M’ALPINE Robert - 1900 - 22/08/1900 – Age 35 - Haughhead Bottomer, Haughhead Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He was alone at the pit bottom and after signalling away he in some unknown manner caught it and when the cage reached the surface his body was found lying dead.

M’CARTHY Patrick - 1904 - 12/11/1904 – Age 61 Ferndale No.2 Haulier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. A journey of seven laden coal trams was being lowered by a rope down a road dipping 2 inches per yard towards the shaft parting when the D-link of the shackle connecting the two front trams to the journey broke and they ran towards the shaft and crushed deceased against the side.

M’CONNELL Michael - 1903 - 18/07/1903 – Age 24 - Abergorky Labourer, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was moving two wagons a distance of 20 yards on a gradient of 1 in 29. He removed a scotch, lifted the brake of the first wagon and got it into position. The second wagon followed on and crushed deceased between the buffers. The brake of the second wagon is said to have be down.

M’LUSKIE Hugh - 1908 - 03/12/1908 – Age 50 - Bellfield No.3 Miner, William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal, which knocked out a sprag and a pro, the latter of which struck him and inflicted fatal injuries.

MACAULEY John Daniel - 1907 - 17/05/1907 – Age 16 - Victoria Hurrier, Heckmondwike Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased was on his way to the shaft at the end of his shift and had to travel up a drift, with a gradient of 1 in 4, for a distance of about 210 yards on which the haulage is by means of endless rope. Men are not allowed to travel this drift when the tubs are in motion, and they had been stopped by the official in charge on this occasion. When Macaulay, and two men, were about 50 yards from the bottom the rope moved and the official in charge signalled to the engineman to stop it. The jerk in stopping caused a hook on a lashing attached to three full tubs to break and the tubs ran amain. The deceased was standing a few feet below some runaway switches at the time and the runaway tubs getting off at them was caught and injured him so severely that he died on the 20th. The men stepped into the side of the road and were clear. One of them stated that he told the deceased to do the same, but he appeared to lose his presence of mind and not to move at all. There was a flaw in the hook which broke, which, although the hooks and chains are carefully examined before they are used, had not been detected.

MACDONALD William - 1909 - 07/09/1909 – Age 16 - Chequerbent Lasher on, Hulton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Alleged to have bruised his left knee when he knocked it against a tub. Medical testimony, after the post-mortem, death due to blood poisoning from the bruise. Only deceased's statement that it occurred in the mine, no corroboration. Died 15th.

MACDOUGALL Alfred E. - 1909 - 26/11/1909 – Age 20 - Deaf Hill Putter, Trimdon Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was following his pony outbye when a fall of roof occurred and killed him. It is probable that the pony knocked out the timber set to support the roof.

MACGREGOR Duncan - 1907 - 14/07/1907 – Age 21 - Bannockburn No.1 Repairer, Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. When he was working on a dook a drawer let go a full hutch, which ran over him.

MACHIN J.W. - 1909 - 05/10/1909 – Age 17 - Featherstone Main Pony driver, South Kirkby, Featherstone and Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was bringing a train of six full tubs with a horse, down a road having a slight gradient. He neglected to put in sufficient lockers and followed too closely behind another train of tubs. The result was that the horse was stopped by the first train and Machin, who was riding on the front of the train contrary to orders, was fatally crushed.

MACHIN John - 1903 - 08/09/1903 – Age 38 - Tinsley Park Joiner, Tinsley Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. A shaft was being fitted with guides and one of them was clumped 10 the winding rope and was being lowered in the shaft when it slipped from the clamp and fell upon Machin who was on the bottom scaffold, and killed him.

MACHIN John - 1909 - 19/03/1909 – Age 46 - Birchenwood No.18 Collier, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased had bored a shot-hole in the face of a drift in the Eight Feet Banbury Seam, where the coal is 8 feet thick and inclined at 33 degrees. He left the place for a few moments to get stemming ready for the fireman. On his return a large piece of coal fell from the face, a few feet above the shot-hole, being liberated by two slips crossing each other at right angles. Previous to boring the hole the deceased had pulled all loose coal off the face and considered it in safe condition.

MACINTOSH G.H. - 1906 - 15/04/1906 – Age 27 - Clock Face Chargeman, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased with three other men were taking down a wire rope to the pumps, in a sinking tub one end was attached to a stretching screw fixed in a steel girder 96 yards from the surface. After they had reached about 200 yards from the surface, and uncoiling the rope, they appeared to have unscrewed the stretching screw, and the rope fell, fatally injuring deceased. The safer method (and usual way) is to take the rope down in the tub, and then haul it up.

MACK Alexander - 1902 - 16/04/1902 – Age 42 - Northfield Sinker, Northfield Coal Co. Ltd., Haddington. Deceased descended the shaft for the purpose of starting a steam pump situated at a mid working. As he approached it a joint in the steam pipes a few yards below him was blown out. Finding himself enveloped in the escaping steam he endeavoured to climb up by the buntons but was overcome and fell a distance of 90 feet into an accumulation of water in the bottom. Death appeared to have been due to drowning.

MACK Peter - 1900 - 11/08/1900 – Age 30 - West Elliott Charge haulier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Riding on the shackle of a journey he appears to have knocked his head against the roof and to have fallen between the trams resulting in fatal injuries to his head and neck.

