JOHNSON Thomas * 1900 – Hazlerigg, Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

JOHNSON Thomas * 1903 – Woodhorn, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

JOHNSON Thomas - 1900 - 03/04/1900 – Age 55 - Byers Green Coke drawer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Byers Green, Co.Durham. When following his employment he dropped down dead. Death was due to apoplexy. (Not comprised)

JOHNSON Thomas - 1900 - 04/01/1900 – Age 49 - St. Georges Trencherbone Dataller, Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in level whilst repairing. A stone, seen to be dangerous by the foreman, he failed to warn deceased and neglected to report to the succeeding fireman in charge when accident occurred. (Average roof).

JOHNSON Thomas – 1901 – 10/09/1901 – Age 56 – Glyn Raveller, Glyn Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A tram of coal was being tipped on the screen and was allowed to go too fast on to the tippler, consequently it fell down the screen crushing deceased against one of the uprights of the screen.

JOHNSON Thomas - 1903 - 03/10/1903 – Age 29 - West Shield Row Hewer, South Derwent Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died October 28. Deceased worked with another hewer in a stall, 14 yards wide in the Brockwell Seam, when the top coal fell for a length of 9 yards and about 1 yard deep canting four props set under it and a stay set against it. The seam here consists of Top Coal, 2 feet 4 inches and 1 foot 7 inches and Bottom coal 2 feet.

JOHNSON Thomas - 1904 - 15/11/1904 – Age 36 - Bickershaw Fireman, Ackers Whitley and Co., Leigh, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. In attempting to jump back on the top of the cage, a distance of two feet from an old mouthing, where he had been attending to a water pipe he slipped and fell down the shaft and was killed.

JOHNSON Thomas - 1904 - 18/12/1904 – Age 61 – North Bitchburn Horsekeeper, North Bitchburn Coal Co., Co.Durham. Killed by a horse in a stable remote from the colliery and after the colliery had been laid in.

JOHNSON Thomas - 1907 - 24/08/1907 – Age 40 - Glebe Collier, John Heath and Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. After taking his snapping or his breakfast deceased lay down on his back, close to a chock a few yards from a longwall face. A piece of ironstone, 1 foot 9 inches by 3 inches, which had been overhanging the pack suddenly broke off at an unseen joint and fell on his stomach. He suffered considerable pain but walked home himself. He died 35 hours afterwards from shock and peritonitis set up by the blow.

JOHNSON Thomas - 1909 - 26/02/1909 – Age 25 - Ashton Moss Corporal, New Moss Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Struck by runaway tubs that got away from the taker-off; deceased neglected to put in a standing prop which would have held the tubs. Died on 27th.

JOHNSON W.D. - 1905 - 22/03/1905 – Age 15 - Woodthorpe Dataller, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When assisting a man to lower a tram containing twelve 15 feet rails down the engine plane, the engine plane dipping 1 in 9, the tram got amain and he tried to stop it but fell and the tram ran on and injured him so severely that he died at Hospital at Sheffield.

JOHNSON W.T. - 1902 - 10/03/1902 – Age 16 - Mossfield Yard Taker off, Rigby and Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed by tub which ran uncontrolled down the jig dip owing to the jig post coming out.

JOHNSON Walter – 1900 – 07/02/1900 – Age 40 West Cannock Stallman West Cannock Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Two empty tubs left rails and this man was standing on one side to let them pass and they caused a fall of roof on him. Roof which fell measured 7 feet 2 inches x 9 feet 6 inches x 2 feet 6 inches.

JOHNSON William - 1901 - 25/11/1901 – Age 40 - Prior’s Lee, Woodhouse No.1 Filler, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Fall of roof at working face in double coal, injured his hand. Blood poisoning supervened and he died on the 17th December.

JOHNSON William - 1903 - 15/01/1903 – Age 36 - Wirral Drawer, Wirral Colliery Co., Cheshire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He went from the face of the level, where he was engaged working to the airway or cut-through and commenced pulling some loose coal off the side when a sudden fall of a stone from some slips in the roof fell upon him.

JOHNSON William - 1907 - 02/09/1907 – Age 29 - Bradford Assistant hooker on, Bradford Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst in the cage at the bottom of the Parker Pit, 560 yards deep, helping to loosen a tub which had wedged itself going into the cage, the engineman raised the cage, 40 yards, deceased and two tubs fell from the cage to the bottom. The Engineman asserted that the electric signal bell rang and thinking this was the signal to go on from the bottom he raised the cage. There was proof that the electric bell rang because the cable was found cut and short circuited an electrician stopped the bell ringing. It is thought a piece of stone fell from the top, there were several marks to be seen as of something having fallen.

JOHNSTON Archibald - 1904 - 19/11/1904 – Age 18 - Rosehall No. 13 Waggon trimmer, R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Crushed in some unknown way between waggons.

JOHNSTON Charles - 1907 - 11/01/1907 – Age 30 - Barton Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Barton Limestone Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. A stone projected by a shot of Gelignite crashed through the roof of the bait cabin in which he was sitting, and killed him.

JOHNSTON Thomas - 1903 - 13/02/1903 – Age 52 - Woodhorn Hewer, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died April 13. This case was not reported until after the mans death. Deceased was hewing in the Yard seam longwall and had holed into the goaf formed from another district when some roof stone fell and injured his head.

