HAWKESWORTH Charles - 1904 - 29/01/1904 – Age 47 - Grigglestone Collier, Grigglestone Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When he, and five other men, were descending the shaft, the cage caught either the beam carrying them or his foot was caught between the side and he was jerked out and fell to the bottom of the shaft and was killed.

HAWKESWORTH John William - 1901 - 30/05/1901 – Age 34 - Manton Engineer, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was bathing alone in a tank near the colliery and fell against some iron rails in the tank rendering him unconscious and causing him to drown.

HAWKIE William - 1904 - 19/09/1904 – Age 45 - Wester Gartshore No.1 Miner, J and AF Wallace, Dumbarton. Fall of roof at working face.

HAWKINS Albert - 1907 - 22/11/1907 – Age 28 - Glengarw Collier, Glengarw Garw Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face. While cutting coal at the face, a wedge-shape stone, of about two cwts., fell upon his head and fractured his skull. The roof supports were not set to the maximum distance arranged under the Special Rules for this mine. The props should not have exceeded five feet apart, but an area of 60 square feet of roof was unsupported. Victoria seam. Naked lights.

HAWKINS Ashley - 1905 - 13/05/1905 – Age 17 - Rotherham Main Pony driver, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When lifting a tub on to the rails he strained himself internally.

HAWKINS Charles Bertie - 1905 - 21/10/1905 – Age 19 - Harefield Chalk Quarry Quarryman, Harry James, Middlesex. He was digging chalk under an overhanging face when it rolled over and killed him.

HAWKINS Francis - 1906 - 10/10/1906 – Age 25 - Alma No.4 Loader, Alma Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Holing sprags gave way while deceased was clearing up dirt before falling the coals, and the roof fell upon him. Died 19th July, 1907.

HAWKINS George - 1903 - 18/07/1903 – Age 25 - Blaina Griffin No.2 Repairer, John Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof from a slip where he and others were engaged repairing. The stone fell from a smooth or slant. Deceased and the examiner seem to have discussed the circumstances. And thinking the slant ran out considered it safe.

HAWKINS Herbert - 1902 - 02/01/1902 – Age 17 - Warren Vale Haulage lad, J and J Charlesworth Ltd., Yorkshire. Dragged into the turn pulley of an endless rope.

HAWKINS John - 1902 - 07/05/1902 – Age 33 - Cymmer, Upper Collier Insoles Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 8 feet by 5 feet thick, fell as deceased was wedging top coal down. It had been partly supported by the top coal. Hafod seam.

HAWKINS Joseph - 1900 - 27/04/1900 – Age 18 - Cwmbran Assistant ripper, Patent Nut and Bolt Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of side in his working place, where he was assisting to set timber. The accident was considered very trivial but complications arose and he died two days afterwards.

HAWKINS M. - 1900 - 08/06/1900 – Age 35 - West Ardsley Driver, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire. Crushed against the roof when riding on full tubs. Died 10th June.

HAWKINS Robert - 1905 - 10/01/1905 – Age 17 - Manvers Main Pony driver, Manvers Main Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When he and other boys were taking their ponies into the stables the one in front of him struck out and kicked him in the abdomen. Died the following day.

HAWKINS Samuel - 1905 - 28/02/1905 – Age 64 - Salterwood Pumpman, Denby Iron and Coal Co., Derbyshire. He complained of having fallen down in the engine-house on 25th Feb. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict that he died from natural causes.

HAWKINS Thomas - 1905 - 10/03/1905 – Age 46 - Cambrian No.1 Ostler, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was the subject of a Special Report by FA Gray. 33 killed.

HAWKINS Thomas - 1907 - 30/09/1907 – Age 49 - Grassmoor No.2 Holer, Grassmoor Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof at a gate-end. Deceased was knocking a newly set prop, to clear the way for his tub to pass, when a piece of roof fell and fatally injured him. He died 17th October.

HAWKINS Walter - 1908 - 18/12/1908 – Age 29 - Manvers Main Collier, Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. When cutting a prop out at the face, a small piece of roof coal fell and cut his finger. Blood poisoning supervened and he died on December 26th.

HAWKINS William - 1902 - 23/06/1902 – Age 46 - Admiralty, Stone Quarry Labourer, W Hill and Co., Dorset. While working near the edge of the Quarry he was presumably knocked over on to a ledge below by a fall of overburden.

HAWKINS William - 1902 - 31/05/1902 – Age 18 - Ashmore Park Pumper, Ashmore Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof from a slip at the junction of two gate roads near working face, another man was injured by the fall.

HAWKINS William - 1903 - 22/06/1903 – Age 48 - Craig-yr-hesg, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, Mackay and Davies, Glamorgan. Deceased were working on a ledge, 15 feet square, when a stone, 9 feet by 7 feet by 18 inches, fell off a false joint in the nearly vertical side. A shot had been fired a few hours previous in the stone floor of the ledge which may have shaken the stone in the side. Deceased had several times sounded the side and considered it safe. 2 killed.

HAWKINS William T. - 1902 - 01/10/1902 – Age 17 - Tirpentwys Collier’s boy, Tirpentwys Black Vein Steam Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Monmouth. The accident was caused by the loose board on the top of the upcast shaft casing for closing the aperture through which the rope passed and had play room for surging being drawn up to the pulley and knocking the rope off it on to the gudgeon or axle, the sudden bend and jerk being quite enough to account for the rope break. The rope was a good one breaking strain when tested afterwards, 36 tons working load 4 tons original breaking strain of rope 40 tons. It had been working two years and four months. 8 killed.

