HENDERSON Alexander – 1900 – 19/03/1900 – Age 25 – Usworth Hewer, Johnasson Gordon and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inquest attended. The deceased and his marrow were working at the face of a long wall gateway on the first shift after the ‘cavilling’ when a huge stone, 21 feet long and two feet thick, fell from a slip right across the face. The deputy had just left the place which was timbered up to within six feet from the coal.

HENDERSON Alexander – 1908 – 12/02/1908 – Age 26 – Dalmeny Oil Shale Drawer, Dalmeny Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. For a considerable time the haulage road had been under repair and heightening, the work being done on the back shift. Repairs were going on as usual when a part of the roadway fell and in order to have it cleared for the fore shift, a large number of hands were employed to clear the debris. Several men got on top of the fall to throw the debris into an open space and while thus engaged a large stone fell from the roof, 15 feet above, killing the fireman on the spot and injuring Henderson so badly that he succumbed some hours later. The manager was examining the roof at the time, and he and two others were injured. 2 killed.

HENDERSON Andrew – 1908 – 18/08/1908 – Age 50 – Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

HENDERSON Arthur – 1906 – 12/11/1906 – Age 16 – Acton Hall Pony driver, Acton Hall Colliery Co., Yorkshire. He was taking ten empty tubs along a haulage road when the first tub got off the road, and collided with a prop with such force that he was thrown out of the tub in which he was riding. His head hit the side of the road and his neck was dislocated.

HENDERSON Charles – 1908 – 06/07/1908 – Age 70 – Easter Jaw Bottomer, Carron Co., Stirling. Deceased signalled away the loaded cage and shortly after he attempted to cross the cage seat to got to the other side when the cage descended on him. After the cage left the engineman by signal stopped the opposite cage at the lower scaffold, to get a loaded tub of props for the outer shaft, and as soon as the props were on the cage he again raised it, and a coal loaded cage descended.

HENDERSON David – 1906 – 18/07/1906 – Age 52 – Rosie Labourer, Weymss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was emptying dross from a wagon into the boiler fire-hole, and while doing so another workman allowed a waggon to come down towards the one in which he was, and seeing that there was likely to be a collision he jumped and fell across the rails, the waggons running over him. He died eight hours later.

HENDERSON Edward – 1900 – 24/04/1900 – Age 19 – Pegswood Hewer, Owners of Bentink West Hartley Colliery, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Another putter and deceased were taking off some side coal in a place which was holed into another working, when a stone fell from a slip. The deputy had examined the place about an hour prior to the accident but did not consider it dangerous.

HENDERSON George – 1905 – 25/07/1905 – Age 76 – Addison Screenman, Stella Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was returning from the privy to the screens across the colliery branches and after passing through an opening in the low retaining wall, on to a line of rails, the colliery loco which had been standing 10 yards away came forward and he was caught by one of its buffers and thrown down under the ash pan between the rails. The loco driver stated he had whistled three times before starting and was going slowly when deceased was struck. Some full wagons obstructed deceased’s view and the engine driver was looking forward for a signal from the fireman from the opposite side to that which deceased approached.

HENDERSON George – 1907 – 13/05/1907 – Age 42 – Townhill Filerman, West of Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Boiler explosion.

HENDERSON James – 1904 – 04/01/1904 – Age 23 – Glencraig Wheeler, Wilsons Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The wheeler, at the top of a short, drew the block and allowed a loaded tub to run down without the chain, deceased got behind the empty tub at the foot of the brae and the loaded tub struck the empty tub driving it against the side, where he was crushed.

HENDERSON James – 1906 – 21/09/1906 – Age 32 – Nellie Miner, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. A roadway was being driven to work the coal to the rise of two large faults and while deceased was taking off coal, to widen the road, a huge stone fell killing him instantaneously.

HENDERSON John – 1900 – 02/08/1900 – Age 32 – Blantyre Ferme Overman, AG Moore and Co., Lanarkshire. While travelling up a dook, behind a race of hutches, a coupling broke and the hutches ran back on him.

HENDERSON John – 1900 – 26/01/1900 – Age 50 – Storey Lodge Hewer, North Bitchburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Leg slightly bruised by a fall of coal when kirving a jud. Blood poisoning set in and he died on February 7th.

HENDERSON John George – 1903 – 20/06/1903 – Age 42 – Newbottle, Dorothea Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by a fall of stone, 7 feet by 6 feet by 21 inches thick in the centre. It fell at a feathery edge all round it and displaced two pairs of gears.

HENDERSON Robert – 1908 – 15/06/1908 – Age 72 – Gateside Roadsman, Sanquhar and Kirkconnel Collieries Ltd., Dumfriesshire. When visiting, with the manager, a part of a road which was being brushed the roof gave way and fell on him.

HENDERSON Thomas – 1901 – 21/10/1901 – Age 16 – Victoria Garesfield Driver, Owners of the Priestman Collieries, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was illegally riding on an incline set, when a full tub ran amain over the bankhead and collided with the set. The boy at the bankhead had omitted to close the chock provided.

HENDERSON William – 1903 – 11/12/1903 – Age 55 – North Motherwell Joiner, Merry and Cunninghame Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased who was about to execute some repairs on a revolving screen had the machinery stopped for this purpose. The engine, which was fitted with a single eccentric came to rest at the dead point and as it was difficult to restart it from this position, the engineman disconnected the valve-rod to alter the set. Meantime deceased had stepped upon the pinion wheel to commence operations and as the engine reversed his foot was caught and crushed by the spur wheel. He succumbed to his injuries three months afterwards.

