GADD Frank - 1905 - 14/12/1906 – Age 29 - Bertie Collier, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face. fireclay, triangular, having sides and base 5 feet long, and being 18 inches thick, crushed out near a prop and fell on deceased. The roof was full of rolls and joints. He died on January 7th, 1906. Nine-feet seam.

GADDIE James - 1905 - 10/05/1905 – Age 52 – Carnock No.1 Sinker, Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. The engineman in some unexplained manner overwound the kettle in which they were ascending. 2 killed.

GAFFNEY Barclay – 1907 – 04/01/1907 – Age 37 – Lochore Sinker, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The shaft sinking had been completed, and deceased, with three other sinkers, were engaged putting in the permanent pumps, a service engine was in use to lower the material required and the cage, on being raised to the surface, was taken up to the pulley, striking a crossbeam and causing the chain connecting the rope to the cage to break and the cage went back down the shaft, in its descent it wrecked the woodwork surrounding the shaft at the surface, and part of the wood fell down the shaft, and deceased who was standing on a bunton was struck and thrown off falling to the bottom.

GAFFNEY Edward – 1906 – 30/06/1906 – Age 65 – Tigroney Miner, Cronebane Mining Co., Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Fall of sulphur ore from the footwall of the vein, in working place, probably preparing to put in a timber set to secure the roof and sides. The fall was 12 feet long, 6 feet high, and 3 to 4 feet wide. Had two stretchers been placed across from the footwall to the hanging wall the place would have been secured.

GAFFNEY John – 1906 – 22/01/1906 – Age 27 – Elemoor Hewer, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. They were killed by a heavy fall of stone, 8 or 9 yards wide by 12 feet thick, which came away immediately at the coal face and which no ordinary timbering would have prevented. 2 killed.

GAFFNEY John – 1907 – 10/04/1907 – Age 23 – Shaws No.2 Labourer, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. While uncoupling a hutch on a gangway, 20 feet high, he fell to the ground by stumbling and slipping beneath the railing. He died on 28th November.

GAFFNEY Thomas - 1906 - 22/01/1906 – Age 22 - Elemoor Hewer, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. They were killed by a heavy fall of stone, 8 or 9 yards wide by 12 feet thick, which came away immediately at the coal face and which no ordinary timbering would have prevented. 2 killed.

GAGE Thomas - 1909 - 03/01/1909 – Age 42 - Glyncymmer Pumpman, Glenavon Graw Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. He slipped on a wet plank placed at the foot of a 6 hp electrically-driven pump, and fell in such a way that his right arm-pit came into contact with unfenced spur gearing. He had been at work for 16 consecutive hours. His injuries were so severe that he died at 3.30 p.m. the same afternoon.

GAGEN William - 1906 - 22/05/1906 – Age 29 - North Staveley Ripper, Aston Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He and his brother had been ripping a gate road and were clearing away the fallen material when a large piece of stone fell from the roofs where it had not been ripped and fatally injured the deceased. The stone fell out from between two slips which were not visible before the fall took place.

GAINER Michael - 1906 - 19/01/1906 – Age 45 - Auchinraith No.2 Miner, Merry and Cunninghame Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal and stone from the working face, apparently while holing.

GAINES James - 1904 - 20/12/1904 – Age 43 - Ravenhead, Fireclay Quarry Quarryman, Ravenhead Sanitary Pipe & Brick Co. Ltd., St. Helens, Lancashire. He was getting shale and he either missed his footing or the ground gave way under him.

GAIR Robert Rennison - 1907 - 16/04/1907 – Age 24 - Woodhorn Ridder, Ashington Coal Co., Northumberland. Deceased and three others were engaged on a bottom canch, 3.5 feet thick, in a leading place about 4 yards wide driven in advance of a longwall face, fitted with conveyers in the Second North District of the High Main seam, 3.5 feet thick, of No.2 Pit. After taking up tire canch they were putting in 12 feet permanent balks. Two shots had been fired but part of the canch was left on at the right side and a third shot was to be fired. Deceased was filling stones into a tab when a stone fell from the roof and seriously injured him and he died 3 hours later. The stone was 6.5 feet by 4.5 feet and about 11 inches thick at one side tailing out to a sharp edge at the other, and with a slip at the end next the face. Its upper surface was smooth and glassy in its fall it displaced a prop and plank. There was plenty of loose timber ready for use. The deputy had inspected the place before work was started and a chargeman had visited the place just before the accident. The Local Inspectors in their report simply stated they had visited the place. Deceased was not a member of the Miners' Union.

GALBRAITH Andrew - 1906 - 05/10/1906 – Age 6 - Hopetoun Child, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. The child crawled through the fence surrounding an old disused shaft and fell into it and was drowned in 11 fathoms of water.

GALBRAITH John - 1903 - 21/10/1903 – Age 50 - Sovereign Dataller, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in level whilst repairing. Striking out a prop with a short handled hammer, after the first blow the prop split from the roof weight on it, he struck two more blows when the prop fell and the roof followed and caught him. He ought to have used the gablock and chain. (Good roof.)

GALE Thomas - 1906 - 15/03/1906 – Age 36 - William Hall, Whinstone Quarry Quarryman, Craddock Allison and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was struck on the head by a piece of stone which fell from 80 to 90 feet above where he was working, and he received injuries from which he died two days later.

GALLACHER David - 1901 - 17/06/1901 – Age 38 - Neisland Pump attendant, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Caught by pump machinery.

GALLACHER John - 1901 - 14/08/1901 – Age 19 - Gartshore No.2 Drawer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Dumbarton. Fall of roof in working place.

