RACE John - 1905 - 22/11/1905 – Age 59 - Heworth Shifter, Heworth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died December 7. Deceased, who was rather deaf, was working alone in a longwall place in the Beaumont seam stowing bandstone in the goaf behind. A prop about 8 feet back from the face and partly stowed up with bandstone seems to have been in his way and he stated, before his death, that after examining the roof above it and jowling it he thought it safe to draw. He struck it with an axe from the face side but as this was the direction in which it had probably been put in, when set, he was unable to move it and he got behind and to one side of it on the stowing and knocked it out in the opposite direction when a flake of brat (or coarse coal and stone) 9 feet by 7 feet and 2.5 inches thick relieved by a good parting above and a small hitch leader at one side fell upon him and fastened him. He was found in this position by the chargeman about a quarter of an hour later. He was sent to Newcastle Infirmary but the doctors, there pronounced the case hopeless and he was sent back home. Deceased should not have drawn the prop from the waste without having an appliance of timber without risk, as required by the New Timbering Special Rules. The regular prop drawers have such an appliance. The Local Inspectors reported ‘In our opinion it was a pure accident.'

RACE William – 1906 – 30/05/1906 – Age 59 – Brusselton Deputy, Bolckow, Vaughan & Co, Ltd., Co.Durham. When engaged drawing timber a heavy fall of roof occurred, killing him on the spot. An appliance for drawing timber was at hand, but was not used.

RADFORD Benjamin – 1902 – 31/01/1902 – Age 33 – South Wingfield Dayman, South Wingfield Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was holing the coal face by removing the dirt parting in the middle of the seam when it fell and killed him. No sprags appear to have been set to support the coal as he holed under it.

RADFORD Henry – 1901 – 26/11/1901 – Age 32 – Caerau Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face while filling rubbish a pounce occurred and a stone fell from the roof upon him causing death the same evening. Six feet seam.

RADFORD James – 1902 – 24/07/1902 – Age 30 – Llwynypia Coal mill attendant,  Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Knocked down and run over by wagons pushed by a locomotive during shunting operations.

RADFORD Samuel George – 1907 – 13/12/1907 – Age 13 – Shady Birchwood Brake boy, Babbington Coal Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was guiding a rope on to the incoming side of a drum, when he slipped and fell on to the rope, and was carried round the revolving drum.

RADFORD Thomas – 1902 – 07/03/1902 – Age 43 – Abergorky No.1 Collier, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 24  inches by 10 inches by 44 inches thick, burst from the roof, struck deceased on the head and fractured his spine. Nine feet seam.

RADFORD William Frederick – 1905 – 06/07/1905 – Age 31 – Walker Wood Gritstone Quarry Quarryman, Anthony Sims, Derbyshire. The deceased was attempting to lift a piece of stone over the top of a vertical Quarry face when the stone broke and deceased lost his balance and fell over the face, a depth of 80 feet and was killed.

RAE Colin – 1905 – 24/01/1905 – Age 36 – Polmaise No.1 Miner, Archibald Russell Ltd., Stirling. Fall of roof at working face while taking down coal. (Died 20th December).

RAE John – 1901 – 16/10/1901 – Age 22 – Clough, Clay Quarry Labourer, John Sagar, Yorkshire. Fall of clay. Cause dangerous undercutting.

RAE Mary – 1907 – 12/02/1907 – Age 14 – Dalbeath Pithead worker, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was spreading the duff on top of a hopper when the surface foreman, unaware of her position, pulled open the shutes or sliding door to fill a waggon beneath, and she fell down among the fine material and was suffocated. Female.

RAE William – 1903 – 24/04/1903 – Age 15 – Bogside Pony driver, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. He opened the gate at the top of a bind pit, pushed a full hutch into the open shaft and fell after it.

RAEBURN William – 1902 – 03/12/1902 – Age 57 – Durie Repairer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was repairing a longwall road, when the roof suddenly fell completely burying him. The fall which extended 5 yards  along the road and across the whole width was apparently due to a lype which was apparently was not visible until the accident had taken place.

RAFFERTY Patrick – 1909 – 26/08/1909 – Age 41 – Balliesmuir Brusher, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased and his neighbour lighted three shots, and retired to a safe place. When explosions ceased the former declared that all the shots had gone off and both proceeded back towards the face, and when within 15 yards of the shot holes another explosion occurred, and deceased was killed by the flying debris. One of the shots had "hung fire," as some considerable time elapsed after the first explosions until the fatal one.