HAWKSWORTH Joseph – 1907 – 06/06/1907 – Age 27 – Rotherham Main Chargeman, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. An angle iron stay was placed between a girder and another carrying the pedestals of a chain driven wheel on which there was some vibration. He was felling at the end of this stay, in order to ascertain whether the bolts were tight while the machinery was in motion. He was standing on the top of a fence rail and his coat was caught by a revolving shaft and he was carried round it and so severely injured that he died on the 12th inst. He should have stopped the machinery before attempting to do what he did.

HAWLEY Luke – 1900 – 12/10/1900 – Age 30 – Woodside Shipley Stallman, EM Mundy, Derbyshire. Fall of coal. Deceased had taken the sprags out from under a length of coal which had been holed but the coal did not fall as expected. He then commenced to do further holing, without resetting the sprags, when the coal fell and fatally injured him. He died the same day.

HAWTIN Ernest A. – 1901 – 15/01/1901 – Age 25 – Greenhaume, Granite Quarry Timekeeper, Askam Pophyry Quarry Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A number of waggons were being shunted into the Quarry siding and deceased was caught between them and a loaded waggon on which he had just affixed a ticket.

HAXTON James – 1903 – 15/01/1903 – Age 75 – Arthur Sawyer, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was ripping a piece of wood, at a circular saw, when the saw caught it in some way and threw it violently forward and it struck him in the abdomen.

HAXTON William – 1906 – 30/04/1906 – Age 49 – Blairenbathie Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Kinross. Deceased was redding a roadway, which had been temporarily stopped, and was forming a building with the fallen debris when stone fell from the roof and crushed his head against the partly formed building.

HAY Alfred Webster – 1900 – 01/02/1900 – Age 38 – Choppington B Shifter, Bebside Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. The deceased and a deputy were lowering two tubs half full of stones down an incline dipping 2 inches per yard when the tubs got amain. The first tub got off the way and the second ran into it. The deceased had hold of the latter and was fatally injured by the shock.

HAY Henry jur. – 1904 – 06/04/1904 – Age 25 – Tarland Quarry Shepherd, Earl of Aberdeen, Aberdeen. Deceased and another shepherd were removing a flock of sheep from one district to another and rested for-the night at Tarland. Both went into a wood to take shelter from the cold and in the darkness deceased fell into the Quarry and was drowned. The Quarry was not in use.

HAY John – 1908 – 04/02/1908 – Age 54 – Ireland Stallman, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was commencing to undercut the coal-face when some coal fell off and killed him.

HAY Peter – 1907 – 09/08/1907 – Age 17 – Leven Drawer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was passing the foot of a self-acting incline, when he was struck by a runaway tub and injured, which resulted in his death on 18th Nov. 1907. The cause of the runaway was due to the wheel round which the rope passed slipping on the wheel tree, and allowing this whole apparatus to run tree. This wheel was secured by a chain wrapped round this wheel tree, and the ends of this chain were nailed to this tree the nails came out and chain became loose.

HAY Robert – 1903 – 12/09/1903 – Age 25 – Portland No.5 Miner, Portland Colliery Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof (coal and stone) in working place.

HAY Robert – 1909 – 13/05/1909 – Age 40 – Blackhill No. 9 Miner, Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face when taking down head coal.

HAYCOCK Edward – 1904 – 28/06/1904 – Age 44 – Ferndale No.3 Repairer, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. On road cliff by 5 feet by 3.5 feet by 12 inches thick. Deceased had for some days been ripping down a bed, 12 to 15 inches thick, to make more height and on the day of the accident he had just knocked out a partly rotten prop from under the bed he intended to rip down, when it fell on him and his assistant. Had deceased used a mechanical appliance for prop drawing the accident would in all probability have been prevented. Two feet nine seam.

HAYCOCK Samuel – 1904 – 29/03/1904 – Age 48 – Swanwick Old Stallman, CRP Morewood, Derbyshire. Six men were descending the shaft when the cage got fast in the wooden conductors. Three men fell out and were killed by falling to the bottom of the shaft. 3 killed.

HAYCOCK Thomas – 1904 – 16/09/1904 – Age 17 – Cannock Old Coppice Driver, Jospeh Hawkins and Sons, Staffordshire. Crushed by a tub drawn by a horse, probably while walking between the tub and the horse.

HAYCOCK W.E. – 1904 – 23/04/1904 – Age 12 – Brereton Boy, Stafford. He was killed by being crushed between trucks which were being shunted at a level crossing.

HAYDEN Charles – 1907 – 28/01/1907 – Age 54 – Renishaw No.5 Stallman, J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was cutting the coal face when a fall of roof came from a ‘pot-hole,’ pushing out three props which had been set up to support the roof. He died 3rd February.

HAYDEN Michael – 1902 – 07/07/1902 – Age 34 – Berrylaw East, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, George Dick, Fife. Deceased and two others were taking down a fall of tirr, 5 yards in length and 9 feet 6 inches in height. They were all standing on the rock head when the fall came away suddenly and killed deceased instantaneously.

HAYDOCK John – 1900 – 15/03/1900 – Age 45 – Park Lane Collier, Garswood Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was working out a piece of coal, along side an old level, and there being a break at the back of the coal (which they were aware of) and when he was engaged spragging the coal, it gave way falling upon him.

HAYES Charles – 1909 – 10/04/1909 – Age 36 – Low Stubbin Miner, Earl Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire. Whilst in the act of taking old timber out of an old disused gate the roof fell and buried him. He was working alone.

HAYES Christopher – 1900 – 24/05/1900 – Age 23 – Bedlington A Hewer, Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inquest attended. The deceased was in the act of stemming a gunpowder shot in the coal with a composition beater. He had evidently got annoyed with a slight obstruction in the hole, which he had previously noticed, and used more force than he should have thus causing the charge to explode.