HENDERSON William Ritson – 1905 – 2/01/1905 – Age 38 – Brayton Domain Hewer, Joseph Harris Cumberland. Deceased and two other miners, before descending the shaft, were sitting in a wooden carriage shed with a corrugated iron roof at the end of the storehouse, where they were in the habit of leaving part of their clothes. A right-angled elbow-pipe of a cast iron sludge pipe, 4 inches diameter, was buried about 18 inches near the open end of the shed. This pipe led from a range of eight Lancashire boilers pressed up to 70 lbs. and discharged into a tank and was said to have an even fall from the boilers to the tank. When the first sludging for the day was done, the elbow-pipe fractured and a piece of it, about 9 inches long and 3.5 inches wide, was blown out, steam began to come through the ground and eventually filled the shed. The men were not much alarmed, and could all have escaped easily at first, but deceased seems to have delayed and eventually probably became confused, and was so scalded that he died the same day. The piece of displaced pipe has a minimum thickness of 7/32 of an inch, and the casting seemed a good one. The elbow pipe was protected by brick walls covered by a metal plate.

HENDRY James – 1906 – 15/06/1906 – Age 33 – Herdshill Miner, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was taking off coal at the ‘nose’ corner of the face when the roof suddenly fell away from a ‘waste’ break.

HENLEY Charles – 1900 – 01/02/1900 – Age 19 – Risca Haulier, United National Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in a roadway where the stall road joins the heading. His tram appears to have got off the rails and disturbed the timbers.

HENNESSEY Patrick – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 32 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 6 Beaconsfield Terrace, Stanley.

HENRY G. Stewart – 1905 – 25/10/1905 – Age 49 – Colley Hearthstone Foreman Carpenter. George Taylor, Surrey. Stewart lost control of a truck, which he was taking down an incline, and was thrown off.

HENRY John – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 15 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas 168 killed, 14 Rifle Street, Stanley.

HENRY John – 1900 – 05/03/1900 – Age 36 – Plas Power Asst. banksman, Broughton and Plas Power Co. Ltd., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased, after pushing two empty tubs into the cage, was said to have shouted ‘Right’ and the head breaksman pulled back the lever for the catches of which the cage rested and the engineman started to lower when the deceased got crushed. He appeared to have missed putting the catch right, to prevent the tubs coming out, when he got caught by the descending cage before he was able to manage it.

HENRY Sargent – 1905 – 05/04/1905 – Age 44 – Cannapark Limestone Quarry Labourer, JC Williams, Devon. Fall of overhanging overburden at the face, which at that place was under 12 feet deep. The man himself was the blame, and there was generally a want of efficient supervision, only one or two men working in the Quarry.

HENRY Thomas – 1901 – 11/02/1901 – Age 32 – Prescot Collier, SW Higginbottom, St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made. He was pulling it down with a pick, off the face, which was six feet high, after capping two sprags when more coal came than he expected crushing him before he could get clear. Died 13th. Mar. 1901.

HENRY Thomas – 1905 – 20/09/1905 – Age 72 – Cowpen Farm labourer, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died 5th March, 1906. On 20th September 1905, deceased, while engaged at the granary, went up a ladder to get some hay down when he either fell off the ladder or it was displaced and caused his fall; he was not seriously hurt and the accident was not reported to me but on his death it was thought that it might have some connection, an inquest was held after a postmortem examination when medical evidence showed that death was due to cancer of the bowels, so the jury found.

HENRY Whishart – 1901 – 07/01/1901 – Age 25 – Axwell Park Hewer, Hannington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. While working in a broken working section a large stone fell away from a slip in the roof. The place was apparently well timbered but a prop and several planks were broken or knocked out by the fall.

HENSHAW George – 1900 – 15/05/1900 – Age 26 – Woodside, Shipley Stallman, EM Mundy, Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was preparing to set a bar to support the roof, when a portion of the roof fell and fatally injured him. He died 11th August.

HENSHAW Henry – 1909 – 05/02/1909 – Age 17 – Pendlebury Take off, A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Alleged, foot crushed by tubs some days before he died from septic pneumonia, only a bruise on the foot, no wound.

HENSHAW Henry – 1909 – 23/02/1909 – Age 47 – Coppice No.1 Stallman, Shipley Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was lifting a tub on to the rails and using a ringer when he slipped, the ringer striking his right knee. Eczema developed, and he died of syncope brought on by prolonged attack of eczema on 1st July.

HENSON Henry – 1904 – 02/03/1904 – Age 32 – Moorgreen Engine fitter, Barber Walker and Co., Nottinghamshire. While standing with his back to a revolving drum and assisting others to pull over a new winding rope, the hemp rope was caught by the arms of the drum and deceased was dragged into the drum race.

HENSON John – 1904 – 21/10/1904 – Age 38 – Radford Stallman, Wollaton Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was loading coal, under a rock roof, from which a shot in the coal had been recently fired when a large piece of roof fell and killed him.

HENSON John – 1907 – 05/02/1907 – Age 23 – Albion Clay Quarry Quarryman, WT Wright and Co., Leicestershire. Deceased was using a pick to pull up some clay when the pick slipped and deceased fell off the ledge to the ground, a distance of about 25 feet. He died 27th February.

