HODGSON Joseph - 1906 - 05/05/1906 – Age 32 - Lindal Moor, Iron Ore Loco. Fireman, Harrison Ainsle and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. This accident happened during shunting operations. The fireman got off the locomotive, with the object of walking past the slowly moving waggons, the gradient at that point being in favour of the load to turn them into a siding. The lever regulating the points was on the opposite side and in attempting to cross in front of the waggons, he was caught and run over. He died at the Ulverston hospital on the same day.

HODGSON Joseph - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 25 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 3 Benton Terrace, Stanley.

HODGSON Robert - 1905 - 27/12/1905 – Age 56 - Morrison Stoneman, South Moor Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from heart failure when going out-bye. No inquest held.

HODGSON Sydney - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 19 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 3 Benton Terrace, Stanley.

HODGSON William - 1901 - 29/03/1901 – Age 50 - Edmonsley Hewer, Edmonsley Coal Co., Co.Durham. Turning away a jud, off a headway, when a stone fell out of the goaf towards the centre of the jud. He was cutting down bottom coal to get a prop set when the stone fell.

HODSON James - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 48 - Maypole Fireman, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

HODSON John - 1908 - 04/03/1908 – Age 29 - Hamstead Dam minder, Hamstead Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Underground fire. 25 killed.

HODSON John W. - 1905 - 10/01/1905 – Age 25 - Abram Contractor, Abram Coal Co., Abram, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged getting roof down, his mate was cutting one side and the deceased the other side, when a portion of same fell from between two slips upon the deceased.

HODSON William - 1903 - 14/08/1903 – Age 32 - St. George’s, Sinking Sinker, Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst dressing side of the shaft, standing on the bottom, a piece, 12 inches square and 1 inch thick fell with the point on to his right foot, it cut through his thick shoe leather and pierced the middle toe. Died 24th August from lockjaw.

HODWICK Isaac - 1901 - 20/11/1901 – Age 36 - Dowlais Cardiff Assistant ripper, Guest Keen and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 11 feet by 8 feet by 3.5 feet thick, it fell from between two slips on deceased while stowing an old road one prop was crushed out. No.2 seam.

HOE John William - 1907 - 03/06/1907 – Age 33 - Coppice Onsetter, Shipley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was cleaning the sump by the use of a tub suspended from the cage, when a link of the chain broke and allowed the tub to fall upon him.

HOEY Robert - 1906 - 28/08/1906 – Age 60 - Lassodie Repairer, Thomas Spowart and Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased and another workman were engaged making repairs on a heading road when the roof suddenly collapsed and he was completely buried.

HOGAN John - 1909 - 24/05/1909 – Age 14 - Pemberton Pony driver, Pemberton Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When he unhooked the pony it turned around suddenly, and the deceased got fatally injured by being crushed by the pony's shaft against the tub. Died May 25, 1909.

HOGANS Robert - 1902 - 01/12/1902 – Age 23 - Cousland Oil Shale Miner, Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was working off some shale broken by a shot in a seam 8 feet thick with a dip of 28 degrees. A large piece of shale came away unexpectedly and struck him causing a compound fracture of the thigh. He succumbed to his injuries nine hours after.

HOGG John - 1902 - 21/08/1902 – Age 47 - Whitehall Miner, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was engaged making an airway through an old level which had fallen. He filled the debris into tubs and widened the road by taking coal off one side. Underneath a huge stone, lying on the pavement, was some coal and he went under to get the coal when the stone broke in two and fatally crushed him.

HOGG John - 1905 - 07/04/1905 – Age 15 - Ormiston Station Engine driver, Ormiston Coal Co. Ltd., Haddington. Deceased was assisting to move railway waggons at the screens and was crushed between the waggon buffers.

HOGG Smithson - 1902 - 03/06/1902 – Age 35 - Walkmill Hewer, Moresby Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. While hewing, with his marrow in a broken working in the Main Band, a fall of roof suddenly occurred. Six inches of coal was left to keep up four feet of cash which was of a very friable nature. The coal prevented the presence of a slip being detected. The lift was holed and only a few tubs of coal remained to be filled. The working was apparently well timbered several props being within 3 feet of the face.

HOGG William - 1904 - 14/12/1904 – Age 69 - Reservoir Dataller, Moira Colliery Co., Leicestershire. He died from cancer and jaundice but had received a slight accident in the mine on 15th October, 1901.

HOGGAN Bernard - 1906 - 07/12/1906 – Age 33 - Northfield Miner - Northfield Coal Co. Ltd., Haddington. Irruption of water 2 killed.

HOGGAN James - 1907 - 14/03/1907 – Age 59 - Prestonlinks Miner, Edinburgh Collieries Ltd., Haddington. Deceased and his step-son were working as usual at the face when the roof suddenly gave signs of falling and both ran in opposite directions but were overtaken and buried beneath a huge fall. The roof had been well supported by props but the fall threw all the props out.

HOGGARTH James - 1906 - 01/11/1906 – Age 22 - Hodbarrow, Iron Ore Miner, Hodbarrow Mining Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Died July 21st, 1907. Deceased was engaged with his brother and another miner in taking a ‘sline’ or slice off a pillar of ore. The working place, which was about 10 feet high by 10 feet wide, was timbered up to within 18 inches of the face. Three shots were fired in the lower part of the working. On returning, after firing, they found that the shots had failed to dislodge the ground on the right side, and after an examination, deceased commenced to bore another hole in it. While so engaged a portion of the ore (about 15 cwts.) suddenly fell and struck him on the back, fracturing his spine. The ground in which deceased was boring was undercut but they had not considered it necessary to put in a temporary prop. An official inspection of the place had been made during the shift prior to the firing of the three shots.

