quarry Quarryman, John Lovering and Co. Ltd., Cornwall. A hole 10 or 11 feet deep, charged with about 20 cartridges of gelignite, had been blasted on the 21st December, and from the work which it did, the deceased man Allen formed the opinion that the whole of the gelignite had not gone off. He warned the foreman to that effect in case he should send anyone to work there, as he (Allen) was going away for Christmas. The foreman thought it best to let the place remain idle and did so until his return. Both men resumed work there on the 30th December and were getting off the ground, which had been loosened, they were expecting to find some of the explosive when a severe explosion occurred, killing both men instantly. Evidently one of them struck some of the gelignite with his pick or bar and caused the explosion. The men are said to have been experienced miners and had worked as Quarrymen for the last four or five years. 2 killed.

FLANAGAN John - 1903 - 27/06/1903 – Age 13 - Hickleton Main Road boy, Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Killed by an empty tub which became detached from the train and ran down the engine plane.

FLANAGHAN William - 1907 - 14/05/1907 – Age 46 - Bickershaw Collier, Ackers Whitley and Co., Leigh, Lancashire. He was cutting some top coal through in a pillar when a portion of the same fell upon him before he was able to retreat back.

FLANNERY John - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 34 - Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

FLAVELL Eli - 1905 - 22/11/1905 – Age 47 - Castle Fields Limestone Loader, Earl of Dudley, Worcester. Fall of roof (limestone) from roof of level 20 feet high. Died 11th Dec.

FLAVELL John - 1902 - 19/06/1902 – Age 24 - Hamstead Deputy’s companion, Hamstead Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Poisoned by carbonic oxide from an underground fire while travelling in the return airway. 2 killed.

FLECK George - 1904 - 05/09/1904 – Age 28 - Bent No.3 Miner, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal while knocking out sprags.

FLECKNELL Edward - 1903 - 10/02/1903 – Age 16 - Bolsover Banksman, Bolsover Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased took two empty trucks down, leaving one waggon locked by trucks on another road. These trucks were lowered allowing the truck which had been locked to follow deceased and fatally crush him.

FLEMING Alexander jnr. - 1907 - 12/01/1907 – Age 21 - Philipstoun oil shale Miner, James Ross and Co., Linlithgow. Explosion of firedamp. 3 killed.

FLEMING George - 1902 - 30/09/1902 – Age 20 - Low Laiths Hanger on, Low Laiths Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. An iron drag was inadvertently sent up the shaft attached to a full tub. It fell just as the cage reached the surface and killed Fleming.

FLEMING George Hodgson - 1906 - 07/09/1906 – Age 33 - Tanfield Lea Stoneman, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was bringing to the shaft two tubs loaded with stone from a canch. A pony drew the tubs and when about 40 yards from the shaft it is supposed to have swerved to one side when opposite the stable herd and drawn out a prop under one end of a balk. This prop appears to have fallen on the rails before the wheels of the first tub and the pony stopped. Deceased made an examination but may not have found what was amiss, and the pony either moved away of itself or he started it when it pulled or rolled forward the loose prop and caused it to draw out two props under a running balk across the entrance to the stable bord; this balk fell and liberated one end of the balks at right angles to it and a mass of stone, about 5 feet square with a maximum thickness of 2 feet, fell from the roof upon deceased who was on the leading tub. The road at the point was nearly level and 7 feet 5 inches high made up of a bottom canch of 8 inches, the seam 2 feet 9 inches and a top canch in blue metal of 4 feet. The stone is not very good and was well timbered, deceased and his mate having set it. The master shifter was with him when the accident happened. The Local Inspectors after intelligently describing the nature of the accident in their report said, "Our conclusion is that all had been done that could be done to work the place with safety."

FLEMING James - 1901 - 15/02/1901 – Age 22 - Hairmyres limestone Quarry, Quarryman, Alexander McAra, Lanarkshire. While pressing home a cartridge of gelignite in a shot hole with a wooden rammer the charge exploded. The jumper with which the hole was drilled had a diameter of only one thirty-second of an inch greater than the diameter of the cartridges. Apparently the deceased had not properly thawed the cartridges. The method of thawing the cartridges was to put them in a jar placed in a pan of water which was then heated on a paraffin stove.

FLEMING William Joseph - 1901 - 18/12/1901 – Age 41 - Newdigate Labourer, FA Newdigate MP, Warwick.

FLEMMING Michael - 1908 - 28/02/1908 – Age 46 - Reedley Dataller, Executors of Col. Hargreaves, Lancashire. Taking out bars and props in an abandoned roadway using a hammer. The first prop he struck, under a bar, down came the roof, covering him. The roof had fallen inbye at the side of the bar, he ought to have put a middle prop under the bar and used a gablock and chain next to the fallen broken roof with two slips present. (Good roof)

FLETCHER Adam - 1903 - 16/02/1903 – Age 38 - Whitwood Collier, H Briggs Son and Co., Ltd., Yorkshire. He was passing along a longwall face when a large flake of coal burst off and killed him. Cause a sudden weight.