MACKAY John - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 22 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 8 Kettledrum Street, Stanley.

MACKAY John - 1905 - 10/05/1905 – Age 45 - Nethercoy No.1 Bricklayer, Carron Co., Dumbarton. While attempting to pass through the cage seat the cage came down upon him.

MACKENZIE Donald - 1904 - 05/01/1904 – Age 18 - International Collier, International Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, while cutting coal a wedge-shaped piece of roof, about 7.5 feet long and 2.5 feet broad, fell close to the face upon him killing him upon the spot. It was his first day as a collier with a stall given to himself and his mate to work themselves. Victoria seam.

MACKIE John - 1904 - 19/09/1904 – Age 27 - Begg Drawer, Walter Herd and Son Ltd., Fife. He was injured by a fall of roof and died from his injury on 15th Nov. 1905.

MACKINNON Matthew - 1901 - 27/01/1901 – Age 38 - Holytown No.8 Reddsman, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Without sanction the fireman allowed the deceased to inspect the workings instead of doing it himself and while doing so with a naked light he ignited firedamp.

MACLAY George - 1905 - 22/12/1905 – Age 27 - Bellfield No.4 Bogieman, William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. He fell from his bogie and was dragged along by the hutches, his bogie having collided with another coming in the opposite direction and which had got off the rails.

MACLELLAN Murdo - 1902 - 28/03/1902 – Age 55 - Redburn, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Donald Macdonald, Inverness. A shot was fired near the top of the rock and when deceased, with others, went back to see what it had done a large quantity of the roof above fell and crushed him. The tirring had bean loosened by the shot.

MACNAMARA David - 1909 - 19/04/1909 – Age 63 - Hebburn Hewer, Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Caught by set of tubs on engine plane.

MADDEN James Ambrose - 1908 - 20/02/1908 – Age 49 - Washington Glebe Hewer, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of firedamp. 14 killed.

MADDEN John - 1907 - 13/07/1907 – Age 49 - Carfin No.6 Bricklayer, William Dixon Ltd., Lanarkshire. He pricked his finger with his lamp pricker which was stuck in his cap. Blood-poisoning resulted and he died sixteen days after the occurrence.

MADDEN John - 1909 - 06/05/1909 – Age 48 - Backworth Hewer, Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. Fall of roof at working face.

MADDISON Arthur H. - 1904 - 22/01/1904 – Age 22 - South Moor, Morrison Stoneman, South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A fall of stone from the roof, of the main rolleyway at a place where he was dressing side stone back occurred and killed him. The stone was 9 feet by 6 feet and began at a feather edge and thickened to a foot where it came off at a slip and the top was very slippery.

MADDISON John - 1902 - 17/01/1902 – Age 27 - Tudhoe Hewer, Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from injuries received on January 15th, 1902, when following his employment.

MADDISON Joseph - 1900 - 16/11/1900 – Age 32 - Burradon Hewer, Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made. The deceased was working at the face when a stone fell from a slip between the pack wall and the coal. The deputy had fired a shot a short time before and examined the roof but unfortunately did not consider it necessary to set any more timber. He died 1st. Sept. 1901.

MADDISON Matthew - 1909 - 23/03/1909 – Age 33 - Langley Park Deputy, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When drawing a prop in a broken jud with a drawing hammer an oblong stone, at least 19 feet long, 31.5 feet wide, and 3.5 feet thick, fell from between two jacks or joints and killed him.

MADDISON Thomas - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 24 - Wingate Shifter, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust, result of shot firing. 25 killed.

MADDISON W.D. - 1906 - 16/06/1906 – Age 55 - Holmside Hewer, Thomas Hedley and Bros., Co.Durham. Died from natural causes.

MADDOCK Arthur - 1901 - 21/08/1901 – Age 35 - Granville No.2 Deputy, Granville Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was an official, the mine bud was making an examination of the workings when a large quantity of the roof fell and killed him.

MADDOCK James - 1905 - 23/01/1905 – Age 28 - Redheugh Hewer, Owners of Redheugh Colliery, Co.Durham. Deceased, after being off work 10 weeks, started to hew on the 23rd Jan. About two hours after he had started the deputy visited him and found him lying on the pavement breathing heavily, and nothing to suggest any accident. He never recovered consciousness but died in the pit. A doctor saw the body within an hour or so and gave evidence at the inquest that death was due to syncope due to mitral disease of the heart which may have been accelerated by intemperance and so the Jury found.

MADDOCK William - 1909 - 19/10/1909 – Age 20 - Wollaton Loader, Wollaton Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. While deceased was marking the full tubs standing at the gate end, a fall of roof fatally injured him, and he died on 20th October.

MADGIN William - 1900 - 06/01/1900 – Age 56 - Littleburn Loco. Fireman, North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Some empty trucks were being shunted into the coke yard and he was riding on them, uncoupling one from the engine when he slipped and fell down between the rails and the engine ran over him.

MAGEE James - 1903 - 10/06/1903 – Age 19 - Skellyton Bottomer, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. He pushed an empty hutch into the open shaft at a midworking and fell after it to the bottom.

MAGGS George - 1908 - 09/04/1908 – Age 20 - Norton Hill Inclineman, Norton Hill Colliery Co., Somerset. Explosion of firedamp or coaldust. 10 killed.

