HACKES John - 1901 - 23/10/1901 – Age 29 - Haden Hill Stallman, W Bassano and Co., Staffordshire. Fall of roof. He was drawing timber in the mouth of a bolt hole in the bottom section of the thick coal seam and was using a timber bar instead of the bunter to knock out the props. The result was that he was not far enough away when the timber collapsed and he was buried by a rush of fine stuff from the goaf above. Another man was injured.

HACKETT AE - 1904 - 13/08/1904 - Granvill Marl Quarry, Not employed, Staffordshire. Killed by falling into the Quarry. He was out walking with a young woman at night and they lost their way. Deceased got over the fence round the top of the Quarry and fell in.

HACKETT Ernest - 1906 - 04/10/1906 – Age 17 - Pleasley Rope boy, Stanton Iron Works Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was coupling a train of four full tubs on to an endless-rope, when he appears to have slipped and was run over and killed.

HACKNEY John - 1908 - 07/04/1908 – Age 25 - Birchenwood No.18 Collier, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was holing at the buttock in the Winpenny Seam when a piece of roof bass, about 4 feet 6 inches square and 6 inches thick fell from between two parallel slips converging upwards. The fall which buried deceased, reeled a prop and broke the lid on another prop. Deceased died five days later from injuries to the pelvis and bladder. The roof in this part of the mine was not good there being an unusual and treacherous layer of bass between the coal and the hard bind. It is probable that no fall would have occurred if all props had been set with substantial lids over them.

HACKWORTH George Daniel - 1901 - 23/10/1901 – Age 39 - Deaf Hill Hewer, Trimdon Coal, Co.Durham. When hewing with another man a fall of stone took place and fractured his spine and injured his head. Died 15th Nov.

HACKWORTH R.H. - 1906 - 27/06/1906 - Deaf Hill, Trimdon Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Slightly injured on 25th March, 1902. Died 27th June, 1906.

HADAWAY David - 1909 - 13/05/1909 – Age 30 - Netherton New Miner, A Brooks and Sons, Yorkshire. A blower of firedamp issued from a fault in a heading of a recently opened mine. The gas was ignited by a naked light.

HADDEN Philip - 1904 - 19/05/1904 – Age 24 - Woodhorn Hewer, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, while stripping and filling coal after a coal cutter in the yard seam longwall, was injured about the thigh by a fall of stone from the roof and was taken to the Newcastle Infirmary, where he remained about three weeks; he returned home and resumed work and was soon after again attended by a doctor for stomach and other troubles, and he got worse, and died on the 19th May, 1904. An inquest was held and a postmortem examination made. The medical evidence showed that he died from tubercular disease of lungs and peritoneum, which had no connection with the accident and so the Jury found.

HADDOCK John - 1902 - 09/06/1902 – Age 35 - Frodsham Collier, Wood and Co., Lancashire. Inquiry made. The deceased reported that he injured his stomach by going against the corner of a tub under ground. He afterwards went under an operation and expired on the 21st June, 1902.

HADDOW Archibald - 1906 - 09/08/1906 – Age 41 - Lanemark, Rigfoot Chain runner, Lanemark Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. A race of full hutches, which he was taking out of a lye to go up a dook went off the rails and crushed him against the side of the road.

HADDOW James - 1901 - 29/08/1901 – Age 38 - Oakbank oil shale Miner, Oakbank Oil Co., Edinburgh. Deceased bored a hole for a shot to a depth of 3 feet 7 inches and inserted the contents of two 1 lb. cartridges of gunpowder into it, in beginning to stem the gunpowder exploded, he was badly burnt and succumbed subsequently to his injuries. Deceased's cap with lamp attached was found near the hole and the probabilities are the explosion was caused by a spark from the lamp.

HADDOW Thomas - 1906 - 01/05/1906 – Age 42 - Lassodie Brusher, Thomas Spowart and Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was in the act of setting timber to the roof of a roadway, which he had just brushed, when a stone fell and struck him between the shoulders. His injuries proved fatal on 23rd January, 1907.

HADFIELD Isaac - 1902 - 12/03/1902 – Age 49 - Peak Forest, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Great Central Railway Co., Derbyshire. Supposed to have slipped while lifting at a nip wagon and falling, with his head across the frame-work, the body of the wagon fell back and caught him across the neck. When found he was dead.

HADFIELD John - 1906 - 18/10/1906 – Age 29 - Dingard Lane Collier, Bredbury Colliery Co., Cheshire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was engaged barring a shunt with the fireman when a portion of the side fell striking him just above the left ankle. It was not considered serious at the time, but he succumbed to the effects of blood poisoning, October 28th, 1906.

HADLEY John - 1905 - 06/11/1905 – Age 14 - Morton No.6 Horse driver, Clay Cross Coal Co., Derbyshire. He fell while riding on the first tub of a train of five full tubs and was killed. Riding was allowed.

HAFFIE Thomas - 1900 - 19/10/1900 – Age 30 - Mowbray, Iron Ore Miner, Charles Cannell and Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He tried to light a roof hole with a candle on the end of a pole. Being apparently unsuccessful he went for a ladder and the shot exploded just as he was get back to the working face.

HAGGAN Owen - 1903 - 12/06/1903 – Age 49 - Boldon Hewer, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died June 13. Deceased, and another hewer, were working together in the broken workings of the Bensham seam. At the time of the accident deceased was standing behind a prop, set close to the face watching his marrow try to relieve some coal already kirved by nicking it at the fast side when a slab of coal fell from the upper part of the seam and knocked the prop out which struck deceased in the stomach. The Local Inspector reported, 'we think it has been a pure accident.'

