PICKERING James - 1900 - 25/10/1900 – Age 48 - Margaret, Iron Ore Miner, Cleator Iron Ore Co., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased had been sent by the overman to set some timber on a roadway and whilst he was engaged at this work about half a ton of ore, part of the ground he was about to timber up, suddenly fell on him.

PICKERING William Henry - 1909 - 22/02/1909 – Age 24 - Tibshelf No.2 Loader, Babbington Coal Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was marking the full tubs standing at the gate end, when a fall of roof occurred, fatally injuring him. He died the same day.

PICKERSGILL John - 1902 - 02/01/1902 – Age 57 - Lofthouse Miner, Lofthouse Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in a working place, props thrown out. Cause a sudden weight and a smooth parting.

PICKETS Thomas H. - 1904 - 29/03/1904 – Age 55 - Monckton Main Miner, New Monckton Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was fixing brattice in a vertical place which had been driven up a fault when he slipped and fell to the bottom and was so seriously injured that he died on 30th.

PICKFORD George - 1902 - 16/12/1902 – Age 32 - Hindlow limestone Quarry Quarryman, Buxton Lime Firms Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was near the Quarry face at the time another Quarryman was pulling stone in another length or working place when a stone rebounded on the rock and struck deceased. He died the same day.

PICKFORD Henry - 1904 - 10/12/1904 – Age 57 - Harper Hill, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Buxton Lime Firms Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was walking in front of the Quarry face when a piece of stone fell and killed him.

PICKLES Jonathan - 1906 - 24/12/1906 – Age 16 - New Brancepeth Putter, Cochrane and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was lifting a tub on to the way, in a self-acting incline, when another tub was set away from the top. He was caught by this second tub and killed.

PICKOVER Anthony - 1905 - 17/06/1905 – Age 53 - Kirkby Stallman, Butterley Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of clod from over the coal, supposed to have been knocking a prop out with a hammer when a long length of clod fell and fatally injured him. He died 23rd October.

PICKSTOCK James - 1909 - 14/12/1909 – Age 58 - Adderley Green Blacksmith, Stirrup and Pye, Staffordshire. Deceased was struck on the elbow by a small piece of iron which caused very slight injury. Septic poisoning however rapidly supervened and he died six days later.

PICKTHALL James - 1902 - 17/04/1902 – Age 55 - Roanhead, Iron Ore Miner, Kennedy Bros. Ltd.,  Lancashire. Died 18th. April. This fatality occurred in a narrow vein working. The place was close timbered, the head trees being covered in the usual way and then loaded with debris. Despite this precaution a fall of roof displaced several courses of timber and completely covered deceased.

PICKUP Thomas – 1904 – 07/06/1904 – Age 14 – Parkhill Haulage boy, Victoria Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was temporarily doing the work of another haulage boy, whose duty was to take off the clamps at the top of an endless rope incline and let the tubs run down to the shaft bottom by gravity. He failed to unfasten the clamp of a set of five tubs and instead of stopping the rope he tried to unhook the chain while the set was in motion and did not notice some tubs which were standing in front of him and his head was crushed between them and the moving tubs.

PIGEON Herbert – 1906 – 16/02/1906 – Age 20 – Wollaton Onsetter, Wollaton Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was at the bottom of a self-acting incline when the train started running and slack rope struck him across the legs knocking him into the side of the roadway. He died the same day.

PIGGERSGILL T. – 1902 – 20/11/1902 – Age 64 – Old Roundwood Onsetter, Terry Greaves and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He foolishly went into the cage-hole when the cages were running and was killed.

PIGGOTT Owen – 1901 – 01/05/1901 – Age 51 – Merthyr Vale No.1 Stables Limer, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by empty journey while passing. A man shouted to him to turn into a manhole but he took no notice and was run over close by a manhole, an electric light was near.

PIGGOTT William – 1906 – 08/02/1906 – Age 26 – Bearpark Chock drawer, Bearpark Coal & Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When drawing timber from a broken jud, a stone, some 15 feet x 8 feet x 2 feet thick, came away, and one end struck him, killing him almost instantly.

PIGOT Ralph – 1903 – 22/01/1902 – Age 37 – Crop & Deep Metalman, St Helens Collieries Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was engaged at the face getting some bottom coal and had put one sprag under the roof coal which eventually fell over upon him.

PIKE George – 1902 – 02/06/1902 – Age 40 – Maindy Collier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face, while stooping down to get some coal a piece of top coal and clod weighing about 12 lb. fell and struck him in the stomach. He died the following day. Upper seam.

PIKE John – 1902 – 18/10/1902 – Age 62 – White Rock, Clay Quarry Quarryman, AF Houfton, Nottinghamshire. Deceased had been undercutting the clay face when it rolled over and killed him.

PIKE William – 1902 – 01/12/1902 – Age 41 – Dunston Hewer, Dunston Norwood & Swalwell Garsefield Coal Co., Co.Durham. The deceased was kirving in the Brockwell seam in a longwall working when a large stone suddenly dropped from the roof. The stone broke close off to the coal but was bounded by a jack on the left and a feather edge on the right side. Two props set under the feather were canted out.

PIKE William – 1907 – 12/04/1907 – Age 17 – Bestwood Horse driver, Bestwood Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was in charge of a horse and twelve full tubs passing along a roadway, when one of the tubs left the rails and running into a prop knocked it out and a fall of roof killed deceased who was probably riding on the first full tub, contrary to the rules of the mine.