GALLACHER Patrick - 1902 - 04/12/1902 – Age 15 - Prestongrange Assistant bottomer, Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Co., Haddington. Deceased attended to a hoist used to raise and lower tubs for the speedier loading and discharging the cages at the shaft bottom. While discharging his duties a nozzle broke and the hoist cage caught his head and killed him instantaneously.

GALLACHER William - 1904 - 01/09/1904 – Age 25 - Blantyre, Ferme Miner, AG Moore and Co., Lanarkshire. The seam is worked with safety but as two tobacco pipes a box of matches and a burnt match were afterwards found at the point where the explosion happened, it is evident the gas was ignited while the deceased and his neighbour were smoking. His neighbour was injured.

GALLAGHER Francis - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 25 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 10 Chester Road, Stanley.

GALLAGHER Martin - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 28 - Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

GALLAGHER Matthew - 1900 - 20/09/1900 – Age 37 - Murton Hewer, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Crushed chest and blow on scalp caused by a fall of coal.

GALLAGHER Michael - 1901 - 15/02/1901 – Age 67 - Moorgreen Labourer, Barber Walker and Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was lowering wagons at the screens and was crushed. Died same day.

GALLAGHER Owen - 1908 - 09/10/1908 – Age 23 - Pegswood Hewer, Owners of Bentink and West Hartley Colliery, Northumberland. Fall of ramble at the working face.

GALLAGHER Thomas - 1900 - 27/06/1900 – Age 23 - Outwood Trencherbone Taker off, Thomas Fletcher and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of side in jigbrow whilst getting a full tub past a prop which the tub caught took an inch out of the prop by rubbing the side, left it broken and ready to collapse.

GALLAHAR John - 1909 - 18/08/1909 – Age 50 - Manvers Main Joiner, Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Men were working to lift weights off the wire rope conductors and Gallahar was finding the holes to put the eyebolts through to hang the pulley blocks on. Men were working at the pit top, preparing to lift the conductors. The cages had been given up to the men at the top. They had the top cage moved up slowly which lowered the bottom cage down upon Gallahar who should not have been under the shaft at all.

GALLANT Albert - 1907 - 28/11/1907 – Age 47 - Dolcoath, Tin Chargeman, Dolcoath Mine Ltd., Cornwall. In Williams’ (sinking) shaft he was struck on the head by a piece of brick, which fell about 100 feet from above the curb of the last length of walling, where it was dislodged by blasting. It was disturbed by the bell wire which he was using at the time. The chargeman in the previous shift had examined the shaft after blasting, and dislodged some pieces of brick he considered loose or dangerous.

GALLEY Simon - 1908 - 11/05/1908 – Age 48 - Thurrock, Chalk Quarry Labourer, Northfleet Coal and Ballast Co. Ltd., Essex. Deceased and another were filling chalk waggons from a shoot in the roof of a heading, 9 feet 3 inches wide, driven into the Quarry face, the heading being lighted by three ‘flares’ or hand lamps. He was clearing away seine chalk which had fallen from the first waggon, when the other man, after giving a shout of warning brought forward a second one at a slow speed. Deceased appeared either to have been getting into a manhole or sprag-hole at the side of the heading, or, being in it, to have incautiously put out his head to see the approaching waggon. He was caught and crushed between it and the side of the heading and died in a few minutes. The sprag-hole was only 2 feet wide by 2 feet deep, and the clear space between the side of the waggon and that of the heading was only 4 inches. There appeared to be no reason why the sprag-holes might not have been much larger.

GALLEY T.L. - 1905 - 01/02/1905 – Age 17 - Oswald, Holmside Helper up, Hedley Bros., Co.Durham. Died in an epileptic fit.

GALLOCHER John - 1909 - 18/10/1909 – Age 50 - Hamilton Palace No.1 Miner, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of brushing when starting a new place. No supports had been set.

GALLON James - 1905 - 30/01/1905 – Age 45 - North Biddick Pump engineman, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Suffocated by carbonic acid gas. He and another man were going to a hydraulic pump when they found the place full of stythe. One man refused to go in and tried to prevent Gallon but he would go and was killed. A quantity of stythe had been seen there before and it is supposed that as the water lowered it uncovered a drift to another seam, and the gas came off. It came back about 30 yards on the waggonway.

GALLON John - 1908 - 30/06/1908 – Age 41 - North Biddick Engineplaneman, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was sitting near a cabin in the Low Main Seam eating his bait, when a huge fall of shale swung out four baulks and buried him. None of the timber was broken, and there was no warning that the roof was about to come in.

GALLOWAY Andrew - 1907 - 14/02/1907 – Age 24 - Dunnikier Miner, Walter Herd and Sons Ltd., Fife. Deceased was travelling up an incline towards his working place, when he was met by an empty runaway tub which injured him, and he died 22 days later. His drawer, in turning an empty tub on this plates at this incline, allowed it to go over to the rails, and it ran down.

GALLOWAY Joseph - 1908 - 04/02/1908 – Age 40 - Dalmeny Oil Shale Miner, Dalmeny Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was at work, and apparently fell against the building on the side of the road and dislocated his neck. It was supposed he was getting away hurriedly from the face, as the roof was working, when he stumbled.

GALLOWAY Robert - 1904 - 14/10/1904 – Age 24 - Kenmuirhill No.2 Miner, Glasgow Coal Co., Ltd., Lanarkshire. He went back to a shot of compressed gunpowder when it went off. It was stated that he waited fifteen minutes after lighting the fuse, and until he had heard what he thought was the shot going off.