MAGGS Walter - 1902 - 22/10/1902 – Age 42 - Dunscroft, Stone Quarry Labourer, Bath Stone Firms Ltd., Dorset, Monmouth. When tipping a waggon of debris at the cliff edge, which forms the refuse-tip, it fell over in consequence of his having omitted to attach the chain provided for holding it back and carried him with it. He was picked up near the sea shore 100 feet beneath having received injuries which caused his death the following morning.

MAHER Edward - 1902 - 10/10/1902 – Age 18 - Cefn Slip Pumpman, Bryndu & Port Talbot Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face slip of coal fell suddenly from upper side in a long cut one sprag set. Cribbwr seam. 2 killed.

MAHER Joseph - 1908 - 13/01/1908 – Age 34 - Raheendoran Quarry Foreman, Thomas Thompson and Sons Ltd., Carlow, Ireland. Premature explosion of charge of gelignite, whilst charging with wood stemmer. Explosive frozen hard, not thawed, no warming pan.

MAHON James - 1907 - 14/02/1907 – Age 34 - Kingsbury Stallman, Kingsbury Collieries Ltd., Warwickshire. Fall of roof. Deceased and a loader entered the stall to work for the night shift and when they had been at work half-an-hour a large fall of roof occurred, killing deceased and injuring the loader.

MAHONEY Flurence - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 17 - National No.2 Collier boy, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. Lower Bailey St., Wattstown, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

MAHONEY John - 1907 - 06/07/1907 – Age 37 - Castle Hitcher, Crawshay Brothers Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was standing at the fans, when a piece of stone fell from the ascending cage as it landed on the fans at the surface, and fractured his skull. He died the same day.

MAHONEY Maurice - 1906 - 30/03/1906 – Age 60 - Braichycymmer Rider, Ffaldu Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While riding on the rope in front of a journey of loaded trams on an engine plane rising 7 inches in the yard, he fell off and was run over.

MAHONEY Nicholas - 1906 - 24/03/1906 – Age 15 - Tirpentwys Collier’s boy, Tirpentwys Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was filling coal out from the lower side of his working place when a stone fell from the roof. 10 or 12 feet from him, and knocked out several pieces of timber, one of which struck him on the neck and killed him. The collier had evidently delayed securing his place too long, but was at the time in the road preparing a post.

MAIDEN or MAIDEM John - 1908 - 16/09/1908 – Age 26 - Blaenavon, Kays Haulier, Blaenavon Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Monmouth. In trying to get a tram on the rails he appears to have strained himself, from the result of which he died eight days later. (Horse haulage)

MAIDEN W.J. - 1904 - 02/06/1904 – Age 14 - Aldridge Door boy, Aldridge Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of side (fire clay). Two or three cwt. of fireclay fell on to deceased from the side of the road which was 9 feet high, and overhanging at the top.

MAIN John - 1908 - 14/08/1908 – Age 55 - Blackston Pump engineman, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Stirling. Deceased was running two empty trucks down a steep railway, and to hold down the brake he used a pit prop, 3 feet 6 inches long, as he passed a dross bing on the side of the railway the prop caught it and he was thrown amongst the wheels.

MAINBRIDGE John - 1904 - 07/01/1904 – Age 14 - Brandon Driver, Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. When driving a full set-out, a stone fell from a slip and killed him.

MAIR William - 1903 - 22/04/1903 – Age 38 - Birkenshaw Miner, Larkhill Fireclay Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at roadhead while setting a crown to secure it.

MAJOR William - 1905 - 18/09/1905 – Age 39 - Wath Main Run rider, Wath Main Colliery Ltd., Yorkshire. He was riding on the top of the thirty first tub, in a train of 38 full tubs, which was being brought by the main hauling rope to the shaft bottom, when the tub got off the way, at a crossing rail, and he was thrown under the tubs, run over and killed. The cause of the tub leaving the rails was probably that it had a bent axle.

MAKENSON Joseph - 1900 - 08/05/1900 – Age 21 - Buckhill Engineman, Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was in charge of the engine and machinery used for working the screening belts etc. and after being missed for an hour and a half was found lying across the main driving shaft. He had evidently been oiling the machinery when in motion.

MAKIN George - 1904 - 09/08/1904 – Age 17 - Watnall Trammer, Barber Walker and Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased fell off the cage while ascending the shaft after completing his work for the day. No guard rails were placed at the ends of the cage.

MAKIN James - 1909 - 13/08/1909 – Age 15 - Collins Green Haulage hand, Collins Green Colliery Co., St Helens, Lancashire. When attempting to detach a lashing chain from the endless rope, he got fatally crushed between the rope and the haulage pulley.

MALBON Caleb - 1909 - 05/10/1909 – Age 54 Chesterton Forge Shifter, Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. While walking down an engine slant he tripped over a rail and fell, and a drinking bottle in his pocket bruised his side and fractured a rib. He died on 8th February, 1910, from pleurisy and heart failure following upon his injuries.

MALBON Eli - 1909 - 09/06/1909 – Age 51 - Northwood Engineman, T Beech Barton, Staffordshire. When engaged in dismantling an old platform at the screens, deceased stepped upon a plank that was badly decayed at the end where it rested on a cross-beam. The plank gave way and he was precipitated to the ground, a distance of about 18 feet. He sustained injuries from which he died on the same evening.

