PACE Cuthbert Henry - 1900 - 01/09/1900 – Age 23 - Tanfield Moor Waggonman, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inquest attended. The deceased was crushed between the wall and a waggon as he was running the latter out from the screens.

PACE Henry - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 46 - Wingate Shifter, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust result of shot firing. 25 killed.

PACE James - 1906 - 02/10/1906 – Age 42 - Point Limestone Quarry Foreman, ER Payne and Son Ltd., Gloucestershire. A temporary smith’s shop had been erected against the face or side in a disused part of the Quarry. Some large overhanging stone, which was thought to be secure, fell from the Quarry wall upon this shed in which deceased were working. The rocks or stones were presumably loosened by the heat of the smiths’ fire and rain. Pace had his leg broken below the knee and died from blood-poisoning on October 8th, 1906. Smith had his left leg badly cut, and died on November 13th, 1906, from exhaustion and diarrhoea brought on by the accident. 2 killed.

PACEY Frederick - 1908 - 21/05/1908 – Age 21 - Lochgelly Drawer, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased put an empty tub on a chain, and told the drawer at the first cut in the brae, 16 feet up, to shove over he did so but having failed to attach the chain to his loaded tub it ran amain, and before deceased could clear himself he was caught. He died twenty days after. Had deceased obeyed the rule to stand clear while tubs are in motion no accident would have occurred.

PADDISON or PATTINSON Thomas - 1904 - 18/10/1904 – Age 21 - Eldon Putter, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Bringing three full tubs out when one got off the way. The coal filler thinking he had been a long time out of the place went out to seek him and found him laid between the side and the tub with his hand on the coal cutting electric cable, dead. Buried in South Church Cemetery.

PADFIELD Benjamin - 1909 - 17/11/1909 – Age 17 - Bedwellty Pony haulier, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was driving a pony, taking rubbish into an old road from a repairer who was clearing a fall on a heading. In order to get there he had to change his pony from end to end of the tram. At the place of the accident he appears to have done so, there being room at one side, while on the other there was a broken arm within three inches of the tram, and as he had sprags in the wheels on this side, he seems to have been about to take them out, and had his hand on one when found. To do so he would cause the pony to pull up in order to ease the sprag. The pony probably backed a little, and his head was crushed between the tram and the broken arm. About 4 yards further down there was room for the pony to pass at either side of the tram. The occurrence may be attributed to an error of judgement on the boy's part in changing at this point. He knew the district and had been driving the pony, a very quiet one, for some days.

PADFIELD John Henry - 1905 - 09/03/1905 – Age 15 - Ebbw Vale Marine Collier, Ebbw Vale Steel and Iron Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of coal and clod at the working face, which came away from an unseen slip.

PADKIN John - 1903 - 13/04/1903 – Age 52 - Grangemouth Waggon driver, Grangemouth Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. Deceased was hauling a rake of four small waggons by means of a horse towards the loading jetty and when nearing the weighing house stumbled as he stepped off the lead waggon and one wheel of the waggon passed over him.

PAGAN John - 1901 - 29/03/1901 – Age 44 - Seghill Stoneman, Joseph Laycock and Co., Northumberland. Died 18th May 1904. He was injured in the Yard seam on the 29th March, 1901 while engaged putting a pack wall or building in longwall workings using stone that had been shot down. The roof was not very good but as the stone shot down was in the way of setting timber he delayed supporting it, the accident was caused by a stone and his spine was injured. He was never able to work again and was first taken to the infirmary in Newcastle and then to the workhouse where he died. An inquest was held.

PAGE Eli - 1907 - 24/09/1907 – Age 31 - Carrol Spring Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Wellingborough Iron Co., Northampton. Deceased was struck on the back of the head by stone from a shot fired 53 yards away. Gelignite was the explosive used. He died 27th September.

PAGE Henry - 1909 - 17/07/1909 – Age 28 - South Duffryn No.2 Repairer, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road, cliff, 16 feet by 3 feet 3 inches by 21 to 5 feet thick, fell off a concealed break on to deceased as he was retreating after pulling out a prop with a Sylvester machine. Five feet six seam.

PAGE James Walter - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 29 - Weir Hall, Gravel Quarry Quarryman, William Griffiths and Co. Ltd., Middlesex. When working in the Quarry he was buried by a large fall of gravel. The presence of sandbacks and the working of a lower portion of the Quarry face up to a face which had been standing for a considerable time, without leaving a ledge between them, were the causes of the fall.

PAGE John - 1905 - 03/11/1905 – Age 28 - Number Nine Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face; fall of partially ripped roof while three men were in front and two behind a tram which they were taking past the place. Victoria seam.

PAINTER William - 1906 - 01/11/1906 – Age 36 - Alfreton Road contractor, Blackwell Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was riding on the coupling chains between the two last tubs of a train of 35 loaded tubs when some of the tubs left the rails and the last tub crushed deceased. He died 12th November.

PALIN J.T. - 1902 - 12/10/1902 – Age 16 - Conduit Driver - Conduit Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Run over by tub drawn by a horse. No one saw how the accident occurred.

PALING William Henry - 1909 - 01/01/1909 – Age 13 - Clifton Hanger on, Clifton Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. A set of six empty tubs were going on a selfacting incline and they collided with the full set, causing five of the empty tubs to run back and fatally injure deceased. The jury expressed the opinion that so young a boy should not have the responsible duty of putting the under chain on the set.

