NADIN Henry - 1907 - 14/06/1907 – Age 57 - Grassmoor Labourer, Grassmoor Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was proceeding to fasten up the doors at the bottom of a slack wagon when he was caught between the buffers and fatally crushed. He died the same day.

NAILON John - 1908 - 11/12/1908 – Age 20 - Philipstoun oil shale Drawer, James Ross and Co., Linlithgow. A roadway was being driven in the shale, about 18 feet below the surface, when a fall occurred right to the surface. And deceased and his neighbour were buried beneath it. They lay for some time under the fall until discovered by the fireman and eight hours elapsed before deceased's body was got out.

NAIRN David - 1903 - 17/08/1903 – Age 40 - Bowhill Fireman, Bowhill Coal Co., Ltd., Fife. Deceased had just finished repairing a guide rail, at the foot of a slope, when two loaded tubs which had become detached from the rope ran down and struck him. The rope drew out of the hose while the tubs were in motion.

NAIRN William - 1901 - 07/10/1901 – Age 50 - Pirnie Wagon trimmer, Fife Coal Co., Ltd., Fife. Deceased was bringing an empty wagon forward to a screen, to be filled with Parrot coal and to regulate its speed he went to the brake on the side where there was a retaining wall and appears to have been crushed against the wall and afterwards thrown down among the wheels. The space between the retaining wall and wagon side was 11 inches.

NAISBETT Thomas - 1903 - 25/1905/1903 – Age 14 - Beechburn Driver, H Graham and Sons, Co.Durham. He was driving a set of three tubs out from a drift to the screens over a bridge when they got off the rails and fell over the bridge. One of the tubs caught him and caused fatal injuries.

NAISBIT Parkin - 1904 - 14/12/1904 – Age 33 - Brancepeth A Deputy, Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. Fall of stone when drawing an old bord. He and another deputy were drawing. They knew part of the stone was bad and left some props in and commenced further out but the roof came away suddenly without warning and he was caught and killed.

NAISH John - 1905 - 09/12/1905 – Age 43 - Ifton Limestone Quarry Foreman, Ifton Limestone Co., Ltd., Monmouth. Explosion of gelignite. He had placed 10 lbs. of gelignite in a hole which had been drilled the previous day, 16 feet deep under water level, which had probably sludged up 5 or 6 feet and finding that the charge would not go so deeply into the hole as he expected by using a leaden pipe, he apparently thinking it was hung into hole, got a steel drill, which he rammed into the explosive. He told his comrade to be ready to drop the electric primer in directly he removed the drill, in order that dirt should not get between them, but on withdrawing the drill the gelignite exploded, and he was thrown into the air and 6 yards away from the hole. He had been foreman at the Quarry for a number of years, and should have know better. His comrade was slightly injured.

NAISMITH William - 1904 - 19/03/1904 – Age 62 - Bent No.3 Miner, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place. His hip joint was dislocated and he died while under chloroform. The working place was not propped as required by the regulations.

NAPPER or NAPIER Edward - 1902 - 19/03/1902 – Age 44 - Duffryn Rhondda Tipper, Duffryn Rhondda Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Found crushed and dead between the buffers of trucks. Some trucks had a few minutes before been shunted into the siding but all men about the place denied having seen deceased.

NARRY Lewis - 1905 - 27/04/1905 – Age 19 - Etherley George Hanger On, H Stobart and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Struck by a full tub running amain on a jigger, 12 yards long, owing to his having failed to attach the rope end to the empty tubs. He died on Sept. 28th.

NASH George - 1900 - 20/01/1900 – Age 28 - Park Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Died from injuries to the back supposed to have been caused by striking a collar while driving a horse and tram up a rise heading. Height 5 feet 2 inches. Died 14th April.

NASH Martin - 1904 - 23/02/1904 - Age 46 - Aldwarke Main Collier, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When descending the shaft the winding rope broke. 7 killed.

NASMYTH Andrew - 1901 - 15/02/1901 – Age 34 - Hill of Beath Fireman, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Suffocated by gases from an underground fire. 7 killed.

NAYLOR John Henry - 1901 - 19/02/1901 – Age 19 - Warsop Main Pitbottom Attendant, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Nottinghamshire. He appeared to have had his head between two full tubs while uncoupling them, near the pit bottom, and while doing so other full tubs ran into them and crushed him.

NAYLOR Joseph - 1902 - 02/04/1902 – Age 42 - Garswood Hall Banksman, Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Explosion of firedamp in the sinking shaft at the Ravine seam, which was probably ignited by a short circuit of the electric light cable. 9 killed.

NEAL Herbert - 1909 - 04/02/1909 – Age 18 - Mount Sorrel, Granite Quarry Drill Turner, Mount Sorrel Granite Co. Ltd., Leicestershire. While turning a drill for two strikers in a piece of stone, projecting from the face of the Quarry, the stone suddenly broke off and he fell a distance of about ten feet and was instantly killed.

NEAL J. - 1900 - 31/01/1900 – Age 26 - Middleton Main Collier, Middleton Estate and Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of side.

NEALE John - 1906 - 02/11/1906 – Age 28 - Kingswood Collier, Gloucestershire. Died on the 8th April from the result of injuries received on the 2nd November, 1904, at Kingswood Colliery. Death having resulted more than a year and a day after the accident it is not comprised.

NEANEY David - 1900 - 11/01/1900 – Age 23 - Ballysillan (Whinstone Quarry) Quarrier, Co. Antrim, Ireland. Fall of basalt rock from face of Quarry from breaks.

NEARY John - 1907 - 30/08/1907 – Age 17 - Moss No.4 Taker Off, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. He was reaching over the endless rope to signal, owing to some of the tubs being off the rails, when the lashing chain broke and deceased got fatally injured by the haulage rope striking him.

