FOX George James – 1908 – 04/09/1908 – Age 30 – Cabbage Hall Pikeman, M and W Glazebrook, Worcestershire. Deceased and another were driving a gate road 5 to 6 feet wide through a reserved pillar in the Thick coal, which here is about 9 yards in thickness. The gate road was stripping a large downthrow fault, and was in very faulty ground. They descended the shaft at 4 pm on the previous day and intended to work until the fireman came in the morning. The coal was ‘very thingy’ that is, full of slips. Early in the morning a fall of coal took place. The coal at the face was ‘a bit heavy, but did not seem to be broken’. Two sprags or holing props had already been set, and they decided to set a third. When they were driving it up, a piece of coal 4 feet 9 inches by 3 feet by 2 feet 6 inches tapering to a knife edge came down, reeling out the sprags and killing deceased instantly. His mate was injured, but got out in the dark, and was found by the fireman at 6 am about 300 yards from pit bottom.

FOX M. – 1901 – 08/02/1901 – Age 41 – Aldwarke Main Collier, John Brown and Co., Yorkshire. Fall of rock and coal in a working place. Cause four previously unseen slips.

FOX Patrick – 1902 – 18/01/1902 – Age 24 – Ellismuir No.2 Repairer, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road when enlarging it to form a double haulage road.

FOX Ralph Telford – 1906 – 13/06/1906 – Age 16 – North Walbottle Landing lad, North Walbottle Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died June 15. Deceased and another boy, who was slightly injured, were employed near the shaft in detaching the loaded tubs from an endless rope, 1 inch diameter. There were four lines of rails where they worked. Two lines branched off into all east way and two continued straight to the south for 500 yards and then turned to the east for 800 yards to a landing. A lad was stationed at the curve to see that the tubs were securely attached to the rope as the last 590 yards inclined to the shaft at 1 in 32 to 1 in 16. About 23 yards from the shaft on the full way was a runaway switch worked by a wire from the shaft, nearer the shaft a wooden chock was placed for the loaded tubs to rest against until they were to be caged. The loaded tubs were attached in pairs to the rope, which ran below, by a box clip with a sliding iron ring to fix the grip of the jaws to the rope; the clip connected the hinder end of the last tub to the rope, There were no loaded tubs on the rope between the shaft and the curve when two loaded tubs passed the lad at the latter point and he stated he struck the ring of the clip in the usual way with an iron drag to tighten it. These tubs became detached from the rope, due to it being partially, loaded. They ran down the road to the shaft, but were not heard in time for the runaway switch to be used, and even if they had been heard it is doubtful if any use could have been made of it, as it was found to be out of order after the accident. Deceased and two other lads were in a recess next the full way; one ran on to the other lines of rails and escape, but deceased and the lad who was injured ran in front of the runaway tubs, and were caught by them. They broke the pin of the chock and carried on nearly to the shaft, where deceased was found badly injured. The Local Inspectors reported; ‘We are of opinion that it was purely accidental, but would recommend at least two refuge holes be provided as a measure of safety for lads or men employed at that particular pelt, in case of tubs coming amain. The manager arranged to give effect to this recommendation, and also to fix long skids on the inclined road to check the speed of runaway tabs, and until this was done to fix a clip at both ends of the set.

FOX Richard - 1904 - 06/10/1904 – Age 51 - Varteg Hill Collier, J Vipond and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof, which is rock, while holing on top of the coal. The place had been standing sometime in consequence of which extra precautions should have been taken to secure it before and while engaged holing.

FOX Thomas - 1908 - 17/07/1908 – Age 28 - Houghton Main Driver, Houghton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was taking two trams of timber into the workings with a horse and at a junction intended to take a road to the right hand and was walking in front of the horse. The horse in passing knocked the points over with its hind feet and the trams passed down the left hand road and crushed the deceased against a guide rail of the curve The road dipped in-bye at the rate of 1 in 18 but the trams were properly spragged.

FOX William Amos - 1908 - 10/02/1908 – Age 21 - Nuneaton Loader, Stanley Bros. Ltd., Warwickshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was loading up the lower portion of a thick coal seam, when the top portion fell and killed him.

FOY John - 1904 - 18/11/1904 – Age 28 - Herbertshire No.3 Pit bottomer, R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Stirling. Shock of electricity from leakage in a power cable.