PALLETT Thomas - 1908 - 06/11/1908 – Age 48 - Ansley Hall Screenman, Ansley Hall Coal and Iron Co., Warwickshire. Deceased was oiling rollers, and passing from one part to another when he was caught by an empty waggon being shunted, and was fatally crushed.

PALMER Charles - 1902 - 12/11/1902 – Age 45 - Ackton Hall Collier, Ackton Hall Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in a gate road where he was handling a tub. Cause a black parting.

PALMER Henry - 1902 - 18/07/1902 – Age 61 - Consett Blacksmith, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fell down dead when at work from natural causes.

PALMER Joseph - 1906 - 02/07/1906 – Age 30 - Bromley, Bridge Banksman, William Parrish and Co., Staffordshire. Deceased and four others were putting on the pinion wheel of an electric pump. By some unexplained means the motor started, deceased’s trousers were caught by the wheels mid, his left leg was torn off. He died almost immediately. Three of the men present maintained that no one was near the switch when the motor started but when one of them switched off the current it immediately stopped.

PALMER Percival - 1908 - 24/06/1908 – Age 15 - Shirebrook Horse driver, Shirebrook Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased left a siding with six full tubs but failed to secure those left behind. Some full tubs followed his train and bumped into the six full tubs, pushing his horse forward and the tubs as he was, probably, turning the points.

PALMER William - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 58 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery Co., Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 9 Rifle Street, Stanley.

PALMER William - 1904 - 28/04/1904 – Age 15 - Ashington Driver, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased left a flat, which had only been in use for a week, sitting on the limbers of his pony which was drawing four full tubs with a drag in the last wheel of the last tub as the road inclined outbye at 1 inch per yard. The flat had the same inclination and tubs would not stand in it unless dragged. No chock was provided as had been the case at other flats on the same road further outbye. When deceased left the flat four other full tubs were standing in it and it was alleged that the first of these tubs had a drag in each wheel and the second a drag in the last wheel. Two more tubs were brought into the flat and coupled on to the four already there. The deputy instructed the putter to move the tubs forward to make room for more. The putter started them with some difficulty when they ran amain and both he and the deputy ran after them but could not stop them and they collided with deceased's after running over 100 yards and he was thrown off the limbers and found under the second tub of his set badly crushed. The deputy stated at the inquest that after the accident he found two drags in the first of the six run away tubs and a loose drag lying near. Experiments with other tubs at the flat made both by Mr. Nicholson and the Local Inspector threw grave doubts the statements made at the inquest as to the drags in the tubs. The Local Inspectors in their report expressed no opinion as to blame, but said they "found no chock." The Jury recommended that chocks be placed in the flat.

PALMER William - 1908 - 30/06/1908 – Age 55 - Kingswood Labourer, Bedminster Easton Kingswood and Parkfield Collieries Ltd., Gloucestershire. He was riding up a steep incline in an empty tub behind a trolley loaded with rails. At the top of the incline as the gradient altered, the empty tub became uncoupled and ran back 40 yards or so. He was thrown out and picked up quite dead. (Mechanical haulage)

PALMER William - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 58 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 9 Rifle Street, Stanley.

PANTON Thomas - 1907 - 11/01/1907 – Age 19 - East Parkhead Washer, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He went over the fence of the washer engine, apparently to oil a bearing, and got caught by the flywheel.

PARCELL John - 1909 - 10/02/1909 – Age 32 - Mardy No.3 Collier, Lockets Merthyr Collieries (1894) Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, when hurrying in to work, walked into an outgoing journey of full trams and was run over. He had been warned of the approach of the journey. it was a bright day and he probably had not allowed himself, to get his pit eyes.

PARDHAM Walter - 1905 - 07/08/1905 – Age 20 - Clifton Hewer, Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased who was in front and his mate, another young man of 19, who was behind, were lowering a full tub weighing in all about 14 cwt. down a long wall gateway from the face dipping 1 in 6.5, they had gone about 35 yards when deceased's head came in contact with a projection in the somewhat irregular roof and he was fatally injured, dying in a few minutes after he was released. They were probably hurrying to be before other men for an empty tub and just before he was caught deceased had asked his mate to come faster.

PARDOE Alfred - 1906 - 04/07/1906 - Age 25 - Pentyrch, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Evan Owens and Co., Glamorgan. Deceased was shovelling clay off a ledge, 8 feet wide, when about a ton of clay fell from the face of the overburden and buried him. He was so badly crushed and his face so severely cut by falling on the shovel, that he died shortly after. The clay had been overhanging.

PARFITT Isaac - 1908 - 27/06/1908 – Age 33 - Newbury, Mackintosh Repairer, John Wainwright and Co. Ltd., Somerset. He was tramming rubbish from a parting to the pit, and when going to have his supper he arranged with another repairer that in case he had filled all his empty trams before he, Parfitt came back, he should bring a full tram out to the pit. This was done, but the full tram ran into an empty one, which struck Parfitt, who apparently was lying down asleep in the middle of the road, and ruptured his spinal cord. (Runaway tram)

PARFITT James Alfred - 1903 - 29/08/1903 – Age 20 - Bargoed Engineman, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. On leaving the cage, at the bottom landing, he apparently turned sharp round as if to cross the pit and walked into the sump falling through a space of about 13 to 15 inches. He was drowned.