NEATH Thomas - 1901 - 28/10/1901 – Age 36 - Sandwell Park Pikeman, Sandwell Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof. He was examining a thick coal stall, after firing a shot, when about 6 tons of coal fell from the roof upon him. Cause a bump. Another man was injured.

NEEDHAM Tom - 1907 - 17/01/1907 – Age 33 - Manvers Main Collier, Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. A fall of stone occurred at a slip in the face and fatally injured him. The deputy had been in the place about an hour and a half before the accident occurred and gave him instructions to draw a sprag under the holed coal and to get the coal and stone down as it was not safe, owing to it being ragged and there being a slip. He, however, instead of doing this got the coal down and walked under the stone with the result that as soon as he got to the slip the stone fell and caught him.

NEEDLE John Thomas - 1904 - 12/12/1904 – Age 48 - Exhall, Clay Quarry Clay Getter, Exhall Colliery Co., Warwickshire. Fall of clay coming away from an old land drain and probably influenced by the state of the weather.

NEIL Archibald - 1909 - 05/09/1909 – Age 40 - Bardykes Repairer, Summerlees Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When letting two full hutches down an incline, the break-stick failed to control them, and he was struck by upcoming empty hutches.

NEIL James - 1905 - 12/01/1905 – Age 53 - Whitehall Miner, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased had taken down coal and was propping the roof when it fell upon him.

NEIL John - 1904 - 22/02/1904 – Age 51 - Cults, Limestone Mine Miner, Trustees of Late John Martin, Fife. Deceased was taking down a bad stone, when it fell upon him and he was killed instantly.

NEIL John - 1905 - 09/09/1905 – Age 58 - Broomrigg No.3 Miner, Banknock Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. Fall of coal while holing.

NEIL William - 1904 - 04/08/1904 – Age 35 - Tannochside No.1 Miner, Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal. Another man injured.

NEIL William John - 1902 - 12/04/1902 – Age 35 - Hamilton Place Drawer, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When taking a hutch down a cuddie brae the pulley tree broke' and the cuddle ran down on him.

NEILLY James - 1902 - 28/08/1902 – Age 28 - Orbiston No.3 Hutch Minder, Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He fell down a stair from the pithead.

NEILSON Alexander - 1908 - 01/10/1908 – Age 38 - Greenrigg Miner, United Collieries Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was making a stable near the shaft and while taking off coal a stone fell from the roof and killed him instantly.

NEILSON David - 1904 - 29/02/1904 – Age 46 - Gateside Labourer, Flemington Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Collapse of insecure gangway from the pithead to the dirt bing. Four others injured.

NEILSON Walter - 1903 - 21/09/1903 – Age 58 - Greenfield Treestonehill No. 8 Miner, Greenfield Coal and Brick Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal and fallen.

NELMS Jacob - 1902 - 31/10/1902 – Age 60 - Tirpentwys Collier, Tirpentwys Black Vein Steam Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A small piece of roof fell and broke his middle finger, pneumonia supervened. Deceased had a very weak constitution otherwise the accident would not have been serious.

NELSON Herbert - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 43 - Maypole Fireman, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

NELSON John - 1907 - 05/09/1907 – Age 52 - Eston Ironstone Miner, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was engaged filling a waggon, when a piece of stone suddenly came away from the roof, and falling on to a ledge, rebounded on to him, breaking his right ankle. He died sixteen days afterwards.

NELSON Matthew - 1909 - 14/1905/1909 – Age 23 - National No.2 Rider, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Slipped as he was getting on the chain in front of a moving journey of four full trams which ran over him. The road was of ample dimensions.

NELSON Richard - 1906 - 02/1905/1906 – Age 18 - Ellerbeck Haulage Hand, Ellerbeck Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by haulage rope and pulley wheel, either his coat sleeve was caught by the rope and drew him into the wheel, or he took hold of the rope inadvertently and was drawn in.

NELSON Thomas - 1906 - 12/01/1906 – Age 58 - Throckley Stoneman, Throckley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, who had been a very healthy man, complained to his wife when he left his house about 4 pm. on the 11th to go to work, that he had a sore chest. He worked his shift out shooting up bottom stone with saxonite without any suggestion of any accident, and parted with his marrow at the lamp cabin on the surface about 1 am. He was found dead on the highway about 200 yards from the pit a quarter of an hour later. A doctor examined the body, and gave evidence at the inquest that death was due to a sudden attack of heart disease, and so the Jury found.

NELSON William - 1900 - 14/12/1900 – Age 70 - Whitworth Screenman, Owners of Whitworth Colliery, Co.Durham. Crushed so severely between the buffers of two empty trucks while letting them down under the screens that he died within ten minutes.

NELSON William - 1905 - 28/04/1905 – Age 24 - Arley Yard Collier, Scowcroft and Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased got fatally crushed at the bottom of a downbrow by a journey of full tubs running back through the coupling breaking. They had a trailer on but had not fixed a Warwick bar for protection in case of a breakage.

NEWALL Thomas - 1904 - 02/11/1904 – Age 39 - Ffochriw No.1 Repairer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. On road. A pair of low timbers on an engine plane had been taken out and 14 trams of rubbish had fallen. While the rubbish was being filled away, preparatory to putting in new timbers, deceased was passing when two pairs of timbers were crushed out and about eight trams of rubbish fell on him.

NEWBERT Henry - 1909 - 21/12/1909 – Age 49 - South Kirkby Dataller, South Kirkby Featherstone and Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was engaged in removing water from a lodge in No.2 shaft to a tank on the cage, when he signalled the cage away before pulling back the connecting pipe. The cage lifted the permanent pipe across which the deceased stood astride and severely bruised his right thigh as well as inflicting internal injuries. He died on 27th December.

NEWBOLD Edward - 1908 - 11/05/1908 – Age 34 - Reservoir Stallman, Moira Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Fall of roof. Deceased was setting a prop to the roof, as an extra one between the pack and the coal face, when a fall of roof occurred, pushing out the partially set prop and also another that had been set some days before.

