KILPATRICK George - 1901 - 16/10/1901 – Age 37 - Blair No.2 Shanksman, William Bair and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. When engaged repairing the shaft a stone fell upon the cage smashing it and precipitating it and the men to the bottom. 2 killed.

KILPATRICK James - 1901 - 16/10/1901 – Age 41 - Blair No.2 Shanksman, William Bair and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. When engaged repairing the shaft a stone fell upon the cage smashing it and precipitating it and the men to the bottom. 2 killed.

KILPATRICK John - 1907 - 29/12/1907 – Age 44 - Lochhead Fireman, Weymss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Underground fire. 3 killed.

KILRAIN Patrick - 1901 - 25/02/1901 – Age 18 - Gilbertsfield No.2 Pony driver, Cambuslang Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He seems to have fallen off the front of a race of full hutches and was run over.

KIMBER George - 1900 - 08/11/1900 – Age 41 - West End Limestone Quarry Set maker, Tytherington Stone Co., Gloucestershire. Having knocked away the stay, supporting a temporary engine house, the house collapsed and falling on him killed him instantly. Why he interfered with it at all is unexplained he had nothing to do with the shed.

KIMBER William Frederick - 1905 - 02/02/1905 – Age 14 - Whitwell Horse driver, Shire Oaks Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Repairs were being done on a main roadway when some stone fell on the deceased. Another man was injured.

KIMBLE Arthur - 1904 - 15/03/1904 – Age 14 - Pollington Horse driver, James Oakes and Co., Nottinghamshire. He was going from work, in charge of a horse, and was found lying on the roadway in an unconscious and dying condition. He had probably been kicked by the horse but there was no evidence to show how he had been injured.

KING Alfred - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 22 - National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. Bailey St., Waltstown, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

KING Dyson - 1905 - 26/01/1905 – Age 18 - Wellfield, Sandstone Quarry Crane tenter, C T B Swift, Yorkshire. Along with the foreman and other four workmen he was assisting to take down the jib of a crane, placed by the edge of the Quarry, in order to replace it with a longer one. The jib was secured by means of a rope from the drum, and he got on to the platform carrying the boiler and engine to work the engine to lower the jib to the ground; the other men, in the meantime, were lowering one of the iron stays which held the jib in position when the place onto which the stay was fastened or on to the top of the upright leg gave way, this liberated the stay carrying the, platform and boiler and they broke away and with deceased fell into the Quarry, a distance of 44 feet. He was severely injured, and died on February 1st.

KING Frederick S. - 1905 - 18/10/1905 – Age 26 - North’s Navigation Shunter, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. While getting on to the ‘cab’, of a locomotive, he from some unexplained cause, fell backwards and injured his foot. Died 1st November.

KING H. - 1901 - 04/12/1901 – Age 16 - Beacon Miner, Oats and Green Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 6th Dec. The revolving knives of the caly mixer caught his coat sleeve and dragged him under the shaft.

KING James - 1900 - 29/06/1900 – Age 20 - Old Boston No.3 Sinker, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Ten men were engaged in sinking operations in No.3 Old Boston pit, at a depth of 245 yards from the surface, and when they were filling dirt into the hoppit an upheaval of the floor occurred and an outburst of firedamp gas igniting at the candles caused the ten men to he burnt more or less severely, eight of whom afterwards succumbed (at the Haydock Cottage Hospital) to the injuries received. At the inquiry it was recommended that in future sinking operations should be carried on by electric light. 8 killed.

KING James - 1903 - 03/03/1903 – Age 48 - Blairenbathie Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Kinross. Deceased was stripping the coal off the lype at a longwall face when a stone 8 feet in length by 3 feet 6 inches in width and about 3 feet in thickness at centre suddenly fell killing him instantly. The stone was triangular in section and fell from between two parallel lypes converging upwards. The outer lype had not been seen prior to the accident. The place was well propped.

KING James - 1904 - 01/06/1904 – Age 23 - Blantyre No.3 Pony Driver, William Dixon Ltd., Lanarkshire. Empty hutches ran back down an incline and ran over him.

KING James Henry - 1902 - 24/01/1902 – Age 24 - Holmeswood Dayman, Hardwick Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was killed while working under the overhanging clod of a roll or false bedding in the roof. The false bedding ran at nearly right angles through the stall and was well known to deceased as he had worked across it several times.