PARK John - 1902 - 12/03/1902 – Age 55 - Cowdenbeath Bencher, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was a bencher or hanger-on the foot of a wheel brae, 27 feet long and dipping 1 in 5. When about to couple on an empty tub he shouted something which a drawer at the braehead mistook for 'shove over'. The loaded tub was consequently sent away before the empty one was attached to the chain. It struck and drove the empty tub against deceased fracturing a rib which perforated his lung. He died about 12 hours afterwards.

PARK John - 1908 - 05/12/1908 – Age 26 - Maesymarchog Collier, Sir Griffith Thomas, Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road while walking along main dip haulage road, at the beginning of the shift, a fall of roof suddenly came down and killed him. The timbers at the side either lost their footing, or water percolating the strata near by loosened the roof. Stone Drift. Safety lamps.

PARK Joseph - 1903 - 11/02/1903 – Age 29 - Wingate Grange Sinker, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery, Co.Durham. These men were in a kibble to descend the shaft which was being sunk from the Low Main to the Harvey Seam. There was a scaffold below the Low Main Seam through which the rope passed. The master sinker signalled for the kibble to be lowered but it did not move and on looking up he saw the rope was coiling on the scaffold but before he could do anything the kibble dropped away, about nine feet, and the men were thrown out and fell to the bottom of the shaft about 38 yards below. 3 killed.

PARK Lewis - 1907 - 28/03/1907 – Age 30 - Dunnikier Wheeler, Walter Herd and Sons Ltd., Fife. The tubs on a self-acting incline, became derailed, and deceased and the hanger-on at the foot re-called them. Owing to some obstruction on this rails the tubs did not, at first, move and afterwards they went away, just as deceased was leaning over them, and he was crushed against this roof which was low at the part.

PARK Robert - 1909 - 14/04/1909 – Age 50 - Auchengeich Miner, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at coal face, in a machine wall, when about to set up props.

PARKER Alfred - 1904 - 17/12/1904 – Age 38 - Seymour Banksman, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. He left his work on 15th December feeling unwell and at the coroner's inquest the jury found that he died from natural causes, "peritonitis".

PARKER Alfred - 1906 - 22/03/1906 – Age 54 - Shirebrook Stallman, Shirebrook Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was pushing a full tub when another man ran another full tub into him. The injury was so slight that he continued at work for two days, but he died on 28th March of blood poisoning and pneumonia.

PARKER Andrew - 1908 - 06/07/1908 – Age 47 - Navigation Collier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 6 feet by 4.5 feet by 12 inches thick, crushed out a prop, and fell on deceased, who was stowing rubbish in the gob. Six feet seam.

PARKER Arthur - 1905 - 06/06/1905 – Age 44 - Stanton Stallman, J and N Nadin and Co., Derbyshire. Premature firing of a shot. He was using a German or squib, made of touch paper and gunpowder and probably lighted the squib itself instead of lighting the primer portion of the squib. He died 3rd July.

PARKER Arthur James - 1909 - 16/01/1909 – Age 31 - Ansley Hall Dayman, Ansley Hall Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Warwick. Two men were pulling a sprag out by using a Sylvester ringer and chain, when the prop upon which the ringer was placed was pulled out, causing some top coal to fall on the two men, killing deceased. The other man was injured.

PARKER Benjamin - 1908 - 02/05/1908 – Age 49 - Featherstone Main Collier, South Kirkby Featherstone and Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He pulled a slab of coal off the face and disclosed a slip. A fall of roof instantly took place and killed him.

PARKER Bernard - 1900 - 23/01/1900 – Age 14 - Cannock & Rugeley Number taker, Cannock & Rugeley Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Run over on branch railway by a train of 19 loaded trucks and cut to pieces.

PARKER Daniel Cole - 1903 - 19/06/1903 – Age 48 - Kingswood Repairer, Kingswood and Parkfield Colliery Co. Ltd., Gloucester. When going to work down a steep incline he slipped and fell rolling to the bottom.

PARKER George - 1903 - 22/12/1903 – Age 28 - Ferndale No. 8 Ripper, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 5 feet by 27 inches by 8 inches thick, fell as the roof under it was ripped down by sledge and wedge. Four feet seam.

PARKER Henry - 1909 - 02/01/1909 – Age 65 - Watergate Deputy, Flimby and Broughton Moor Coal and Firebrick Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Fall of roof on road he was repairing.

PARKER Herbert - 1909 - 30/11/1909 – Age 17 - Houghton Main Pony driver, Houghton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was found lying dead on the top of a pony and in front of a train of four full tubs, one of which was on the rails. It is probable that the pony had swerved, and that the shafts had struck the road timbers. He would be riding on the shafts.

PARKER James - 1906 - 12/09/1906 – Age 27 - Silverwood Collier, Dalton Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was drawing back props from the goaf when the roof fell and displaced two rows, or 12 props, and he was killed on the spot.

PARKER John - 1901 - 11/11/1901 – Age 57 - Denholme Clough Quarry Engineman, George Farrar, Yorkshire. Found dead at the bottom of the Quarry. He had fallen.

PARKER John - 1902 - 01/12/1902 – Age 35 - Glencraig Miner, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased worked in a heading on which, owing to its steepness, the tubs had to be run on the selfacting incline principle. The empty tub left the rails and as soon as he re-railed it, it ran away at a high speed and struck him before he was clear.

PARKER John - 1902 - 05/06/1902 – Age 41 - Midland, Sand Quarry Labourer, Banjamin Perry, Staffordshire. Fall of sand from face of Quarry.