GALLOWAY Robert - 1909 - 22/11/1909 - Carronhill Shunter, Carron Co., Stirling. Deceased was taking some empty waggons to the screens and in passing some other waggons on another parallel line, he was fatally crushed. There was not sufficient room to pass at the place and evidently deceased had forgotten, as he was well acquainted with the sidings.

GALPIN Charles - 1904 - 21/06/1904 – Age 71 - Naval Harbour Works Night watchman, Messrs. W. Hill and Company, Portland, Dorset. He was missing from his boat on the 21st June and after four weeks his body was found by H.M. destroyer Kestrel and taken into Portland where an inquest was held.

GALVIN Patrick - 1902 - 05/12/1902 – Age 21 - Princess Contractor’s man, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made. They were removing dirt from a roofing down, after a shot, in a roadway, a large fall occurred from the roof, capping several props and burying the deceased. They had previously taken out a chock from under the roof and replaced it with props which probably disturbed the roof.

GAMBLE James - 1904 - 09/11/1904 – Age 70 - New Bilton, Limestone Quarry Labourer, Rugby Portland Cement Co., Warwick. He was assisting to turn a loaded waggon standing on a turn-table when it ran off the rails of the table and fell on him. Died 15th Nov.

GAMBLETON James - 1909 - 02/01/1909 – Age 15 - Tillery, Gray Collier’s boy, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of Clift stone which set in between the coal and the true Elled top or roof. It comes in like a large flattened out "Bell Mould." The partition between the Clift and the true top is generally smooth or glossy and has frequently proved dangerous as it breaks off readily. Several accidents, fatal and non-fatal, have happened through it, as owing to the normal roof being strong, men are liable to misjudge it in these cases and not set timber close enough to meet the conditions which occurred in this instance.

GAMESTON Sidney – 1901 – 22/01/1901 – Age 20 – Mardy No.3 Haulier, Lockets Merthyr Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by loaded trams on a slight gradient where he was hauling rubbish.

GANE John – 1901 – 23/01/1901 – Age 50 – Pemberton Dataller, Pemberton Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. When engaged enlarging a main airway and preparing a pack wall on the side of the road a large stone overhanging the old pack and resting on a prop came over upon him.

GANGE Edward – 1908 – 31/01/1908 – Age 60 – Legh Daywageman, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. When driving an airway through an old road, a stone fell from a break in the roof upon him.

GANLEY Andrew Michael – 1905 – 13/11/1905 – Age 20 – Agecroft Dataller, A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by tubs while riding on a train of full tubs up an engine plane where riding was prohibited, his neck was broken probably when getting off the train at full speed to escape detection.

GANNER or CANNER Samuel – 1900 – 07/03/1900 – Age 15 – East Howle Helper up, Carlton Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Sitting on a canch when a piece of stone fell from the roof at a slip and kill him.

GARAGHTY James – 1904 – 07/12/1904 – Age 23 – Strafford Robert Royd Collier, Strafford Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. While ripping a gate road and building packs, a fall of roof took place and killed him on the spot. The fall came from a slip and weight break which could not be seen before the stone fell.

GARBUTT George – 1903 – 16/02/1903 – Age 50 – Upleatham Ironstone Shifter, Pease and Partners Ltd., North Yorkshire. He had taken a prop out, in the intention of replacing it, when a stone fell and killed him.

GARBUTT James – 1903 – 20/07/1903 – Age 18 – Great Fenton, Kemball Jigger, Staffordshire Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Slipped on a rail while bringing a load of ironstone to the landing and injured his knee. There was no wound, and he worked the shift out but not afterwards. He died on the 10th Nov. from sarcoma a malignant growth brought on by the injury.

GARBUTT Robert – 1902 – 09/02/1902 – Age 46 – Ashington Shifter, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died 26th February 1902. Inquest held and the jury found 'The said Robert Garbutt died at Ashington on the 26th day of February, 1902, from cardiac failure excited by a wrench he accidentally received through using a hammer in the Ashington Colliery on the 9th day of February 1902. No mortem examination was made. Deceased's widow sued the Ashington Coal Co. for compensation in the County Court but was non-suited, the Court finding that the injury was caused by the use of the hammer in the improper way and that no fortuitous or unexpected circumstances arose in connection with that use other than the injury itself.

GARDENER George – 1907 – 27/03/1907 – Age 27 – Bee Hole Collier, Exors. of Col. Hargreaves, Lancashire. Whilst taking out a full tub he was ran into by a drawer, also taking out a full tub, his last one. Jury held that the drawer was going out recklessly, too fast, not exercising any care to see if the road was clear.

GARDENER or GARDNER James – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 14 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 6 Busty Street, Stanley.

GARDENER William Edward - 1907 - 05/02/1907 – Age 20 - Washington Hewer, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died February 14. Two holes each 3 feet deep were drilled near the roof in a place 7 feet wide in a coal seam, 4 feet 8 inches thick. Each hole was charged with Bellite No. and was fitted with a detonator and wires for electric firing. The shot on the right side was coupled up to the cable by the deputy who retired about 33 yards and round a corner and fired the shot, leaving deceased to retire along a place to the right, near where the shots were being fired in order to prevent a hewer who worked further in coming out past the shots. After the first shot was fired the deputy, without making any examination of the place as required by special rule and against the provisions of the Explosives in Coal Mines Order allowed the hewer to couple up the second shot. While he was doing so the hewer from further in came out to see the deputy who thinking it was the hewer whose shots he was firing turned on the current and the hewer who had not left the face was seriously injured and died 9 days later. The deputy was fined for a breech of the Special Rules.

GARDINER Ernest - 1909 - 08/04/1909 – Age 22 - Cambrian Labourer, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased complained of severe pain in his head immediately after lifting the end door of a railway wagon with his back and shoulders. He soon became unconscious and died before a doctor arrived. A post mortem examination revealed a ruptured blood vessel on the brain.