FLETCHER Daniel - 1900 - 17/06/1900 – Age 19 - Butterworth Hall Drawer, Platt Bros. and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by tubs which ran amain down the enginebrow from carelessness by the engineman.

FLETCHER Edwin - 1902 - 05/05/1902 – Age 55 - Newstead Dataller. Newstead Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was building a roadway when a piece of bind rolled from above the pack on to his foot. Blood poisoning set in and he died 14th. September.

FLETCHER Fenton - 1909 - 01/09/1909 – Age 17 – Markham No.1 Horse driver, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased took empty tubs into the gate end and called to the loader to enquire about the full ones. He then walked along the stall and put his head between a face side prop and the coal-face. The coal fell off and killed him.

FLETCHER Fred – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 25 – National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. 73, Aber Rhondda Road, Porth.

FLETCHER George – 1907 – 13/03/1907 – Age 28 – Boldon Putter, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died March 17. Deceased was what is known as a hewing putter, that is, although ordinarily employed as a putter he was given a place to hew in when hewers were absent and there was not work for all the putters. On the day of the accident the fore shift deputy, finding two of the fore shift hewers were absent, after starting those that had come in, returned to one of the vacant places, a lift in broken workings in the straight in flat of the south way of the Bensham seam of No.3 Pit, and made it ready for a putter to work in, putting up a pair of gears next the loose side, and a prop and plank at the fast side, about 7 am the putters came in, including deceased, who was directed to hew in the place made ready for him. Between 9 and 10 am a putter found deceased fast under a fall, and getting help he was liberated. His arm and leg were broken, and his bladder ruptured, and he died at the Ingham Infirmary, South Shields, on the 17th. The stone was blue metal, and was about 10 feet long by 3.5 feet wide at its base, and triangular in section, with a maximum thickness of 3 feet. It was relieved by slips, and fell off by the coal face next the loose side, and in its fall displaced the pair of gears and broke the plank of the prop and plank the deputy set. There was plenty of timber lying in the place. Deceased had frequently hewed during the three months before the accident.

FLETCHER George - 1909 - 24/12/1909 – Age 25 - Pretoria No.3 Dataller, Hulton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. In roadway whilst preparing. Working with pick uphill, making increased height the fireman had seen him working on the higher side, down hill, but did not advise him to so continue. Stone 6 feet by 4 feet fell on him. (Roof good)

FLETCHER Herbert - 1900 - 10/04/1900 – Age 33 - Pandy Collier, Naval Colliery Co. (1891) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face fireclay, 7 feet x 6.5 feet x 20 inches thick, while deceased was preparing to set a prop under it. New seam.

FLETCHER Isaac - 1900 - 02/05/1900 – Age 35 - Allhallows Shifter, Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased and his marrow were engaged at a longwall face building a pack-wall. The roof was very treacherous and full of slips and on this account so closely timbered that he was probably prevented from getting clear of the fall which canted out three props.

FLETCHER J.W. – 1909 – 21/08/1909 – Age 14 – Nunnery Driver, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Hobson had drawn timber from a level with the object of getting down roof stone. He had pulled down some of the stone and foolishly went under unsupported roof to work, when he was killed by a heavy fall. Fletcher was holding a light for him. 2 killed.

FLETCHER James - 1909 - 13/07/1909 – Age 26 - Bond’s Main Deputy, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. A full tub was being jigged against an empty one, in a roadway dipping at 1 in 2. A pair of rails had been attached to the back of the empty tub which made landing difficult. It got off the road near the top knocking a prop out standing in the centre, liberating a large quantity of roof which fell and killed the deputy who was assisting there.

FLETCHER John - 1907 - 03/10/1907 – Age 14 - Watergate Trailer, Flimby and Broughton Moor Coal and Firebrick Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Shaft accident. 3 killed.

FLETCHER Norman – 1908 – 06/08/1908 – Dinnington Main Corporal, Dinnington Main Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. They and two other men were getting a tub on to the road when, without warning, about 25 tons of rock fell from the roof killing Drabble on the spot and fatally injuring Fletcher, who died at Rotherham Hospital on August 30th. The other two men were seriously injured but ultimately recovered. The roof was strong sandstone-shale but it contained treacherous partings. A fault ran parallel with the road and it is probable that the strata suddenly settled from this. Three bars, which were slotted into the rock at one end which had props under the other were displaced. 2 killed.

FLETCHER Thomas – 1907 – 03/12/1907 – Age 46 – Newtown Collier, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. An hour after drawing sprags and pulling some coal from the face, whilst at work, the remainder of the overhanging coal fell on to him. The place was found to want several props, setting the timbering distance not observed.

FLETCHER William – 1901 – 02/09/1901 – Age 65 – Parkside, Iron Ore Miner, Parkside Mining Co., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Fall of roof.

FLETCHER William – 1904 – 01/09/1904 – Age 31 – Waterloo Main Collier, Brooks and Pickup, Yorkshire. He was sitting down at the face waiting for an empty tub when a fall of roof occurred from two slips one of which could not be detected before the fall occurred.