MALCOLMSON William John - 1902 - 03/10/1902 – Age 50 - Blair No.2 Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Gas accumulated in a hole caused by a fall and which had not been properly inspected by the fireman. It was ignited by the naked light of the deceased's son who was also injured.

MALCOM Charles - 1908 - 29/10/1908 – Age 62 - Sherburn Hill Shifter, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He and his marrow were timbering in the Main Coal Seam, when a stone, 3 feet by 2 feet, fell from a slip and injured his shoulder and broke his leg. He died a week afterwards in hospital.

MALE Edward - 1906 - 20/09/1906 – Age 20 - Garth Merthyr Collier, Elders Navigation Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road while taking out a flat to set timbers to form a framing, a stone 6 feet by 4 feet by 20 inches fell and injured him so severely that he died two days later. Lower Four Feet seam.

MALE Edward - 1907 - 14/06/1907 – Age 21 - Aldridge Horse Driver, Aldridge Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was waiting at the coal face for a tub to be filled, and was between the tub and the face, when a piece of the stone above the coal - Bannocking dirt - about 3 feet long by 1 foot 6 inches wide, which had been left overhanging, fell over on to him. The accident would have been prevented if the stallman, whose duty it was, had either taken down the overhanging dirt or set timber to support it. He stated that he had tried to get it down hot holed and therefore thought it unnecessary to set timber. Deceased’s back was broken and he succumbed on 15th July.

MALEY William - 1902 - 01/03/1902 – Age 28 - Clyde-Backmuir No.2 Pony driver, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While taking a hutch along a road the roof gave way and fell on him.

MALLETT Michael - 1908 - 03/12/1908 – Age 25 - Holytown No. 12 Brusher, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face while putting up props for breakers. The fall is said to have displaced two props.

MALLETT William - 1900 - 29/06/1900 – Age 47 - Eston Ironstone Deputy, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was standing near the face, preparing to set a prop when a large piece of stone fell away from a back in the face and injured him so severely that he died almost immediately.

MALLEY Patrick - 1901 - 02/10/1901 – Age 31 - Corneygre Painter, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. He was on a ladder painting the pit frame. The ladder was over an incline, and a passing tub grazed it and shook Malley off. He fell a distance of 30 feet and was killed.

MALLINDER Walter - 1905 - 24/05/1905 – Age 14 - Barrow Pony driver, Barrow Hematite Steel Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. This accident was due to a misunderstanding between a run-rider and a driver-boy. The former told the latter that he would go down to the pass-by and see if the load was ready and then return and signal for the train and it ran in. The driver had to signal for the train, and did so and it ran into where the deceased was when it was not expected and killed him.

MALLINSON Joe - 1907 - 14/03/1907 – Age 15 - Emley Moor Hurrier, Stringer and Jagger Ltd., Yorkshire. The haulage rope was being extended for a distance of 110 yards. Deceased was tramming for his father who was making the hole in the floor for the new wheel and frame and taking the excavate a stone into the faces. While at work the lad lost his light and his father sent him in the dark to get his lamp relighted. On his way he must have passed deputy but the latter never saw him. When about 20 yards on the in-bye side of the old wheel he met a joiner who says he told him to stay where he was as he could not get a light there and he would have to go about a mile. This joiner had already taken up the covering from the old wheel and he and others were pulling at the new length of rope, which was carried up the road and round a prop and being moved by being clamped to the endless rope. While doing this the lad had walked down the road unseen and was caught in the moving wheel and so seriously injured that he died the following day.

MALLION John - 1906 - 20/11/1906 – Age 17 - Pemberton Engineman, Pemberton Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He went within the fence to oil whilst the engine of the coal washer was in motion, when his clothing got caught by the wheels, and he got drawn in and fatally injured. There was a printed notice forbidding oiling whilst in motion.

MALLIS George - 1907 - 06/03/1907 – Age 57 - Hill Top, Brockeath Quarry Clay getter, Bingley Sanitary Tube and Lime Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When pulling clay and shale off the face, for the purpose of making it safe for the filler to work under, about three tons of clay suddenly fell away and caught and fatally injured him.

MALLOY Patrick – 1901 – 25/09/1901 – Age 29 – Hazelrigg Shifter, Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inquest attended. Deceased and his marrow were building a pack wall at a longwall face when a fall of roof suddenly occurred. There was a plentiful supply of timber close at hand.

MALONEY Andrew – 1908 – 25/06/1908 – Age 20 – Chesterton Forge Pumper, Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was in charge of a steam pump, placed near the foot of an upset in the Red Mine Ironstone workings. Some datallers were about to take down some roof in the upset, and deceased was covering up the suction pipe of his pump to protect it from injury. A piece of roof dirt 7.5 feet by 3.5 feet at extremes and 6 inches in thickness, suddenly fell without warning and a portion of it struck him fracturing his thigh, and injuring him internally. He died seven days later from peritonitis caused by a ruptured liver. The upset was less than 6 feet wide at the roof and was said to have been sufficiently timbered. It was examined by the fireman 15 minutes before the accident took place and appeared to be safe. There were no slips in the roof, which, however may have been loosened by steam escaping from the pump.