HENSON R.E. – 1904 – 06/07/1904 – Age 16 – Pool Bank, Gravel Quarry Pointsman, R Whittaker and Sons Ltd., Yorkshire. A locomotive engine was taking loaded side tip waggons down the line, dipping 1 in 30. Deceased was on the brake of the last waggon and was at the left and outside of the waggon, he then went round to the first waggons and dropped the brake, which was on the right side. Instead of going to the last waggon he put his foot on the lever and the wheels ran over and fatally injured him.

HEPPLE George * – 1907 – Benwell, WC Carr, Northumberland.

HEPPLE James – 1909 – 20/09/1909 – Age 40 – North Walbottle Hewer, North Walbottle Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of roof stone at longwall face.

HEPPLE John G. – 1907 – 28/06/1907 – Age 22 – Byers Green Putter, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was putting in the Low Main Seam when his tub caught a plank, which was supporting a fall of roof on loose stone. The plank was drawn out and the stone fell on to him and killed him.

HEPPLE Peter * – 1907 – Blenkinsop, Thompson and Sons, Northumberland.

HEPTON William – 1905 – 24/05/1905 – Age 14 – West Auckland Driver, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was driving in a stone drift when a heavy fall occurred burying him and his pony.

HEPWORTH C. – 1900 – 02/01/1900 – Age 55 – Morley Main Shunter, W Ackroyd Bros., Yorkshire. Run over by wagon when he was moving over points.

HERBERT T. – 1900 – 12/06/1900 – Age 14 – Deep Navigation South Door boy, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by empty journey when walking out to the pit.

HERBERT Walter – 1907 – 09/09/1907 – Age 29 – Dulais Labourer, Dulais Anthracite Collieries Co. Ltd., Brecon. Explosion of firedamp or coal dust. 3 killed.

HERBERT William – 1906 – 22/08/1906 – Age 36 – Birley, South Stallman, Sheffield Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was pushing an empty tub from the engineplane into a gate-road when a large fall of roof came from above the timbering rolling from the side of the roadway, and killed deceased.

HERBERTS George – 1909 – 29/12/1909 – Age 16 – South Kirkby Pony driver, South Kirkby Featherstone and Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was found dead under the first tub of a train of three which had been drawn by a pony. The pony was detached from the tubs and the usual number of lockers was in the wheels. The road had recently been watered and it is probable that the tubs ran more freely than usual and that Herberts slipped when trying to stop them.

HERD ? (injured) – 1900 – 22/02/1900 – Werfa, James Evens and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed by fall of stone. 1 killed, 1 injured.

HERD Andrew – 1903 – 20/11/1903 – Age 21 – Begg Drawer, Walter Herd and Son Ltd., Fife. While a rake was being run on a short brae a coupling, by some means unknown, came out and three empty tubs ran back and deceased was crushed against the frame of the wheel for a longer brae.

HERD Archibald – 1901 – 08/08/1901 – Age 34 – Pirnie Repairer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. While repairing an engine dook a large stone fell upon him.

HERD Archibald – 1909 – 16/11/1909 – Age 47 – Leven Contractor, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was examining a part of his roadway, where a bar had fallen away, when the roof collapsed and fell on him.

HERD Robert – 1906 – 02/03/1906 – Age 55 – Rosie Repairer, Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased and another repairer were engaged in doing some necessary repairs, in a section of Weymss coal, and he hauled the debris in tubs to the dook haulage road by means of a horse and was proceeding outbye with a loaded rake when he met his accident. No one saw the accident but two workmen on their way home discovered deceased under the first tub of the rake quite dead. From the position in which deceased was found it is supposed that the rake was running at a high speed outbye on a gradient of 1 in 20 when the two leading tubs left the rails and up-ended, and that he was endeavouring to detach the horse’s tail chain when the weight of the tubs behind caused the tub to move towards the pavement and crushed his head.

HERD Samuel – 1908 – 08/07/1908 – Age 68 – Balognie Oversman, CB Balfour, Fife. Deceased was laying rails, near the pit bottom on a main and tail rope haulage road. The rake going inbye ran into a fall 1,000 yards inbye from the shaft and the strain on the tail rope broke the suspending pulleys, one of which struck him on the head causing injuries to which he succumbed a month after.

HERDMAN John – 1908 – 16/03/1908 – Age 19 – East Pontop Hewer, East Pontop Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of coal at the working face.

HERIOT James – 1900 – 04/07/1900 – Age 55 – Niddrie Drawer, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was engaged breaking out his cut when the coal suddenly burst over the sprags. The injuries proved fatal about eight weeks afterwards.

HERN ? (injured) – 1900 – 25/02/1900 – Werfa, Glamorgan. Crushed to death by falling stone. 1 killed, 1 injured.

HEROD John – 1904 – 16/07/1904 – Age 40 – Silverdale Miner, Staffordshire. Alleged that his head had been injured while going down the pit in the cage. He went home and called a doctor, who dressed a small wound on his head and gave him a certificate for the Permanent Relief Society that he was suffering from concussion. He had previously suffered with nervous debility and severe pains in the head He died on the 13th August. At the inquest there was no corroboration that the injury to the head was received in the cage although there were a number of others in the cage at the time. The medical evidence as to the cause of death was conflicting. One doctor attributed death to inflammation of the brain probably caused by injury, another doctor saw no signs of inflammation or other disease of the brain and said there was no evidence in the post-mortem examination to account for his death and thought the man had died from epilepsy. The jury returned a verdict that death was due to an injury to the head but there was not sufficient evidence to show what had caused the injury.