HAGGAN Patrick - 1904 - 29/01/1904 – Age 62 - Washington Hewer, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died July 18th. Deceased, who it was stated had received an injury to his head, when 18 years of age, was injured by a fall of coal in his working place in the Maudlin seam on January and his hand was lacerated and head cut. He was 17 days off work and then worked until June when he became insane. He was taken to the workhouse and then to Sedgefeld Lunatic Asylum, where he died. An inquest was held after a post-mortem examination, and the Jury found 'that death was caused by pneumonia as stated by the doctor, but deceased’s condition, when brought here, was due to injuries he had received at Washington colliery on the 29th January last.’ The Jury added as a rider ‘We wish to add that patients brought to this asylum, in a dying condition, should be accompanied by a more detailed history of their antecedents.’ Compensation was paid to the widow by the colliery company.

HAGGARTY Patrick - 1907 - 23/03/1907 – Age 60 - Hoyland Silkstone Collier, Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When working at the face the roof commenced to weight and the deceased set several props and continued to get coal when a fall of roof took place and displaced a number of props and killed him instantly. He ought to have stopped working.

HAGGAS Turton - 1909 - 09/10/1909 – Age 40 - Haigh Moor Miner, South Kirkby Featherstone and Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He pulled a slab of coal off the face. In falling the coal knocked out a prop and struck Haggas on the side of the head.

HAGGERTY Patrick - 1901 - 20/02/1901 – Age 19 - Haugh No.2 Drawer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. Run over by hutches on a self acting incline. He was taking an empty hutch along a line of rails parallel to the incline and apparently thinking the hutches were running into him he stepped aside in front of descending full hutches.

HAGGERTY Patrick - 1909 - 07/01/1909 – Age 38 - Orgreave Collier, Rothervale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in a working place caused by the settlement of the strata and an unsuspected break in the rock roof. The place was well timbered.

HAGGIS John - 1909 - 01/09/1909 – Age 33 - St. George’s Dataller, Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of side in engine brow whilst repairing from a break, pronounced and known, overhung 2 feet and drawn from the roof. Directed by the fireman to get it down and to work at it from the top side. After trying for half an hour, in accordance with the direction, he then went directly in front and struck half-a-dozen blows with a 12 lb. hammer the stone fell before he could move, he was buried underneath with the shaft of the hammer clenched in his hands when found. 7 feet long, 7 feet 3 inches high.

HAGGOT John * 1906 - 16/10/1906 - Houghton Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham.

HAGUE Frank - 1900 - 25/09/1900 – Age 49 - Warsop Main Dayman, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof coal. Deceased was cutting roof coal down in the gate when a piece broke off and killed him.

HAGUE James - 1908 - 01/10/1908 – Age 56 - Wharncliffe Silkstone Packer, Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When finishing a pack he accidentally struck a prop and shook down a piece of stone from the roof. It was thought that his injuries were trifling, but abscess of the brain developed and he died on 17th February, 1909.

HAGUE Joseph - 1908 - 28/12/1908 – Age 40 - Bickershaw Brakesman, Ackers Whitley and Co., Leigh, Lancashire. When lowering waggons, in the siding, and in order to move on some other waggons, foul of the line, the deceased held a prop between the two sets of wagons. The prop somehow appeared to have slipped, and deceased got fatally crushed between the waggons.

HAGUE T. - 1904 - 15/04/1904 – Age 45 - Wharncliffe Silkstone Engineman, Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. It is not quite certain how the accident occurred but it is probable that he went to the front of the main rope drum of his engine to guide the rope and while doing so slipped and fell between the spur and pinion wheels.

HAIGH Benjamin - 1902 - 25/04/1902 – Age 54 - West Ardsley Boilermaker, Yorkshire Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was superintending the removal of a large boiler when it rolled over upon him and killed him.

HAIGH Hope - 1904 - 13/01/1904 – Age 43 - Calder Haulageman, Mirfield Coal Co., Yorkshire. He was standing behind two horizontal haulage wheels, between the full and empty roads on the main rope plan, and in a moment of forgetfulness he took hold of the incoming rope and his hand was caught between it and the wheel, almost immediately he was caught on the middle of the body between the wheel and outgoing main rope and instantly killed.

HAIGH R. - 1903 - 28/07/1903 – Age 61 - Cardigan, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, J Clough and Sons Ltd., Yorkshire. He was wheeling a barrow, close to the top of the Quarry, when he lost his balance and falling down the Quarry was killed.

HAILE William - 1903 - 12/05/1903 – Age 31 - Montreal, Iron Ore Miner, John Stirling, Cumberland. A gut of ore, 10 to 15 feet wide, had been mined upwards from the 60-fathom level and terminated at a shaly sandstone bed, 18 inches thick above which was a black parting. The working of the highest portions of the ore had been carried on from a platform consisting of heals let into the sides, covered with other timber and debris. Five props set on this platform supported the shaly sandstone bed, near the face of work behind them, it had been taken down. The morning inspector when examining before work commenced found the shaly sandstone bed given a little, the miners were warned and the overman sent for who after examining the place, prudently ordered middle propping under the heads as a preliminary measure and while this was being done the roof swung out, the props fell and broke through the platform and caught deceased.

HAILES Robert - 1900 - 01/02/1900 – Age 45 - Benwell Labourer, WC Carr, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. A full set of tubs had been hauled out of the mine but failed to run clear of the knock-off apparatus. The deceased uncoupled the last few tubs and was about to push them back when the fore part of the set ran back owing to the greasy state of the rails and crushed him against the knock-off bar.