FOY Lawrence - 1903 - 17/12/1903 – Age 25 - Bickershaw No.2 Collier, Ackers Whitley and Co., Leigh, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The banksman was sending four big lamps down the pit and he attempted to put them in the descending cage, against men coming up (contrary to rule), and as he was putting them in the engineman lowered the cage unexpectedly and one lamp fell down the shaft and struck the bonnet of the ascending cage and also deceased on the head.

FOY Michael - 1908 - 19/05/1908 – Age 31 - Hall Cowm Quarry Shunter, Henry Heys and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by waggons whilst going between buffers to couple waggons in motion. He should have waited a moment, they would then have been at rest against stop block.

FOY R. - 1901 - 11/06/1901 – Age 29 - Barrow Collier, Barrow Haematite Co., Yorkshire. He was enlarging a roadway and working by himself and was found dead under a fall of roof by the fireman.

FRAIL James - 1904 - 02/07/1904 – Age 55 - Little Raith Roadsman, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased had set a new wheel tree at the face of a short heading and was lengthening the chain to suit the altered conditions when the roof, which consisted of a thick sandstone, suddenly burst out above him killing him instantly. Several bars and a prop were broken or swung out by the falling rock.

FRAIL Robert - 1907 - 09/05/1907 – Age 19 - Cowdenbeath Drawer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The roof fell and threw out some timber and deceased was injured and subsequently died. The timber was not properly set and the roof would not, in all likelihood, have fall if the timber had been put up as it ought to have been.

FRAME George - 1907 - 09/07/1907 – Age 23 - Dykehead Miner, Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof wile drawing props.

FRAME Jamieson - 1906 - 13/08/1906 – Age 22 - Swinhill No.2 Miner, Darngavil Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place where a coal cutting machine was used. The fall crushed out the props.

FRANCE Edward - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 26 - Maypole Haulage hand, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

FRANCE John - 1908 - 18/12/1908 – Age 55 - Norton Cannock Stallman, Norton Cannock Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was shovelling up dirt at a longwall face, and throwing it on to the pack, when a pyramidal stone, 1 foot by 2 feet 8 inches by 1 foot 9 inches at extremes, dropped upon him without warning, from between four slips converging upwards. He died about two hours afterwards on reaching the surface.

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

FRANCIS Arthur - 1904 - 09/06/1904 – Age 19 - Coegnant Night haulier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, found dead under a fall between his horse and an empty tram which he was taking along a heading. Probably the tram had left the rails and struck an arm which was found displaced. Six feet seam.

FRANCIS Charles - 1909 - 20/12/1909 – Age 25 - Wheatley Hill Hewer, Weardale Steel Coke and Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The workings of a district in the Harvey Seam had been cut off by a fault, a drift was therefore set away in the leader to prove the throw. On reaching the seam beyond the fault, a place was driven forward in the coal. Francis was one of the two hewers appointed to drive this place. On 14th December, during the backshift, the place fouled, and Francis’ marrow, who was in the face, had to come out hurriedly, leaving his own and Francis’ tools behind. As the place could not then be sufficiently ventilated to enable anyone to work in it, Francis and his marrow were sent daily, subsequent to the 14th December to hew in any place that happened to be vacant and they used the tools they found there. On Monday, 20th December, Francis was told to go to a place, but he complained that he had not a shovel and suggested to the deputy that he might be allowed to go up the drift to get his own. The deputy reprimanded him for suggesting such a thing and promised to send a shovel to him. In spite of this, however, after he had been to his place, he appears to have made up his mind that he would go up the drift for his own shovel. Accordingly he came out to the flat and persuaded a driver boy to go with him. On arriving at a fence, some 77 yards from the drift bottom, the boy tried to prevent him going further but he said he would go. He then proceeded until he came to a ‘danger’ board. He, seeing the danger board, returned to the boy, and saying that, as there was a danger board on the road, he would leave his lamp with the boy. He then went back again to the drift and shortly afterwards the boy heard him groan and then shout his name. The boy went at once for help and found two stonemen. They sent him for the deputy and the overman. The latter, after several efforts had been made, pulled the man down the drift, on which he had gone about eight yards. He had been in the drift about an hour before he was got out. Artificial respiration was tried but with no success. A more foolhardy action than that of this man it is difficult to conceive and the possibilities are unpleasant to think of.

