HAMES William – 1908 – 15/02/1908 – Age 37 – North Gawber Trammer, Fountain and Burnby Ltd., Yorkshire. He was walking along a cross-gate and when about 4 yards from the face a fall of roof stone killed him. The cause of the fall was a sudden settling of the super incumbent strata.

HAMILL Owen – 1903 – 12/11/1903 – Age 43 – Giants Hall Contractor, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made. They had been cutting bottom in a main road and had been instructed to set two bars up to support the roof and after they had set one prop the roof gave way capping a prop and fatally injuring deceased.

HAMILTON David – 1907 – 25/08/1907 – Age 25 – Redburn, Sand Quarry Carter, James Fleming, Dumbarton. Fall of sand and gravel.

HAMILTON James – 1904 – 23/02/1904 – Age 34 – Newbattle Brusher, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. While engaged taking of brushing some distance back from the face a stone fell off the side and crushed him.

HAMILTON James – 1905 – 22/03/1905 – Age 20 – Allanton No.2 Miner, William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. While ascending the shaft he fell out of the cage. He seems to have had a fainting fit.

HAMILTON James – 1908 – 03/08/1908 – Age 50 – Climpy Fireman, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was night fireman, and was dividing the contents of a can of gunpowder into two cans of 2.5 lbs each, when a spark from his lamp which was near by fell into one of the cans and an explosion resulted. The current was very strong, and the spark was blown by it into the can. The injuries proved fatal eight days later. A Special Rule was contravened.

HAMILTON James – 1908 – 22/05/1908 – Age 24 – Old Boston Shotlighter, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Deceased attempted to knock a prop out with a hammer from under a stone, when the roof fell upon him.

HAMILTON James – 1908 – 25/03/1908 – Age 34 – Parkhead Bottomer, Glasgow Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was putting a tub on the cage at a mid-working when the cage suddenly dropped and he was caught by the cage and fatally crushed. The engineman failed to have his brake sufficiently tight and the engine moved when the weight of the tub got on to the cage.

HAMILTON Robert – 1901 – 15/01/1901 – Age 32 – Bowhill Fireman, Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased men were instantaneously killed by the sudden fall of about 70 tons of roof consisting of rock bands and fakes intersected by numerous lypes and joint's. The road was 9 to 10 feet in width and the roof was supported by bars 1 foot apart. Part of it had been repaired and retimbered on the previous night. It was inspected by Hamilton and the oversman about an hour before the accident took place and considered in safe condition. 2 killed.

HAMILTON Robert – 1903 – 15/10/1903 – Age 59 – Trimdon Grange Labourer, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He and another man were taking a bogie down to the pit from the workshops when an empty truck, which was supposed to be coupled to some other trucks in the coke yard, came away and ran into them. He was killed and the other man injured.

HAMILTON Thomas Wilson – 1908 – 15/01/1908 – Age 53 – Quarter No.1 Reddsman, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. When setting props to secure broken timbering on a road which he was repairing, the roof gave way and fell on him.

HAMILTON William * 1900 – Pegswood, SH Fraser, Northumberland.

HAMILTON William – 1901 – 21/01/1901 – Age 37 – Wallyford Sinker, Edinburgh Collieries Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased and other sinkers were enlarging a shaft and a few fathoms below them was a scaffold on which the debris fell. The enlargement was proceeding at a point a short distance below the Great Seam and where a crosscut mine left the shaft to cut the seam. The previous shift had left their work fearing a fall and the contractor and others were in the shaft for the purpose of making it secure when a large quantity of stone fell away, above the crosscut, and the two deceased fell with it on to the scaffold below the contractor and others escaping with difficulty. 2 killed.

HAMMEL Philip - 1908 - 23/12/1908 – Age 53 - Bothwell Park No.2 Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on haulage road while travelling out to the shaft.

HAMMILL William - 1902 - 21/08/1902 – Age 44 - Cleddens, Whinstone Quarry Labourer, J and J Neilson, Lanarkshire. While holing loose tops the clay gave way and fell upon him.

HAMMOND Alferd - 1903 - 03/02/1903 – Age 29 - Manvers Main Trammer, Manvers Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in a working place as he was loading a tub.

HAMMOND Charles - 1903 - 29/07/1903 – Age 24 - Afton Miner, Lanemark Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof in working place. It is doubtful that the propping regulations were observed. 2 killed. Another man injured.

HAMMOND David J. - 1905 - 03/10/1905 – Age 25 - West Elliot Haulier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof on the roadway by which he and others were travelling with horses to the shaft. The place had shown signs of weakness, but on being examined by the overman, a few minutes before, was passed as safe apparently through a serious error of judgement.

HAMMOND George F. - 1906 - 29/03/1906 – Age 36 - Thrybergh Hall Corporal, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. He was oiling a vertical pulley in the shaft by standing on the cage top, when the cage was moved, and he fell head first on to the sump boards and fractured his skull. Died on April 3rd. The accident was caused by an assistant hanger-on signalling, without authority, to the winding engineman. He did not know that Hammond was on the cage.

HAMMOND John - 1900 - 20/07/1900 – Age 29 - Whitfield, Institute Collier, Chatterley Whitfield Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of coal from working face (longwall) in Cockshead Seam. The coal fell from a slip knocking out three posts and struts.