PARKER John - 1902 - 16/07/1902 – Age 42 - Shelton No.2 Rowhurst Collier, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof on breasting level, about 20 yards from the face of the breasting in Rowhurst seam. The two men were shoving a loaded tub out from the face when a large stone fell from the roof. Hughes was killed on the spot and Parker died next day. It was a new district just opening out and appeared to be weighting. Some ripping had been done at the place without getting down the stone which fell. 2 killed.

PARKER Jonathan - 1906 - 19/01/1906 – Age 32 - Roddymoor Hewer, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. When filling a tub in his working place a fall of stone occurred, thrusting out the timbers which were not more than 15 inches apart and killed him.

PARKER N. - 1905 - 01/12/1905 – Age 17 - Strawberry Bank Hurrier, Liversedge Coal Co., Yorkshire. It was his first shift at this pit and he left the ace with a full tub after being instructed by the collier how to proceed. He had gone down a stone drift, dipping 1 in 12, some 240 yards and was near to some stop blocks. In trying to pull up the tub he doubtless twisted it against the rails when it jumped and knocked out a prop and a stone followed the prop and dropped upon the tub and then slid on to him. Died on the 4th inst.

PARKER Ralph Forster - 1905 - 02/10/1905 – Age 14 - Whitburn Trapper, Harton Coal Co., Co.Durham. Deceased, who had only worked a fortnight in the pit, was coming outbye at the end of his shift and was travelling alone down a selfacting incline, 532 yards long, with a gradient of 1.25 inches per yard, on which a set of 30 full tubs started to run against a set of 32 empty tubs shortly after he left the bank head where the brakesman saw him, and warned him to keep on the left side where there was plenty of room to stand clear, besides being supplied with manholes as required by law. The sets came to a stand and his body was found at meetings between the 26th and 27th tubs of the empty set (counting from inbye), and the first tub of the full set (also counting from inbye) was opposite the 20th tub of the empty set, the whole of the full set having passed the point where he was found. Deceased was too young to travel by himself. The Local Inspectors reported ‘fail to find anything but a pure accident.'

PARKER Robert - 1904 - 20/07/1904 – Age 48 - Hartshill, Granite Quarry Crusher feeder, Jee’s Hartshill Granite and Brick Co., Warwick. Deceased was killed by a runaway wagon, which, coming down an inclined roadway, overpowered the brakes and the man in charge.

PARKER Roland - 1907 - 30/12/1907 – Age 45 - Garforth, Isabella Miner, Owners of Garforth Colliery, Yorkshire. A fall of roof, which he had liberated when taking coal off the corner off his place to make room for the tub road, caught and killed him.

PARKER Stephen - 1906 - 18/10/1906 – Age 51 - Robin Hood Collier, J and J Charlesworth Ltd., Yorkshire. He and his mate were engaged ripping a cross-gate and putting on a pack to form a new gate. His mate had drawn a prop on the right side, and eased two in the centre under the ripping lip, and he was attempting to lever the stone down with his pick, when a large fall occurred from between two slips, one of which could be seen previous to the fall, and killed him.

PARKER Thomas - 1903 - 12/01/1903 – Age 50 - Sandwell Park Pikeman, Sandwell Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof through a bump while drawing timber in an opening in the thick coal. He had gone beyond the standing timber.

PARKER Thomas - 1908 - 09/10/1908 – Age 40 - Climpy Miner, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased had finished work for the day and was leaving the place when the roof suddenly collapsed on him and before he could be released a second fall took place killing him instantly.

PARKER William - 1900 - 11/06/1900 – Age 59 - Rosedale West Ironstone Miner, Carlton Iron Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was in a stooping position when a large piece of dogger, about 8 inches thick, fell from the roof and hit him at the back of his head and killed him.

PARKER William - 1905 - 07/12/1905 – Age 63 - Cwrt-y-bettws Collier, Hedleys Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face; a pan-stone, about 3 feet diameter, fell upon him close to the face which was fairly well timbered. Died from injuries on 22nd Dec. Hughes seam.

PARKER William - 1906 - 10/04/1906 – Age 37 - Saltwells No. 38 Loader, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. The accident occurred in an opening, 17 feet wide and 9 feet high, in a rib of Thick Coal 22 feet broad. Deceased was filling a tub when a bump took place and a piece of ‘Brazil’ coal fell upon him. Owing apparently to a misunderstanding between a pikeman who took him home and the doctor the accident was not reported until after the inquest by which time certain posts said to have been set had been drawn and the roof let down. Deceased’s spinal cord had been injured and he died on the following day.

PARKER William - 1907 - 09/03/1907 – Age 50 - Cadeby Main Labourer, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was found lying between one of the rail roads quite dead. His duty was to work the slides to fill the wagons with coal from a washer and to take the number of the wagons but he had nothing to do with the moving of them. No one saw the accident occur but it is probable that he had been passing in front of the wagons as they were being lowered and had got his foot fast in a crossing and before he could get it loose he had been knocked down and killed.

PARKES Alexander - 1908 - 15/05/1908 – Age 40 - South Wales Labourer, Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. Run over by a railway truck which was being lowered from the screen siding to a stationary engine. He was cleaning out a gutter, between the rails, which had become choked owing to the rain. At the time of the accident there was a thunderstorm, which may account for his not having noticed the truck approaching. It is a busy place, as all the trucks for the colliery output, etc., have to pass it daily.