FLETCHER William – 1906 – 25/04/1906 – Age 15 – Calow Screenboy, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. Deceased went with other boys through the fencing of some machinery, to lift at a belt-pulley. The machinery started while this was being done and the deceased was dragged over the pulley. He died 28 April.

FLETCHER William – 1907 – 03/10/1907 – Age 38 – Watergate Stoneman, Flimby and Broughton Moor Coal and Firebrick Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Shaft accident. 3 killed.

FLETCHER William – 1907 – 04/09/1907 – Age 45 – Great Rocks Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Buxton Lime Firms Co., Derbyshire. Explosion of a shot hole while being charged with gunpowder. 2 killed.

FLETCHER William George – 1907 – 27/11/1907 – Age 17 – Ammanford, Little Vein Assistant rider, Ammanford Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. While riding on a shackle, between the 6th and 7th tram of a loaded train of twelve trams, he slipped when nearing a curve in the roadway and fell under the trams and was killed.

FLINT James William – 1900 – 31/08/1900 – Age 27 – Grassmoor No.2 Onsetter, Grassmoor Co., Derbyshire. Crushed by a descending cage while in the pit bottom. Deceased had rung away the empty cage, which, after going a little way up the shaft was sent back by a signal from the banksman and unknown to deceased who was probably clearing scale coat away from where the cage had gone.

FLINT Mark - 1902 - 29/11/1902 – Age 23 - Black Rocks, Gritstone Quarry Quarryman, Walter Drabble, Derbyshire. Deceased was getting stone when a large piece fell out of the Quarry face, 11 feet above where deceased was working and fatally injured him. He died the next day.

FLINT Thomas - 1906 - 24/08/1906 – Age 47 - Silverwood Shotfirer, Dalton Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was preparing a shot hole for a charge at the gate lip, when a piece of stone fell and caught him on his head. Died September 2nd.

FLINT William - 1905 - 07/12/1905 – Age 43 - Hopton Wood Limestone Quarry Crane driver, Hopton Wood Stone Firms, Derbyshire. The steam-crane fell into the Quarry and deceased was crushed under the boiler.

FLITCROFT William Mills - 1904 - 02/11/1904 – Age 33 - Outwood No.2 Collier, Thomas Fletcher and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst passing through shunt of the engine plane, travelling out from work, he met a train of empty tubs, got confused and stepped from the road he was on to the other road in front of the ingoing train.

FLOCKHART David - 1905 - 18/12/1905 – Age 39 - Benarty Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Kinross. Deceased was proceeding along a level road in a seam with a gradient of 1 in 1, when a piece of coal fell off the high side and injured him. He died from his injuries 18 days afterwards.

FLOCKHART Thomas - 1908 - 05/08/1908 – Age 50 - Niddrie Miner, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased, and another miner, worked in a narrow heading, and the holing was on top of the seam. The holing was almost completed when a slab of blaes fell from the roof, and the edge pressed against his windpipe causing suffocation before he could be relieved. A lype was exposed for some distance, and stone came away from it, no attempt was made to secure the roof by props set on top of coal.

FLOCKTON Alfred - 1905 - 07/10/1905 – Age 36 - Featherstone Main Collier, Featherstone Main Colliery Co., Yorkshire. He and the man working with him was hewing bottom coal when a heavy "bump" took place and forced a piece of coal out of the solid face and caught him and so severely injured him that he died almost immediately.

FLORENCE William - George - 1904 - 08/01/1904 – Age 20 - Amington Holer, Glascote Colliery Co., Warwick. Fall of roof. Deceased was preparing to get coal down, when a portion of the roof fell and fatally injured him. He died the next day.

FLORIS John - 1905 - 03/01/1905 – Age 47 – Cwmcynon, Assistant ripper, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. On road, cliff, 12 feet by 7.5 feet by 2.5 feet thick. Deceased and a ripper were sent to clear away the rubbish off the side of a stall, preparatory to ripping down a ‘bridge’ (low piece of roof). While filling the first tram, the bridge fell on deceased. After the fall, a well defined, diagonal slant was visible on each side parallel with the stall road. It was quite unsupported. Six feet seam.

FLOWER Thomas - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 45 - National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. 49, Brondeg, Tylorstown, married with three children.

FLOWERS John - 1908 - 30/03/1908 – Age 32 - Llanerch Collier, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When engaged assisting others to lift a loaded tram on to the rails in a rise heading, a couple of colliers, in a stall 30 or 40 yards higher up, let a tram run wild, and it striking the one he was engaged at caused it to crush him against the side of the road. (Runaway trams)

FLOWERS Samuel - 1904 - 23/12/1904 – Age 30 - Tibshelf No.4 Dataller, Babbington Coal Co., Derbyshire. Reported to have met with an accident in the mine on 25th February, ten months previous to death. No inquest was held, the doctor having given a certificate of death.

