JACK Alexander - 1905 - 01/1905/1905 – Age 19 - Newbattle Coal cutter, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased attended to a coal cutting machine putting up props and while engaged at the face a fall of roof took place completely burying him.

JACK David - 1900 - 07/04/1900 – Age 63 - Arniston Crane footer, Arniston Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was assisting a fireman to rail a set of derailed tubs on a wheel brae, when a large stone fell from the side near the roof and rolled over causing injuries which terminated fatally an hour afterwards.

JACK Thomas - 1904 - 15/04/1904 – Age 61 - Bellside Bottomer, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was bottomer at a mid working 19.5 fathoms below surface and 11 fathoms above pit bottom. He had signalled for a cage, which was at the pit bottom waiting to be raised to the mid landing and in doing so the engineman stopped the descending cage at surface level to get a load of props. Deceased heard the safety gate at the pithead landing upon the plates and at once opened the gate at the mid landing pushed forward a tub and fell with it down the shaft, receiving injuries which terminated fatally six hours afterwards. The signalling apparatus in the engine house indicated that the gate was being opened and the engineman was in the act of ringing the return signal bell in terms of Additional Special Rule (2) when the accident took place.

JACKS John - 1903 - 20/07/1903 – Age 26 - Manor Collier, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place, roof collapsed from a pronounced slip several props displaced, only close set bars would have prevented such a collapse. (Bad roof.)

JACKSON Adam – 1902 – 28/01/1902 – Age 22 – Inchterf, Sand Quarry Labourer, Inchterf Sand Quarry Co., Stirling. Fall of sand from the Quarry face. The face was being worked without a sufficient slope on it and it gave way in consequence. Another man was injured.

JACKSON Charles – 1904 – 07/07/1904 – Age 45 – Nostell Mechanic, Lord St. Oswald, Yorkshire. He and the enginewright were starting a travelling steam crane. They attached a box full of coal and were lifting when the crane fell over and the deceased was caught and fatally injured. The back end of the crane was not weighted as it should have been.

JACKSON Charles - 1905 - 16/12/1905 – Age 54 - Framwellgate Helper up, Framwellgate Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from acute ascending paralysis due to natural causes, and not to any accident.

JACKSON David - 1904 - 07/04/1904 – Age 37 - Mitchell Main Contractor, Mitchell Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was ripping the road to make it, and was drawing a prop with a hammer when a large stone fell and killed him. The fall disclosed a pothole and converging slip.

JACKSON David - 1909 - 20/10/1909 – Age 37 - Sherburn Hill Filler, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. His ordinary occupation was to fill the coal cut by the coal-cutting machine but there being no coal cut he had as is usual in such case, been set on to hew. The place he was in was examined by the deputy at 5.30 am. He went into it at 6.40 am. and the accident occurred at 8.15 am. The place had been well timbered, but a stone fell from the roof between the timber and the face. Over the stone there was a coal pipe and the top of the stone itself was highly polished and could have had no adhesion to the coal pipe. He had jowled the stone just before it fell.

JACKSON George - 1905 - 10/01/1905 – Age 54 - Manvers Main Fireman, Manvers Main Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was unloading a waggon of small coal at the boiler fireholes into a hopper, when he fell in and was suffocated. A plank was usually placed over the hopper and if it had been in position he could not have fallen in. Since this accident occurred an iron grate cover has been placed over the hopper.

JACKSON George Henry - 1903 - 02/12/1903 – Age 46 - Kingsbury Banksman, Hockley Hall Colliery Co., Warwick. Deceased was pushing a railway waggon and used his chest to a buffer when two trucks followed on and fatally crushed him. It was dark at the time and no lamps were used.

JACKSON George Walker - 1905 - 03/03/1905 – Age 22 - Kelton, Iron Ore Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Cumberland. A nearly vertical vein of ore, 18 inches wide in slate rock was being worked, and in order to make a roadway 18 inches of the country rock was removed on the left or hanging cheek in which a hole had been drilled and was charged and nearly stemmed when a mass of stone, which it was intended to shoot down between the drill and the hanging cheek, measuring 5 feet by 1.5 feet by 1.5 feet, fell without any warning from a smooth parting at the top and a visible parting at the side and caught deceased. The place had been visited by an official during the shift and he thought it was safe.

JACKSON H. - 1901 - 12/06/1901 – Age 31 - Roundwood Collier, Dalton Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Fall of rock in working place. Cause a bump.

JACKSON Henry - 1909 - 25/03/1909 – Age 33 - Sutton Manor Hooker on, Sutton Manor Collieries Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Deceased was acting as hooker-on to two mouthings in the new shaft, and appears to have got on top of the cage to descend to the bottom mouthing, when he appeared to have slipped off the top of the cage and fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 28 yards, and was killed.

JACKSON Hugh – 1906 – 15/11/1906 – Age 40 – Polmaise No.4 Brusher, Archibald Russell Ltd., Stirling. He fired two shots in a road, which he was enlarging, and on returning a stone from the side fell on him.

JACKSON James – 1901 – 02/10/1901 – Age 52 – Starring Collier, Ralph Ashworth and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst he was putting a full tub into the cage, at an intermediate mouthing, the rope broke near the pulley; cage and tub with deceased fell to the bottom of the shaft.