PARKES Hebert - 1907 - 05/07/1907 – Age 41 - Saltwells No. 37 Pikeman, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. A side of work on inbye side of a rubble or want had been finished on the day prior to the accident and deceased and two loaders had commenced to ‘side line’ on the main haulage road immediately on outbye side of the rubble which was about 50 yards wide. The haulage road was 11 feet wide, the roof being supported with steel girders and timber bars apparently at intervals of 2 feet, each girder or bar being carried on props. The place was examined by the overman five minutes before the accident. There were no broken timbers and everything appeared to be safe. The man had filled 18 tubs of coal and had come back about 10 yards from the rubble to shift some empty tubs from the empty to the full road, when a severe bump occurred, and about 50 tons of crushed coal and slack suddenly came down upon them and buried them. The loaders escaped but the others apparently suffocated. The roof was left upstanding near the rubble where they had been at work. A short distance outbye from the fall a brick arch 25 yards in length had been erected a number of years ago to block off a fire which is apparently still burning and the roof weight appeared to have concentrated at the point where the fall took place. 3 killed.

PARKES Henry - 1906 - 24/05/1906 – Age 29 - Saltwells No. 37 Loader, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of top coal. 4 killed.

PARKES James Kennedy - 1902 - 18/08/1902 – Age 14 - Murton Landing lad, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was coming outbye on an engine plane in front of the set and either slipped or fell or got his foot fast in a roller and before he could get clear the set caught and killed him.

PARKES T.H. - 1902 - 01/12/1902 – Age 31 - Coneygre No.9, Bunns Lane Pikeman, Jacob Vaughan, Staffordshire. Fall of roof (old gob) at working face in lower portion of thick coal. The men were setting a post when the roof all broke up and they were buried. One of the bodies was not recovered until 3rd December, owing to the extent of the fall and the presence of gob stink. 2 killed.

PARKHOUSE W. - 1900 - 01/2/1900 – Age 20 - Tynewydd Repairer, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Buried by a fall of rubbish while they were securing the mouth of a level. 2 killed.

PARKIN Benjamin - 1900 - 24/11/1900 – Age 16 - Marley Hill, Main Coal Incline boy, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. A pony, attached to two tubs, on approaching the bankhead of a short selfacting incline ran away. The tubs got amain, and crushed deceased against some tubs at the bottom of the incline. The brakesman had omitted to place the chock across the rails at the incline top.

PARKIN John - 1902 - 23/11/1902 – Age 39 - Murton Hewer, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from injuries received on Sept. 10th, 1901.

PARKIN Matthew - 1905 - 22/11/1905 – Age 15 - Tanfield Lea Driver, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased, who had only worked a fortnight at the colliery, was coming outbye with his pony drawing two full tubs on a nearly level road, 3 feet 7 inches high and in good condition. The drivers do not ride with the full tub as there is not room enough to sit on the coals and the eyebolt of the tub is too high for them to sit on the limbers. He was found lying on his breast on the left side of the road with his head outbye clear of the rails but the first tub was off the way at the fore end and was upon him. The pony was standing hung on the tubs between the rails and the left side of the road. His safety lamp was found under he tubs. The pony was standing quiet. A few yards inbye of where he was found the rails were within 1 foot on the coal on the left side and he may have been caught here while walking alongside the tub. Deceased was not registered as required by the Coal Mines Act he had, it was stated, got work himself and represented his age as 17 which age it was further stated his appearance did not belie. The Local Inspectors reported ‘a pure accident.'

PARKIN T. - 1905 - 25/05/1905 – Age 28 Parkhill Collier, Victoria Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was pulling off some coal at the face and as it fell stepped back quickly and fell backwards over a piece of coal and the fall fractured his spine. He died on June 20th at the Clayton Hospital, Wakefield.

PARKIN Thomas David - 1903 - 02/03/1903 – Age 31 - Loftus Ironstone Shifter, Pease and Partners Ltd., North Yorkshire. He and another man were timbering an old bord when a large fall of roof occurred and killed him.

PARKIN W. Henry - 1902 - 14/02/1902 – Age 34 - Darfield Main Stoker, Mitchell Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He foolishly went under a wagon of slack and opened the drop door, and was smothered by a rush of slack.

PARKIN William - 1908 - 29/02/1908 – Age 55 - Woodside Screenman, Shipley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was stepping up from the railway sidings on to the screens. He placed a hand on the buffer of a waggon when another waggon ran into it, his hand was badly crushed and blood poisoning supervened causing death on 21st March.

PARKINS Charles - 1906 - 28/12/1906 – Age 31 - Wootton Pillinge, Clay Quarry Labourer, BJ Forder and Son, Bedford. He was attempting to thaw the water in a pipe for the use of a steam navvy in the Quarry, when a quantity of clay fell from the Quarry face and killed him.

PARKINSON Frank - 1907 - 11/09/1907 – Age 27 - North Hetton Waggon Rider, North Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When uncoupling moving waggons, he was caught between the buffers and killed.

PARKINSON Harry - 1909 - 29/03/1909 – Age 20 South Kirkby Driver, South Kirkby Featherstone and Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of rock in a gate road, cause a black parting in the strata. Timber was displaced by the fall.