FLOYD Alfred - 1904 - 21/12/1904 – Age 24 - Pegswood Hewer, Owners of Bentink and Hartley Colliery, Northumberland. Deceased, who was the son of the overman, and another man were hewing in a broken place in the Low Main seam which was nearly holed. A stone, 6 feet by 3 feet and 14 inches thick fell from the roof upon him, close to the face, and brought with it 3 inches of inferior coal left on the roof and which makes it difficult to detect natural divisions in the stone above. The stone was released by a small hitch a slip and a jack. The deputy had been twice in the place before the accident and noticing the breaker coal instructed them to clear away some bottom coal and set timber before starting at the face in the main portion of the seam, and deceased appears to have been so engaged when the roof fell. There was a good supply of loose timber. The Local Inspectors in their report simply described how they found the place after the accident.

FLYNN Patrick - 1904 - 16/03/1904 – Age 35 - Craigie, Whinstone Quarry Quarryman, Whytosk Bros., Perth. A hole was bored and charged with gelignite, two months prior to the accident, and it did not explode, part of the stemming was withdrawn and an additional cartridge inserted and fired but this failed to explode the original charge. While at work, taking off stones in the vicinity of the shot the charge was discovered and deceased struck part of it with his pick causing an explosion. Immediately before the explosion some of the cartridges were taken from the hole and were hard.

FLYNN Thomas - 1908 - 21/01/1908 – Age 18 - Llanerch Collier, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof and side in the main slope from an unseen slip and cross joint. The stone was a bastard rock and very hard. It appears that two or three attempts had been made on different occasions to get it down, in order to increase the size of the road, but it was found to be too hard. The fall was about 15 tons, and the condition of the stone could not have been detected by sounding. The accident occurred as the men were passing on their way to work in the morning, and it was fortunate that others were not also caught. 2 killed.

FOGG James - 1909 - 22/11/1909 – Age 42 - Grimethorpe Deputy, Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was travelling along a haulage road, in front of a train of 24 tubs, when it is probable that he was tripped by the rope for he was run over by the tubs and so badly injured that he died on 26th November.

FOGG William - 1907 - 24/09/1907 – Age 60 - Cossall Carpenter, Cossall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was working on a scaffold with another man when the scaffold which was 11 feet high gave way and deceased received fatal injuries. Died 10th Oct.

FOLEY Daniel - 1904 - 29/04/1904 – Age 29 - Cramlington Sinker, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. The Lamb pit, 12.5 feet diameter, was being deepened at nights below the Yard seam. During the day it was used as a coal drawing shaft and was traversed by two cages, only one of which ran to the Yard seam, the other running only to the Main Coal and upper seam. Each day, after coal drawing was finished, the sinkers commenced work and had sunk 80 feet below the Yard seam. While used as a coal drawing shaft or as a sinking pit it was sufficiently fenced at the Yard seam but during the operations necessary in preparing for sinking or refitting for coal drawing it was unfenced and it was at the end of the shift while the latter operation was in progress that the deceased fell to the bottom from the Yard seam and was killed. A number of shots had been fired last thing and smoke hung about at the Yard seam and may have obscured deceased's vision although electric lamps on each side of the pit showed a good light. The regular waiter-on at the Yard seam was absent, and one of the sinkers was acting in his place.

FOLEY Frank - 1905 - 23/03/1905 – Age 29 - Moss No.3 Metalman, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged in repairing a roadway for a jig, when a stone from the side fell upon him, causing fatal injuries.

FOLEY Patrick - 1907 - 09/04/1907 – Age 30 - Loughrea Quarry Quarrier, Dr John Keogh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Whilst dressing slate rock, off the side with a pick, a piece 7 feet long, 3 feet 6 inches deep, and 1 foot 2 inches wide came toppling over on to him. There was a clearly defined joint from which the fall came which ought to have been seen. The father of deceased, the foreman, was caught also, losing his left hand.

FOLEY Thomas - 1905 - 02/12/1905 – Age 53 - Bothwell Castle No.4 Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road while brushing it.

FOOK William E. - 1909 - 16/06/1909 – Age 40 - Pentre Labourer, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road cliff, 9 feet by 6 ft. by 9 inches thick, fell on deceased and his partner as they were going in to work. Two men had for 21 hours been ripping the roof at the spot, but had failed to get down the piece which afterwards fell. Five feet seam.

FORBER John - 1901 - 14/02/1901 – Age 52 - Sherdley Daywageman, Whitecross Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They had been clearing a large fall in the airway and they had put up bars, three feet apart, but when he was poling timber above the bars he appears to have disturbed a loose stone which fell striking him. He succumbed to the injuries received on the 17th instant.

FORBES Samuel - 1908 - 13/10/1908 – Age 32 - Tannochside No.3 Chain runner, Archibald Russell Ltd., Lanarkshire. Shock of electricity on a dip haulage road. The signal wire is supposed to have, in some unknown manner, become live, and that in touching it he got the shock.