JACKSON James – 1903 – 06/11/1903 – Harrington Loco. Brakesman, James Bain and Co. Ltd., Cumberland. The colliery locomotive had pushed forward a crane truck containing a pump and four chaldron wagons of coke. The driver stopped his engine at a tank and deceased, who was not usually employed as brakesman, appears to have been uncoupling the truck containing the pump and the coke wagon next it when he was crushed. To uncouple a pin required to be taken out of a shackle and a coupling pole could not be used. The buffers on the truck and wagon did not correspond.

JACKSON James – 1909 – 29/01/1909 – Age 40 – Lanemark Afton Miner, Lanemark Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of coal and roof at working face while holing.

JACKSON John – 1904 – 15/06/1904 – Age 32 – Harrington Shaftman, James Bain and Co., Cumberland. Died June 17th. Deceased with another shaftman was engaged in a compartment, 7 feet by 6 feet of a rectangular shaft building up a column of pump pipes. The pipes were lowered in sets of three by the crab engine. The work of making the joint was performed from two planks, 7 inches wide, fixed across the shaft on each side of the completed column. A spur consisting of a sleeper placed on the edge against the shaft side and between the two planks in an inclined position where the horizontal had been placed against the column to keep it in position, and as deceased stepped from one plank to the other he may have tripped over it. He fell down the shaft with the spur and landed on a plank placed diagonally across the shaft 36 feet below.

JACKSON John – 1907 – 19/11/1907 – Age 48 – Treeton Labourer, Rother Vale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. When lowering a wagon down towards the shaft, to be unloaded, he was fatally crushed between the wagon and a wall.

JACKSON John Thomas – 1909 – 17/12/1909 – Age 21 – Preston Hewer, UA Ritson and Sons Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of roof stone at working face.

JACKSON Jonathan – 1904 – 01/1905/1904 – Age 29 – New Oaks Corporal, Cammell Laird and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Killed by a fall of roof on a road.

JACKSON Joseph – 1902 – 09/10/1902 – Age 21 – Bamfurlong No.2 Browman, Cross Tetley and Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased and another person were engaged getting timber bars to go down the pit and he was with his back to the pit mouth pulling at a ten foot bar and it was supposed, owing to the bar being wet, he lost his hold and fell backwards into the shaft and was killed. Deceased had removed the fence, and sent timber down on the single cage just before the accident.

JACKSON Joseph – 1904 – 04/12/1904 – Age 41 – Garswood Hall Dataller, Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was examining the roof, where there had been a fall previous to clearing and timbering the road way, when a layer of roof above, where it had fallen previously, fell upon him, causing fatal injuries.

JACKSON Joseph – 1907 – 08/11/1907 – Age 15 – Long Lane Haulage hand, Garswood Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Some full tubs, in a jig, got off the rails which appeared to have disturbed a bar under the roof which came out causing a fall of roof upon the deceased when they were in the act of putting the tubs right.

JACKSON Joseph – 1907 – 22/10/1907 – Age 33 – Nuneaton Dayman, Stanley Brothers Ltd., Warwick. Fall of coal. Deceased was holing the coal face when the lower portion of it fell and killed him. He had holed up to a slip and although the sprags to the upper part of the seam were set at a proper distance apart, there was only one short sprag to the lower portion in a distance of 10 feet.

JACKSON Mark – 1905 – 08/01/1905 – Age 38 – Wath Main Shunter, Wath Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died from injuries received on December 28th last. He was passing along the footplate of a locomotive when he slipped, and his shin was scraped against the top step causing a bruised wound. Little was thought of the injury, but blood poisoning set in and he died. The handkerchief was a red one and dirty, and the blood poisoning was probably set up by it.

JACKSON Martin – 1900 – 28/03/1900 – Age 55 – Pontop Deputy, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased had nearly finished drawing the timber out of a jud when a stone fell from slips in the roof.

JACKSON Morris – 1909 – 19/11/1909 – Age 22 – Orgreave Labourer, Rother Vale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was assisting in the erection of a bye product plant, in connection with the coke ovens. At the time of the accident he was standing with one foot on a wagon and the other on a cooling tower. A train of waggons was knocked into the wagons he was standing on and he fell between it and the coke bench and was killed.

JACKSON Richard – 1905 – 22/02/1905 – Age 53 – Flappitt Spring, Sandstone Quarry Barer, Joseph Clayton Ltd., Yorkshire. Along with another three men they were removing baring dirt in the Quarry, which had been loosened by a charge of gelignite, on the 17th when one of them struck some unexploded and frozen cartridges which exploded and killed these two and injured two others. 2 killed.

JACKSON Samuel – 1901 – 21/03/1901 – Age 58 – Ashtonfield Collier, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Fall of roof in roadway of working place and near to the face. A fall from two pronounced slips. Had several warnings of impending danger and talked for an hour as to putting up a prop. (Average roof). 2 killed.

JACKSON Samuel – 1909 – 25/06/1909 – Age 50 – Auchinreoch No.2 Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. In passing stationary race of hutches, on the way to the bottom, the race started and caught him.

JACKSON T. – 1902 – 07/10/1902 – Age 40 – Nunnery Collier, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 27th November. Fall in a working place. Cause a fault slip.