PARKINSON Henry - 1901 - 10/04/1901 – Age 49 - Orrell Fireman, Orrell Colliery Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest  attended. When engaged getting materials out of the Orrell four-feet mine, just after the seam had been abandoned, the fireman appears to have fired a charge of roberite on an iron cog wheel in a level near the main haulage brow in a dusty part of the mine without the knowledge of the managers and contrary to the rules. An explosion of coal dust occurred which travelled through the main roads killing Halliwell and Farrimond and the other two persons. Sharrock and Parkinson succumbed to the injuries received about a week after the explosion. 4 killed.

PARKINSON John - 1907 - 18/04/1907 – Age 34 - Longhill, Clay Quarry Quarryman, West Hartlepool Patent Brick Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was struck by a fall of clay from the face of the clay pit. There was a boulder stone bared when the clay fell. The stone had caused the fall.

PARKINSON Michael - 1900 - 20/07/1900 – Age 32 - Orrell No.2 Collier, Orrell Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged working the bottom coal in the Orrell 5 feet Mine with props set about four feet apart under the dirt when a fall of roof came away from a slip capping two props and crushing the deceased.

PARKINSON Ned - 1907 - 30/10/1907 – Age 27 - South Kirkby Byeworkman, South Kirkby Featherstone and Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased and a youth were repairing and enlarging the main return on the north side of the Haigh Moor Seam, and at the part to which they had got there was a piece of overhanging side stone supported by a vertical and also a sprag prop. At the back of the stone there was a breaker which was clearly defined. Several attempts had been made to get the stone down by wedging and also with a bar, but without success. At the commencement of the shift the deputy went in with them and told them they were to fill the stone from the opposite side of the road and that none was to be removed from the side on which the stone was on in account of the danger of displacing the props under it in so doing. The bottom of the props was, however, under-mined and it fell out and when Parkinson was setting another the stone fell upon and killed him.

PARKINSON Robert William - 1909 - 16/07/1909 – Age 17 - Whitehaven Bogie lad, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Crushed between the bogie and tub.

PARKINSON Thomas - 1900 - 19/10/1900 – Age 64 - Brotton (ironstone) Platelayer, Brotton, Yorkshire. Died from heart disease while at work in the mine. (Not comprised)

PARKS Maurice - 1908 - 13/11/1908 – Age 17 - Dinnington Main Pony driver, Dinnington Main Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was in front of a set of full tubs, turning the points, when his horse caught him knocked him down and the first tub passed over and killed him.

PARNELL C. - 1906 - 09/06/1906 – Age 20 - Meldon Limestone Quarry Labourer, London and South Western Railway Co., Devon. Having undercut the overburden, which was about 10 to 12 feet high, he and his comrade tried to throw it with bars overnight but failed. Next morning they tried to further undercut it and while doing so it fell resulting in Parnell’s death, and injury to his comrade. This undercutting is a most improper and dangerous method of working unless shored up, and is the source of numerous accidents.

PARNHAM John - 1907 - 25/06/1907 – Age 22 - Cropwell Bishop Gypsum Trammer, Gotham Plaster Co., Nottinghamshire. A gunpowder shot was fired and broke through into another working place where deceased was killed. He was not warned of the probable effects of the shot.

PARRATT Frank - 1908 - 03/11/1908 – Age 17 - Dearne Valley Pony driver, Dearne Valley Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was taking a set of empty tubs inbye and was walking between the full and empty road by the side of his pony when another driver came out with two full tubs, the first of which caught him and knocked him into the empty road. He fell between the pony and the first tub of his set. He was not thought to be seriously hurt but he died the following day. On the road there were two canvas sheets for the purpose of diverting the ventilating current, 21 yards apart and the first tub of the deceased's set had just passed under the last sheet when he was struck by the full tub. He would not be able to see the other lad's light and the noise of his own set would prevent his hearing the approach of the other.

PARROTT Cyrus - 1908 - 11/05/1908 – Age 34 - Shelton Deep No.2 Collier, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased while working at the face in the Cockshead, was struck on the head by a piece of dirt about one foot square, which fell from the roof. He was knocked insensible for a short time but managed to walk out to the pit and also to the doctor to get the cut he had received attended to. Seven days later an operation was performed on his skull, which was found to be fractured. He died on June 6th from inflammation of the brain.

PARRY Alfred – 1906 – 02/08/1906 – Age 20 – Auckland Park Hewer, Bolckow Vaughan & Co., Co.Durham. They were buried by a very extensive fall of jud in the broken workings. The roof over a large area collapsed, although the jud was filled with supports. The weighting of an old adjoining jud, which had been drawn the night before, caused the roof to collapse. 2 killed.

PARRY David – 1904 – 25/05/1904 – Age 50 – Bargoed Haulier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A full tram, which having been off the rails, had been lifted on again, it was allowed to get in motion before he succeeded in hitching his horse to it on a gradient of 3.5 inches to the yard which resulted in his being carried down in front of it for some distance and then run over. The three colliers who lifted the tram on the rails failed to take proper steps to hold back the tram, they alleged that there were two sprags in the wheels but had such been the case the tram would not have been likely to run away in this manner.

PARRY Ernest – 1900 – 13/07/1900 – Age 20 – Griffin No.2 Collier’s helper, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof from a slip in his working place.

PARRY Evan – 1907 – 29/08/1907 – Age 36 – Grovesend Collier, Thomas Williams and Sons, Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face. A bell stone in the roof fell from between two props 3 feet apart while he was holing under the seam of coal. He died on 9th Sept. from a fracture and dislocation of the spine. Upper Grovesend seam. Naked lights.