JOHNSTONE Andrew - 1900 - 17/08/1900 – Age 35 - Portland No.5 Undermanager, Portland Colliery Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. A section of dip workings, sealed off by a brick stopping, was being reopened. Two shots of Nobel's blasting gelignite were fired in the stopping, 30 inches thick, blowing it down and causing an explosion of firedamp which had accumulated behind it. The men all retired nearer the shaft and an hour afterwards a second explosion occurred fatally injuring six of them and injuring another two. The cause of the second explosion has not been ascertained. 6 killed.

JOHNSTONE Ebenezer - 1907 - 05/02/1907 – Age 14 - Michael Drawer, Weymss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was pushing a loaded tub down a short brae, against an empty one on the other end of the rope, when this ascending empty tub left the rails, causing this loaded one to up end, and his head was crushed between the end of tub and roof, which was low at the part.

JOHNSTONE Fred - 1902 - 09/10/1902 – Age 23 - Nuneaton Storekeeper, Stanley Bros. Ltd., Warwickshire. Explosion of gunpowder. The deceased was opening a wooden box containing 50 lb. of compressed gunpowder in cartridges when it exploded and fatally burned him. He died 19th October.

JOHNSTONE James - 1906 - 14/11/1906 – Age 35 - Kingseat Miner, John Irvine and Sons, Fife. While deceased was at work, at the face, the roof suddenly fell and killed him. The roof was comprised of strong sandstone but was full of breaks.

JOHNSTONE James - 1907 - 23/07/1907 – Age 24 - Sundrum No.3 Miner, Dalmellington Iron Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof at brushing face while brushing. He inadvertently displaced two props which supported the stone.

JOHNSTONE John - 1907 - 11/03/1907 – Age 17 - Muiredge Drawer, Weymss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The place of the accident was a cut chain brae. The tubs stopped on this brae and deceased went up to ascertain what was the cause, and the tubs started to run before he was clear of the brae, while they were in motion, this wheel became detached from the wheel tree, allowing the tubs to run free, and deceased was caught by the runaway tubs.

JOHNSTONE John - 1909 - 12/02/1909 – Age 29 - Bredisholm No.1 Machineman, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

JOHNSTONE William - 1903 - 10/09/1903 – Age 37 - Olive Bank Sinker, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. While the kettle was descending empty, and when about 20 fathoms down it left the rope and falling straight down struck deceased in the bottom of a sinking shaft. There were sinkers in the bottom and all ran to the pipe side except deceased who was right in the way of the descending kettle. The pin which connected the muzzle on the kettle to the winding rope came out, apparently by vibration, while the kettle was running in the shaft.

JOICE A. - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 20 - Sherburn Hill Labourer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Jumped down the shaft when temporarily insane.

JOICE George - 1900 - 10/09/1900 – Age 20 - Barrington Engineman, Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attend. The deceased was standing on a tub, oiling a wheel in connection with the haulage, when he slipped and was carried by the rope on to the wheel. The oiling should have been done when the rope was at rest.

JOICEY James - 1906 - 13/10/1906 – Age 52 - Hebburn Hewer, Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was hewing alone, during the fore shift, in a wall where there was 8 or 4 inches of water standing at the face. After he had worked three hours he was seen to come back from the face about 7 yards and roll over and drop his lamp. Assistance was at hand at once but he never rallied and died in a few minutes. There was no suggestion of any accident. An inquest was held after a post-mortem examination, and medical evidence showed that death was due to heart failure and so the jury found The Local Inspectors reported, after an examination of the place, simply reciting how they found it.

JOLLIE John - 1909 - 26/12/1909 – Age 38 - Queenslie Machineman, Steel Company of Scotland Ltd., Lanarkshire. Stone fell from the roof when removing "haulage-tree" in the machine wall.

JONAS Charles - 1902 - 18/03/1902 – Age 78 - Throckley Platelayer, Throckley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased seems to have gone between the rails, on the colliery sidings, to oil some points when a North Eastern engine, which was standing nearby was put in motion by the driver who did not see deceased and he was run over.

JONES A.H. - 1904 - 18/03/1904 – Age 28 - Leycett, Fairlady Loader, Madely Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (bass) on a jig landing at the longwall face in the 5 feet seam. The landing was timbered by three bars parallel to the face, supported on two bars at right angles to the face. The fall, which came from two slips nearly at right angles, reeled the timber out.

JONES Aaron - 1905 - 22/11/1905 – Age 48 - Talk o’th’ Hill Collier, Talk o’th’ Hill Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Fall of side (coal) in a stall in the Bullhurst seam. The coal fell from a slip on the occurrence of a goth, reeling out a sprag.

JONES Alfred - 1900 - 31/01/1900 – Age 21 - Tillery Collier, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof coal which he was cutting down. He cut both sides about feet without setting anything to support it, with the natural result that it fell and fatally injured him. The other collier was much to blame in this case.

JONES Alfred - 1903 - 20/03/1903 – Age 47 - Blaendare Slope Labourer, Blaendare Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of clod roof where it is full of slips and smooth joints. It occurred at the side of the stall road where it was being packed or gobbed close in order to secure the road.

JONES Ambrose - 1909 - 29/10/1909 – Age 55 - Darran Repairer, Rhymney Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident has been the subject of a Special Report. 27 men lost their lives and 4 were injured.