FORD Charles - 1903 - 26/01/1903 – Age 24 - Llwynypia Loco. Guard, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was putting sand on the rail when he gave the engineman a signal to start. Steam was put on the engine, it skidded and deceased's arm somehow got crushed by the side rods. He died from blood poisoning on 14th. February.

FORD Charles - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 30 - Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

FORD Charles - 1909 - 08/04/1909 – Age 40 - Camp, Limestone Bottomer, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was in the act of adjusting a loaded tub on the cage, when it was raised and he was crushed at the door heads. The engineman apparently lifted the cage without getting the signal.

FORD James - 1907 - 15/10/1907 – Age 56 - Brancepeth Packer, Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. He received a slight cut on his left arm and little finger by the fall of a piece of ramble. Blood poisoning set in and he died five days after the accident.

FORD Richard - 1904 - 12/08/1904 – Age 57 - Corrwg Rhondda Labourer, Corrwg Rhondda Coal Co., Glamorgan. Found dead under a journey, having apparently been caught as it passed him while cleaning the road.

FORD William - 1902 - 11/06/1902 – Age 30 - Writhlington, Huish & Foxcote Repairer, Writhlington Collieries Co. Ltd., Somerset. When ripping the top and clearing the road at the bottom of the pumping pit, to increase the size of the standage, a large stone about 8 yards long fell. It was liberated from a slip which was apparently invisible at the time. Another repairer was trying to wedge it down from the inside under the impression that it was very strong and could only be got down in pieces. 2 killed.

FORD William - 1907 - 07/11/1907 – Age 16 - Blairadam Pony driver, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was riding on a loaded rake of tubs coming up an engine haulage dook, and at a low part of this roadway his head came in contact with the roof.

FORDHAM Richard - 1907 - 05/11/1907 – Age 39 - Durham Main Stoneman, Framwellgate Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When making width for a waggonway, some top coal and stone fell away and buried him. The timber set was swung out by the fall.

FOREMAN John Thomas - 1905 - 06/07/1905 – Age 29 - Hazelrigg Blacksmith, Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Thomas Died April 12, 1906. The downcast shaft, 16 feet in diameter, is traversed by two pairs of cages; one pair runs to the Low Main seam and the other pair to the High Main an upper seam. The cages of the latter pair, running in rail guides, have each two docks, each deck carrying a single tub. There is a scaffold in the part of the shaft occupied by the High Main seam cages, 5 feet below the flat sheets at that seam. There are electric signals on each side of the shaft at the high Main seam ringing a bell on the surface both on the heap and in the engine-house; these signals are used for coal winding, and there is a rapper wire working at once a hammer on the heap and in the engine-house, which was used when work was being done in the shaft. They are kept at the surface but none at the High Main seam. Soon after work started, the banksman found that the bolts in the bottom ring of the west side High Main seam cage were loose and he sent word to the enginewright, who instructed deceased and another blacksmith to go down the pit to the High Main seam to tighten them up, as it was difficult to do so at the surface. They went down in the west side cage, and when they got off at the High Main seam told the onsetter there they wanted that cage, and he told them they could have it when it came back. He put two loaded tubs into the cage they had come down in and signalled it away, and then loaded the east side cage and signalled it away and when the west side cage came back and its bottom deck was set level with the flat sheets, he took out the empty tub and told them they could now move the cage, and he stated no signal was given from the bottom until after the accident had happened. They got down on to the scaffold and deceased went under the cage and applied a key to a bolt, the other blacksmith, standing clear was about to help him, when the cage descended on deceased and broke his back. The onsetter at once signalled the cage up and he was released. The banksman, at the inquest, stated that when the east side cage came to the surface, just before the accident, he did not take the tubs but as the flat sheets were blocked with loaded tubs, owing to a screening belt having broken he further stated at the inquest that before the engineman changes the decks he received a signal from the bottom, although directly after the accident he made a contrary statement to the manager. The engineman after being cautioned by the Coroner, elected to give evidence and he stated he never moved the cage except in response to signals. He further stated that on one occasion the electric signal had sounded when the onsetter declared he had given none. He also said that he should have been informed that the blacksmiths were doing the work at the cage. He said he saw them go down the pit but had no idea as to the work they were going to perform. The enginewright, who should have informed the engineman as to the nature of the work admitted that he had not done so, his excuse was that he did not think it necessary, as it was a simple job that would not take five minutes to perform.

FOREST James - 1901 - 16/09/1901 – Age 20 - Woodend Pony driver, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was proceeding inbye, with a rake of tubs, when a stone fell from the side, in the lye, killing him instantaneously.

FOREST John - 1908 - 13/05/1908 – Age 36 - Birley East Repairer, Sheffield Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was sitting eating some food when a piece of side stone fell and buried him. He died an hour and a half afterwards.