JACKSON Thomas * – 1900 – North Seaton Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

JACKSON Thomas – 1904 – 07/03/1904 – Age 44 – Browney Heapkeeper, Bell Bros. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was clearing away some loose coals under screens when an empty wagon was being lowered by another man, the wagon was moving very slowly and plenty of warning was give, but he failed to get out of way and was crushed between buffers of two wagons. Died on the 11th instant.

JACKSON Thomas – 1905 – 27/01/1905 – Age 37 – Gag, Sandstone Quarry Foreman, George Sutton Chester, Chester. A defective link in the chain of a crane snapped. The jib broke and struck deceased on the head.

JACKSON Thomas – 1908 – 30/06/1908 – Age 21 – Michael Miner, Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was engaged working back the splint coal and while at work the roof collapsed. It appeared that a shot had missed fire; and a second charge was inserted and both charges fired, the effect was to loosen the roof and it fell. 2 killed.

JACKSON W. – 1900 – 07/09/1900 – Age 56 – Bellman Park (limestone Quarry) Joiner, J Carter and Co., Lancashire. Crushed by railway wagons while measuring a wagon. Died 14th September.

JACKSON W. – 1900 – 26/07/1900 – Age 38 – North Gawber Collier, Fountain and Burnley, Yorkshire. Fall of side.

JACKSON W. – 1901 – 22/11/1901 – Age 14 – Snydale Trapper, H Briggs Son and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 23rd Nov. He was trying to pass a run of full tubs to which a horse was attached when the horse started and he was crushed between the tub and the door frame.

JACKSON Walter – 1906 – 25/01/1906 – Age 29 – Florence Loader, Florence Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was standing on the plates at the top of a jig, holding a tape to measure off the distance for the next jig-chock, when a fall of roof occurred, directly over the plates from between the four bars put up in rectangular form at the landing. The fall came from a slip and a break in the roof parallel to the face.

JACKSON William – 1904 – 26/10/1904 – Age 29 – Langley Park Shifter, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fracture of skull over left eye by winch handle. Died on 30th.

JACKSON William – 1906 – 07/04/1906 – Age 17 – Dalkeith Trimmer, AG Moore and Co., Edinburgh. Deceased appeared to have been on the moving waggons and in jumping down to regulate the speed by the brake he stumbled and fell under the waggons which crushed him.

JACKSON William – 1906 – 27/04/1906 – Age 36 – Griff Clara Engine driver, Griff Colliery Co., Warwick. Deceased attended to the tubs at the top of an incline, and drove the compressed air hauling-engine. He was pushing a full water-barrel towards the main line of rails when a horse and nine tubs ran into him. He died the next day.

JACKSON William Gillson – 1907 – 24/08/1907 – Age 59 – Cinder Hill Carpenter, Babbington Coal Co., Nottinghamshire. Having cut a piece of glass he was breaking it when he cut his thumb. He died 1st Sept. from blood poisoning, the result of the injury.

JACOB Abram – 1905 – 06/10/1905 – Age 55 – Aberdare Merthyr Rider, Marquess of Bute, Glamorgan. Deceased’s body was found lying between the rails, a journey of trams laden with coal and rubbish having passed over him. He was probably riding on the shackle between the fourth and fifth tram, and fell off. The speed was 5 miles per hour, and the dip 3 inches per yard. The road was 9 feet high and 9 feet wide.

JACOBS Evan – 1906 – 13/05?/1906 – Age 25 – Varteg Collier, John Vipond and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Died at Pontypool Hospital on the 13th May under the effects of chloroform, preparatory to an operation for an abscess. It was alleged that he strained himself when at work at Varteg Hill Colliery, some time in the preceding January but the occurrence was not reported to any official, and there is nothing to connect the abscess with an accident.

JACOMB William – 1903 – 03/09/1903 – Age 32 – Littletown Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Shoulder and side injured by a cauldron shaped stone falling on him. Died 9th Oct.

JACQUES George – 1907 – 29/03/1907 – Age 35 – Lowick Iron Ore Quarry Quarryman, Islip Iron Co. Northampton. Deceased was undercutting the overburden which was 10 feet thick, and the face rolled over and fatally injured him. He died the next day.

JACQUES Henry – 1908 – 05/09/1908 – Age 67 – Senghenydd Lamp locker, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident was due to deceased’s eagerness to be at the shaft bottom to go up the pit at 1pm. Before leaving the top of a self-acting incline he was told not to go, as the journey was about to start. He however persisted and got into a manhole a little above the meetings to allow the journey to pass down. The journey stopped at the meetings as there was no room for the full one to run into the pit parting. When there was room the man at the bottom signalled with the knocker wire which itself should have warned deceased to stop in the manhole. As the journey restarted the haulier at the incline top saw lights on the road on which the empty journey would travel. He rushed to the knocker wire and knocked ‘stop’ but at the same time saw two lights disappear. Deceased was found under the last tram of the empty journey. How he was foolish enough to get on the empty road is a mystery as he must have crossed the rope of the full journey to get there. He probably forgot which road the full journey had taken and never looked to see in which direction the ropes were travelling. There was a notice at the bottom of the incline prohibiting persons from walking on it when the journeys were in motion.

JACQUES William – 1900 – 01/01/1900 – Age 46 – Shady Birchwood Stallman, Babbington Coal Co., Derbyshire. He died from pneumonia after receiving a slight injury in the mine on 14th December 1899.