HAMMOND Peter - 1908 - 28/09/1908 – Age 54 - Kinneil Miner, Kinneil Cannel and Coking Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was "hagging" off coal at his working face when the roof suddenly fell, crushing him to the ground and his safety lamp, which was on his belt, caused the more serious of his injuries. He succumbed four days later.

HAMMOND R. - 1901 - 02/02/1901 – Age 17 - Snydale Hurrier, H Briggs Son and Co., Yorkshire. Found dead under a tub he was bringing out of the workings.

HAMMOND Thomas - 1906 - 16/02/1906 – Age 28 - Fishley No.3 Chargeman, Fishley Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. An ordinary screw clip, by which two full tubs where attached to an endless rope, broke at a point when the gradient was 1 in 4. No drag or fork having been attached to the rear tub, they ran back for a distance of about 80 yards and struck deceased killing him and injuring two others. The omission to attach a drag was a contravention of Special Rule 101 on the part of a haulage lad.

HAMMONDS John - 1901 - 25/03/1901 – Age 53 - Ireland Dataller, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased died from blood poisoning but as to how this originated there was no evidence to show.

HAMP Guy - 1906 - 25/10/1906 – Age 30 - Lofthouse Collier, Lofthouse Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. After a shot had been fired in a ripping, he and his mate were taking down the loose stone and while doing so he noticed the stone move and so he stepped back. A large stone fell and displaced a prop, 7 feet in length, the end of which hit him on the head. Died on the 27th.

HAMPLETT Henry - 1909 - 14/09/1909 – Age 25 - Littleton Stallman, Littleton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof. 2 killed.

HAMPLETT James - 1909 - 14/09/1909 – Age 22 - Littleton Stallman, Littleton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof. 2 killed.

HAMPTON Edward - 1907 - 04/10/1907 – Age 35 - Dinnington Hewer, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was hewing in long wall working in the 1st West, 3rd Dip district of the Yard seam. The place he occupied was 8 yards wide and was bounded by coal on the right side and by a hitch on the left side and this hitch had altered its direction and crossed the face. The place had also crossed a 24 feet dip hitch and advanced 4 yards beyond it. He was kyrving the coal next the hitch in front of him when a stone, 8 feet long by 4 feet wide and 14 inches thick, fell away from the roof close to the coal and fastened him. The stone was relieved by a slip running between the two hitches and canted out two props in its fall. The putter was in the place at the time and a minute or two before the accident a small piece of stone had fallen from the roof between the face and the tub which stood a few feet back. Deceased and the putter threw this stone to one side and the putter was getting a prop for deceased when the large fall took place. The deputy had been in the place along with the overman 10 minutes before and had then set two props with heads and left loose timber available. The Local Inspectors in their report remarked it would be impossible to detect the slip and that the place was well timbered.

HAMSERSTON Leonard - 1909 - 08/01/1909 – Age 20 - Raglan Rider, Hedleys Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan, Deceased, when riding on the chain in front of a journey of full trams up a road only 4 feet high, was crushed between the first tram and the roof. Riding should have been prohibited in such a place.

HANBURY Frederick - 1900 - 30/07/1900 – Age 27 - Shelton, Rowhurst Loader, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of coal at working face in Rowhurst Seam. He was pulling a lump of coal off the face with his pick and it fell against and knocked out a post and the post struck him on the abdomen. He walked home but died next day from internal injuries.

HANBY Joseph Robert - 1907 - 02/01/1907 – Age 65 - Morley Main Coal miner, Morley Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died from blood poisoning from some injury received on the 3rd November, 1906. What the injury was is not known. He alleged it was caused by a fall of coal and that he was knocked senseless by it, but this was not so, as a collier and a deputy were within five yards of him and they say no fall of any kind occurred. The medical evidence made it clear that a scratch had been received on his knee and that blood poisoning had been thereby set up.

HANBY William - 1907 - 21/12/1907 – Age 60 - Monckton Main Screener, Monckton Main Collieries Ltd. Died from blood poisoning set up by his little finger being bruised between a piece of coal and the plates of a screen. Yorkshire.

HANCOCK Charles - 1907 - 10/08/1907 – Age 31 - Glyncorrwg, South Tipper Glyncorrwg Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed by a coal screen which was lowered into position quicker than deceased who was under it expected.

HANCOCK Frank - 1901 - 05/12/1901 – Age 17 - Clanway Lime, Heath Driver, Clive Son and Myott Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed under a low bar on tubs on a road where riding was prohibited but where the prohibition did not appear to have been enforced. Died 14th Dec.

HANCOCK George - 1902 - 11/10/1902 – Age 19 - Norchard Collier, Park Iron Ore and Coal Co. Ltd., Gloucestershire. When turning anew place off a level part of the overhanging coal fell and crushed him. This accident was due to expecting props to support the sides instead of sprags the prop on being struck sideways was easily knocked out and whereupon the coal fell.

HANCOCK J. - 1904 - 13/10/1904 – Age 29 - Sneyd Collier, Sneyd Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (shale) at longwall face, Mossfield seam. A piece of overhanging roof stone fell on him while he was preparing to set a post under it, after trying to pull it down.

HANCOCK James - 1901 - 26/04/1901 – Age 79 - Gilroyd, Clay Quarry Brick burner, DW Wood and Sons, Yorkshire. The end of a brick kiln fell and the hot bricks burnt him so severely that he died in a few hours.