HAYES Edward – 1902 – 12/04/1902 – Age 27 – Whitemoss Metalman, White Moss Coal Co., Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The wrong signal was given to the winder and he suddenly raised the tub, the deceased and three other persons were ascending from the sump, the tub being attached under the cage by a chain and as it was raised, without steadying, it caught a bearer and the chain gave way and the men and tub fell back to the bottom of sump the deceased being fatally injured.

HAYES Henry – 1901 – 01/01/1901 – Age 74 – Grassmore No.4 Dataller, Grassmore Co., Derbyshire. It was supposed that his death was caused by a slight injury in the mine on 17th Oct. 1900 but the verdict of the jury was that he died from 'asthenia and senile decay.'.

HAYES Ralph – 1903 – 20/07/1903 – Age 40 – Bedford Dataller, J Speakman and Sons, Lancashire. Fall of roof whilst drawing props from place recently finished. Came from a slip. Sylvester prop-drawer attached to an old jackprop, several props ought to have been set. (Good roof)

HAYES Robert – 1907 – 16/04/1907 – Age 44 – Craig Lea Hewer, Thomas Finlay, Co.Durham. He was hewing in the corner of his place, when a large cauldron bottom suddenly fell away, breaking the timber set to support it.

HAYES Sidney A. – 1906 – 01/12/1906 – Age 14 – Tirpentwys Collier’s boy, Tirpentwys Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was sparring with another boy, who had been chasing him. When running after the latter he ran against a sprag, which clearly was not securely set, and knocked it out, causing the coal to fall upon him. The sprag had been up from the previous day, and the manager and overman passed it a few hours before when, as they alleged, it appeared to be in order.

HAYES Simon – 1909 – 29/12/1909 – Age 58 – Garswood Hall Contractor, Garswood Hall Colliery Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makefield, Lancashire. When getting ley roof down at the face, a rater of coal and ley off the face fell upon him. Died January 6.

HAYES Thomas – 1901 – 01/11/1901 – Age 23 – Aldridge Roadman, Aldridge Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof. Collapse of newly set timber. Cause heavy fall of rock from cavity above the timber. 2 killed.

HAYES Thomas – 1904 – 22/08/1904 – Age 38 – King’s Grove, Chalk Quarry Labourer, D Ingamells, Berkshire. Killed by a fall of chalk from the Quarry face. The Quarry is not under the Quarries Act, being under 20 feet deep at every part.

HAYES William – 1906 – 02/06/1906 – Age 40 – Mosley Common Dataller, Earl Ellesmere, Lancashire. In the main level, while drawing 26 full tubs, he ran into four full tubs, the horse attached to which had stopped, would not draw; two men were flogging the horse instead of taking out the scotch. The horse deceased was driving in its frantic effort to escape, knocked out props which let down several bars and a large quantity of roof resting there on to the driver and horse, they were killed. (Average roof.)

HAYES William – 1909 – 26/04/1910 – Age 47 – Wardley Hewer, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of coal. Died 24th Feb 1910.

HAYLOCK George Henry – 1903 – 07/09/1903 – Age 16 – Ravensworth Pick carrier, Charles Perkins and Partners, Co.Durham. Died 9th September. While deceased was descending a stair from the pit head to the ground level he jumped on to the side rail evidently with the intention of sliding down but overbalancing himself fell to the ground, a distance of 16 or 17 feet. He landed on his face and belly and, although he was able to walk home he must have sustained some serious internal injury. Studs have been placed at intervals on the rails to prevent boys sliding down.

HAYMAN Walter – 1904 – 21/12/1905 – Age 40 – South Wales Rose Heyworth Labourer, Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. Ruptured himself by lifting a full tram on to the rails, and died from the effects on the 19th September, 1905.

HAYNES G. – 1900 – 21/05/1900 – Age 51 – Wharncliffe Silkstone Labourer, Wharncliffe Silkstone Coal Co., Yorkshire. Whilst probing smudge in a hopper he fell in and was suffocated.

HAYS Charles – 1902 – 20/03/1902 – Age 55 – Middridge Hewer, Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When in the act of kirving some top coal fell and hit him on the head forcing it between his legs, he threw himself back and must have fallen on a piece of coal as his spine was fractured.

HAYSELDEN James – 1908 – 24/03/1908 – Age 56 – Cadeby Main Dataller, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was making a passageway behind the side wall of a motor house, and to do this he had to get side coal and the shale above it off, and set timber every 3 feet When preparing for a prop and bar, about 5 cwts of shale fell and crushed him against the side wall, so seriously injuring him that he died two days afterwards.

HAYSON Thomas – 1906 – 11/08/1906 – Age 32 – Wooley Hewer, Pease & Partners, Ltd. Co.Durham. When lifting a stone in the pit, he ruptured a blood vessel and died four days afterwards.

HAYSTON John William – 1907 – 18/02/1907 – Age 36 – Woodhorn Timberman, Ashington Coal Co., Northumberland. Deceased was timbering, removing irregular props set by the coal fillers and putting up planks at regular intervals, in advance of a coal cutter in the longwall workings in the 5th South district of the Yard seam, 3 feet 8 inches thick, of No.1 Pit when a blue metal Stone, 11 feet by 4.5 feet and 11 inches thick, fell from the roof and killed him. He appears to have been knocking out a prop as his axe was in his hand when he was recovered. The stone extended from a free side at a gateway along the face, close to the coal, and was believed, by a breaker, along the face, the free side and slips at the other sides. In falling it broke down some planks but it appeared these planks were only legged next the goaf and were not notched into the coal, deceased intending to put in props under their ends next the face after the coal cutter had passed. The coal cutter was working six yards from deceased and the noise prevented the attendant hearing the fall and may also have prevented deceased hearing any warning the stone may have given. The face had been examined by the deputy about two hours before the accident, when it appeared safe. There was a pout for drawing timber at the flat 100 yards away but deceased did not use it. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘We are in the opinion that his death was accidental, but we recommend a better system of timbering in the coal filling face.’ The manager arranged that the planks be put in advance of the coal cutter should be notched into the face and the coal cutter should carry a pout.