FORESTER William - 1908 - 02/09/1908 – Age 48 - Newfield Onsetter, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. This man, who had been an onsetter for a considerable time, apparently lost his presence of mind. It appears that he wished to ascend to the bank, when halfway up, between the Five quarter and Beaumont Seams, the electric lighting cable fused causing a flash. Another onsetter at the Beaumont Seam landing shouted ‘hold,’ and asked Forster if anything was wrong. Forster replied, ‘Bend away, I am all right.’ As the cage was passing the Beaumont Seam landing Forster, however, tried to jump out, but the gates being shut he jumped against them and then fell back into, and down, the shaft.

FORREST Henry - 1905 - 12/12/1905 – Age 41 - Whitwell Loader, Shire Oaks Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was struck by a clip and haulage rope, which slipped back while pulling full tubs from an inclined roadway. He died 8th June, 1906.

FORREST James - 1906 - 02/07/1906 – Age 38 - Riddochill Miner, Gavin Paul and Sons Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased and his son were engaged taking away a corner of coal from a pillar to enable a cuddie prop to be set, when a part suddenly burst off and crushed him; a sprag which was up to the coal was thrown out by the falling coal.

FORREST Leslie - 1909 - 17/11/1909 – Age 40 - Portland No.5 Fireman, Portland Colliery Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof in main road while inspecting workings for the day shift.

FORSHAW William - 1900 - 11/12/1900 – Age 21 - Ashtons Green Daywageman, Bromilow Foster and Co. Ltd., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made. He was clearing some dirt by the side of main downbrow when a stone from the upper part of the side fell upon him. The bars here were 15 feet apart. The side was not supported by timber and he was crushed.

FORSTER Harold - 1908 - 20/07/1908 – Age 30 - West Ardsley Labourer, Yorkshire Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Several wagons of coal were being emptied at the washer elevator standing on the same set of rails. The road at the elevator is level, but on the full side of it the gradient is 1 in 25. Two wagons had been emptied, and an attempt was made to get the third one to move down by gravity without success. The brakes of the fourth one were therefore lifted and a scotch knocked out. The fourth wagon moved and ran into the third, and the deceased, who for some unexplained reason, passed between the buffers of them and was severely crushed. Died the following day.

FORSTER John - 1901 - 06/09/1901 – Age 55 - Beamish, Mary Hewer, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inquest attended. The deceased attempted to get into the bottom deck of the cage after it had been signalled away and was crushed between the cage and framing.

FORSTER John Thomas - 1906 - 29/10/1906 – Age 30 - Backworth Hewer, Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. Deceased was driving forward a place, 8 feet wide on the right of a longwall face in the 9th West Way of the Low Main seam in the Maude pit. A coal cutting machine undercut the coal along the face and the place deceased worked in was kept in advance so as to make room for the machine to start a new cut. The place was loose on the right side. The seam is 2 feet thick and is overlaid by 2 feet 2 inches of blue metal, succeeded by post stone; the blue metal is taken down in the roads and had been shot down in deceased’s place three days before and on the day of the accident the coal was taken out for a distance of 5 feet from the brow. The deputy was in the place at 6.20 am. and fired a shot in the coal for deceased and left the place apparently safe. About 9 am the putter found a fall had taken place and raised the alarm but the deputy arrived about the same time and released deceased from under the fall, but he was dead. The fall came off the brew and extended right across the place and was from 2 feet to 14 inches wide and consisted of the 2 feet 2 inches of blue metal. It was liberated by a jack at the left side by a roughly defined slip parallel to the face, and it had a free side to the right. It was canted out by one of two props in its fall. There was a sufficient supply of loose timber near. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘Found everything satisfactory so far as we can judge. There was plenty of loose timber in the place if any had been required.’

FORSTER Joseph - 1900 - 05/04/1900 – Age 49 - St. Helens Stoneman, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Engaged with others breaking a large stone which had fallen when it unexpectedly broke and falling over crushed deceased against a tub and killed him.

FORSTER Mark - 1901 - 18/03/1901 – Age 24 - Seaham Fitter, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. These two men were assisting to set a new Lancashire boiler when the chocks, on which it was resting, gave way and the boiler in falling caught and crushed them to death. 2 killed.

FORSTER or FOSTER John - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 22 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. Blue Bell Cottages, Shield Row.

FORSTER or FOSTER Robert - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 33 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 8 Rifle Street, Stanley.

FORSTER Robert - 1902 - 23/07/1902 – Age 26 - Newbottle Margaret Road layer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. A coal cutting machine was at work at the face of some longwall working, there was a hitch on the goaf side of the machine and when cutting the wheel cut into a slip in the roof and a large stone fell without any warning and killed these two men.

FORSTER Robert - 1904 - 28/08/1904 – Age 23 - Bourne Moor D Coal filler, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Died today from injuries received to his head by a fall of stone on Feb. 15th 1901.

FORSYTH Hugh - 1906 - 08/06/1906 – Age 29 - Carberry Coal cutter, Edinburgh Collieries Ltd., Edinburgh. A coal cutting machine of the disc type was in use, and the length of the run was 120 yards on an inclination of 1 in 3. In order that the machine should feed itself while cutting, a rope goes round a pulley fixed to a prop by a gabby and chain, one end of the rope is attached to the machine and the other end winds round a drum on the machine. Deceased, as leading man, was in front of the machine and while it was cutting to the rise the gabby broke and the pulley came down with terrific force and striking his head fractured his skull. The gabby was made of best iron, 1.75 inches diameter, and did not appear to be defective.