JAGGAR William – 1904 – 22/10/1904 – Age 69 – Pildacre Carter, John Naylor and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died from injuries received July 14th from what was thought to be a slight injury to his knee caused by a piece of coal hitting it when filling a cart.

JAMES Alfred – 1905 – 14/03/1905 – Age 35 – Tillery Collier, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in his working place, timbers not having been set as required by Special Rules as the supervision was apparently too easy going with regard to them.

JAMES Amos – 1902 – 04/09/1902 – Age 30 – Navigation Collier, Parkend Deep Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Gloucester. Irruption of water from old workings in consequence of inaccurate plans, the manager, who also acted as surveyor, having neglected to check the surface with the underground workings. 4 killed.

JAMES Bath – 1905 – 17/05?/1905 – Age 58 – Redhill Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Lydney RUDC, Gloucester. Fall of overburden, which was overhanging contrary to Special Rules and the Council’s Surveyor was subsequently fined by the Magistrates under the Quarries Act, 1894.

JAMES Benjamin – 1903 – 03/10/1903 – Age 19 – South Wales Hitcher, Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. The banksman, who has to repeat the signals from the bottom into the engine house, mistook a sound caused by an end bar of a tram being dropped into the tram for the signal from the bottom and accordingly signalled to go on. Deceased was taken some distance up the pit by the cage and crushed against the side of the shaft and then fell to the bottom.

JAMES Charles W. – 1908 – 16/04/1908 – Age 27 – Nunnery Collier, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. They were bringing a full tub from the working face into a gate-way, and from some cause in handling the tub displaced two bars which liberated a large quantity of small stone and they were buried and suffocated. The place was well timbered. 2 killed.

JAMES Daniel – 1900 – 15/12/1900 – Age 39 – Llanhilleath Collier, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was ripping the roof in his roadway and instead of carrying it forward, towards the coal face, he began working from the face outwards thinking it would be easier. He appears to have knocked out two posts and was working under the roof thus liberated with the result that it fell and killed him.

JAMES David – 1901 – 24/05?/1901 – Universal Fireman, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway, Cd 947. 81 killed.

JAMES David – 1903 – 05/08/1903 – Age 20 – Cwmteg Asst. repairer, Cwmteg Anthracite Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road (main slant) while repairing. In barring down a stone a bed above gave way and struck deceased when he was holding a light for his partner who was using the bar.

JAMES David – 1908 – 16/01/1908 – Age 53 – Navigation Labourer, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. As deceased was walking along the Six-feet engine plane he was overtaken by an empty journey, and injured so badly that he died next day. There was considerable noise produced by the sheaves at the tram, and as he was rather deaf he most probably did not hear the approaching journey. There was ample room on the sides of the road, and manholes were plentiful.

JAMES David E – 1905 – 27/10/1905 – Age 24 – Ynyishir Steam Haulier, Ynyishir Steam Coal Co., Glamorgan. Deceased was riding on the gun, along a heading, when in passing under a brattice sheet, he fell off and was found under the loaded tram. He was so severely crushed that he died on the following day.

JAMES David J. – 1907 – 08/01/1907 – Age 38 – Llanerch Rider, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When riding a journey of full trams, on a level in the Big Vein, and approaching the Main Drift, the tram in which he was riding appears to have left the rails and either thrown him off or caused him to jump off, in either case he was caught by some of the trams and crushed. When the journey was stopped he was found pinned between the eighth tram and a post at the corner of a manhole. The cause of the accident appears to have been some stone falling on the rails from the side of the road.

JAMES Edward – 1901 – 02/12/1901 – Age 39 – Stanton Stallman, J and N Nadin and Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was throwing coal behind him from a part of the stall near a fault side when a weight came over the place pushing two props out, which allowed the roof to fall and kill deceased.

JAMES Edward – 1905 – 14/06/1905 – Age 35 – Abergorky Labourer, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased with others were discharging rails, 21 feet long, from a truck when the end of one struck him on the head. The accident was thought to be trivial but he became subject to fits and was taken to the Cardiff Infirmary. He was operated on, and died shortly after the 24th October.

JAMES Evan - 1902 - 03/07/1902 – Age 69 - Eastern Labourer, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A journey of fifteen trains of coal was being started up a dip when the shackle pin rose and four trains ran down and crushed deceased against the door he was in charge of. The pin could not have been put in place. Died in two days.

JAMES Evan – 1903 – 25/09/1903 – Age 47 – Pentre Collier, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face shale, 9 feet by 4 feet by 18 inches thick, crushed out three pairs of newly stood timbers and fatally injured deceased. Five feet seam.

JAMES George (escaped) – 1909 – 29/10/1909 – Darran Rhymney Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident has been the subject of a Special Report. 27 men lost their lives and 4 were injured.

JAMES Herbert – 1903 – 11/05?/1903 – Age 35 – Plasycoed Labourer, David Jenkins, Monmouth. Owing to the siding being too small the trucks were taken with a flying shunt to clear the points and in lowering a brake handle it kicked up and knocked him between the buffers.

JAMES Hugo – 1905 – 05/08/1905 – Age 20 – East Pool & Agar Tin Miner, East Pool & Agar United Mines Adventurers, Cornwall. When erecting a staging in a stope, above the 160 fathom level, he overbalanced and falling forward down the stopes received fatal injuries.