HAYTON Amos – 1909 – 26/03/1909 – Age 35 – Harrington Hewer, Harrington Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Fall of roof stone while repairing road.

HAYWARD George Percy – 1908 – 13/10/1908 – Age 15 – Ryhill Pony driver, Yorkshire. While following his employment he was kicked by his pony. The accident was not thought to be serious but he died the following day.

HAYWARD Henry J. – 1906 – 26/10/1906 – Age 29 – Shelton Deep No.2 Labourer, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. A haulage road was being ripped to make height. A short bridge had been left in between two faults, and deceased and a timberer were sent to take it down. They had done so, set two steel girders 8 feet apart, resting upon props, placed two or three poles upon them, covered with packing, but leaving a space between the packing and the roof. A small quantity of dirt fell from the roof or side, and the timberer, who was in charge, left deceased to redd it in order to clear the haulage road, while he went outbye for another pole. A fall of roof took place, crashing through two of the poles and burying deceased, killing him instantly. The fall revealed a third cross slip, which had not been seen before. If the space above the poling had been packed full and the timber thoroughly secured before deceased went under it to redd up the road the accident would probably not have happened.

HAYWARD John – 1902 – 08/04/1902 – Age 49 – Taylor’s Sand Quarry Foreman, FMH Turner, Surrey. While digging a hole at the foot of the Quarry face a slip of sand occurred burying and smothering him. He was working alone and the accident was not known of for some time after it happened otherwise the mans life might have been saved.

HAYWARD John – 1906 – 13/11/1906 – Age 42 – Graham’s Moor, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, Graham’s Moor Quarry Co. Ltd., Shropshire. While recharging a hole which had been fired half-an-hour previously, a fall of rock took place from a fault above the hole. When endeavouring to escape from the falling rock deceased was caught and killed. He was said to have examined the rock face after firing the shot.

HAYWARD John – 1907 – 25/11/1907 – Age 14 – Chilton Pump boy, H Stobart and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He had left his pump and gone to the bottom of an incline. On his return, he was caught by the set and killed.

HAYWARD Thomas – 1909 – 07/12/1909 – Age 31 – Cannock Old Coppice Stallman, SJ Hawkins and Sons, Staffordshire. Both the deceased were working at the face in the Brooch and Benches Seam when a huge piece of rock, 15 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 5 feet thick at the apex, and weighing over 12 tons, fell without any warning from the roof between the cog and the coal face, killing them instantly. The stone fell from two slips, one running along the cog side and passing up vertically, the other running along the edge of the coal face and running obliquely to meet the first. A row of props were placed along the edge of the cog side, with a long lid or bar on each of the ends which reached to within 18 inches of the face; the slip on the cog side was visible before the accident but the deputy and men thought these long lids had a sufficient hold of the roof, which however broke off the lids by the line of the props, in falling the other slip was not seen previous to the fall. The two deceased had only been in the stall 40 minutes when the fall took place and no coal had been worked off the face during that time they having filled away some loose coal left from the previous day, and being in the act of preparing to set a foreset (at the request of the deputy) when they were killed. 2 killed.

HAYWARD William – 1903 – 26/10/1903 – Age 47 – Old Park, Lawn Banksman, Haybridge Iron Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Fell off wharf loading stage, a distance of 7 feet causing fracture of spine. Died on 8th December.

HAYWOOD Edward – 1902 – 10/04/1902 – Age 38 – Pinxton No.1 Stallman, Pinxton Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of coal. The two deceased were holing the coal face when holing sprags gave way and a block of coal fell upon both men killed them. 2 killed.

HAYWOOD T. – 1901 – 26/09/1901 – Age 52 – Glass Houghton Collier, WM Wood, Yorkshire. Fall of rock from the roof when he was drawing a chock from the goaf.

HAYWOOD Thomas – 1908 – 26/02/1908 – Age 15 – Newdigate Horse driver, Newdigate Colliery Co., Warwick. He was struck by a door due to a full tub suddenly opening it when deceased was approaching it from the other side.

HAYWOOD W. – 1902 – 14/11/1902 – Age 13 – Waterloo Main Screenboy, Brooks and Pickup, Yorkshire. Run over by wagons when looking for his breakfast, which he thought he dropped on the siding.

HAZEL Robert – 1907 – 11/01/1907 – Age 17 – Auldhouseburn Miner, Cairntable Gas Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. When returning from work a runaway race of empty hutches which had not been coupled to the rope at the top of the dook, ran into them. Another man going to his work was injured.

HAZON Thomas – 1902 – 08/03/1902 – Age 36 – Benwell, Charlotte Shaftsman, W Cochrane Carr, Northumberland. While employed renewing and repairing the timber in a shaft, which had deepened from the Beaumont to the Brockwell Seam, they were suddenly precipitated down the shaft owing to a side bunton giving way, which was partly supporting the temporary scaffold upon which they were working. An examination afterwards proved that this bunton was secured to the deals by a nail after the men had sawn through the wooden guide to which the bunton wad bolted. They had been repeatedly warned to examine the bunton on which the scaffold was placed and also to use a check scaffold six feet below but they do not appear to have adopted the latter precaution in this case. 2 killed.

