LEWIS Henry - 1901 - 12/07/1901 – Age 20 - Treman Assistant rider, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by an empty journey as he was walking down an engine plane. He said he slipped and fell in front of the journey and had no time to get up before it was on him.

LEWIS Jacob – 1901 – 24/05/1901 – Universal Waller, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway Cd 947. 81 killed.

LEWIS James – 1900 – 22/03/1900 – Age 50 – South Duffryn No.1 Haulier, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face edge of rippings coal, 24 feet x 2 feet x 9 inches thick. A tram in passing knocked out a prop. Nine feet seam.

LEWIS James – 1909 – 29/03/1909 – Age 28 – Beynhenllys Collier, Beynhenllys Colliery Co., Brecon. Fall of side on road while clearing a way debris from rippings which had been shot down on his roadway, a large stone fell out from above a corner cog, and badly smashed his left leg below the ankle. He is said to have bled very freely. He died at the Swansea Hospital on the 3rd of April. Middle Vein. Safety lamps.

LEWIS Jaspar – 1909 – 15/01/1909 – Age 23 – Shirebrook Loader, Shirebrook Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. He was using a ringer to get coal down from the face and fell forward on to the coal. He worked until the end of day shift. Septicaemia developed in a small wound on the third finger on the right hand causing deaths on 1st February.

LEWIS Jenkin – 1909 – 14/12/1909 – Age 30 – Cynon Banksman, Cynon Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Knocked down over a quay wall by a travelling crane. He died on the 16th December from internal injuries which he had received.

LEWIS John – 1900 – 10/06/1900 – Age 56 – Clynmil Drift Labourer, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. He went in to attend to a pump and was not again seen until his body was found by the fireman who was making his inspection at 11.25 p.m. about 160 yards further in than the pump. No one knew why he had gone beyond his working place. Naked lights used. Four feet seam.

LEWIS John – 1902 – 24/01/1902 – Age 25 – Universal Haulier, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed by a loaded tram. He had uncoupled the horse on a road dipping 1 in 9 to turn round to the tram into a stall. When he did so the tram, which had three wheels spragged, began to run down hill. He tried to stop it but failed and was run down. Died in three days.

LEWIS John – 1903 – 12/03/1903 – Age 56 – Fochriw No.1 Assistant repairer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff 5 feet 9 inches by 12 inches thick fell as deceased was approaching the face to ask if the collier required more timbers to build a cog with. Two props crushed out. Six feet seam.

LEWIS John – 1903 – 16/01/1903 – Age 31 – Castle Collier, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face of coal, 3 feet by 2.75 feet by 19 inches thick, fell from between three slants and between a prop and the face. Nine feet seam.

LEWIS John - 1904 - 10/11/1904 – Age 23 - Gwendraeth Colliery, Gwendraeth Anthracite Collieries Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. Fall of side at face while holing a piece of coal, 12 feet x 4 feet x 4 feet 9 inches in which a shot had been fired on the previous day fell suddenly pinning deceased against a prop. Carway-fawr seam.

LEWIS John - 1904 - 14/04/1904 – Age 38 - Llwydcoed Collier, Llwydcoed Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. At face rock, 7 feet by 5 feet by 8 inches thick, fell on deceased as he was cutting coal. One prop was said to have been crushed out. No.1 Yard seam.

LEWIS John - 1904 - 18/09/1904 – Age 35 - Ynishir Smith, Ynishir Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased while changing guide-ropes at the colliery received a cut on his finger from a projecting wire. After a fortnight of idleness at home he went to Cardiganshire, where he died on October 19th from blood poisoning.

LEWIS John - 1906 - 08/02/1906 – Age 29 - Stoke Gifford Clay Quarry Labourer, Stoke Gifford Brick and Tile Co. Ltd., Gloucester. Working on a wide ledge mid at a face, about 8 feet in depth, 3 or 4 tons of clay and stone fell and buried him. It was evidently caused by undercutting the ground which had been previously loosened by blasting.

LEWIS John - 1906 - 20/03/1906 – Age 49 - Penlan Fireman, Penlan Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While riding up a steep slant on the rope, in front of a journey of empty trams, he was jerked off, run over, and killed.

LEWIS John - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 41 - Dowlais Cardiff Overman, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, when riding on the shackles of an ingoing empty journey, fell off and got under the trams. The haulage road was of ample dimensions and he had permission to ride.

LEWIS John - 1909 - 17/02/1909 – Age 50 - Braichycymmer Collier, Ffaldau Collieries Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road; while taking a rest, preparatory to helping another collier to pull a loaded tram out of the latter's working place, a small stone fell from the roof upon his head causing internal injuries from which he died almost immediately, Six Feet Seam. Safety lamps.

LEWIS Joseph - 1907 - 02/11/1907 – Age 22 - Caeglas Collier, Caeglas Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. A shot-hole, 3 feet 9 inches, was being bored through a pillar of coal and charged from both sides with two and a half cartridges of Saxonite. The fuse was lighted on one side, and the charge exploded before the man on the other side of the pillar had left the hole. This was a reckless proceeding on the part of the miners concerned and the result so far as the blowing out of the shot just what might have been expected.

LEWIS Josiah - 1909 - 10/06/1909 – Age 43 - Lewis Rhondda Quarry Loco. Driver, Lewis Rhondda Colliery Co., Glamorgan. While descending a gradient of 1 in 16 with four waggons loaded with stones, he got frightened and thought the engine was on a wild run. He and the fireman jumped off and allowed the train to proceed. The engineman was found very badly injured; but the fireman escaped injury. The train was found 200 yards away on a level siding, the brakes had held the train thoroughly. The engine is fitted with a vacuum and a hand brake. He died.