HERON Henry Ord – 1903 – 24/09/1903 – Age 7 – Hartford Infant, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Some of the workmen's houses adjoined the colliery railway and deceased appears to have been trying to get on a wagon of a train of loaded wagons leaving the pit drawn by a locomotive engine when he was run over and instantly killed.

HERON John – 1907 – 10/07/1907 – Age 62 – Quarter Labourer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. While shifting the first of four hutches, standing on an incline, the other three ran over the stop and crushed him against a post.

HERRING Thomas – 1900 – 04/01/1900 – Age 15 – Whitworth Collier’s boy, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in his working place. He was, that day, working with a youth of about 19 years of age the collier in whose charge they were not having come to work. The fall occurred near the face and from between props.

HERROD John Thomas – 1901 – 10/01/1901 – Age 13 – New Hucknall Horse driver, New Hucknall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was found dead between four full tubs and the side of the roadway. He appears to have lost his light and to have stood in the side of the roadway to allow the train to pass him but as the clearance between tubs and the side of the roadway was very small he was fatally crushed.

HERRON Thomas snr. – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 61 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. Sand Street, Stanley.

HESCOTT J. – 1904 – 09/09/1904 – Age 22 – Marine Haulier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When walking in front or his horse and trams he appears to have stumbled and been run over, the road was good and there was plenty of height.

HESELTON Walter – 1908 – 26/08/1908 – Age 16 – Eldon Driver, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. His driving road was practically level but it was necessary to stop his set at a point short of the landing. His pony had become so accustomed to the stopping place that it stopped there of its own accord. It is thought, as no one saw the accident, that the pony stopped suddenly, and jerked the first two tubs of the set of eight off the way, and so caused his head to be crushed between the first tub and a prop which was fifteen inches from the way.

HESLOP Edward – 1906 – 24/07/1906 – Age 23 – Burnhope Hewer, U. A. Ritson & Sons, Ltd., Co.Durham. He was killed by a fall of roof in his working place. He had neglected to set timber in accordance with the Special Rules.

HESLOP Eli – 1904 – 03/08/1904 – Age 15 – Auckland Park Gripper, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A fall occurred on a road and displaced the timber. It caught and fatally injured him.

HESLOP George – 1905 – 20/02/1905 – Age 18 – South Tanfield Putter, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. This accident occurred at a junction of putting roads in the Main Coal seam which was being worked in the hole below the goaf of the Hutton seam, which is 11 feet thick and lies 15 feet from the Main Coal, the roof is consequently somewhat broken and wet and requires careful timbering. The road had become too low a few yards from the turn and hewers inbye of the point had been called out to assist the deputy and deceased in making height. Operations had hardly begun and deceased was sitting at the turn when a stone 5.5 feet by 3.5 feet and 13 inch thick relieved by slips fell upon him from the roof partially displacing two planks in its fall. No running balk was used so as to better secure the roof at the turn. The Local Inspectors reported ‘we consider that it was accident.’

HESLOP Simon Taylor – 1901 – 24/12/1901 – Age 50 – North Bitchburn Horsekeeper, North Bitchburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from pneumonia alleged to have been brought on by glanders from ponies. The medical evidence was conflicting but did not bear out the allegation.

HETHERINGTON Hugh – 1902 – 22/09/1902 – Age 19 – Whitehaven, Wellington Bank hand, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. While putting an empty tub into the bottom compartment of a three decked cage the tub in the top compartment fell out and crushed his head on the flat sheets. Deceased had put this tub into the cage himself, but had apparently not snecked it securely. The snecks were found to be in proper working order after the accident.

HETHERINGTON James – 1909 – 18/01/1909 – Age 60 – Trimdon Shifter, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He was ridding a fall when a piece of stone fell and struck him on the head. He died on 28th May, 1909 from inflammation of the brain due to the injury.

HETHERINGTON Thomas – 1906 – 08/02/1906 – Age 42 – Wheatley Hill Hewer, Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When hewing next to a fault, he cut into a slip at an angle to the fault, and released a stone which, weighting canted out eight props and fell upon him.

HEWISON Thomas – 1903 – 27/07/1903 – Age 50 – East Holywell Hewer, East Holywell Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. While breaking into a pillar of coal, in the Yard seam off the wagon way, a large stone fell from the caunch and caught his head breaking his neck. He was kirving in the top coal at the time. There were three props under the stone and two stays set against its side but all were displaced. deputy had examined the place one hour before. The Local Inspectors reported 'In our judgement we found it a pure accident.'.

HEWITSON James – 1904 – 16/08/1904 – Age 40 – Lords (metalliferous) Quarryman, Elterwater Green Slate Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A mass of rock fell from a back or slip on to these men who were working below. Greenhow was killed on the spot. Hewitson sustained a serious cut on the leg and died on the 19th. A third man got a broken rib and flesh wound. 2 killed.

HEWITSON Robert – 1903 – 30/01/1903 – Age 47 – East Hetton Stoneman, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. Alleged to have died from injury caused by a fall of stone but post mortem examination showed death was due to cancer.

HEWITSON Robert – 1905 – 29/11/1905 – Age 20 – Trimdon Grange, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. Climbed over safety gates and threw himself down the shaft. 144 fathoms.