HEAD G.H. – 1905 – 15/07/1905 – Age 17 – Wood Farm Cager, Wood Farm Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Irruption of water from a canal feeder through a breakdown of the strata to the surface. 3 killed.

HEAD Sidney – 1909 – 04/11/1909 – Age 40 – Tynyrodyn, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Osmond and Sons, Glamorgan. Deceased and another man were charging a hole, 10.5 feet deep, with 2 lbs. of gelignite, using a wooden rammer when the charge exploded. A good deal of force must have been used.

HEAL George – 1903 – 16/04/1903 – Age 62 – Rhiw Colbren Overman, Thomas F Salt, Monmouth. When moving some rails in a tram, one slipped and hit him on the heal causing him to fall. In falling he may have strained himself causing a hernia. Medical opinion differed as to whether the hernia was recent or not. It is very doubtful whether this is a colliery accident or not.

HEALD Edward – 1902 – 27/08/1902 – Age 21 – Crawford No.1 Haulage hand, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of roof occurred upon the deceased in the main road when he was passing along under it. This portion of the roadway had been left unbarred as in the opinion of the officials it was considered safe.

HEALD Joseph – 1904 – 12/07/1904 – Age 58 – New Oaks Dataller, Cammell Laird and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He, along with others, were clearing a fall on the engine plane. When finishing they were directed to set some new bars some 10 yards higher up the plane. Before doing so they set middle props under the roof, which were after withdrawn, shortly afterwards a large fall took place and killed him. The middle props had not been disturbed, the old supports at the bars caused the stone to fall.

HEALE Benjamin – 1908 – 21/03/1908 – Age 37 – Ammanford Red Vein Labourer, Ammanford Colliery Co. Ltd., Camarthen. While walking down an incline from the Red Vein Colliery to the screens, he stepped on to the wrong road, and was knocked down and killed by a journey of loaded trams.

HEALEY Herbert – 1905 – 07/07/1905 – Age 26 – Dark Lane Byeworkman, Mirfield Coal Co., Yorkshire. He was travelling on the endless rope haulage road when, according to their own statement, he was greasing the terminus wheel and was between the rope and the wheel and was killed. It was no part of his work to lubricate the wheel, and had been done only a few minutes before the accident occurred and no one was allowed to do so while in motion.

HEALEY S. – 1900 – 20/02/1900 – Age 46 – Park Hill Dataller, Victoria Coal and Coke Co., Yorkshire. Fell when he was leading a horse and was run over by tubs.

HEALEY Thomas – 1906 – 08/02/1906 – Age 32 – Bold No.2 Timber drawer, Sutton Heath and Lea Green Collieries Co., St.Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made. He was said to have been chipping preparatory to setting additional props, nearer the face (which the fireman had ordered to be set), when the roof gave way and he was fatally injured.

HEALEY William – 1905 – 22/02/1905 – Age 32 – Douglas Bank Timber drawer, Rose Bridge and Douglas Bank Collieries Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. Deceased and another person were engaged in drawing peeps out from the waste, with the gablock and chain, when the mooring prop slipped out, with two others, and he was fatally crushed by a fall of roof.

HEALING James – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 14 – National No.2 Doorboy, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. 32 Bailey St, Wattstown, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

HEALY Edward – 1908 – 02/07/1908 – Age 40 – Backworth Chargeman, Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. Fall of roof stone at working face. Died 2 July, 1909.

HEALY Patrick – 1903 – 15/01/1903 – Age 21 – Denbeath Loco. Shunter, Bowman and Co., Fife. The locomotive engine pushed part of a train of waggons into a siding, off the main line, giving the waggons sufficient impetus to enable them to clear the crossing and as soon as the waggons had passed into siding deceased had held the points then jumped on the engine. The locomotive then returned on the main line pushing the remaining part of the train in front and on reaching the crossing the engine caught part of a waggon just where deceased stood on the footplate fatally crushing him. The waggons in the siding had gradually moved back until the leading one fouled the crossing.

HEAP Borthwick – 1909 – 02/07/1909 – Age 14 – Prestongrange Haulage boy, Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd., Haddington. Deceased was detaching a chain from two loaded tubs, which were running forward by gravity at a haulage landing. He had forgotten that other tubs were already standing and his head was caught between the tubs. He was killed instantly.

HEARD Hugh – 1900 – 01/2/1900 – Age 35 – Tynewydd Repairer, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Buried by a fall of rubbish while they were securing the mouth of a level. 2 killed.

HEARD James – 1907 – 31/05/1907 – Age 44 – Blaenant Repairer, Marquis of Bute, Glamorgan. As deceased was standing near a tram, which he had been filling with dust on a haulage road rising 1 in 7, the screw pin of the shackle, connecting the full journey with the tall-rope broke and the journey crashed into his tram pinning him to the side, and killing him on the spot. The fracture of the pin was clean and crystalline.

HEARD William – 1908 – 18/05/1908 – Age 43 – Aber Repairer, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face; an old trial level, used as a water course, was being reopened and enlarged, when a quantity of alluvial ground burst away the face supports and suffocated the men before they could be recovered. The depth from the surface was probably 12 yards to the face of the level. Naked lights. 2 killed.

HEARNE Edward – 1905 – 26/01/1903 – Age 39 – Cwmdu Drift Haulier, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. On road, cliff, 7 feet by 4 feet 9 inches by 4 feet thick, fell as deceased was taking an empty tram up the heading. One pair of timbers broke down by, it was said, the arm breaking. The heading was 5 feet 3 inches high, and 6 feet wide, and was not in a good state of repair. Nine feet Seam.