PARRY Francis – 1906 – 03/04/1906 – Age 18 – Elliot East Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Owing to empty trams not having been pushed far enough up a heading beyond a stall road to give sufficient clearance. The full tram, which was being taken out from the stall road with a horse, caught the empty tram and knocked out some timbers, resulting in a fall which killed him. His butty, and leading hand, was blamed by the coroner’s jury for not having pushed the trams up further to allow more space, although it was at the same time stated to have been only an error of judgement on his part.

PARRY Henry – 1907 – 16/08/1907 – Age 29 – Bedlinog No.1 Assistant Repairer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, fireclay, 8 feet by 29 inches by 15 inches thick, fell from between three slips on deceased as be was eating his food. There was considerable squeeze in the roof and a number of props had been stood the lids of three of them touched the stone which fell. Little seam.

PARRY Joseph – 1906 – 11/12/1906 – Age 67 – Hafod Shiftman, Ruabon Coal and Coke Co., Denbigh. He was walking down some steps on to the railway siding when he got knocked over by the locomotive which was passing at the time, which he had failed to see. He expired January 14, 1907.

PARRY Mark – 1901 – 11/09/1901 – Age 20 – Ffaldu Shackler, Ffaldu Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed by a full tram which had not been properly spragged and had run down a double parting where the gradient was 1 in 36. Died 1st October.

PARRY Peter – 1903 – 01/07/1903 – Age 60 – Point of Ayrshire Collier, Point of Ayr Collieries Ltd., Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged holing at the face, the coal being over six feet thick, when a fall of coal came over from a slip capping two sprags, and fatally injuring deceased.

PARRY Robert – 1901 – 10/12/1901 – Age 30 – Ashton Moss Dataller, New Moss Colliery Ltd., Lancashire. Fall from side of main level while repairing. Side overhung and broken by subsidence, it had been examined by the fireman a few minutes before it fell.

PARRY Robert – 1909 – 15/1/1909 – Age 22 – Dinorwic, Slate Quarry Slate getter, CG Assheton-Smith, Carnarvon. Pieces from a fall of about 40 tons struck him and knocked him over the edge of the gallery to that below.

PARRY Robert M. – 1903 – 12/03/1903 – Age 45 – Darbishires Granite Quarry Quarryman, Darbishires Ltd., Carnarvon. His suspending rope dislodged a stone weighing 4 or 5lb. which fell and struck him on the head. Skull fractured. He died the following day.

PARRY Robert R.H. – 1908 – 03/10/1908 – Age 38 – Binchester Oiler, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. This man was engaged feeding the coal out of the bunkers to the washed coal elevators. It is surmised - no one actually knows what occurred - that the elevators were not working quite properly and that the man went up the staircase into the engine house to see if anything was wrong. Presumably, he found that the belt driving the elevators was surging, and he attempted to tighten the belt by taking hold of it from the under side and pulling it down on to the pulley. The belt had then gone on at its normal speed suddenly, and had carried him on to the pulley between itself and the pulley. There was a fence, three feet high, around the pulley. The man was found fast on the pulley with his legs on the fencing, as though he had been standing on the fencing when taking hold of the belt.

PARRY Robert T. – 1906 – 31/05/1906 – Age 25 – Vauxhall Collier, Vauxhall Colliery Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. While he was passing along the coal face, which had not been advanced for some days, and where there was no holing done, suddenly a piece of coal rolled off the face, which fatally crushed him against a prop supporting the roof.

PARRY Samuel – 1902 – 01/11/1902 – Age 41 – Ferndale No.3 Collier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. He was lifting a piece of pit wood about 30lbs. weight on to a cog when he strained the muscle of his side. On a postmortem being made the heart was found fatty, dilated and with evidence of pericarditis. He died in seven days from heart failure.

PARRY Thomas – 1907 – 14/11/1907 – Age 53 – Fforchaman Labourer, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was on his way home and was about to cross the Great Western Railway, when he saw a steam motor approaching. He stepped back and leaned against the buffer of a truck on the colliery siding, when a brakesman lowered a loaded truck down and crushed him. The brakesman did not see deceased until he was within seven yards of him. He then shouted to him but deceased appears not to have heard him.

PARRY Thomas – 1908 – 08/09/1908 – Age 32 – Penrhyn, Slate Quarry Labourer, Lord Penrhyn, Carnarvon. A large piece of rock fell, and in running out of its way he fell and was caught by a portion of it. Died of blood poisoning on the 17th.

PARRY William – 1900 – 16/01/1900 – Age 16 – Penrhyn Slate Gleaner, Lord Penrhyn, Carnarvon. While having charge of a sled (trolley) he was descending a vertical shaft in the cage, he and the ‘sled’ fell out of the cage to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 40 yards. Killed on the spot. The lad had put a chain in front of the wheels before commencing the descent and he must, while descending, have removed it with the intention of saving a few seconds at the bottom.

PARRY William - 1901 - 24/05/1901 - Universal Hard heading man, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway Cd 947. 81 killed.

PARRY William - 1904 - 08/02/1904 – Age 26 - Great Fenton, Pender Roadman, Staffordshire. Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Finger crushed while lifting timber on to a trolley in the pit. Blood poisoning supervened, and he died on 18th May.