HAILLY Michael - 1900 - 11/09/1900 – Age 30 - Allanton Waggon trimmer, William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. While pinching forward an empty wagon he was crushed between it and one of two other wagons on the same line of rails, which he had left behind him insufficiently secured.

HAINES Charles - 1907 - 02/02/1907 – Age 48 - Shiplake Clay Quarry Quarryman, WH Lea, Oxford. He was fatally injured by a fall of clay which was partially undermined. He died the same day.

HAINES John - 1900 - 20/07/1900 – Age 15 - Penrikyber Signal boy, Penrikyber Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While passing some teams on his way out, he slipped and fell, the wheels lacerating his leg. Lockjaw followed and he died on July 30th.

HAINSWORTH Thomas - 1907 - 07/07/1907 – Age 45 - Scotgate Ash, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, Scotgate Ash Stone Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He, along with another man, was working on a ledge about 42 feet from the surface and the same distance from the bottom of the Quarry when a piece of stone, measuring 15 inches by 12 inches by 10 inches, fell from the edge of a stone which was being wedged off the face 30 feet above. The foreman saw the stone falling and at once gave an alarm; the deceased in jumping to get out of the way fell into the Quarry and was so severely injured that he died the following day.

HAIR Joseph - 1901 - 25/09/1901 - Seaham Hewer, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from injuries received by hitting his head against a baulk when walking outbye on Sept. 27th 1897.

HAKIN Joseph - 1904 - 31/10/1904 – Age 44 - Hunwick Hewer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Caught by full tub on self acting incline after an empty set had passed him and he was killed.

HALE Alfred - 1908 - 27/03/1908 – Age 23 - Cwmaman Haulier, Cwmaman Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 4 feet by 18 inches by 18 inches thick. As he was taking a tram along a heading a pair of timbers were crushed out, which allowed a stone to fall on the deceased. The heading was closely timbered inwards, but outwards there was a length of 4 or 5 yards untimbered. No.2 Yard seam.

HALE Charles - 1906 - 03/08/1906 – Age 42 - Stone Works Blain Quarry Labourer, J Monks and Co., Monmouth. Deceased was at the end of an aerial ropeway, about 600 yards in length, leading from the Quarry to the place of loading into railway tracks. At the time of accident he was engaged oiling the pulley and was knocked off the staging by the rope being set in motion from the other end by the manager without any signal being given.

HALE Frank - 1903 - 17/03/1903 - Age 17 - Trafalgar Collier’s boy, Trafalgar Colliery Co. Ltd., Gloucester. Fall of roof at the face the top coal, 6 inches thick and clod 2.5 inches, had been cleared 3 feet over the bottom coal thus leaving 4.5 feet of roof unsecured. The props were within 14 feet from the face of the bottom coal. The boy's collier was to blame as he does not appear to have taken to secure the roof, which apparently was not good over the bottom coal.

HALE Fred - 1906 - 30/01/1906 – Age 30 - Aldwarke Main Trammer, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. A full tub was being lowered by a collier down a road into ‘a jut’ by means of a chain round a prop, and when passing a level near the bottom end of the road it got off the way. The deceased man shouted to the man who was lowering the tub to keep hold of the chain and then lifted it on to the rails, the collier thinking the tub had reached the jut released the chain, and as soon as the deceased got the tub on to the way it overpowered and carried him seven yards, and fatally crushed him against some tubs that were below. One of the colliers should have followed the tub down if this had been done in this instance the accident would not have occurred.

HALE George – 1906 – 17/07/1906 – Age 37 – Blaina Collier, John Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Of weak intellect, he hanged himself. He was injured when at work at Blaina Colliery on the 17th July 1905, and did not work regularly afterwards.

HALE Hamilton – 1908 – 12/03/1908 – Age 48 – Longrigg Brusher, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased had been engaged brushing a road and had taken down the loose stones made by a shot. A part would not come down by wedging and he left it and was coming out from the face afterwards when it fell upon him.

HALE John – 1903 – 09/06/1903 – Age 16 – Chisnall Hall Drawer, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in roadway whilst taking a tub along. Large stone, two ton weight, fell from a cavity above iron girders, displaced girders. The roof above the girders ought to have been secured. (Average roof.)

HALE Joseph – 1904 – 18/07/1904 – Age 29 – Foxyards Pikeman, Wall and Barker, Staffordshire. Fall of roof and side (coal and old gob) in Thick Coal pickings. These men 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 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 as a result of being buried in the fine shutt. 2 killed.

HALE Solomon – 1903 – 12/05/1903 – Age 30 – Cliff Limestone Quarry Labourer, Thatcher Bros., Gloucester. When about to return with his barrow, from which he had topped the load into a barge, he fell off the plank on which he was walking and was drowned in the River Avon.

HALES William Walker – 1907 – 15/06/1907 – Age 49 – Norman Cross clay Quarryman, Norman Cross Brick Co., Huntingdon. Deceased was using a bar and getting clay down from the top of a face, 50 feet deep and nearly vertical, when he fell down the Quarry face, probably due to his bar slipping as he struck the clay. He died 1st July.

HALEY Francis – 1906 – 18/05/1906 – Age 20 – Kirkwood Miner, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. When passing between two standing waggons a third moving waggon struck one of them, and he was crushed between the buffers.

HALEY Hugh – 1900 – 16/11/1900 – Age 56 – Orbiston No.3 Miner, Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face. A prop which supported the stone which fell had been previously knocked out by his neighbour because he (deceased) complained that it was in his way.