JAMES Isaac – 1906 – 14/10/1906 – Age 43 – Wingate Sinker, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust, result of shot firing. 25 killed.

JAMES James – 1901 – 24/05?/1901 – Universal Haulier, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway Cd 947. 81 killed.

JAMES James – 1908 – 21/01/1908 – Age 23 – Llanerch Collier, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof and side in the main slope from an unseen slip and cross joint. The stone was a bastard rock and very hard. It appears that two or three attempts had been made, on different occasions, to get it down, in order to increase the size of the road, but it was found to be too hard. The fall was about 15 tons, and the condition of the stone could not have been detected by sounding. The accident occurred as the men were passing on their way to work in the morning, and it was fortunate that others were not also caught. 2 killed.

JAMES James E. – 1907 – 01/01/907 – Age 14 – Lady Lewis Collier boy, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, coal and cliff, 14 feet by 5 feet by 7 feet thick, fell and buried deceased. The stall was in disturbed ground and the top coal, which was kept up as roof was tender. I think the fall was caused by a heavy pounce. Seven props are said to have been discharged. Four feet seam.

JAMES James M. – 1906 – 27/04/1906 – Age 26 – Pochin No.2 Haulier, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was acting as a haulier as well as clipping trams on a secondary rope which worked down the Polka drift from the yard coal double parting. He was riding in the front, possibly standing on the rope, when owing to the tram getting off the rails, he fell off and was run over.

JAMES John – 1900 – 04/05?/1900 – Age 56 – Cilely Collier, Blundell Bros. and Co., Glamorgan. He was assisting to erect a large 9 feet long collar, which slipped and fell on him. Died May 11th.

JAMES John – 1903 – 17/01/1903 – Age 29 – Tynybedw Collier, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and his partner were trying to push an empty tram up a gradient of 1 in 6 after the horse was detached when he must have slipped. The tram overpowered the two men and crushed deceased against the side. His partner escaped injuries.

JAMES John – 1904 – 12/02/1904 – Age 15 – International Engine diver, International Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While trying to make the rope coil properly on the drum of a small hauling engine his hand was caught in a coil. Tetanus supervened and he died on 22nd February.

JAMES John – 1904 – 27/02/1904 – Age 51 – Rhymney Merthyr No.2 Haulier, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was backing a tram of rubbish with his horse when it started forward and ran away. Deceased must have jumped on to the gun and rode out as he was found 60 yards away having been run over. He died the following day.

JAMES John – 1906 – 18/01/1906 – Age 30 – Wynnstay Collier, Wynnstay Collieries, Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged at the longwall face when a stone fell upon him from a slip in the roof running with the coal face.

JAMES John – 1907 – 15/10/1907 – Age 33 – Aberaman Haulier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was walking in front of his horse, with a tram of coal having two sprags in the wheels, down a heading dipping 21 inches per yard, when the horse bolted, knocking deceased down, and dragging him a distance of over 20 yards. The horse is not known to have bolted before, and had been underground for five years.

JAMES John – 1908 – 27/10/1908 – Age 20 – Cabeby Main Pony driver, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased had just gone into the face with his horse and was standing on the flat sheet waiting for a tub, when a large fall occurred and buried him.

JAMES John G. – 1906 – 21/12/1906 – Age 35 – Forcett, Limestone Quarry Barer, Forcett Limestone Co., North Yorkshire. When, with others, removing overburden, a fall of clay came away at a slip and killed him.

JAMES Joisiah – 1905 – 02/10/1905 – Age 36 – Fernhill Collier, George Watkinson and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face, coal, 19 feet by 2 feet 9 inches by 3 feet 3 inches thick, fell on deceased as he was completing his holing. Three sprags were said to have been discharged. seam. Gorllwyn

JAMES Jonathan – 1904 – 06/08/1904 – Age 31 – Llanbradach No.2 Collier, Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. At face. Deceased removed a sprag, top coal fell and discharged a prop which struck him in the abdomen. He died the following day. Four feet seam.

JAMES Joseph – 1909 – 09/12/1909 – Age 45 – Gatewen Byman, Broughton and Plaspower Co., Denbigh. He was engaged timbering after a fall of roof, and setting new bars in a roadway, when some more roof fell, capping two new bars, and fatally injuring deceased.

JAMES Joseph – 1909 – 26/03/1909 – Age 25 – Swallow Wood Filler, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was filling a tub of dirt, when a piece of stone pushed off the side of the gate and rolled on his foot. This caused him to fall. He was off work until May 4th and worked intermittently till June 14th. He died on 25th August from tumour on the brain. Medical evidence was to the effect that death was accelerated by the accident.

JAMES RC – 1905 – 07/03/1905 – Age 39 – Cambrian No.1 Repairer, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. On road, cliff 12 feet by 6 feet 18 inches thick. Deceased and his partner ripped down a low piece of roof and were about to leave the place where the fall occurred a little inside of where the ripping had taken place. Very probably the stone had been partly supported by the roof. He died March 11th. Six feet seam.

JAMES Reid – 1901 – 15/02/1901 – Age 35 – Hill of Beath Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Suffocated by gases from an underground fire. 7 killed.

