PEMBER Henry – 1904 – 04/10/1904 – Age 34 – Castle Collier, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. On road shale about 15 feet by 8 feet by 12 feet thick. Deceased and his partner were clearing some rubbish from the side to make room for a pair of timbers. By doing this they must have disturbed the old timbers causing two collars to be crushed out. The shale at once fell and buried the two men who were not recovered for 1.5 hours. Deceased's partner escaped with only a slight injury.

PEMBERTON Joseph – 1902 – 14/02/1902 – Age 14 – Bamfurlong No.4 Scotcher up, Cross Tetley, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was engaged at a curve in the haulage and was knocked over by a runaway tub which got uncoupled up the brow when off the rails. He was about to enter a manhole when he was caught by the tub.

PEMBERTON Joseph – 1905 – 20/12/1905 – Age 48 – Brown Lees Crutter, Robert Heath and Sons Ltd., Staffordshire. The fuses of 8 shots of gunpowder were lighted together in a stone drift. The men retired and heard two explosions. They thought two shots had gone off together and returned to the face and soon after the third shot exploded and injured the chargeman so that he died on the 24th Dec.

PEMBERTON Robert – 1902 – 04/11/1902 – Age 35 – Hindley Green Browman, J Scowcroft and Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made. Deceased had a fit and appears to have jerked himself through the lower part of the fence on the pit bank and fell a distance of 22 feet to the ground floor and was killed.

PEMBERTON Thomas – 1901 – 04/01/1901 – Age 17 – West Shield Row Putter, South Derwent Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inquest attended. He was getting on the limbers when the pony moved away causing his head to come in contact with the roof and he fell and was crushed between the side wall and the tub wheels.

PEMBLETT Joseph – 1907 – 15/01/1907 – Age 18 – Parr Labourer, Richard Evans and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. When engaged pushing against a waggon buffer he got fatally crushed by two other waggons following behind.

PEMBLETT Thomas – 1908 – 05/05/1908 – Age 62 – Ashtons Green Collier, Bromilow Foster and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. A stone fell upon the deceased from the roof, about three yards back from the face, between props and the pack.

PENALUNA Ernest – 1900 – 27/05/1900 – Age 19 – Dolcoath (tin) Asst. shaftsman, Dolcoath Mine Ltd., Cornwall. Fell from a plank used as a scaffold in the shaft at the 140 fathom level where he and others were repairing guides &c which had been broken in consequence of a skip falling away, the result of a broken rope. He died just as he was got to the surface six hours after in accident.

PENDER John – 1906 – 30/05/1906 – Age 65 – Castlehill Pitheadman, Shotts Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased, who was an engineman prior to taking up duties as a pitheadman, worked an extra shift on the engine in place of the engineman who was off work, ill, and as he was being relieved he suddenly expired through heart failure.

PENDER Patrick – 1906 – 12/04/1906 – Age 49 – Beechburn Hewer, H Graham and Sons, Co.Durham. When turning away from his place a heavy fall of roof occurred, completely burying him. He was dead when released two hours afterwards.

PENGELLEY George – 1902 – 11/03/1902 – Age 39 – Longford, Elvan Quarry Carter, Tavistock Rural District Council, Cornwall. While loading his cart, in the bottom of the Quarry, a quantity of loose earth and stone fell upon him from above causing instant death.

PENHALLURICK Samuel – 1903 – 29/07/1903 – Age 46 – Meiros Collier, Gas Coal Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road rock, 6 feet by 6 feet by 6 inches thick. Deceased and his son had been sent to fill up some coal that had fallen off the side of a heading and while so engaged the fall occurred. There had been considerable squeeze at the spot and props ought to have been set the upper side of the heading. No 3, Rhondda Seam.

PENIKET John – 1908 – 08/09/1908 – Age 46 – Hamstead Stallman, Hamstead Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was working at the side in a still of the Thick Coal, his son and another man being also employed in the stall, when suddenly a bump reeled out part of the timber and brought down a quantity of top coal. Deceased was knocked down partially buried with his face on the floor and was suffocated. The deputy had been in the stall less than five minutes before the accident and considered it safe and well timbered.

PENISTONE Joel – 1907 – 28/05/1907 – Age 40 – Wharncliffe, Ganister Miner, J Grason Lowood and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He had drilled a hole 19 inches deep in the clay below the ganister and charged it with about 10 ozs of dynamite and was in the act of ramming it with a wooden and copper ended stemmer when the charge exploded. The stemmer was blown to pieces and the man was so badly injured that he died on arriving at the infirmary.

PENLINGTON Benjamin – 1904 – 29/11/1904 – Age 24 – Talk o’th’ Hill Dataler, Talk o’th’ Hill Colliery Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (rock) while repairing a crut. Deceased was taking out a bar from under a large piece of overhanging rock in order to reset it when the rock broke off from the side of the road and fell on him. It was partly liberated, by an unseen slip.

PENMAN James – 1904 – 14/11/1904 – Age 23 – Minto Sinker, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The sinking had been completed and a temporary set of pumps in use in one of the winding spaces was being withdrawn and at the time of the accident about 12 fathoms of pipes and rods had been raised to the surface. Owing to the length of the rods, 40 feet, they had to be hoisted up through the top scaffold of the pithead to enable them to be taken off at the bottom scaffold and for that purpose a hole 3 feet 5 inches by 3 feet 2 inches was made. Deceased was about to begin his work with the others and had occasion to go to the top of the scaffold when he inadvertently stepped into the hole and fell to the bottom scaffold, 30 feet from thence he passed through a space of about 2 feet into the shaft. He was found 12 fathoms down across collarings and pipes.