PILKINGTON James – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 26 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 38 High Street, Stanley.

PILKINGTON John snr. – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 57 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 9 Sand Street, Stanley.

PILKINGTON Thomas – 1909 – 06/12/1909 – Age 51 – Eccleston Hall Fireman, Lathom Bros., St Helens, Lancashire. They had been unloading long bars in a mouthing and had signalled the cage away, and the next time the cage descended, it struck the bars, which tilted up, fatally injuring the two deceased persons, owing to the bars having been left too near the pit shaft. 2 killed.

PILKINGTON W. – 1902 – 06/12/1902 – Age 60 – Giants Hall Fireman, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made. Deceased appears to have slipped on a landing plate underground and injured his hip, he was able to work his shift out and also worked the next shift. He died from the effects of pneumonia and pleurisy accelerated by the accident on the 9th instant.

PILOT William – 1907 – 10/07/1907 – Age 30 – Avon Collier, Great Western Railway Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, road end, it fell off the lower stratum (fine shale, called ‘Clod’) occurred shortly after he had tested the roof with a mandrill. A prop was to have been set as the result of the test, but unfortunately too late. The accident shows the necessity of setting props as soon as there is room. Bute seam. Safety lamps.

PIMBLETT Robert – 1908 – 18/08/1908 – Age 53 – Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

PIMBLETT Thomas – 1900 – 20/12/1900 – Age 14 – Edge Green Engine boy, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was attending to the shaker engine, under the screens, and appears to have gone to oil when it was in motion and was caught by an unfenced revolving shaft and killed.

PIMBLETT Thomas Henry – 1908 – 18/08/1908 – Age 26 – Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

PIMLEY Francis – 1906 – 17/09/1906 – Age 55 – Skegoniel Brickworks Quarry Quarrier, Skegoniel Brick Co. Ltd., Co. Antrim, Ireland. Overburden of sand, 6 inches dip, overhung at an angle of 45 degrees, whilst taking out more sand, about a ton, 7 feet in length, fell on to him.

PINDER Joseph – 1909 – 24/01/1909 – Age 34 – Dean & Chapter Labourer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was standing on a platform, near the edge, looking at some object during the time an aerial ropeway was standing. When the rope began to move, an empty bucket, which he himself had attached to the rope, moving forward it struck him in the back and he fell to the ground 26 feet below and broke his skull.

PINKERTON John – 1907 – 10/06/1907 – Age 21 – Newcraighall Bencher, Niddrie and Behar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased’s duties were to attend to the tubs at an incline top and run them by means of a wheel with brake attached. A rake was set in motion and on this roadway the descending loaded tubs collided with this ascending empty tubs, the result being that the wheel and apparatus connected with it were thrown out and deceased was struck with wheel tree and instantly killed.

PINKERTON Robert jnr. – 1904 – 22/01/1904 – Age 18 – Ellismuir No.3 Drawer, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. In putting his hutch on the rails he strained himself. The accident was not reported until after his death in August.

PINKNEY George Shield – 1905 – 26/09/1905 – Age 59 – West Pelton Deputy, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A fall of roof had taken place during the night in a headway, 9 feet wide, close to a lift in broken workings in the Low Main seam in which two hewers worked. Deceased who was the fore shift deputy discovered the fall when making his inspection before the hewers came in and directed the two hewers from the lift to clear it away. He returned to inspect the work when a second fall occurred over practically the same area as the first one and he was buried, and one of the hewers was also injured. The second fall was 14 feet long 3 feet wide and 16 inches thick and was relieved by a slip crossing the place diagonally, and which was visible after the first fall. There was a row of props along the centre of the headways and the falls came away between them and the coal side, and directly over the tub rails. Some want of judgement was shown in not supporting the stone by props set on the debris of the first fall. The ordinary seam props were not long enough but longer timber could have been obtained at the flat. The Local Inspectors reported 'that it was a pure accident.'

PINKNEY Richard Thompson - 1909 - 30/12/1909 – Age 32 - Esh Hewer, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. He was hewing in a headways lift in the five quarter seam when the roof displaced the timber and fell right across the face. The soft brat had been left up and the timber had been set under it, this did not give the props a chance to hold the weight when it came on.

PINNELL George - 1908 - 25/03/1908 – Age 25 - Great Western No.3 Collier, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, a bell of cliff, 5.5 feet in diameter by 28 inches thick, fell, and crushed his head. He had been absent from the face, eating his food, and was returning to recommence holing when the fall occurred. One prop was said to have been crushed out. There are a great many bells in this, the Forest Fach seam, which up to this time had been detected and secured.

PIPE Charles Stanley - 1906 - 21/08/1906 – Age 16 - Wearmouth Stone putter, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died August 30. Deceased was injured by a fall of blue metal stone, about 1 foot square and 1.5 inches extreme thickness, with sharp edges which cut his shoulder and knee. He was attended as an outpatient of the Sunderland Infirmary until August 25th, when he was considered cured. On 29th August he was sent to the infirmary suffering from acute pericarditis and congestion of the base of the lungs, and died next day. An inquest was held and a post-mortem examination made. The doctors concurred in stating that the injury had no connection with the death and the jury found in accordance with the medical evidence.