JONES Arthur James - 1906 - 01/11/1906 – Age 33 - Ladie’s Well, Marl Quarry getter, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was filling some marl at the foot of an overhanging face 27, feet in height when a quantity of marl fell and killed him. The accident took place before daylight ill wet weather. The face bed not been examined before the men commenced work.

JONES Arthur Thomas - 1901 - 21/08/1901 – Age 19 - Llanhilleth Assistant timberman, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A fall of roof on the Main North Level had loosened a pair of timbers and when the rubbish from the fall was being cleared away a quantity of timber pack, on the collars, gave way and falling upon him caused his death.

JONES Ben – 1900 – 30/12/1900 – Age 35 – Trefor Collier, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Died on 26th May, 1900 from exhaustion due to paralysis, the result of injuries received on 30th December 1899 by a fall of the roof on the road. Five feet seam.

JONES Benjamin – 1908 – 10/08/1908 – Age 54 – Dinas Isha Repairer, Ely Rhondda Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side on road cliff, 4 feet by 13 feet by 23 feet thick, fell off a slip when deceased was putting up an arm of a pair of timbers, which he had been instructed to stand on, a double parting, and killed him. He was said to have been an experienced repairer. No.2 Rhondda seam.

JONES Cardog – 1909 – 19/09/1909 – Age 45 – Windsor Repairer, Windsor Steam Co. (1901) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road, cliff, 14 feet by 8 feet by 52 inches thick, a portion of which he was trying to get down, fell on him. He and the fireman had tested the roof a few minutes before. Nine feet seam.

JONES Charles – 1905 – 19/10/1905 – Age 50 – Bedwellty Coker, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He overbalanced and fell from top of coke ovens to the ground after pushing down the door of one of them sharply with his foot. The door rebounding broke the hooks by which it was fastened to the counter-balance and fell on him before he could regain his feet.

JONES Charles – 1905 – 29/08/1905 – Age 35 – Celynen Timberman, Newport Abercarn Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When acting as journey rider a fall of about ten trams of rubbish occurred and buried him.

JONES Charles - 1907 - 11/09/1907 – Age 19 - Dowlais Cardiff Labourer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was run over, on a road dipping 1.5 inches per yard, by a runaway trolley full of long timbers. The fireman instead of sending for a long coupling chain, with which to attach the trolley to the front of the journey, joined three ordinary couplings. The journey had only been lowered about 20 yards, when one of the shackle pins dropped out and liberated the trolley. The fireman was very much to blame in not sending for a long coupling chain.

JONES Charles Edward - 1904 - 24/12/1904 – Age 22 - Curbirch Loader, William Tomlinson, Staffordshire. Fall of side (coal). A block of over hanging coal, 2 feet thick, 4 feet wide at widest part and 9 or 10 feet long, with a smooth parting above, fell on him. A man acting as fireman and working in an adjacent place was there a quarter of an hour before the accident and had told the collier to set a post under the coal, but this was not done. There was no support under the overhanging block and it was dangerous to work near. There should have been two posts under it to make it reasonably safe. The collier was also seriously injured by the fall.

JONES Cyrus - 1902 - 11/11/1902 – Age 20 - Deep Navigation Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Object falling down the shaft. 5 killed.

JONES Daniel - 1902 - 11/02/1902 – Age 49 - Llwynypia No.2 Collier, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 5.75 feet by 13 inches by 8 inches thick. No one knew what he was doing at the time but it was supposed that he was pulling down some coal. New seam.

JONES Daniel - 1902 - 18/07/1902 – Age 22 - Ferndale No.8 Assistant repairer, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 6.5 feet by 5 feet by 15 inches thick, fell while he was taking his coat off to commence working. It was unsupported. Died next day. Six feet seam.

JONES Daniel - 1904 - 05/09/1904 – Age 14 - Ynysfeio Engine boy, Troedyrhiw Coal Co., Glamorgan. Scalded to death by an escape of water and steam from a burst tube of a Babcock and Wilcox boiler.

JONES Daniel - 1904 - 07/06/1904 – Age 28 - Abergorky No.3 Haulier, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased who had been taking four loaded trams along a level heading was found lying on the ground with his right leg under one of the wheels. How he got into that position no one can tell but I think that he must have slipped in attempting to get off to the gun.

JONES Daniel - 1904 - 30/01/1904 – Age 32 - Barnsley Main Miner, Barnsley Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. A piece of stone fell from a slip running into a break in the roof and caught him, causing such severs injuries that he died on February 8th.

JONES Daniel - 1908 - 25/10/1908 – Age 44 - Main Nos 3 & 4 Repairer, Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Several men had been throughout the day, filling water which had accumulated on a double parting, into tanks. When the accident occurred the deceased was standing in a tram near the inbye end of the parting. Signals were given to the engineman to lower the tanks sharply into the parting so that they might run further in than on previous occasions. The front tank collided with the train in which deceased was standing, and he was knocked out, and so badly injured internally that he died next day.

JONES Daniel W. - 1905 - 19/09/1905 – Age 59 - Votty & Bowydd Slate mine, Slate getter, Votty & Bowydd Slate Quarry Co. Ltd., Merioneth. A portion of a big block, which he was splitting, turned on to him. He died a fortnight later.

JONES David (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.

JONES David - 1900 - 24/10/1900 – Age 52 - Glenavon Collier, Glenavon Rhondda Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Drowned by an inrush of water from the workings of an old colliery. 5 killed.