RAFFLE William – 1908 – 25/08/1908 – Age 22 – Cox Green, Freestone Quarry Quarryman, Horn and Scott, Co.Durham. A piece of stone fell off the side of the face and injured his spine. He died on the 28th November.

RAINE John – 1908 – 04/07/1908 – Age 30 – Kimblesworth Hewer, Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was killed when taking off a back-end. There was a joint running parallel with the place, and by taking out the back end all support was removed beneath the roof which fell. The left side of the stone ran out to a feather edge.

RAINER William – 1906 – 20/11/1906 – Age 43 – Lower Darley Brickworks Quarry Quarrier, James Oakes, Lancashire. Whilst getting shale from a face, 17 feet high, a large quantity of shale suddenly fell on to him; there was no apparent undermining, the fall came away from natural bedding joints, it was top heavy.

RALEIGH Patrick – 1906 – 18/08/1906 – Age 26 – Cambrian Labourer, Cambrian Collieries Co., Glamorgan. Deceased were struck by the falling jib of a steam derrick used in the excavation of foundations for a power house. The driver was told to pick up the jib, when it dropped with great force into the excavation. The derrick was examined that morning and was considered to be in good working order. After the accident certain defects were noticed which might have caused it. The foreman enginewright and the mechanical engineer, who supplied the derrick, were of the opinion that the driver had reversed his engine when he should not have done so. 2 killed.

RALPH Thomas – 1902 – 20/06/1902 – Age 30 – Horton, Limestone Quarry Joiner, John Delaney, Yorkshire. Died 23rd June. Entangled in the driving shaft of newly erected machine. He had been instructed to fence it but had not done so.

RALSTON Hugh Black – 1909 – 20/10/1909 – Age 40 – Berryhill No.2 Reddsman, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Outburst of firedamp. 4 killed.

RALSTON Lizzie – 1906 – 23/07/1906 – Age 19 – Bellhaven Coal cleaner, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. While stepping across a revolving shaft decease’s clothing was caught and she was wound round and fatally crushed, the shaft was unfenced. Female.

RAMAGE Alexander – 1909 – 11/11/1909 – Age 28 – Bannockburn No.3 Miner, Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. Returned to a shot of arkite, the fuse of which was thought not to have been kindled.

RAMAGE Henry – 1909 – 11/03/1909 – Age 33 – Roslin Miner, Shotts Iron Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was standing on a temporary scaffold, working off coal in a seam with a gradient of 65 degrees, when one of the supports gave way and he fell across a prop 7 feet below and was killed.

RAMAGE James – 1900 – 18/09/1900 – Age 61 – Drumsmudden No.2 Shaft repairer, Dalmellington Iron Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. While standing on a scaffold in the upcast shaft it gave way and he fell to the bottom, 17 fathoms below.

RAMAGE John H. – 1905 – 03/02/1905 – Age 29 – East Howle Labourer, Carlton Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was oiling the casing of the shaft of a jigging screen when his jacket got caught. He was not the regular man but had been at the job before when his brother was off duty. Orders are that oiling is to be done at 6 a.m. and 10.10 when the engine is standing still.

RAMAGE Samuel – 1903 – 08/10/1903 – Age 45 – Sunybraes Miner, West of Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was holing his coal when a part of the top coal fell away and killed him instantaneously. A sprag, which was up to the face, was thrown out when the coal fell.

RAMAGE William – 1904 – 24/09/1904 – Age 41 – Quarter No.8 Shaftsman, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. When repairing the shaft he overbalanced himself and fell out of the cage. He was under the influence of drink.

RAMSAY Hugh – 1909 – 10/12/1909 – Age 19 – Caprington No.41 Waterman, Caprington and Auchlochan Collieries, Ayrshire. Inflow of surface water into workings near the surface, during the night. 10 killed.

RAMSAY R.J. – 1905 – 11/09/1905 – Age 17 – Ryhope Landing lad, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was passing along the empty way in the South Hutton Seam landing when a ‘waver’, fell off the side and caused such injuries that he died the following day.