HEARNE Patrick – 1905 – 07/03/1905 – Age 31 – East Elliot Ripper, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in a heading whilst barring down a piece of side. It was a wide place which was not double timbered in consequence of some hard ground, which deceived them.

HEARNS Thomas – 1908 – 18/08/1908 – Age 25 – Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

HEARSON Frank – 1903 – 20/03/1903 – Age 21 – Digby Shunter, Digby Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was riding on a brake stack, inserted between the brake lever and the waggon timber, and was run over by other waggons. He died the same day.

HEATH George – 1903 – 02/08/1903 – Age 44 – Old Boston Head labourer, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made. Whilst assisting to erect a new headgear, the rope worked by an engine attached to the rod legs, struck him owing to the legs of the headgear slipping suddenly forward causing the rope to slacken and then tightened again. When this happened the rope struck his head rendering him unconscious as he was signalling and watching the gearing of the rope. He succumbed to the injuries received on the 4th instant.

HEATH J.E. – 1902 – 24/02/1902 – Age 19 – Florence Signaller, Florence Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed by tubs which ran wild down the engine dip owing to breakage of cap on haulage rope.

HEATH John Thomas – 1907 – 04/09/1907 – Age 38 – Great Rocks Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Buxton Lime Firms Co., Derbyshire. Explosion of a shot hole while being charged with gunpowder. 2 killed.

HEATH Leonard – 1904 – 20/08/1904 – Age 32 – Walsall Wood Timberer, Walsall Wood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof and side (rock and shale) while repairing a road in an inclined cross measure drift from shallow to yard coal. The men were assisting to repair a large fall, about 6 yards long and nearly 30 feet high, caused by a runaway tub (through a broken coupling) knocking out the timber. Before the repairs were completed a further fall took place, knocking out the newly set posts and girders and burying the two men.

HEATH William – 1909 – 08/06/1909 – Age 56 – Monk Bretton Collier, Monk Bretton Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When helping to twist the tub, on a fiat sheet near the coal face, he was crushed between the tub and the corner of a chock. He died on the 10th instant.

HEATHCOTE Arthur – 1906 – 22/03/1906 – Age 24 – Liverton Ironstone Labourer, Cargo Fleet Iron Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was crushed against an upright support of the heapstead by a railway truck on which he was riding. He had been cautioned just previously not to ride on the trucks.

HEATON Isaac – 1908 – 20/11/1908 – Age 45 – Ladyshore Collier, Ladyshore Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face, 6 feet long, 3 feet deep, 20 inches across at top, 24 inches at bottom, two tons in weight, came from a smooth slip. This formed an upper part of the seam. The lower part had been blown out in the fast by three shots fired at 9 am. Deceased then cut one side, tried to fall the coal, failed, went under to further hole. Inclination 1 in 2.5. No sprags used or provided.

HEATON John – 1906 – 19/12/1906 –  Age 48 – Howitt Hill, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, John Finch and Co., Lancashire. While working on a ledge, 4 feet wide, he neglected to use his rope and fell to the bottom of the Quarry, a distance of 65 feet.

HEATON John – 1909 – 03/06/1909 – Age 57 – Leyland Green Collier, Winstanley Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. When engaged working at the face, a stone fell upon him from a slip in the roof, between the last row of props and the face.

HEATON Richard – 1906 – 04/01/1906 – Age 45 – Outwood Dataller, Thomas Fletcher and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in level whilst repairing, he had tried several times to prise down the stone with a crowbar, whilst under the stone chipping with a pick to loosen it, suddenly it fell on him, breaking his back. Died on 22nd. (Roof, good).

HEATON William – 1902 – 10/09/1902 – Age 19 – Birchley No.28 Drawer, Peter Hitchen, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of roof occurred upon the deceased, at the face of a roadway, who was working with his father. The latter stated at the inquiry that he thought the roof was getting stronger, the last bar he had set was 8 feet back from the face. The fall came between three slips, the cause of the accident being insufficient timbering.

HEAVEN Henry – 1902 – 15/05/1902 – Age 52 – Spring, Stone Miner, Bath Stone Firms Ltd., Wiltshire. When barring down a piece of roof it suddenly broke off and crushing him against the side caused injuries from which be died five days afterwards.

HEBBARD William – 1903 – 27/07/1903 – Age 27 – Dudley Wood Loader, N Hingley and Sons Ltd., Worcester. Irruption of mud or sludge from an old shaft. 4 killed.

HEBDEN Willam – 1906 – 17/12/1906 – Age 47 – Blaydon Burn Shifter, Priestman Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. In the Staple East District of the Five Quarter seam of the Mary drift, the Stone Coal seam, 3 feet 1 inch thick, had been worked in former times above the Five Quarter seam, 3 feet 5 inches thick, from which it is separated by 2 feet 6 inches of fireclay, necessitating close timbering in the Five Quarter seam now being worked in the whole or first working of the bord and pillar system. The bords, 12 feet wide, are turned away opposite each other, 6 feet wide, and holed the same width on to the headways. A bord had gone a few yards when the timber at the turn, consisting of two crossing planks set close together with six planks resting on them, supported at their other ends by props, gave way and required renewal, and deceased and another shifter were at their work. And headways in the Stone coal seam nearly coincided with the headways in the Five Quarter seam. They may have put in some new planks between the six planks supported by new props at their ends furthest from the crossing planks and then middle propped them so as to renew the crossing planks when the whole roof collapsed, burying deceased under the fireclay between the seams, as well as any stowage in the old place above them, and ramble above the Stone Coal seam. The timber in the herd opposite had been drawn out within a few feet of the headways, and this may have left an open side to the stone in that direction. Suggestions were made at the inquest as to the advisability of not drawing the timber in the old bords so near the headways, and also as to driving the bords off and on. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘we have come to the conclusion that it was a pure accident.'