HEWITT Ernest – 1907 – 30/03/1907 – Age 22 – Mossfield Loader, Mossfield Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Deceased was loading coal from a fall of tops at the edge of a waste in the Cockshead seam. While so doing, a large piece of top coal, 3 feet 6 inches thick, came away from a slip, bringing part of the pack wall with it, and fell on him.

HEWITT Frederick William – 1908 – 01/08/1908 – Age 43 – Sherwood Dayman, Sherwood Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof coal. Supposed to have been withdrawing timber from a waste when the top coal fell upon him.

HEWITT George – 1902 – 02/01/1902 – Age 34 – Fishley Rock blower, Fishley Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of stone from the side of stone heading, after the firing of a shot for making a refuge hole.

HEWITT J. – 1900 – 10/06/1900 – Age 33 – Oaks Dataller, C Cammell and Co., Yorkshire. Fall of side.

HEWITT J.W. – 1903 – 22/01/1903 – Age 31 – Bunker’s Hill Loader, William Rigby and Co., Staffordshire. Irruption of water into eight feet Banbury seam. 3 killed.

HEWITT John William – 1906 – 17/01/1906 – Age 22 – Burradon Blacksmith, Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died Jan 30. Deceased, who was employed as a blacksmith at Burradon Colliery, was walking home to West Moor after his day’s work was over, on a private railway extending from Burradon Colliery to the Tyne, and having a connection with the North Eastern Railway at West Moor, about a mile from Burradon Colliery. This length of railway is also used for leading coal from Seaton Burn and Dinnington Collieries, owned by the Seaton Burn Coal Co, Ltd., and also from the Lizzie and Hazlerigg Collieries, owned by the same company that own Burradon Colliery. No one saw the accident happen, and the actual train that caused it was not identified, but it was supposed to be a train of mixed wagons and trucks laden with coal from Dinnington and Seaton Burn collieries. Deceased was found on the railway and stated he had jumped on to a truck or wagon, and while fastening his coat they had come together, and as the buffers do not correspond, the buffer of a truck crushed him. He was found to be suffering from a fractured pelvis, and was taken to Newcastle Infirmary the day after the accident, where he died. Notice boards are placed on the railway prohibiting trespassing, but walking on the line is universal.

HEWITT Joseph – 1908 – 15/07/1908 – Age 32 – Woolley Collier, Fountain and Burnley Ltd., Yorkshire. He was working at the face when a thin layer of stone fell from the roof from an unexpected parting. His spine was fractured but he lingered until 25th February, 1909.

HEWITT Robert – 1907 – 28/06/1907 – Age 18 – Pewfall Drawer, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. A full tub being drawn up by an engine, struck a tub left by a drawer too near the haulage road which knocked it against the timber causing a fall of roof upon the deceased.

HEWITT Samuel James – 1902 – 07/02/1902 – Age 33 – Tannochside No.2 Miner, Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof.

HEWITT William – 1902 – 10/01/1902 – Age 20 – Deep Duffryn Collier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. He was seen by a rider on the engine plane on his way to get some lamps relit near the entrance to a return airway. The rider told him to stay in the airway till he had run the empty journey into the parting and the full journey out. He evidently did not wait for the full journey, which ran over him his body, being found 92 yards outbye of the airway.

HEWLITT Samuel – 1901 – 25/07/1901 – Age 40 – Mountain Collier, G Watkinson and Sons, Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was loosening the top of a bar under the top coal with his hatchet, previous to applying the gablock and chain, which they had with them when the roof collapsed burying the deceased.

HEWTON John – 1904 – 18/03/1904 – Age 26 – Newstead Stallman, Newstead Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was taking coal down when it suddenly fell and crushed him against a prop before he could get clear away.

HEYDON George Daniel – 1900 – 20/10/1900 – Age 29 – Griff, Clara Deputy, Griff Colliery Co., Warwick. Deceased was going down the shaft when the rope on the descending cage broke, about 20 yards from the cap. The cage fell 20 yards and getting out of the conductors struck the ascending cage and killed the deceased.

HEYES Ashton – 1900 – 25/04/1900 – Age 27 – Sherdley Collier, Whitecross Co. Ltd., St.Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of roof occurred at the face, capping three bars set and crushing the deceased. The road was barred up to the face when a sudden weight came over the place.

HEYES J.H. – 1909 – 30/07/1909 – Age 15 – Victoria Driver, Jospeh Haigh, Yorkshire. He was taking it train of empty tubs along a gate road when the tubs left the rails and knocked out timber thus caused a large fall of roof and Heyes was killed.

HEYES James – 1907 – 19/06/1907 – Age 16 – Lea Green, King Pony driver, Sutton Heath and Lea Green Collieries Co., St.Helens, Lancashire. This boy was at the bottom of a jig to take the tubs away, as they came down he apparently went to sleep, sitting in the full side road and the tubs were lowered on top of him by a boy who had shouted and got a reply sometime previously.

HEYES Thomas – 1907 – 25/10/1907 – Age 15 – Scot Land No.4 Pit brow lad, William Woods and Sons, Lancashire. Crushed between the buffers of the railway waggons, trying to get on buffer to rise in the waggons another boy, trying to get on another wagon to ride, put his foot on the break lever, unpinned and set free the waggon which then moved forward crushing him between the buffers. The boys finished work, orders had been given forbidding riding.