PENMAN James - 1906 - 20/07/1906 – Age 56 - Longriggend Miner, Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While deceased was engaged taking off cut coal the roof suddenly fell upon him.

PENMAN John - 1903 - 17/11/1903 – Age 42 - Wemyss Miner, Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased, with several other workmen, was proceeding to his work and when riding on the waggon, next the locomotive engine, when the engine left the rails and he was thrown and crushed between the waggon and engine buffer. The engine left the rails at points leading to a new road in course of construction, and investigation it was discovered the points had been tampered with.

PENNELL Frank - 1907 - 09/01/1907 – Age 35 - Ynishir House Collier, Ynishir Steam Coal Co., Glamorgan. A shot hole had been bored 16 inches by a machine drill and 18 inches by a hand drill and deceased was charging it. He had put 3 pellets of Gelignite and 3 pellets of compressed powder in when an explosion occurred, but how produced no one knows. It was thought however that he was using a steel drill with some force to get the powder to pass a bend in the hole. The charge did not damage the hole, and its crooked condition could be traced after removing some of the stone it was intended to blow up.

PENNINGTON James - 1906 - 10/09/1906 – Age 45 - Park Hall Fireman, Park Hall Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was firing two shots in the top ripping one at each side of the road, each charge consisting of 6 ozs. of ammonite with No.7 high tension detonator. They were fired electrically from a manhole 15 yards distant. He appeared to have fired both shots at the same time, in contravention of a Special Rule established at the colliery. He was struck by stones projected from the shots and probably ricocheting, receiving injuries which terminated fatally sixteen days later.

PENNINGTON John - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 42 - Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

PENNMAN John - 1907 - 30/09/1907 – Age 45 - Dysart Miner, Earl of Rosslyn, Lanarkshire. Deceased was taking down the upper bed of the second working in the Dysart Main Coal seam. when it fell upon him and he was killed instantly. The coal fell away from between two keen parallel lypes which were unseen.

PENNY William - 1906 - 27/05/1906 – Age 31 - Ravensworth Deputy, Charles Perkins and Partners, Co.Durham. Deceased, who held an under-manager’s certificate and was very proficient in ambulance work was engaged on a Sunday morning with a stoneman in shooting-down a top caunch of 18 inches of blue metal on the South-east crosscut waggonway in the Beaumont seam of the Shop pit. They made an examination of the place before starting work, and were satisfied all was safe. The machine tree was then set and a distance of 18 inches had been bored when a piece of stone fell from brow, which crossed the place at an angle, 7 feet long, 1.5 feet wide in the centre falling out to nothing each way, 18 inches thick, displacing a prop and headtree in its fall. Deceased was caught by it and instantly killed, his neck was broken. There was a good parting above the stone, but the side next the brow had a new break, probably a previous shot had loosened it. The Local Inspector, reported, ‘We are of opinion it has been a pure accident, as we found plenty of timber set and also plenty of timber lying close by.’

PENROSE Elijah - 1901 - 27/03/1901 – Age 53 - Eastern Collier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Struck by a post on the face and head. It was discharged by a piece of clod, over the coal, which he was getting down. It fell suddenly after he had removed some of the sprags and it struck him.

PEPPER Edward V. - 1909 - 28/05/1909 – Age 16 - Knutton Manor Driver, Knutton Manor Mining Co., Staffordshire. Deceased was found by a roadman crushed beneath the front end buffer of a tub of ironstone drawn by a pony. He had nearly reached the bottom of an incline of 1 in 10, the back wheels of the load being lockered. There was nothing to indicate how deceased got into the position in which he was found, but it was suggested that the load was stopped by some obstruction on the rail and that, while removing it, the pony started and drew the load on to him.

PEPPER George - 1900 - 02/01/1900 – Age 66 - Apedale Burley Dataler, Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of stone from roof of level in 10 feet seam while repairing road. Died 7th January.

PEPPER Robert Henry - 1905 - 21/02/1905 – Age 25 - Whitehaven Insetter, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. The Wellington pit, 700 feet deep, is traversed by two three-decked cages, each cage carrying three tubs. The deceased at the end of his shift got into the upper deck, which is 5 feet 8 inches high, of the cage at the pit bottom with 5 other persons when the cage was being raised to enable persons to get into the middle deck, a safety lamp, weighing 3.5 lb fell from the surface and struck the top of the arched cover of the cage which was made of steel, at a point with the underside which deceased's head was in contact. He was rendered unconscious and died the same day in the Infirmary. There was practically no dent in the cover caused by the blow. The lamp fell in some unexplained way from the belt of a miner who was stepping on the flat sheet on the surface ready to get into the top deck of the cage there then being loaded with men.

PEPPER Thomas - 1902 - 01/08/1902 – Age 46 - Shelton Deep Collier, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof on a road where he was sheltering from a shot 15 yards distant. The fireman was close to and he stated that there was a goth directly after the shot was fired which caused the roof to fall. Died 30th Sept.