NEWBURY Arthur Charles - 1905 - 12/07/1905 – Age 17 - Linby Horse Driver, Linby Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased received a broken leg from an accident on 21st June and died of suppurative appendicitis. pericarditis and syncope.

NEWBURY Reuben - 1907 - 09/01/1907 – Age 36 - Elliot Haulier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. As he was taking three full trams out along the Main West Level of the Lower Four Feet Seam and walking close in front of the horse, he stumbled over the iron sleeper and was crushed under the first tram before the horse could be stopped. He died on the 13th Jan.

NEWBY John Wilson - 1904 - 25/03/1904 – Age 26 - Medmosley Hewer, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While hewing he dislodged a slip and a hitch leader running at right angles to each other at which a stone measuring 12 feet long by 4 feet by 2 feet fell and knocked out all the timber and killed him.

NEWHAM William John - 1903 - 05/10/1903 – Age 33 - Henwain Roadman, John Lancaster and Co., Monmouth. Having apparently mistaken the position of the journey in the engine plane on which he was engaged it came on him unexpectedly and killed him.

NEWMAN Arthur - 1909 - 14/07/1909 – Age 31 - Deep Duffryn Haulier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased had pushed an empty tram into a working place, and with his left hand on the coal, near to the tram, he was spragging it with his right, when an unsupported piece of the cliff roof, 5 feet by 2 feet by 11 inches thick, fell onto the tram and caught his fingers. He was taken to the Hospital and remained there until he died from tetanus on July 30th. Six feet seam.

NEWMAN John - 1907 - 06/02/1907 – Age 52 - Birmingham Road Iron Ore Quarry Quarryman, Alfred Espleys Brickworks Ltd., Warwickshire. Several shots had been fired the previous day and the clay was being loaded up when a further fall occurred and killed deceased.

NEWMAN W.C. - 1905 - 18/11/1905 – Age 16 - Bedlinog No.1 Collier Boy, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. At face coal, 7 feet by 27 inches by 23 inches thick, fell, crushed one sprag out and killed deceased. The coal overhung about one foot. The sprags must have been badly set and was too short. Ras Las seam.

NEWNES William - 1907 - 01/03/1907 – Age 19 - Newstead Horse Driver, Newstead Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. A timber bar which had recently been set, fell and struck deceased on the head. Meningitis followed and he died on 19th March.

NEWSOME Sam - 1904 - 31/03/1904 – Age 50 - Shaw Cross Enginewright, Crawshaw and Warburton Ltd., Yorkshire. He got into one of the buckets of a slack elevator, to examine a damaged one, when by some misunderstanding a man gave a signal to the engineman to start the elevator and deceased was carried up to the top of it and fatally crushed.

NEWTON Alfred - 1907 - 17/07/1907 – Age 51 - Dare Labourer, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was travelling along an engine plane at the end of his shift when the men with him observed that the empty journey had started in from the pit, and advised him to get into a manhole as they did. He disregarded their advice and had passed three manholes, when the journey knocked him down and ran over him. The place was 9 feet wide, and there were manholes 10 to 14 yards apart. He was found near a manhole. He died November 26th.

NEWTON James - 1906 - 02/08/1906 – Age 35 - Ty Trist Labourer, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He, with two others, was pushing a truck into position for unloading with a locomotive. He pushed another waggon against it but it knocked him down. The waggon passed over him, causing instantaneous death.

NEWTON Joseph - 1904 - 12/12/1904 – Age 57 - Oak Collier, Chamber Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. At face of working place, from a known slip. Timbering rule four feet distance proved to be five feet without support; the prop wanted would probably have saved the life. (Bad roof).

NEWTON Thomas - 1905 - 16/06/1905 – Age 26 - Shilbottle Shifter, Shilbottle Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. George Selby died on 18th June. The shaft siding, which lies above the seam being worked, had been in the course of enlargement for two years. Side stone was worked off on occasions when the pit was idle. The road when finished was about 12 feet wide and 10 feet high. The sides were principally post with blue metal at top and bottom. The jacks in the stone were blackened with dust. On the day of the accident a shift of three deputies had worked at the place from 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. They were visited both by the undermanager and overman. At 10 a.m. deceased men and others commenced their shift and while deceased men filled loose stones into tubs a stoneman prepared a shot about 18 feet from the place where the stone fell and this shot was fired at noon charged with 1 lb. of powder. It did not do much work but may have helped to loosen the stone. After returning, after the shot, the overman made an examination and then work was resumed. In about 20 minutes a mass of the the post fell from the side and caught deceased, who were filling stones. The fall came away at jacks and there was a slip at the bottom. It gave no warning but any slight sound might not have been heard owing to the noise proceeding from pumps working in the shaft and water falling therein. The Local Inspectors reported, we are of the opinion the occurrence has been a pure accident. 2 killed.

NEWTON Tom Jackson - 1901 - 20/06/1901 – Age 35 - Stanley Carpenter, Derby Kilburn Colliery Co., Derbyshire.

NEWTON William jnr. – 1906 – 27/07/1906 – Age 31 – Moston Filler, Platt Bros. and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst filling coal into a tub the roof suddenly began to weighten and a large stone came over a prop from a break. Only a bar would have prevented the fall. The fireman is the father of deceased, together with the undermanager they examined the place at 10 am. and thought the place well propped. (Average roof)

NICHOL George – 1901 – 02/09/1901 – Age 47 – North Walbottle Set Rider, North Walbottle Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inquest attended. While following his regular work, as set rider, his head came in contact with a telephone post. He was standing on the break lever and probably leaned too far from the waggon.

NICHOL Henry – 1900 – 11/12/1900 – Age 36 – Seaton Burn Railway Waggon Rider, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. It was his duty to ride on the front waggon and disconnect the chain attached to the hauling rope. In doing so he failed to throw the chain clear of the waggon wheels and fell in front of the waggon. This took place about nine miles colliery.