HEYWOOD John – 1905 – 13/03/1905 – Age 32 – Newton (Wood) Daywageman, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged clearing a fall of roof in the haulage downbrow and when they had partly cleared the fall and had set some temporary props another stone fell upon the deceased.

HIBBERD Peter – 1907 – 15/06/1907 – Age 34 – Monckton Main Joiner, Monckton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Preparations were being made for changing two wire rope guides in No.2 shaft, and in order to get the weights in the sump the water in it was being pumped out. A small pump driven by compressed air was placed on two 11-inch planks, which in turn were resting on the buntons or bearers without being fixed in any way.

HIBBERT Albert – 1903 – 19/02/1903 – Age 20 – Mountain Jigger, George Watkinson and Sons, Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. He had been shown a few times how to jig and after he had jigged one journey, and was jigging the second himself he appears to have forgotten the handle to the brake was resting on a board placed there to keep it up when not in use and consequently when he was pulling the handle it did not act on the brake, and the empty set crushed him. The jig was only 40 yards in length dipping 1 in 3.

HIBBERT George – 1909 – 04/05/1909 – Age 43 – High Park Stallman, Barber Walker and Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. He stated that he slipped while at work and injured a knee. He died on 31st May from blood poisoning, the result of the injury.

HIBBET William – 1902 – 19/06/1902 – Age 33 – Hyde Lane Banksman, Hyde Lane Colliery Co., Cheshire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased got off the top of the cage, to a mouthing in the shaft, to turn water from a pump and when stepping to the top of the cage he probably slipped, as nobody witnessed the accident and he fell to the shaft bottom, a distance of 90 yards and was killed.

HIBBICK or HUBBICK Thomas – 1908 – 11/05/1908 – Age 35 – Ryhope Stoneman, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was working at a caunch, when a piece of stone fell from an invisible slip, and knocked out the timber. He was struck on the head by the timber, and had his skull fractured.

HICKINBOTHAM Samuel – 1904 – 10/03/1904 – Age 44 – Granville No.2 Stallman, Granville Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was engaged in knocking out a holing sprag, preparatory to fixing a shot and getting the coal down but directly the sprag was cut loose part of the coal fell and fatally injured deceased. He died 12th March.

HICKLING Cliffe – 1901 – 16/06/1901 – Age 41 – Ellistown No.1 Dataller, Ellistown Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Fall of roof. Deceased had completed his work and was found dead under a fall of roof, some distance from where he had been working. He is supposed to have been hiding his tools and in doing so to have disturbed the timber supporting the roof of the real way.

HICKMAN Gn. – 1900 – 22/11/1900 – Age 60 – Himley Roadman, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of roof in a heathen coal road when repairing.

HICKMAN Isaac – 1901 – 11/09/1901 – Age 36 – Babbington Stallman, Babbington Coal Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Coal was being worked, a stall from between two slips and deceased worked the coal out from 72 square feet and under the two slips with only one prop supporting the roof. Langham was killed by a fall of roof, and Hickman went towards him when a further fall occurred and killed him also. No bars had been set although the two slips were well known to the workmen. Another man had a near escape. 2 killed.

HICKMAN J. – 1903 – 11/03/1903 – Age 31 – Roundwood Dataller, Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He had just finished drawing timber in an old gate road and was about to leave the place when a large piece of rock fell and killed him. Two temporary props set for safety were displaced. Cause a weight break and smooth parting.

HICKMAN Samuel – 1904 – 26/11/1904 – Age 42 – Alfreton Stallman, Blackwell Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. A loader was taking a full tub along the stall, to the gate end, when the tub knocked out one or two props. A fall of roof occurred and injured deceased who was building the gate end pack. He died 1st December.

HICKMAN Thomas – 1900 – 23/08/1900 – Age 25 – Himley Pikeman, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of roof in a heathen coal waste which broke through the timber.

HICKMAN William – 1900 – 22/11/1900 – Age 20 – Shut End Loader, Bradley and Co., Staffordshire. Fall of roof in a thick coal opening. Cause a bump.

HICKS James – 1900 – 31/10/1900 – Age 15 – Loftus ironstone Horse leader, Pease and Partners Ltd., Yorkshire. He was driving his horse through between a tub and a prop and the trace stretch caught and pulled the prop out and a large piece of stone fell from the roof and killed him.

HICKS Matthew – 1909 – 27/01/1909 – Age 27 – Basset, Tin Miner, Basset Mines Ltd., Cornwall. He and three others were on a stage or cradle for the purpose of examining the sides of the shaft below the 260-fathom level before resuming sinking in the bottom, 15 to 20 fathoms below. They gave a signal to lower the stage, which was responded to at a quicker rate than they expected. The stage caught on one side, and the man at that point, failing to fend it off or stop it immediately, the stage tipped down on the other side where deceased was working, and he, not having a good grip of the bridle-chain, slipped past the side and fell to the bottom of the shaft.

HICKS Moses – 1905 – 30/11/1905 – Age 34 – Victoria Roadsman, New Blaengarw Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, a piece of clift about 4 feet square, from a smooth roof, which was not double timbered, fell on him while cleaning the road.

HIER Isaac - 1900 - 13/11/1900 – Age 54 Havod Collier Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan Fall at face clod. 8 feet x 2 feet 4 inches x 2.5 feet thick discharging two while deceased was clearing a former fall. Four feet seam.