FRANCIS David - 1908 - 02/11/1908 – Age 26 - Dulais Fireman, Dulais Anthracite Collieries Co. Ltd., Brecon. At the shaft bottom; while he was assisting the hitcher to discharge three pieces of pitwood, each 9 feet in length, from the cage at the pit bottom, a piece of timber, 6.5 feet long fell from the surface, and killed him. The banksman at the surface was preparing to send down 6.5 inch timber upon a tram in the cage, but he was not able to explain why one piece fell down the shaft.

FRANCIS DW - 1906 - 01/05/1906 – Age 14 - Cambrian No.1 Collier boy, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face coal and shale, 4 feet 9 inches by 15 inches by 33 inches thick, fell from a back slip. The face of the coal was said to have been vertical before the accident. Red seam.

FRANCIS Edward - 1907 - 05/09/1907 – Age 53 - Westminster Collier, Westminster Brymbo Coal and Coke Co., Denbigh. He was engaged at the coal face when a stone fell upon him from a slippery parting in the roof causing fatal injuries.

FRANCIS J.P. – 1907 – 16/10/1907 – Age 18 – Westminster Horse driver, Westminster Brymbo Coal and Coke Co., Denbigh. He got run over by his journey of full tubs owing to the points not being open the proper way to the shunt and he is said to have slipped and fallen.

FRANCIS John – 1909 – 08/10/1909 – Age 40 – Caerau Roadman, Norths Navigation Collieries Co. (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. While laying a crossing from a set of rails to another roadway, he complained of being unwell, and died before he was conveyed out to the surface. At the inquest a doctor who had made a postmortem examination stated that death was due to a rupture of the heart due to an overstrain.

FRANCIS Joseph – 1909 – 24/03/1909 – Age 48 – Lady Windsor Labourer, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, when attempting to reach a manhole, was overtaken by a runaway empty journey, on a dipping haulage road. The runaway was due to the rider improperly shackling the rope to the trams.

FRANCIS Peter – 1908 – 16/11/1908 – Age 43 – Boswin, Tin Miner, Boswin Mines Ltd., Cornwall. In spilling a level through deads, which had fallen in, apparently a rock from the gunniss above, which was not in view, fell and broke through the timbering which deceased and his comrade (Jenkins) were engaged in putting up. There was no opportunity of seeing what was above the deads through which they were spilling.

FRANCIS Thomas – 1909 – 03/12/1909 – Age 38 – Deep Duffryn Master haulier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A journey of full trams was being given a flying shunt into a double parting, when the first two left the rails and fell over sideways on deceased.

FRANCIS Thomas Henry Dring – 1902 – 09/12/1902 – Age 16 – New Hucknall No.2 Horse driver, New Hucknall Colliery Co. Staffordshire. Deceased and the corporal were bringing a damaged empty tub down the inclined roadway when they lost control of it. Deceased was behind the tub when it left the rails and he was thrown into the side of the roadway and killed.

FRANK Holmes – 1902 – 20/12/1902 – Age 36 – Hutch Bank, Sandstone Quarry Engineman, Brooks and Brooks, Lancashire. Crushed by machinery. Leaning over the cog wheels to push the fly wheel crank, being on the centre. Having turned steam on to the engine when the wheel moved he overbalanced and fell, his right arm being crushed by the cog wheels. He had been told by the foreman, an hour before, not to put steam on the engine before push crank over the centre.

FRANKLAND C. – 1901 – 30/12/1901 – Age 28 – Robin Hood, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, George Armitage and Sons Ltd., Yorkshire. Working under a prependicular face when a stone, loosened by water, fell from a height of 40 feet upon him. He should not have been allowed to work in the place.

FRASER David – 1909 – 12/03/1909 – Age 53 – Motherwell Repairer, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was doing repairs, when a small stone fell on his arm inflicting a slight injury. He died from blood poisoning 12 days later.