PIPER James - 1908 - 13/08/1908 – Age 20 - Senghenydd Collier, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face, coal and shale, 33 inches by 18 inches by 36 inches thick, fell from above a sprag in a seam 3 feet 3 inches thick, and knocked him down. In falling his skull was fractured against a cog. His partner said that he had previously tried to pull the piece of coal down but had failed. Four feet seam.

PIRRIE Robert - 1903 - 01/2/1903 – Age 20 - Kirkwood No.1 Miner, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face. Props were not set within the specified distance.

PITCHFORD Thomas - 1904 - 02/02/1904 – Age 32 - Prior’s Lee Woodhouse No.1 Filler, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. A brick fell from the shaft lining and fell on the cage cover over his head. Died 4th February.

PITCHFORK William - 1905 - 20/10/1905 – Age 38 - Langwith Loader, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co., Notts. He died in the mine and the coroner’s jury said that it was natural causes, heart disease.

PIZZEY William - 1907 - 20/04/1907 – Age 35 - Smithy Wood Collier, Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Deceased and his brother were taking up a 5.5-yard piece of coal at each side of an air-road which they were ripping and stowing the stone in the goaf. He had just commenced to hole at the face corner, near the air road, when a bump came over the place and a large quantity of stone from the roof fell upon and killed him. The fall came to a concealed slip and broke off to the pack and to fine partings in the stone in the air road.

PLACE William - 1902 - 03/10/1902 – Age 62 - Griff Granite Quarry Quarryman, Griff Granite Co., Warwickshire. Deceased was giving instructions to another man who was pulling stone from the Quarry face. The stone fell on deceased.

PLANT David - 1909 - 19/07/1909 – Age 41 - Florence Ripper, Florence Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was killed by fall of roof about 9 feet by 6 feet by 1 foot 6 inches thick in the ripping in a jig in the Main coal. In the first hour of the shift a shot was fired which brought down 4 feet 6 inches of roof 9 feet across the jig and 6 feet in length to a break, leaving up a thickness of 1 foot 6 inches against a smooth parting. Deceased removed all the loose material and examined the place before continuing to bore again. While in the act of stamping a hole for the boring post the half yard of roof fell from a slip running up the side of the jig, burying deceased and killing him instantly. The piece of roof might have been protected by props or stretchers before proceeding to work beneath it.

PLANT George – 1904 – 18/11/1904 – Age 47 – Holbrook No.3 Loader, J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was proceeding to break up roof stone, which had fallen on the coal and while doing so a large piece of stone fell from the roof and fatally injured him. He died 8th December.

PLANT William Dodd - 1905 - 23/12/1905 – Age 41 - Church Gresley Blacksmith, Moira Colliery Co., Derbyshire. While working at his anvil a piece of steel flew from another workmen’s anvil and struck deceased in the face. Erysipelas quickly developed and caused his death on 31st December.

PLANT William Henry - 1908 - 16/11/1908 – Age 20 - Hickleton Main Rope runner, Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. On the road on which this accident occurred, a compressed air engine is used to haul ten tubs. The empty tubs drag the rope in-bye, and 11 tubs of dirt or 16 of coal are hauled out at a time. In this case, seven tubs of dirt were to be brought out to be lowered into another road, and these tubs were spragged with a rail. A signal of four raps, which meant "draw up steadily," was given to the engineman with the object of taking out the sprag so that the tubs could be lowered to others to make up the set. As soon as the tubs were moved the sprag was removed and a signal of "one" was given to stop, but evidently a proper connection of the signal wires was not made, for the engineman did not receive the signal man in charge of the haulage followed the set up the road shouting for the tubs to be stopped. The first tub left the rails, and the drawbar of the second tub broke and five tubs ran down the plane. The deceased was caught and run over, and died within a few minutes. The other man managed to get out of the way. The drawbar broke beyond the last bolt which was sheared through. This points to the conclusion that there was a jerk. The men should not have travelled on the plane after the tubs as the drag was not attached, for it was intended to lower the tubs as soon as the sprag was removed.

PLASKETT John - 1900 - 16/06/1900 – Age 23 - Oatlands Roadman, Moresby Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. An empty tub, in ascending an incline, slipped on the rope and running back against the next tub got off the road. The deceased stopped the rope and with another man proceeded to replace the tub on the road and in doing so the former went improperly in front of the tub.

PLATFORD Walter - 1907 - 22/01/1907 – Age 30 - Dean & Chapter Hewer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He had kirved to a hitch leader and the stone fell away from it. The timbering was in order.

PLATT Andrew - 1903 - 03/06/1903 – Age 30 - Nook Collier, Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in roadway whilst repairing near the face timbering rule not complied with. Space 8 feet by 5 feet without support. (Good roof.)

PLATT James - 1908 - 13/07/1908 – Age 52 - Haugh Hey Collier, James Howard, Lancashire. In working place, unsuitable timber and insufficient quantity. (Good roof).

PLATT James - 1909 - 19/01/1909 – Age 34 - Ackton Hall Miner, Ackton Hall Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp in a winning heading. The gas was ignited by electric sparks from a switch box of the motor of a small fan. 2 killed.