NICHOL Thomas - 1906 - 02/1905/1906 – Age 14 - Wheatley Hill Driver, Weardale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When attempting to stop four tubs running amain he tripped and fell. The first wheel of the first tub went over him, causing internal injuries, from which he died thirteen days afterwards.

NICHOLAS Frederick - 1904 - 27/10/1904 - Age 17 - Glass Houghton Pony Driver, Glass Houghton & Castleford Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. When walking between a pony and the first tub of his set his heel was caught by the buffer of the tub, which caused him to fall and he was run over and killed.

NICHOLAS George - 1901 - 01/11/1901 – Age 21 - International Carpenter, International Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. In stepping over some old planks he put his foot on an old rusty nail the point of which pricked his foot. Died of lockjaw 10th November.

NICHOLAS James - 1909 - 08/10/1909 – Age 49 - Lower Duffryn Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and other colliers were attempting to pass a stationary, full journey, on their way out from work, when the journey started, and deceased was caught by the last tram and carried 360 yards down the haulage road. They had been told by a fireman, who preceded them, not to try to pass until he shouted that all was clear, but they followed close behind him.

NICHOLAS Thomas - 1908 - 04/01/1908 – Age 34 - Hafod Labourer, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. While pulling an empty train, a full one was pushed after him, with the result that his arm was fractured. Dropsy set in and he died on 12th April from heart failure.

NICHOLAS William - 1905 - 05/09/1905 – Age 34 - Clyne Valley Collier, Clyne Valley Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan Fall of side at face of top hole, rising 40 degrees, while finishing holing the top coal which was spragged, it fell unexpectedly.

NICHOLL James - 1905 - 25/10/1905 – Age 17 - Lochwood No.3 Drawer, Lochwood Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While illegally drawing in front of a hutch he fell and got crushed against a prop.

NICHOLLS Fredrick - 1906 - 16/06/1906 – Age 44 - Tillery Labourer, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Died from pneumonia on the 16th June. He had received a blow from a tram when at work at Tillery Colliery on the 6th April and, on recovering, he began drinking heavily, both of which causes contributed in some degree to the disease.

NICHOLLS James - 1907 - 09/11/1907 - Age 45 - Snyed Collier, Snyed Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was drawing timber in a waste to get some roof down to put in a pack. The rock was so hard that it usually required to be blasted. He had set a post to protect himself and was slackening or drawing another, about 2 feet from it, when a stone 4 feet 6 inches long 5 inches broad came away from a nearly vertical joint and caught him in the loins and legs. He died the same evening. The accident might have been prevented if deceased had complied with Special Rule 81. A Sylvester was provided but it was lying at the foot of a jig 56 yards from him when the accident occurred.

NICHOLLS John - 1906 - 20/09/1906 – Age 37 - Main Labourer, Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A Locomotive, while returning to the colliery, ran into a trolley having ten men of the platelayers gang on board. The collision occurred at a sharp bend in the roadway, and was of such violence as to cause the death of three men and slight injuries to four others. This accident happened on a private railway two miles in length. 3 killed.

NICHOLLS Richard - 1900 - 29/11/1900 – Age 57 - Mardy No.1 Labourer, Lewis Merthyr Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 10 feet x 4 feet x 9 inches thick, fell suddenly while he was barring down a stone. Upper seam.

NICHOLLS Thomas - 1906 - 17/10/1906 – Age 27 - Ebbw Vale Marine No.2 Collier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of coal from the face while he was throwing back coal in his working place. Two sprags are alleged to have been set against it, but apparently one had been knocked out, and the coal came off from a sooty grime.

NICHOLLS William - 1901 - 17/01/1901 – Age 80 - Church Gresley Labourer, Moira Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was a very old man who looked after a furnace and attended to the fires on the pit brow. He was struck by the buffers of a wagon as he was crossing the line and was killed.

NICHOLSON Edward - 1904 - 22/02/1904 – Age 30 - Ryhope Hewer, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was travelling out of one way when the set was coming out of another and by some means he got caught by it and was severely injured. The manager thinks he had attempted to get on to the set to ride out. Died 26th inst.

NICHOLSON H. - 1900 - 12/12/1900 – Age 67 - Shildon Horsehelper, Shildon Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Head and chest injured by moving tubs running into him. Died the following day.

NICHOLSON John Porter – 1905 – 23/03/1905 – Age 30 – Beckermet, Iron Ore Sinker, Beckermet Mining Co. Ltd., Cumberland. The shaft here is sinking through the St. Bees sandstone to reach iron ore in the Carboniferous Limestone below, and is fairly heavily watered. The shaft is rectangular in section, 17 feet 9 inches long and 7 feet 9 inches wide, the winding space in the centre being 4 feet 4 inches by 7 feet 9 inches. A depth of 94 fathoms had been sunk in the St. Bees sandstone, and at 80 fathoms a ledge was cut where most of the water was intercepted and an electrical pump installed which pumped to the surface. The water in the pit bottom then only amounted to about four barrels or vats per hour and was raised to the surface by a vat 4 feet deep and 2 feet 2 inches diameter by the winding engine. On the day of the accident the motor at the 80-fathom lodge tired, and the pump was stopped for 15 minutes. In order to restart the pump the column was run off, and the water finding its way to the shaft bottom alarmed five sinkers working there, and they all got on to the edge of the vat, which was then in the bottom, except deceased, whose position was not apparently known, but who may have been clinging to the edge of the vat by his hands. In the excitement all the lights but one, were extinguished. The vat was signalled up to the ledge, and when there deceased fell away into the bottom and was killed. The leading sinker unfortunately was not in the bottom at the time or the panic might not have arisen. The overman stated at the inquest that he had informed the men that the column might be run off.

NICHOLSON Joseph – 1908 – 02/09/1908 – Age 37 – Leasingthorne Stoneman, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He and three others were clearing away the debris from a shot. He had noticed a piece of bad stone at the right hand side of the place and was preparing to put a prop under it when it suddenly fell on him. There were two slips one of which was invisible prior to the stone falling.