HEBDON James – 1901 – 13/06/1901 – Age 19 – Middleton, Whinstone Quarry Truck coupler, Ord and Maddison Ltd., North Yorkshire. Fatally injured by his head being crushed between the side of a waggon and an upright post.

HECKIE John jnr. – 1903 – 01/12/1903 – Age 14 – Fordell Hanger on, Countess of Buckinghamshire, Fife. To obviate the necessity of a mid-working at winding shaft a drop pit is in use to lower the coal from the Five-feet seam to the Dunfermline splint seam. The pit is 58 feet deep and is worked in the usual way. The top is fenced by sliding gates with back balance weights so that slight pressure has to be applied by the hand to raise or lower them. Deceased was employed as a hanger on at a brae foot close by the drop pit and was in the habit of putting load tubs on and taking empty tub off the cages without let or hindrance. The lad in charge of the pit was hurriedly called away to assist to re-rail some tubs and had apparently forgotten to lower the gate of the side on which a load tubs had descended and deceased coming forward shortly thereafter pushed a loaded tub into the open side and he and it fell to the bottom.

HECTOR Albert – 1903 – 22/09/1903 – Age 23 – Mardy No.1 Collier, Lockets Merthyr Collieries (1894) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 15 feet by 3 feet by 15 inches thick, fell from between two diagonal slips. The roof was damp and the slips clayey. A row of props was standing 3.5 feet from the coal. Abergorki seam.

HEDLEY ? – 1907 – 03/04/1907 – Age 26 – Ashington Hewer, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased and five other men ascended the shaft about 12.50 am. and instead of going by a safe road across this heapstead and over a gangway, elected to cross several lines of rails saving a few minutes thereby. They crawled under some stationary waggons and then crossed a line of rails along which 30 trucks were being pushed by a locomotive. All had a narrow escape but deceased was knocked down and the whole train passed over him and his right arm and leg were severely crushed and he died the same day. There was a notice board prohibiting travelling across this line but appeared to be disregarded The engineman whistled before he started. The Jury while returning a verdict of accidental death recommended that a light be fixed at the end of waggons when shunting. The Local Inspectors in their report similarly recited the bare facts.

HEDLEY George – 1902 – 06/01/1902 – Age 41 – Woodhorn Master wasteman, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased had complained of feeling unwell, a quarter of an hour before the accident, and one of the men who was with him in the cage ascending to the surface stated that before he fell out of the cage his lamp dropped from his hand. The shaft and cage were in good order and nothing untoward occurred during the journey likely to cause a person to fall from the cage. The presumption is that he had taken suddenly ill.

HEDLEY George Thomas – 1906 – 22/05/1906 – Age 28 – Backworth Hewer, Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. Deceased and his father were working were working together during the foreshift in a longwall face, about 13 yards wide and fast on both sides of the Blue Bell district of the Bensham seam, 3 feet 9 inches thick, of the Algeron pit when a blue metal stone, 4 feet 4 inches by 3 feet 4 inches and varying in thickness up to 7 inches, fell in the right nook of the place close to the face and inflicted fatal injuries. The stone, did not cant any timber and was relieved by a greasy back next the right side of the place. A hitch with a foot throw had been crossed about 10 feet back from the face. A shot of carbonite had been fired in the coal near where the stone fell about 1.5 hours before the accident by the deputy, who however, did not examine the face afterwards as he should have done. The deputy had examined the place before work started and when busy with the shot, and there was a sufficient supply of loose timber. The Local Inspectors, after describing the fall continued, ‘We also found the place well timbered and the timber well up towards the face.'

HEDLEY Hugh – 1908 – 06/08/1908 – Age 35 – John Dataller, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. A shot had been fired in the coal, and when deceased was engaged clearing some dirt off the colliers fallen coal, the roof fell upon him.
 
HEDLEY Thomas – 1902 – 23/12/1902 – Age 14 – Seaton Delaval Driver, Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was driving four empty tubs inbye up a slight incline, the road was in good order and there was height. He usually rode in the tub, either sitting on one side with his feet in the tub or he knelt in the tub. He was found dead under the second tub which was derailed and his cap was found in it. The pony, a quiet one, was standing attached to the set. Deceased's open light was burning near his head. He had probably fallen backwards between the first and second tubs.

HEDLEY Thomas – 1909 – 19/03/1909 – Age 19 – Little Raith Assistant bottomer, Loghgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was an assistant bottomer at a mid working, and when the cage was about to reach the landing he opened the gate fencing the shaft, and fell into it.

HEDLEY Thomas jnr. – 1906 – 18/12/1906 – Age 34 – Felling Hewer, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased and his father were hewing together in a broken place in the 4th South district of the Maudlin seam, 5 feet 3 inches thick. The deputy was in the place at the time and having examined the face and set a prop was a few yards back, seeing to the necessary supply of loose timber. Deceased was filling a tub at the face, while his father was getting his bait a little distance back, when, without any warning, a stone 7.5 feet long, in the direction the place was going, by 2 feet 6 inches wide and 18 inches thick fell from the roof, and a few inches over the coal, displacing a prop in its fall and caught him. He was at once released and taken outbye and to Felling Station for conveyance to the Infirmary, but he died at the station. The stone was relieved by a jack at one side, and by a slip at the other and by a parting above, and it fell away between a pair of gears next the fast side and a prop and plank at the loose side. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘we are of opinion that it is a pure accident.'