PLATT John W. - 1904 - 18/02/1904 – Age 24 - Ravenhead Daywageman, St. Helens Collieries Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were engaged ripping roof down in a roadway and had advanced about six feet from the last bar to a slip when the roof gave way capping two bars and three stretchers, and killing them. At the inquiry it was suggested there should be better supervision of the men in this work. 2 killed.

PLATT Robert – 1908 – 24/12/1908 – Age 36 – Moor Road – Browman Chorley Colliery Co., Lancashire. Crushed by cage, engineman lowered without signal. Deceased was in the cage at the surface, having drawn out his full tub, and gone to help the head banksman, whose tub had got away. Whilst so engaged the cage was lowered, the head banksman sprang out clear, deceased had farther to go and was caught by the cage. The engineman maintained at the inquest that he received a signal from the bottom and one from the banksman at the top; it was impossible a signal could be given from the top. Only the head banksman gave signals and he was in a dangerous position.

PLATTEN Rising – 1901 – 12/02/1901 – Age 52 – South Pontop Deputy, UA Ritson and Sons Ltd., Co.Durham. Died on the 28th from blood poisoning caused by one of his fingers being scratched when pulling up rails in the pit.

PLATTS George – 1901 – 16/09/1901 – Age 49 – Ireland Stallman, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. Deceased expired while leaving the mine in consequence of feeling unwell, the coroners jury returned a verdict 'that the deceased died suddenly from failure of the hearts action.'

PLATTS George – 1902 – 27/10/1902 – Age 32 – Glapwell Stallman, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was preparing to blast down the ripping at a gate end and was cutting the top of a prop to set it loose, when a piece of stone fell and fatally injured him. He died 6th. November.

PLATTS George – 1906 – 08/02/1906 – Age 26 – Pinxton No.1 Asst. onsetter, Pinxton Collieries Ltd., Derbyshire. He received a scratch on one of his fingers on 24th January while working in the mine, and died of ‘septic pneumonia,’ which the coroner’s jury found had no connection with the slight injury to the finger.

PLATTS George – 1909 – 22/10/1909 – Age 49 – Kingsbury Bricklayer, Kingsbury Collieries Ltd., Warwickshire. Deceased was on a scaffold 20 feet from the ground doing some whitewashing when he fell to the ground.

PLATTS Joseph – 1900 – 08/12/1900 – Age 26 – Highfield Loader, T Pearson and Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was at work at a place where a fall of roof had occurred a few days previously and which had been timbered up. A cavity had been left above the timbering and a further fall taking place it broke through the timber and killed deceased who was sitting under it.

PLATTS Ralph – 1900 – 25/04/1900 – Age 38 – Walker Hewer, Walker Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made. Deceased and marrow had taken out the bottom coal and stone band and stayed the top coal with a prop but notwithstanding the roof and top coal fell canting out the prop.

PLATTS T.A. – 1909 – 26/11/1909 – Age 21 – Frickley Driver, Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was running in front of a train of full tubs drawn by a horse, when he stumbled and was run over.

PLAYFORD Thomas – 1901 – 20/12/1901 – Age 58 – Eston Ironstone Miner, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. While filling a tub a small piece of stone fell from the roof and severely bruised his shoulder and back. Died the same day from shock.

PLENDERLEITH James – 1909 – 02/09/1909 – Age 58 – Canderigg, Broomfield No.4 Miner, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of overhanging stone, under which machine-cut coal had been taken down.

PLENTY Alfred G. – 1907 – 11/11/1907 – Age 29 – Nine Mile Point Collier, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was working loose coal off the face having removed the sprags, while doing so a lump fell from a face slip and crushed him against the gob wall. The slips just here are irregular owing to a fault recently met with. There appears to have been an error of judgement on his part.

PLETTS M. – 1904 – 30/12/1904 – Age 23 – Dean & Chapter Hewer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of coal. The father was filling when some top coal came down and killed the son and injured the father. The place had just holed into an old bord.

PLEWS Henry – 1904 – 30/04/1904 – Age 14 – Black Prince Helper up, Weardale Steel and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was waiting by the side of the way of the putter bringing a full tub out from the face he had not got his head clear of the tub and when it came out it was crushed so severely between the tub and a prop he died within a few minutes. There was plenty of room on the other side of the place.

PLINT Thomas – 1907 – 07/05/1907 – Age 23 – East Pool & Agar, Tin Miner, East Pool & Agar United Mines Adventurers, Cornwall. A stone fell or rolled part way down in the shaft and appears to have ricocheted, upon striking against something, and struck him in the level where he was working, 5 yards from the shaft.

PLOUS John – 1903 – 23/06/1903 – Age 17 – Seaham Driver, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by his head being crushed between a tub and a prop when attempting to get on to the timbers.

PLOWS Albert – 1908 – 05/11/1908 – Age 20 – Garforth Sisters Byeworkman, Owners of Garforth Colliery, Yorkshire. The deceased and another man were opening out an old road which had been standing for about two years. Above the coal seam there is a parting under a strong grey bind. The intervening stone varies in thickness from 6 to 8 feet and consists of bind, one panel of which has ironstone balls intermixed with it. This stone, owing to the weight on it during the time the road has been standing, was much broken and had many slips in it parallel to the sides of the road. The seam was originally 4 feet 3 inches in thickness but owing to there being water in the workings, the floor had lifted and was above the top of the seam. Some coal had wasted out the seam and these two men were sent to fill it up and clear the road. On the day of the accident, they had filled one tub of coal and were taking an empty tub into the place to be filled when a large stone fell from the side at a slip and two breaks, and a smooth parting and caught and killed the deceased instantly. Considering the nature of the stone and that the road had been standing so long, stretchers should have been systematically set.