GARDINER George Spinks - 1907 - 07/12/1907 – Age 25 - Broomhill Hewer, Broomhill Collieries Ltd., Northumberland. Died December 8. Deceased was working in a stenton, 9.5 feet wide in the Polka District of the Queen Seam, which is 4 feet thick and is overlaid by ramble varying in thickness from 8 inches to 14 inches followed by a post. The hewers take the ramble down and are paid so much per inch for the work involved. Deceased, who worked with a candle, had fired a sumping shot in the centre of the place and then a shot at the right side, which had not thrown the coal, and he was hewing it down when a mass of the ramble fell right across the place relieved by a slip at its edge, about 3 feet from the face, and in its fall canted a prop and covered deceased who however, was soon released. The deputy had examined the place before work started when it seemed safe but had not made his second visit, the accident happening in the fifth hour of the shift. There was a good supply of loose timber close at hand. The Local Inspectors reported that the accident to Gardner was an 'accident pure and simple’.

GARDINER James - 1901 - 13/09/1901 – Age 41 - Park Iron Ore Miner, Barrow Haematite Steel Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A hole, 2 feet deep, charged with one dynamite cartridge had missed fire and on the top of this charge a half cartridge was subsequently inserted and fired. The blasting regulations in force at this mine provided that in cases of misfire, after waiting not less than 30 minutes, a full cartridge must be inserted on the top of the original charge. When half a cartridge exploded the men thought that it had achieved its object by detonating the original charge. They do not however appear to have made any particular examination and a few hours afterwards, while they were working out the shattered ore with a pick, the explosion occurred.

GARDINER James - 1902 - 05/02/1902 – Age 53 - Garesfield, Lilly Stoneman, Owners of Priestman Collieries, Co.Durham. Occurred in the Five Quarter seam, which has a soft fireclay roof. He was retimbering an old road, at a point where another road crossed it at right angles and running balks required to be used. He had put in several new crowns, temporarily, to supported middle props until the running bars were put up when a heavy fall of roof amounting to 20 tons of stuff canted all the timber and buried him.

GARDINER John or Jonah - 1905 - 02/03/1905 – Age 62 - Blaenavon Milfraen Collier, Blaenavon Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of side, which came off at a wet slip in his working place.

GARDINER Robert - 1906 - 21/12/1906 – Age 49 - Simpsonland No.2 Manager, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. While descending the shaft, after repairing some defect, the barring gave way 12 fathoms above them and some 50 tons of debris fell from the side of the shaft upon the cage. 3 killed.

GARDINER Southern - 1908 - 22/04/1908 – Age 24 - Hazard Packer, South Hetton Coal Co., Co.Durham. A shot had been fired in a top caunch, and his marrow was taking down the loose stone remaining whilst he held a light. Suddenly a piece of stone fell away from a slip, at the side of the road, knocking him down and causing his death.

GARDINER Thomas - 1904 - 08/12/1904 – Age 40 - Lunts Chartermaster, GK Harrison Ltd., Worcester. Breakage of a hemp rope. Died 11th September.

GARDNER George * 1907 - Broomhill - Broomhill Collieries Ltd., Northumberland.

GARDNER James - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 14 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 6 Busty Street, Stanley.

GARDNER Samuel - 1905 - 30/10/1905 – Age 22 - Merthyr Vale No.2 Haulier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. On road cliff, 11 feet 8 inches by 9 feet by 15 to 18 feet thick. While deceased was uncoupling some trams his horse started off, one of the trams got off the rails and struck out a prop that had been set under a bent collar. Four pairs of timber collapsed and deceased was buried. The prop under the collar had been set a fortnight before. Nine feet seam.

GARDNER Sutheran - 1908 - 23/04/1908 – Age 21 - Hetton Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. Buried in Hetton-le-Hole Cemetery.

GARDNER William * - 1907 - 15/02/1907 – Washington, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham.

GARDNER William - 1900 - 27/10/1900 – Age 48 - Powell Duffryn Coke filler, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Coal Colliery Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fatally injured on the Brecon and Merthyr Railway along which he was walking on his way to work. Not comprised.

GARDNER William - 1906 - 14/12/1906 – Age 55 - Newbattle Loco. Driver, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was on the colliery engine moving a train of loaded waggons across the weighbridge, when an engine and van belonging to the North British Railway Company came in to lift a train load of waggons for shipment, which stood on another line by a mistake the wrong points were opened and this engine crashed into the colliery engine and crushed deceased so seriously that he died 30 minutes later. The points were opened by a railway inspector, who was not empowered to do so.

GARDNER William - 1908 - 03/09/1908 – Age 42 - Hopetoun Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was shovelling coal in his working place when a large stone fell from between a break and a lype fell upon him.

GARDY George - 1909 - 04/08/1909 – Age 40 - Howle Hewer, William Hardy, Co.Durham. He, with his brother, opened a small colliery on their own account and were working at some old pillars close to the outcrop. He was spilling through an old bord room and had set a plank on a middle prop, beneath the spilling timber. He was preparing to put props under the end of the plank when the whole roof collapsed and buried him up.

GARFORTH Charles - 1905 - 15/12/1905 – Age 56 - Ackton Hall Collier, Ackton Hall Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Along with his mate he had holed the length of the face and then started to take out the sprags so as to get the coal down; he had drawn all the sprags, except the one at the loose end, when the coal came down, displaced the sprag and caught him. There was slip behind the coal which could not be foreseen before the fall occurred.