HALEY J. – 1903 – 10/03/1903 – Age 65 – Chairbarrow Sinker, Lowmoor Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 11th March. Fall of rock from the side of a sinking shaft. Cause a slip.

HALEY James – 1902 – 23/06/1902 – Age 36 – St. Johns Surface labourer, Locke and Co. (Newland) Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 3rd July. Run over by wagons when walking along the siding.

HALEY John – 1904 – 14/03/1904 – Age 38 – Shotton Hewer, Horden Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Took ill after leaving the pit and died the following day. The death was alleged to have been accelerated by his straining himself while assisting to lift a full tub on to the way but a post-mortem examination showed death was due to heart failure following congestion of lungs and liver.

HALEY John – 1907 – 01/02/1907 – Age 26 – Howden Clough Labourer, Howden Clough Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was pulling some full wagons on to a weigh by means of a winch and when doing so a train of empty wagons, which was being pushed by a Great Northern Railway Company’s locomotive, joined the full wagons and caused the handle of the winch to fly round and injure him severely on his head and back. The guard of the G.N.R train said he warned the deceased to stand clear as he was compelled to push the full wagons back to allow him to get the empty wagons into a siding, the points of which they were standing and although he (Haley) made no reply he appeared to understand what was going to be done.

HALFYARD Thomas – 1904 – 16/07/1904 – Age 15 – Cilely Shackler, JS Blindell and Co., Glamorgan. Five trams of coal were drawn up an engine plane and instead of bringing them to rest, after detaching the rope, the rider allowed them to run unattended down a road dipping 2 inches per yard. They knocked down a door which deceased was about to open and ran over him.

HALKETT George – 1908 – 12/02/1908 – Age 38 – Dalmeny oil shale Fireman, Dalmeny Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. For a considerable time the haulage road had been under repair and heightening, the work being done on the back shift. Repairs were going on as usual when a part of the roadway fell and in order to have it cleared for the fore shift, a large number of hands were employed to clear the debris. Several men got on top of the fall to throw the debris into an open space and while thus engaged a large stone fell from the roof, 15 ft. above, killing the fireman on the spot and injuring Henderson so badly that he succumbed some hours later. The manager was examining the roof at the time, and he and two others were injured. 2 killed.

HALKIER Emanuel – 1909 – 11/02/1909 – Age 45 – Clara Vale Deputy, Stell Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Cages collided in shaft and deceased was thrown out.

HALL A. – 1901 – 09/01/1901 – Age 37 – Rock Red, Clay Quarry Clay getter, Rock Red Brick Co., Yorkshire. Fall of clay and shale. Cause dangerous undercutting and a slip.

HALL Albert – 1908 – 05/12/1908 – Age 16 – Coppy Hill Fitter, Executives of E Barnett, Staffordshire. A small dynamo, endless rope hauling engine-room, each being properly protected and fenced. A youth was in charge of the hauling engine, and, as required, started and stopped the air compressor, which was only run occasionally. Deceased went into the room to examine and clean the dynamo, and afterwards stood talking to the youth, when the compressor was started. The youth returned to his hauling engine, and a minute later heard shouts and saw deceased on the compressor connecting rod, under which he was badly crushed before the engine could be stopped. Deceased had evidently climbed over the fence around the compressor and in answer to his father, the certificated manager of the colliery, said he ‘was gaming and slipped’; asked who with, he said ‘No one.’ He was taken to the hospital, where his leg was amputated, and he died at 6.30 pm. the same day.

HALL Alfred – 1900 – 04/04/1900 – Age 22 – Horsley Stallman, Horsley Kilburn Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was holing at the coal face when a small quantity of roof fell upon his head. The injuries were apparently slight but cerebral meningitis developed and he died on 13th May.

HALL Alfred – 1906 – 28/07/1906 – Age 37 – Pendleton Collier, A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Upheaval of floor of working place from a sudden weight which displaced props, allowing a layer of the roof to settle a foot. Gas was given off from thin coal under the Rams seam. Depth from surface about 3,300 feet. 2 killed.

HALL Anthony – 1906 – 10/03/1906 – Age 63 – Harraton Screener, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. When attempting to cross between laden trucks and a truck being loaded, the latter was moved forward and he was caught between the butlers of this truck and those of the trucks already laden.

HALL Bernard – 1908 – 29/08/1908 – Age 18 – Cannock Chase Horse driver, Cannock Chase Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was taking a single empty tub inbye along a nearly level road. He walked at the right side where there was most room and was holding the horse by the bridle. It bolted and turned into a side road in which it was accustomed to work. The points being set for the straight road, the tub was pulled off the rails and jammed deceased against a post causing injuries which resulted fatally half-an-hour afterwards.

HALL Cheveral – 1906 – 14/11/1906 – Age 28 – Aldwarke Main Collier, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He had taken out two props and got some ripping down near the left side of a cross-gate, in front of a chock, and was putting stone in the pick at the opposite side of the gate when some stone fell from a cavity made by a previous fall and knocked out several bars with their covering wood and dirt. The timber and stone fell upon him and killed him instantly. Some of the stone must have been loose, but being out of sight, was not detected.

HALL Christopher – 1901 – 02/09/1901 – Age 57 – Pilsley No.1 Asst. deputy, Pilsley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of side. A fall of side occurred on the the main road, deceased and other men were removing the fall when the opposite side of the roadway fell off and killed deceased.