PEPPER William - 1904 - 14/12/1904 – Age 26 - Blackwell A Stallman, Blackwell Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was standing near to another stallman who was taking down some coal. When the coal fell the roof also came down and killed deceased.

PERCIVAL James - 1908 - 16/12/1908 – Age 26 - Brailsford, Gravel Quarry Labourer, Trevor Yates, Derbyshire. Fall of gravel and sand. Deceased was undercutting to get down a fall and had taken no precautionary measures to secure his safety from a sudden fall.

PERCIVAL Thomas Edward - 1909 - 28/01/1909 – Age 15 - Warsop Main Clipper, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Tubs of dirt were going up the tip, and were conveyed by an endless rope, with catches on the full road, 12 yards apart. Two full tubs ran back and the catches failing to hold them, they ran to the bottom and killed deceased, who was coupling tubs there.

PERCY Robert - 1908 - 05/10/1908 – Age 13 - Seaton Delaval Trapper, Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fell before empty tub on endless rope haulage road.

PERKINS Caleb - 1904 - 07/09/1904 – Age 68 - Coegnant Gate keeper, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. He had been hauling for the day and was kicked by the horse in the stable while hanging up the tack.

PERKINS George Andrew - 1904 - 09/04/1904 – Age 27 - North Seaton Shifter, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased and three other shifters about the beginning of an extra half shift they intended to work were engaged in shooting down top stone in a cross gateway and stowing it in longwall workings in the Yard seam. They had fired a gunpowder shot and were retiring from it along the face intending to take some refreshment in an adjoining gateway where they would be clear of the smoke but probably owing to the smoke deceased missed his way and continued along the face past the gateway, when a mass of ramble, 7 feet long and 2 feet deep, fell upon him from the face and above the coal. It was relieved by a parting above and a back behind and fell near a 2-feet hitch. The charge man and master shifter had both been past the place during the shift before the accident and had not noticed any danger. The Local Inspectors reported ‘in our opinion it has been a clear accident no one being in any way to blame.'

PERKINS Hopkin – 1904 – 18/10/1904 – Age 21 – Coegnant Haulier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Found severely injured under a full tram which he was bringing out over a slight gradient. He probably slipped off the gun in coming round a turn.

PERRIE Graham – 1901 – 25/01/1901 – Age 43 – Haughhead Fireman, Haughhead Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. The fireman found gas in two adjoining working places. After it is said he cleared out the gas from one place and permitting the miners to commence work in it, with naked lights, he and another two miners were clearing out the gas with safety lamps in the other place when firedamp ignited at the naked light of Reddy who was in the place from which the fireman said that he had expelled the gas. Other three men were injured by the explosion. 2 killed.

PERRIE William – 1904 – 29/12/1904 – Age 20 – Quarter No. 8 Miner, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal while holing. It fell between two sprags set 10 feet apart.

PERRIN William Henry – 1909 – 16/09/1909 – Age 23 – Cwm Haulier, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was found on the side of a haulage road, 77 yards from the spot where his lamp box and cap were found. He was probably in the dark when overtaken by a journey of coal.

PERROT George – 1908 – 07/12/1908 – Age 22 – Deep Duffryn Collier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased slipped when filling a tram and the heavy lump of coal, which he was lifting, fell on him. An abscess formed in the groin which was operated on repeatedly. Died from exhaustion on June 11th, 1909.

PERROT James – 1900 – 11/02/1900 – Age 62 – Glyn Carpenter, Glyn Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. When riding up an engine plane, rising 40 degrees, the coupling chain broke and the trolleys in which were 5 men ran back; deceased was killed and the others injured.

PERROTT Rees – 1903 – 01/06/1903 – Age 60 – McLaren Labourer, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When he and others were engaged raising the level of the roadway, in a swamp on the main haulage road, the side gave way and crushed him. The timber had been taken out and not replaced temporarily, as the sump was considered safe. The error or neglect whichever it may have been was that of the timberman for whom this man was labouring.

PERRY Ben – 1907 – 21/11/1907 – Age 40 – Fryston Miner, Wheldale Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died from appendicitis. He complained that when pulling at a piece of coal in the pit he had slipped and hurt himself. A post-mortem examination showed that the appendicitis was of considerable age and that a fall or twist had aggravated it and caused the deceased’s death.

PERRY Charles E – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 39 – National No.2 Roadman, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed.

PERRY Charles E. – 1902 – 12/06/1902 – Age 16 – Aldwarke Main Rope lad, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. By some unknown means his arm became entangled with the rope hauling from a dip road and he was drawn into the drum.

PERRY Charles H – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 19 – National No.2 Labourer, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. Hillside Terrace, Wattstown.

PERRY Esau – 1905 – 24/02/1905 – Age 47 – Clifton Stallman, Clifton Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was getting coal down when a large fall of roof fell and fatally injured him. He died the same day.

PERRY Joseph – 1902 – 15/09/1902 – Age 26 – Seaton Delaval Hewer, Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, with his father, was engaged in extracting a pillar of coal in the Main Coal seam. The seam is 6.5 feet thick the upper part of the seam, which overhung, consists of 1 foot of coal with 1 foot of sandstone band below. It was supported by a stay which proved to be insufficient as a mass fell over.

PERRY Matthew – 1903 – 20/03/1903 – Age 18 – Cwmneol Haulier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by a tram of rubbish which he was taking out along a level road. He must have attempted to get on to the gun and slipped and fell under the tram.