JONES David - 1900 - 26/11/1900 – Age 25 - Cymmer Haulier Insoles Ltd., Glamorgan. A runaway loaded tram crushed him against the full tram he had just taken out as he was crossing the road.

JONES David - 1901 - 12/02/1901 – Age 40 - Bedlinog No.2 Ripper, Guest Keen and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, while barring down a piece of rock, loosened by a shot, another piece 2.5 feet by 2.5 feet by 1 foot fell upon him. Probably this piece had also been loosened by the shot. Four feet seam.

JONES David - 1901 - 12/10/1901 – Age 37 - Elliott, East Assistant timberman, Powells Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof from under which they were removing old timber with a view replacing it with new. He apparently erred in the way in which he tackled the work commencing on the low instead of the higher side timbers.

JONES David - 1901 - 20/07/1901 – Age 23 - Pont Henry Collier, Pont Henry Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. An empty tram broke loose from a journey and ran down the Braslyd slant for about 180 yards causing the death of the deceased and injuries to two others.

JONES David - 1901 - 24/05?/1901 - Universal Repairer’s helper, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway Cd 947. 81 killed.

JONES David - 1902 - 02/04/1902 – Age 27 - Garswood Hall Sinker, Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Explosion of firedamp in the sinking shaft at the Ravine seam which probably was ignited by a short circuit of the electric light cable. 9 killed.

JONES David - 1902 - 09/04/1902 – Age 38 - Merthyr Vale No.1 Repairer, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Found dead on a main haulage road having been run over by a loaded journey. He had been repairing near where he was killed. No one knew how he got under the journey as he was alone at the time, his partner having gone for assistance to put up a heavy collar.

JONES David - 1902 - 09/12/1902 – Age 38 - Bwllfa Dare Labourer, Bwllfa & Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries (1891) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face coal, 4 feet by 1 foot 11 inches by 1 foot thick, fell as he was putting up a sprag to hold it in place before commencing to stow the gob. Deceased was a collier but for the time he was labouring as his health was poor. Four feet seam.

JONES David - 1902 - 25/02/1902 – Age 30 - Bwichgwyn, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, Bwichgwyn Roadstone Co. Ltd., Denbigh. A charge of gelatine dynamite, which he and his mate were pushing into a hole with a wooden stick, exploded. He was killed on the spot and his mate had the sight of one eye destroyed. The probability in that the explosion, which was taken from the magazine in the morning, had become frozen during the day.

JONES David - 1903 - 13/11/1903 – Age 14 - Penrikyber Collier boy, Penrikyber Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at coal, 4 feet by 13 inches by 3 feet thick, fell off a vertical break. The coal overhung 13 inches and should have been spragged. The collier in charge of the stall said that he had warned deceased to keep away from that side of the stall. Six feet seam.

JONES David - 1903 - 21/12/1903 – Age 16 - Tynwynbach Haulier, David Williams, Glamorgan. Crushed to death between derailed tram and roof of heading while apparently riding on the hook between two trams drawn by a horse.

JONES David - 1903 - 24/12/1903 – Age 35 - Cilely Assistant repairer, JS Blindell and Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 12 feet by 7 feet by 18 inches thick. Deceased knocked out a flat on a stall road and a fall of roof took place which injured him so severely that he died next day. Red vein.

JONES David - 1903 - 28/01/1903 – Age 30 - Cwm Collier, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 6 feet by 6 feet by 12 inches thick, fell and discharged two props and injured the deceased so badly that he died on 22nd February. The roof had been squeezing for sometime and deceased was setting a prop at the time of the accident. Seven feet seam.

JONES David - 1903 - 29/10/1903 – Age 50 - Wrexham & Acton Collier, Wrexham & Acton Collieries Co., Denbigh. Inquiry made. He was making a pack wall when a stone fell from the roof against his leg, when he appears to have severely strained himself. He was able to walk part the way to the shaft but eventually got worse and had to undergo an operation at the Wrexham Infirmary. He expired 5th Nov. 1903.

JONES David - 1904 - 02/09/1904 – Age 54 - Black Park Collier, Black Park Colliery Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attend. Deceased was holing the coal when a piece of top coal fell upon him, capping a sprag, which had been against it and fatally injuring the deceased.

JONES David - 1904 - 19/02/1904 – Age 52 - Penlan Pumpman, Penlan Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A piece of timber, which had fallen off the timber carriage appears to have been moved from a state of rest by the action of the winding rope and sliding down the slant struck the deceased and caused sever injuries. Dip of slant about 2.5 feet per yard.

JONES David - 1906 - 26/04/1906 – Age 29 - Mardy No.1 Collier, Lockets Merthyr Collieries (1894) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 4.5 feet by 2 feet 10 inches by 27 inches thick, fell and knocked deceased against the tram so splitting his skull. The stone that fell was part of the rippings, and was bounded by slips or joints. It was unsupported. Bute seam.

JONES David - 1906 - 29/10/1906 – Age 62 - International Labourer, International Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, a part of the rippings measuring 4 feet by 1.5 feet by 1 foot 9 inches in thickness, fell suddenly in consequence of a hidden slant in the roof. The nearest prop was 7 feet away. Six feet seam.

JONES David - 1907 - 03/06/1907 – Age 62 - Dare Repairer, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, fireclay, 4 feet by 1 foot by 11 inches thick. Deceased and another man were sent to clear a fall on a heading, and, after examining the place and pulling down as they thought, all the loose stones, they started work. A fall occurred 20 minutes later, and deceased was injured so badly that he died in four hours. New seam.