JAMES Richard - 1904 - 17/03/1904 – Age 43 - Beighton Shaft sinker, Sheffield Coal Co., Derbyshire. Deceased fell from a bricking scaffold which was being raised by the winding rope in a sinking shaft and was drowned in the sump.

JAMES Richard - 1909 - 02/11/1909 – Age 38 - International Haulier, International Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side on road; while walking outbye in front of the horse, a stone fell out from the side, and killed him instantaneously. Good roof not timbered. Caedefaid Seam. Naked lights.

JAMES Samuel - 1903 - 02/10/1903 – Age 37 - West Kitty Tin Miner, West Kitty Mining Co., Cornwall. While sitting in the 94 fathom level, eating his lunch, a stone from the roof fell and hitting him caused injuries from which he died two days later.

JAMES Taliesin - 1907 - 27/01/1907 – Age 28 - South Duffryn Loco. Driver, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased had stopped his engine at a water supply pipe and his fireman began filling the tank. When sufficient water had been put in, the fireman went round to the other side of the locomotive and found deceased lying across the rail dead. He had been run over by a coal truck. How he got into that position, and who started the trucks from the screens, we quite failed to find out.

JAMES Thomas - 1902 - 04/09/1902 – Age 27 - Navigation Collier, Parkend Deep Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Gloucester. Irruption of water from old workings in consequence of inaccurate plans, the manager, who also acted as surveyor, having neglected to check the surface with the underground workings. 4 killed.

JAMES Thomas - 1906 - 24/08/1906 – Age 28 - Abercrave Collier, Abercrave Collieries Co., Brecon. Fall of side at face while drawing down a piece of coal, he slipped, and before he recovered his feet a piece of clod fell and struck him, causing internal injuries. Big vein.

JAMES Thomas - 1908 - 23/06/1908 – Age 39 - Garnoch No.3 Collier, Glasbrook Bros. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on roadway while repairing; while knocking out an arm of a pair of timbers with a heavy hammer a fall of roof occurred and two other pairs of timbers were discharged resulting in a fall measuring 12 feet 9 inches by 9 feet 7 inches, by 5 feet 10 inches in thickness one end, and 2 feet 5 inches the other. A machine to for withdrawing timber should have been used. Five Feet Seam. Safety lamps.

JAMES Thomas Howard - 1903 - 21/04/1903 – Age 12 - Great Mountain Coal trimmer, Great Mountain Collieries Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. While apparently playing with a revolving shaft his clothes got caught and twisted and he was whirled round and killed by striking some wooden beams near by.

JAMES W. - 1900 - 28/03/1900 – Age 17 - Ely Haulier, Naval Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Found dead under loaded tram having apparently fallen off the gun owing to the pin coming out.

JAMES William - 1901 - 17/12/1901 – Age 31 - Hodbarrow, Iron Ore Miner, Hodbarrow Mining Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Three men were lighting the fuses of five charges and deceased did not allow himself sufficient time to get away although he had only a distance of 18 or 20 feet to travel in order to reach a place of safety.

JAMES William - 1902 - 13/10/1902 – Age 25 - South Duffryn Collier, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face coal, 3.5 feet by 2 feet by 21 inches thick, fell while he was holing under it. It was unsupported. Four feet seam.

JAMES William - 1902 - 29/11/1902 – Age 72 - Castle Airwayman, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. Found dead under a full journey. He had evidently been passing it when it was not in motion and fell under when it was pulled out. The road was 7 feet wide and 6 feet high.

JAMES William - 1904 - 11/11/1904 – Age 24 - Wyndham Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, whilst ripping the roof a stone fell upon him causing fatal injuries. Five feet seam.

JAMES William - 1905 - 13/05?/1905 – Age 34 - Dolcoath Tin Timberman, Dolcoath Mine Ltd., Cornwall. After blasting by others in a stope they went to take measurements for some timber, and whilst doing so a fall of roof occurred, which killed James immediately and so injured Luke that he died within a few hours. 2 killed.

JAMES William - 1905 - 17/08/1905 – Age 27 - Upper Cymmer Collier, Insoles Ltd., Glamorgan. At face cliff, 12 feet by 5 feet by 18 inches thick, fell from between two slants on deceased as he was holing. A roll ran right through the middle of the stone. Some props were said to have been under it. Hafod seam.

JAMES William - 1906 - 10/09/1906 – Age 24 Basset (metalliferous) Mine agent, Basset Mines Ltd., Cornwall. They were on their way up a stope, above the 200 fathom level, when about 100 tons of the hanging wall fell and caused instantaneous death to all three. The hanging wall at this point underlay at about 41 degrees and the rock seems to have been more or less weakened owing to the junction of two lodes. It seems to have given no warning either by working or cracking, and fell with one crash. 3 killed.

JAMES William - 1907 - 06/06/1907 – Age 39 - Allhallows Hewer, Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. The No.9. Dip is an engine plane, 10 feet wide and 6 feet high, worked on the endless rope system, the rope running underneath the tubs. Sets of 8 to 10 tubs, with a clutch bogie at each end ran at a speed of 4 miles per hour. At the passing places there is only about 6 inches clearance between the tubs. Refuge holes are provided as required by the General Rule. Deceased was hurrying outbye at the end of his shift as he was afraid he might lose the train in which he travelled home and he seems to have had his head down and walked into an empty set at a passing place. He was caught and dragged 6 or 7 yards in-bye before the set was stopped by some men who saw the accident and who brought the electric signal wires together.