MALONEY T. – 1900 – 22/12/1900 – Age 59 – Rotherham Main Labourer, John Brown and Co., Yorkshire. He was crossing the sidings when the locomotive was pushing wagons up. They ran over him.

MANCHESTER Joshua – 1903 – 25/02/1903 – Age 53 – East Howle Hewer, Carlton Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was on his way outbye and was caught by the engine set entering a landing.

MANDRY Edward – 1909 – 01/01/1909 – Age 43 – Graig Merthyr Collier, Graigola Merthyr Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 5 killed.

MANFRED Patrick – 1900 – 19/12/1900 – Age 29 – Cambois Hewer, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased had almost completed kirving a jud when the coal suddenly came over a sprag which had been set.

MANISON Henry - 1904 - 29/06/1904 – Age 21 - Shire Oaks No.1 Loader, Shire Oaks Colliery Co,. Nottinghamshire. A man was injured by a fall of stone forming the side of the roadway, when deceased and another went to his assistance. Another fall of stone occurred, injuring deceased, who died 5th July. The second man was also injured by the fall.

MANISTRE Edward William - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 19 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. Rifle Street, Stanley.

MANISTRE Henry - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 13 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed, 12 Rifle Street, Stanley.

MANISTRE John Henry - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 15 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 14 Rifle Street, Stanley.

MANKERVIS John - 1908 - 04/02/1908 – Age 21 - South Crofty, Tin Trammer, South Crofty Ltd., Cornwall. He was about to ascend the shaft from the 175-fathom level, in the top floor of a double-decked cage, with mineral in the bottom floor. He was following his comrade who was climbing to the upper deck of the cage from the engineman to wind up. The cage was consequently drawn up before he was quite in it, with the result that he was crushed against the timbering 8 or 9 feet above and fell back into the sump. The managers instructions were not definite with regard to men riding and supervision in the matter was unsatisfactory.

MANLEY Edward - 1906 - 26/06/1906 – Age 30 Caradog Vale Collier, South Wales United Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Irruption of water, 4 killed.

MANLY Albert - 1901 - 14/10/1901 – Age 39 - Tylcha Fawr, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, MR Rowlands, Glamorgan. Deceased had holed 3 feet under the gravel topping and was barring it down when it fell before he expected it and before he could get out of the way. Died 8th Jan 1902.

MANN Benjamin William - 1904 - 14/10/1904 – Age 30 - Tursdale Hewer, Bell Bros., Ltd., Co.Durham. When working in a wide wall, with another hewer, he was taking some band stone out under a piece of top coal under which he had a stay, the top coal dropped away and crushed his head killing him.

MANN George Robert - 1908 - 26/02/1908 – Age 16 - Manners Horse driver, Manners Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was taking some empty tubs along a roadway when the first tub struck a supporting girder. The girder fell and a great quantity of roof with it, which killed deceased.

MANN John - 1908 - 26/05/1908 – Age 19 - Bishop Middleham Limestone Quarry Labourer, Pease and Partners, Co.Durham. He, although warned and although the locomotive and trucks approached him at less than a walking pace, he failed to get out of the way and was knocked down and had his leg broken and his foot injured by a truck passing over him. He died six days afterwards.

MANN Richard - 1909 - 24/06/1909 – Age 40 - Raisby Hill, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Raisby Hill Limestone Co., Co.Durham. Burnt by an explosion of gunpowder when pouring it into a hole which he had cracked some few minutes previously.

MANN W.J. - 1906 - 22/10/1906 – Age 26 - Lady Windsor Collier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face, coal and clod, 7 feet by 1 foot 6 inches by 3 feet 11 inches, the upper part of a back slip in a thick seam of which the bottom coal had been worked away, fell on deceased as he was working at the bottom coal with a bar. There were said to have been 3 sprags against the top coal, but the evidence upon this point was unsatisfactory. Four-feet seam.

MANNING Edward - 1909 - 16/09/1909 – Age 46 - Harpur Hill, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Buxton Lime Firms Ltd., Derbyshire. Breaking stone, mid putting it into a wagon, when he injured his right thumb. Little was thought of the injury at the time, but double pneumonia of a septic nature, due to the injury, developed and caused his death on 24th September.

MANNION Michael - 1907 - 16/07/1907 – Age 21 - Denaby Main Trammer, Denaby and Cadeby Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was killed by a fall of roof, The deputy visited the place about an hour before the accident occurred and ordered the deceased to set a prop under the roof which afterwards fell. When the fall was cleared away it was found that he had neglected to set the prop.

MANNISTER John William - 1900 - 06/06/1900 – Age 40 - Springwell Hewer, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was hewing at a longwall face when some top coal and stone from a slip between the timber and the face fell.

MANSELL J.A. - 1902 - 22/07/1902 – Age 41 - Gilfach Main No.2, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Richard and Lewis, Glamorgan. Buried by a fall of earth, 18 feet by 2 to 7 feet thick. He was removing the overburden it was said by undercutting.

MANSFIELD Frederick N. - 1909 - 23/12/1909 – Age 23 - Heyfield Drawer, Westleigh Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. In drawing road whilst taking out a full tub. Three bars borne down by a large fall, 9 feet long and 6 feet 6 inches wide. It was the great thickness of the fall which bore down the bars. (Roof average)

MANSFIELD William - 1907 - 14/07/1907 – Age 31 - Aldridge Ostler, Aldridge Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Killed by underground fire.