FRASER Henry – 1909 – 01/10/1909 – Age 18 – Shelton Deep No.1 Dogger on, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased received internal injuries, by being struck in the region of the waist by a clip which flew from an endless rope. Loads were being drawn up an incline, 85 yards in length, by means of a rope attached to the endless rope when required by an ordinary bulldog clip. It was deceased's duty to walk along the level in order to detach the clip at the stopping place. On this occasion the loads on the incline left the rails when they were about 10 yards from the top. Deceased, at the other end of the bye-rope, appeared not to have noticed this, and allowed the rope to continue in motion until the loads were drawn fast up against the landing sill, when the cap by which the chain on the clip was attached to the rope was drawn by the extra strain. The sudden release caused the clip to fly off the rope and it struck deceased as described, causing injuries to which he succumbed on the following day.

FRASER James – 1904 – 22/04/1904 – Age 43 – Glencraig Repairer, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased met with an accident on 1st February by an explosion of gas and recovered. He subsequently died and result of postmortem examination was to the effect that his death was not due to the accident.

FRASER John – 1906 – 22/06/1906 – Age 29 – Highouse No.1 Roadsman, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof on old road while withdrawing props. 2 killed.

FRATER Charles – 1904 – 08/11/1904 – Age 25 – Shotton Stoneman, Horden Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. When he was bringing out an empty stow tub on a road, a stone measuring 9 feet by 4 feet by 5 inches thick running to a feather edge all round fell at some slips and coal pipes and caught and killed him.

FRAZER Moses – 1908 – 23/04/1908 – Age 27 – North Walbottle Hewer, North Walbottle Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of stone from roof at working face.

FRAZER Peter - 1901 - 08/05/1901 – Age 48 - Rubislaw Granite Quarry, Carter Rubislaw Granite Co., Aberdeen. Deceased was assisting to load granite blocks to a lorry and was struck on the head by a stone which was being swung round by the crane towards the lorry.

FRAZER Robert - 1903 - 24/03/1903 – Age 26 - Craigton, Granite Quarry Quarryman, Sir Thomas Burnett, Kincardine. Deceased was standing on the slope of a narrow ledge near the top of the Quarry assisting to remove some debris and filling it into boxes when a stone rolled down and in order to escape he moved down the slope and fell into the Quarry. The stone which was moved from its position by which deceased had been pinching at.

FRAZER William - 1905 - 24/05/1905 - Devon Pony driver, Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Clackmannan. Received an injury while at his work and died from its effects on 4th Jan. 1905.

FREDERICK George Hensley - 1903 - 03/02/1903 – Age 57 - Murton Hewer, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Hewing in a well timbered jud when a fall occurred at a slip and feather edge and caused such injuries that he died 11th.

FREELEY Charles - 1901 - 03/10/1901 – Age 23 - Dalquhandy Trimmer, Waddell and Son, Lanarkshire. While illegally spragging a wagon with a 6 foot prop the sprag knocked him in front of the wheels.

FREEMAN Edward James - 1904 - 08/04/1904 – Age 37 - North Walbottle Stoneman, North Walbottle Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died April 17. Deceased and another stoneman (who was leading man) were shooting down top stone and building packs in a gateway in longwall workings in the Engine or Beaumont seam in a section of workings where coal is mined by a coal cutter worked by compressed air. They had fired a shot in the post stone overlying the coal and also a shot to break up a loose stone and were busy with the packs when deceased, while casting a stone, displaced a prop and liberated a stone 2 feet by 2 feet and 6 inches thick freed at the sides by jacks and keen parting above which struck and so injured his spine that his legs were paralysed. The chargemen had been in the place twice during shift. It appeared that the coal cutter was working near the place of the accident and it was suggested that the noise from it might have prevent persons working nearby hearing the sounds that sometimes preceded a fall of stone.

FREEMAN John - 1900 - 04/07/1900 – Age 53 - Priors Lee, Stafford Sinker, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Injured while liberating water lying on a scaffold in the shaft. Died 20th July.

FREEMAN Joseph - 1902 - 29/10/1902 – Age 22 - Seaham Putter, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. A fall of ramble stone caught him above his eye causing fatal injuries. A middle prop and plank were displaced by the fall.

FREEMANTLE Frederick - 1903 - 30/01/1903 – Age 32 - Boxall Lane Clay Quarry, Clay worker, George Kemp, Hampshire. He was caught by a fall of clay from a face on which he was working and which caused injuries from which he died 14 days later in St Thomas's Hospital, London, whither he was sent by the doctor's advice.