JONES David - 1907 - 04/04/1907 – Age 54 - Fochriw No.2 Repairer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident was caused by an act of forgetfulness on the part of the rider of an auxiliary haulage, who omitted to reset the pointers of a branch dip after passing through them, with the consequence that the main journey instead of keeping to the main dip, turned into the branch road, and ran over deceased who was cleaning the road a short distance below the pointers.

JONES David - 1907 - 04/09/1907 – Age 40 - Carnock No.1 Miner, Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. While illegally carrying compressed gunpowder in his hand, while his lamp was on his cap, a spark from his lamp ignited the gunpowder.

JONES David - 1907 - 19/10/1907 – Age 36 - Brook Drift Repairer, Gwann-cae-gurwen Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. He was struck down by a tram which had run wild, 200 yards down a slant dipping 1 in 7. The tram had become detached from a train of 11 empties, which were being lowered by a hauling rope down the engine plane slant. The pin of the coupling, which connected the tram to the 10th, had probably been raised by coming in contact with a lump of hard anthracite which had fallen and stuck fast in the opening in which a roller turns.

JONES David - 1908 - 02/10/1908 – Age 64 - Nantmawr, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Deceased was descending from a ledge, to fetch gunpowder, when he trod on a loose stone and fell, or rolled, about six yards into the Quarry bottom, injuring his back. He resumed work in the Quarry on 30th November, 1908, and continued until 11th January, when he had to leave off. He died on 22nd May from cancer of the omentum and adjoining parts, which it was alleged might possibly have been induced or accelerated by the accident.

JONES David - 1909 - 04/10/1909 – Age 59 - Penrikyber No.1 Hardgroundman, Penrikyber Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, having tumbled two empty trams on the side of a rising arched roadway, to allow the haulier to bring a full tram from the face, stood on the low side of the empty trams while this was being done, instead of getting into a good manhole immediately opposite. The full tram safely passed the first, but struck the second and shifted it forward. Deceased tried to pass the horse, fell, and was run over. The empty tram had been tumbled too near the road.

JONES David - 1909 - 05/04/1909 – Age 56 - Blaenant Fireman, Marquis of Bute, Glamorgan. Suffocated by the fumes from an underground fire.

JONES David - 1909 - 12/01/1909 – Age 58 - Garw Rider, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. He was shunting waggons near a bridge at the top of an incline, when he was seen to get under the waggons as if to couple them together, and then to fall under them, the wheels passing over the lower part of his abdomen.

JONES David - 1909 - 12/10/1909 – Age 60 - Ynishir Labourer, Ynishir Steam Coal Co., Glamorgan. Deceased was knocked down and run over by some empty wagons which were being lowered, on the brakes, down a road which deceased was crossing on his way to the sawmill. The noise of the circular saw probably drowned that of the moving wagons.

JONES David - 1909 - 25/05?/1909 – Age 36 - Mardy No.3 Rider, Lockets Merthyr Collieries (1894) Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was riding out on the 2nd shackle of a journey of 12 full trams on a roadway, 10.5 feet wide and 7 feet 9 inches high. He was run over by 10 trains and must have slipped off the shackle.

JONES David A. - 1907 - 11/12/1907 – Age 18 - Hafod Screener, Ruabon Coal and Coke Co., Denbigh. In the act of going to another screen, he appears to have taken a short cut by going under the fence and attempted to jump across the slack conveyor, when he slipped, and got fatally crushed by the conveyor.

JONES David E. - 1905 - 14/11/1905 – Age 20 - East Ince Hall Drawer, Latham Bros., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was killed by an electric shock in consequence of his tub getting off the rails and becoming entangled with the electric cable and cutting through the insulation. An armoured cable to be used in future.

JONES David John - 1909 - 10/11/1909 – Age 16 - Killan Assistant pumpman, WW Holmes and Co., Glamorgan. His coat caught in unfenced spur gearing of an electrically driven pump, and he was drawn in between the wheels. He died on the following day.

JONES David W - 1903 - 22/05?/1903 – Age 30 - International Collier, International Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face, the stall had fallen in, three weeks before the fall had been cleared, end double-timbers stood on the road right up to the face on the second day, after coal work was resumed, while cutting in narrow in front of the road, another fall occurred knocking out the inside pair of timbers and laggings and burying the two colliers. Six feet seam. 2 killed.

JONES Dennis - 1904 - 08/04/1904 – Age 61 - Graig Cwm Labourer, Graigola Merthyr Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over while standing on the line during shunting operations. His attention appears to have been distracted by talking to a stranger who was inquiring his way.

JONES DW - 1904 - 21/07/1904 – Age 22 - Bedlinog No.1 Collier, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. On road cliff, 28 inches by 18 inches by 17 inches thick, fell on deceased as he was putting on his coat preparatory to going home. It was unsupported. Little vein.

JONES E.H. - 1905 - 12/12/1905 – Age 39 - Kiveton Park Collier, Kiveton Park Coal Co., Yorkshire. He was filling a tub at the coal face when some bind from the roof fell from between two slips and buried him; a second fall quickly followed the first and killed him. He was, at the time, cleaning some loose coal from the face preparatory to setting a bar and apparently did not consider the roof sufficiently dangerous to require temporary middle props. From his intimate knowledge of the roof, which was wet and bad, he ought to have set temporary timber at once and not waited to make room for bars.