HOLBROOK Alfred - 1909 - 18/03/1909 – Age 36 - Stafford, Pender Assistant timberer, Stafford Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was killed by a fall of clod in a jig in the Great Row Seam while assisting a timberer to do repairs. A low bar had to be removed. To carry out the operation a middle set was first fixed beneath the bar and two runners were then removed and roof got down half way across the jig. A runner supported on a punch prop set off the low bar was then fastened up to the new roof. Deceased and his mate were clearing dirt away when a large piece of clod, 9 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 1 foot thick fell, reeling out the bar, the runner, the middle set and the leg at one end of the bar. The bar caught deceased in the back causing instant death.

HOLBURN Thomas William - 1909 - 17/06/1909 – Age 38 - Wearmouth Hewer, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of roof stone at working face.

HOLCROFT Adam - 1909 - 03/06/1909 – Age 34 - Abram Drawer, Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When pushing his empty tub across the haulage motion downbrow, he got fatally crushed by two full tubs, which had been standing against a trailer, which failed to act.

HOLCROFT George A. - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 29 – Maypole Assistant hooker-on, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust 75 killed.

HOLCROFT James - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 55 - Maypole Fireman, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

HOLDEN George - 1901 - 14/01/1901 – Age 26 - Moss Hall Collier, Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was working at the face of his drawing road when a large stone fell upon him from the roof, liberated at two slips and capping the bar next to the face and two props.

HOLDEN George - 1908 - 03/11/1908 – Age 49 - Hucknall No.2 Stallman, Hucknall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. A small piece of roof fell on the man's head while he was at work in the stall. He worked for seven days afterwards, when meningitis developed and he died on 15th November.

HOLDING James - 1909 - 13/08/1909 – Age 25 - King Collier, Pemberton Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When clearing coal, after a shot, a fall of roof occurred upon the deceased from a slip, capping two bars, and a running bar.

HOLDING Thomas Henry - 1905 - 29/09/1905 – Age 23 - Kingsbury Insetter, Kingsbury Colliery Ltd., Warwickshire. Crushed between the ascending cage and a steel girder fixed across the bottom of the shaft. The cage started ascending the shaft owing to some mistake in the signalling.

HOLE Michael - 1903 - 27/11/1903 – Age 17 - Hickleton Main Engine Driver, Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. His duty was to drive a compressed air hauling engine but he went to detach an empty tub off the endless rope of the main engine plane. He appears to have had some difficulty with the lever of the snap and failed to detached the tub until it was in contact with an empty tub which was twisted round and he was fatally crushed against the side.

HOLEY Peter - 1902 - 11/10/1902 – Age 44 - Facit, Sandstone Quarry Quarrier, Henry Heys and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of sandstone from face of Quarry, undermined 11 feet a prop set 3 feet from face. Ought to have had props under the face edge. Stone 8 feet long, 6 feet wide. and 6 feet deep.

HOLIFIELDS George - 1906 - 24/11/1906 – Age 41 - Coedymoeth Collier, Powells Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. His road, near the face, having got too low for the horse, he was bringing a full tram out from the face and was in front with his back against it when he was overpowered and crushed against a prop which stood out from the side of the road.

HOLLAN Hezekiah - 1900 - 19/07/1900 – Age 27 - Earsdon Church Hewer, Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. Supposed to have slightly cut his knee on some coal underground. He subsequently died of blood poisoning.

HOLLAND Arthur - 1902 - 20/03/1902 – Age 43 - Griff Granite Quarry Horse Driver, Griff Granite Co., Warwickshire. Deceased was coupling two loaded Quarry wagons under the crushers when the horse, attached to the first wagon, started forward and crushed deceased between the wagon side and the upright supporting the crushers. He died the next day.

HOLLAND George - 1901 - 31/01/1901 – Age 47 - Ashton Moss Collier, New Moss Colliery Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from working face by sprag not being properly set at the foot. Fall, 9 feet long. Two sprags before it one gave way.

HOLLAND Henry - 1904 - 11/01/1904 – Age 43 - Nunnery Deputy, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When he was descending the shaft, to commence his duties along with other men, he by some means fell out of the cage and was killed. Nothing occurred in any way to cause him to do so.

HOLLAND James - 1903 - 15/05/1903 – Age 62 - Ashington Hewer, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was hewing alone in a lift in the broken or pillar workings of the Low Main seam, when a piece of coal ramble and top coal fell off the face on to him from an unseen slippy back and so injured him that he died a few minutes after being brought to the surface. The place had been inspected by the deputy in accordance with the regulations. The Local Inspectors reported with reference to the fatality in our opinion the same was 'an accident which no one could foresee the coal having come off at a lie over back.'.

HOLLAND James - 1907 - 07/09/1907 – Age 55 - Parr No.5 Dataller, Richard Evans and Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. He was engaged building a chock near the face, when a stone fell from a slip in the kench upon him.

HOLLAND James Edward - 1909 - 09/12/1909 – Age 17 - Hucknall No.2 Haulage Roadman, Hucknall Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Endless rope road with single tubs. Two empty tubs arrived at deceased’s station together, attached to the rope by two separate clips. He unclipped the first, pulling it forward and when attempting to clip it on to the rope again the other bumped into it throwing deceased into the full road when he was run over. Died 11th December.

HOLLAND John - 1906 - 02/02/1906 – Age 53 - Musby Heights Stone Quarry Quarrier, Messrs Taylor and Heys, Lancashire. Whilst travelling about ten miles an hour, riding on the step of a small locomotive engine (3 feet gauge), in getting off he came in contact with an old waggon standing by the line side, 3 feet space, was knocked against the moving wagons, he fell under the wheels, four of the six wagons passed over him before the engine could be stopped.