MANUEL John Albert - 1908 - 31/07/1908 – Age 21 - Agecroft Gang Rider, A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by tubs. A train of 32 tubs, drawn along a level by an endless rope under tubs attached by lashing chains worked by small haulage engine. Speed two to four miles per hour, level 8 feet wide, 6 feet high, he was expected to walk before the tubs. No one saw the accident. Either he stumbled whilst walking before the tubs, which passed on to him, or more probably he was riding standing on the rope before the tubs and lost his hold and fell so that the tubs passed on to him. His right foot was torn off and found fast between the rope, lashing chain and tub, which supports the belief he was riding. Riding is prohibited. It would be wiser to provide a proper seat and make it safe to ride.

MANUEL William - 1901 - 25/04/1901 – Age 60 - Garth Merthyr Repairer, Elders Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road clift, roof 6 feet x 2 feet x 18 inches thick, broke over two props where deceased was ripping and repairing. Six feet seam.

MANUEL William - 1907 - 27/07/1907 – Age 48 - Wrexham & Acton Collier, Wrexham & Acton Collieries Co., Denbigh. When getting coal at the face a stone fell upon the deceased from between slips in the roof.

MAPP Frank - 1907 - 03/11/1907 – Age 39 - Llanbradach Collier, Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, cliff, 7 feet by 4 feet by 15 inches thick, broke over a pair of timbers, and fell from between two slips on to deceased, breaking his neck. Four-feet seam.

MAPPLEBECK Albert - 1902 - 23/10/1902 – Age 14 - Manvers Main Pony driver, Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Leading a pony across the engine plane when he was killed by the train of empty tubs running inbye.

MARCHANT Alfred A. - 1901 - 28/10/1901 – Age 13 - Esh Driver, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. He was taking a set of three full tubs into a landing and was too long in drawing out the limber bolt and the horse joined up against the tubs in front, the limbers caught his neck and killed him.
 
MARCHANT Henry - 1907 - 17/10/1907 – Age 47 - Renishaw Park No.3 Dataller, J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof on main road. Deceased was knocking a prop up to secure the roof when the prop flew out, allowing some roof to fall on deceased. He died 23rd November.

MARCHANT John - 1907 - 26/10/1907 – Age 43 - National No.2 Repairer, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. A journey of empties was drawn along the main level, by main and tail ropes to the top of the dip. At that point the weight of the journey was entirely on the main role. The rider got on the rope to set some pointers right, when the journey ran wild down the dip, jumped off the road, knocking out a big post and some of the stones, with which six of the trams had been filled, struck deceased and his partner. The shackle pin was found to have been only partly in place, with the result that when the weight on the rope increased on the dip, the shackle opened and let the journey go. Deceased died in nine days.

MARGETSON R.H. - 1906 - 17/02/1906 – Age 33 - Wheatley Hill Hewer, Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Whilst hewing in a longwall face, he exposed a slip running into a vertical joint. These let down a large piece of stone which, catching him, killed him.

MARGINSON Henry - 1905 - 21/03/1905 – Age 34 - Rainford Dataller, Bromilow Foster and Co., Rainford, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He had been trying to get some roof rock down and had knocked out some props and when he was about re-setting some props to get a hole bond the roof gave way and he was killed.

MARGINSON J.C. - 1904 - 29/01/1904 – Age 53 - Carlton Main Miner, Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was cutting the roof down at a height, and had nearly cut through the loose end when a heavy weight came over the place and a fall occurred killing him instantly. The fall disclosed a pothole and converging slip.

MARKEY Andrew – 1900 - 03/12/1900 – Age 36 - Wearmouth A Shifter, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Bricks were being drawn up a do drift staple when they slipped out the sling chain and struck deceased at the bottom of the staple. He had previously been warned not to stand there when bricks were being drawn up.

MARKHAM John - 1904 - 08/08/1904 – Age 26 - Chopwell Hewer, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased appears to have been lying on his shovel kirving the coal in a longwall place in the Towneley seam when a stone, 6.5 feet by 3.5 feet and 14 inches thick fell from the roof upon him. It was relieved by slips of glassy keenness on three sides and by a free parting above and broke off next the goaf. No timber had hold of it except part of a headtree set above a prop next to the goaf and this was broken down by the fall. There was a sufficient supply of loose timber nearby. The back shaft deputy had not reached the place when the accident happened about 12.30 pm but the foreshift deputy had made the necessary examinations during his shift. Deceased was found under the stone by the putter. The place was near a large dislocation in the strata known as the Tantobie dyke. The Local Inspectors reported that they ‘found it purely accidental and found place with sufficient timber.’

MARKLEW Henry - 1904 - 12/03/1904 – Age 48 - Littleton Stallman, Littleton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (rock) at longwall face in 8 feet seam. He was preparing to draw timber in a waste and while uncapping a tree a sudden weight knocked the tree out and caused the fall.

MARKS Frederick - 1901 - 14/08/1901 – Age 28 - Craighead No.1 Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. In stepping back to avoid a piece of coal, which fell from the roof, he slipped and fell against a hutch.