FORSYTH James - 1904 - 22/10/1904 – Age 43 - Broomhouse Undermanager, Glasgow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. The floor of the winding engine house gave way and he fell through the opening getting two of his ribs broken. The accident was not reported until after his death on 5th Jan 1905.

FORSYTH James - 1906 - 28/03/1906 – Age 32 - Sheriff Yards Miner, Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Clackmannan. A fall of coal took place and injured this man’s spine, in October 1902, from which injury he subsequently died.

FORSYTH William - 1901 - 26/08/1901 – Age 20 - Donibristle Wheeler, Donibristle Colliery Co., Fife. Inflow of moss. 9 killed.

FOSTER Edward - 1902 - 27/12/1902 – Age 58 - Wood Farm Engineer, Wood Farm Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fell out of bowk while examining the shaft. Died 12th January, 1903.

FOSTER George * - 1905. Shilbottle, Owners of Shilbottle Colliery, Northumberland.

FOSTER Harold - 1902 - 14/11/1902 – Age 14 - Lea Green Lasher, Sutton Heath & Lea Green Collieries Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was stepping down off the stage by the haulage wheels near the pit bottom and injured his back through falling against the steps. He succumbed to the injuries received 24th December, 1902.

FOSTER James - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 22 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 8 Rifle St.

FOSTER John - 1901 - 09/12/1901 – Age 62 - Morley Main Engineman, W Ackroyd and Bros. Ltd., Yorkshire. Killed in engine house by fall of the chimney. Cause a heavy gale.

FOSTER John - 1904 - 18/07/1904 – Age 29 - Buckhaven Engine cleaner, Bowan and Co., Fife. Deceased was the worse for drink and wandered on to the main line of the colliery and fell across the rails and being unable to rise lay there until a train passed over him.

FOSTER John - 1906 - 19/03/1906 – Age 45 - Rainford Dataller, Bromilow Foster and Co., Rainford, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were making an underground engine-house and, while fixing up heavy bars and attempting to move one a little further, they slackened the jack prop, when the bar overbalanced and fell, fatally injuring deceased. He expired the following day.

FOSTER John - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 20 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. Blue Bell Cottages, Shield Row.

FOSTER Joseph * - 1905 - 15/07/1905 – Age 29 – Bebside, Bebside Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

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FOSTER Robert - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 33 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 8 Rifle Street, Stanley.

FOSTER Robert Fatherley * - 1904 - 28/08/1904 – Age 26. Lambton, Co.Durham.

FOSTER Thomas - 1904 - 18/11/1904 – Age 28 - Wolcleugh (metalliferous) Miner, Weardale Lead Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of stone from the side. The stone should have been taken down.

FOSTER Thomas - 1905 - 31/10/1905 – Age 50 - Silksworth Shifter, Londonderry Collieries Co., Co.Durham. Found on Hetton coal line close to Silksworth Colliery at bank. Supposed to have been in liquor and exposed all night.

FOSTER William - 1902 - 13/08/1902 – Age 29 - Dean Moor Hewer, Dean Moor Colliery Co., Cumberland. While hewing in a longwall working, in the Anthony or Two Feet seam, a false bedded stone fell from the roof canting out two props which were set under the thin edge. The stone was 9 feet long by 3.5 feet wide with a thickness of 6 to 15 inches and came away at  a greasy parting when the deceased had taken out the supporting coal.

FOSTER William - 1904 - 04/10/1904 – Age 56 - Bold Surface hand, Collins Green Colliery Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was assisting to carry a timber curb, on the surface, when he slipped and fell injuring his knee: it was not considered serious at the time but blood poisoning set in afterwards and he died December 28th. 1904.

FOTHERGILL James - 1903 - 02/05/1903 – Age 55 - Pemberton, King Pitman, Pemberton Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. He had completed his examination of the shaft and was getting off the top of the cage, at the surface, on to a box which moved causing him to fall on the iron landing plates. He succumbed to the injuries received April 28th. 1904.

FOULIS David - 1902 - 17/07/1902 – Age 42 - Cowdenbeath Platelayer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased and another were carrying timber through a gap in a train of empty trucks standing in a siding. A number of loaded trucks were shunted into the same siding and on buffering against the standing trucks they closed the gap and crushed deceased between the buffers, causing injuries which terminated fatally two hours afterwards.

FOULKES John – 1901 – 06/02/1901 – Age 30 – Minera Lead and zinc Miner, United Minera Mining Co. Ltd., Denbigh. While they were descending one of the main shafts in a cage, the bar by which it was suspended from the rope broke, they were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft and killed instantaneously. 4 killed.