HOLLAND John - 1907 - 20/06/1907 – Age 47 - Ashton Moss Collier, New Moss Colliery Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in roadway near the face, engaged ripping the roof for height, the fall came from two converging slips, both had been exposed to view for some distance. The stone grazed the leg of another man who narrowly escaped. It ought to have been taken down. A fireman visited the men an hour before the accident and said not one word about the slips, he altogether failed to perform his duty. The stone was 2 feet 7 inches thick and weighed about a ton. (Average roof)

HOLLAND Ralph - 1906 - 13/07/1906 – Age 14 - Birchenwood, Clough Hall No.18 Driver, Birchenwood Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Deceased started his pony with a journey of loads out of a shunt and then ran in front, and in crossing over the rails he fell against the deep side of the level and was crushed by the on coming loads before he could move out of the way. He died on the following day.

HOLLAND Robert - 1907 - 15/01/1907 – Age 41 - Stopes Collier, Thomas Fletcher and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. In working place, from between two pronounced slips, both seen, three props were brought down by the fall, only bars would have prevented, they ought to have been set. (Good roof).

HOLLAND Samuel J. - 1901 - 25/07/1901 – Age 38 - Cramlington, High Hewer, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. A stone fell from slips in the roof of deceased’s working place. Plenty of spare timber at hand.

HOLLAND Thomas - 1905 - 30/05/1905 – Age 48 - Grassmoor No.4 Stallman, Grassmoor Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. The deceased was supposed to have been either building a pack or withdrawing a prop from a waste in the stall when a large fall of roof occurred and killed him.

HOLLAND Thomas - 1908 - 29/07/1908 – Age 60 - Uglow Quarry Quarrier, Nicholas Holland, Lancashire. Pulling crane round by handle, this came off causing deceased to reel back and fall 17 feet into the Quarry hole. He stood 4 feet from the edge. A fence and collier, a pin or a nut in the crane handle to keep it secure was required.

HOLLAND W. - 1906 - 30/10/1906 – Age 45 - Wigan Junction Fireman, Wigan Junction Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was coming up the endless-rope haulage downbrow in front of two full tubs, when he appeared to have slipped on an iron landing, and got crushed by the full tubs, opposite an old roadway. He expired November 8th, 1906.

HOLLAND William - 1904 - 14/05/1904 – Age 19 - Llanhilleth Collier, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Deceased was sitting down near the face when a piece of clod burst off the top of the coal and killed him.

HOLLAND William - 1904 - 18/11/1904 – Age 33 - Williamthorpe Labourer, Hardwick Coal Co., Derbyshire. Deceased fell from a derrick pole which had one end on the floor and about two-thirds up the pole rested on a wall. He died 23rd November.

HOLLEY John - 1908 - 21/02/1908 – Age 54 - Blaina Foreman Haulier, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Caught between a journey of trams, which a horse was bringing into a double parting at the far end of the engine plane, and the frame of the pulley around which the tail rope of the engine plane worked. (Horse haulage)

HOLLIDAY Walter - 1907 - 22/11/1907 – Age 51 - Allhallows Packer, Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased and another packer, who was rather seriously injured, were building a pack wall parallel to the coal face in the longwall workings in No.3 dip in the Yard hand, a seam 5 feet thick and inclined at 8 inches per yard. They had retired from the end of the pack, along the level and 4.5 feet wide left between it and the coal, for a distance of 24 yards where they got their bait, and were returning to work by the same route when a stone, 6 yards long. 4.5 feet wide and 2 feet thick, fell away between the coal and the pack, killing deceased and fastening his mate. The stone was relieved by a slip extending over the coal and in its fall canted out several props. There was a supply of loose timber close at hand, but the place had been considered safe when examined by the deputy before work started, and by the overman and the contractor within half an hour of the accident.

HOLLING William - 1908 - 26/02/1908 – Age 31 - Tibshelf No.1 Dataller, Babbington Coal Co., Derbyshire. A fall of roof occurred at the junction of two roadways, 30 yards from the coal-face, and a stallman carrying a lighted candle went to see what had occurred, when he exploded gas given off at the fall. Three men were non-fatally injured and deceased died on 10th April.

HOLLINS William - 1900 - 19/01/1900 – Age 35 - Elm No.3 Collier, G Watkinson and Sons Ltd., Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. When in the act of setting a bar in his roadway a large pothole fell from the roof, capping the last bar they were setting and crushing the deceased.

HOLLIS William - 1902 - 28/04/1902 – Age 14 - Houghton Driver, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was sitting on the limbers driving a set of full tubs when the first tub, owing to there being a small piece of stone on the rail, up-ended and crushed him internally. Died the following day.

HOLLIS William - 1903 - 22/08/1903 – Age 28 - Florence Collier, Florence Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (coal) in a waste, at working face, in Yard seam. While preparing to draw the timber from under some top coal which had been prepared for dropping it fell on him. The piece of coal was about 9 feet by 3 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 3 inches thick, it was detached on two sides, cut up on one side and liberated by a break on the fourth side and supported by three posts. It was supposed that Hollins was cutting round the lid on one of the posts before drawing it with a pulling jack which he had at hand.

HOLLIS William - 1907 - 09/04/1907 – Age 49 - Houghton Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He failed to get into a refuge hole and was caught by a set on the engine-plane.

HOLLOWAY George - 1907 - 30/12/1907 – Age 34 - The Park Machineman, J and R Stone, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. When clearing the holing, after the coal cutting machine, a fall of roof occurred upon the deceased, near the face the props set were nearly five feet off the face and no bars or stretchers on to the coal had been set.