RAMSAY Robert – 1903 – 11/10/1903 – Age 41 – Parkhead Engine keeper, Glasgow Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was blowing off a boiler under a steam pressure of 100 lbs. He prematurely opened an auxiliary valve which was only used for washing out purposes and became enveloped in steam and was so severely scalded that he succumbed nine hours afterwards.

RAMSDALE Solomon - 1907 - 09/04/1907 – Age 29 - Lindsay Fireman, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Deceased was examining the shaft near where they had made a new mouthing, when a portion of the walling of the shaft gave way and fell, fatally injuring deceased.

RAMSDALE William - 1908 - 21/09/1908 – Age 25 - Avenue No. 11 Stallman, Clay Cross Co., Derbyshire. A fall of side. Deceased was taking out some bottom coal, under the middle dirt with the top coal supported by a sprag, when the dirt on the top coal fell, killing him as he was working under it. The sprag was pushed out by the fall.

RAMSDEN Mathew - 1905 - 07/12/1905 – Age 61 - Lingard Lane Daywageman, Bredbury Colliery Co., Cheshire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He appears to have gone down the jig, against orders, before they had finished jigging where the dip was 1 in 2.5 when he appears to have been thrown by the rope against the packwall causing severe injuries to his head. He expired on the way to the Infirmary.

RAMSDEN Thomas - 1904 - 23/02/1904 – Age 55 - Aldwarke Main Collier, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When descending the shaft the winding rope broke. 7 killed.

RAMSEY Walter - 1902 - 07/11/1902 – Age 25 - Bwllfa Dare Haulier, Bwllfa & Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries (1891) Ltd., Glamorgan. Found dead under a loaded tram. The tram had been drawn 33 yards off the rails and it was thought he was trying to put it on again, aided by a pull from his horse, when he slipped and fell under it. The roadway dipped outwards 8 inches per yard and was of ample dimensions.

RAMSEY William - 1905 - 30/10/1905 – Age 26 - Ferndale No.9 Sinker, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp while sinking operations were in progress. A heavy discharge of gas from the bottom of the shaft took place, presumably from a thin bed of coal 10 or 11  yards below. 2 killed.

RANDALL Harry - 1905 - 23/02/1905 – Age 20 - Whitwick No.6 Loader - Whitwick Colliery Co. Leicestershire. Fall of roof. Deceased and the stallman were getting and loading coal beyond the distance required for the setting of a bar to support the roof.

RANDALL John - 1904 - 24/03/1904 – Age 57 - Blaina, Griffin No.1 Labourer, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When lifting a comparatively small lump of coal out of a tram it broke and fell on his knee, blood poisoning set in resulting, owing to the general state of his health, in death on the 29th April.

RANDLE J. – 1903 – 10/12/1903 – Age 20 – Merry Hill Loader, Moberley and Perry, Staffordshire. Fall of roof (coal) in a road in thick coal from which timber was being withdrawn by another man. He had been told to keep back but came to the place to get his bottle. The fall on withdrawal of first bar extended farther than was expected.

RANDLE William – 1902 – 06/05/1902 – Age 62 – Exhall Stallman, Executors of Edward Wilson, Warwickshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was holing when the holing sprags gave way and allowed the coal to fall, part of it fatally and injuring the deceased. Died 14th July.

RANDLE William – 1908 – 30/09/1908 – Age 25 – Nuneaton Roadman, Stanley Bros. Ltd., Warwickshire. A bare place in one of the power cables came in contact with one of the signal wires, causing the bell to give off sparks. Deceased approached the bell and appears to have taken hold of the signal wires, and received a shock which killed him.

RANKIN Daniel – 1909 – 18/02/1909 – Age 44 – Redding Miner, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Stirling. Deceased was at work at the coal face when a huge stone fell from the roof carrying the props with it and killed him instantly.

RANKIN Joseph – 1906 – 27/03/1906 – Age 20 – Viewpark No.1 Drawer, R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. When taking a full hutch along a road the roof fell on him.

RANKIN William – 1902 – 12/05/1902 – Age 20 – Eddlewood No.3 Labourer, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. When taking a full hutch off the cage it was lowered without having been signalled and he got caught by it.

RANKINE Daniel – 1909 – 18/01/1909 – Redding, Falkirk. Killed at 8.00 am. A large stone fell on him from the roof of his working place and instantly killed him.