HALL Edward – 1908 – 01/12/1908 – Age 30 – Stafford, Sutherland Packer, Staffordshire. Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased and another were building a pack at a longwall face in the Ash Coal. A small downthrow fault extended along the face nearly parallel to and about 3 feet from it and the band above the coal, which has a keen glassy parting on top that had parted away from the fault and was apparently resting upon the props, the break being visible all along the face. The men stopped for supper and for no obvious reason deceased seated himself upon a tub under the broken roof but apparently protected by props. The fall of roof took place and fastened him, by the legs, and as his mate approached to relieve him a further fall took place killing him instantly. The place was well propped but the props were reeled out by the falling roof. Deceased would have been perfectly safe had he seated himself beside his mate.

HALL Ernest Henry – 1909 – 08/10/1909 – Age 13 – Glapwell Horse driver, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was bringing his horse from the workings to the stables at the end of the shift, when the horse kicked him, causing a fractured skull from which he died on 19th October. Notices posted in the mine state that drivers must lead the horses to and from the stables.

HALL Francis – 1908 – 06/10/1908 – Age 16 – Devon Miner, Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Clackmannan. Deceased was sitting resting against a prop, set to the roof, when a mass of roof suddenly fell and killed him.

HALL George – 1905 – 14/12/1905 – Age 59 – Ashington Wasteman, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased and another wasteman were enlarging a return air road and the stone worked was taken in a 'buck’ or iron stow tub with a door at one end to a tip in a stenton where it was emptied, cast through a man door and filled into tubs on the haulage road. The gradient from the point where they were working to the tip was in favour of the load, the last 6 yards being the steepest. One drag was used until the steep part was reached when two were necessary. Deceased took away a loaded buck with one drag on it, walking behind, and as he did not return his marrow went forward and found him lying on the pavement at the tip, jammed against a prop with one of the wheels of the buck against his neck. His lamp was hanging on a prop near the tip. Only one drag was in the wheels of the buck. It was surmised that after bringing the buck to the commencement of the steep part of the road he had left it, gone forward and hung up his lamp and then returned and eased the buck forward while in front and had been overpowered. The road at the tip was contracted and when the buck was there it was difficult to pass and this may have induced deceased to go in front of it. The Local Inspectors reported ‘we find the place in a safe working order.'

HALL George – 1907 – 11/11/1907 – Age 13 – South Derwent Driver, South Derwent Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased, who had worked as a driver since June, was driving two loaded tubs out-bye and was found by the deputy lying before and partly under the first tub with its front wheels against his chest and quite dead. Part of his lamp, an open light called a ‘midgie,’ was lying a few feet behind the last tub and the remainder was under the first tub. There were marks showing he had been pushed forward about 15 feet. The road was in good order and there was ample height and the props set under balks supporting the roof were not nearer the rail than 1 foot 8 inches on the side on which he rode or walked. After leaving the flat he drove for about 10 yards without any drag then he got off the limbers inserted a wood drag in the wheels of the last tub, walked by the side of the set for 20 yards, took out the drag and got on to the limbers again. He was found about 19 yards from where he would take the drag out and here a broken drag was found but whether it had any connection with the accident could not be determined. The pony was quiet. The Local Inspectors reported, after describing these conditions, ‘We are therefore of the opinion that the accident is not due to any negligence on the part of anyone, but purely accidental.’

HALL George – 1908 – 17/09/1908 – Age 38 – Cannock Chase No.2 Stallman, Cannock Chase Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was working at a longwall face in a seam, 4 feet 2 inches thick with 1 foot 6 inches of dirt holing below. A portion of the face, about 10 feet long, had been left the previous night underholed to a depth of from 9 inches to 1 foot. On going into the stall, in the morning, deceased examined this portion, which was spragged at each end, and he set a sprag in the centre of it. He then commenced to work at one end of the piece but had only struck a few blows when the rate came off at a ‘face slip,’ reeled the sprags out and fell upon him, killing him almost instantly. The coal had evidently ‘weighted’ during the night, and fell as soon as deceased began to work at it, although it appeared both to deceased and the deputy to be safe when examined a short while before.

HALL Henry – 1909 – 04/08/1909 – Age 38 – Huncoat Collier, George Hargreaves and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst pushing a tub he slipped cut his right knee; blood-poisoning caused death on 13th.

HALL J.W. – 1909 – 06/05/1909 – Age 22 – Wrose Brow, Brickearth Quarry Clay getter, Thomas Sutcliffe, Yorkshire. He was under-cutting a clay face when a fall occurred and he was killed. The fall was caused by a boulder, embedded in the clay, which could not be seen before the fall.

HALL James (injured) – 1905 – 10/03/1905 – Cambrian No.1, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was the subject of a Special Report by FA Gray. 33 killed.

HALL James – 1907 – 23/11/1907 – Age 32 – Schoolfield Assistant manager, Messrs J.S. Hall, Staffordshire. Deceased had gone into a heading in Heathen coal, about 18 feet wide, to measure up the face. The coal was 4 feet thick with about 3 feet of rock and shale above which is worked off first. This had been taken off for about 3 feet along the face and short props set from coal to roof. Deceased sat on top of coal when a piece of the top stone fell away striking him, on the back fracturing his spine. He died 21st May.

HALL James – 1909 – 26/04/1909 – Age 15 – Middleton Pony driver, Middleton Estate and Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was pushing an empty set of tubs into the pass-by, when a stone fell on his head and killed him. The men who were ripping the road, told Hall that he could pass in safety. They made a mistake, for some of the stone at the edge of the ripping was loose.

HALL Jeremiah – 1907 – 26/08/1907 – Age 50 – Hamsteels Deputy, Owners of Hamsteels Collieries, Co.Durham. He fell off a ladder as he was climbing down the pit, and was killed.