JONES E.H. - 1905 - 25/09/1905 – Age 28 - Brynwith Fitter, Hedleys Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. An engine had been erected on the surface to haul coal up a drift, and the mechanic, engineman, and deceased were starting it to work. An empty journey had been run down, and a full journey drawn up, but, on trying to reverse, the links were stiff, so deceased took a bar to force them down, while the engineman pushed the lever. The bar slipped, deceased fell backward, and the drum, which made part of a revolution, caught his head and smashed it. The throttle valve was said to have been shut, so there must have been steam in the pipe between it and the cylinder.

JONES Edgar - 1908 - 01/10/1908 – Age 20 - Cribbwr Fawr Rider, Cribbwr Fawr Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A short incline or jig, having a gradient of 1 in 2, was worked by a 12 horse power engine, electrically driven. A rope from the drum passed up the incline and around a 2 feet sheave fixed in a horizontal framing at the top. The incline is arranged to work one tram up or down, but on this occasion two empties were drawn up, and there being no clearance at the top the capping of the rope was partly drawn round the sheave so as to allow the second tram to clear the points into a side road. The rope came out of the capping while the attempt was being made, and the deceased who was below at the points was struck down and killed by the runaway trams.

JONES Edward - 1900 - 05/01/1900 – Age 50 - Bychton Hall Collier, Bychton Hall Colliery Co., Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. The iron guard adopted to guide the hoppit between two wire rope, guides down the shaft which was being deepened to a lower seam for some reason got stuck fast for a time in the head gear and when the hoppit had descended a considerable distance the guard suddenly fell striking the deceased who was being lowered in the hoppit, killing him. The engineman and the banksman stated they did not notice that the sliding guard had not descended the same time as the hoppit.

JONES Edward - 1902 - 10/12/1902 – Age 26 - Vron Filler, Vron Colliery Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. A stone fell from some slips in the roof upon the deceased, crushing him upon a tub near the face fatally injuring him. A sudden crush over the place and the stone from between the props set.

JONES Edward - 1902 - 19/12/1902 – Age 35 - Main Coal Master haulier, Main Coal Colliery Co., Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. The iron strap attached as baud to the brake of the jig wheel broke in connection with an endless rope jig, which caused the full setts of tubs to run downbrow and the tightening arrangement at the bottom of the jig gave way and deceased got entangled and crushed by a lashing chain against the full tubs.

JONES Edward - 1902 - 20/12/1902 – Age 30 - Hafod Repairer, Ruabon Coal and Coke Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged widening a level roadway and had jack-propped a bar and when cutting the side he liberated a stone which fell from a slip in the roof upon him the bar being knocked out by the fall.

JONES Edward - 1903 - 01/08/1903 – Age 48 - Letty Shenkin Ripper, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 8 feet 10 inches by 5 feet 10 inches by 6 to 28 inches thick, fell while deceased was gobbing up a stall-road with rubbish from a heading which he was cleaning up. Both heading and stall had been idle for some months. The roof was unsupported. Seven feet seam.

JONES Edward - 1904 - 13/10/1904 – Age 29 - Llanhilleth Collier, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. It is alleged that he strained himself when at work laying down a parting. He died on the 19th February, 1905 from tubercular peritonitis, which according to the medical evidence of a post-mortem at the inquest, accelerated by accidents on the 24th March and 11th October, 1904.

JONES Edward - 1904 - 15/02/1904 – Age 61 - Priestners Dataller, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Lancashire. In haulage road repairing, trying to pull a stone down with a pick, he must have leaned forward for the, stone in falling, knocked him down fracturing a bone near his knee in his left leg. He insisted in being removed from the Wigan Infirmary Mar. 7th and died from blood poisoning 26th May (Good roof).

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

JONES Edward - 1905 - 28/12/1905 – Age 35 - Cwmaman Collier, Cwmaman Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. At face cliff, 8 feet by 3 feet by 4.5 inches thick, it fell as deceased was driving a small wedge into the butt of the coal. It was unsupported. Seven feet seam.

JONES Edward - 1905 - 30/01/1905 – Age 37 - Pwllfaron Rider, Morgan S Williams, Glamorgan. Crushed between a rail and a stricker at a height of 4 feet 10 inches from the ground and a tram in front of which he was riding. The rail had been fixed on the night previous, to prevent, it was said, trams loaded over that height passing up the slant, on which there were some rather low collars owing to a squeeze.

JONES Edward - 1906 - 12/10/1906 – Age 27 - Cymmer, New Rider, Insoles Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, an experienced rider, was taking a journey of empty trams along a main level and when he passed a light carrier he was riding with his legs outside the tram. When the journey arrived at its destination, without a rider, a search was made and he was found lying on the side of the road. He was conscious and said that he had struck his head against a pair of timbers. The roadway was 10 feet wide and 6 feet 2 inches high. He should have ridden on the rope or in one of the trams.

JONES Edward - 1906 - 25/08/1906 – Age 45 - South Duffryn No.2 Collier, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, cliff 16 feet by 5 feet by 2 feet thick, fell on deceased as they were replacing a rail, which the last tram taken out had displaced. The roof was strong and the part that fell was quite unsupported. On one side of the stone was a well defined slip, which with an impersistent smooth above caused the fall. Five-feet six seam. 2 killed.