JAMES William - 1908 - 02/10/1908 – Age 47 - Waun Llwyd Labourer, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof on a heading in No.4 Big Vein Seam, No.2 Pit, where deceased and his butty had just finished putting up a pair of double timber to strengthen the existing timber.

JAMES William Hopkin - 1903 - 05/01/1903 – Age 20 - International Collier, International Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Died 23rd Jan. from lockjaw, the result of an injury to his foot which caught the haulage rope and rail while passing out.

JAMESON Alfred - 1906 - 27/09/1906 – Age 26 - Chanters Drawer, Fletcher Burrows and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst taking an empty tub along the drawing road he was run into by a tub which had got away from another drawer by reason of a wood scotch breaking. Ordered not to use wood scotches iron ones provided. Drawer was convicted for breach of rules and fined 40s.

JAMESON Thomas - 1901 - 21/10/1901 – Age 26 - Easington Cartman, Easington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was driving a horse which was pulling a tip waggon from tip end towards the shaft when by some means he fell off the wagon and was run over and killed.

JAMIESON James - 1904 - 19/02/1904 – Age 15 - Kippsbyre Miner, Strain Bros., Lanarkshire. While working at the roadhead the road fell and buried him. The place was nearing the crop out and the fall went right up to the surface.

JAMIESON James - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 62 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 18 Henry St.

JAPP James - 1901 - 16/08/1901 – Age 65 - Cowdenbeath Fireman, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. A miner was taking a cut off the inbye side of a stoop in a seam 5 feet 10 inches in thickness. Hearing the roof of the working, at the level road, he went out and set some timber and doing so deceased approached from the outbye side. The miner reported what had happened and deceased passed inbye tapping the roof shammer. He had only gone a few yards when a triangular stone, 5 feet by 2 feet 3 inches at extremes and 9 inches in thickness fell from a lype hitherto unseen and killed him instantly.

JARDINE James - 1902 - 08/07/1902 – Age 46 - Howmuir Sinker, Auchinlea Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. An old shaft was being reopened and enlarged and almost from the start chokedamp had troubled the sinkers. On the morning of the accident the deceased, Jardine after breakfast slid the rope and on reaching the bottom he shouted he was among damp and immediately the manager, who had just arrived, descended with a line with a view to rescue Jardine, and he too was overcome and before assistance arrived both men were dead. The shaft had been reopened to a depth of 7 fathoms and no artificial light was used. 2 killed.

JARRETT A. - 1900 - 29/11/1900 – Age 34 - Mitchell Main Filler, Mitchell Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of side.

JARRETT William - 1901 - 15/01/1901 – Age 43 - Ffaldu Collier, Ffaldu Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road clift, 6 feet x 4.5 feet. x 14 inches thick, fell while deceased and others were clearing a fall. Two feet nine seam.

JARVIE John - 1903 - 22/05?/1903 – Age 37 - Camps Miner, Camp Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While engaged withdrawing props after stoop was extracted the roof fell and caught him. An attempt was made to rescue him but a second fall took place he was completely buried.

JARVIE Philip - 1903 - 08/10/1903 – Age 43 - Monkland No.11 Miner, James Dunlop and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working place. 3 killed.

JARVIS George - 1908 - 10/02/1908 – Age 45 - South Moor Deputy, South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When at work in the Morrison Pit he cut his finger on the rough ragged edge of a tram-rail. He died on 4th April from blood poisoning.

JARVIS James - 1907 - 20/09/1907 – Age 51 - Nuneaton Trammer, Stanley Bros. Ltd., Warwickshire. Run over by a full tub. A fellow workman was taking a full tub down the roadway at a considerable speed when the tub struck deceased. He died the next day.

JARVIS Thomas - 1905 - 17/05?/1905 – Age 28 - Coegnent Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face; while drawing down a piece of coal, a small stone from the roof fell, knocking him against a prop, causing fracture of the spine, from which he died on 18th February 1906.

JARVIS William - 1907 - 18/01/1907 – Age 18 - North Hetton Putter, North Hetton Coal Co., Co.Durham. He was in the flat putting on his clothes at the end of his shift, when a side waver fell over from an unseen slip and killed him.

JARVIS William - 1908 - 15/02/1908 – Age 39 - Brereton Coppice Horse driver, Earl of Shrewsbury, Staffordshire. Irruption of water. 3 killed.

JARVIS William Hemingway - 1906 - 11/08/1906 – Age 69 - Barlborough No.1 Dataller, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. The two deceased had been sent to a place where a new road crossed an old road and were to build a pack across the old roadway. The old roadway was timbered closely and as one of the props supporting a bar was slightly reeling over they set another prop when this was completed the whole of the roof at the junction of the roads collapsed and killed the two men. 2 killed.

JASPER John - 1907 - 31/01/1907 – Age 58 - Black Park Collier, Black Park Colliery Co., Denbigh. A small piece of clod fell off the face above the coal injuring his head. Peritonitis set in afterwards and he expired February 5th 1907.