HALL John * 1902 – Ashington – Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

HALL John – 1901 – 05/11/1901 – Age 64 – Brands Banksman, Butterley Co., Derbyshire. He died suddenly while taking a meal at the mine. The doctor certified that he died from 'heart disease and bronchitis.' No inquest was held.

HALL John – 1904 – 26/01/1904 – Age 45 – Swalwell Hewer, Dunston Garesfield Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased and another hewer were working double in a bord, 6 yards wide in the Five Quarter seam, when a stone, 11 feet long (across the place) 3 feet 9 inches wide and 18 inches thick at extremes, fell from the roof at the face upon the deceased who was sitting kirving in the centre of the place, the other man was in the right nook and escaped uninjured. The stone projected slightly over the coal and at its outbye edge was supported by two props which were canted out when it fell. Its upper surface was polished and glassy. The place had crossed a small hitch of 1.5 feet throw about 6 yards from the face. There was an ample supply of timber close at hand and the deputy had visited the place on the day of the accident twice before it occurred. The Local Inspectors reported ‘we are of opinion that it is a pure accident.'

HALL John – 1905 – 10/11/1905 – Age 58 – Wollaton Stallman, Wollaton Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. He was injured on 8th May, 1904, by receiving a blow on the body by an iron bar and died two years and six months later of cancer on the lungs.

HALL John – 1909 – 26/03/1909 – Age 14 – Lumley 3rd. Tub pusher, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. No one witnessed this accident. It is thought that he had been riding on the end of a tub as it was being elevated by a creeper and that in stepping off his foot had been caught fast in a link of the creeper chain. His left leg was torn off and he was delivered over the return drum of the creeper and let fall a distance of 40 feet to the ground His work was not at, or near, the creeper. The arrangements were in order.

HALL John George – 1906 – 24/08/1906 – Age 38 – Preston Stoneman, UA Ritson and Sons Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, who had been a deputy up to a fortnight before the accident, was walking outbye, and came to a junction on an endless rope road, where sets of three are attached to a rope under the tubs, travelling at a speed of 2.5 miles per hour, by a clip. He jumped on to the front end of the first tub of a loaded set, and had not ridden more than 23 yard before he was caught by the roof where it was only 9 inches clear of the tubs. He was knocked back and rolled over. His mate, who was in front, noticed the rope jerk, and looking back saw that deceased was fast; he shouted back to the junction, and the rope was stopped, and deceased was liberated and at once taken to the Infirmary, but he died on his arrival there. Riding on the acts is not allowed, and is a breach of Special Rule 95, and a notice to this effect was posted up at the junction, The Local Inspectors reported ‘In our opinion it is a pure accident.'

HALL John Scott – 1901 – 12/04/1901 – Age 62 – Elemore Back deputy, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co. Durham. This man with a shifter was preparing a district for work again, it having been standing for eight years. They were renewing timber and had on occasion to draw out some old timber when a large stone fell and so severely injured him that he died the same day. He had set no timber for his own protection.

HALL Joseph – 1900 – 20/04/1900 – Age 18 – Harborough fireclay Quarry Labourer, EG Armytage, Derbyshire. While deceased was trying to step over a running rope it caught his clothes and he was dragged into the revolving drum of the steam engines.

HALL Joseph – 1906 – 15/02/1906 – Age 32 – Tanfield Lea Hewer, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased, who worked with two other hewers, was about to shovel coals, between the roadhead and the fast side, at the face of a longwall place in the Top Busty seam, about 4 feet thick, when the lower part, 1 foot thick, of a large cauldron arse, 6 feet in diameter, fell from the roof and partly over the coal upon him, canting out two props in its fall. The conical sides were of glassy keenness and above was a free parting. The deputy had left the place 15 minutes before the stone fell and had observed no special signs of danger, coal sticking to the roof, making it difficult to detect fractures or divisions in it. There was an ample supply of loose props close at hand. The Local Inspectors, after describing the fall in some detail, concluded their report as follows, "Every facility was given by the management to work the place with safety, and no blame is attached to anyone."

HALL O. – 1902 – 08/11/1902 – Age 14 – Manvers Main Pony driver, Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 15th November. He was amusing himself by riding a tram down a road, with a sharp gradient, when he was thrown off the tram and fatally injured.

HALL Ormander – 1906 – 27/06/1906 – Age 29 – Florence Washery Chargeman, Florence Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was found dead in the screen room of the washery. His jacket had been caught by the keyway in the projecting end of the shaft of the elevator pulley, and was wound round the shaft until his arm and head were drawn up quite tightly against it and his neck dislocated.

HALL Reginald – 1900 – 28/08/1900 – Age 24 – Whitwick granite Quarry Quarryman, Whitwick Granite Co., Leicestershire. Deceased and others were playing about the works, during a meal time, when he fell from a plank to the ground a distance of 20 feet, and received fatal injuries. He died the same day.

HALL Robert – 1901 – 11/12/1901 – Age 38 – North Hetton Hewer, North Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While kirving he touched a slip and the jud of coal fell over the sprags and killed him.

HALL Robert – 1909 – 10/11/1909 – Age 27 – Denby Pump attendant, William Drury-Lowe, Derbyshire. Deceased was found lying insensible by the side of an underground electric haulage motor house, and although artificial respiration was kept up for nearly two hours he never regained consciousness. No person saw the accident occur, but it is probable he was attempting to investigate the cause of sparking and flashing on an ammeter without first having taken the precaution to switch off the current and make it dead. The screws attaching the ammeter to the switchboard were found to have been partly unscrewed.