HOLLYHEAD John - 1908 - 12/06/1908 – Age 33 - Broxtowe Dayman, Babbington Coal Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was preparing to set a holing sprag, when part of the coal face fell over and fatally injured him. He died the same day.

HOLLYOAK Thomas - 1908 - 04/03/1908 – Age 39 - Hamstead Haulageman, Hamstead Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Underground fire. 25 killed.

HOLMES A. - 1903 - 09/11/1903 – Age 38 - Dodworth Screenman, Old Silkstone Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He left his usual place of work and was getting under a revolving shaft when his clothing caught in a clutch and he was whirled round the shaft and so seriously injured that he died the same day.

HOLMES Benjamin Bennett - 1903 - 21/06/1903 – Age 31 - Wollaton Dayman, Wollaton Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was repairing a heading when a portion of the roof fell upon him. He died on the 27th June.

HOLMES Cornelius - 1906 - 06/03/1906 – Age 45 - Baryton Hill, Sandstone Quarry Foreman, Mrs Eliza, Twyford, Derbyshire. A large stone was being pulled over the top of the Quarry, by means of a crane rope. The stone broke, and deceased standing between the stone and the edge of the Quarry face, the rope struck him over the legs and threw him into the Quarry 50 feet below.

HOLMES Enoch - 1901 - 02/12/1901 – Age 50 - Mountain Collier, George Watkinson and Sons, Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was in the act of loosening the top of a prop, from under the roof with his hammer, when a large piece of rock fell and killed him. They had a gablock and chain near but the prop had to be loosened before it could be withdrawn.

HOLMES George - 1908 - 08/07/1908 – Age 28 - Cadeby Main Dataller, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. A splinter of wood ran into his thumb. Died on the 10th instant from blood poisoning.

HOLMES George Walton - 1902 - 31/07/1902 – Age 36 - Margaret, Iron Ore Miner, Cleator Iron Ore Co., Cumberland. Deceased thought that the candle, which he had lit and placed under the fuse had gone out, he was returning to light it when the shot exploded. It was thought at the time that he was comparatively little worse but he died three hours after.

HOLMES J. - 1901 - 06/05/1901 – Age 43 - West Ardsley Collier, West Yorkshire Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall in working place. Cause converging previously unseen slip.

HOLMES John - 1902 - 09/04/1902 – Age 30 - Tor, Granite Quarry Tractor engineman, Duke and Co. Ltd., Devon. He was run over by a traction engine in the Quarry. He appears to have been walking in front with a view to coupling up to trucks when in some way he was caught by the foot and thrown down, the engine then passing over him.

HOLMES John - 1906 - 10/01/1906 – Age 38 - Sherburn Hill Filler, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was struck by a fall of stone, which came away with the coal when the sprags were drawn, after the face had been holed by a coalcutting machine.

HOLMES Patrick - 1904 - 06/05/1904 – Age 23 - Princess Taker off, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made. He was engaged at the bottom of a jig and they appear to have signalled to the jigger to start but the full tubs were jigged without taking the empties up and the full tubs crushed the deceased.

HOLMES Walter - 1902 - 05/02/1902 – Age 13 - Carlton Main Lamp carrier, Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 17th February. Kicked by a horse in a travelling road.

HOLMES William Henry - 1906 - 14/12/1906 – Age 14 - Bwllfa Dare Collier boy, Bwllfa & Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries (1891) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 16 feet by 4 feet by 17 inches thick. The collier in charge of the stall was pulling a slip of coal, which, in falling knocked out two props, and caused the roof to fall upon himself and the boy. Two feet nine seam. 2 killed.

HOLROYD John Thomas - 1904 - 26/04/1904 – Age 37 - Loose Sett Collier, Edwin Leach, Lancashire. Was leaving the face, having finished his work, when the place collapsed for want of timber, props 7 feet from the face, the rule requires 4 feet as a minimum. Coal 10 inches thick (Bad roof)

HOLT Edward - 1901 - 17/10/1901 – Age 27 - Naden Dene Dataller, J Lomax and Co., Lancashire. Fall of roof in roadway of tunnel. Timber not strong enough and too far apart. (Bad roof). 2 killed.

HOLT John Henry - 1909 - 11/03/1909 – Age 22 - Cannop Sinker, Cannop Coal Co. Ltd., Gloucestershire. He was a skip rider i.e. he rode up the shaft with a hoppet or kibble, in order to guide it past the pumps which occupy a large space in the shaft leaving very little room for the hoppet. His duties may be compared with those of a journey rider on an engine plane. He had followed this work nearly a year and was therefore no novice. At the time of the accident he was ascending the shaft and had got within 17 or 20 yards of the top when something occurred to cause him to stop the hoppet and have it moved up and down two or three times. It then appears to have tilted and thrown him down the pit. At this part of the pit, and 30 or 40 yards below, there is nothing within three feet of the edge of the hoppet, and what he stopped for is a mystery. When the hoppet was afterwards drawn up to the surface it was upside down and the signal wire which hung four feet clear of it was caught in the D link of the spring hook. One can only imagine that one of the catches for keeping it from tilting was open when he left the bottom, and that his clothes or waterproof disturbed and opened the other on the opposite side. How it really occurred will never be known, but strangely enough another skip rider fell out of the same skip in the No.2 Shaft about five weeks before and was killed.