FRENCH Robert - 1902 - 02/10/1902 – Age 20 - Glent, Sandstone Quarry Quarrier, William Underwood and Bros., Lancashire. Struck on the head by the handle of the crane. Two young men at the crane, raising a stone, one of them misplaced the catch so that when the brake was used to lower the stone the crane was in gear. The one easing the brake thought the crane was out of gear. The handles whirled round on the brake being released.

FRETWELL G. - 1900 - 03/11/1900 – Age 47 - Grimethorpe Clay Quarry Clay getter, Carlton Main Co., Yorkshire. Fall of ground from a place beyond his control.

FRETWELL Henry - 1909 - 12/10/1909 – Age 64 - Coppice Dataller, Shipley Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was cleaning up a fall on a roadway, when a piece of stone slipped and injured his leg by crushing it against the tub he was filling. He died 13th April from septic poisoning set up by the accident.

FREW John - 1905 - 22/02/1905 – Age 46 - Highhouse No.2 Roadsman, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof on self-acting incline while redding a fall. Other two men were injured.

FREW John - 1908 - 17/08/1908 – Age 40 - Carberry Brusher, Edinburgh Collieries Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased and other repairers were engaged making repairs on a main incline and had temporarily propped a bad part and while putting up permanent supports, a large stone crashed through the timber and he was instantly killed.

FRIDAY Alfred James - 1907 - 10/08/1907 – Age 42 - Brayton Hewer, Joseph Harris, Cumberland. Deceased was starting a place to the rise, off an old road in robbery workings in Yeowarts Dip fist in the Yard band of No.4 pit, and had only taken out a foot or two of coal when the fall took place. The seam is 6 feet thick and is overlaid by a foot of softish stone known as ‘fallen.’ This stone fell for a length of 16 feet and a breadth of 4 feet, close to the coal face, canting out five or six props in its fall and covering deceased. It was relieved by a slip next to the coal and an irregular parting above. The place was examined by a deputy before work started but deceased and another hewer, who worked near him, were not satisfied that it was safe and sent for another deputy who came and put up two or three props and this deputy was past the place again before the accident. The undermanager also visited deceased about 3.5 hours before the accident. There was plenty of loose timber near.

FRIEND William - 1901 - 17/01/1901 – Age 32 - Himley Pikeman, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of side in a thick coal stall. Cause a bump.

FRIPP James - 1908 - 03/03/1908 – Age 17 - Greengate Gangrider, JJ Bate, Lancashire. He was riding up the haulage brow on the chain in front of the full tubs, when he appears to have fallen, and got fatally crushed by the tubs. At the inquiry it was urged that gang-riding should be stopped.

FRITHS John Fletcher - 1903 - 12/10/1903 – Age 26 - Annesley Stallman, Annesley Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. A very heavy fall of roof occurred at the gate end due to a sudden settling of the strata or thrust from the coalface causing the timber to be pushed out.

FRIZZLE Matthew jnr. - 1906 - 16/10/1906 – Age 28 - Hylton Hewer, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was hewing during the night shift in a pillar of coal being taken out of the longwall in the Maudlin seam, 5.5 feet thick in the 1st South Flat of the Strathmore District. The putter left him about 1.50 pm., and on returning, at 10.10 pm., found his lamp burning but he was under a fall, assistance was obtained and he was liberated in a few minutes but he was dead. The stone was of grey metal and was triangular in shape, the base, about 2.5 feet long, was next the coal and the apex about 3 feet from it the upper surface of the stone was a curved back lying into the place and running both through the seam and roof, and which was visible in the coal and as deceased’s pick was found sticking in the coal where it was visible he must have seen it. There was timber set on the sides of the stone extending into the place and there was a sufficient supply of loose timber lying near. The deputy visited him at 7 pm., when he set a pair of gears and left the place apparently safe. The Local Inspectors reported ‘We are of opinion it is a pure accident.’

FROGGATT George - 1904 - 19/03/1904 – Age 21 - Denby Grange Hurrier, Miss Lister Kaye, Yorkshire. He was illegally riding on the front of a set of four tubs, drawn by a horse, when he fell off and was killed by being run over.

FROGGATT William - 1909 - 28/07/1909 – Age 59 - Denaby Main Collier, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Froggatt, with another collier, was drawing off a waste when some roof coal fell killing Froggatt and injuring the other collier. The precaution of setting additional timber had not been taken.