HANCOCK John - 1906 - 02/01/1906 – Age 17 - Whitfield Taker off, Chatterley Whitfield Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was a taker-off at the bottom of a jig on the Hardmine Level. He was run over by the first load of a journey going past his jig. How he came to be in the way is not known, as the driver was behind the journey. Just at that moment, however, there was a runaway in the jig and he may have been startled and jumping up suddenly, probably stumbled in front of the loads.

HANCOCK Miles - 1909 - 07/09/1909 – Age 55 - Renishaw Park No.1 Stallman, J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. He was killed by a fall of roof in the coal-face, which fell from between the timber and the face, a width of 3 feet.

HANCOCK Ralph - 1905 - 05/07/1905 – Age 61 - Clough Hall No.18 Collier, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (shale) at face of a breasting in the 7 feet Banbury seam. Several posts were reeled out by a goth.

HANCOCK Samuel - 1908 - 05/12/1908 – Age 19 - Cramlington Waler, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Crushed by truck against a brick column.

HANCOCK William - 1906 - 10/02/1906 – Age 19 - Cambrian No.1 Collier, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face coal, 5 feet by 4 feet by 18 inches thick, discharged or crushed out two sprags and fell on deceased. Died February 15th. Coronation seam.

HANCOX James - 1908 - 04/03/1908 – Age 23 - Hamstead Driver, Hamstead Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Underground fire. 25 killed.

HAND Tom - 1902 - 28/11/1902 – Age 56 - Radstock Hitcher, Earl of Waldegrave, Somerset. While he was lifting a derailed tram into the cage, the engineman started under the impression that the signal had been given, he was drawn up the shaft some distance and badly crushed falling back into the sump. It is a very busy shaft and the engineman is expected to lose no unnecessary time, he receives signals from various landings but did not try to exonerate himself in any way beyond stating that he thought the signal had been given to start.

HAND William – 1903 - 05/02/1903 – Age 33 - Pinxton No.2 Stallman, Pinxton Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of coal. A small piece of coal fell on the deceased's foot. He died on 17th February from septic pneumonia or blood poisoning the result of the injury to the great toe of the foot.

HANDFORD Frederick G. - 1903 - 05/01/1903 – Age 24 - Llanbradach Collier, Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was trying to remove a sprag out of a tram wheel when the tram was pulled, by the horse, across the road and he was crushed against the side. He died on 15th April from congestion of the lungs said to be due to the accident.

HANDLEY Dennis - 1900 - 15/05/1900 – Age 38 - Ashton Moss Roger Collier, New Moss Colliery Co., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face of working place caused by injudicious removal of sprags. 4 sprags had been taken out leaving one in the middle of 16 feet of coal, holed 5 feet under. Either deceased was taking this last sprag out or whilst standing near the coal rode over the sprag. Coal had been undermined by a machine, 4 days.

HANDLEY Ernest - 1908 - 12/10/1908 – Age 20 - Nunnery Fitter, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was to be raised from the Parkgate Seam to the surface, a distance of 315 yards. The inset at this seam is 90 yards alive the Silkstone Seam or bottom of the shaft, and the cages were standing at the surface and the lower inset respectively. The hanger-on gave the usual signal for a cage to be sent to the Parkgate Seam and the engineman brought the one at the bottom of the shaft up but in doing so got it a few inches above the landing place and therefore reversed his engine and lowered the cage to the proper level. The usual signals were then given and received by the hanger-on and banksman, the man got into the cage and a signal was given for the cage to be taken to the surface. The engineman had, however, forgotten, after he put the reversing lever handle over to lower the cage at the Parkgate Seam to bring it back again, with the result that when he admitted steam into the cylinders of the winding engine the cage instead of ascending went down the shaft at a rapid rate and dashed on the bottom with such violence that the deceased was very seriously injured and died within a few hours. The rope of the ascending cage was detached and the cage suspended by the action of the detaching hook, but the impetus of the overwind was so great that considerable damage was done to the headgear, rope and the other plant. A careful investigation showed that the machinery and everything in connection with the shaft were in order, and that the accident was due to a mistake on the part of the winding engineman which he freely and fully admitted.

HANDLEY James - 1907 - 10/01/1907 – Age 22 - Shelton Deep Jigger, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased had hooked on his horse to three empty tubs, and was fetching a coupling to attach a fourth when the horse started off inbye. He was endeavouring to pass the tubs in order to reach and stop the horse when he stumbled and fell in front of the moving empty tubs and was jammed against some loaded tubs which stood in the sidings. His skull was badly fractured and he died almost immediately.

HANDLEY Joseph - 1908 - 30/09/1908 - Nostell Haulage boy, Lord St. Oswald, Yorkshire. The haulage was worked with an endless rope and had an inclination in-bye at the point of the accident of 1 in 12. The tubs were put on to the rope at junctions leading to the face. The deceased, with another boy, was putting lockers in empty tubs at a junction under the immediate supervision of an overman. The overman heard tubs coming amain down the haulage road and shouted to the boys to get into a place of refuge and then ran into the level. The runaway tubs rushed past and he then returned to the place and found that one boy had taken refuge behind the empty tubs but the deceased was lying between the full and empty roads seriously injured, having been struck by the tubs. He died the following day. The runaway tubs had come from a level 100 yards above the place of the accident. The man in charge of that level had taken three tubs from a set of five standing in the level and was in the act of coupling them to another tub, standing in the haulage road, when a trammer pushed a tub against the tubs in the level and caused them to run on to the haulage road and they struck the four which were being coupled, causing the six to run amain down the road.