HIGGIN Wilfred L. - 1909 - 20/09/1909 – Age 17 - Endless rope attendant. Carlton Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The rope was slipping through the forks on the tubs, so he put his weight on to the rope to press it down into the forks; the tubs were then hauled forward by the rope and he followed them up a kip, still pressing on the rope, to where an arrangement for lifting the rope out of the forks was placed. He kept hold of the rope too long and his head was caught between the rope and the arrangement for detaching it from the forks. Weighing on the rope as this boy was doing is an undesirable practice.

HIGGINBOTTOM George - 1903 - 28/04/1903 – Age 53 - Shelton No.2, Rowhurst Collier, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (clod) at longwall face in the Rowhurst seam. Deceased had been ordered to set a post under the stone an hour before the accident but he had not done so.

HIGGINS Jacob - 1909 - 08/01/1909 – Age 25 - Seaton Burn Stoneman, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of roof stone at face in longwall gateway.

HIGGINS James - 1901 - 19/12/1901 – Age 54 - Bradford Collier, Bradford Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in main level whilst repairing two bars displaced by shots. Fireman set two men to remove dirt from shots without directing them to set temporary support, although a pronounced slip made the place dangerous. (Good roof)

HIGGINS James - 1901 - 27/06/1901 – Age 38 - Ryhope Hewer, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While hewing in the coal face a fall of stone took place and inflicted such injuries that he died about 12 hours afterwards in Sunderland Infirmary.

HIGGINS James - 1905 - 31/03/1905 – Age 36 - North Biddick Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was sitting on the limbers coming out-bye when, by some means, a pin was drawn out letting down some tubs on to him, breaking his neck.

HIGGINS James 1906 06/11/1906 – Age 50 Littleton No.2 Roadsman Littleton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Struck by railway tubs on the engine plane.

HIGGINS John - 1902 - 16/04/1902 – Age 31 - Auchinharvie No.5 Brusher, Glengarnock Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. When working at the face a runaway empty hutch ran down and caught him.

HIGGINS John – 1904 – 27/03/1904 – Age 42 – Rotherham Main Labourer, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was assisting other men to tighten the scraper chain of the small coal conveyor and while doing so he was caught by the scrapers and drawn between the wheel and the chain. There was plenty of room and the machinery was well fenced.

HIGGINS John – 1908 – 15/10/1908 – Age 41 – Chorlton Quarrier, Chorlton Land and Building Co., Lancashire. Fall of clay, undermining sand crack. Ought to use sprags.

HIGGINS Joseph – 1900 – 31/07/1900 – Age 30 – Shut End Old Pikeman, Kingswinsford Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Fall of face at gateroad while holing.

HIGGINS Patrick – 1900 – 29/11/1900 – Age 18 – Nook Labourer, Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Wire rope being used (worked by steam winch to raise a portion of new staging) came out of pulley struck and knocked down deceased fracturing his skull.

HIGGINS Peter – 1906 – 13/04/1906 – Age 34 – Loganlea Miner, United Collieries Ltd., Edinburgh. The bottom portion of the seam-main coal is taken out first and the upper portion left on and supported by props for several feet, after which it is worked off. Deceased had 10 feet of the upper portion on, and was preparing to take out more bottom coal when a part of the upper portion came away and striking him, killed him instantaneously.

HIGGINS Theodore – 1906 – 22/05/1906 – Age 22 – Gelli Steam Trimmer, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was passing between two wagons of small coal, under the screens, in order to remove the scotch from under the hind wheel of the first wagon, so as to run it down the siding, when the second loaded wagon, also scotched, moved forward and blocked him between the buffers before either scotch was removed. The wagons were bumped on by others that were let in to the siding.

HIGGINS Walter – 1903 – 22/08/1903 – Age 24 – Tillery Timberman, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof where he and others were engaged repairing on a roadway. They had taken out several timbers and replaced some of them by new ones when the fall occurred from a smooth or slant.

HIGGINSON Albert – 1901 – 02/10/1901 – Age 25 – Pendle, Sandstone Quarry Quarrier, Albert, Ratcliffe, Lancashire. Fall of sand and stone from the face of the Quarry.

HIGGINSON Thomas – 1908 – 10/11/1908 – Age 31 – Shelton Deep Shunter, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. A locomotive was pushing a train of 12 empty trucks round a curve of 4 chains radius and up a gradient rising 1 in 40. Deceased was standing upon the cast-iron box of the spring buffer in front of the leading truck, and on the inner side of the curve. He stood with one foot in front of the other and with his back against the end of the truck, but was not apparently holding on by anything. The trucks were moving at a speed of 5 or 6 miles per hour. A weighing clerk, who witnessed the accident, had just remarked ‘Does that not seem to be a dangerous practice ?’ when the front wheels of the leading truck dropped off the rails. Deceased fell immediately in front of it and before he could get out of the way the truck passed over him, killing him on the spot. The truck was a new one and the most probable cause of the derailment was the tightness of the bearings and the newness of the wheels preventing them from skidding on the rails. There was no reason why deceased should not have been inside of the truck.

HIGGINSON Walter – 1909 – 22/03/1909 – Age 15 – Norton Greaser, Robert Heath and Sons Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was leading a horse, by the head, along a wide in a level in the Cockshead seam when he fell and was trampled upon by the horse and run over by the journey of loads which it was drawing.

HIGGS Samuel – 1909 – 28/06/1909 – Age 36 – Clifton Timberer, Clifton Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. The two men were electrocuted at a coal-cutting machine, due to a defective earth. 2 killed.