LEWIS Lewis - 1900 - 31/12/1900 – Age 20 - Wernplemys Labourer, Wernplemys Colliery Co., Brecon. Fall of roof on road cliff 3.5 feet x 2 feet x 15 inches thick, fell while he was clearing a small fall. Four feet seam.

LEWIS Lewis - 1902 - 12/11/1902 – Age 70 - Fronfoel, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Jenkin Jones, Cardigan. Sandstone, about 16 feet by 13 feet by 6 feet thick fell on them. They had fired a shot in the face of the quarry to dislodge the stone which overhung considerably but with no result. Instead of boring another hole they worked at the lower bed and while so doing the whole mass fell. They were inexperienced and the owner knew nothing of quarry work. He has not worked the quarry since. 2 killed.

LEWIS Lewis - 1906 - 05/03/1906 – Age 55 - Ratgoed Slate, Slate getter, Ratgoed and Cymerau Slate Quarries Co., Merioneth. Killed by a block of slate which fell from a height of eight feet.

LEWIS Moses - 1907 - 30/03/1907 – Age 27 - Maindy Level Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, who was taking a train of coal down a heading dipping 2.5 inches per yard, was found dead under the tram. From the marks on the road, and the position of his lamp, which was found alight, it seemed clear that the tram had got off the rails and that in lifting it on again, with the aid of a pull by the horse, he had fallen and was run over.

LEWIS Nathaniel - 1907 - 10/12/1907 – Age 29 - South Duffryn No.1 Collier, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, cliff, 5 feet 10 inches by 2.5 feet by 15 inches thick, fell and dislocated deceased’s neck. It was quite unsupported. Four-feet seam.

LEWIS Oliver - 1907 - 15/06/1907 – Age 26 - Llwynypia No.6 Engine cleaner, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was the regular cleaner employed in the engine house. After the pit had been idle for about 10 minutes, waiting for coal, deceased got inside the substantial iron fence and went to the left hand crank-pit. Out of the sight of the engine driver, either for the purpose of screwing down a grease pot or picking something out of the crank pit. While he was in there a signal to wind came to the engineman, who did not know where the cleaner was. He started to wind and the crank in its first revolution struck deceased on the head and caused injuries from which he died in a few minutes. The electric bell on which the signals are made is right in front of the driver and can usually be heard in any part of the engine house.

LEWIS Rees - 1905 - 10/03/1905 – Age 52 - Cambrian No.1 Bratticeman, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was the subject of a Special Report by FA Gray. 33 killed.

LEWIS Rees - 1907 - 19/04/1907 – Age 52 - Onllwyn Collier, Sir Griffith Thomas, Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face. While cutting coal at the face of a recently opened stall, a stone from a shale roof averaging 7 feet by 3 feet 6 inches and tapering in thickness from 1 foot 3 inches to nothing, fell upon him, and killed him. One prop was said to have been discharged. Brass Vein. Naked lights.

LEWIS Robert - 1903 - 03/09/1903 – Age 50 - Timsberry Collier, Samborne Smith and Co., Somerset. A stone fell from a greasy slant running across the face when deceased was in the act of setting a post under it, the rest of the stall was well timbered.

LEWIS Samuel - 1900 - 01/03/1900 – Age 22 - Penlan Collier, Penlan Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Burned by the explosion of some cartridges of powder ignited by a blowing out shot. Died 13th March.

LEWIS Silas - 1900 - 14/06/1900 – Age 20 - Lower Duffryn Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face coal, 6 feet x 4 feet x 18 inches thick, which was overhanging slightly but was not spragged. Seven feet seam.

LEWIS Thomas - 1904 - 19/05/1904 – Age 49 - Caerau Repairer, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road while drawing out a piece of timber after using a prop-drawer or dog and chain a fall occurred and he was crushed. Main deep 6 feet seam.

LEWIS Thomaas H. - 1907 - 23/03/1907 – Age 42 - Fforchwen Oiler, Cwmaman Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, when probably standing on one of the rails of the fencing of the screening machinery, was struck on the head by the metallic fastener of a rapidly moving belt. Deceased is said to have been given instructions that no oiling was to he done while the machinery was in motion. There was no witness of the accident and deceased never regained consciousness up to the time of his death on March 25th.

LEWIS Thomas (injured) - 1909 - 27/09/09 - Ely Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. Twenty eight men were descending. The reversing gear of the winding engine failed to act. The descending cage sped to the bottom and the ascending cage went upwards into the sheaves (which it broke) and then fell back down the pit onto the full cage. Five men in the upper deck were killed instantaneously. Those in the lower cage escaped with horrific injuries. Two died later in hospital. 7 killed 14 injured.

LEWIS Thomas - 1900 - 10/02/1900 – Age 50 - Onllwyn Assistant Repairer, Griffith Thomas, Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, struck on the head by a piece of cliff-quar 3.5 feet x 2 feet x 6 inches thick, while making room for double timbers at a place where a fall had occurred. Brass seam.

LEWIS Thomas - 1901 - 12/01/1901 – Age 17 - Fochriw No.2 Labourer, Guest Keen and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. As 12 full trams were being hauled up a drift, rising 1 in 12, the third tram parted from the fourth through improper shackling and nine trams ran back on to the deceased who were following much too closely. Three horses also killed. 2 killed.

LEWIS Thomas - 1901 - 26/01/1901 – Age 24 - Penrikyber Brakesman, Penrikyber Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed between locomotive and waggons while going between them to couple instead of using the coupling hook provided.