HANDLEY William - 1908 - 05/05/1908 – Age 36 - Victoria Labourer, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was in the act of climbing over a full tram at the Black Vein mouthing, 50 yards from the bottom, in order to get into the cage to assist to lift the full tram on the rails, the cage was drawn up resulting in deceased and the tram falling to the bottom. A signal appears to have reached the engineman from the pit bank and it apparently resulted from the assistant banksman when squeezing between the leg of the pulley frame and a tram (about 9 inches) unknowingly and accidentally causing the signal to go. The signals are electric, and in this case the push was of an old type not countersunk and consequently liable to a thing of this kind, but a more up to date arrangement has now been adopted.

HANDS Edward - 1909 - 25/06/1909 – Age 33 - Ibstock No.2 Dataller, Ibstock Collieries Ltd., Leicestershire. When lowering a set of full tubs on a haulage road he slipped on a rail and the first tub caught and injured his back. He died from pneumonia, and the Coroner’s Jury said this was caused by the accident.

HANDY John - 1906 - 09/01/1906 – Age 34 - Cannock Wood Stallman, Cannock and Rugeley Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was taking a piece of top coal off a longwall face, to make room for a prop, and thereby liberated a piece of rock, about 7 feet in length, 1 foot 6 inches in width at the bottom, and about 5 feet in thickness, which fell upon him. Its outer side was formed by longwall break, inner side by a slip which was not visible before the accident took place.

HANFORD Edward – 1904 – 06/12/1904 – Age 22 – Glyncorrwg Ripper, Glyncorrwg Colliery Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face while deceased and his partner were drilling a hole for a shot in strong clift ground, the piece burst out causing fatal injuries.

HANKINSON Robert – 1900 – 04/05/1900 – Age 35 – Elswick, South Hewer, Elswick Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The two deceased men were hewing in the Beaumont Seam when a holing was unexpectedly made into some old workings containing an accumulation of water. No one had any knowledge of the old workings. 2 killed.

HANLEY William – 1909 – 19/07/1909 – Age 36 – Hall End Stallman, Morris and Shaw Ltd., Warwick. He was called to assist the loader with a full tub near the gate-end, when a fall of roof broke a bar and fatally injured deceased. Died 21st July.

HANLON Edward – 1902 – 28/08/1902 – Age 20 – Wardley Rolleywayman, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased and another rolleywayman named Parry, who was in charge of the work, were taking rails inbye in a coal tub and on a tram drawn by ponies. On coming to a point the road dipped inbye, Parry directed deceased to take his pony and tub down the incline to a place of safety and signal when he was clear. Parry stated he received a signal twice and he then took out one of the drags from the tram, which carried 18 rails, four or five yards long and let it go following with the pony. He came upon the tub into which the tram had run and deceased lying dead at the side of the road. The jury thought there had been carelessness on the part of Parry.

HANLON William – 1907 – 26/11/1907 – Age 30 – Whitehaven, William Drifter, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Explosion of firedamp. 5 killed.

HANMER Frederick – 1902 – 14/08/1902 – Age 33 – Bersham Collier, Bersham Colliery Co., Denbigh. Inquiry made. Deceased was in the act of drawing coal down, off the face in the main coal seam with his pick, when it came over upon him fatally injuring him.

HANN Thomas Ralph – 1903 – 16/10/1903 – Age 62 – Holmside Engineman, Thomas Hedley and Bros., Co.Durham. He for some unknown reason entered the fence round the engine and his clothing was caught by the shaft and he was carried round a drum and killed instantly.

HANN William – 1905 – 17/11/1905 – Age 24 – Usworth Hewer, Johnasson Gordon and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased and his marrow (who was slightly injured) were sumping opposite the road head in a longwall place in the Hutton seam, when a stone 4 feet by 3 feet and 1 foot thick, fell from the roof about 1 feet from the face. The stone was relieved by a slip on one side which was not visible until after it fell. The deputy had just examined and jowled the roof and had not left the place when the accident happened. There was a good supply of loose props. The Local Inspectors reported that in their opinion it was a pure accident’

HANNAH Hugh – 1907 – 19/03/1907 – Age 22 – Altonhill Miner, J and R Howie Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof in working place.

HANNAH John – 1905 – 25/10/1905 – Age 68 – Lindal Moor, Iron Ore Labourer, Harrison Ainslie and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. While deceased was engaged in a cutting on a surface tramway at the mines he suddenly dropped down and expired. The doctor had been attending him for heart disease and gave a certificate that death was due to that cause, and no inquest was held.

HANNAH Joseph Patrick – 1903 – 06/06/1903 – Age 21 – Rosehall No.3 Drawer, R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Crushed by a full hutch when going up a self-acting incline the prop to which the pulley was fixed having broken.

HANNAH Robinson – 1900 – 08/10/1900 – Age 29 – Cleator No. 24, Iron Ore Miner, Cleator Iron Ore Co., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. A dynamite charge had been prepared to bring down a piece of ore in the ordinary way but it fell of its own accord and caught deceased. The place was well timbered indeed more timber could not be set until this particular piece of ore was taken down.

HANNAM Percy Edwin – 1906 – 30/08/1906 – Age 36 – Hickleton Main Collier, Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was cutting some top coal when about 30 cwt. of coal fell over from the face and displaced three props, one of which struck him on the head. Died the following day.