FROGGETT Walter - 1902 - 22/03/1902 – Age 23 - Haigh Collier, G Fountain and Son, Yorkshire. Killed by fall of roof in a working place, a prop was displaced. Cause a slip.

FROST Fred - 1902 - 13/03/1902 – Age 16 - Woolley Pony driver, Fountain and Burnley Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in a roadway along which he was driving. Cause a slip.

FROST James - 1901 - 09/10/1901 – Age 55 - Wath Main Labourer, Wath Main Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Preparing to set timber when roof fell on him.

FROST Joseph - 1908 - 30/10/1908 – Age 17 - Ashton’s Field Taker off, Earl of Ellesmere, Lancashire. Crushed by tubs standing at bottom of a slant jig, he was caught by descending train of seven full tubs, and crushed against a prop. Although there was plenty of room for him to be clear of the tubs, he was in their way and dragged into a space of 7 inches.

FROST Joseph J - 1906 - 13/12/1906 – Age 27 - Bargoed Coal trimmer, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was walking across the sidings, toward his working place some 40 or 10 yards distant, and not noticing the locomotive pushing two trucks up the main line he walked straight in front and was run over.

FROST Thomas - 1905 - 10/08/1905 – Age 60 - Portland No.2 Dataller, Butterley Co., Nottinghamshire. Some tubs were unclipped from and endless rope and they ran over deceased who was walking along the roadway. He died the next day.

FROST W. - 1901 - 26/08/1901 – Age 32 - New Dale Undermanager, New Dale Co., Yorkshire. Died 8th Aug. Explosion of firedamp.

FRULLANI Enchise - 1905 - 09/09/1905 – Age 30 - Bargany No.1 Miner, Bargany Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. He and his brother charged fifteen shots with gelignite, lit the fuses and had just started to retire when one shot went off and knocked him down. All the other shots went off while he lay where he fell.

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

FRY James - 1904 - 03/11/1904 – Age 64 - Furzeyground, Clay Miner, Pike Bros., Dorset. He was killed by a fall of clay from the roof of his working place. The clay fell from the roof between double timbers which were 2 feet apart.

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

FRYER Alfred - 1905 - 29/08/1905 – Age 17 - Bignall End Rookery Wagoner, Reps. of late John Wedgwood, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp, ignited by a shot of compressed gunpowder blowing through into the goaf, 5 others injured. Fryer died 10th September.

FRYER George - 1907 - 12/04/1907 – Age 27 - Birchenwood Roadman, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. A fireman discovered a small fall of dirt (about 2 loads) which had pushed out a leg under a bar in a shunt where the roadway was 12 feet wide and 9 feet high, the road being timbered throughout with bars and legs at intervals of 4 feet and well covered in with slabs on both top and sides. He took these two men to the spot and instructed them to load the dirt. He examined the timbering all round and found no indications of further danger. He had left the spot and gone but a few yards along the level when he heard a fall and turned back. He found a large quantity of roof (about 30 tons) on the floor and the men buried beneath it. The fall had also reeled out the two settings of timber next to the setting previously discharged. The roof consisted of clay shale intersected by numerous joints and full of nodules up to 12 inches in diameter. 2 killed.

FUDGE Thomas - 1904 - 01/12/1904 – Age 15 - Eastern Door boy, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, in attempting to pass in front of a loaded tram drawn by a horse fell and the wheel cut the calf of his leg rather severely. He appeared to be recovering but on the 15th tetanus developed and he died on the 19th.

FULLARD Arthur - 1906 - 04/05/1906 – Age 25 - Nunnery Collier, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was drawing a back prop when a fall of stone occurred, it caught and killed him. He was using a hammer to knock the prop out and his "dog and chain" was 60 yards away.

FULLER Thomas Wilfred - 1906 - 18/09/1906 – Age 17 - Denaby Main Driver, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was following his pony and two full tubs along a gateway when a piece of stone fell from slips in the roof caught and killed him.

FULLER Uriah - 1904 - 02/09/1904 – Age 15 - Auckland Park Driver, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. On August 18th he was running by the side of another driver's full set with his hand on the first tub. He slipped and fell, a tub passed over his leg between his foot and his knee. The accident was not considered to be serious in any way but tetanus set in and he died today.