GARLAND Edward - 1903 - 01/05/1903 – Age 29 - Ashton Vale Collier, Ashton Vale Iron Co. Ltd., Somerset. A large piece of roof clod fell with fatal results when he was wedging down coal at the face. If flats or double timbers had been used instead of props this might have been avoided.

GARLICK Frederick - 1904 - 08/07/1904 – Age 30 - Victory, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, S Bibbington Ltd., Derbyshire. While charging a large hole with cheddite, it prematurely exploded. The man was using a steel drill to remove a small stone in the hole at the time the charge exploded. Two others were injured.

GARNER Alfred - 1909 - 21/05/1909 – Age 39 - Clark’s Lane Pikeman, Richard Fardoe, Staffordshire. Deceased and another pikeman working together in a heading in the Seven Feet Seam. A shot-hole had been charged with 0.75 lb. of compressed powder and the fuse lit, but it missed fire. After waiting two hours deceased returned and commenced to unram with a punch, with the result that the charge exploded and he was severely burned and bruised, dying from his injuries on the next day. Deceased had been told by the deputy not to go back into the place and his mate also warned him not to do so, but his reply was that he was anxious to get some coal out as they had not been doing well. In unramming the shot he committed a breach of General Rule 12.

GARNER Henry - 1902 - 17/11/1902 – Age 16 - Gin Gang tenter, Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in haulage road whilst passing along. Impossible to say whether the roof displaced the props or the props were displaced by the gang. There was plenty of room for the tubs to pass. (Average roof.)

GARNER Herbert - 1902 - 24/05/1902 – Age 22 - Denby Hall Loader, Butterley Co., Derbyshire. Deceased received a slight injury in the mine on the 13th May and died from pleurisy and pneumonia, not arising from any injury received in the mine.

GARNER John - 1901 - 07/03/1901 – Age 40 - Ashton Collier, Garswood Iron and Coal Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made. A fall of roof occurred in the main road, between two bars thirteen feet apart, there were some short bars and props between these but the men seem to have disturbed a prop under one of the main bars when the whole of the rock roof, fifteen inches thick, which was resting on the timber having parted from the rock roof above came down capping the bars and crushing the deceased.

GARNER John - 1904 - 11/05/1904 – Age 51 - Queen Dataller, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were engaged repairing the brow when a large fall of roof occurred from a slip capping three new bars which had been recently set and burying the deceased.

GARNER Walter - 1906 - 17/05/1906 – Age 14 - Denaby Main Pony driver, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. In a part of a road, where there were some props, his pony stopped and he went in front of the tubs to hit it with his whip, it started suddenly and he could not get back, and while there he was either crushed between the first tub and three prop or fell down and was run over by the tubs. Died the following day.

GARNER William - 1909 - 09/12/1909 – Age 35 - Brodsworth Main Ripper, Brodsworth Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. A road was being enlarged and repaired when a sudden collapse of newly set bars caused a heavy fall of roof and Garner was killed. A small fault crossed the road at the place of accident.

GARON John - 1904 - 30/10/1904 – Age 55 - Blaina, South Griffin No.3 Fitter, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Deceased, another fitter and two lads, were engaged coupling up a new tapping pipe with the waste pipe which was connected to several boilers. Wanting an inch or so to get the flanges of the pipes together, instead of loosening some of the joints of the waste pipe, they tried to spring it with a lever with the result that the tapping pipe of the next boiler broke resulting in the hot water and steam from it scalding deceased and two of his comrades.

GARRATT Harry - 1900 - 23/04/1900 – Age 21 - Donisthorpe No.1 Onsetter, Checkland Son and Williams, Leicestershire. Deceased was taking the empty tubs from the cage at the pit bottom when the engineman pulled the cage up and fatally injured the deceased. He died next day.

GARRATT Henry - 1903 - 16/10/1903 – Age 16 - Windmill End No.3 Miner, Dudley Colliery Co. Ltd., Worcester. Fall of roof (stone) in an airway between the shafts in the Heathen coal whilst assisting in building an arch in the road.

GARRET Joseph - 1905 - 23/08/1905 – Age 56 - Cambrian No.1 Labourer, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. As deceased was getting into the cage, to ascend, he was struck on the head by, it was thought, a piece of coal or stone falling from the other cage as it reaching the surface. He was medically treated but died from tetanus. Sept. 19th.

GARRETT Ernest - 1908 - 19/08/1908 – Age 25 - Saltwells, Marl Quarry Labourer, Doulton and Co. Ltd., Worcester. Deceased was taking loaded tubs as delivered on Quarry bank by an endless rope, and conveying them to the dirt tip. Owing probably to an obstruction of the loads, at some part of the road, the rope momentarily slackened and dropped off a horizontal wheel, about 250 yards from where deceased was at work. It then tightened round the vertical shaft, jammed on the pedestal and ultimately broke near deceased, and between him and the haulage engine. The back lash of the loose end struck him on the side, causing injuries which terminated fatally two days later.

GARRETT John - 1907 - 26/09/1907 – Age 33 - Wyndham Hardgroundman, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face of a stone heading. While drilling a hole, with a Flottman drill, for the purpose of shooting down a portion of the side to make room for a pair of timbers, a fall of roof occurred which killed him. The heading had reached a fault which had the effect of disturbing the strata. Props might have been set in the centre of the roadway to support the roof while this work was being done. Safety lamps.

GARRETT John - 1908 - 23/10/1908 – Age 19 - Newbattle Haulage engineman, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was oiling the machinery of a steam haulage engine; either he or his neighbour, who had just finished his shift, forgot to put on the drum brake and just then a rake of tubs was pushed over the steep of a dook which caused the drum to revolve and he was fatally crushed between the drum and wall.