HANNEN James W. – 1909 – 21/06/1909 – Age 18 – Nunnery Pointsman, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was acting as a shunter, and whilst four wagons were being pushed in front of a locomotive he put his coupling pole over the buffer of the front wagon and under the coupling hook, intending to ride on the pole. He fell whilst he was climbing up and was run over and fatally injured. He had no need to accompany the wagons but as he was a particularly energetic smart boy, it is probable that he had seen regular shunters ride on the pole and was imitating the dangerous practice.

HANNIGAN J – 1909 – 19/10/1909 – Strafford Collier, Strafford Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was moving a tub in the coal face when he slipped and fell, injuring his right knee. He did not return to work and died 16 January.

HANNIGAN Michael – 1904 – 10/05/1904 – Age 33 – Merthyr Vale No.1 Asst. repairer, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was clearing some rubbish off the road when a journey of 14 trams knocked him down and ran over him. The repairer, with whom he worked, was about 11 yards away, he heard the journey coming and called to deceased to get our of the way. The road was of good width and was provided with sufficient manholes.

HANNON J.W. – 1908 – 18/08/1908 – Age 33 – Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust 75 killed.

HANNON Michael – 1906 – 22/02/1906 – Age 32 – Princess Contractors man, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The contractors were about to do some ripping of the roof, in a roadway, and went under to take up the rails when the roof fell from a slip, upon the deceased, the props having been set on the other side of the slip.

HANOVER John H. – 1901 – 17/08/1901 – Age 35 – Cilely Assistant timberman, Blindell Bros. Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff 9 feet by 2 feet by 9 inches thick, fell out over a flat on to deceased. One arm of flat was previously broken. Six feet seam.

HANSON Edward George – 1906 – 26/04/1906 – Age 42 – Granville No.2 Stallman, Granville Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Three shots had been fired in the coal-face and failed to bring down the coal. One stallman was using a wedge in the coal-face, the deceased holding a light for him. When the coal fell a prop was knocked out and the roof fell killing the deceased. Two other men were injured.

HANSON J.I Dawson – 1909 – 23/06/1909 – Age 14 – Prince of Wales Pony driver, John Rhodes Esq., Yorkshire. He was found dead under a train of full tubs. He was a very smart, energetic boy and it is probable that he was experimenting with the full tubs, when they got out of his control. He had no right to touch the full train.

HANSON John William – 1907 – 05/09/1907 – Age 35 – Manor Haigh Moor Collier, Manor Haigh Moor Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When lifting a full tub on to the rails, about eleven months ago, he received a sprain internally. Died from phthisis which, although not directly set up by the injury was, indirectly, by lowering his vitality, caused by it.

HANSON Joseph – 1901 – 28/11/1901 – Age 15 – New Lester Dirt picker, James Roscoe and Sons, Lancashire. Crushed by revolving shaft driving the screen belts. Height of deceased was 5 feet 4 inches. Height of shaft above floor 6 feet 1.5 inches. He jumped up laid hold of the shaft in play. His necktie was found twisted round the shaft. Shaft 2.5 inches diameter, running 90 revs per min.

HANSON Richard – 1907 – 08/06/1907 – Age 61 – Lee Quarry Waggoner, Exors of Myles Hardman, Lancashire. In charge of a horse drawing 5 waggon laden with fittings, his son walked behind, deceased at the horse’s head leading it; in passing over a V crossing his foot got fast with the rails, he called out "I am fast," the horse stopped, the waggon went forward, front wheel passed over his leg, fracturing it. He was taken to the Rochdale Infirmary, amputation on the 13th, died on 28th.

HANTON James – 1908 – 22/04/1908 – Age 22 – Silverwood Labourer, Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Too many wagons had been put on a set of rails with the result that one of them fouled a crossing. The deceased was passing between the buffers of the wagon, when another train of wagons, which was being slowly moved by gravity along a parallel set of rails, touched the wagon which was fouling the crossing and he was fatally crushed between the buffers.

HAPGOOD Samuel – 1904 – 11/11/1904 – Age 43 – Blaina Collier, John Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Died on the 23rd March from consumption. He strained himself when at work at Blaina Colliery on the 11th November 1904, and never worked regularly afterwards.

HARBAGE Thomas – 1909 – 18/11/1909 – Age 26 – Lower Wyche, Basalt Quarry Quarryman, Thomas Broad Ltd., Worcester. A shot hole, about 21 feet deep and nearly vertical was charged with 14 oz. of loose gunpowder and stemmed with ground rock from the crusher. The fuse was an ordinary taped one. The shot hung fire, and after waiting for about 80 minutes, the shot firer, assisted by deceased and another, proceeded to unram it with a steel drill. While this was being done the charge exploded, injuring all three men. Deceased died 19 days later of septic pneumonia resulting from his injuries. The regular foreman was absent when the accident occurred, and the shot firer appeared to have had very little experience.

HARBRON Elias – 1907 – 15/01/1907 – Age 19 – Elesmore Putter, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When putting, his head was caught between the tub and roof, and his skull was fractured.

HARDACRE Joseph – 1903 – 22/07/1903 – Age 35 – Tillery Labourer, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Crushed between trucks on the siding near the loading place in consequence of the cramped arrangement of the work. It has since been altered.

HARDACRE William - 1902 - 08/07/1902 – Age 24 - Clough Hall No.18 Collier, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof coal from between slips while clearing the dip above the jig wheel in 8 foot Banbury seam.