HOLT John Thomas - 1909 - 24/03/1909 – Age 48 - Outwood Collier, Thomas Fletcher and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst repairing in the roadway, a piece of clod, 4 feet in diameter, suddenly burst from the roof; all the sides of the fall were smooth like glass and there is reason to believe gas assisted to force out the clod. Died 6th December. (Roof good)

HOMER Edward - 1902 - 07/05/1902 – Age 48 - Stockfield Collier, Chamber Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by tub while riding were prohibited, on endless rope. Haulage rope. Died 9th October.

HONEY William - 1903 - 24/09/1903 – Age 27 - Elliot Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When pulling coal down from the face a piece rolled against his leg and broke it. The cause of death was embolism due to inflammation of the lungs. He died on the 29th and the doctor stated it probably was the result of the accident. This is one of those cases in which even the doctor would only say that the accident probably was due to the accident and it remains more or less uncertain.

HONEYBALL William - 1900 - 06/11/1900 - Ashton Vale Collier, Somerset. An inquest was held. He was alleged to have fallen from a ladder in the Colliery, when at work on the 6th November. Medical evidence showed that death was due to pneumonia and a verdict to that effect was returned. Not comprised.

HONEYCHURCH W.J. - 1909 - 12/10/1909 – Age 17 - East Pool & Agar, Tin Miner, East Pool & Agar United Mines Adventurers, Cornwall. In going from the 252 level to the 265, on his way to the shaft, he appears to have slipped on the ladder and fell to the platform below, a distance of some 22 feet. He had only been in this level a short time, and his light went out just as he was about to enter upon the ladder, which was somewhat below the level. In order to reach it safely a chain is provided for holding by. It would have been more correct to have had a sollar at the top of the ladder. He left his working place with some other boy who was more experienced in the mine than he was, instead of waiting for his responsible comrade. The accident came about through various coincidences.

HOOD Andrew - 1904 - 23/01/1904 – Age 36 - Portland No.8 Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof in working place.

HOOD George - 1901 - 19/10/1901 – Age 44 - Aldridge Coal loader, Aldridge Colliery Co., Staffordshire. He was bringing a railway truck down the siding to join another truck which was standing. The truck was running by its own gravitation and he was standing on the front buffer regulating the pace by putting on the brake with one foot. When the trucks bumped he was thrown off and his leg cut. Blood poisoning supervened and he died on 28th October.

HOOD John - 1905 - 20/09/1905 – Age 33 - Sharlston, Stanley Main Collier, New Sharlston Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was holing coal which had a loose buttock end with a sprag under that end. He took the sprag out expecting the coal to fall, but as it did not do he, without replacing the sprag, went under again and commenced holing when the coal fell and killed him.

HOOD Joseph - 1902 - 13/06/1902 – Age 51 - Nuneaton Stallman, Stanley Bros., Warwickshire. Fall of roof coal. Deceased was getting down roof coal in a waste when it fell upon him. Died 17th June.

HOOD Matthew - 1903 - 21/05/1903 – Age 27 - St. Hilda Stone putter, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died 23rd May. On the 21st May deceased was performing his ordinary duties in the pit and in addition had assisted to put a loaded tub, that had become derailed, back on the rails on an endless rope haulage road. Some time after he became ill with a severe pain in the stomach and had to be helped outbye. He was taken to South Shields Infirmary and died there. A post mortem examination revealed an ulcer of old standing in his stomach which had burst.

HOODLESS William - 1904 - 07/01/1904 – Age 50 - St. Helens Deputy, St. Helens Colliery and Brickworks Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Explosion of firedamp. 2 killed.

HOOLE George - 1900 - 08/10/1900 – Age 35 - Moor Green Holer, Barber Walker and Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased went to work after being away a month owing to illness. He had not been at work long before he died in his working place. A post mortem examination was made and the doctor's evidence was that the man died from syncope due to a diseased condition of the heart and the jury returned a verdict accordingly.

HOOLEY Joseph - 1907 - 11/04/1907 – Age 49 - Tagg’s Nose, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, Joseph Wetton and Sons, Cheshire. He ran in the way of a stone which was rolling down the working face and was killed by it.

HOOLIGAN Patrick - 1901 - 21/01/1901 – Age 47 - Wallyford Sinker, Edinburgh Collieries Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased and other sinkers were enlarging a shaft, and a few fathoms below them was a scaffold on which the debris fell. The enlargement was proceeding at a point, a short distance below the Great Seam, and where a crosscut mine left the shaft to cut the seam. The previous shift had left their work fearing a fall and the contractor and others were in the shaft for the purpose of making it secure when a large quantity of stone fell away above the crosscut and the two deceased fell with it on to the scaffold below the contractor and others escaping with difficulty. 2 killed.

HOON John - 1901 - 07/09/1901 – Age 38 - East Cannock Timberman, East Cannock Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of side. He was repairing a gob road when a piece of the side fell upon him and injured him so seriously that he died on 7th October, 1901. Cause, a slip.

HOOPER John - 1903 - 18/11/1903 – Age 31 - Seven Sisters Collier, Evans and Bevan, Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face while stowing rubbish, a stone from the clift roof fell alongside a kind joint, causing injuries from which deceased died on 3rd October 1904. Four feet seam.

HOOPER William - 1904 - 22/03/1904 – Age 63 - Arrail, Limestone Quarry Labourer, J Monks and Co., Monmouth. He allowed a tram of rubbish, which he was taking to the tip, to get too much away on it and instead of jumping off he stuck to the tram trying to stop it with a stick as a brake on the wheels and was thrown over the tip end receiving such injuries as to cause his death three days afterwards.

HOOSON William - 1902 - 17/01/1902 – Age 42 - Plas Power Collier, Broughton and Plas Power Coal Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged barring coal down in the Brassey seam, which was about 7 feet in thickness, when more coal came than expected from a slip which fatally injured him. The coal had loosened by a shot previously fired.