PERRY Samuel – 1905 – 23/08/1905 – Age 26 – Himley No.4 Loader, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of side (coal) at working face of a gate road in the Thick coal. Died 30th August.

PERRY Samuel – 1909 – 09/02/1909 – Age 43 – Markham No.1 Stallman, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was pulling down some false bind from the roof of his working place and pulled it on to himself. He appears to have misjudged his own position with reference to the place where the bind would fall. Died 17th February.

PERRY Thomas – 1907 – 24/08/1907 – Age 40 – Northwood Loader, T Beech, Barton, Staffordshire. Deceased was killed by a fall of bass while loading in a longwall face in the Banbury seam. The bass fell from three slips, two parallel to one another and to the coal face and the other running diagonally across them. The fall was a heavy one about l foot 6 inches thick extending over an area of 8 feet 6 inches by 4 feet and it reeled one post in falling.

PERRY William J. – 1904 – 10/02/1904 – Age 18 – Ferndale No.3 Collier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. At face, fireclay, 9 feet by 6 feet by 8 feet thick. It fell from between two diagonal slips. It would, in time, have been lipped down to make height in the road. One end of it rested on a pair of timbers but otherwise it was unsupported. Two feet nine seam.

PERRYMAN George – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 38 – National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. 1, James St., Ynyshir. Buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

PERRYMAN Thomas – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 19 – National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. 1, James St., Ynyshir, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

PERRYMAN William – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 14 – National No.2 Collier boy, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. 1, James St., Ynyshir, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

PESTE Daniel – 1905 – 20/04/1905 – Age 28 – Duddingston, Shale Roadsman, Oakbank Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was assisting to carry a piece of machinery when he took a fit of coughing and vomited blood, dying in about an hour's time.

PETAVAGE John – 1900 – 07/08/1900 – Age 28 – Bothwell Park No.2 Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He went in front of a derailed hutch to lift it on to the rails. In doing so the snibble fell out and the hutch ran over him.

PETER Hastings Robert * – 1908 – 19/12/1908 – Age 14 – Marsden Limestone Quarry, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham.

PETERS David – 1901 – 25/11/1901 – Age 28 – Smelt Hooker on, Brymbo Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was pushing a tub of clay to the mouthing of the shaft and must have forgotten that he had signalled the cage away, some time previously, as the deceased and the tub fell to the pit bottom a distance of 31 yards. He expired shortly after the accident.

PETERS David – 1903 – 29/07/1903 – Age 33 – Glangarnant Haulier, Glangarnant Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. The haulage rope came out of the cap and a journey of trams ran amain to the bottom of the slant, killing deceased on the double parting.

PETERS David – 1905 – 19/07/1905 – Age 36 – Blaenant Master haulier, Marquess of Bute, Glamorgan. A journey of eight trams was being lowered towards the shaft by a single rope the dip being outwards when a side sheave-frame on a turn broke. The rope swung to the other side of the road and severely injured the deceased and another man. 2 killed.

PETERS Ebenezer – 1905 – 02/01/1905 – Age 66 – Ebbw Vale Waun Llwyd Greaser, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Crushed between the buffers of rail waggons on colliery sidings when passing between them in the course of his work. He was simply going from one side of the waggons to the other by the shortest road, and did not notice some waggons which were being let down from the screens.

PETERS James – 1905 – 05/11/1905 – Age 21 – Sherwood Labourer, Sherwood Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was on the headgear, assisting in lowering a wire rope conductor. The conductor slipped, and he was knocked off the headgear to the ground level. He died the same day.

PETERS Richard – 1906 – 06/11/1906 – Age 21 – Dolcoath (metalliferous) Stoper, Dolcoath Mine Ltd., Cornwall. He was descending Harrietts’ shaft in the bottom deck of the gig when a miner in the upper deck let a drill, which he was taking down with him, fall into the shaft. Striking the side of the shaft it rebounded and in some manner penetrated deceased’s side, from the result of which he died next day.

PETHERICK W. – 1900 – 02/01/1900 – Age 17 – Birchrock Asst. engineman, Graigola Merthyr Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While guiding the main-haulage rope on to the drum a bevel sheave broke away and was carried forward and deceased who was about 6 feet from the drum was drawn on to it under three coils of rope. Died March 18th.

PETRIE Alexander – 1903 – 19/12/1903 – Age 65 – Leven Gate keeper, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased had opened a level crossing gate to permit a locomotive to push a train with 21 empty trucks through. As the train approached the gate three trucks near the centre became derailed and were jerked outwards and struck deceased killing him instantly.

PETTIGREW Andrew – 1902 – 26/07/1902 – Age 37 – Cleland Fireman, Barr and Higgins, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

PETTIGREW Richard – 1902 – 02/10/1902 – Age 40 – Bridgeness Miner, Bridgeness Coal Co., Linlithgow. Deceased was passing inbye to his work and when about 75 yards from his working place the roof fell and completely buried him.

PETTITT William Johnn – 1904 – 08/02/1904 – Age 18 – Park House No.7 Horse driver, Clay Cross Co., Derbyshire. The deceased was passing along a roadway in front of a horse when a portion of the side of the road fell and killed him.

PEWY G. – 1903 – 14/12/1903 – Age 26 – West Riding Rock ripper, Pope and Pearson Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall or rock in a roadway while he was drawing timber preparatory to firing a shot. Cause shakes from previous shot.