KING John - 1900 - 09/06/1900 – Age 48 - Holborough chalk Platelayer, William Lees Son and Co., Kent. He stepped in front of a train of empty waggons which was being braked down a gradient. The brakesman shouted but he failed to get out of the way, he was knocked over and died while being conveyed to the hospital.

KING John - 1904 - 04/08/1904 – Age 53 - Blantyre No.1 Miner, William, Dixon Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

KING Patrick - 1900 - 29/06/1900 – Age 26 - Old Boston No.3 Sinker, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Ten men were engaged in sinking operations in No.3 Old Boston pit at a depth of 245 yards from the surface, and when they were filling dirt into the hoppit an upheaval of the floor occurred and an outburst of firedamp gas igniting at the candles caused the ten men to he burnt more or less severely eight of whom afterwards succumbed (at the Haydock Cottage Hospital) to the injuries received. At the inquiry it was recommended that in future sinking operations should be carried on by electric light. 8 killed.

KING Richard - 1904 - 05/08/1904 – Age 56 - Harden Loader, William Edgerton, Staffordshire. Fall of roof (rock) from a slip at working face in beading in yard coal. Died 19th December.

KING Robert Cashmore - 1900 - 16/12/1900 – Age 29 - Stockingford Roadman, Stockingford Colliery Co., Warwickshire. Fall of roof. Deceased and other men were clearing out the debris from an old roadway for the purpose of getting to a fire when the hot roof fell and buried deceased. He died the next day. No supports had been put up to the roof and the hot debris was frequently watered.

KING Thomas - 1900 - 12/02/1900 – Age 32 - Coppice Roadsman, Coppice Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Found dead in a level under a fall of side.

KING Thomas - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 47 - National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. Railway St., Wattstown. Married with nine children, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery.

KING Thomas - 1909 - 05/07/1909 – Age 39 - Coppice No.2 Dataller, Shipley Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was building a pack on the side of a roadway and was working at a place where the timber exceeded the maximum distance allowed by the rules, when a fall of roof fatally injured him. He died the next day.

KING William - 1900 - 03/05/1900 – Age 50 - Glenesk Miner, Melville Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was lying holing at a longwall face in a 3 feet 1 inch seam when the coal suddenly broke off, along a length of twelve feet, and fell upon him killing him almost instantly. The oversman and two others witnessed the accident. The coal had been holed for a length of 13 feet and no holing props or gibs had been set, the coal having hitherto required to be blasted with gunpowder. The jury at the inquiry recommended that in future the Rules as to propping should be more strictly enforced.

KING William - 1901 - 07/05/1901 – Age 44 - Bradley, Locks Pikeman, Bradley Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Injured by a blow on the forehead from a hammer used by a fellow workman for setting a tree. He worked afterwards and did not report he was injured. On the 9th May he went to a doctor and was then suffering from giddiness. He worked afterwards not regularly and on the 27th June and 2nd July he had paralytic strokes and died on the 7th July, 1901. The doctor who attended him was of opinion that the cause of the paralytic seizure was a blow and at the inquest the jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

KING William - 1907 - 31/08/1907 – Age 22 - Navigation Haulier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff 2.5 feet by 2.75 feet by 10 inches thick, fell on deceased as he was assisting an assistant ripper to clear a small fall, which prevented him taking his horse and tram out. Two-feet-nine Seam.

KINGDOM Richard - 1907 - 26/02/1907 – Age 30 - Windsor Repairer, Windsor Steam Coal Co. (1901) Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and other men were putting additional timbers, to support the heavy framing timbers at the junction of two roads, when about 12 or 15 tons of cliff, from the roof and side of a cavity above the timbers, fell, knocked out three pairs of timber, and buried three of the men. 2 killed.

KINLAY David - 1907 - 05/07/1907 – Age 55 - Arthur Labourer, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The loco came towards the pit, pushing a train of waggons in front, and deceased with another workman was made aware of the approaching train and came out of the waggons which they had been emptying of duff, as they were to be moved by same train. As soon as the moving train had buffed, deceased made to go between the space made by the impetus, and just then the moving train, winch had not slacked speed, it came up and he was fatally crushed. Deceased was warned not to go between the waggons.

KINSBY James - 1900 - 14/10/1900 – Age 43 - Wigan Junction Daywageman, Wigan Junction Colliery Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased, with others, was engaged repairing the walling near the bottom of the upcast shaft when a stone fell down the shaft striking him on the head. There was a scaffold in the shaft about one hundred and sixty yards above where some repairs had been done previously but not completed and it was probably from that scaffold the stone fell.