GARRETT William - 1902 - 16/08/1902 – Age 35 - Creswell Dataller, Bolsover Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased and other men were charging a shot on the side of a roadway and having taken out the bars neglected to set middle or catch props to support the roof until the shot was ready to be fired. Had the rules as to catch props been observed it is probable the accident would not have occurred.

GARRITY Henry - 1906 - 19/01/1906 – Age 32 - Whitehaven Hewer, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Died 8 Jan. 1907. At the examination of an endless rope road, which dipped inbye, a rope about 20 yards long was used in connection with a clutch bogie to draw full tubs into position for haulage by the endless rope. The clutch bogie was attached to the rope on the loaded side at the return wheel, and the loose rope was attached to it at one end and to the full tub further inbye at the other end and the whole arrangement travelled 20 yards when the bogie was disconnected from both ropes and ran back. Deceased was standing near some full tubs, beside the return wheel, while a lad was bringing the bogie back. Two lockings or sprags were used in the wheels of the bogie while bringing it back but sometimes the bogie would not move when both were inserted and then one was taken out until it restarted. The bogie appears to have stopped, and the lad, who was without a light according to one of the witnesses, took out one locking and was unable to get it in again, and although he was able to keep up with the bogie it moved faster than usual and caught deceased and scraped his leg and struck his back. He was taken outbye in an empty tub, and was off work until 18th February. After starting work again he met with another accident on the 29th March; he and two other men were putting a derailed loaded tub on the rails, and he slipped while slewing it and was injured on the back and although he worked his shift out he never resumed work, and was paid compensation up to his death. He was attended by doctors from the first accident, and medical evidence was given at the inquest that this accident caused a somewhat obscure disease known as Addison’s disease which affects the kidneys, and the jury found in accordance with this evidence.

GARRY Edward - 1903 - 12/02/1903 – Age 50 - Lower Hall Collier, Westleigh Colliery Co Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from the working face whilst wedging coal down, he probably slipped on the slippery floor as he was moving from the falling coal.

GARSIDE Arthur - 1900 - 29/05/1900 – Age 29 - Dukinfield, Chapel Pump major, Dukinfield Collieries Ltd., Cheshire. Fell out of cage while repairing rods in upcast shaft. He was working a double shift. The shaft was hot, over 100 degrees F. from steam pipes and exhaust steam. Two other men on top of the cage could not tell how he fell out.

GARSIDE Emanuel - 1908 - 02/07/1908 – Age 58 - Middleton Collier, Middleton Estate and Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When walking in-bye to his work, a train of full dirt tubs drawn by a pony ran into him and fatally crushed him between them and the side of the road.

GARSIDE John - 1907 - 04/10/1907 – Age 55 - Smithy Wood Collier, Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was withdrawing a prop from the edge of the goaf and had loosened it by striking it with a hammer, and as soon as the prop was loose a large stone from the roof fell out to a weight break, which was slippery, just behind the last row of props and killed him. A dog and chain was hung up at the bottom of the gate, but it had not been used.

GARSIDE Mallinson - 1904 - 12/02/1904 – Age 42 - Drake Miner, Low Moor Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Deceased was taking out a prop at the face when a fall of roof took place. A dog and chain was provided for use, but the deceased did not use it, had he done so, he might not have been caught. A slip that could not be seen, till the stone fell, was the cause of the fall.

GARTHEREUM James - 1908 - 28/09/1908 – Age 50 - Balognie Miner, CB Balfour, Fife. Deceased was working back in the second working of Dysart Main Coal. A fall occurred in the face and he went into the waste, under the fallen area to fill loose coal, when a further fall took place, and killed him.

GARTHWAITE William Henry - 1900 - 11/01/1900 – Age 25 - Towneley Arley Collier, Brooks and Pickup, Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place, while drawing props, the broken roof, small corner pillar of coal, just swept out. Two bars might have prevented the capping of the props. (Good roof.)

GARTSHORNE George - 1907 - 16/08/1907 – Age 61 - Cortonwood Collier, Cortonwood Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. When cutting coal, a piece from his pick flew and hit him on his forehead. Died from blood poisoning on the 23rd.

GARWOOD George - 1902 - 09/04/1902 – Age 47 - Hafod Shackler, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed between full trams, as he was knocking off the patent clip. He evidently forgot that there were full trams standing outside and continued to knock the clip in hopes of getting it free until it was too late. Died in two days.

GASCOIGN Lewis - 1907 - 23/04/1907 – Age 16 - Low Stubbin Horse driver, Earl Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire. He was driving a train of empty tubs up a gradient of about 1 in 45 and at the time about 300 yards further in, there were thirteen full tubs standing at a stop block without any lockers in, when three tubs were, by some means, forced over the stop block and ran down the incline. The deceased had evidently tried to get into a place of safety and had been caught by the first tub as he was rushing across the road. It is not quite clear what caused the tub to get amain but it is probable one of the trammers had let a full tub run into the back of the tubs with considerable force and thus caused the tubs in front to move forward and the first tub to mount the stop block.

GASCOIGN W.D. - 1906 - 24/08/1906 – Age 20 - Charlaw Putter, Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Death due to natural causes.

GASCOIGNE Thomas - 1900 - 27/12/1900 – Age 49 - Burradon Engineman, Burradon & Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attend. The deceased was evidently oiling the engine when in motion instead of when at rest and was caught in the machinery.

GASCOIGNE Thomas - 1902 - 16/05/1902 – Age 58 - Garforth Collier, Owners of Garforth Colliery, Yorkshire. He was holing when the coal burst off the face and killed him. Cause coal not spragged.