NICHOLSON Matthew – 1903 – 13/07/1904 – Age 29 – Woodfield Labourer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When lowering a truck by a side brake he was seriously crushed between the truck and coke bench. Died on the 25th.

NICHOLSON Robert – 1904 – 05/10/1904 – Age 66 – Seaton Delaval Chargeman, Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died October 14th. Deceased was cutting in the floor of a coal seam, to take the road across a small rise, but was having trouble handing balks of timber, 6 inches square and from 4 feet to 6 feet long to a man who was building a chock in the seam above him. Immediately after handing one of the balks he was taken ill and lay on his back in the cutting. He apparently recovered finishing his shift and visiting some places with the master shifter, to whom he made no mention of the attack. He worked no more and next day, the doctor found him suffering from strangulated hernia complicated by a previous rupture. An operation on the 12th was apparently successful but peritonitis supervened from which he died.

NICHOLSON Robert – 1908 – 28/07/1908 – Age 29 – Whitham Hall, Whinstone Quarry Quarryman, Cradock Allison and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A tunnel was being driven from one part of the Quarry to another. A piece of whinstone fell from the roof of the tunnel on to his neck as he was stooping down and killed him instantly.

NICHOLSON Thomas – 1900 – 10/11/1900 – Age 17 – Springwell Bank Head Waggonman, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. He was coupling trucks and was caught between the buffers. He was not using the pole provided for the purpose.

NICHOLSON Thomas – 1900 – 19/11/1900 – Age 56 – Eston Ironstone Deputy, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. N.R. His attention having been called to some stone in a working place he went to examine it and while he was doing so a stone fell upon him and killed him.

NICHOLSON Thomas – 1901 – 18/12/1901 – Age 47 – Pemberton Collier, Pemberton Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged at the coalface when a stone fell from between two slips in the roof capping two props and injuring his leg. He died from the effects of blood poisoning January 3rd. 1902.

NICHOLSON Thomas – 1906 – 15/01/1906 – Age 29 – Balognie Miner, CB Balfour, Fife. The roof, which was coal was low, and deceased and two others began to heighten and repair it. Deceased was filling a tub when some roof coal fell close by him and thinking he would be safer inside he ran forward and then the roof collapsed and he was buried beneath it.

NICHOLSON Thomas – 1906 – 31/07/1906 – Age 41 – Gascow, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, AH Strongitharm, Lancashire. The baring is about 5 feet thick, and had been removed for a distance of 10 feet back from the Quarry face. On the day of the accident a charge of 10 lbs. of powder had been put into a crack at the top of the Quarry and fired. The effect of this was to further loosen a big stone and deceased and two other men were directed by the foreman to bar down this lump in the dinner hour. They tried with a level 12 feet long and an ordinary crowbar but failing to move it deceased and one of the other men stepped on the stone (which was only 18 inches below the top of the Quarry) to remove some small loose pieces of stone with the object of obtaining a leverage at another point. They had just got on to the stone when it suddenly gave way and deceased was precipitated with it to the bottom of the Quarry, a distance of 60 feet. The other man was able to scramble back on to the solid ground.

NICHOLSON William – 1906 – 04/02/1906 – Age 50 – Scar, Sandstone Quarry Carpenter, John Best, Yorkshire. He was putting new lagging on to a winding drum, and when shifting the rope from the unfinished side to the completed side he was struck on the head by the rope and killed.

NICHOLSON William – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 35 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 15 Chester Road, Stanley.

NICHOLSON William Gray - 1905 - 27/07/1905 – Age 1 - Bebside Infant - Bebside Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased's father lived in a house about 20 yards from a siding leading from the main line to the depot siding, and there was no fence. Deceased, and other children, were playing on the line while a North Eastern Railway Co.'s engine was at the Colliery, and he was run over. No one appears to have seen the accident happen.

NICKELL Samuel - 1907 - 08/10/1907 – Age 32 - South Phoenix, Tin Miner, Cornish Consolidated Tin Mines Ltd., Cornwall. Having lit one shot of gelignite he was engaged lighting a second with which he appears to have had some little delay when the first went off, and injured him so badly that he died on the 11th October. He evidently cut the fuses too short.

NICKERSON Joseph - 1902 - 12/11/1902 – Age 55 - Cinderhill Carpenter, Babbington Coal Co., Nottinghamshire. The deceased was making alterations to the upper floor of an engine house. He had sawn in two the joists supporting a small portion of the floor and stepping on the same it broke away and deceased fell to the floor of the engine house a distance of 18 feet.

NICKLIN John - 1907 - 25/01/1907 – Age 14 - Exhall Door boy, Exhall Colliery Co., Warwickshire. As a clip on the endless rope could not be removed the blocks were opened and the rope stopped. In the meantime a man got the clip off and the tubs ran away down the incline, and killed deceased.

NICOL Andrew Hugh - 1900 - 29/03/1900 – Age 17 - Ballochmyle (Sandstone Quarry) Labourer, Marcus Brain, Ayrshire. An iron box had just been emptied of its contents into a bogie, on the bank, when the chain attaching it to the crane rope broke. The box toppled over upon him.

NICOL Robert - 1908 - 18/12/1908 – Age 27 - Hepscott Pumpman, Hepscott Colliery Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Caught by spur gearing of hauling engine.

NICOL Thomas - 1903 - 23/04/1903 – Age 52 - Lochhead Miner, Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was about to commencing holing when a large piece of coal fell away from an unseen lype.

NICOL Thomas - 1907 - 16/04/1906 – Age 32 - Bowhill Miner, Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was clearing away coal to make room for a prop, when a stone fell from the roof and striking him he was killed instantly.

NICOL William - 1908 - 02/07/1908 – Age 50 - Clyde, Backmuir No.3 Repairer, Wilsons and Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When a shot, said to have been of arkite, was fired electrically it ignited firedamp which caused an explosion. The shot-firer and another man were injured.