PHEALY David – 1902 – 17/09/1902 – Age 52 – Rhymney Merthyr Hitcher, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Struck on the head by a brick which fell from a point 88 yards from the surface. A squeeze, which had escaped notice, had occurred in the walling and loosened the brick. Died the following day.

PHELPS Edward 1904 – Age 47 – Ubberley Undermanager, Chatterley Whitefield Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Between the 19th and 26th April, 1904 he received an injury to his right side by being knocked down by a loaded tub in a dip. He had been injured in the same place while lifting a tub on the rails two or three years previously. He followed his employment till the end of June and subsequently went into the Infirmary. He died on the 17th April, 1900. A post-mortem examination disclosed a large tumour, chiefly composed of bone, which was the cause of death and was attributed to external injury.

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

PHELPS Samuel – 1909 – 21/02/1909 – Age 37 – Elliot Ripper, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. On Sunday night he and others were clearing a fall on a double parting about 11.30 p.m. He received a blow on the back by a small stone, or piece of rashing, about the size of a man's hand, while in a stooping position. He worked his shift out to 5 a.m., but did not work the next night; he worked again on Tuesday night but not afterwards. He was seen by a doctor on Wednesday who suspected pleurisy and pneumonia, which was confirmed the following day and from which he died on the 2nd of March. The Doctors at the post-mortem practically agreed that it was the result of the blow, although there were no external signs of any bruising.

PHELPS William – 1907 – 18/09/1907 – Age 64 – Ferndale No.6 Bratticeman, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. A journey of empty trains, let down by a single rope, instead of going into a branch road as intended jumped the cross and ran down the main dip with the trains off the road. Deceased was standing on the main dip near the cross, and had not time to get clear. He was very badly injured, and died on September 8th, 1908.

PHILIPS George – 1901 – 13/05/1901 – Age 28 – Cethin No.1 pumping and ventilation shaft Asst. pitman, Crawshay Bros. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fell from stage at a pumping lift to the bottom of the pit while assisting to take a pump rod out.

PHILIPS Gomer - 1907 - 26/11/1907 – Age 21 - Fforchaman Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face coal, 3.5 feet by 7 inches by 5.5 feet thick burst off the face, struck deceased against a ‘cog,’ and fractured his spine. He was at the time engaged in setting a prop. He died on December 7th. Four feet seam.

PHILIPS Levi - 1900 - 03/10/1900 – Age 16 - Garth Merthyr Collier boy, Elder Demster and Co., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 4 feet x 2.5 feet x 2.5 feet thick, fell off a vertical joint which had followed the road for 28 yards. One prop was discharged. Truro seam.

PHILIPS Walter - 1900 - 18/05/1900 – Age 53 - International Collier, International Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face while holing coal, 13 feet x 5 feet x 1 foot thick fell and discharged three sprags. Six feet seam.

PHILIPS William - 1908 - 15/09/1908 – Age 51 - Penycraig Fitter, Penycraig Coal Co., Glamorgan. Died by the fumes from an oil engine.

PHILIPS William Henry - 1905 - 01/07/1905 – Age 35 - Hodbarrow, Iron Ore Miner, Hodbarrow Mining Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased men, who were father and son and another miner (whose leg was broken by the accident), were taking the second slice off a pillar of ore, at the top of the deposit. The working was 9 feet wide and 8 feet high; on the left side was the old working of the first slice and there was solid ore on the right side. The roof is limestone intermixed with sand and was close timbered by headtrees placed about 4 feet apart and ordinarily supported by a leg at each end; slabs of larch 1.5 inches thick and 6 feet long were driven forward over the headtrees as close to the face. A headtree 4 feet from the face was supported by a leg on the left or open side end rested on a hitch with a 6 inch base in the solid ore on the right side and while they were fixing another headtree, close to the face, a fall of roof took place without warning, amounting to 15 or 16 tons and the hitch gave way and the headtree fell and deceased men were buried. An official had suggested to the elder Phillips, who was the leading man, that a leg should replace the hitch, but Phillips replied that the hitch was good and sounded it with a hammer and nothing was done. There was plenty of loose timber at hand. 2 killed.

PHILIPS William Maxwell - 1901 - 12/11/1901 – Age 38 - Eston Ironstone Miner, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was filling a waggon when a large piece of stone, which had been shot down before and was resting on some loose stone, came over on to him catching on his head inflicting fatal injuries.

PHILLIPS Alfred - 1909 - 14/05/1909 – Age 18 - Celynen Collier, Abercarn Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A heavy fall of several hundred tons at the working face fastened and imprisoned them both. The boy lived about 16 hours and the man 20 hours; they were able to talk with the men trying to release them for 12 hours or so but succumbed before they were reached. Apparently a sudden squeeze, acting on a weak roof between a "grime" and a "fault" caused the fall. There does not seem to be blame attached to anyone and I have pleasure in bearing testimony to the efficiency and courage displayed by all concerned, from the manager downwards, in the efforts made to rescue these poor fellows. They were worthy of the noble traditions of English colliers and miners with regard to such circumstances. 2 killed.