JASPER William - 1908 - 20/10/1908 – Age 40 - Lower Duffryn Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was walking out along an engine plane to go home, when the full journey overtook and ran over him. He was said to have been slightly deaf. The plane was in good condition, and there were manholes from 6 to 10 yards apart.

JAYES Herbert - 1902 - 23/01/1902 – Age 34 - Croft, Granite Quarry Labourer, Croft Granite Brick and Concrete Co., Leicestershire. Deceased had been undercutting or holing a face of clay overburden, and had not set any sprags or supports. He was using the shovel to clear the debris away from the holing when the face fell over on to him. Died a few hours later.

JEFFCOTE Arthur - 1901 - 28/11/1901 – Age 26 - Tuttle Hill, Basalt Quarry Quarryman, Executors of WA Judkins, Warwickshire. Deceased was charging a shothole with cartridges of 1.5 lbs. 'Nobel gelignite' and had put three such cartridges safely down the hole. He was pushing forward the fourth when all of them exploded, probably owing to their being in a semi-frozen condition.

JEFFERIES Robert - 1909 - 18/08/1909 – Age 23 - Bickershaw Drawer, Ackers Whitley and Co., Leigh, Lancashire. Deceased died from the effects of straining himself internally, when crabbing up tubs through a step fault in a roadway.

JEFFERIES Thomas - 1905 - 26/05?/1905 – Age 21 - Brusselton Incline attendant, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was struck by a runaway tub and received such injuries that he died on June 5th.

JEFFERIES William - 1904 - 02/07/1904 – Age 62 - Kingswood Overman, Somerset. Died from heart failure when at work at Kingswood Colliery on the 2nd July.

JEFFERIES William - 1906 - 11/12/1906 – Age 49 - Murton Hewer, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He strained himself by falling down a waggonway, and died 11th July, 1907.

JEFFERSON George - 1901 - 02/10/1901 – Age 18 - West Stanley Stone putter, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. While riding on the limbers his head was crushed between a tub and crowntree. Died immediately.

JEFFERSON William - 1905 - 30/06/1905 – Age 63 - Montagu Main Screenman, William Benson and Sons, Northumberland. Deceased, who was apparently a healthy man, was pushing a tub from the screens to an endless chain, when he was seen to reel and stagger. A banksman went no him at once and found him lying grasping at a post as though he was in a fit and he died in a few minutes. There was no suggestion of any accident. A doctor came in 10 minutes. An inquest was held and a verdict returned of death from natural causes.

JEFFERSON William - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 24 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 10 Rifle Street, Stanley.

JEFFERYS David - 1904 - 11/12/1904 - Arrail Griffin Collier, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Died on the 11th December from injuries received by a fall from the roof face on the 27th January, 1904. Death occurring more than a year and a day after the accident, it is not comprised.

JEFFREY John - 1902 - 01/02/1902 – Age 56 - Parkhead Fireman, Glasgow Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was endeavouring to reach a cage, which was standing at a mid-working in the rise winding space. He passed through a fence consisting of two horizontal rails, 1 foot 8 inches and 2 feet 11 inches from the pavement and stumbled or inadvertently slipped into the dip winding space down which he fell a distance of 36 fathoms.

JEFFREY Thomas - 1903 - 27/11/1903 – Age 70 - Auckland Park Waterman, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was travelling inbye when he was caught by a full tub which had got out of the control of a shifter, who was lowering it down a gradient of 6 inches per yard in a landing. Died December 12th.

JEFFREYS Griffith – 1909 – 21/10/1909 – Age 34 – Graig Merthyr Collier, Graigola Merthyr Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road; while enlarging a roadway in order to extend a siding, a large stone (sandstone) 8 feet 4 inches, by 5 feet and 7 inches in thickness fell and killed Rees who was near the place and injured the two colliers who were working at the enlargement. Jeffreys came to the rescue, when a further fall took place and killed him. Graigola Seam. Naked lights. 2 killed.

JEFFREYS Thomas – 1909 – 18/11/1909 – Age 26 – Graig Merthyr Rider, Graig Merthyr Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. He was fatally injured while illegally riding on a loaded "journey," which was being hauled by mechanical means up the main dip engine plane. He was probably caught in the framing of a door through which the journey had to pass, and was thrown under the trams.

JELF Josiah – 1900 – 15/05?/1900 – Age 59 – Hall End Horse keeper, Morris and Shaw, Warwick. Deceased's death was caused by haemorrhage due to the rupture of a blood vessel which gave way during the ordinary performance of his duties.

JENKINS Archibald – 1908 – 25/04/1908 – Age 17 – Carway Collier boy, Carway Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. Fall of roof at face; fall of an overhanging piece of top coal in a corner of a working place. The coal was not supported, and the piece which fell measured 2 feet 6 inches by 1 foot, by 1 foot. Nine Feet Seam. Safety lamps.

JENKINS Arthur – 1900 – 23/10/1900 – Age 22 – John Blindell’s Black Vein Assistant pitman, Blindell and Wakeford, Monmouth. Crushed in the wheel race of a water wheel. The wheel works pumps in the shaft and his duty was to examine and oil the bearings etc. As no person being with him at the time the exact circumstances are not known.

JENKINS Benjamin – 1906 – 22/02/1906 – Age 46 – Waunycoed Fireman, South Wales Primrose Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road (main drift), where he had gone to remove a collar which was getting too low for the journeys to pass.