NICOL William - 1908 - 27/04/1908 – Age 66 - Home Farm Waggoner, Hamilton McCulloch and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. In some unknown manner he was run over by waggons which he was moving in a lye.

NICHOLAS David John - 1908 - 16/12/1908 – Age 29 - Coegnant Haulier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Knocked down and run over by a coal laden tram, which had run wild down a gradient of 1 in 9. The tram had been left spragged in four wheels, by the haulier who had turned up a roadway to the right to get another loaded tram. In the meantime, another haulier drove his horse against the tram which was standing on the edge of the gradient and it ran away.

NIGHTINGALE James - 1904 - 29/11/1904 – Age 51 - Wath Main Trammer, Wath Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When tramming in a gateway a fall of roof occurred at a slip which canted and caused such severe injuries that he died on December 4th.

NIGHTINGALE Job - 1900 - 14/12/1900 – Age 44 - Hamstead Stallman, Hamstead Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of coal in thick coal opening from side of pillar. Cause a bump.

NIGHTINGALE John - 1907 – 26/04/1907 – Age 48 - Renishaw Park No.3 Dataller, J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was widening a roadway by taking out an old pack and building a new one. This work appears to have caused a readjustment of weight and allowed a large quantity of roof to fall.

NIGHTINGALE Walter - 1909 - 25/11/1909 – Age 39 - Hickleton Main Collier, Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased men were working in a faulty place when a sharp bump threw out a number of props and caused a large area of the roof to fall. Both men were buried. The place was very well timbered, but was far too wide. 2 killed.

NIGHTINGALE William - 1904 - 01/07/1904 – Age 51 - New Peterborough No.3, Quarry Quarryman, New Peterborough Brick Co., Huntingdon. While undercutting the overburden a quantity fell upon him.

NIMMO James - 1906 - 07/09/1906 – Age 24 - Lanemark No.2 Chain runner, Lanemark Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. In some unexplained manner he fell off a race, being drawn up a dook, and was run over by the hutches. The roof was too low to permit of riding on the hutches with safety, and I suspect that he was in the first instance caught by the low roof.

NINEHAM Henry - 1903 - 07/12/1903 – Age 25 - Writhlington Collier, Writhlington Colliery Co. Ltd., Somerset. When holing on the top of the coal he exposed a slip and as there was already another one running close to the face they released a large stone which fell and crushed him.

NISBET James - 1904 - 18/03/1904 – Age 62 - Caprington No. 42 Miner, Caprington and Auchlochan Collieries, Ayrshire. Fall of roof in working place. Apparently it had not been propped as required by the regulations.

NISBET John - 1904 - 13/09/1904 – Age 24 - Maxwood Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. While replacing crowns blown down at the working face by a shot the roof fell on him. He died in April.

NISBET John - 1907 - 16/04/1907 – Age 38 - Ross Contractor, Thomas Barr’s Trust, Lanarkshire. He lit the fuses of three gelignite shots. Thinking all had gone off he returned too soon when one of the shots went off on him.

NISBET Richard - 1901 - 23/04/1901 – Age 48 - Drumpeller Nos. 3 & 4 Miner, Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While illegally riding in an empty hutch, attached to a race of full hutches coming down a haulage road they ran off the rails and his spine was broken.

NIXON Arthur E. - 1904 - 03/01/1904 – Age 21 - Florence Shoveller, Florence Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Slipped and fell on revolving cutter wheel of coal cutting machine.

NIXON Ernest Edward - 1906 - 17/09/1906 – Age 13 - Portland No.2 Horse driver, Butterley Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased received a slight injury in the mine on 3rd Sept. and the coroner’s jury returned a verdict ‘That he died of tetanus, the result of an accident, probably caused while at play a week prior to the 3rd September.'

NIXON Fred Talbot - 1908 - 04/03/1908 – Age 26 - Moston Foxholes Collier, Platt Bros. and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face from a slip, overhanging not supported. Owing to the steep inclination there is always the danger of roof settlement causing a sudden fall of such coal without warning. (Died 5th July)

NIXON John - 1901 - 18/03/1901 – Age 21 - Seaham Driller, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. These two men were assisting to set a new Lancashire boiler when the chocks on which it was resting gave way and the boiler, in falling, caught and crushed them to death. 2 killed.

NIXON John Thomas – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 24 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 1 Ann Street, Stanley.

NIXON Joseph – 1900 – 08/10/1900 – Age 39 – Black Prince Screenman, Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fatally crushed between buffers of empty trucks when going between to uncouple them.

NIXON Joseph – 1909 – 16/02/09 – Age 16 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 1 Ann St.

NIXON Matthew – 1908 – 23/09/1908 – Age 31 – Throckley, Blucher Hewer, Throckley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of side stone at working place.

NIXON Matthew Henry – 1903 – 09/05/1903 – Age 39 – Throckley Mason, Throckley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died 26th June. It is doubtful if this case should be included as a colliery accident. He was engaged building an arch underground, Firebricks were used the surfaces of which were rougher than ordinary bricks. He had finger guards but did not use them and wore the skin off his thumb and fingers. Blood poisoning supervened.

NIXON Thomas – 1904 – 13/01/1904 – Age 20 – Barrasford, Whinstone Quarry Quarryman, Whinstone Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was working about 12 feet from the floor of the Quarry on a pile of loose rock. He had fired two springing shots of gunpowder in cracks in the rock; about 15 minutes after firing the last shot, which contained about 0.5 lb. of powder, he was preparing to recharge the crack when about 10 tons of rock fell from the face about 10 feet directly above him. He was struck on the head and knocked off the loose stone into the bottom of the Quarry. He had examined the face, above where he was working the day before, using a rope and had pinched off any loose stone. There was a slip at the bottom of the rock that fell and cracks at sides. The previous night had been very wet and this may have helped with the shots to loosen the rock.