HIGGS Tom Newton – 1909 – 24/08/1909 – Age 30 – Langwith Dayman, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Notts. Deceased and another man were preparing to set the drilling machine to bore a shot hole at the gate-end, when a large stone came from over the pack and killed deceased.

HIGHES Lillie – 1901 – 25/11/1901 – Age 10 – Anthony Road clay Quarry, School girl, Matthew Frost, Warwick. Deceased and her brother aged 12 got lost on a very dark and foggy night. After getting through a fence they both fell down a disused part of the Quarry and deceased was drowned. Female.

HIGHES Richard – 1909 – 17/07/1909 – Age 32 – Ferndale No.4 Repairer, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road, cliff, 6 feet by 2 feet by 7 feet thick, fell on him from the side. The piece of ground had been tested at the fireman's request 5 minutes before the accident, and, as it was considered too strong to wedge down it had been decided to set timber against it. Bute seam.

HIGHFIELD William – 1901 – 27/05/1901 – Age 30 – Talk o’th’ Hill Carpenter, Talk o’th’ Hill Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust caused by a gob fire. 4 killed.

HIGHLAND John – 1905 – 17/04/1905 – Age 65 – Craig No.1 Sinker, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. A shot of gelignite in a sinking pit, with too short a fuse, went off just as he was being lifted in the kettle and he fell out. Another four shots went off on him.

HIGNEY Charles – 1907 – 25/03/1907 – Age 18 – Garthshore No.2 Drawer, William Baird and Co., Dumbarton. Fall of roof in working place.

HIGSLOW Paul – 1908 – 29/12/1908 – Age 55 – Meadow Dataller, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. The night fireman had been plucking the side in a roadway, and when deceased was clearing the dirt, a fall of roof occurred from between two slips, fatally injuring deceased.

HIGSON Eli – 1905 – 05/05/1905 – Age 26 – Mosley Common Dataller, Earl Ellesmere, Lancashire. Fall of roof at bottom of spinney brow whilst repairing, the bar pushed out, it ought to have had a sprag against it to meet thrust or a running bar put up. (Average roof)

HIGSON Walter – 1903 – 19/02/1903 – Age 52 – Linnyshaw Engineer, Bridgewater Trustees,  Lancashire. When cleaning the oil-hole in the pedestal of the driving shaft of the screening machinery, standing on a ladder 12 feet above the ground, his neck scarf caught the shaft he was whirled round and choked.

HILES Charles – 1902 – 18/11/1902 – Age 19 – Navigation Collier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 5 feet by 4.5 feet by 8 inches thick, fell while deceased was ripping a lower bed down. He ought to have discovered that the stone had given and taken it down. Two feet nine seam.

HILL Adam – 1909 – 02/07/1909 – Age 23 – Moorfields Dataller, Altham Collieries Co. Ltd., Lancashire. In the working place, whilst building a pack, roof fell 12 feet long by 5 feet wide, props had been withdrawn by collier, they should have been re-set by deceased before commencing to work, large space unsupported. (Roof good).

HILL Albert – 1907 – 30/09/1907 – Age 43 – Great Western No.2 Labourer, Great Western Colliery Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, strong cliff, 10 feet by 7 feet by 27 inches thick, fell from between three smooth slips, as deceased was discharging rubbish out of a tram. It was quite unsupported. Five feet seam.

HILL Archibald – 1908 – 24/02/1908 – Age 30 – Carronhall Drawer, Carron Co., Stirling. Deceased was descending on the cage for the first time in his life, and failed to keep inside the cover, and just as the cage left the surface his left arm, which was projecting, was crushed. He died from his injuries five days after.

HILL Arthur – 1905 – 04/07/1905 – Age 29 – Blaenavon Dodd’s Slope Hardgroundman, Blaenavon Co. Ltd., Monmouth. After lighting a shot, some delay occurred in his lighting a second and before he could get away the first exploded.

HILL Charles – 1901 – 27/08/1901 – Age 17 – Teversal Horse driver, Stanton Iron Works Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. A set of men were engaged in repairing the roadway by taking out the low bars and setting them higher. While this work was going on a large fall of roof occurred pulling out the new timber and killing two deceased. Another man was injured. 2 killed.

HILL Charles – 1903 – 13/10/1903 – Age 49 – Ely Roadsman, Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 11.5 feet by 12 feet by 33 inches thick. Deceased were walking along a main heading when a framing collar broke and liberated the four collars it had been supporting. On examination the collar showed a good deal of dry rot at the point of fracture. It was said to have been stood only a month previously. Five feet Seam. 2 killed.

HILL E. – 1902 – 15/05/1902 – Age 13 – Wharncliffe Woodmoor Screenboy, Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was in a partly filled wagon which was slowly moving under the screens. In a forgetful moment he raised his head and it was crushed between the wagon and the screen platform.

HILL Edward – 1904 – 21/07/1904 – Age 27 – Ferndale No.4 Assistant repairer, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. On road. Deceased was with a repairer preparing to stand some double timbers in a place where they had previously removed the old low timbers when a stone said to have been 2 feet by 2 feet by 1 foot thick fell and injured him so severely that he died in a few hours.

HILL Edward – 1909 – 05/02/1909 – Age 17 – Newton No.2 Wagoner, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by tubs in jig brow, tubs collided; deceased went up and put right, jigger started before deceased was out of the way; two manholes close by.