HEDLEY William – 1906 – 01/09/1906 – Age 14 – Boldon Driver, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was driving a quiet pony attached to three loaded tubs and was seen to leave the flat, put the chock into position and follow his set out to a curve 12 yards distant. He had the usual two drags in the wheels of the first and last tubs as the road inclined 2½ inches per yard in favour of the load. The drivers usually got on to the limbers at the curve where there is a space of 3 feet between the tubs and the props. As he was long in coming the driver of the empty set, waiting at a siding outbye, went inbye and found the pony and set at a standstill only 34 yards from the flat. The limbers of the pony were still connected to the tubs and deceased was under the centre tub which had all its wheels derailed, It is possible that deceased had delayed getting on to the limbers until there was less room and the pony was going quicker and then in his attempt had fallen through or off and the first tub had passed over him. The Local Inspectors reported, "Found everything to be all right."

HEDWORTHY W. – 1902 – 22/12/1902 – Age 42 – Dearne Valley Stone header, Dearne Valley Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of a stone weighing 15 tons in a winning heading. Cause three converging slips. 2 killed.

HEELEY William – 1902 – 30/01/1902 – Age 57 – Rockingham Screenman, Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. In a moment of forgetfulness he stepped from the platform of the screens and fell to the ground and was killed by the fall.

HEGAN John – 1908 – 18/09/1906 – Age 35 – Nine Mile Point Masons Labourer, Burnyeat Brown and Co., Monmouth. Not employed at the colliery He was run over on the 30th September on the railway which runs from Burnyeat Brown's New Sinking Colliery to the Nine Mile Point Station.

HEGGIE John Bell – 1901 – 07/03/1901 – Age 53 – Kelty Oncostman, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased and several others were building brick side walls in a dook about 1,000 yards in length having an average dip of 1 in 5. The dook was laid with a double road throughout and was worked temporarily as a self acting incline, the descending tubs loaded with building materials pulling up the empties. No blocks were used at the dook head. The dook head men having left a loaded tub standing double snibbled at the top of the incline brought forward a second one which was allowed to buffer against the standing tub. The impact carried both tubs on to the incline where the two snibbles were unable to hold them and they ran away. Deceased, who was about 400 yards down was struck by the tubs and sustained injuries which terminated fatally about an hour afterwards.

HEIGHTLY David – 1905 – 19/04/1905 – Age 25 – North Biddick Deputy, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. When riding on limbers, on the 24th December 1908, he turned to speak to a boy in a tub and got his head crushed between the top of the tub and the plank, whereby his skull was fractured. He resumed work on the 22nd March, 1904, continued until 5th April, 1905, took ill on 17th April and died 19th April, death being due to inflammation of the membrane of the brain caused by the accident.

HEILLING Robert W. – 1907 – 12/09/1907 – Age 51 – Lumpsey Ironstone Platelayer, Bell Bros. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He sprained his ankle when carrying a rail. He died from blood poisoning on 11th October.

HELLEWELL William Dennison – 1904 – 05/12/1904 – Age 25 – Aldwarke Main Waggon lowerer, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He appears to have left his work on a dark morning without his hand lamp and by some means to have fallen into a manhole of a culvert, 18 feet 6 inches deep, and been drowned or suffocated. The covering was of 1 inch boards which, owing to the steam passing under them were dazed and it is probable he had stepped on them, and they collapsed. An iron grate will be put on the manhole in future.

HELLINGS Arthur E. – 1909 – 21/09/1909 – Age 44 – Bargoed Sheaveman, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He appears to have been putting hangers for haulage rope sheaves in some of the arms of double timber on one of the engine planes. Apparently the hammering knocked out or disturbed the arm he was engaged at, with the result that the "collar" and a large stone resting upon it fell and killed him. He was alone at the time, so that the matter is one of surmise, but no other explanation suggests itself.

HELLINGS Nicholas – 1900 – 21/04/1900 – Age 55 – Lingdale Ironstone Deputy, Pease and Partners Ltd., Yorkshire. He and another deputy were taking a baulk out, they had loosened, and deceased was barring some stone off the top of it when the baulk canted out and the end hit him a violent blow on the head and fractured his skull.

HELLIWELL James – 1906 – 10/09/1906 – Age 37 – Gin Drawer, Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. In a jig brow, he had brought his full tub to this level end, stepped into the brow and called to the drawer at the level ‘it is my turn to take an empty,’ got the reply ‘No, you follow me’; when there was a loud crash, running down to the place the witness found deceased under a big fall of roof which had brought down two bars. Examination proved the presence of a pronounced slip along the side of the brow, on the other side of the brow there had been a space above the bars, 6 feet high, 3 feet wide, either this should have been secured by timber stretchers, or it should have been packed. The side on which was the slip was free, a bump came and the timber collapse. (Bad roof)

HELSBY Matthew – 1903 – 11/08/1903 – Age 20 – Westhoughton New Dataller, Westhoughton New Coal and Cannel Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in airway whilst repairing from a slip he failed to discover. (Good roof)

HEMINGWAY W. – 1903 – 27/03/1903 – Age 38 – Chickenley Heath Deputy, Chickenley Heath Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Killed by electric shock when putting the pump in motion.

HEMPSEED John Binnie – 1900 – 18/08/1900 – Age 46 – Camps (limestone) Oversman, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was engaged finishing off some limestone from a bench when a piece fell off the side of the stoop and struck him on the head.

HEMSLEY Edwin – 1902 – 25/10/1902 – Age 29 – Donisthorpe No.1 Carpenter, Checkland Sons and Williams, Leicestershire. The two men had been repairing the shaft, below the cage landing, and were in a hoppit suspended by a rope under the cage. They signalled to be raised up and while ascending the shaft the engineman lost control of the winding engines, the cage was overwound and the two deceased fell down the shaft. 2 killed.