NIXON Thomas Anthony – 1904 – 03/05/1904 – Age 48 – Charlow Coal Cutter, Charlow & Scariston Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. In starting the coal cutter he got by the disc of the coal cutter. The coal cutter switch evidently turned on by himself and in consequence when the current was turned on at the gateway switch the machine started and he was caught by the wheel.

NOAKES Ernest – 1901 – 12/10/1901 – Age 27 – Reeds Wood Quarry Labourer, Walsall Corporation, Staffordshire. Fall of overhanging rock from the face of the Quarry, two others injured.

NOAKES George – 1902 – 11/06/1902 – Age 45 – Writhlington, Huish & Foxcote Repairer, Writhlington Collieries Co. Ltd., Somerset. When ripping the top and clearing the road at the bottom of the pumping pit, to increase the size of the standage, a large stone, about 8 yards long fell. It was liberated from a slip which was apparently invisible at the time. Another repairer was trying to wedge it down from the inside under the impression that it was very strong and could only be got down in pieces. 2 killed.

NOBLE Christopher – 1908 – 04/03/1908 – Age 6 – Cadeby Main Driver, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased was taking two empty tubs inbye and was walking between his horse and the tubs when a stone, 4 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 6 inches by 9 inches thick, fell from the roof upon him and so seriously injured him that he died the following day. The fall disclosed a concave slip.

NOBLE Robert – 1902 – 14/07/1902 – Age 24 – Coanwood, Whinstone Quarry Quarryman, Coanwood Whinstone Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A charge of about 30 lbs. of gunpowder had been inserted in a fissure in the rock and the deceased men had lit the fuse when the charge exploded. Probably some grains of powder at the edge of the fissure were ignited and the charge thereby fired or it may have been done by sparks from the burning fuse. 2 killed.

NOBLE Robert – 1902 – 22/04/1902 – Age 59 – Seaham Stoneman, Londonderry Collieries Co., Co.Durham. Tripped over some rails and fell face downwards across the permanent way and was crushed about his bowels. Died on the 24th inst.

NOBLETT Peter – 1908 – 13/08/1908 – Age 72 – Bradford Deep Fireman, Bradford Colliery Co., Lancashire. From a bobbinite shot in the roof in the roadway near the face. Two shots lit together and fired by ordinary fuse and the powder igniter. Two breaks in the roof, one near the explosive contained gas which ignited when the charge of the second shot exploded. (Died 22nd)

NOLAN Andrew – 1901 – 23/08/1901 – Age 23 – Cymmer New Haulier, Insoles Ltd., Glamorgan. While taking a tram of rubbish down a heading the pin attached the shaft to the gun came out. Deceased was knocked down by the horse and killed by the tram passing over him.

NOLAN James – 1902 – 10/05/1902 – Age 19 – Aldwarke Main Filler, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Overpowered by a full tub when bringing it down a dipping road without lockers. He was in front of the tub.

NOLAN James – 1907 – 23/07/1907 – Age 35 – Clydesdale Miner, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

NOLAN John – 1900 – 03/11/1900 – Age 42 – The Park Contractor – J and R Stone, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made. They were timbering the return air road and had just completed putting up three bars when some side came over knocking out the bars and falling upon the deceased. He succumbed to the injuries on the 27th.

NOLAN or HURST Henry – 1905 – 13/11/1905 – North Biddick Lambton Collieries Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Death took place on 13th Nov. 1905 due to heart failure brought on by pneumonia.

NOLAN Peter – 1908 – 31/03/1908 – Age 28 – Low Hall No.5 Contractor, Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. He was repairing an airway, and when preparing to line two bars, a portion of the side gave way, capping the two bars and some roof fell, fatally injuring deceased.

NONEY William – 1902 – 20/12/1902 – Age 51 – Garswood Hall Dataller, Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged in getting a stone down from the roof, to allow a tub to pass to fill up an old roadway when more roof came than he expected, he was crushed by the fall. He succumbed to the injuries received at the infirmary, May 2nd. 1903.

NOON John Henry – 1901 – 19/06/1901 – Age 29 – New Langley Stallman, Butterley Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was getting the roof coal down at the gate end and when the coal fell the stone followed and inflicted fatal injuries from which he died on the 19th August.

NOON Robert – 1905 – 07/04/1905 – Age 57 – Reservoir Header, Moira Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Previous to death he said he had injured himself while at work in the mine on 8th February. A post mortem examination was made but no evidence of injury was found and the coroner’s jury returned a verdict that he died from a clot of blood on the heart and extending to the pulmonary artery.

NORBURN Robert William - 1908 - 03/12/1908 – Age 15 - Monk Bretton Pony driver, Monk Bretton Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He had been to the face to see whether the colliers had any tubs filled, and was returning along the gate road to bring his pony, when a heavy weight bump occurred and caused a fall of roof which killed him instantly.

NORCROSS Thomas - 1901 - 14/09/1901 – Age 36 - Legh Balancer, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged with the fireman changing bars in a level and when preparing a hole for a bar leg a stone from the roof fell fatally injuring him. There was only a space of four feet between the other two bars.

NORMAN Frank - 1905 - 23/06/1905 – Age 21 - Burt’s Limestone Miner, Alfred Burt, Dorset. When underpicking a piece of stone, it fell upon him from a joint, causing immediate death.

NORMAN John William - 1908 - 23/10/1908 – Age 30 - Dinnington Engineman, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fell down the shaft from an intermediate seam.

NORRIS Patrick - 1907 - 09/09/1907 – Age 48 - Dulais Labourer, Dulais Anthracite Collieries Co. Ltd., Brecon. Explosion of firedamp or coal dust. 3 killed.

NORTH Frederick - 1906 - 13/10/1906 - Spawood Miner, Sir B Samuelson and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Death due to natural causes.