FULLER William - 1904 - 22/09/1904 – Age 26 - Gordon House Hewer, North Bitchburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Kirving under a jud of coal with a loose end, which was supported by a jud prop but a portion of the coal fell away from the back and fractured his clavicle and injured his pelvis. Died 7.5 hours afterwards.

FULLERLOVE Joseph - 1901 - 24/05/1901 - Universal Repairer’s helper, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway. Cd 947. 81 killed.

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

FULLRETON Richard - 1903 - 21/02/1903 – Age 42 - Durie Pit joiner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased, with three other workmen, was engaged removing the pipes from an abandoned shaft. During the operations it was necessary to remove a batten of wood, which was in the way of the cage, and to do so deceased stood on a scaffold which was being supported by the batten. When the batten was freed it and the scaffold, on which he stood, fell down the shaft carrying him with them. He fell into 8 fathoms of water and some days elapsed before his body was recovered.

FULLWOOD Joseph - 1909 - 09/02/1909 – Age 35 - Markham No.2 Stallman, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased had been withdrawing timber from the wastes of a stall, for some hours, when he knocked a prop out with a hammer, the roof fell and killed him. The ringer and chain had been used during the day and were lying close to where he was at work.

FULLWOOD Joseph - 1909 - 18/02/1909 – Age 35 - Silver Hill Stallman, Stanton Ironworks Co. Ltd., Nottinghamshire. Deceased knocked a prop out in a waste and was completely buried by a fall of roof which took place. Died 19th February. Ringer and chain were not used, contrary to the rule of the mine.

FULTON Alexander - 1906 - 07/09/1906 – Age 27 - Cauldhame Fireman, Archibald Finnie and Son, Ayrshire. He fell 84 fathoms from a mid-working to the pit bottom.

FULWOOD James - 1905 - 26/10/1905 – Age 17 - Annesley Rope clipper, Annesley Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. He was crushed by 14 tubs travelling down a descending roadway and which he was attempting to control by holding them, instead of properly locking the wheels.

FULWOOD Samuel - 1900 - 05/09/1900 – Age 58 - Water Lane clay Quarry Quarryman, Samuel Jaques, Derbyshire. Fall of clay while deceased was undercutting the clay face, which had been wedged and watered the day before. He had been forbidden by the owner to go near the overhanging clay and at the time of this fatality there was plenty of clay available and in a safe place.

FURGESON Joseph - 1902 - 18/06/1902 – Age 17 - Snyed Lane Loader, Snyed Lane Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Fall of roof at face of a narrow heading in yard coal from a smooth parting. A post under the roof, which fell, was reeled out.

FURLONG William - 1903 - 26/03/1903 – Age 23 - South Tunnel Haulier, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed against a door frame by a runaway empty tram, which had become detached from the journey owing to the pin of the shackle rising.

FURNESS Abraham - 1901 - 16/10/1901 – Age 75 - Pindale, Limestone Quarry Quarry owner, Abraham Furness, Derbyshire. Deceased was superintending the work in his own Quarry and was leaning against the face of rock which other men were pulling down but which was expected to fall away from deceased. A piece broke off and struck deceased. He died 5th November.

FURNESS William Isaac - 1904 - 20/12/1904 – Age 45 - Washington Jack engineman, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Part of deceased's duty was to oil screening machinery. He came to work about 9 p.m. or an hour late and was last seen by the underkeeper getting into an empty wagon under the screens, probably with a view to examining the sheaves and a short length of shafting carrying the underside of the coal cleaning belt. The ends of the wagon only cleared the beams of the floor above by 2 inches and on the wagon being moved by the wagon shifter, who was unaware of decease position, he was found crushed between one of its ends and one of the beams.

FYLAND Thomas - 1907 - 13/06/1907 – Age 37 - Seaham Hewer, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was injured by the fall of a piece of roof from between the planks set to support it. He worked his shift out and the following day. He died 17th January, 1908, owing to his spine having been injured by the fall.

FYNN James - 1906 - 10/12/1906 – Age 46 - Douglas Bank Dataller, Rosebridge and Douglas Bank Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Deceased was bringing an empty tub down the jig and was in front of the tub, having to put it on the rails, when he appeared to have slipped and lost control of the tub and got crushed. Died 25th Nov.