PARRY William - 1905 - 05/05/1905 – Age 30 - Braich, Slate Quarry Labourer, Talysarn Slate Quarries Co. Ltd., Carnarvon. A stout link of the chain which held the fixed wire rope of an aerial hoist at the bottom of the Quarry broke. He was struck by the chain.

PARRY William - 1909 - 20/12/1909 – Age 56 - Victoria Labourer, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Cerebral haemorrhage resulting from slipping while lifting a full tram on to the rails. He appears to have complained at once. A doctor saw him at the colliery and sent him home. He died on the 27th December, 1909.

PARSON John - 1908 - 15/08/1908 – Age 27 - East Roughrigg Fireman, Forrester and Co. Ltd., Stirling. A steam pump was placed near the shaft in an abandoned working, and deceased went to visit it, and by some means fell into the shaft as he stepped off the cage. There was no access by the cage from which he attempted to reach the pump, he should have gone by the other cage.

PARSON Joseph Griffin - 1909 - 05/03/1909 – Age 16 - Kingsbury Horse driver, Kingsbury Collieries Ltd., Warwick. Deceased was walking in front of his horse, which was drawing two full tubs along the gate-road, when part of the roadway side fell on to the tubs and held them. Deceased turned back to go towards the horse to see what was the matter, when the other side of the road fell off and killed deceased and horse.

PARSONAGE John - 1908 - 28/08/1908 – Age 60 - Fforsygo Collier, Fforsygo Colliery Co., Denbighshire. He attempted to knock a prop out from under the roof, with his hammer, when the roof fell upon him.

PARSONS Araham - 1901 - 17/01/1901 – Age 28 - Llanharry Quarry Quarryman, Llanharry Limestone Lime Gravel & Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. In barring down some stone which had been blasted on 24th December 1900 he exploded part of the charge remaining unexploded by striking it with the bar. He thought the shot had gone off properly. Matagnite gelatine was the explosive.

PARSONS George - 1907 - 01/05/1907 – Age 74 - Parsons Sand Quarry Quarryman, George Parsons, Nottinghamshire. Deceased had charged a shot with eight pounds of gunpowder and left a very short length of fuse outside the shot-hole, which was on a ledge of sand and reached by a ladder. Before he could arrive at a place of safety the shot exploded and killed him.

PARSONS James - 1902 - 01/10/1902 – Age 27 - Tirpentwys Collier, Tirpentwys Black Vein Steam Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Monmouth. The accident was caused by the loose board on the top of the upcast shaft casing for closing the aperture through which the rope passed and had plenty room for surging being drawn up to the pulley and knocking the rope off it on to the gudgeon or axle, the sudden bend and jerk being quite enough to account for the rope break. The rope was a good one, breaking strain when tested afterwards 36 tons working load 4 tons original breaking strain of rope 40 tons. It had been working two years and four months. 8 killed.

PARSONS Joseph - 1908 - 09/04/1908 – Age 35 - Crumpmeadow Coal cutter, Lydney and Crumpmeadow Collieries Co. Ltd., Gloucester. He was attending a bar coal cutter, and was caught and drawn around by the bar. Death must have resulted immediately. Apparently his clothes caught and dragged him in. He had only just told the driver to start the machine when the accident occurred.

PARSONS Samuel - 1902 - 08/03/1902 – Age 21 - Haden Hill Loader, W Bassano and Co., Staffordshire. Fall of roof in a gate road in thick coal where deceased was sitting eating his dinner. A bump appeared to have displaced the timber.

PARSONS Thomas - 1900 - 30/08/1900 – Age 15 - Llanbradach Collier’s boy, Cardiff Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of a large stone at the face from a greasy slant, probably shaken by a bump. There were at least two or three posts under it and there may have been one or two more. They were preparing a cog at the place but had not completed it. 2 killed.

PARTINGTON Albert - 1901 - 07/08/1901 – Age 25 - Manor Brakeman, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Run over by waggons. While getting out of the first waggon, to open the points, he slipped off the buffer in the front of the waggons. Occurred on branch line.

PARTINGTON Richard - 1905 - 31/08/1905 – Age 36 - Rhos Collier, Rhos Colliery Co., Carmarthen. Fall of roof at face clift 8 feet x 4 feet x 20 inches thick, two props within the area. Roof weakened by an unseen slip at right angles to the face. Grasissa seam.

PARTINGTON Thomas - 1901 - 18/03/1901 – Age 68 - Sherdley Collier, Whitecross Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was waiting for his son to fill a tub of coal when a piece of stone fell upon him in advance of his timber which was too far back from the face. This accident would have been prevented by systematic timbering.

PARTINGTON Thomas - 1909 - 13/07/1909 – Age 21 - Cleworth Hall Drawer, Tyldesley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst filling the tub in the drawing road, a large piece of rock, 1.5 tons weight, dropped on him without any warning. The stone was freed by a break and was drawn from the roof. The fireman admitted he knew the stone was drawn as also did the two colliers; certainly the stone ought to have been taken down. (Roof good).

PARTIS William - 1902 - 03/05/1902 – Age 41 - Seaton Delaval Hewer, Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died 13th June. While kirving at the face on a longwall place in the Low Mean seam a stone fell from the roof upon him.

PARTNER Joseph - 1905 - 02/10/1905 – Age 33 - Cliffe Hill Granite Quarry Labourer, Cliffe Hill Granite Co., Leicestershire. Deceased was working at the foot of the Quarry face while steam drills were at work at the top of the Quarry when a fall of stone killed him.