LEWIS Thomas - 1904 - 06/09/1904 – Age 57 - Warmsworth Cliffs, Limestone Quarry Crane Driver, Lockwood and Co., Yorkshire. He was pulling a sheet off a waggon and it is supposed he overbalanced himself and fell from the platform to the tramway, 9 feet below, and was fatally injured.

LEWIS Thomas - 1904 - 26/08/1904 – Age 46 - Corrwg Rhondda Collier, Corrwg Rhondda Coal Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on face, while about to fix a prop the clift roof gave way upon him. No.2 Rhondda seam.

LEWIS Thomas - 1905 - 09/05/1905 – Age 34 - Blaina Griffin No.3 Collier, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When shovelling coal a bump occurred, bursting off the face a piece of coal over a sprag, which crushed him against the gob, causing fatal injuries. Died 26th August.

LEWIS Thomas - 1906 - 27/04/1906 – Age 46 - Blaenavon Big Collier, Blaenavon Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He, with two men and four boys, was walking in to his work along the main and tail rope haulage plane, and met the full journey on its way out to the pit. One of the men behind him shouted that they had better get into a manhole, but deceased and his two boys, one in front and the other following, took no notice of the warning until the journey came suddenly upon them, when they attempted to do so. The boys got in all right, but deceased was caught by the journey and dragged about 20 yards, to where he was found under the ninth tram. He died on reaching the surface.

LEWIS Thomas - 1907 - 13/04/1907 – Age 54 - Park Collier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was travelling outbye at the end of his shift and while stepping over a chain, holding the rope end on one side at the top of a self-acting incline, his foot caught against the chain and he fell. He received a slight wound on the knee; blood poisoning supervened, and he died in a week.

LEWIS Thomas - 1907 - 16/01/1907 – Age 55 - Letty Shenkin Hitcher, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. After the day men had been raised, at 4.15 p.m., a temporary stage was erected in front of the winding engine-house by some masons, who were reaching an opening in the front wall. The engine remained idle until 6.15 p.m., when deceased and another man were being raised. In the erection of the stage, the travel of the winding ropes had not been taken into consideration, and consequently the incoming rope fouled the staging, slipped out of its groove and slid down the cone to the crank-shaft, dropping the cage 52 yards in the shaft. Deceased received such injuries that he died in two days.

LEWIS Thomas - 1908 - 03/05/1908 – Age 31 - Aberaman Haulier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased were sent to pull down a low bridge of cliff on an engine plane in Seven feet seam. The bridge of ground, 11 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 17 inches thick, is said to have shown no signs of weakness, but owing to gradual squeeze, the height under it (5 feet 3 inches) was less than the average height of the plane. On the upper side of the bridge the ground had been ripped up to a bed of rock. There was no surviving witness of the accident, but an inspection of the place made it plain that as they loosened the bed of cliff, they liberated a mass of the rock bed above from a concealed slant running along one side of the road. The place was untimbered. The fall of rock was 16 feet by 7 feel by 18 to 30 inches thick, in addition to the bridge which they intended to rip. 3 killed.

LEWIS Thomas John - 1902 - 06/01/1902 – Age 26 - Waun Llwyd Haulier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. His journey caught a stick of timber lying at the side of road causing it to strike and fracture his leg. He died on the 6th February.

LEWIS Thomas Morgan - 1902 - 04/12/1902 – Age 15 - Britannic Engine boy, Dinas Main Coal Co., Glamorgan. Caught by a rope, the coils of which he was adjusting on a capstan drum while in motion and was fatally crushed.

LEWIS William - 1900 - 08/02/1900 – Age 25 - Waun Llwyd Haulier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was standing close by the jenny wheel of a selfacting incline waiting for his journey to land. Another journey came down from the incline above unnoticed by him and crushed him against the wheel. By some means his arm became entangled between the rope and the revolving jenny wheel and was wrenched off just above the elbow from which death resulted.

LEWIS William - 1900 - 30/01/1900 – Age 57 - Merthyr Vale No.2 Repairer, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 10 feet x 8 feet x 6 feet thick, while clearing a fall at the mouth of the stall road. Nine feet seam.

LEWIS William - 1905 - 07/06/1905 – Age 51 - Llwynypia No.6 Collier, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. At face, coal 7 feet by 4 feet by 6 inches thick, fell off a vertical break as deceased was stooping to pick something up. Two sprags were crushed out. There had been no work in the stall during the four days preceding the accident. This would cause the coal to be fractured, and so be liable to break at the sprags. Six feet seam.

LEWIS William - 1905 - 10/03/1905 – Age 37 - Cambrian No.1 Bratticeman, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was the subject of a Special Report by FA Gray. 33 killed.

LEWIS William - 1905 - 12/01/1905 – Age 49 - Phoenix Glyncorrwg Collier, Phoenix Merthyr Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face while holing, part of a bell stone fell upon him. Props 6 feet apart but none under the portion of roof which fell  about 5 feet x 3 feet. Died in Swansea Hospital 19th Jan.

LEWIS William - 1905 - 16/02/1905 – Age 58 - Broadoak Labourer, Samuel Thomas, Glamorgan. While attempting to cross the sidings, on his way to the smithy, he was struck by moving waggons.