FOULKES John – 1905 – 12/01/1905 – Age 34 – Main Coal Collier, Main Coal Colliery Co., Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was pushing an empty tub, at the gateway landing, when a stone fell from a slip in the roof from between the bars. He succumbed to injuries received 19th Jan. 1905.

FOULKES John – 1906 – 30/10/1906 – Age 63 – Bedlinog No.2 Repairer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was on his way to work and whilst passing under the arches on the pit level, where a portion of the crown of the arch had previously given way and been lagged, the roof broke through the laggings, and killed deceased on the spot.

FOULKES Louis – 1907 – 11/09/1907 – Age 30 – Eldon Waggonwayman, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. He was laying road on a new incline, when a piece of stone came away at a jack, from the brow edge of a caunch that had been taken through for the lifting of a bank head.

FOUNTAIN William H. – 1908 – 09/11/1908 – Age 32 – Risca Screenman, United National Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. His clothes became entangled in the end of a shaft connected with the screening machinery on the surface, which was not fenced, and which being only ,8 or 9 inches in length, if it were not for a set screw in the collar on the shaft to prevent a clutch getting off, would not have caused this accident. The omission to fence was an error of judgement.

FOURACRES George – 1902 – 16/12/1902 – Age 27 – Meldon, Limestone Quarry Labourer, L and SW Railway Co., Devon. When removing overburden, the face of which was 10 feet deep about, 2 tons fell and completely buried him. The blow caused injuries to his head, face and chest and broke his leg. He was out as quickly as possible but was quite dead. Death was due to concussion.

FOWKES John – 1905 – 25/05/1905 – Age 64 – New Hucknall Dataller, New Hucknall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. He received a slight injury in the mine on 17th March, 1904, one year, two months and eight days prior to his death. An inquest was held by the request of the relatives of deceased. A number of doctors had seen deceased and a post-mortem examination was made. The jury returned that death was due to pancreatitis.

FOWLER Charles – 1902 – 13/10/1902 – Age 17 – Cannock & Rugeley Wimblebury Journey rider, Cannock & Rugeley Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Run over by tubs on main and rope haulage road. No one saw how the accident occurred.

FOWLER Frederick James – 1904 – 16/12/1904 – Age 29 – Down Mill, Clay Quarry Clay getter, Down Mill Brick Co., Berkshire. Deceased was undercutting the face of clay when it rolled over on to him. He died the same day.

FOWLER John – 1909 – 31/01/1909 – Age 35 – Lumphinnans Pitwright, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased stepped on to one of the buntons, at the mouth of the pit shaft, to steady a pump rod which had been slung under the cage to be taken down. On coming out again his foot slipped and he fell 180 fathoms to the shaft bottom.

FOWLER John Henry – 1908 – 17/11/1908 – Age 32 – Cowling Quarry Quarrier, Arley Brick Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of clay, undermined and wedges driven in top to get it to fall. Ought not to have been in front.

FOWLER John Jennings – 1905 – 17/11/1905 – Age 18 – Silver Hill Banksman, Stanton Iron Works, Nottinghamshire. Crushed between railway wagons under the screens by a runaway wagon humping into two standing waggons.

FOWLER Samuel – 1904 – 06/06/1904 – Age 55 – St. Hilda Shifter, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. After deceased had worked for about five hours, with another man, renewing timber he complained of a pain in his chest and died while he was being taken outbye in a tub. The cause of death was heart disease and no inquest was held responsible.

FOWLER William – 1907 – 15/07/1907 – Age 39 – New Oaks Byeworker, Cammel Laird and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When travelling from a place where he had been working to a pass-bye, a fall of roof caught and killed him.

FOWNES Ab. – 1904 – 18/07/1904 – Age 48 – Foxyards Pikeman, Wall and Barker, Staffordshire. Fall of roof and side (coal and old gob) in Thick Coal pickings. These man were working in a heading about 5 feet wide and 6 feet high driven through large blocks of fallen coal and old goaf and supported by timber settings about 3 feet apart. They were getting some of the broken coal behind the legs on one side of the road, near the back, when the timber was displaced by a rush of broken coal and fine 'shutt’ or gob stuff. The men were not killed at once. And were spoken to several times by the rescuers, who had great difficulty in reaching them, owing to renewed falls of shutt it took 12 hours to recover the bodies. Death appeared to have bean caused by suffocation by being buried in the fine shutt. 2 killed.

FOX Ernest Alexander – 1903 – 13/09/1903 – Age 18 – Eston Ironstone Driver, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. A tub, which had not been properly spragged, ran amain down an incline and the horse, he was driving, saw it and turned out and crushed his finger between the timbers and the side of the place. Tetanus set in and he died on the 25th.

FOX George – 1903 – 13/10/1903 – Age 21 – Prior’s Lee Blacksmith, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Crushed by fall of tension weights connected with haulage ropes. For alterations the weights had been lifted, by drawing up the ropes and securing them by clips and chains to posts at the side of the road. One of these posts was drawn out by the strain causing the weights (about 3 tons) to drop while Fox was in the tension pit.