RANKINE William – 1901 – 07/10/1901 – Age 18 – Bowhill Miner, Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was employed in a dook, passing an empty tub, to give the chain runner assistance with the dook rope, a stone fell off the side and crushed him against the tub.

RANSON Amos – 1908 – 20/10/1908 – Age 38 – Murton Hewer, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was hewing in the Maudlin Seam in a wall 14 feet wide. He was working alone and was found by the putter, on his taking an empty tub into him, lying under one large stone, which had dropped out from a slip in the soft blue shale overlying the seam and from a jack running into the slip forming a more or less dome-shaped piece of loose roof. A prop was lying close to the stone but it is not certain whether this had been set up or not. Otherwise the place was well timbered; the stone fell from just between two props and planks set 3 feet apart.

RANSON George - 1900 - 13/11/1900 – Age 29 - Shildon Lodge Boiler minder, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He had been repairing a broken bolt on the eccentric strap of an engine and started it again, he then stooped down to pick up a lamp when his coat became entangled with a bolt on the coupling of a shaft and was dragged over before the machinery could be stopped. Died on the 15th.

RANSON George - 1906 - 24/06/1906 – Age 32 - Boldon Shaftman, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Overwinding. 3 killed.

RANSON William - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 49 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 11 Henry Street, Stanley.

RAPPS George - 1906 - 29/07/1906 – Timbsbury, Gloucester. Died from heart disease while at work at Timbsbury Colliery on the 29th July.

RATCLIFFE Henry - 1906 - 19/10/1906 – Age 61 - Brown Lees Underlooker, Robert Hesth and Sons Ltd., Staffordshire. Slipped on a sleeper or rail when going in a dip and bruised his ankle. He worked for two days after. Died 11th Nov. from acute septicaemia due to absorption from the injury.

RATCLIFFE Joseph - 1908 - 05/03/1908 – Age 41 - Hindley Field Blacksmith, Hindley Field Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. He was driving a plug in one of the tubes in a locomotive boiler when the tube slipped back, allowing the water out of the boiler to escape, which scalded the lower parts of his body. He succumbed to the injuries received March 24, 1908. The locomotive had stood without fire from 8 pm. previous evening until 1.30 am. when the accident occurred.

RATCLIFFE Robert - 1903 - 16/12/1903 – Age 23 - Hollow Head, Sandstone Quarry Quarrier, TW Peacock and Sons, Lancashire. Premature explosion of a charge of powder, 3 gallons of powder 6 feet deep and 3 inches in depth two fuses, one 6 inches in length the other 12 inches in stemming on the powder. One fire to the fuse by a hot iron from the fuses must have been dropped into the hole and fired the powder. The men were not smoking. In future stemming will he put on the place.

RATCLIFFE Roland - 1907 - 27/08/1907 – Age 42 - Florence Buttocker, Florence Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased and two others were drilling a shot hole in the coal in a longwall face which had been holed by a coal cutting machine during the previous night. They had already drawn the sprags and stretchers and taken down a portion of the coal and the shot was intended to bring down the remainder. It came away suddenly without warning, and threw deceased forward against a jig post breaking his neck. The accident would probably have been prevented had the sprags and stretchers been reset, as required by Special Rule 79. Deceased was the leading man in the place at the time.

RATCLIFFE Will - 1901 - 23/08/1901 – Age 27 – Royal Labourer, Leeds Fireclay Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fell from surface to shaft bottom. Cause want of effective fencing.