HALL Thomas – 1902 – 16/07/1902 – Age 55 – North Bishopley Limestone Quarry Platelayer, Ord and Maddison Ltd., Co.Durham. He and another two men were riding on a bogey and on coming to a curve collided with two trucks which a locomotive engine was pushing towards them. He was run over and so badly injured that he died the same day.

HALL Thomas – 1905 – 26/12/1905 – Age 48 – Maypole Collier, Moss Hall Coal Co., Abram, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged getting cannel coal off to a down throw fault, when a portion of the rock rolled off the fault capping a sprag, and fatally injuring him.

HALL Thomas – 1909 – 22/12/1909 – Age 36 – St. Hilda Hewer, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of top coal in working place.

HALL Thomas Walter – 1908 – 17/12/1908 – Age 35 – Broomhill Screener, Broomhill Collieries Ltd., Northumberland. Crushed between trucks at screens.

HALL William – 1902 – 15/10/1902 – Age 26 – Holmside Oswald Hewer, Thomas Hedley and Bros., Co.Durham. A tub got off the way at a turn and he went to assist the putter to get it on again and when doing so his lighted candle ignited a small quantity of gas which had collected in a gullet in the roof. He was badly burnt on his hands, arms and legs, and died on the 24th. The putter was scorched on the back of his hands and arms, but recovered.

HALL William – 1903 – 14/06/1903 – Age 21 – Lightmoor Collier, Henry Crawshay and Co. Ltd., Gloucester. When holing he cut into an unseen slip which released the coal and caused it to burst over the sprags and injure him fatally.

HALL William – 1909 – 22/07/1909 – Age 57 – Ackton Hall Deputy, Ackton Hall Colliery Co., Yorkshire. A main haulage road was being enlarged and repaired. The deceased and two other deputies were preparing the props for girders, which were to be set, and foolishly he worked under the part of the roof from which girders had previously been drawn. A large piece of rock fell suddenly, killing Hall and injuring one of the other men.

HALL William John – 1901 – 20/04/1901 – Age 28 – New Tredegar Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in his working place in consequence of being insufficiently timbered.

HALLAM G.H. – 1900 – 12/02/1900 – Age 46 – Adderley Green No.9 Collier, Stirrup and Pye, Staffordshire. Fall of top coal from roof of main dip at working face. The roof coal was unsound and was timbered to within 10 feet of the face of a dip. Two more bars should have been put in but reliance was placed on an apparent improvement in the strength of the top coal. The top coal fell suddenly over the whole area between the face and the timber, 10 feet by 7 feet by 2.5 feet thick. Another man was injured.

HALLAM John – 1900 – 05/02/1900 – Age 16 – Clifton Horse driver, Clifton Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was found dead under a loaded tub, one of a train of two attend to a horse. He was supposed to have been riding on the shaft iron connecting the horse to the tubs and fallen off.

HALLAM Samuel – 1900 – 17/02/1900 – Age 29 – Pleasley Stallman, Stanton Iron Works Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was loosing coal when a fall of roof occurred and seriously injured his leg. He was taken to a hospital where erysipelas and dropsy supervened and he die on 7th March.

HALLESEY Henry – 1903 – 27/06/1903 – Age 18 – Trefor Shackler, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, who had assisted a haulier to put a tram on the road volunteered to drive the horse out if the haulier would go on in front to attend to the pointers. The haulier did so and deceased was no doubt riding on the gun when the pin rose and liberated the horse causing deceased to fall under the trams which dragged him along about 20 yards.

HALLET Robert – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 38 – 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.

HALLETT Lewis William - 1905 - 11/07/1905 - National No.2 Boy, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones.

HALLETT Robert - 1905 - 11/07/1905 - National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones.

HALLEY James - 1903 - 09/07/1903 – Age 14 - Leven Pithead runner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. After the signal was given to the engine keeper that all was ready deceased, thinking the guard to keep the tubs in position on the cage was not properly up, put his right foot to the guard and just then the cage left the surface and his leg was caught between the cage cover and side of shaft and completely severed at the thigh. He died four hours afterwards.

HALLHAN Dennis - 1908 - 10/02/1908 – Age 25 - Cwmcynon Ripper, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road rock, 9 feet by 4.5 feet by 20 inches thick, it fell on them as they were trying to bar it down. How they got into the position they were found in no one knew, but it is probable that they failed to get the stone down, and were passing under it to work at the other end when it fell. Four feet seam. 2 killed.

HALLIDAY George Bell - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 17 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 11 Ramsey Street, Stanley.

HALLIDAY Marion - 1909 - 14/04/1909 – Age 14 - Fauldhead Stonepicker, Sanquhar and Kirkconnel Collieries Ltd., Dumfries. When crossing rails in front of two moving waggons at the screen she got run over. Female.

HALLIDAY Robert - 1903 - 20/05/1903 – Age 40 - Kirkwood No.1 Brusher, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on brushing face. Died in Sept. and the accident was not reported until then.

HALLIDAY William - 1902 - 25/10/1902 – Age 46 - Benwell Hewer, W Cochrane Carr, Co.Durham. Died 26th October 1902. On the 25th October deceased got his foot crushed by a full tub and a small bone broken. The accident happened about 4 am. and he continued at work till 8.30 a.m., the end of his shift, and walked to his house near the pit and was attended by a doctor. On Sunday, the next day, he died at 7.15 am. An inquest was held and a post mortem examination made and the doctor who had attended him stated death was due to apoplexy and not from an accident or violence and the jury so found.