PLUMMER Frank – 1908 – 31/03/1908 – Age 37 – Tillery, Gary Collier, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof at the face of his working place in the seam. It fell from a slip which was not safeguarded against. Timber appears to have been set within the prescribed distance, but this being 8 feet x 8 feet seems excessive.

PLUMMER James – 1908 – 22/05/1908 – Age 19 – Newbattle Drawer, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. A section of longwall places had been standing, and a now slope road was being driven through the waste cross-cutting the old roads near to the coal face. Two squads of men were employed, one squad brushing in the cross cut and one in which deceased was redding up the coal faces. The brushing squad were firing a final shot through on one of the old roads, when deceased, who had been sent outbye to ascertain the time, got under the place of shots at the moment of firing, and was instantly killed. Warning was given all round and men posted at different roads but no one was expected from the road by which deceased came.

PLUMMER Richard – 1900 – 10/12/1900 – Age 52 – Brackley Labourer, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Fell from plank 5 feet leading from coke ovens. Died 20th December.

PLUMRIDGE Ralph – 1906 – 10/09/1906 – Age 19 – Walter’s Ash, Sandstone Quarry Sett maker, T Bristow and Bros., Buckingham. Fall of a boulder, weighing about 15 tons, out of a face of clay and flints. Deceased’s duty was at the top of the Quarry splitting stone, but he went into the Quarry to assist in rolling another stone over lying on the ground.

PLUNKET Patrick - 1903 - 08/09/1903 – Age 46 - South Brancepeth Coke filler, Bell Bros. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from heart disease while following his employment.

PLUNKETT Edmund - 1903 - 03/02/1903 – Age 50 - Black Park Manager, Black Park Colliery Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was travelling through an airway, from one longwall face to the one above, when a stone fell from the roof between the props fatally injuring him. The fireman, who inspected the airway, considered it, he stated, in a safe state when he passed through.

PODMORE Thomas - 1904 - 03/09/1904 – Age 50 - Amington Dataller, Glascote Colliery Co., Warwickshire. Deceased was crushed by a partly loaded tub on an inclined roadway. He was probably in front of the tub attempting to lower it a few yards for the purpose of loading up some stone on the roadway. He died 26th September.

POINTON George - 1907 - 07/02/1907 – Age 27 - Leycett Collier, Madeley Coal Coke and Brick Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was cleaning up a level in the Ten Feet at the deep side of a rib next the gob preparatory to bringing the rib back. He was setting a long post in a part of the level where the tops (5 feet thick) had fallen. Finding a lid necessary he left his holer holding the post in position, and started along the level to fetch a lid. When he had reached a point about 3 yards away, where the tops were up supported on bars with a leg at each end and a middle set a heavy goth occurred followed immediately by a fall of top coal over an area of 7 feet 6 inches by 10 feet (the width of the level) which reeled two of the bars and completely buried deceased. The coal fell from between two parallel breaks running along either side of the level.

POINTON James - 1903 - 12/12/1903 – Age 40 - Clough Hall No.6 Collier, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of side (coal) at face of a crosscut between two dips in the Bullhurst seam while holing. The seam lay at an angle of 33 degrees and the coal should have been spragged before he commenced to hole. The fall was liberated from a slip.

POINTON John - 1905 - 27/11/1905 – Age 34 - Littleton Pikeman, Littleton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Run over by tubs while going in front of 4 tubs drawn by a horse on part of the road dipping from 1 inch to 1.75 inches per yard.

POINTON Joseph - 1909 - 19/11/1909 – Age 35 - Prince of Wales Miner, John Rhodes, Yorkshire. A sharp bump knocked out a bar at a gate end and caused a fall of roof which killed Pointon.

POLKEY George Edward - 1908 - 30/06/1908 – Age 19 - South Normanton Dataller, South Normanton Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Repairs were being done in a roadway and girders erected. Deceased was preparing to assist in the loading of a tub, when the side of the roadway rolled over and crushed him against a tub.

POLL Alfred - 1908 - 08/01/1908 – Age 33 - Elliot Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fractured skull by a piece of iron, about 11 lbs weight, falling from the surface. As the other cage reached the catches, this piece of iron became detached from the cage owing to a flaw.

POLLARD Thomas - 1908 – Age 64 - Shaw Cross Wagon loader, Crawshaw and Warburton, Yorkshire. His duty was to load wagons at a hopper, but occasionally he brought wagons down to the screens. On the morning of the accident he brought two wagons to the screens to get them out of the way and was passing in front of two partly loaded wagons standing under the screens on another road, when three empty wagons bumped into them, with the result that the two wagons shot forward and the wheels of the first passed over him and so seriously injured him that he died on his way to the infirmary. A piece of wood had been placed under the back wheel of the first wagon under the screens but very improperly, the brakes had not been applied and pinned down. If this reasonable precaution had been taken the accident would not have happened. Occurred sometime in January.

POLLITT James - 1908 - 27/05/1908 – Age 45 - Rose Hill Collier, S Scowcroft and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. In level drawing road whilst repairing. He had entirely removed a previous fall and was cleaning up rails when a further fall occurred. The lip edge of the previous fall should have been secured by a bar. (Average roof.)