PHILLIPS David - 1902 - 04/03/1902 – Age 37 - Milfraen Collier, Blanavon Iron Co. Ltd., Monmouth. They were thrown out of the cage while ascending the shaft in consequence of it having struck against one of the iron girders or byatts about 71 yards from the bottom. The cage, which had 8 or 9 inches clear of the girders, when steady is said to have left the bottom steadily and from come cause, unknown, to have got into a swing with this result. My own impression is that the cage was jerked off the bottom owing to the lengths of slack rope at the time and thus got swaying about. There were four wire rope guides to each cage and subsequently the cages worked all right without any tightening of the guide ropes. There were no indications noticeable of the cage having previously come in contact with the sides of the shaft or the girders. 5 killed.

PHILLIPS David - 1903 - 16/10/1903 – Age 28 - Coegnant Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face; while filling a tram a stone measuring 4.5 feet long, 2.5 feet broad, and 6 inches thick fell from the cleft roof alongside a joint causing fatal injuries. Six-feet seam.

PHILLIPS David - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 26 - National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed.

PHILLIPS Ernest - 1906 - 14/08/1906 – Age 17 - Wyndham Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face; while clearing away some clod which had been taken down over the coal, a stone, measuring 8 feet by 5 feet by 1.5 feet, fell from the roof. There had been a crush at the place. No timber supports under the stone. Two feet nine seam.

PHILLIPS Evan - 1907 - 31/05/1907 – Age 50 - McLaren Collier, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof at the face of a stall in the Yard Vein from two slips, one a face slip and another at the side. Apparently the slips must have been visible, and although he was told by the Examiner to get the coal down, he continued to work without doing so, thereby negligently bringing about his own death.

PHILLIPS Henry - 1902 - 22/01/1902 – Age 48 - Clydach Quarryman, Clydach & Abergavenny Lime & Stone Co. Ltd., Brecon. He was found crushed between the corner of a truck and the siding wall. How he got there no one knew.

PHILLIPS Henry - 1907 - 09/10/1907 – Age 19 - Blaendare Slope Collier, Blaendare Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of top coal from the face of his working place in New Vein Seam. He had worked his bottom coal off too far without spragging or taking down the top coal.

PHILLIPS Herbert - 1904 - 07/12/1905 – Age 29 - Dolcoath Tin Stoper, Dolcoath Mine Ltd., Cornwall. While standing on a temporary seam drilling a hole, below the 338 fathom level east of Stray Park shaft a stone fell from about 18 inches above his head and striking him in the face fractured the optic plate of his right eye. He was operated upon and subsequently seemed to improve but finally gradually fell back and died on the 3 June, 1905, from inflammation of the brain.

PHILLIPS Herbert - 1909 - 01/11/1909 – Age 22 - Aberpergwm Collier, Morgan Williams, Glamorgan. The accident occurred at the junction of two inclines, one self acting and the other worked by a steam engine. A mistake was made by deceased, and he stepped in front of loaded trains coming down the self acting incline, and was run over and killed. He thought he was on the other plane.

PHILLIPS Isaac - 1907 - 27/09/1907 – Age 45 - Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen Labourer, Gwaun-Cae- Gurwen Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Whilst lowering a waggon, which had been uncoupled from a group of five, those left behind crept on quietly and ultimately caught Phillips between the buffers. Gradient 1 in 70. Brakes stated to have been pinned down on those left behind.

PHILLIPS James - 1904 - 23/06/1904 – Age 24 - Ynyscedwyn Rider, South Wales Anthracite Colliery Co. Ltd., Brecon. Found severely injured under a journey of full trams having apparently been dragged a considerable distance and died within an hour.

PHILLIPS James - 1906 - 02/05/1906 – Age 16 - Bamfurlong No.2 Dataller, Cross Tetley and Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He attempted to go down the coal face, after shots had been fired in the coal, when some coal rolled off the face capping a sprag, and fatally injuring deceased. The men had been warned by the fireman not to pass the place until the coal had been drawn down.

PHILLIPS John - 1901 - 29/07/1901 – Age 40 - Bargoed Sinker, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Some bricks from the walling of the sinking shaft, which had been taken out and replaced a few days previously, fell down and striking his head killed him. The bricks are alleged to have been displaced owing to the ground behind being soft and water having got into it. I attribute it to inefficient workmanship.

PHILLIPS John - 1902 - 23/07/1902 – Age 28 - George Haulier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by a loaded tram which he was taking down a heading, dipping 3 inches per yard. The pin of the gun was supposed to have jumped up or to have been kicked up by the horse. Died on August 20th.

PHILLIPS John - 1905 - 01/07/1905 – Age 63 - Hodbarrow, Iron Ore Miner, Hodbarrow Mining Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased men, who were father and son and another miner (whose leg was broken by the accident), were taking the second slice off a pillar of ore at the top of the deposit. The working was 9 feet wide and 8 feet high; on the left side and was the old working of the first slice and there was solid ore on the right side. The roof is limestone intermixed with sand and was close timbered by headtrees placed about 4 feet apart and ordinarily supported by a leg at each end; slabs of larch 1.5 inches thick and 6 feet long were driven forward over the headtrees as, close to the face. A headtree 4 feet from the face was supported by a leg on the left or open side end rested on a hitch with a 6-inch base in the solid ore on the right side and while they were fixing another headtree close to the face a fall of roof took place without warning, amounting to 15 or 16 tons and the hitch gave way and the headtree fell and deceased men were buried. An official had suggested to the elder Phillips, who was the leading man, that a leg should replace the hitch, but Phillips replied that the hitch was good and sounded, he hit it with a hammer and nothing was done. There was plenty of loose timber at hand. 2 killed.