HALLIWELL George - 1901 - 10/04/1901 – Age 23 - Orrell Fitter, Orrell Colliery Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. When engaged getting materials out of the Orrell four-feet mine, just after the seam had been abandoned, the fireman appears to have fired a charge of roberite on an iron cog wheel in a level near the main haulage brow in a dusty part of the mine, without the knowledge of the managers and contrary to the rules. An explosion of coal dust occurred which travelled through the main roads killing Halliwell and Farrimond and the other two persons. Sharrock and Parkinson succumbed to the injuries received about a week after the explosion. 4 killed.

HALLIWELL James - 1900 - 03/08/1900 – Age 48 - Duxbury Park Manager, Duxbury Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by the cage when attempting to enter at an intermediate mouthing.

HALLIWELL Joseph - 1902 - 02/04/1902 – Age 30 - Gibfield Drawer, Fletcher Burrows and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from loose end at face. Sprag 10 inches from the loose corner proved to be too far and a projecting piece fell.

HALLSWORTH Philip - 1901 - 31/07/1901 – Age 45 - Dewsnap Collier, Dukinfield Collieries Co., Cheshire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased knocked out a prop, which was in the line of the tub rails after he had sounded the roof in order to lay the rails nearer the face when a fall of roof occurred from a slip crushing the deceased fatally and slightly injuring two other persons.

HALPINE Matthew - 1907 - 06/02/1907 – Age 32 - Houghton Main Collier, Houghton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was building a gate side pack when a large fall of roof, coal, and stone, took place and killed him. The fall came from two converging slip and several props and bars and a wood pack were displaced by the fall which was due to a weight bump.

HALSALL Wilmer - 1906 - 05/01/1906 – Age 60 - Moss Labourer, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. While deceased was going up the steps, to the pit brow landing, another person was coming down, carrying an empty wooden box on his shoulder, when he accidentally slipped, and the box, in falling, struck deceased who fell back against the engine house. He succumbed to the injuries received January 8th, 1906.

HALSKRAMMER or HULSKRAMAR Bernard - 1905 - 20/02/1905 – Age 27 - Glencraig Miner, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was taking down coal loosened by a shot, when it fell upon him.

HALSNALL Robert - 1904 - 30/09/1904 – Age 44 - Gidlow Collier, Wigan Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was bringing his tub out along the brow when a fall of roof occurred from a step knocking out a bar which had been recently set and crushed him. He expired Oct. 1904.

HALTON James - 1905 - 11/08/1905 – Age 43 - Glass Houghton Coalcutting machineman, Glass Houghton and Castleford Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. The pit had been standing a week and considerable weight had in consequence, come upon the face. Deceased and another man were re-timbering before commencing to cut, while setting a prop, a fall of road took place and killed him.

HAM George Seward - 1906 - 02/07/1906 – Age 26 - Builders' carter, Emery & Sons, Quarry Proprietors, Oakhill, near Bath, Somerset. In the employ of Messrs. Emery & Sons, Quarry Proprietors, Oakhill, near Bath he was run over by a timber waggon on the 2nd July, on the Little London Road, when hauling timber from Binegar Station.

HAMBLETT Robert - 1901 - 20/11/1901 – Age 18 - Clough Hall Hooker up, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed by tubs on the surface tramway to the dirt tip.

HAMBROOK James – 1909 – 14/01/1909 – Age 38 – Tilmanstone Sinker, East Kent Colliery Co. Ltd., Kent. The winding engine man overwound the water barrel, which, becoming detached from the rope, owing to breakage of the pin of the D link, fell down the shaft and caused the death of these three men who were on a scaffold to steady the barrel, about 310 yards from the surface and 5 or 6 yards from the bottom. 3 killed.

HAME William – 1908 – 27/04/1908 – Age 50 – Washington Glebe Labourer, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Clothing caught by revolving shaft actuating screen belting.

HAMER Andrew – 1904 – 20/07/1904 – Age 38 – Rose Hill Collier, S Scowcroft and Son,  Lancashire. Fall of coal from face. Reckless neglect to set sprags, coal undermined, four feet a length of seven feet six inches, no sprag set. Fireman and collier convicted of breach of rules.

HAMER James – 1906 – 18/08/1906 – Age 42 – Cambrian Labourer, Cambrian Collieries Co., Glamorgan. Deceased were struck by the falling jib of a steam derrick used in the excavation of foundations for a power house. The driver was told to pick up the jib, when it dropped with great force into the excavation. The derrick was examined that morning and was considered to be in good working order. After the accident certain defects were noticed which might have caused it. The foreman, enginewright and the mechanical engineer who supplied the derrick were of the opinion that the driver had reversed his engine when he should not have done so. 2 killed.

HAMER James - 1908 - 09/12/1908 – Age 21 - Featherstone Main Filler, South Kirkby Featherstone and Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Whilst waiting for a collier to get some coal down with which to fill a tub, a slab of stone fell from the roof from a concealed slip, and so seriously injured him that he died on December 19th.

HAMER John - 1906 - 17/09/1906 – Age 50 - Wood Farm No.1 Miner, Wood Farm Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased worked in a narrow heading 5.5 feet wide, the roof of which was formed by a 6 inch coal, overlaid by 9 inches of batt. No timber was used. He went outbye to get a drink and when 10 yards from the face the roof coal and batt suddenly fell across the whole width of the place and for a length of 9 feet, disclosing a hitherto unseen slip at one side and parallel to the heading.

HAMER William - 1909 - 18/12/1909 – Age 44 - Ashtons Green Daywageman, Bromilow Foster and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. When engaged repairing, a heavy fall of roof occurred upon them, knocking out several bars. The roof falling up to a seam above a distance of eight yards. The strata being wet was probably the cause of the fall, as the bars were set about three feet apart. 2 killed.