POLTON Ernest - 1905 - 08/08/1905 – Age 9 - Adderley Park Clay Quarry, Male child, Adderley Park Brick Co., Warwickshire. A school-boy, attempting to fish in the water of a clay Quarry, fell into the pool and was drowned.

POND Henry - 1906 - 17/07/1906 – Age 34 - Llanhilleth Labourer, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He strained and ruptured himself while unloading pitwood from railway trucks. An operation was performed the same day, but proved unsuccessful and he died early next morning.

PONDER William - 1909 - 26/07/1909 – Age 52 - Cannock Old Coppice Timberer, SJ Hawkins and Sons, Staffordshire. Deceased was setting timber in a haulage road when, in driving tight one of the trees under a bar, a thin piece of stone, about 12 inches long and 6 inches wide, fell from the roof, the thin edge cutting the back of his hand and arm. Blood poisoning resulted and he died, after three operations, in hospital on August 15th.

PONTIN Thomas - 1907 - 03/01/1907 – Age 35 - Llanhilleth Master haulier, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was in charge of the bottom of the pit while the hitcher was having dinner. As he and others were putting two trams in the cage a piece of coal appears to have fallen from the surface and struck his head. He died on the way home. This is a constantly recurring source of accidents due to the system of loading trams in the South Wales Coal field.

POOL Fred - 1908 - 22/01/1908 – Age 59 - Holbrook No.4 Stallman, J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was holing when some dirt fell and knocked a sprag out. He was re-setting it when the coal fell and killed him.

POOL William - 1904 - 07/08/1904 – Age 25 - Llwynypia No.2 Repairer, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and his assistant were propping, at the face of a heading, as there was a squeeze on when a heavy fall of cliff occurred which discharged three pairs of timber and buried deceased. New seam.

POOLE D. Pearson - 1907 - 04/09/1907 – Age 58 - South Hetton Shifter, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A fall of stone knocked him down and broke two of his ribs. He resumed work on 21st October, 1907, and continued at work for 9 shifts, when he was found to be strange in his manner. He was taken to the Asylum on 4th November, 1907, and died there on 10th January, 1908.

POOLE Oliver - 1904 - 06/09/1904 – Age 41 - Monk Bretton Collier, Monk Bretton Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was lowering some full tubs down a gateway and directly he removed the sprag the tubs got the better of him and crushed him against two tubs standing 4 or 5 feet below them inflicting fatal injuries.

POOLE William Henry – 1908 – 13/09/1908 – Age 24 – Pinxton No.1 Shunter, Pinxton Collieries Ltd., Derbyshire. Six full waggons were being pushed up an incline by a loco and failed to reach the top. Three waggons were then spragged up and the loco and the other three bumped into them when deceased was found to be seriously injured and died two hours later. He probably used a pit sprag in the wheel of one waggon and was struck by it when it flew out.

POPE George – 1909 – 29/09/1909 – Age 44 – Clynmil Stoker, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased attempted to jump on the shackles of a full journey, which was being drawn up the rubbish tip, when he slipped and fell under the trams. He had no authority to ride.

POPPLEWELL B. – 1904 – 13/06/1904 – Age 19 – Manvers Main Engine tenter, Manvers Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When oiling the bearing of a counter shaft, beneath one of the shaking screens, his coat sleeve was caught by a stud projecting three-quarters of an inch from the collar, close to the bearing, and he was taken round the shaft and killed.

PORRITT Thomas - 1903 - 03/09/1903 – Age 16 - Grinkle Ironstone Putter, Grinkle Mining Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. The men employed at this mine are conveyed there by trams on a tramway and on the morning in question he jumped off the first tram before it stopped and was running in front of it when he fell and the tram ran over him. Died on the 12th.

PORTEOUS Thomas - 1906 - 10/05/1906 – Age 30 - Little Raith Hanger on, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased hung three tubs on to the rope at the foot of an incline and gave the signal, when the rake had proceeded about 28 feet the rope broke and the tubs ran back, fatally crushing him.

PORTER George Frederick - 1907 - 19/08/1907 – Age 17 - Sutton No.3 Horse driver, Blackwell Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. It is supposed that the horse became restive and knocked a prop out, or that the first tub of a train of empty tubs got off the road and struck a prop supporting the roof.

PORTER John - 1907 - 10/06/1907 – Age 35 - Carthamlock No.6 Sinker, Steel Co. of Scotland Ltd., Lanarkshire. Owing to a defective steam crane, used as a winding engine for a sinking pit and to the hook getting disconnected from the kettle, the engineman could not raise them in time, and four shots of gelignite went off on them. Another 5 injured.

PORTER John H. - 1909 - 18/06/1909 – Age 17 - Broomfield Drawer, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. A fall of roof took place upon the deceased in the haulage road, capping three bars, set about four feet apart.

POSTLE Jonathan - 1900 - 27/02/1900 – Age 17 - Dunston Helper up, Owners of Dunston Colliery, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased, whilst the hewer was engaged in putting, went under the canch at the face to get a pick when a large stone fell from slips and canted out some timber. The deputy had examined the place two hours before and after setting some timber left it as he considered safe.