LEWIS William - 1906 - 11/03/1906 – Age 28 - Lady Lewis Hitcher, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and an overman were on the Four-feet seam landing, for the purpose of seeing that the water barrel passed safely upwards through the opening in the stage. They had been there some time when the overman, who was on one side of the pit, noticing the rope swinging, called out to deceased to watch the knocker, as the barrel was losing water. Directly he spoke deceased jumped forward and fell down the pit. He must have been asleep, was startled, and moved before he was fully awake. The shaft is 20 feet in diameter and the opening in the stage was 6 feet square. The landing was well lighted by electricity.

LEWIS William - 1906 - 29/09/1906 – Age 43 - Western Cogman, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While walking along an engine-plane, he was overtaken and run over by a journey of trams.

LEWIS William - 1909 - 09/10/1909 – Age 26 - Penrikyber No.1 Rider, Penrikyber Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Slipped off the chain and fell in front of a journey of full trams which was being drawn up a road of ample dimensions.

LEWIS William - 1909 - 23/04/1909 – Age 41 - Fforchwen Collier, Cwmaman Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road. Deceased was turning a new stall off the side of a heading and was working on the coal when a sudden squeeze came on. He sprang into the heading for safety, when the cliff roof, for a length of 26 feet 6 inches by 11 feet by 6 feet thick, crushed out six pairs of new timber and buried him. Two long slants parallel to the heading were visible after the fall. Had he stopped in the face he would have been safe. No.2 Yard seam.

LEWIS William H. - 1905 - 24/03/1905 – Age 21 - Navigation Haulier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Owing to the breaking of a link in the short chain attached to a main haulage rope, as the journey was coming round a curve, the rope sprang to the other side of the road and struck deceased who was standing in what would otherwise have been a place of safety. The breakage was due to an internal flaw.

LEWIS William Idris - 1903 - 23/07/1903 – Age 21 - Rheola Collier, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face, he died 21st August in Swansea Hospital from fractured dislocation of the spine caused by the fall of the roof (7 feet x 3 feet x from 5 to 0.5 inches thick) while holing. Roof not propped sufficiently near to the face. No 2 Rhondda seam.

LEWIS William J. - 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.

LEWORTHY Percy - 1905 - 24/01/1905 – Age 23 - McLaren Collier, Tredgar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof from slips at the face which he liberated by getting down an overhanging clod from under it.

LEWTHWAITE J.T.H. - 1900 - 24/12/1900 – Age 25 - Quarry Bank, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, John Bolton, Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. A crane was being taken down with the object of erecting it in another quarry when the upright 27 feet by 10 inches square suddenly fell over and struck deceased.

LEY George Henry - 1907 - 04/12/1907 – Age 19 - Adare Collier, Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, rock, 12 feet by 5 feet by 2 feet thick, crushed out two props and fell on deceased. Along one side of the stone there was an upthrow fault of 13 inches, seeing which extra care ought to have been taken by propping closely. Deceased was working with an experienced collier. No.2 Rhondda seam.

LEYLAND David - 1907 - 26/04/1907 – Age 44 - Bold No.2 Collier, Collins Green Colliery Co., St Helens, Lancashire. When breaking a lump of coal he appears to have caught his knee with the pick; blood poisoning afterwards set in, and he expired May 10th, 1907.

LEYLAND James - 1908 - 09/04/1908 – Age 14 - Moss No.4 Lasher on, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. A 4 inch steel shaft, on which the far end haulage pulley worked, broke at a flaw which had not been previously detected, which liberated the haulage rope, and which fatally injured deceased.

LEYSHON John - 1903 - 15/01/1903 – Age 18 - Raglan Collier, Headleys Collieries Co., Glamorgan. Fall at face rock, 13 feet wide of unknown thickness and length, fell on deceased as they were holing under the seam. Certain timbers were crushed out but what they were is unknown as it would have meant blasting the rock away to get at them. No.3 Rhondda Seam. 2 killed.

LEYSHON W. Alexander - 1906 - 18/10/1906 -  Age 23 - Ynishir House Haulier, Ynishir Steam Coal Co., Glamorgan. Deceased was bringing one tram of coal down a heading with a horse. Near the bottom of the heading he was found under the tram, from which the horse had become detached. He had probably been riding on the gun.

LEYSHON William - 1906 - 28/02/1906 – Age 29 - Morfa Hitcher, Vivian and Sons, Glamorgan. While riding on a loaded train attached to a rope, up a steep engine plane, the train caught against the side and he was thrown back on the tram and killed.

LIDDELL David - 1907 - 28/12/1907 – Age 19 - Gartshore No. 11 Bogieman, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Dumbarton. When walking down the haulage road, in front of a race of empty hutches, he was run over by one of the hutches which got uncoupled.

LIDDELL George - 1907 - 09/02/1907 – Age 39 - Prudhoe Hewer, Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was hewing in a bard, 7 yards wide in the Brockwell seam in the North Dip Flat. The seam is 2 feet 7 inches thick and is overlaid by 1 foot of tough black shale, a kind of inferior cannel coal, above which is 6 feet of blue metal and then sandstone. In the centre of the bord about 1 foot of sagre is taken up to make height for the tub. The sagre is stowed on either side. The roof is supported by props and head trees with an occasional plank across the train road. Deceased’s bord was 17 yards past the last headway which was holed narrow. The fore shift deputy had made the usual examinations during the fore shift and deceased was visited by the back shift deputy about an hour before the accident and the potter had been in several times. The putter was in the herd near the headways when he heard the roof working and he ran out-bye and also shouted to deceased. The putter escaped but deceased, who had run out was caught and covered up his body not being recovered until 12 hours later. The fall commenced 17 yards from the face and extended 17.5 yards out-bye and right across the bord, the black stone was broken down and the blue metal fell up to the post. Several jacks were observed in the blue metal running nearly in the same direction as the coarse of the bord. Had deceased remained at the face he would have been quite safe. The Loud Inspectors reported ‘in our judgement the roof was not properly supported by planks or other means of safety’ and the jury while returning a verdict of accidental death recommended the use of planks across the tramway. There was no evidence that before the fall any danger was apprehended and the record of the collieries owned by the Mickley Coal Co. as regards deaths by falls of roof or side is particularly good the five years 1902-6 showing a death rate of 0.29 per 1000 as compared with a death rate on 0.76 for the whole country over the same period.