KINSELLA Patrick - 1901 - 16/04/1901 – Age 45 - Whitehaven, Croft Sinker, Whitehaven Colliery Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Fall of side. 4 killed.

KINSELLA Peter - 1900 - 02/03/1900 – Age 18 - Whitehaven, William Driver, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attend. The deceased was standing between the ways in a siding and a trace horse in passing kicked him in the abdomen.

KINSEY Arthur - 1904 – Age 26 - Hanham Collier, Gloucestershire. Died from peritonitis while at work at Hanham Colliery. He jumped out of a tram in consequence of the rope breaking and shortly after fell forward and died.

KINSEY E. - 1900 - 26/09/1900 – Age 45 - Grimethorpe Collier, Carlton Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Struck himself with his pick when getting down some clay seam above him.

KINSEY Joseph - 1908 - 13/06/1908 – Age 34 - East Cannock Loader, East Cannock Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased, with the stallman, was working at the face of a stall in the Deep Seam, which was being carried forward between two faults, the stallman being engaged in drilling a hole in the coal while deceased was shovelling dirt into the gob, when a large piece of rock fell from between the right side fault and an unseen slip. The stallman escaped with slight injury to his back and foot but deceased was knocked down and buried beneath the rock. When extricated he was found to he badly injured and was taken to the Accident Home, where he died an hour later. The stone which fell had only a piece of lagging, stretched from a bar 2.5 feet away, for support, and this was broken off by the edge of the bar. A prop under the end of the lagging would have prevented the fall. Otherwise the place was well timbered in view of the presence of the faults.

KINSEY L. - 1903 - 23/03/1903 – Age 47 - West Riding Miner, Pope and Pearson, Yorkshire. Died 25th March. Fall of roof displacing three bars in a working place. Cause converging slips.

KIPLING Frank George - 1907 - 23/09/1907 – Age 29 - Denaby Main Labourer, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was lowering a full wagon with the brake to some others in a siding and when it collided with these a piece of coal weighing about 14 lbs. fell off the top of the wagon on to his head and cut it slightly. No danger was apprehended but blood poisoning set in and he died on the 27th.

KIRBY John - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 21 - Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

KIRK Arthur - 1905 - 15/08/1905 – Age 25 - Shirebrook Dayman, Shirebrook Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was pulling coal from the face and liberated a piece of roof, which fell and killed him.

KIRK Edward - 1903 - 13/05/1903 – Age 16 - North Skelton Ironstone Horsekeeper, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was assisting to give a horse medicine when the horse twitched and he fell on the tramway and his spine was broken. Died on the 23rd.

KIRK Edwin - 1905 - 10/05/1905 – Age 25 - Watnall Loader, Barber Walker and Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was in front of a tub of coal when it fell and knocking a prop out, a fall of roof occurred which caught the deceased and fatally injured him. He died the same day.

KIRK Hubert - 1908 - 18/05/1908 – Age 15 - Glass Houghton Pony Driver, Glass Houghton and Castleford Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He had lost his light and in the dark he was walking between his pony and his load of full tubs when he stumbled and fell and the first tub ran over and killed him.

KIRK Hugh - 1901 - 09/08/1901 – Age 37 - Rankinston No.1 Ironstone Engineman, Glengarnock Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. When starting the pumping the stop valve casing burst and the escaping steam scalded him to death.

KIRK James - 1900 - 11/09/1900 – Age 16 - Humbie (sandstone Quarry) Labourer, Thomas Lochtie, Fife. Fell off runaway horse on service road to Quarry.

KIRK James - 1905 - 07/12/1905 – Age 45 - Cadzow Brakesman, Cadzow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Without authority he attempted to work a locomotive. He lost control of it and it ran into a waggon that the driver was shunting.

KIRK John - 1902 - 22/12/1902 – Age 29 - Crofthead Miner, United Collieries Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was taking down some coal at the road head, in a longwall working, when a large stone fell from the face of the brushing upon him causing injuries to which he succumbed two days afterwards.

KIRK Richard - 1907 - 19/03/1907 – Age 55 - Benwell Deputy, W Cochrane Carr Ltd., Northumberland. Explosion of firedamp. 4 killed.