POSTLETHWAITE James - 1905 - 04/08/1905 – Age 68 - Burlington, Slate Quarry Clay River, Burlington Slate Works, Lancashire. While deceased, whose employment consisted in splitting the blocks of slates into smaller pieces, called clogs, was engaged in boring a hole in a large block, which had been moved into position by a 0.25 lbs. shot two days before, and was at the time lying on the floor of the Quarry, several lumps of slate fell from 10 yards above him, and he was caught while attempting to escape by a piece weighing about 3 cwt and although he was not fastened one of his legs was nearly severed from his body and he only lived 20 minutes. He had nearly escaped when he slipped and fell, possibly owing to clogs. About three months before the accident a heavy shot containing about two and a half quarter barrels of gunpowder had been fired at the place dislodging many tons of rock; after the shot the face had been examined by workmen using ropes, and dressed down. The day before the accident it had been very wet and the men were not at work. The rain continued all night and this may have loosened the stones. The manager had examined the face the day before the accident but noticed nothing unsafe.

POTE James – 1908 – 31/12/1908 – Age 58 – Gunnislake, Granite Quarry Mason, Cornwall Granite Co. Ltd., Cornwall. A link in a 3/8 inch sling chain, which had evidently been made by the works blacksmith, broke as the steam crane was conveying a stone, about 4 cwt. over his head, resulting in the stone falling upon him. He had, in accordance with practice, withdrawn from the place with other men upon the crane runner giving the usual signal, but being anxious to get a stone marked for splitting he returned before the stone had cleared it.

POTTER Edward – 1907 – 09/01/1907 – Age 31 – Lightmoor Collier, H Crawshay and Co. Ltd., Gloucester. Fall of roof at the face, in the Twenty-inch Seam. He was in the act of setting a prop when the stone fell in an umbrella shape from a smooth surface, which could not be seen previously. The place was well timbered in the ordinary course.

POTTER John – 1900 – 19/01/1900 – Age 44 – South Leicester Dataller, South Leicestershire Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Fall of roof. Deceased was removing a bar in a gateroad and when he knocked the bar out a quantity of the roof fell and killed him. No catch or watch prop had been set on either side of the bar that was being taken out.

POTTER Philip – 1903 – 23/02/1903 – Age 40 – Great Rocks, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Buxton Lime Firms Co., Derbyshire. While using a bar to get the stone down from the face the bar slipped and deceased, being unable to recover himself, fell to the floor upon which he was standing and his skull was fractured.

POTTER Robert – 1900 – 12/05/1900 – Age 50 – West Sleekburn Banksman, Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased and another banksman were cleaning the winding ropes when the former fell from the gangway to the ground, a distance of 50 feet.

POTTER Robert – 1908 – 05/10/1908 – Age 15 – Ince Hall Pony driver, Latham Bros., Wigan, Lancashire. A fall of roof occurred on the pony level upon the deceased, capping the bars, in a wet place.

POTTERILL R. – 1902 – 17/04/1902 – Age 43 – Nunnery Shaftsman, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 18th April. Probably struck himself with a hammer when working on a cage in a staple pit.

POTTIE David – 1909 – 26/10/1909 – Age 43 – Aitken Engineman, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was oiling the bearings of one of the washery conveying tables, while the machinery was going, at a part which was cramped and difficult of access. He was caught and carried several times round the shaft receiving injuries from which he died six days later.

POTTS Daniel – 1904 – 13/01/1904 – Age 42 – Lingard Lane Collier, Bradbury Colliery Co., Cheshire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged filling a tub of coal in the roadway when a stone fell upon him from a slip in the roof, between the props, which were set each side of the roadway. The fireman had considered the place quite safe having found (he thought) the roof strong previous to the accident.

POTTS George Adams – 1904 – 08/01/1904 – Age 22 – Morton No.5 Dataller, Clay Cross Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Preparations were being made for mug a shot in the roof near a fault when a portion of the roof fell and killed the deceased. The fall pushed several props out which had been set to support the roof.

POTTS James – 1903 – 26/05/1903 – Age 49 – Arniston Drawer, Arniston Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased and his neighbour were engaged taking a piece of coal off the side of a stoop to form a new roadway when the roof suddenly fell.

POTTS James Herbertson – 1905 – 13/11/1905 – Age 26 – Dinnington Labourer, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was controlling the motion of a 10-ton truck loaded with small coal which was moving, by gravity, down an inclined road at the screens. The screens and roads had only come into use that day in substitution of old arrangements. The motion of the truck was regulated by brakes, one at each end, the end of the levers of which were at opposite sides of the truck; in using the brake it was usual to climb up on the buffer level and stand on the lever. The brake lever at the hinder end of the truck was at the left side, where there was ample room between the truck and legs supporting the screens, but as the attached brake was out of order deceased ran round to the front end of the truck while it was in motion, climbed up at the front end and stood on the brake lever there, and while in this position he was crushed between a support part of which was only 8.25 inches clear of the truck.

POTTS James William – 1902 – 21/06/1902 – Age 15 – Esh Driver, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. The centre bar of a tub broke as a set was coming up the kip and part of the set ran amain and caught and killed him.

POTTS John – 1909 – 12/01/1909 – Age 54 – Woodthorpe Main Collier, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Potts and two other colliers were building a stone pack at the end of the bank and had nearly finished when a bump caused falls of roof, and Potts was fatally injured.