MARKS Matthew - 1908 - 24/09/1908 – Age 26 - Blaenant Rider, Marquis of Bute, Glamorgan. Deceased had brought a journey to the shaft bottom, and sat down to rest a short time. The hitchers went some six or seven yards away to take down some full trams, and when they returned deceased was not to be seen. The cage which had just descended was raised, and his body was found under it. A notice forbidding anyone crossing the shaft, except through the cage, was posted at or near the shaft bottom.

MARLEY Edward – 1909 – 07/10/1909 – Age 16 – Mooretown Collier, Philip George, Glamorgan. Fall of side at face struck by a fall of coal which was overhanging and not spragged. Graigola Seam. Naked lights.

MARLEY Peter – 1906 – 06/02/1906 – Age 35 – Washington Hewer, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased and another hewer were working together in the fore shift in a longwall place in the Main Coal seam of the Polka district of the F pit, when a blue metal stone, 13 feet by 7 feet and 1 foot thick, weighing about 3 tons, fell upon him close to the coal face at the right side of the place. It was relieved farthest from the face by a 4 inch rise hitch and came away from a good parting above. In falling it canted several props and headtrees. Deceased was covered up and killed instantly. The deputy had inspected the place before the hewers started work, when it appeared safe and he had been occupied in the place for about a quarter hour, about 8 am, or an hour before the accident, when he set two props, some distance from the face. There was plenty of loose props close at hand. Probably the props under the stone would have supported it if they had not been canted. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘In our opinion any experienced miner could have been misled. We cannot find any fault or blame attached to any person’ but after the inquest, the workmen wrote to the manager saying that in their opinion if chock, had been used the accident would not have happened.

MARLEY Ralph – 1901 – 12/02/1901 – Age 15 – Bourn Moor Driver, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Lowering a full timber tram over the points at the flat to unload it when it got away and crushed him between it and an empty tub causing internal injuries. He died 15th.

MARLEY Robert – 1902 – 26/05/1902 – Age 36 – Deaf Hill Hewer, Trimdon Coal Co., Co.Durham. He and another 11 men were being let down the shaft in the cage and when near the bottom the winding engineman did not stop the cage and it went hard on the keps and deceased was thrown out and crushed between the cage and flat sheets. The other men were all more or less injured. The ascending cage was overwound but the detaching hook caught it.

MARMISTON William – 1900 – 06/05/1900 – Age 55 – Sherburn Hill Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Died today from blood poisoning caused by a piece of coal cutting his thumb when filling a tub on March 20th.

MARPLES Edwin – 1904 – 02/12/1904 – Age 50 – Woodthorpe Collier Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He had taken the sprags out and as the coal did not come down he was preparing to wedge it when it fell and killed him.

MARPLES William – 1907 – 24/10/1907 – Age 50 – Bond’s Main Stallman, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was lifting an empty tub on to the rails at the gate-end when he slipped and died before leaving the mine. The medical evidence, after a post-mortem examination, was that deceased had heart-disease of long-standing, and the heart might fail at any time. The verdict of the jury was "that his death was accelerated by slipping down.".

MARR Harry - 1909 - 22/05/1909 - Age 44 - Ashmore Park Stallman, Ashmore Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. The accident occurred in the Five Feet seam where the section was, top coal 1 foot 4 inches, dirt 10 inches bottom coal 2 feet 10 inches. Deceased was sitting on the bottom coal holing in the dirt when a large piece of rock, 11 feet long 3 feet to 1.5 feet. wide, and 15 inches thick, fell from the roof between two slips (only one of which had been previously visible) and caught him on the back is fracturing his spine . He died eight days later. Sprags were set to the top coal and roof, but these were knocked out by the fall. The deputy was passing through the stall at the time, and was also caught and injured by the rock which fell.

MARRIOTT Henry – 1901 – 19/01/1901 – Age 19 – Hucknall No.2 Loader, Hucknall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. A fall of roof occurred shortly after the taking down of a prop in the stall, which required removal for the purpose of laying the rails and fatally injured deceased. Another prop or bar should have been set. He died on the 28th.

MARRIOTT Henry – 1909 – 30/10/1909 – Age 40 – Dinnington Main Coal getter, Dinnington Main Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was working at the face when a bump burst a slab of coal off the face and caused a fall of roof. He was killed on the spot.

MARRIOTT James Frederick – 1903 – 05/02/1903 – Age 16 – Kirkby Horse driver, Butterley Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was in charge of a horse drawing one full tub when the horse knocked him down and he fell under the moving tub. He died 20th September.

MARRIOTT John George – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 27 – Warsop Main Dataller, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased and another man were taking out the props supporting a bar on a roadway when the roof fell and killed deceased.

MARRIOTT Samuel – 1909 – 20/08/1909 – Age 52 – Renishaw Park Dataller, J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. A train of 22 full tubs left the pass-bye and went 111 yards up an engine plane rising 1 in 6 towards the shaft, when the haulage rope broke. The drag placed at the back of the tubs failed to hold the train, and they ran back into the pass-bye where deceased was crushed between other full tubs when the runaway train ran into them.

MARRIOTTI Guiseppe – 1905 – 28/07/1905 – Age 33 – Lancaster Assistant Repairer, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and eight other men were lifting a large collar, to put it on the arms, when they dislodged an old collar which fell on deceased and dislocated his neck. The old collar could have and should have been removed before they started lifting.