HARDCASTLE R. - 1903 - 14/04/1903 – Age 18 - Waterloo Main Labourer, Brooks and Pickup, Yorkshire. He was in the stoke hole of the boiler, leaning over the rail of the waggon road to clear slack from between a waggon when some other waggons unexpectedly bumped into the standing one and the wheels passed over Hardcastle's body.

HARDIE John - 1905 - 08/08/1905 – Age 17 - Altyre Quarry Labourer, Sir AG Cumming, Elgin. Deceased with others was Quarrying gravel and sand for the roads on the estate when the face collapsed and buried him. Quarry was about 10 feet deep.

HARDIMAN George - 1901 - 13/02/1901 – Age 58 - Deep Duffryn Collier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. He was called out of his stall by haulier to assist in backing one full tram to another. The horse suddenly started and deceased was caught by the tram which passed over him and crushed him against a post on the side. Died on the 20th.

HARDING Edward - 1904 - 13/02/1904 – Age 15 - Merthyr Vale Collier boy, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, after having received his pay was crossing the pit-bank on his way home when he fell in front of an empty tram returning from the screens and was crushed between it and a tram of rubbish.

HARDING F. - 1901 - 17/12/1901 – Age 13 - Tankersley Screenboy, Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fell from a full wagon which was under the screens and an empty wagon ran over him.

HARDING Farnham - 1908 - 08/05/1908 – Age 68 - Camerton Heading hand, Miss EE Jarrett, Somerset. Having stepped out of a manhole, in an incline in the north side of the shaft, in order to stop the journey to allow him to fill up some rubbish, he failed to notice the close approach of the journey which knocked him down and fractured his thigh. He died the following day from shock. (Mechanical haulage).

HARDING Frank - 1906 - 04/04/1906 – Age 19 - Elliot West Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was cutting out a post in a barry face between two flats, only 8 feet 4 inches apart. It is thought he missed his blow and knocked out one of the arms supporting the flats and thus liberated a stone which fell upon him, causing internal injuries.

HARDING H. - 1903 - 25/09/1903 – Age 20 - Rough Heys, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, Walker and Co., Yorkshire. Ruptured his liver when lift into a cart.

HARDING Henry - 1905 - 04/04/1905 – Age 47 - Cornsay Hewer, Ferens and Love, Co.Durham. Took ill in the pit; he was removed to Co.Durham County Hospital on the 5th and died on the 7th. Post-mortem showed that death was due to natural causes.

HARDING Henry - 1906 - 01/06/1906 – Age 25 - Eastern Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased had finished his shift and was sitting on a tram filled with sawdust, about 100 yards from the pit. As a full journey was passing outwards he jumped, partly on a train of rubbish, fell, and was run over.

HARDING Henry - 1909 - 14/01/1909 – Age 22 - Maesteg Deep Labourer, Norths Navigation Collieries Co. (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road; struck on the head by a small stone which caused an incised wound one inch in length extending to the bone. He resumed work on the 28th February, and continued until 9th March, when diabetes developed which caused his death on 7th September. Two Feet Nine Seam. Safety lamps.

HARDING James - 1901 - 25/03/1901 – Age 20 - Dinas Old Level Labourer, Perch and Co., Glamorgan. Fatally burned by an explosion of firedamp in an old level which was being re-opened. They were clearing a large fall of roof, 700 yards inbye of the mouth. The gas ignited at the naked light of one of the men whilst he was examining the place. No inspection was made before the men entered in accordance with General Rule IV. 4 killed.

HARDING John - 1903 - 10/08/1903 – Age 37 - Deep Navigation South Rider, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Slipped when getting on to the rope and fell under a journey of trams filled with rubbish.

HARDING Morgan (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.

HARDING Morris - 1905 - 10/03/1905 – Age 48 - Cambrian No.1 Master haulier, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was the subject of a Special Report by FA Gray. 33 killed.

HARDING Nehmiah - 1904 - 18/05/1904 – Age 72 - Whitfield Railway Not employed, Staffordshire. Killed by being knocked down by a locomotive engine while crossing the railway.

HARDING Oliver - 1903 - 11/08/1903 – Age 38 - Elliot Asst. timberman, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. While sitting down, after having set a pair of timbers under a fall, a sudden squeeze or bump caused the roof to burst down over two pairs of timbers, one of the stones falling on deceased's chest caused his death. It took two hours to recover the body.

HARDING Richard - 1906 - 03/02/1906 – Age 58 - Rhymney Merthyr No.1 Sump cleaner, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was standing at the entrance to sump to allow a journey of trams of coal to pass by, when one of the trams went off the rails and threw him into the sump. He sustained injuries from which he died on June 23rd.

HARDING William - 1907 - 03/11/1907 – Age 42 - Llwynpia No.2 Master haulier, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 11 feet by 8 feet by 4 feet thick, discharged two pairs of timber and fell on deceased he was assisting a fitter to make a joint on the compressed air column. It was said that the fall was accompanied by a load ‘pounce.’ New seam.

HARDS William - 1906 - 17/03/1906 – Age 53 - Abercarn Collier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Died suddenly from heart disease when on his way out from work at Abercarn Colliery on the 17th March.