LIDDIARD Thomas E. - 1907 - 01/08/1907 – Age 37 - Silverwood Collier, Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He and another man were working in a place, 9 feet 3 inches wide, which was being driven in the solid coal for the purpose of allowing a bord place being carried along the longwall face out of it when a piece of roof stone suddenly burst out and caught him on his back and fractured his spine. The distance at which roof timbers were to be set, under the Timbering Special Rules, had been exceeded owing to the bottom coal not having been taken up as the face advanced. It is possible if the rules had been complied with that he might have been able to get clear before the stone fell.

LIDDLE Christopher - 1906 - 11/06/1906 – Age 61 - Hamsterley Hewer, Hamsterley Colliery Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Death from heart failure when walking across the pit yard after finishing his shift.

LIDDLE George - 1903 - 02/01/1903 – Age 67 - South Tyne Brickmaker, Executers of J Hudspith, Northumberland. Deceased was employed at brickworks owned by the Colliery Co. and was on his way along a tramway to work having overslept himself. He got on to a set of loaded tubs, being drawn by a rope from the mine's mouth to the screens. The rope is knocked off before the tubs arrive at the stopping place but on this occasion the knock-off failed to act and the tubs went further than usual and deceased was caught at the knock-off.

LIDDLE James - 1902 - 16/05/1902 – Age 43 - Brandon Deputy, Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. He was drawing timber in a headways lift when a fall of stone caught and killed him.

LIDDLE James - 1903 - 02/12/1903 – Age 15 - Newbattle Pithead runner, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased attempted to take an empty tub off the cage at the laigh scaffold before it had rested on the shuts, the result was that one end of the tub was on the cage and the other end on the ground. The engine keeper got the order to lower but instead he raised the cage and the tub fell into the shaft and he went with it, falling a distance of 60 fathoms.

LIDDLE Richard Southern - 1902 - 17/01/1902 – Age 37 - Wingate Grange Stoneman, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery, Co.Durham. Deceased and another man were taking down stone to make height and build packs in a longwall face. They had drawn some timber and when they did so a piece of stone fell away at a slip without warning and killed him.

LIDDLE William - 1904 - 22/11/1904 – Age 33 - Black Boy Master shifter, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Run over by tubs. He had been assisting the onsetter, while he waited to ride, when the set came in, the front tub got off the way and jammed him against the side.

LIGHT W. - 1900 - 24/02/1900 – Age 49 - Otterbourne Chalk Quarry Labourer, Corporation of Southampton, Hampshire. Fall of chalk from a joint, owing to its having been undermined and also the wet weather then prevailing.

LIGHTBURN Atherley Graham - 1907 - 01/10/1907 – Age 20 - East Pontop Onsetter, East Pontop Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The shaft is traversed by two cages, running in wire rope guides to the Hutton seam at 60 fathoms. The cages also call for coal at the Brass Hill and Shield Row seams, at the latter of which, lying 17 fathoms from the surface the accident happened. The shaft, at the Shield Row seam, is fenced on each side by horizontal bars of 2 inch iron, placed 3 feet 5 inches from the flat sheets, and 16 inches above these bars on the side where the accident happened is the termination of wooden doors or flaps hanging down from hinges above. The bars on the side where the accident happened, where the loaded tubs are put on the cage, have a little play so as to give if caught by coal projecting above the tops of the tubs. The shaft at the Shield Row seam was lighted by gas lights at each side. There were no tubs to send up and deceased on the full side and another onsetter on the empty side had been getting their bait. Deceased appears to have put his head beyond the bar into the shaft while a cage was coming up front the Hutton seam and was caught by it and his skull fractured. The other onsetter heard the cage ascend and heard deceased fall and going round found him lying unconscious on the flat sheets with his feet projecting into the shaft. He never recovered consciousness and died the same day. The last remark deceased had made was that he wished he had a pipe and it was surmised that he had put his head into the shaft to call to the banksman to lend him one and he had been known to do this before. The Local Inspectors reported ‘So far as the doors and fencing is concerned we found all in order but we are unable to say what caused the wound to his head owing to there being no one present at the time.'

LIGHTBURN Matthew William - 1900 - 24/05/1900 – Age 23 - East Pontop Deputy, East Pontop Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased and a hewer were drawing timber out of a broken working when a fall occurred and caught him.

LIGHTFOOT William - 1904 - 07/11/1904 – Age 63 - Gordon House Hewer, North Bitchburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was driving a jud when a piece of coal fell and injured his head. Died 13th November.

LILEY Albert - 1907 - 16/02/1907 – Age 19 - Waunhir Collier, Trimsharan Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. The accident was caused by the snapping of a 4 inches x ¾ inch mild steel hitching plate or draw bar across a rivet-hole, at the tail end of the first tram in a train of nine loaded ones as the journey was getting over a brow having an inclination of 20 degrees, at the mouth of the main haulage slant. These men with many others were walking up the slant at the end of the shift, when they were run over and killed. 6 killed. Five others were injured. No barhook used.