MARRIS Walter Tom – 1906 – 20/02/1906 – Age 26 – Barnsley Main Fitter, Barnsley Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was descending the No.4 upcast shaft in which there was only one cage to the Abdy Seam for the purpose of repairing a heading machine in that seam. At the time there were two colliers and two hurriers at work and one of the latter acted as hanger-on. The banksman allowed the deceased to get into the cage without sending a signal down to the Abdy seam and receiving a reply from the hanger-on and, as a consequence there was no hanger-on to receive him, and in getting out of the cage he, by some means, fell into some water at the bottom of the shaft, a distance of over 300 yards and was killed.

MARRS Andrew – 1903 – 22/06/1903 – Age 17 – Auckland Park Driver, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was going past the side of a tub to get on to the timbers when the pony started and he was fatally crushed between the tub and a prop.

MARRS Daniel - 1903 - 04/09/1903 – Age 74 - Dechmont Stone Picker, Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. When crossing the rails at the screens he was run into by the Railway Co.'s locomotive.

MARSDEN George Whalley – 1908 – 28/11/1908 – Age 25 – Eccleshill Clay Miner, Joseph Place and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. In roadway whilst repairing, preparing to set a prop, one having been reeled out by broken roof up against a pronounced slip. This roof required a bar to support it, the whole neighbourhood affected by creep. (Good roof, locally bad)

MARSDEN James – 1907 – 30/05/1907 – Age 25 – Alexandra Dataller, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Deceased died from the effects of blood poisoning owing to a cut on his knuckle, alleged to have been ensued when lifting a stone with a bar when he fell and injured his hand, according to his own statement.

MARSDEN John – 1908 – 27/11/1908 – Age 31 – Prince of Wales Contractor, John Rhodes, Yorkshire. He and his mate were ripping a road and at the time of the accident were drilling a hole for a shot to blow down some sandstone under which two props were set. The deceased chipped the top of one of the props which was hard set and, though advised by his mate to put up a fore set, knocked the prop out with a hammer. Immediately he did so a stone weighing a ton fell from the roof injuring him so seriously that he died two hours afterwards. A break was clearly visible before the accident, and as it was also evident that the roof had settled on the timber it was reckless to knock out the prop whilst under the roof it was supporting.

MARSDEN Thomas Jepson – 1906 – 24/09/1906 – Age 36 – Renishaw Park No.1 Stallman, J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was crushed by a train of loaded tubs while travelling up an engine-plane returning from work.

MARSH Anthony – 1904 – 13/04/1904 – Age 76 – Birchover, Gritstone Quarry Foreman, John J Boden, Derbyshire. Deceased was attempting to pass between the wall of a building and the covering of a revolving crane when he was fatally crushed between the crane house and the wall. He died the same day.

MARSH Christoper – 1906 – 07/03/1906 – Age 16 – Whitwell Horse driver, Shire Oaks Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was found dead under the first of three loaded tubs which were not sufficiently lockered, and over-ran the horse and driver.

MARSH Harold – 1909 – 03/06/1909 – Age 23 – Newdigate Corporal, Newdigate Colliery Co. Ltd., Warwickshire. Deceased was lowering two full tubs on to some blocks by walking in front of them. The blocks had not been closed and the tubs overpowered deceased.

MARSH Harold – 1909 – 06/01/1909 – Age 13 – Ackton Hall Screener, Ackton Hall Collieries Co., Yorkshire. This boy was seen to leave his place and crawl through the bars of a fence where there was gearing. His foremen shouted to him and went to fetch him out but before he could reach him he heard a scream and found the lad with his right arm nearly severed from the shoulder. He died from shock. It is probable that he went through the fence to get a tool which he had accidentally dropped.

MARSH Hugh – 1903 – 29/01/1903 – Age 41 – Moss No.4 Collier, Pearson and Knowles, Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made. A stone fell from the roof injuring his head, near the face coal in the Arley Mine. He died February 10, 1904, from acute inflammation of the heart accelerated by the accident.

MARSH James – 1904 – 17/10/1904 – Age 19 – Bickershaw Lasher on, Ackers Whitley and Co., Leigh, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was attempting to couple a full tub, attached to an endless rope, to one of three tubs standing at the bottom of the tunnel when he took more time than usual to couple the tubs which allowed the full tubs to be drawn on fatally crushing him against the tubs standing there. It was recommended in future to use a wooden block to prevent such another accident.

MARSH John – 1908 – 28/05/1908 – Age 42 – Himley No.18 Chartermaster, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Deceased and his brother were chartermasters who paid all the workmen employed underground (but not the Deputy), and supplied the timber. Deceased was working in a gate-road in the Thick Coal, which at this point was only 8 feet thick, the coal above the Sawyer being cut out by a thick bed of rock. At 12.45 pm., the place was visited by the deputy who told deceased to clear away the lying coal and set a tree or two as soon as possible. At 2 pm. deceased was still engaged in clearing away the coal when a piece of the overhanging coal, which had probably been shaken by two shots fired two hours previously, came off at a slip, and dropped upon his head, killing him instantly. Had the trees which the deputy advised been set the accident would probably have been avoided but the stallman declared that they were clearing a place for the trees as quickly as they could.