KIRK William - 1904 - 06/08/1904 – Age 52 - Bewick Main Hewer, Charles Perkins and Partners, Co.Durham. Deceased worked alone, as a hewer, and he was found by the deputy sitting on his cracket murmuring incoherently. The deputy went for assistance and when he returned deceased had fallen over and cut his head slightly. He was taken to the surface but died in a few hours. An inquest was held after a post-mortem examination when medical evidence showed that death was caused by cerebral haemorrhage due to Bright’s disease. The Local Inspectors examined the place and reported "found the timber and the place satisfactory."

KIRKBRIDE George - 1909 - 21/01/1909 – Age 17 - Eppleton Waggon attendant, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. His leg was caught between the waggon and a pillar supporting the screens.

KIRKBRIGHT James - 1901 - 07/11/1901 – Age 16 - Lumpsey Ironstone Horse leader, Bell Bros. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He and a driver had brought two full tubs out of a dip place and the second one was topped about three yards behind the first one. He took the horse to hang to it while the driver joined the second tub up. After the tubs had been brought together the driver went round to couple them and found deceased lying with his head injured caused by the tubs which he had coupled.

KIRKBY James - 1908 - 06/04/1908 – Age 32 - Cwmaman Asst. repairer, Cwmaman Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and a repairer had pulled out two pairs of timber, and one arm of an intermediate pair with a prop drawing machine, and were barring down some of the cliff roof, which had been deprived of its support, when a large fall occurred, and the remaining arm of the central pair was forced violently against deceased’s abdomen, and inflicted internal injuries from which he died next day. Four feet seam.

KIRKHAM Benjamin - 1902 - 11/12/1902 – Age 30 - Silver Hill Stallman, Stanton Iron Works Co. Nottinghamshire. Deceased was said to have received injuries in the mine during November but at the inquest the cause of death was found to be due to abscess on the brain and not due to any injury in the mine.

KIRKHAM James - 1905 - 19/06/1905 – Age 51 - Pleasley Loader, Stanton Iron Works Co., Derbyshire. He had a slight injury to a toe by an accident 5th June, and the coroner’s jury found that this injury had nothing to do with his death. He died from haemorrhage into the pericardial cavity.

KIRKHAM L. - 1901 - 31/01/1901 - Glass Houghton, WM Wood, Yorkshire. Died 27th Feb. 9th injured.

KIRKHAM Richard - 1907 - 18/06/1907 – Age 39 - Woodhouse No.2 Stallman, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Deceased was loading at a buttock in a longwall face, where the maximum distance between the props or roof support allowed by the special rules is 6 feet. There was a row of props on the pack side set well within the distance, but in the row next the face there was a space of 6 feet 6 inches between the buttock and the nearest limit. A fall occurred from three smooth slips in this space, which crushed deceased against the pack. Strict adherence to the timbering rules might have prevented the accident.

KIRKHAM William - 1902 - 29/10/1902 – Age 62 - Worthington Hall Hooker on, Worthington Hall Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made. Deceased when getting over a tub of coal opposite the door-way of the underground office, he appears to have fallen on the rails of the tramway in the shunt injuring his head and neck. He succumbed to the effects of the injuries received on the 31st.

KIRKHAM William - 1909 - 30/11/1909 – Age 18 - Senghenydd Rider, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was riding on the chain in front of a journey of 6 trams when the first left the rails. He jumped off and sprang to the signal wires, but was crushed between tram and side.

KIRKLAND Mungo - 1902 - 09/10/1902 – Age 38 - Clyde-Townlands No.7 Chain runner, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. A coupling gave way and he was crushed against the side of the road. Another man was injured.

KIRKPATRICK John - 1903 - 28/03/1903 – Age 60 - Outfields Screenman, Outfields Colliery Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased and another person were moving an empty wagon at the screens. Deceased uncoupled the wagon from another empty wagon and it moved forward but he seems to have left the brake on the other wagon insufficiently pinned down as it moved forward gently and crushed him against the first wagon. The day was very windy and the rails were greasy and this no doubt contributed to the accident.

KIRKPATRICK John C. - 1906 - 12/04/1906 – Age 25 - Orphir, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Marcus Liddle, Orkney. Deceased, with others, were loading flags into a boat at the wharf when the crane rope broke and the stones which were being swung into position fell on him and he was fatally crushed. The rope was defective, and was tied at places where it had broken prior to the accident.