LILLEY Robert - 1907 - 24/12/1907 – Age 35 - Lindsay Pumpman, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. He appeared to have knocked his head, in getting into the cage in the shaft, erysipelas afterwards set in causing his death.

LILLEY Thomas - 1900 - 05/08/1900 – Age 30 - Whitburn Shifter, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inquest attended. He was assisting a pumpman to lay a range of pipes and in order to get a straight lead he knocked out a prop but omitted to set another in its place. Shortly afterwards, when passing the spot where the prop had been removed, a large stone fell.

LILLICO Robert - 1903 - 10/03/1903 – Age 47 - Marsden, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died 12th March. Deceased and another quarryman were engaged on a ledge, in a quarry in the Magnesian Limestone, working off clay from a fissure and filling it into wagons when a mass of the clay, weighing about a ton, relieved by an unobserved crack fell from a few feet above upon him.

LILLY John Cleator - 1909 - 05/01/1909 – Age 32 - Whitehaven Hewer, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Fall of roof stone at face of pointing.

LILLYCROP Thomas - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 25 - National No.2 Haulier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed.

LILYEROP Thomas - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 25 - National No.2 Haulier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones. 18 School St., Wattstown, married with one child.

LIMB M. - 1905 - 01/08/1905 – Age 68 - Middleton Main Deputy, Middleton Estate and Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was going his round of inspection and had nearly reached the top of a gate when a large piece of stone fell from the roof between two caunches of ripping and killed him. The fall disclosed some fine weight breaks running across the gate in addition to a main break which could be seen running up the gate. The roof was a damp one and the lower seams were worked.

LIMB S. - 1903 - 12/10/1903 – Age 50 - Sunny Bank, Sandstone Quarry Delver, Broadhead and Craven, Yorkshire. He was using a crowbar to move a stone, close to the edge of the quarry, when the stone slipped forward and jerked the crowbar, and Lumb losing his balance fell a distance of 24 feet and was killed.

LIMB Tom Nelson - 1907 - 13/12/1907 – Age 42 - Holmewood No.3 Manager, Hardwick Colliery Co., Derbyshire. An overwind occurred at the shaft. Deceased was walking along the gangway, from the pit hank to the surface level, when he was struck by a piece of broken D-link which fell from the head-gear. He died on 19th December.

LIMB William Edward - 1907 - 26/03/1907 – Age 45 - Shirebrook Stallman, Shirebrook Colliery Co., Derbyshire. The descending cage got fast in one of the conductor rods, causing the cage to tilt up and the three men fell out and down the shaft. Two others were seriously injured. 3 killed.

LIMBERT Benjamin - 1909 - 15/01/1909 – Age 58 - Allerton Bywater Shotfirer, New Silkstone and Haigh Moor Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He fired a shot with an electric battery in the ripping of a roadway. He stood about 40 yards away, partly protected by the timbering of the road. A piece of stone, blown from the shot, struck him on the thigh and injured him so seriously that he died on the 21st inst. The explosive was Saxonite.

LINACRE Garnet - 1904 - 10/10/1904 – Age 14 - Monk Bretton Scale Picker, Monk Bretton Colliery Co., Yorkshire. No one saw the accident occur but it appears probable that he was lifting coal into a waggon when it was thought that he fell and his head came into contact with the waggon, causing fatal injuries.

LIND Charles - 1905 - 21/06/1905 – Age 21 - Huntershill, Sandstone Labourer, Thomas Gibb and Sons Ltd., Lanarkshire. He fell over the face of a bench of stone from a height of thirty feet.

LIND John - 1902 - 16/09/1902 – Age 60 - Wilsontown Shaftsman, William Dixon Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was assisting to repair a joint in the delivery pipes of the shaft pumps. Owing, it appeared, to the breaking of a piece of timber on which he was standing he fell a distance of 12 fathoms and was killed instantly.

LINDLEY Joseph - 1904 - 28/03/1904 – Age 28 - Wet Earth Collier, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst kneeling near the face resting, a large stone fell on his back, 8 feet x 2 feet 6 inches wide, from between a slip and a break parallel thereto. It was alleged that cannel stuck to the roof, hide the slip and break, but both would have shown in the face and two bars ought to have been set. (Good roof)

LINDOE Samuel - 1907 - 07/06/1907 – Age 28 - Wearmouth Stoneman, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased and another stoneman were repairing an old road which had been driven 50 years ago, in the Hutton seam and is now reached from the south west engine plane in the Maudlin seam of the B pit. The road had been a return airway and was to be made a haulage road, it was 7 feet wide and 10 feet high at the point where the accident happened, the height being made up of the coal seam and then grey and blue metal up to post Chocks and stone packing were built up on the left side and the fall took place from the right side of the place opposite a chock. The fall consisted of a piece of hard metal stone and ironstone girdle and was 3 feet long, 14 inches deep and 11 inches thick, some softer stone from below also fell. It was relieved by a good upper parting, a breaker behind and fossiliferous parting below. Deceased and his mate had followed two other stonemen and they were discussing their work when the stone fell suddenly, striking deceased on the head and burying his mates ankle. The place had been examined by the overman during the previous shift. There appears to have been some suspicion as to the stone as efforts had been made to get it down the day before, The local Inspectors reported ‘It is a pure accident.’

LINDSAY David - 1907 - 12/01/1907 – Age 19 - Philipstoun Oil Shale Miner, James Ross and Co., Linlithgow. Explosion of firedamp. 3 killed.