HOPE Henry - 1909 - 22/11/1909 – Age 71 - East Holywell Master shifter, East Holywell Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of roof stone on wagonway.

HOPE James - 1901 - 19/08/1901 – Age 26 - Douglas Miner, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased worked in a room 9 to 10 feet wide. The face was standing on an upthrow of 3.5 feet and the left side had been stripped, an unproved upthrow for a distance of 14 feet. No one witnessed the accident but they were believed to have fired a shot at the face and to have been engaged working, in the working off the loose stuff when the roof burst in upon them completely burying them. 2 killed.

HOPE John - 1901 - 19/08/1901 – Age 24 - Douglas Miner, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased worked in a room 9 to 10 ft wide. The face was standing on an upthrow of 3.5 feet and the left side had been stripped, an unproved upthrow for a distance of 14 feet. No one witnessed the accident but they were believed to have fired a shot at the face and to have been engaged working, in the working off the loose stuff when the roof burst in upon them completely burying them. 2 killed.

HOPE Matthew * - 1907 – Throckley, Throckley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

HOPE Richard - 1907 - 25/03/1907 – Age 29 - Lumley Third Sinker, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was struck by a stone which fell off the bank at the top of the pit.

HOPER H.E.A.Y. - 1901 - 20/03/1901 – Age 33 - Mynachty Repairer, Mynachty Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side on road, a piece of clay fell from the side of the level, which deceased was re-opening and timbering, on to him and suffocated him. Darranddu Seam.

HOPKIN Jenkin - 1905 - 07/07/1905 – Age 45 - Tynybedw Haulier, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was taking a tram of coal down a gradient of 1 in 9 when, by some means, he got run over. He was most likely riding on the gun and struck his head against the roof which just inside of where he was found was 8 inches lower than the general level of the roof. At the step the height was 5 feet 4 inches. Steps down in the roof where riding is allowed should be removed, so as to keep the roof free from inequalities.

HOPKIN John - 1909 - 24/02/1909 – Age 50 - National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face coal and shale, 6 feet by 2.5 feet by 4 feet thick, fell from a back slip and crushed him to death against a prop. The coal was said to have been vertical before the accident and was not spragged. Nine feet seam.

HOPKING WT - 1901 - 24/01/1901 – Age 21 - Clydach Merthyr Tip engineman, Graigola Merthyr Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fatally burned. A boy threw the contents of a can, which contained naphtha, on to a fire in the workmen's cabin where five men and boys were sitting burning four of them.

HOPKINS Daniel - 1900 - 11/04/1900 – Age 14 - Clydach Merthyr Haulier, Graigola Merthyr Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by an empty tram. The horse bolted and in trying to unhitch him he fell.

HOPKINS David - 1906 - 13/04/1906 – Age 19 - Ynyscedwyn Collier, South Wales Anthracite Colliery Co. Ltd., Brecon. Fall of roof at face; while boring a hole in the coal, a stone measuring 8 feet by 3 feet 10 inches by 14 inches fell from clift roof causing such severe injuries that he died on 17th April.

HOPKINS David - 1907 - 08/10/1907 – Age 41 - Tynybedw Collier, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, cliff, 2 feet by 2 feet by 1.5 feet thick, fell as deceased was knocking out the second of two props from under the rippings. He had bored a hole in the rippings and charged it with Roburite. A well defined slip or giant in the roof from which the stone fell had followed the heading for same distance. Lower seven-feet seam.

HOPKINS David Thomas - 1906 - 16/08/1906 – Age 17 - Glyncymmer Labourer, Glenavon Rhondda Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While walking outbye at the end of his shift, he was knocked down and run over on a steep engine-plane by a loaded journey of trams.

HOPKINS Henry - 1904 - 22/12/1904 – Age 55 - Lynch Overman - Lynch Colliery Co., Glamorgan. While examining, along with another man, the face of a level in a seam of coal, in which a bore-hole had struck something loose when 12 feet of water burst through and deceased was carried down a steep top-hole and killed. His companion escaped.

HOPKINS Henry - 1907 - 16/10/1907 – Age 56 - Manners Stallman, Manners Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was walking towards the pit bottom when a full tub got loose from the haulage rope and ran over him. He died 18th October.

HOPKINS John - 1907 - 10/01/1907 – Age 55 - Cambrian No.1 Repairer, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. A haulier had taken an empty tram into a double parting, dipping 3/4 of an inch per yard, and having unhitched the horse he was turning him round, with the object of hitching it to a full tram, when the shaft caught the empty tram and set it in motion. Deceased, who was in a stooping position, cutting sprags, only 3 yards from the tram, he was knocked down by it and his neck was dislocated. The dipping gradient only extends for 7 yards from the point where the train started running.

HOPKINS Michael - 1906 - 02/11/1906 – Age 19 - Lonsdale, Iron Ore Labourer, Lonsdale Mining Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased was engaged in trailing bogies of rubbish from No.10 Company's drift and tipping them in an abandoned working about 150 yards distant. The floor of the old working in which the debris was being deposited was 8 or 10 feet lower than the level of No.10 company’s drift. On the morning of the accident deceased had laid a length of rails which projected slightly beyond the end of the rubbish heap. He was alone when the accident happened but he had apparently tipped his bogie and walked round to the front to clean it out, and at that moment a slight subsidence of the end of the rubbish heap caused the bogie to roll over on to him. When found he was under the bogie, which contained several large stones tightly jammed together.