JONES Edward - 1907 - 10/11/1907 – Age 45 - Seven Sisters Haulier, Evans and Bevan, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp or coal dust. 5 killed.

JONES Edward - 1909 - 19/10/1909 – Age 38 - Dinorben, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, Anglesey. A stone weighing about a cwt. was thrown down by another man and struck him on the head. He died on the way to the infirmary.

JONES Edwin - 1906 - 13/09/1906 – Age 22 - Tynybedw Collier, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff (rippings), 8 feet by 4 feet by 22 inches thick fell from between two slants on to deceased while he was preparing to set a post under it. A tram of coal had just previously been worked from under it. Yard seam.

JONES Edwin - 1907 - 02/07/1907 – Age 60 - Hanwood Fireman, Messrs Atherton, Shropshire. Deceased appeared to have returned upon a hanging gelignite shot, and to have been preparing to bore another hole, when the charge exploded, blowing out the stemming and tearing a little coal off the month of the hole. Some pieces of the coal had apparently struck him on the side and top of the head, causing fatal injuries. The hole was charged and the fuse lighted by himself, but as he was alone, there was no evidence to show how long he had waited before returning.

JONES Edwin - 1908 – Age 41 - Marine Collier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. This is a case of a death apparently having been hastened by an alleged strain when putting up timber acting on a previously diseased organ. The alleged strain, according to the evidence given at the inquest some time before June and death took place 20th Nov. He worked more or less irregularly after the supposed strain but was not laid up at all. According to the medical evidence as a result of a post-mortem he died directly from heart trouble. It is one of those cases which are very doubtful as to whether they should be considered an accident under the Mines Act, probably it should not, but it seems to have some claim towards it hence I have included it. Date of injury uncertain.

JONES Edwin - 1909 - 20/12/1909 – Age 21 - Cymmer Repairer, Insoles Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road, cliff and rock, 15 feet by 9 feet by 3 feet thick, crushed out four pairs of timber and fell upon deceased, who was sitting on the front end of a tram of rubbish which his horse was taking out along the level. The roof at this point was much disturbed. The timbers showed signs of dry rot. Nine feet seam.

JONES Elias - 1906 - 01/06/1906 – Age 31 - Court Herbert Collier, Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 5 killed.

JONES Ellis - 1901 - 08/01/1901 – Age 23 - Woodfield Hewer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Sitting kirving when a stone fell from the roof, tapering to a sharp edge at both ends and broke his back. Died 24th.

JONES Ellis - 1903 - 27/07/1903 – Age 36 - Merthyr Vale No.2 Collier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and a haulier were ascending the shaft at the end of their shift when deceased fell out of the cage. The haulier said there was nothing to cause him to fall out and the cage and guides were found in good order.

JONES Enoch - 1900 - 22/09/1900 – Age 25 - Pochin No.2 Collier, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof from two slips in a heading where he was gobbing stone which got down by a shot in the ripping. He apparently removed two props from under the stone, as a matter of convenience, and continued working under it recklessly or did not carefully examine the place. He worked alone in the stall, and was found under the stone by the examiner when on his rounds an hour or two later.

JONES Enoch - 1901 - 06/02/1901 – Age 36 - Minera Lead and Zinc Miner, United Minera Mining Co. Ltd., Denbigh. While they were descending one of the main shafts, in a cage, the bar by which it was suspended from the rope broke they were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft and killed instantaneously. 4 killed.

JONES Ernest - 1908 - 04/03/1908 – Age 31 - Hamstead Loader, Hamstead Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Underground fire. 25 killed.

JONES Ernest - 1908 - 09/04/1908 – Age 23 - Norton Hill Carting boy, Norton Hill Colliery Co., Somerset. Explosion of firedamp or coaldust. 10 killed.

JONES Evan - 1903 - 11/12/1903 – Age 36 - Maindy Level Collier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. At face cliff, 4 feet 4 inches by 4.5 feet by 21 inches thick fell while he was cutting away the bottom bed of coal. No.2 Rhondda seam. He died on 23rd May, 1904.

JONES Evan - 1907 - 12/11/1907 – Age 44 - Windsor Repairer, Windsor Steam Coal Co. (1901) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 3 feet by 6 inches by 18 inches thick, fell off the side. Two pairs of timber had been taken out the previous shift because they were too low and deceased had stood two arms, and was filling a tram on which to stand to put up the collar, when the fall occurred. Nine feet seam.

JONES Evan - 1907 - 25/12/1907 – Age 47 - National No.1 Sinker, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. An old walling stage, in two segments with planks across the central gap, was being removed from the six feet landing to allow for the guides being put down to the five feet seam. The central planks having been cleared away, the winding rope was attached to three bridle chains terminating in three ring bolts on one of the segments. Deceased and two other sinkers who were on the segment, having first caused the winding rope to be tightened sufficiently to take the weight of the stage on the four bolts which had held the segment on the walling commenced withdrawing the bolts. As they did so the segment swung out into the pit and canted slightly, and deceased, who was not holding on to the bridle at the time, was precipitated into the shaft. He fell to the nine feet landing a distance of 70 feet

JONES Evan - 1909 - 28/01/1909 – Age 63 - Garreg Fawr, Iron Ore Platelayer, Alfred Hickman and Co., Carnarvon. Crushed by a fall from the roof. He died a few hours later.