LINDSAY E. - 1900 - 24/11/1900 – Age 23 - Wharncliffe Woodmoor Labourer, Wharncliffe Woodmoor Coal Co., Yorkshire. Crushed between buffers of wagons he was moving.

LINDSAY George - 1903 - 25/03/1903 – Age 16 - Mossbeath Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased and some others were descending to a midworking, 33 fathoms above the pit bottom on the lower deck of a double-decked cage, while eight men were ascending on the opposite cage which was also double-decked. Owing to momentary forgetfulness the engineman ran the descending past the midlanding and then considered it safer to bring the ascending cage to the pit bank and let the men off before reversing. When the men left its upper deck the pitheadman signalled to have the lower deck brought up to the landing and simultaneously the bottomer recognising that the men on the cage at pit bottom were mid-working men and signalled the cage to be raised. Unfortunately at the same moment deceased attempted to jump off the cage bottom and was caught and crushed against the landing.

LINDSAY Gibson Reid - 1900 - 07/11/1900 – Age 24 - Hattonrigg No.4 Bricklayer, Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While ascending in the kettle, with other three men, the kettle swung against a beam and he fell out.

LINDSAY James - 1902 - 16/06/1902 – Age 56 - Cornsilloch No.3 Miner, Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

LINDSAY John - 1902 - 15/11/1902 – Age 28 - Oakley Miner, Oakley Collieries Ltd., Fife. Deceased had apparently been resting at his working face when the roof fell on him. The stone fell from lypes. The roof was well supported with props.

LINDSAY William - 1900 - 11/12/1900 – Age 30 - Dumbreck No.2 Drawer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. Fall of roof on road while taking a full hutch down it.

LINDSEY G. - 1901 - 22/07/1901 – Age 21 - Ackton Hall Driver, Ackton Hall Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Run over by full tubs. He was walking between tubs and horse.

LINDSLEY Harry - 1908 - 15/01/1908 – Age 31 - Barnsley Main Shunter, Barnsley Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Five empty wagons were being pushed up, by a locomotive, to the empty sidings. The duty of the deceased was to get into the first wagon, and when all was clear to give a signal to the locomotive driver to start. On this occasion be appears to have got on to the buffer of the first wagon and given the signal, and while the wagons were moving to have slipped off and been run over.

LINES John - 1905 - 24/07/1905 – Age 38 - Roddymoor Shifter, Pease and Partners, Co.Durham. Fall of roof, due to pony crossing and drawing timber.

LING H. - 1901 - 16/10/1901 – Age 18 - Methley Savile Wagon Lowerer, H Briggs Sons and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Found dead under screens. Probably killed by the waggons.

LINGARD James - 1908 - 15/02/1908 – Age 40 - Thornton, Sandstone Quarry Engineman, John Farrar and Sons Ltd., Yorkshire. He was standing on a platform pushing a driving belt off a pulley, when he over-balanced and fell a distance of 15 feet. He was so seriously injured that he died the same day.

LINGFORD Thomas - 1902 - 25/09/1902 – Age 65 - Westerton Wasteman, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While cleaning a fall of stone away, in a return gateway, a piece of stone fell from the roof and fatally crushed him against a pack wall.

LINGWOOD Thomas - 1909 - 14/01/1909 – Age 23 - Old Silkstone Collier, Old Silkstone Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was getting coal at the face, when the roof fell on to him and fractured his spine. The fall disclosed an unsuspected pot-hole.

LINN James - 1907 - 16/12/1907 – Age 14 - Haugh No.1 Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. Fall of roof in working place.

LINN James - 1909 - 02/10/1909 – Age 19 - St. Flannan’s No.1 Drawer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Dumbarton. Fall of roof in working place while filling a hutch.

LINN William - 1905 - 28/04/1905 – Age 23 - Earlseat Miner, Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. A newly opened longwall section had taken the first break and after the roof had settled deceased and another miner were repairing the roadway, for the purpose of restarting the face, when the roof overhead suddenly burst.

LINSDEN James - 1900 - 26/11/1900 – Age 19 - Caingryffe (whinstone quarry) Quarryman, Lanark County Council, Lanarkshire. While excavating some loose material from near the top of the quarry a fall of rock took place and killed him.

LINSLEY Henry - 1905 - 07/10/1905 – Age 37 - Murton Blacksmith, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Alleged to have overstrained himself at work. Coroner's jury found death was due to cancer and was not accelerated by any strain or injury.

LINTON Albert - 1908 - 14/01/1908 – Age 13 - Cwmneol Collier boy, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was walking out towards the shaft when he fell and hurt his knee. He continued to work for over a month, but at last had to give it up. He complained of pain in the knee and head. Abscesses formed in his leg and were opened from time to time, but he ultimately he died on May 25th, from pyaemia and suppurative periostatitis.

LINTON David - 1909 - 27/01/1909 – Age 56 - Michael Assistant Overman, Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased made a seat on the fourth tub of a loaded rake to have a ride up a dook haulage road, and the tub passed under a low part of the roadway, he was crushed against the roof.

LIPPETT James Nicol - 1903 - 05/06/1903 – Age 29 - Trimdon Grange Hewer, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by a fall of stone from the roof which he had previously unsuccessfully attempted to get down.

LIPPEY John - 1901 - 25/11/1901 – Age 55 - Thorncliffe Collier, Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 21st Dec. Finger crushed when lifting a tub.

LIPTROT Richard - 1905 - 22/12/1905 – Age 40 - Douglas Bank Collier, Rosebridge and Douglas Bank Collieries Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged getting coal between two faults when a large stone fell upon him from some slips in the roof capping some props which were set about four feet apart.