HARDWELL Edward - 1906 - 15/08/1906 – Age 31 - Celynen Collier, Newport Abercarne Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Died on the 15th August from a clot of blood stopping the circulation. It was alleged that death was the result of an injury received on the 13th July at Celynen Colliery by a mandrill falling down the shaft and inflicting a small punctured wound to his knee but which drew no blood. It was proved that he had recovered from that sufficiently to walk to Crumlin about two miles distance and that on returning he fell and fractured the same leg.

HARDWICK Caleb - 1908 - 19/03/1908 – Age 54 - Lady Lewis Asst. repairer, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. The fireman was going his rounds when he noticed a loose stone in the roof of a road, and told deceased to take it down. He barred it down when another piece fell off, 18 inches by 12 inches by 6 inches thick, it fell and broke his leg. Gangrene set in a week later, and the limb was amputated. He died on April 9. Nine feet seam.

HARDWICK George - 1909 - 16/03/1909 – Age 25 - Monckton Main Contractor, New Monckton Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. When travelling inbye he struck his head against a girder. The injury appeared to be trifling at the time, but a blood clot formed on the brain and he died on 7th April.

HARDWICK Henry - 1902 - 08/10/1902 – Age 54 - Newstead Dayman, New Hucknall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was pushing a full tub out of the stall, with his head against the tub, when another loaded was pushed into him from behind and fractured his spine. He died 11th. October.

HARDWICK John - 1909 - 15/01/1909 - Age 48 - Whitwood Haigh Moor Collier, Henry Briggs Son and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was getting coal near a large fault, when a sharp bump threw out two props and caused a fall of roof.

HARDWICK Samuel - 1904 - 13/12/1904 – Age 38 - Monckton Main Collier, New Monckton Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was preparing to set a prop under a large pothole when it fell and caught and fatally injured him. Temporary timber should have been set until a bar was set.

HARDWICK William - 1901 - 17/04/1901 – Age 74 - Swanwick, Old Dataller, CPR Morewood, Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was fatally injured by a fall of roof while engaged in repairing a roadway. The fall broke some timber placed for its support. He died three hours after being injured.

HARDWICK William James - 1900 - 10/12/1900 – Age 22 - Holmwood Stallman, Hardwick Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was cutting the top coal at a gate end when the roof fell and fatally injured him. He died the same day. The roadway was 10 feet wide and no timber had been set.

HARDY Edward - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 63 - Wingate Grange Miner, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust result of shot firing. 25 killed.

HARDY George T. - 1905 - 07/09/1905 – Age 36 - Loftus Ironstone Deputy, Pease & Partners Ltd., North Yorkshire. George, when drawing a jud, a large frame of rock fell and caught him. He died on March 30th.

HARDY John - 1901 - 05/12/1901 – Age 40 - Featherstone Main Collier. Featherstone Main Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Died 20th April. Fatally injured by fall of roof when repairing a road. Cause, shot shaken roof and want of repair.

HARDY John E. - 1905 - 11/03/1905 – Age 14 - Herrington Driver, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was driving outbye, following another driver, when the limbers of the back driver’s pony became detached on the tub and it ran back on deceased. He evidently jumped back out of the way and knocked his head against a prop, fracturing his skull.

HARDY Joseph - 1903 - 11/02/1903 – Age 47 - Wingate Grange Sinker, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery, Co.Durham. These men were in a kibble to descend the shaft which was being sunk from the Low Main to the Harvey Seam. There was a scaffold below the Low Main Seam through which the rope passed. The master sinker signalled for the kibble to be lowered but it did not move and on looking up he saw the rope was coiling on the scaffold but before he could do anything the kibble dropped away, about nine feet, and the men were thrown out and fell to the bottom of the shaft about 38 yards below. 3 killed.

HARDY Joseph - 1905 - 05/03/1905 – Age 72 - Ireland Pointsman, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. He was severely burned the previous day in his cabin at the level crossing of a branch railway; supposed to have fallen asleep while smoking and set fire to his clothing.

HARDY Thomas - 1909 - 08/11/1909 – Age 23 - Nuneaton Dayman, Stanley Bros. Ltd., Warwickshire. An endless rope, working a steep road, had been stopped for the afternoon shift to walk to the pit bottom. For some reason unexplained the motor man re-started the rope before the men were out of the roadway, and a full tub ran back and killed deceased.

HARE Thomas - 1909 - 27/09/1909 – Age 40 - Deans Oil Shale Labourer, Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased, with some others, was loading shale into tubs from a bing, and when loaded had to jig them on to the haulage rope, he was jigging a tub and when the rope moved it he failed to get clear and his leg was fractured: he died six weeks later.

HARFTON Job Henry - 1904 - 08/07/1904 – Age 42 - Middle Peak, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Browne and Shaw, Derbyshire. Deceased was ramming a charge of gunpowder and using a composition rammer. The charge exploded and blew the rammer through his neck.

HARGATE Thomas - 1906 - 12/10/1906 – Age 49 - Holbrook No.3 Stallman, J and G Wells, Derbyshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was getting dirt from under the holed coal when it collapsed, and pushing three sprags out, fell and killed deceased.

HARGREAVE Arthur - 1904 - 19/07/1904 – Age 13 - Clifton Horse driver, Clifton Colliery Co., Derbyshire. He was crushed by a full train of tubs when some of the tubs got off the rails. He died the following day.