GASCOYNE JH 1909 - 21/12/1909 – Age 39 - Silverwood Miner, Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was taking an empty tub to the face and crushed his hand between the tub and a prop. Blood poisoning supervened and he died on January 6th, 1910.

GASH Jonathan - 1908 - 06/01/1908 – Age 26 - North Bitchburn Hewer, North Bitchburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He scratched his finger whilst at work in the mine. He died on 21st January from septic pneumonia.

GASKELL James - 1900 - 01/10/1900 – Age 61 - Pemberton Collier, J Blundell and Sons, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was holing the coal in the Wigan 4 feet mine when a small stone fell from the roof striking his arm and causing a wound. He died from the effects of blood poisoning Dec. 3rd 1900.

GASKELL Thomas - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 45 - Maypole Fireman, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

GASKELL William - 1905 - 15/05/1905 - Age 44 - Orrell, Clay Quarry Foreman, Orrell Brick and Tile Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. While attempting to descend to the bottom of the Quarry, along a narrow ledge, he fell and fractured his skull. Died the following day.

GASKELL William - 1908 - 21/02/1908 – Age 27 - Moss No.1 Chargeman, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. They were engaged taking out low bars, and widening a main roadway. They had been at this work for some days, and had got ten new bars up when a large fall of roof occurred capping three bars, and killing both men. 2 killed.

GATE or CATE Richard - 1905 - 11/02/1905 – Age 35 - East Howle Hewer, Carlton Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of stone in the face while he washing the place, it was well timbered but the stone fell without any warning and canted out some props.

GATEHOUSE John - 1908 - 28/11/1908 – Age 41 - Windsor Sinker, Windsor Steam Coal Co. (1901) Ltd., Glamorgan. A shaft, 8 feet in diameter, had been sunk 22 yards from the face of a hard heading and driven through a fault. It had provided the coal, and very little remained to be done in it. Deceased and his mates were sitting at the top of the shaft, eating their food, when the chargeman, who was some distance away called deceased. He got up and walked quickly towards the chargeman, and right into the shaft, having evidently forgotten it. The opening at the top of the shaft was 34 inches square and should have been fenced.

GAVIN James jnr. - 1909 - 20/05/1909 – Age 33 - Cowdenbeath Manager, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was driving a locomotive, when the motion suddenly reversed, and as it was going towards a dead buffer, with which it would collide, he jumped to the ground and fractured his left leg. He succumbed to his injury about a month later.

GAVIN Matthew - 1903 - 08/04/1903 – Age 27 - Littleton Rockheader, Littleton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Explosion of a shot of compressed gunpowder while he was trying to relight the fuse after it had missed fire.

GAVIN Patrick - 1903 - 01/05/1903 – Age 23 - Raisby Hill, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Raisby Hill Limestone Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When levering some stone off at a crack in the rock, the pinch bar slipped and caused him to fall off his post to the bottom of the Quarry a distance of 70 feet and to be killed.

GAVIN Philip - 1902 - 02/04/1902 – Age 52 - Govan No.6 Woodman, William Dixon Ltd., Lanarkshire. While repairing a road some stone fell from the roof onto him.

GAW Robert - 1908 - 01/10/1908 – Age 36 Springside No.1 Overman, A Kenneth and Sons, Ayrshire. The fireman was redding a fall of roof on a road. The overman came to see him, when a further fall took place and caught him.

GAWNE John Thomas - 1904 - 10/12/1904 – Age 40 - Great Laxey, Lead Miner, Great Laxey Ltd., Isle of Man. Scaffolding gave way and they fell into the water. 4 killed.

GEACH William Henry - 1900 - 17/11/1900 – Age 35 - Trethowel China Clay Quarry Labourer, Trethowel China Clay Co., Cornwall. Fall of side and overburden. They had a burden platt or bench some yards wide but had worked most it away and were engaged taking it down a further slice, leaving only a yard or so remaining with the natural result that when a quantity of overburden and side gave way it fell upon them and carried them off the ledge to the bottom of the Quarry, some 20 feet below. The place was to have been left in a day or so not being deemed safe to work there in the winter, the margin of safety the manager's opinion being the difference between a fine and a wet day. (Proceedings were instituted enforce penalties when a fine of £5 and £1 13s. 9d. costs was imposed on each of the two partners.) 2 killed.

GEARY Alfred - 1909 - 31/12/1909 – Age 30 - Whitwick, Granite Quarry Machine driller, Whitwick Granite Co. Ltd., Leicestershire. He climbed up a Quarry, 30 feet deep, and up a ladder 10 feet to close a steam tap at a drilling machine, which had been left open to prevent freezing, and as he returned the ladder slipped at the foot and it and the deceased fell to the ground. Died January 1st, 1910. The ladder was most insecurely set on a slope. No rope was used. The night had been wet, and the accident occurred before daylight when no artificial light was provided.

GEARY William John - 1906 - 01/10/1906 – Age 21 - Coegnant Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face while at work at the face, a piece of roof, measuring 7 feet by 5 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 6 inches, fell upon him. Three roof supports were knocked out by the stone. New seam.

GEDDES Henry - 1909 - 29/04/1909 – Age 52 - Cowdenbeath Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was stripping coals in a machine wall and had knocked out a prop, which was in his way. He had just got another and intended setting it up when a large stone fell and injured him so severely that he died ten hours later.

GEDDES James - 1901 - 24/12/1901 – Age 44 - Eastfield sandstone Quarry Rock foreman, Turners Ltd., Linlithgow. While guiding a crane rope past a gangway he slipped and fell about 16 feet.