LIPTROTT Thomas - 1907 - 20/12/1907 – Age 54 - Rockingham Collier, Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died from blood poisoning, the result of a slight injury to his left knee on October 16th last, caused by his falling on a flat sheet.

LISSAMAN Joseph - 1902 - 01/02/1902 – Age 46 - Wyken Horse helper, Wyken Colliery Co., Warwickshire. Attempting to fill a bucket with water from a pipe, fixed in the shaft bottom, and while doing so he was caught and crushed by the descending empty cage. Died Aug. 2nd.

LISSAMORE Joseph - 1903 - 09/06/1903 – Age 26 - Mud Hall Driver, Allan Evererett and Sons, Worcestershire. Fall of roof (black bat) on a horse road while deceased and two others were riding out in an empty tub. The tub got off the rails and knocked a post out which caused the fall. One of the other men was injured.

LISTER David - 1906 - 30/08/1906 – Age 45 - Stour Odd Man, David Parsons and Sons, Staffordshire. Deceased and another were getting down some loose coal, which had broken over the timbers in a roadway in the Thick Coal, and which had been heating. A fall of coal came off the side and killed him instantly.

LISTER John - 1901 - 20/02/1901 – Age 26 - Woodhorn Stoneman, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. While the deceased and his mate were ridding stones in a gateway a stone fell away from slips. The place had been examined an hour before by the deputy who saw no indication of the slips.

LISTER John - 1905 - 29/03/1905 – Age 61 - Roddymoor Hewer, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of roof, a piece of shale 1 foot by 1 foot 2 inches by 2 inches fell from between two gears 1 foot 10 inches apart, causing a slight bruise on his left cheek and a small abrasions on his left hand. He suffered from chronic bronchitis and a weak heart. Death took place on 31st March, at 6.15 am. due to the inflammation of his lungs and heart failure. Corner’s jury, after hearing medical evidence, found that the former resulted from the accident.

LISTER Jonathan - 1906 - 05/01/1906 – Age 26 - East Hetton Shifter, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. When riding in the cage at the outer end, with several others, he fell head foremost into the shaft. There was no disturbance in the cage. He was subject to fits.

LISTER Robert - 1906 - 13/07/1906 – Age 42 - Trimdon Hewer, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He was working in a loose end place, when a very heavy fall of stone occurred, which could not have been foreseen.

LISTER William James - 1907 - 21/01/1907 – Age 54 - White’s Day Hole Deputy, Farnley Iron Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When assisting the surveyor and taking a measuring chain along the working face he trod on a piece of shale which tilted up and hit his shin, slightly bruising it. Died on February 7th from heart failure following blood poisoning caused by the injury.

LITCHFIELD Thomas - 1908 - 09/11/1908 – Age 24 - Glapwell Stallman, Sheepbridge Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was withdrawing a prop from the goaf when the prop gave way and a large stone fell and fatally injured him. He died 14th November.

LITTLE Albert - 1905 - 23/03/1905 – Age 26 - Hamstead Loader, Hamstead Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (coal) in an opening in the Thick coal when the coal had only been got out to a height of 6 feet. On the occurrence of a bump a large piece of roof coal fell from between two slips, knocked out two or three posts set under it.

LITTLE John - 1903 - 12/10/1903 – Age 54 - Moat, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Herbertsons Ltd., Cumberland. While engaged removing the overburden of the quarry, which consisted of stiff red clay 9 feet thick with a few stones in it, deceased had undercut a length of 6 yards to a depth of from 6 to 9 inches and was so engaged when suddenly a mass of clay, practically the whole height and width fell away and part of it caught him and broke his neck. The weather had been very wet.

LITTLE Robert - 1906 - 27/02/1906 – Age 27 - Aberbaiden Electrician, Baldwins Ltd., Glamorgan. Killed by the fall of an arched roof to a motor house, which collapsed owing to the struts which held the centre in position having being knocked out by him to admit the erection of a switch board. The arched roof was in course of construction at the time.

LITTLE Robert - 1908 - 10/12/1908 – Age 30 - Backworth Hewer, Owners of Backworth Colliery, Northumberland. Poisoned by carbon monoxide from fumes of rippite.

LITTLE Samuel - 1908 - 20/03/1908 – Age 71 - Lower Delph Miner, Harper and Moores Ltd., Worcester. Deceased was engaged in holing in the bottom portion of the Thick Coal, when a piece of batt, 2 feet by 1 foot 6 inches and about 6 inches thick, forming the roof above the Sawyer coal, fell upon his shoulder and side injuring his ribs. He walked home, and was more or less under medical treatment until October 4th when he died, the medical evidence being that death was due to Cancer, accelerated, if not produced, by the accident.

LITTLE William - 1905 – Age 65 - Pallaflat, Iron Ore Wagon Picker, Pallaflat Iron Ore Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Died July 15. A mixed train of nine wagons was in the empty road, which inclines towards the pit at 1 in 67. Deceased detached two and left 7 standing with two brakes down but did not place a chock, provided for the purpose, in front of them. He lowered by gravity the two wagons to the weighing table and went between them to uncouple so that they could be weighed separately; in the meantime the seven wagons he had left behind, moved away and collided with the second two wagons he had brought down and he was knocked down and three wagons passed over his leg. Coupling poles were not ordinarily used as it was stated there was a difficulty in using them with a mixed train and the space was confined. It was also stated that deceased should have brought the wagons down singly. He was taken to the Whitehaven Infirmary and was informed by the doctors that to save his life it would be necessary to amputate the leg below the knee but he refused to allow this to be done.