JONES Evan C. - 1906 - 30/04/1906 – Age 16 - Garth Merthyr Oiler, Elders Navigation Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed by a tram which had fallen over a retaining wall.

JONES Evan T. - 1902 - 26/05?/1902 – Age 33 - Glyncorrwg Haulier, Glyncorrwg Coal Co., Glamorgan. Strained himself while lifting a tram on to the road. Died 2nd. June from 'acute dilatation of the heart'.

JONES Frank - 1900 - 13/12/1900 – Age 22 - Himley Driver, S Garratt and Son, Staffordshire. Injured by being thrown from the horse gears on which he was unlawfully riding. Died 28th Dec.

JONES Frank - 1906 - 01/06/1906 – Age 18 - Grimethorpe Pony driver, Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was bringing out three full tubs around a bend with a crossgate when he stated the timbers caught and displaced a prop supporting a bar. The bar fell on the pony’s back and then slipped off behind and the deceased, who was walking at the pony’s side, was crushed between the bar and the first tub and so severely injured that he died on the 4th.

JONES Frank - 1908 - 09/04/1908 – Age 41 - Norton Hill Collier, Norton Hill Colliery Co., Somerset. Explosion of firedamp or coaldust. 10 killed.

JONES Fred - 1902 - 12/05?/1902 – Age 19 - J. Blindell’s Black Vein Haulier, Blindell and Wakeford, Monmouth. He was assisting a repairer and in barring down a stone his bar slipped and he fell forward just as the stone dropped.

JONES Frederick - 1901 - 20/08/1901 – Age 12 - Britannia clay Quarry School boy, Midland Brick Co., Warwickshire. He was drowned while bathing in a disused portion of the Quarry. He was not employed by the Quarry owners and he was a trespasser at the time he was drowned.

JONES George - 1900 - 20/12/1900 – Age 17 - Pochin No.1 Collier’s butty, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in his working place from two slips or grimes while engaged in ripping it with ‘plug and feather.'

JONES George - 1904 - 01/09/1904 – Age 32 - Cwmaman Repairer, Cwmaman Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. An empty tram and a tram loaded with timbers were being drawn by a horse along a heading rising slightly, deceased and his assistant were following. When they had proceeded 200 yards, the hook coupling the trams rose the tram laden with timber ran back  and caught deceased as he was stooping to pick up a stone lying on the road and ran over him.

JONES George - 1904 - 24/03/1904 – Age 25 - Newdigate Holer, FA Newdigate MP, Warwickshire. He was killed while removing the sprags for the purpose of getting the coal down. The falling coal crushed deceased's head against a prop.

JONES George - 1905 - 11/12/1905 – Age 52 - Number Nine Repairer, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side on road, where it was being widened for a double parting; a large stone fell from the side and crushed his foot so badly that he died, after it was amputated, on 25th December.

JONES George - 1905 - 14/07/1905 – Age 41 - Merthyr Vale Collier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. At face, a small stone fell from the roof  and cut deceased’s face and fractured his leg. Gangrene supervened and he died from blood-poisoning in 8 days.

JONES George - 1906 - 04/09/1906 – Age 45 - Ynishir House Collier, Ynishir Steam Coal Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, rock, 13 feet 8 inches by 4 feet by .5 inches thick, fell and crushed deceased’s neck on the empty tram he was pushing towards the face of the heading. It was quite unsupported as the roof was said to have been so strong. No.2 Rhondda seam.

JONES George - 1908 - 23/10/1908 – Age 28 - Abram Collier, Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When engaged working at the face, a portion of the top coal and dirt fell from a slip upon him, and it was said not to have been overhanging.

JONES George - 1909 - 09/09/1909 – Age 33 - Diamond Collier, Diamond Anthracite Mine Co. Ltd., Brecon. Fall of roof at face, a small stone fell upon his hand while he was drawing down loose stones in the roof. Blood poisoning set in, and while undergoing an operation, after chloroform had been administered, he ceased to breathe. Artificial respiration was resorted to, but without success.

JONES George Ernest - 1904 - 10/08/1904 – Age 10 - West Cannock. Not employed. Stafford. Killed by being crushed by tubs while riding between two tubs on an endless rope tramway.

JONES Griffith - 1900 - 12/07/1900 – Age 59 - Penrhyn Slate Slate getter, Lord Penrhyn, Carnarvon. While he was loading a waggon a block of slate weighing about 3 tons fell on to him from a height of 15 yards. Instantly killed.

JONES Griffith - 1905 - 04/07/1905 – Age 25 - National No.1 Repairer, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was re-timbering a double parting at a place where there was a considerable vacancy above the timbers. While poking with a long bar, to start a run of the packed rubbish off the old timbers a large fall occurred. Four pairs of heavy timber were knocked out, and deceased was buried by a fall of 50 tons of rubbish, most of which had been packed on top of the timbers.

JONES Griffith - 1905 - 09/02/1905 – Age 51 - Maenofferen, Slate Mine Slate getter, Maenofferen Slate Quarry Co. Ltd., Merioneth. A large block of rock, on which he stood, gave way and he fell with it a distance of 12 yards. Instantly killed.

JONES Griffith - 1905 - 11/02/1905 – Age 55 - Llechwedd, Slate Mine Slate getter, JW Greaves and Sons Ltd., Merioneth. A portion of the roof of an inclined plane suddenly fell. He was instantly killed and two others were injured.