GEDDES Robert - 1904 - 02/08/1904 – Age 49 - Bourne Moor D Shifter, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from the effects of strangulated hernia alleged to have been caused by lifting pipes in the pit but medical evidence and post-mortem showed that strangulation could not have occurred in the pit.

GEE Charles - 1901 - 14/10/1901 – Age 24 - Orgreave Wagon lowerer, Rothervale Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Crushed between buffers when helping to move wagons.

GEE Robert - 1907 - 28/01/1907 – Age 15 - Renishaw Park No.5 Train rider, J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was riding on the first tun of a train of six and in attempting to get off for the purpose of putting a tail-rope at the back of the set, he fell under the train and was run over and killed.

GEE Thomas - 1904 - 02/09/1904 – Age 46 - Prudhoe Hewer, Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased and three other hewers were working in a longwall face, 30 yards long in the Brockwell seam which is 2 feet 5 inches thick and overlaid by 1 foot of black fossiliferous shale left on as a roof. The coals were drawn along the face on a new system, a long low iron tub running on rails laid along the face to a gauge of 2 feet 10 inches was worked on the main and tail rope system by a thin rope and wheel turned by a boy in the gateway, where a deep bottom caunch enabled the face tub to be drawn over the ordinary tubs and the coal dropped into them by drawing a slide in the bottom of the face tub. The face was supported by chocks between the rails and the goaf and by props between the rails and the coal face but no gears were set across the rails. The roof began to work and deceased, who was third man from the gateway, endeavoured to reach it when he was caught by a mass of the black shale, about 22 feet long and 3 feet wide, relieved by a parting above and ordinary cleets which ran through both it and the coal at the sides falling directly over the rails and terminating about 9 yards from the gateway. There appeared to be some want of care in regard to the timbering (although the supply was good) both on the part of the officials and men and the Jury recommended more care in this respect. The Local Inspectors in their report described the timbering and stated 'we think there was sufficient props in and there was sufficient props for the men to get.'

GEERE Samuel David - 1907 - 09/04/1907 – Age 54 - Kiveton Park Collier, Kiveton Park Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was cleaning up the dirt, at the bottom of the seam over which the last tub of coal had fallen, when a piece of coal fell off the face and hit him on the head. A sprag was set against the coal but a bump occurred and displaced it.

GEGGIE Robert - 1900 - 03/04/1900 – Age 51 - Cowpen, Isabella Horsekeeper, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was about to enter the cage, at the yard seam, when owing to a mistake in the signal the cage was suddenly lowered and he fell on to the cage top.

GELLING Henry Louis - 1904 - 10/12/1904 – Age 18 - Great Laxey, Lead Labourer, Great Laxey Ltd., Isle of Man. Scaffolding gave way and they fell into the water. 4 killed.

GELSTHORPE William - 1908 - 25/11/1908 – Age 22 - Tinsley Park Filler, Tinsley Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was pulling some coal on the face when it fell suddenly and knocked him against the prop and displaced it. He fell with his back against the end of the prop, and his spine was injured. Died on November 30th.

GEMMELL James - 1901 - 11/03/1901 – Age 40 - East Plean Miner, Plean Colliery Co. Ltd., Stirling. Fall of stone from side of working face.

GEMMELL John - 1900 - 17/08/1900 – Age 48 - Portland No.5 Miner, Portland Colliery Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. A section of dip workings sealed off by a brick stopping was being reopened. Two shots of Nobel's blasting gelignite were fired in the stopping, 30 inches thick, blowing it down and causing an explosion of firedamp accumulated behind it. The men all retired nearer the shaft and an hour afterwards a second explosion occurred fatally injuring six of them and injuring another two. The cause of the second explosion has not been ascertained. 6 killed.

GEMMELL John jnr. - 1900 - 17/08/1900 – Age 23 - Portland No.5 Miner, Portland Colliery Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. A section of dip workings, sealed off by a brick stopping, was being reopened. Two shots of Nobel's blasting gelignite were fired in the stopping, 30 inches thick, blowing it down and causing an explosion of firedamp accumulated behind it. The men all retired nearer the shaft and an hour afterwards a second explosion occurred fatally injuring six of them and injuring another two. The cause of the second explosion has not been ascertained. 6 killed.

GENT James - 1908 - 30/11/1908 – Age 21 - Holmewood Loader, Hardwick Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was getting coal when a large fall of roof occurred and fatally injured him. He died 5th December.

GEORGE Evan - 1909 - 13/10/1909 – Age 72 - Merthyr Vale Labourer, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, who was making his way to the shaft, was run over by a full journey and killed. There was ample room on the sides of the road and manholes from 4 to 10 yards apart.

GEORGE Evan - 1909 - 17/11/1909 – Age 55 - Cilely Collier, Atlantic Merthyr Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face coal, 6 feet by 15 inches by 6 feet thick, crushed a sprag out and fell on deceased as he was working at it with a mandril. Jubilee seam.

GEORGE Henry Victor - 1908 - 08/07/1908 – Age 21 - Aldwarke Main Collier, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When holing, a piece of coal fell off the face, behind a sprag at an invisible slip, on to his head and shoulder and killed him.

GEORGE Herbert - 1904 - 11/10/1904 – Age 21 - New Selston Plane rider, James Okes and Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was riding down an engine plane in the last tub of a train of 22 empty tubs. Some of the tubs left the rails and deceased was in some way fatally injured. He died in less than an hour after the accident.

GEORGE John - 1900 - 12/05/1900 – Age 22 - Lower Duffryn Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff 5.5 feet x 2 feet 8 inches x 1 foot thick, fell out over gob when he was adjusting a prop under the end of it nearest the road. Died on 23rd. Seven feet seam.