HARGREAVES George - 1909 - 03/03/1909 – Age 36 - Ingham’s Thornhill Crane driver, Ingham’s Thornhill Colliery Ltd., Yorkshire. These men were engaged, with others, removing debris with the portable steam crane. The crane was standing on rails laid on newly made ground and whilst it was in the act of lifting, with the grab, it suddenly canted over on to its side. The two men were fatally crushed and scalded. The crane should have been anchored. 2 killed.

HARGREAVES George W. - 1906 - 02/12/1906 – Age 51 - Silverwood Roadsman, Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He and his mate were relaying rails on a road, and with the alterations two props had to be taken out. Deceased struck one blow at one of them, with his tomahawk, and immediately a large piece of rock fell from the roof at the side and killed him. The stone came away from a fine crack and to a concealed slip, and measured about 5 feet 6 inches by 8 feet by 2 feet thick. The prop was not knocked out.

HARGREAVES John - 1906 - 19/10/1906 – Age 29 - North Dunraven Collier, George Watkinson and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was said to have got into all empty journey, that had just been drawn up to the top of an incline, to throw out some tools which he had put in, when the journey is said to have moved on, and he fell under one of the trams. It is more likely that he had ridden up in one of the trams and that in jumping off before the journey stopped, he fell and was run over.

HARGREAVES M. - 1904 - 31/05/1904 – Age 60 - Cortonwood Labourer, Cortonwood Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Six full tubs were being sent out of the cross gateway of a plane, where they were hauled by a small air engine. The set was signalled away and then stopped, one of the tubs having apparently caught against the roof timber. The corporal examined the set but saw nothing so signalled again to the engineman. As soon as the set started a second time the rope broke and the tubs ran back and caught and killed the deceased.

HARGREAVES W. - 1909 - 23/03/1909 – Age 53 - Thornley Lane, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, J and J Schofield, Yorkshire. He was building a pack wall inside the Quarry, and when he was standing on a side wall it collapsed and he fell with the stones and was so seriously injured that he died in two days. He was a skilled and experienced man and had built the pack wall himself.

HARKINS Michael - 1906 - 21/05/1906 – Age 52 - Seathwaite Tarn, Whinstone Quarry Labourer, William Kennedy Ltd., Lancashire. Blasting accident. 3 killed.

HARKNESS Andrew - 1903 - 20/08/1903 – Age 17 - Leadhills, Lead Trammer, Leadhills Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased's duties were to tram the ore tubs from the working places and empty the contents down a hopper or staple to a level below where again they were re-filled into tubs and conveyed to the winding shaft. The opening was in the centre of the roadway and the tub was usually coupled end up. Over part of the opening were two pieces of wood laid across loosely and it appears while deceased was standing on the covering, to put his tub on the rails after it was emptied, the wood slipped out of position and fell away and he was precipitated to the level below. For some reason deceased had turned his tub on its mouth to empty it.

HARMON J. - 1900 - 27/04/1900 – Age 28 - Don Pedro Collier, H Briggs Son and Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

HARNSON William - 1901 - 20/05/1901 – Age 47 - East Hetton Shifter, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. When making a place ready, at the face of the longwall, a piece of stone fell from the roof at two slips and so severely injured him that he died four hours afterwards.

HARPER Alfred - 1906 - 28/04/1906 – Age 37 - Dowlais Cardiff Asst. ripper, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. The deceased were killed by a runaway journey which crashed into them as they were waiting at the pit bottom to ascend at the end of their shift. 5 killed.

HARPER Alfred John - 1908 - 15/04/1908 – Age 48 - Karsdowne, Stone Quarry Foreman, Brampton Quarry Co., Devon. While engaged ramming down four cartridges of gelignite with a stick (no primer having been inserted) it exploded and injured him so severely that he died on the 20th of April. The only apparent explanation of the occurrence seems that some of the gelignite must have been frozen, and, that the ramming of it in the bottom of the hole caused it to explode. The weather was cold, and certainly at times well under 40° F

HARPER C.A. - 1905 - 14/12/1905 – Age 21 - Pelsall Grove Trammer, John Starkley, Staffordshire. Fall or roof (clod) on drawing road while tramming.

HARPER Herbert - 1907 - 27/08/1907 – Age 64 - Bedlinog No.1 Repairer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was about to fill an accumulation of dust into a tram on a haulage road, dipping 3 ins. per yard. His empty tram, with three sprags in the wheels was left by the haulier a few yards above the accumulation of dust. Deceased asked the haulier if he might slacken the sprags, run the tram down to where it was wanted, and commence filling. The haulier told him not to do so, but in his absence deceased evidently removed one sprag and started the tram down the dip. He failed to control it and was crushed between it and the next stationary tram on the dip.

HARPER James - 1909 - 11/11/1909 – Age 16 - Wheal Kitty & Penhalls Miner, Wheal Kitty & Penhalls United Ltd., Cornwall. Four shots, which he and his father left ready for firing at the end of their shift on the previous day, were lighted by one of the men in the neighbouring place according to arrangement, as they were in the habit of commencing and finishing an hour later. On the morning of the accident deceased's father looked round the place, but did not carefully examine the position of the holes as he should have done to comply with the Special Rules. After filling the debris brought down by the shots, the father left him for a few minutes. While away he heard an explosion, and on returning found deceased blown back from the face, quite dead. Apparently he had commenced clearing out the socket of one of the holes with a drill and hammer, and exploded some unconsumed gelignite which remained. The father was ignorant of the rules, as he could not read, and no one had read or explained them to him.