NORTH George - 1906 - 26/04/1906 – Age 33 - Monckton Main Collier, Monckton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. When on his way to the shaft bottom, at the end of his shift, he was overtaken by two full tubs and fatally injured. The two tubs were travelling at 10 or 12 miles an hour owing to a mistake made by a boy at a pass-bye, who when making up a set of 36 full tubs, had forgotten to couple the second and third one, and the rope, therefore, went away with the two full tubs but the deceased had been told, when the tubs were about 100 yards away, to get out of the way. There were plenty of refuge holes.

NORTH Gustavus - 1905 - 26/04/1905 – Age 58 - Robin Hood Stallman, J and J Charlesworth Ltd., Yorkshire. When travelling to his work, on the main level, the roof gave a sudden burst and about two tons of stone fell, displacing a prop, and caught and killed him.

NORTH John - 1901 - 27/03/1901 – Age 66 - Ferndale No.6 Collier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. While passing into work he stood on the side to allow a horse and full tram to pass and was crushed between the coal on the tram and side of road.

NORTHAGE J.H. - 1903 - 18/11/1903 – Age 23 - Carlton Main Planeman, Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was travelling along the road, some yards from the working face, some coal and rock fell and buried him. A bump occurred at the time of the accident.

NORTHALL John - 1903 - 04/03/1903 – Age 46 - Saltwell No. 37 Loader, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of side (coal) from a slip in an opening in the thick coal.

NORTHERN James - 1909 - 12/06/1909 – Age 49 - Senghenydd Collier, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 20 inches by 15 inches by 7 inches thick, fell between two posts, 2 feet 6 inches apart, and caused internal injuries from which he died next day. Four feet seam.

NORWOOD Edgar - 1901 - 07/11/1901 – Age 18 - Teversal Engineman, Stanton Iron Works Co., Nottinghamshire. He was found dead in the engine house. There was no evidence of any accident having happened to him and a coroner's jury said that whether death 'arose from sudden illness or otherwise, there was not sufficient evidence to prove.'

NORWOOD Thomas - 1907 - 20/11/1907 – Age 63 - Saltwells No.1 Pikeman, Earl of Dudley, Worcestershire. Deceased was holing at a longwall face when a piece of black butt, about 7 lbs. in weight, dropped from the roof behind the face props, it slid down a pack and struck him on the back and shoulder blade. Some ribs were fractured pneumonia supervened and he died 15 days afterwards. The props were only 2.5 feet apart and the pack was within 2.5 feet of the coal face.

NOSEWORTHY Alfred Charles - 1906 – Age 25 - Pomphlett Mill Quarry Quarryman, Died suddenly from an epileptic fit when at work on the 24th May.

NOT Benjamin - 1902 - 27/08/1902 – Age 71 - Titterstone, Basalt Quarry Stonebreaker, Field and Mackay, Shropshire. Knocked down by waggons while walking on the railway.

NOTMAN Robert - 1901 - 23/01/1901 – Age 36 - Loanhead Miner, Shotts Iron Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. About the beginning of the year a fire was discovered in the rise workings of the Corbie Craig Coal Seam, and to extinguish it the air current was cut off by means of stoppings. The result was that the workings referred to and the workings of other seems in the same district were filled with gasses from the fire and blackdamp. When the workings were opened deceased, who with others was engaged at that work, wandered into another section in search of some tools and was suffocated.

NOVLE Edward - 1908 - 05/06/1908 – Age 53 - Garesfield Hewer, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Caught by engine set.

NUNN Edwin - 1909 - 07/09/1909 – Age 21 - West Riding Loco. Fireman, Pope and Pearson Ltd., Yorkshire. When crossing the sidings he foolishly went between the buffers of loaded wagons standing in the sidings. A wagon from the screens bumped the standing wagons and be was fatally crushed.

NURDEN George - 1901 - 20/12/1901 – Age 27 - Llanhilleth Hitcher, Partridge Jones Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A small lump of coal, not larger than a man's hand, fell from the surface and struck his head. He was about to walk through the cage to give the signal from the other side of the shaft for men to ascend.

NUTTALL George - 1905 - 05/10/1905 – Age 18 - West Elliot Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Is supposed to have been illegally riding out from work on the front of the first tram of a full journey attached to the endless rope by a clip, which, catching a roller, knocked him off. He was found underneath a tram having evidently been dragged along by it for some distance. The road roomy and apparently in good order.

NUTTALL George - 1908 - 04/11/1908 – Age 53 - Bridgewater No.3 Dataller, Earl of Ellesmere, Lancashire. Whilst repairing the main horse road a hole drilled for a shot in that which fell from the opposite side to that where fireman was engaged with a bar levering down roof. Deceased was told by the fireman to stand back. Without telling Greman, deceased moved forward in order to pull back a tub to prevent its being damaged. This cost him his life. (Died 27th December) (Good roof)

NUTTALL James - 1901 - 20/02/1901 – Age 54 - Gin Collier, Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in brow, 7 yards back from the face. A prop had been withdrawn 20 minutes before the fall took place. Died 12th. December (Average roof).

NUTTALL Jeremiah - 1901 - 17/12/1901 – Age 53 - Hewlett No.1 Collier, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof at face of working place from pronounced slip known to be there. Roof fell uncapping two props set 3 feet from the face. Fireman had examined an hour before and failed to give any instructions to secure it (Bad roof).

NUTTALL Joseph - 1907 - 26/08/1907 – Age 56 - Brackley Collier, Lord Ellesmere, Lancashire. Fall of side in roadway near ripping face, on entering the place, Monday morning, after two days not working, deceased saw a large stone had settled on the pack and pushed a prop from under; against the advice of a companion deceased proceeded to set a prop under the stone whilst driving it up, his mate had one hand on the stone, feeling it move he shouted "Look up, Joe," deceased stepped across to the other side of the road and the stone slid from the pack, rested a moment on edge then toppled over, pushing deceased against a prop. Died 30th September.