KIRKWOOD Thomas - 1908 - 15/05/1908 – Age 25 - Fergushill No.26 Miner, Archibald Finnie and Son, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at working face while holing. There was a building within 2.5 feet of the coal face, but the fall was bounded on three sides by two faults and a "lipe."

KIRTLEY Joseph - 1909 - 03/09/1909 – Age 50 - Herrington Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. These men were run over by a timber tram and killed as they were on their way inbye. Two youths had been told to take a tram of timber into the Hutton Seam. To this, owing to the heavy gradient, the custom had always been to put a tub in front of the timber train and to yoke a pony to the tub. On this occasion the youths dispensed with the pony and the tub and, although there were two sprags in the tram wheels, it ran amain down the incline. The youths were severely reprimanded by the Coroner at the inquest for their action. 2 killed.

KIRTLEY William - 1909 - 03/09/1909 – Age 56 - Herrington Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. These men were run over by a timber tram and killed as they were on their way inbye. Two youths had been told to take a tram of timber into the Hutton Seam. To this, owing to the heavy gradient the custom had always been to put a tub in front of the timber train and to yoke a pony to the tub. On this occasion the youths dispensed with the pony and the tub and, although there were two sprags in the tram wheels, it ran amain down the incline. The youths were severely reprimanded by the Coroner at the inquest for their action. 2 killed.

KIRTON Frederick – 1908 – 27/01/1908 – Age 30 – Orgreave Assistant onsetter, Rother Vale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. The accident occurred in the downcast shaft at the Parkgate Seam mouthing. The inset at this seam is 90 yards above the Silkstone Seam or bottom of the shaft. No coal is drawn at this shaft from the Silkstone Seam and the cages therefore only run to the Parkgate Seam. The shaft is, however, used for ventilating the Silkstone Seam and to allow the air to pass spaces 1 feet 2 inches which are left between the baulks on which the cages rest. On the day of the accident, two tubs had fallen into the cage hole owing to a runaway set of tubs having collided with them and forced them through the fence gates and the deceased went into the cage hole to fasten a chain on but he stepped into the space between the baulks and, falling to the bottom of the shaft, was killed.

KITCHENER John – 1902 – 21/11/1902 – Age 58 – New Hucknall No.3 Stallman, New Hucknall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was proceeding to his work and when approaching the stall a fall of roof occurred and killed him.

KITCHIN William Henry – 1908 – 09/01/1908 – Age 41 – Oatlands Hewer, Moresby Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Fall of coal at working face.

KITCHING Richard – 1908 – 22/06/1908 – Age 46 – Whitehall Machineman, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was in front of a coal cutting machine, laying the rails on which it should travelled when the roof suddenly fell upon him.

KITE William – 1905 – 14/12/1905 – Age 53 – Mud Hall Pikeman, Allen Everitt and Sons, Worcester. Fall of roof (coal) in an opening in Thick coal from a slip.

KITLEY James – 1900 – 04/03/1900 – Age 20 – Ferndale No.7 Assistant hitcher, D Davis and Sons, Glamorgan. While unlawfully attempting to cross the shaft bottom the cage descended upon him. He ought to have used the covered passage by the side.

KNAPMAN W.H. – 1905 – 11/05/1905 – Age 18 – Tymawr Assistant repairer, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. On road deceased was lagging two pairs of timber which he and his partner had just set when the pair next to them broke down and caused the ground above the new timbers to fall and crush them out. Five feet seam.

KNIGHT Edwin – 1907 – 14/06/1907 – Age 57 – Snowdon Chargeman, Foncage Syndicate Ltd., Kent. The shaft having reached a depth of 280 feet from the surface, or from 80 to 90 feet below the level of the water head in the chalk, a sudden inrush of water occurred while 13 men were in the bottom. The water appears to have risen about 15 to 20 feet or more within five minutes but where it came from is not yet known as they have not been able to get the water out. All the men except Knight escaped by climbing the pumps and chains and floating with the aid of brattice cloth fastened up the side to prevent feeders splashing in the shaft. A strange thing about this water is the sand which accompanied it as there are still at least 500 or 600 feet of chalk before reaching the Gault according to the borehole which is within 150 yards of the shaft.

KNIGHT Ernest – 1905 – 16/01/1905 – Age 20 – Nantgwyn Collier, Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. At face, coal, 13 feet by 14 inches by 4 feet thick, fell off a face slip as deceased was leaving his stall at the end of his shift. A heavy 'pounce’ or ‘thump’ caused the coal to fall and crush out three sprags set against it. Four feet seam.