HOPKINS Patrick - 1908 - 08/07/1908 – Age 54 - Soothill Woods Trimmer, Soothill Woods Collieries Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was working in a coal hopper cleaning out the drains with a hose pipe when the grab bucket, by which the coal is lifted out of the hoppers, caught and killed him. The grab is lifted by a crane and the brake on it allowed the drum to slip back and thus to cause the accident.

HOPKINS Philip - 1902 - 10/01/1902 – Age 51 - Ferndale No.1 Collier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, fireclay 6 feet 10 inches by 6 feet by 5 feet thick. Deceased had knocked out several props from under it and was cutting to get it down when it fell suddenly off a face slip. Two feet nine seam.

HOPKINS Thomas - 1908 - 05/10/1908 – Age 13 - Ferndale No.4 Lamp carrier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan, A haulier was taking two empty trams up a road, rising 3 inches per yard, when the horse fell, and in struggling to rise, it kicked out the pin of the gun, and liberated the trams. A barhook, which was behind them, broke and they ran back, and over deceased, who was walking up the road. There was ample room in the sides to pass a tram.

HOPKINS Thomas Morgan - 1907 - 14/11/1907 – Age 56 - Empire Collier, Execs of Thomas Jones, Glamorgan. An empty tram, upon which he was illegally riding on a self-acting incline, having a gradient of 1 in 11, got derailed in consequence of the rope catching in a check-rail, and in attempting to jump off, he fell and was run over.

HOPKINS W. - 1901 - 21/03/1901 – Age 47 - New Tredegar Ripper, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Run over by a tram on a roadway where he was assisting to clear rubbish. He must have slipped and fallen in front of the tram which he and his comrade were letting down the road slowly to suit themselves at their work.

HOPKINS William - 1901 - 25/11/1901 – Age 32 - Coegnant Haulier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1899) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road while raising a full tram on to the rails fall of top coal occurred suffocating deceased and injuring his two companions. Six feet seam.

HOPKINS William - 1908 - 26/02/1908 – Age 24 - Braichycymmer Collier, Ffaldu Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face, coal about two tons in weight fell upon him. It was stated that two sprags, set five feet apart supported at the face slip of coal. No evidence was forthcoming to show what was being done at the time of the accident. Six Feet Seam. Safety lamps.

HOPKINSON Tom - 1909 - 12/11/1909 – Age 21 - Moorfields Dataller, Altham Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. In roadway, preparing to make it chain road. Had taken down a long length of roof, to increase the height, and this was almost removed. The fireman was passing along preparing to leave when a huge stone crushed on to them from the roof, 12 feet long, 4 feet wide. There was no indication of slips, it was a strong shale. Although several good men had examined the place, no danger was discovered. (Roof good). 2 killed.

HOPPER G.W. - 1905 - 21/01/1905 – Age 25 - Dean & Chapter Guard, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was trying to get on to the engine which was going about 10 miles an hour, he got hold of the handle but missed the step, his toe caught a chair, he fell and a waggon went over his leg.

HOPPER James - 1908 - 22/01/1908 – Age 49 - Windlestone Hewer, Pease and Partners, Co.Durham. He failed to sprag his jud, and it came over on to him and so severely injured him that he died two days afterwards.

HOPSON J - 1904 - 20/09/1904 – Age 27 - Himley No.20, Bandsman, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of roof (shale) at working face Heathen coal.

HOPSON Thomas - 1906 - 08/08/1906 – Age 43 - Coneygre No. 120 Pikeman, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp ignited by naked light.

HOPWOOD John - 1900 - 12/01/1900 – Age 48 - Mountain Fireman, George Watkinson and Sons Ltd., Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. A feeder of water had blocked the airway and when making a new connection, above that point to the workings that had been cut off by the water the collier having bored a hole through and plugged it and afterwards worked to within a distance of knocking through when the deceased went there between the shifts and instead of letting the gas drain off through the borehole he knocked a large hole through and he was overcome by the gas and suffocated.

HORAN William - 1903 - 08/02/1903 – Age 34 - Seaton Burn Railway, Mason’s labourer, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased had no fixed abode. After leaving a public house, about 9pm on a Sunday night, he was decapitated on the Seaton Burn Coal Co's private railway by a locomotive (going tender first) and workmen's carriages passing over him. The turnpike road crosses the railway at a level crossing near the point and a watchman is stationed there on week days but not on Sundays. The railway is a very old one and is much used by pedestrians.

HORDBIN George - 1905 - 08/11/1905 – Age 25 - Aldridge No.1 Pikeman, Aldridge Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of side (coal) at longwall face in Deep seam on the occurrence of a bump.

HORLER Marshall or David - 1908 - 08/05/1908 – Age 19 - Abersychan Collier, Hoskins and Llewellyn, Monmouth. A heavy fall of roof at the face, some 30 tons more or less. There were props set under it, and it seemed apparently safe. The roof is strong, and the fall was about 4 feet thick, so that sounding with a hammer or pick would not indicate any danger. It appears that a general squeeze had gradually been coming on in this place, which is a small one just being opened out.

HORLER William - 1904 - 11/06/1904 – Age 35 - Clandown Miner, Clandown Colliery Co. Ltd., Somerset. Crushed by a boiler which he was assisting to unload from a trolley, the boiler while being raised with jacks slipped and came down on him owing to its not having been properly packed underneath.

HORLOCK Edmund - 1902 - 26/08/1902 – Age 52 - Grimshaw, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Executors of late John Makinson Lancashire. He was removing the overburden of clay, which had a nearly vertical face of 12 feet. A portion fell on to him and crushed him to death.