PHILLIPS John - 1905 - 08/03/1905 – Age 15 - Ebbw Vale Marine Collier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When carrying pick-points or mandrills to the sharpening shop he fell and one of the points pierced his side, inflicting fatal injuries.

PHILLIPS John - 1908 - 27/03/1908 – Age 34 - Bargeod Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof at the face. It came from an unseen or unnoticed slant owing to insufficient timbering. Instead of setting timber close together, he and his comrades had not even put them up within the maximum distances. Error of judgement may be allowed but there was also carelessness on his part and his butty’s.

PHILLIPS Kinsey - 1907 - 17/09/1907 – Age 43 - Marine Labourer, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He died from blood poisoning upon a slight bruise on his leg, alleged to have been the result of stumbling over a roller when waking out from work. His state of health had much more to do with this case than the bruise which was very slight and without any abrasion of the skin.

PHILLIPS Rees – 1902 – 19/08/1902 – Age 25 – Deep Navigation Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was taking a train down a dip, with about six empty trams, when cliff fell from the roof and sides on to him. The repairers had been enlarging and timbering the dip and it was a piece of roof overhanging an old pair of timbers and which should have been taken down which fell. Six feet seam.

PHILLIPS Rees – 1903 – 30/07/1903 – Age 23 – Llanerch Collier, Foxhole Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face, a slip of coal and the clod above fell as he was filling a tram. The coal had been holed 6 inches but was not spragged as required by special rule. Hughes vein.

PHILLIPS Reginald – 1908 – 13/05/1908 – Age 22 – Dunkerton Labourer, Dunkerton Collieries Ltd., Somerset. Crushed by machinery driving some of the screen and hauling plant. How he became entangled, and why he got inside the fence, is equally unexplained. He had been employed on another part of the machinery, away from, and outside this fencing, in the morning, but was supposed to have finished his work, about the screens, several hours before and to have returned to his ordinary duties, which were those of a general labourer.

PHILLIPS Richard – 1904 – 25/05/1904 – Age 62 – Treglission, Elven Quarry Quarryman, James Runnalls, Cornwall. He was killed by a fall of stone from the face which had previously been loosened by blasting.

PHILLIPS Thomas – 1907 – 08/07/1907 – Age 32 – Ammanford Collier, Ammanford Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. Fall of roof on road. While working at the face of a roadway through a goaf, he heard ponces in the roof behind him. He ran outwards to avoid the danger of a fall of roof, but was caught by the falling debris. Had he remained at the face he would not have been injured. The fall measured 12 feet by 7 feet by 1 foot 6 inches. The roof (strong shale) was considered so good that side props only had been set under it. Little Vein. Safety lamps.

PHILLIPS William - 1907 - 26/03/1907 – Age 27 - Shirebrook Loader, Shirebrook Colliery Co., Derbyshire. The descending cage got fast in one of the conductor rods, causing the cage to tilt up and the three men fell down the shaft. Two others were seriously injured. 3 killed.

PHILLIPS William - 1908 - 07/01/1908 – Age 17 - Penallta Fitter, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and two other men were replacing the motor-shaft of the overhead electric travelling crane in the engine house. Richards was seated on a plank, waiting to receive the end of the shaft, when he was joined by Phillips. Directly the latter got on the plank, it broke in the middle, and they were precipitated to the floor, a distance of 50 feet. The plank which was 10 feet long, 9 inches wide, and 3 inches thick, rested on the two gantry rails, which were 7 feet apart, the actual unsupported span being 6 feet 9 inches. It had been kept up at the crane for some months, and had supported two men only a few days before. The fracture showed no sign of having existed for some time, the surfaces being quite clean and free from dry rot. That the mere weight of the two men broke such a good looking plank is incredible, it must have been severely strained some time previously. All witnesses agreed that it was not strained on the day of the accident, and no one could remember a previous strain. 2 killed.

PHILLIPS William Endall - 1908 - 30/07/1908 – Age 17 - Pinxton Labourer, Pinxton Collieries Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was handling an incandescent lamp attached to a portable cable, when he received a shock from either the lamp holder or from an abrasion in the cable. He died immediately.

PHILMENY Andrew - 1908 - 05/07/1908 – Age 46 - Bardykes Labourer, Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He omitted to shut the gates at the mid-scaffold of the surface hoist, and thinking the cage was there, he pushed forward a hutch and fell after it, a distance of 19 feet.

PHILP Thomas - 1906 - 20/11/1906 – Age 40 - South Crofty (metalliferous) Shaftsman, South Crofty Ltd., Cornwall. When descending Robinson’s shaft in a kibble with two other men, they called at the 60-fathom level to get some candles. On resulting their descent, the cross head for steadying the kibble appears to have remained suspended from some unknown cause and becoming released, it fell after the kibble, which had got down 6 or 7 fathoms, resulting in deceased falling to the 100-fathom level. Whether he was standing on the edge of the kibble and struck or whether he was inside the kibble and so frightened that he jumped out is unknown.

PHILPOTS G.H. - 1906 - 06/06/1906 – Age 32 - Hadley, Basalt Quarry Quarryman, AE Lewis, Worcester. Fall of rock from the face, 15 feet above a ledge on where deceased was at work. He had fired a shot at the higher point an hour previously, and was said to have examined the face afterwards.