KNIGHT Frederick – 1908 – 19/02/1908 – Age 13 – Fernhill No.1 Collier boy, George Watkinson and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, cliff, 4 feet by 2 feet by 29 inches thick, fell from between two kind slants, which ran up through the roof to a smooth bed. It was quite unsupported. Gorllwyn seam.

KNIGHT George – 1902 – 23/07/1902 – Age 36 – Langley Park Hewer, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by part of a jud, he was kirving, falling on to him. He had neglected to set sprags as required by the Act and special regulations in force at the mine.

KNIGHT H. – 1903 – 09/06/1903 – Age 39 – South Hiendly Collier, H Musgrave Ltd., Yorkshire. Killed by a fall of coal whilst holing. Cause a slip and a parting. More timber might have been set.

KNIGHT Herbert – 1908 – 30/07/1908 – Age 36 – Ackton Hall Collier, Ackton Hall Colliery Co., Yorkshire. The deceased, his father, and another man were ripping a road. They had cut the right-hand side, 4 feet 6 inches deep and the left-hand side 1 foot 6 inches and had withdrawn the timber and inserted a wedge to loosen the ripping coal and stone. The deceased was working with his pick to get it down when it suddenly fell, displaced a prop which was set to the roof. The prop struck the deceased on his abdomen. At first it was not thought that he was seriously hurt, but serious symptoms developed, and he died on August 1st from collapse.

KNIGHT Leonard - 1906 - 29/08/1906 – Age 15 - Denaby Main Pony driver, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased was on his way in-bye with his pony when he was knocked down by six runaway full tubs and killed. The cause of the tubs running away was the jerking of the haulage rope, displacing the pin by which these full tubs had been clamped to the endless rope. Some of the haulage wheels were to be repaired and instructions had been given to the man in charge of the haulage ropes to detach all the full and empty sets and to secure them. These instructions were, however, not carried out in the case of two full sets which were left on the rope, and when the engineman reversed his engine for the purpose of enabling the repairs to be done, the jerk took place and caused the accident. Seven Corporals were prosecuted for not having carried out these instructions and were each fined £1 and 8s. 8d. costs.

KNIGHT Richard - 1904 - 06/07/1904 – Age 49 - Huncote, Granite Quarry Loader, Enderly & Stoney Stanton Granite Co., Leicestershire. Deceased was assisting to empty a waggon at the dirt tip when the wagon rolled down the tip taking deceased with it.

KNIGHT Thomas - 1909 - 24/11/1909 - Age 16 - Mapperley Horse driver, Mapperley Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was found dead under the first tub of a set of three full tubs. The usual number of lockers was used, and he appeared to have been riding contrary to the rules and fallen off.

KNIGHTON William - 1902 - 03/11/1902 – Age 18 - West Hallam Loader, West Hallam Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was working at the coal face when a stone from the roof fell and killed him.

KNOCKTON William - 1905 - 01/12/1905 – Age 37 - Collins Green No.1 Contractor, Collins Green Colliery Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He and his mate were changing a bar leg and instead of placing a proper jack prop they put a tram rail under the bar which afterwards reeled out and the roof fell upon him and he was fatally injured.

KNOTT Albert - 1906 - 19/02/1906 – Age 36 - Great Culand Chalk Quarry, Chalk digger Asc. Portland Cement Manufacturers (1900) Ltd., Kent. He was working on a ledge about 100 feet from the base of a chalk pit with another man, they had one rope between them. Deceased stepped down on to a small ledge to push off some chalk when a small quantity fell against the back of his legs and knocked him over. The rope being four yards from him was useless as regards his safety.

KNOTT Alfred Swain - 1909 - 25/11/1909 – Age 17 - Bolsover Horse driver, Bolsover Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. When a horse was taking two full tubs round a turn, on to the endless rope, deceased stayed behind for his coat as it was the end of the shift and in catching up the horse deceased attempted to steady it round the turn, when he fell under the horse and was killed by the first full tub.

KNOTT William - 1905 - 21/01/1905 – Age 46 - Ibstock No.2 Banksman, Ibstock Collieries Ltd., Leicestershire. The deceased was puller-off at the pit top. He was adjusting the fence bar at the end of the cage after some men had landed when the cage commenced to descend and crushed him between the top of the cage and the pit top. He died the next day.