HORMAN Thomas - 1908 - 29/07/1908 – Age 53 - Hetty Labourer, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face, coal and shale, 5 feet by 18 inches by 5 feet thick, fell off the vertical face, knocked deceased down, and his skull was fractured against a newly laid gob wall. Death was instantaneous. He and a repairer were stowing rubbish preparatory to shifting the road in a Barry face. Two feet nine seam.

HORNBY John - 1901 - 08/07/1901 – Age 48 - Stoneclough Fireman, Stoneclough Coal Co., Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp, probably lit at a candle, while endeavouring to remove a large accumulation of firedamp by batting disturbing it by waving their waistcoats and a piece of brattice cloth. Inadequate ventilation for want of sufficient ventilating power and by reason of airways being blocked.

HORNE James - 1904 - 29/02/1904 – Age 32 - Meiklehill No.5 Chain runner, United Collieries Ltd., Dumbarton. Apparently when riding in front of a race, being drawn up a dook, he was caught against the roof. The roof was too low for any one to have been allowed to ride on the race.

HORNE John Henry - 1901 - 05/03/1901 – Age 19 - Bradford Collier, Bradford Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place from edge of ripping. Insufficiently propped. (Good roof).

HORNER John - 1906 - 01/10/1906 – Age 17 - Carberry Drawer, Edinburgh Collieries Ltd., Edinburgh. The shaft is 137 fathoms deep and at 75 fathoms from the surface is a steam pump in the dip side and for expansion a copper pipe was placed some distance above. While the men were descending to their work, in the morning, an unusual noise was heard in the shaft, and the oversman, thinking a joint had blown, signalled to the surface to cut off the steam after which the men were again allowed to descend. The dip cage was loaded with seven persons, and while it was descending it came into contact with something and shortly after a piece of wood followed and a splinter struck deceased, penetrating the skull by the eye, from the effects of which he died next day. It was afterwards discovered that the expansion pipe had burst and the force of the steam had displaced a brattice deal opposite, which the cage caught in passing and the oversman made an inspection of the shaft after the explosion before he allowed the men to descend he would have discovered the loose deal.

HOROBIN Thomas – 1902 – 29/07/1902 – Age 15 – Walsall Wood Road boy, Walsall Wood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof on jig landing caused by a tub getting off the rails and knocking out post supporting carrier bar. Another boy had a narrow escape from death.

HORRIDGE John – 1901 – 27/08/1901 – Age 50 – Agecroft Collier, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place, 6 yards from face. Whilst building a pack wall sudden weighting occurred. (Bad roof).

HORRIGAN Dennis – 1909 – 28/03/1909 – Usworth Shifter, Johnasson Gordon and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fell from gangway.

HORROCKS James – 1901 – 23/09/1901 – Age 17 – Douglas Bank Lasher on, Rose Bridge & Douglas Bank Collieries Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He lashed four empty tubs to the endless rope motion jig and signalled them away, and as he was finishing his work for the day he went for his lamp which he hung up a little distance up the jig and got crushed by the empty tubs which struck him apparently when he was reaching across the rope for his lamp. He succumbed to the injuries received 20th Oct.

HORROCKS Thomas – 1903 – 19/03/1903 – Age 27 – Whitehaven Bricklayers labourer, Whitehaven, Cumberland. Deceased men were labouring for bricklayers on a new haulage and air road that is being formed for working the sea coal. The masons were building side walls, a few yards further inbye of the point where the accident happened and where the lime was mixed. The place was 9 feet wide inside the side walls which were carried nearly to the roof, and 10 feet high, there was no timber placed to support the roof which was thought to be safe. A stone 10 feet by 8 feet and from 2 to 6 inches thick dropped from the roof upon them while they were engaged at the lime killing them both instantly. An old haulage road still in use ran parallel to the new road at a slightly higher level and within a few feet of it and vibration from the trains of tubs on it may have helped to loosen the stone. 2 killed.

HORSEFIELD J. – 1904 – 13/05/1904 – Age 51 – West Silkstone Byeworkman, Great Central Colliery Co., Yorkshire. He and another man were placing a prop at the end of a bar and had nearly cut it out then struck it with a hammer, at the second stoke the prop came away and a large fall then took place killing him.

HORSEPOOL Joseph – 1908 – 17/08/1908 – Age 38 – Nuneaton Stallman, Stanley Bros. Ltd., Warwick. Fall of roof and coal. Deceased was taking a sprag out, from under the coal face, prior to firing a shot when the coal and roof fell over a considerable area and buried the deceased. The body was not recovered until 20 hours later.

HORSFALL Arthur - 1906 - 25/09/1906 – Age 34 - Robin Hood Collier, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. Four men were working as mates in a gate. One was getting stone down in the tipping and the others were working at the coal face and tramming the coal out to the passbye in the gate. The deceased was bringing a tub out under the ripping when a piece of stone, 7 feet long by 7 feet 6 inches by 1 foot 3 inches thick, fell upon and killed him. This accident was due to timber not being set after the stone in the ripping was taken down.

HORSLEY Joseph - 1903 - 19/03/1903 – Age 31 - Bold No.3 Runner in, Collins Green Colliery Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was fatally injured by being struck by the haulage rope near the bottom of the shaft owing to three full tubs falling out of the ascending cage striking the haulage rope. The tumbler of the cage was said to have been slightly bent during the previous night and two witnesses at the surface stated they noticed the tumbler up when the cage reached the surface although the assistant hooker-on stated he had put it down.

HORTON Henry - 1901 - 01/01/1901 – Age 29 - New London Banksman, Digby Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased attempted to pass between two full railway waggons, which were 15 inches apart, when the shunter knocked a scotch out of one waggon and allowed it to move forward and fatally injure the deceased. He died on 25th January.