POTTS Joseph - 1904 - 08/03/1904 - New Cross Owner, Joseph Potts, Staffordshire. He was taken ill in the pit and died on the bank. A doctor certified heart-disease and no inquest was held.

POTTS Joseph - 1907 - 26/07/1907 – Age 35 - Pelaw Main Railway Waggon rider, Co.Durham. Empty chaldron waggons weighing 2.5 tons are drawn in sets of 46 from the staiths on the Tyne to the foot of self-acting inclines leading to this Ouston, etc. and Heworth Collieries. The road is single line of ordinary gauge and declines to the river, the loaded sets running by gravity taking with them the main rope, 2.75 inches in circumference, which draws by a stationary engine the empty sets back. There is a curve over 200 yards long where this line passes under the North Eastern railway, just south of Pelaw station. On this curve are 18 special binding sheaves, places between the rails. The speed is from 6 to 8 miles per hour. A set of 46 empty waggons was being hauled up the first 30 for Ouston etc. Collieries and the last 16 for Heworth Colliery. A waggon rider rode on the front of the first waggon and another was on the set between the 30th and 31st waggons. The rope is attached to the waggon by knock off with a cotterill. When the set was on the curve the waggon rider, in front, noticed that the rope was running in the framework of one of the special sheaves and he stood up on the buffer and attempted to draw this cotterill on the knock off but before he could do so the sheave was torn up and thrown clear of the rails on the inside of the curve and the leading seven waggons were derailed and he was thrown off and run over. The engineman was aware something was wrong and stopped the engine when the derailed wagons had travelled about 34 yards. Deceased was found clear of the rails and waggons on the outside of the curve and was able to say what had happened. He was much injured and was taken to Newcastle Infirmary, where he died the same day. It was stated that the waggon riders were instructed, in the event of the rope getting into the framework of the sheaves, not to attempt to disconnect it from the set but to jump off and save themselves.

POTTS Richard - 1904 - 18/04/1904 – Age 37 - Bickershaw Hooker on, Ackers Whitley and Co., Leigh. Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged putting a hauling rope in the pulley, at the pit bottom, when he was fatally injured by a piece of brick falling down the shaft. They had failed to detect the shaft was out of order though apparently the shaft had been examined.

POTTS W.H. - 1904 - 21/03/1904 – Age 53 - Apedale, Burley Shifter, Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (bass) in an air level in 7 feet Banbury seam. Inclination of seam 1 in 2.7. Potts and Smith were repairing the level and they appeared to have gone a few yards in advance of the repairs, probably for examination, when a piece of overhanging bass fell from the roof, on the rise side of the level, and caught them. The place was remote from other workings, and the exact cause of the accident was unknown. Potts was dead when found, and Smith died the same day. 2 killed.

POTTS William - 1906 - 07/11/1906 – Age 53 - Clifton Assistant braker, Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. A self-acting incline, 475 yards long with gradients varying from 1 in 4 to 1 in 13, was laid in a curved road with meetings near the curve. Two ropes, 0.75 inch in diameter, were attached to the drum at the top. It ran with sets of 8, 9 cwt. tubs. When a loaded set was about 16 yards from the top the three leading tubs became detached, owing to a link in the coupling chain between the 3rd and 4th tubs giving way at the weld. These tubs ran amain and were derailed and came to a standstill at the curve, knocking out some vertical drum sheaves there. The braker pinned down the brake, so as to keep the five loaded tubs still on the rope, stationary, and then went with others to put matters right. The first of the three runaways was dealt with and then the second was put on the rails, filled with the scattered coal, a wooden scotch put into each of its pair of wheels, and it was handed over to three men and a boy to lower down the incline, which has here a gradient of 1 in 13. Two of them let go and it got away from the others, and getting on to the single line of rails below meetings ran into the empty set near the bottom, and the impact broke the rope attached to it and the five loaded tubs, which were standing on the steepest part of the incline, no longer partly balanced by the empty set, overcame the brake and moved down the incline dragging the rope to which they were attached after them. They were heard coming, and all except deceased, who appeared to have become forward, and ran down in front of them, escaped. There were refuge holes close at hand in which he would have been safe or he could have stepped on to the other road.

POTTS William - 1906 - 24/10/1906 – Age 32 - Coal Leasows Pikeman, Roberts and Co., Staffordshire. Deceased had set a vertical holing prop under a 2-foot top coal, and was pulling out some holing dirt to make room for another, when about 5 cwts. of top coal suddenly came away, killing him instantly. It appeared that a cocker sprag, properly set, might have prevented the accident.

POULSTON John - 1902 - 23/10/1902 – Age 54 - Westminster Shifter, Westminster and Brymbo Coal and Coke Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was engaged clearing some dirt from a roofing down shot, which they were making the place higher for to place a windlass, when a stone fell from the roof upon him. He succumbed to the injuries received on the 28th instant.

POULTER Henry - 1906 - 12/02/1906 – Age 31 - Newbottle, Margaret Machine attendant, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was caught and severely injured by the bar of a coal-cutting machine, with which and its hauling rope by some means, became entangled. He died when being taken to the infirmary.

POUND John - 1904 - 07/04/1904 – Age 30 - Elliot Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A tram, which was being pulled out of an old road, knocked against a post and displaced a collar. A fall of stone followed with fatal results.