KNOWLES Frederick - 1903 - 09/11/1903 – Age 29 - Moston Engineman, Platt Bros. and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by tub overwound by a hauling engine.

KNOWLES George - 1905 - 16/06/1905 – Age 47 - West Hallam Stallman, West Hallam Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was taking down coal from the face and when the coal fell a portion of the roof also fell, and fatally injured the deceased. He died 1st July.

KNOWLES John Hall - 1906 - 09/07/1906 – Age 47 - Preston Stoneman, UA Ritson and Sons Ltd., Northumberland. A fall of stone had taken place on June 7th at an old air crossing on the main haulage road in the Bensham seam, and 70 tons of stone were filled away. A second fall occurred at the same point on June 8th, and was also cleared away, and on the evening of that day the master shifter and a gang of men went to the place to make it secure. The fall was 24 feet long and had left a space 15 feet wide and 14 feet high. Two old steel rails, weighing 70 lbs. per yard, one 20 feet and the other 24 feet long, were placed on either side of the road resting on props, 5 inches diameter and 6 feet long and a lofting of balks 10 feet long and 10 inches by 5 inches sectional area, was placed on these rails. A stretcher, in case of side pressure, had been placed between the rails at one end, and deceased was on the lofting, measuring for a stretcher at the other end, when about 1 am. on June 9th, a stone 5 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet, relieved by slips, fell from the side above him knocking out girder and causing the collapse of the whole structure. Deceased was fastened but not killed and was heard to speak; the master shifter and the other men at once tried to release him, when a second fall took place, somewhat seriously injuring three of them, including the master shifter, and killing deceased. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘We think it a pure accident, judging from the place, as we saw every precaution had been taken for safety.’

KNOWLING George - 1907 - 12/07/1907 – Age 26 - Tor, Granite Quarry Crane driver, Duke and Co. Ltd., Devon. A steam crane, which he was driving, turned over when lifting a block of granite about 4 to 6 tons in weight (working load being up to 10 tons), in consequence of the wooden cill or anchor to which a stay was fastened having become decayed, and the bolt connecting them drawing through it. Deceased was pinned by the crane in a manner which prevented his release for some 20 minutes, in which period he received burns which resulted in death when released. The cill, which was loaded with granite blocks, had not been examined for an unknown period, the present Manager having omitted to have it done when the crane was under repair about 14 or 15 months ago when he took charge.

KNOWLSON John - 1903 - 09/11/1903 – Age 15 - Langley Park Driver, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. No one saw the accident occur but it is supposed his pony fell and threw him off the tub on which he was riding and fractured his skull.

KNOX John - 1909 - 03/06/1909 – Age 39 - South Duffryn No.2 Hitcher, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was struck in the groin by the fan lever as decks were being changed at the pit bottom. The actual mode of occurrence of this accident is obscure. He died from his injuries in three days.

KNOX William - 1908 - 20/10/1908 – Age 34 - Cultrigg Miner, Barr and Thornton, Linlithgow. Deceased was working between two faults when the side came away suddenly, carrying two sets of timber and burying him beneath the fall.

KYLE Hugh - 1904 - 29/02/1904 – Age 45 - Quarter No.8 Engineman, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Caught in some unknown manner by the haulage engine when putting tar on the rope.

KYLE James - 1908 - 17/12/1908 – Age 14 - Littletown Token lad, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He had been leaning over the back end of a tub, taking the tokens off as it was going up the creeper, and had slipped and fallen on to his face. The succeeding horn of the creeper had then caught him between the legs and inflicted terrible injuries from which he died.

KYME Joseph - 1902 - 24/06/1902 – Age 32 - Eston ironstone Miner, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He and his mate had taken a prop from under a piece of stone and barred some side stone down which was supporting it, when examining the stone it fell upon and killed him.

KYME Samuel - 1908 - 08/04/1908 – Age 62 - Skelton Park ironstone Deputy, Bell Bros. Ltd., North Yorkshire. When setting up a baulk, a huge piece of stone, weighing about 7 tons, fell away from a visible but not well defined back. The place was near the goaf and no doubt there was great weight on the pillars which caused the stone to fall.

KYNASTON John T. - 1902 - 14/04/1902 – Age 15 - Brynkinalt Pony driver, WY Craig and Sons, Denbigh. Inquiry made. The pony was pulling some tubs up a slant brow and, as the deceased was passing the pony it kicked him in the abdomen. He succumbed to the injuries the following day.