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PHIPPARD John - 1901 - 21/01/1901 – Age 66 - Eastlington, Limestone Miner, Albert Harris, Dorset. Fall of stone which he and another man were working out. Having broken the stone off at the face he was examining it and considering how to proceed to get it out. The supports on which it rested just then gave way and he was fatally crushed.

PHIPPS George - 1901 - 28/08/1901 – Age 41 - New Fancy Collier, Parkend Deep Navigation Collieries, Gloucester. Fall of roof from slips in his working place. He was holing at the time and the place was apparently well timbered and probably a sudden weight caused the slip to liberate the stone which fell.

PHIPPS William - 1902 - 08/10/1902 – Age 30 - Norchard Collier, Park Iron Ore and Coal Co. Ltd., Gloucestershire. The two men were killed by a fall of rock (about five tons) while working in their place. The place had been examined about 1.5 hours before the accident and is said to have been thought safe. Owing to unseen slips this roof requires more regular and closer timbering although a strong rock roof. 2 killed.

PHOENIX Edward - 1900 - 05/09/1900 – Age 60 - Brynmally Collier, Brynmally Colliery Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. When holing, under the coal face, a stone fell upon the deceased from between three slips in the roof like a pothole. This was a low seam with the pack wall built to forty-two inches to the face.

PHOENIX Oswald - 1909 - 12/06/1909 – Age 26 - Jamage Loader, Reps of late John Wedgwood, Staffordshire. This accident was caused by boring into an unexploded charge of Albionite (9 ozs.) in a shot hole in a sinking pit. The shot was one of five which were connected up in series and fired electrically by a low tension battery, near the end of the day shift. On examination it was found that the middle shot had missed. A second charge was then placed in the same hole on the top of the original stemming and was exploded separately. The work done by this second charge caused the chargeman on the shift to consider that both charges had gone. The work of cleaning up was preceded with for the remainder of the shift and was continued by the next shift, when after about 1.5 hours, the sump was ready for boring again. Phoenix, on instructions from Jones, commenced to bore in the socket of the original missed shot when almost immediately an explosion occurred, killing the former on the spot and causing injuries to Jones, from which he died on the 23rd instant. The practice of boring in sockets left by previous shots is to be condemned, for there is no guarantee that the whole of a charge has been exploded. The practice was afterwards discontinued in this sinking. 2 killed.

PICK Thomas - 1906 - 03/05/1906 – Age 31 - Throckley Stoneman, Throckley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased and three others were working bargain work during the night making a new flat the Haugh way of the Stone Coal seam of the Derwentwater pit. The seam is 2 feet 8 inches thick, and a top caunch of 1 foot 8 inches, already partly taken down, with a bottom caunch of 2 feet 6 inches made the height. A shot of saxonite was fired in the bottom caunch at the left side about three-quarters of an hour before the accident, and deceased was at the top of the caunch, a few feet inbye, building a pack on the same side, when a piece of blue metal, 7.5 feet long by 2 feet wide and 14.5 inches thick, relieved by slips at each end, which appear not to have been observed before the accident, fell upon his head partly from the side and partly from the roof. The leading man of the party had examined the stone before the accident, and set a prop with a sleeper as a headtree under the inbye end, of it. The prop was canted out. There was plenty of loose timber handy for use. The backs shift deputy passed the place about the time they started work, but they were not visited by an official during the course of the shift although the master shifter came directly he heard of the accident. The Local Inspectors reported, 'in our opinion it is a pure accident from a fall of stone in an entire deceptive roof. There has been no negligence whatever on the part any one as the place round was securely timbered and there being plenty of timber at hand.'

PICKEN Bert - 1907 - 16/03/1907 – Age 14 - Cannock Chase Dirt picker, Cannock Chase Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased, in crossing the sidings between the pit bank and the screens, tried to slip between a railway waggon at rest and the front of a second waggon coming slowly down the rails by gravity. He was badly crushed about the body and died on the following day.

PICKEN George - 1903 - 09/03/1903 – Age 55 - Tibshelf No.3 Dayman, Babbington Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was knocking out the props under the ripping lip of the heading preparatory to firing a shot when a fall of roof occurred and fatally injured him. He died the same day.

PICKERILL A. - 1905 - 14/11/1905 – Age 32 - Monckton Main Collier, Monckton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. When getting coal at the face, hearing a movement of the roof, he stepped back quickly and was caught by the roof falling behind him, and so severely injured that he died next morning. Immediately after this fall the roof fell at the face to a concealed slip. The first fall displaced two props and came away to the edge of a ‘pot-hole,’ which had fallen during the previous shift.

PICKERILL James - 1909 - 20/12/1909 – Age 18 - Glass Houghton Pony driver, Glass Houghton and Castleford Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was found dead under a train of four full tubs which were drawn by a horse. When last seen he was in front of the horse, and it is probable that he slipped or stumbled and was run over.

PICKERING George - 1902 - 01/03/1902 – Age 54 - Washington Stoneman, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased, with another stoneman, was engaged in enlarging and retimbering an old road in the Hutton Seam. He appears to have undermined one of the original props set in the road and it, with a plank and another prop, fell out and relieved a mass of stone from the face of the canch which fell on him.