RATHMELL Thomas – 1907 – 15/11/1907 – Age 23 – Hanger on, Barrow Hematite Steel Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Along with others the deceased men got on to the cage in the No.3 shaft at the Parkgate seam for the purpose of ascending to the surface at the end of their shifts. A horsekeeper was also in the cage to go to the Thorncliffe seam, 38 yards below. The cage was therefore, lowered to that seam where he got off. At the Thorncliffe landing there is a staging or platform so that the men can get on or off the two decks of the cage without its being move. The signalling is done from the top part of this staging and the hanger on there is the chargeman; the one at the low part is an assistant and beyond opening and closing the gates protecting the entrance to the shaft, taking off and putting on the chains at the ends of the decks and pitting over a flag or flat sheet to cover the space between the floor of the deck of the cage and that of the landing has nothing to do. The flag or flat sheet is fitted with two spikes, each 3.5 inches long, which fit into holes in the floor of the cage decks and act as anchors to the cage. They are hinged to the floors of the landings and lifted and lowered by means of chains by the hangers-on. On the day in question the hanger-on, on the top part or landing of the staging, when the cage came let the horsekeeper get off without dropping the flag or flat sheet, and at the same time shouted to the hanger-on at the bottom landing ‘Don't put the flag down’, and at the same moment signalled for the cage to be taken to the surface. Unfortunately the hanger-on, at the bottom landing, had lowered the flag and before he could get it up again the cage started and the result was that the cage was held and tilted for a moment or so and the flag flew back. Violent oscillation was thus set up and in ascending the top of the cage collided against the girder under the floor of the Parkgate landing with such force as to damage the cage. It became liberated and was taken further up the shaft where it collided with another girder. The engineman noticed something was wrong and stopped the cage. Seven of the men at one or another of these places were thrown out of the cage and fell to the bottom of the shaft being killed instantly and six others were more or less seriously injured. 7 killed.

RATLOR William – 1905 – 15/05/1905 – Age 51 – Victoria No.2 Ironstone Miner, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Renfrew. Fall of ironstone and roof owing to want of sprags.

RATTRAY Thomas – 1901 – 26/08/1901 – Age 54 – Donibristle Oversman, Donibristle Colliery Co., Fife. Inflow of moss 9 killed.

RAVENHALL John – 1905 – 06/02/1905 – Age 39 – Cwm Rider, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. As deceased was riding out on the tail rope of his journey a fall of about 3 tons of rubbish and three pairs of timbers took place, and knocked him off the rope. While endeavours were being made to extricate him a second fall of about three tons of loose rubbish took place and killed him.

RAW James – 1906 – 22/01/1906 – Age 42 – Loftus Ironstone Shotfirer, Pease and Partners Ltd., North Yorkshire. When about to light up a shot, a piece of stone fell off the face and cut his head. He was bandaged up by the deputy and finished his shift. Subsequently erysipelas set in and caused his death eight days after the accident.

RAWLINGS William – 1902 – 03/09/1902 – Age 25 – McLaren Timberman, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp in the Yard Vein seam. Caused by working near to or in a large accumulation of gas. 16 killed.

RAWSON John – 1909 – 04/11/1909 – Age 16 – Glapwell Horse driver, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was in charge of a horse and four full tubs on a level roadway which is laid with a double set of rails. He was found dead under the front of the second tub. His lamp and whip were on the full road and appeared to indicate that deceased was riding contrary to rule, and fell off.

RAWSON Samuel – 1908 – 19/11/1908 – Age 35 – Mansfield Banksman, Bolsover Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Crushed by the top deck of a cage while attending to the tubs which had got fast. A signal to start the cage had been given from the lower deck to the engineman, but the man in charge of this signal had not received a signal from deceased that all was ready on the top deck.

RAWSON William – 1909 – 05/07/1909 – Age 54 – Manvers Main Collier, Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. The workmen ride out-bye in the tubs. The train had stopped just after leaving a landing when three tubs were heard running amain down the other set of rails. The deputy called out ‘keep your seats lads,’ but several of the men jumped out and the deceased was run over and killed.

RAYMOND Edwin – 1904 – 06/07/1904 – Age 36 – Caerau Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on face, while filling a tram a stone from the roof fell upon him causing instantaneous death. Seven feet seam.

RAYMOND William – 1908 – 18/11/1908 – Age 22 – Clyne Valley Collier, Cammel Laird and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face while cutting down a piece of shale roof, a part fell out and struck him on the head. He died from a fractured skull on November 23. Three Feet Seam. Safety lamps.

RAYNER W. – 1902 – 13/06/1902 – Age 43 – Hunslet, Clay Quarry Clay getter, W Sutcliffe, Yorkshire. Killed by a fall of clay from the face 10 feet above him. He acted as foreman and had previously examined the face.

RAYSON Frank – 1901 – 27/08/1901 – Age 35 – Teversal Stallman, Stanton Iron Works Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. A set of men were engaged in repairing the roadway by taking out the low bars and setting them higher. While this work was going on a large fall of roof occurred pulling out the new timber and killing two deceased. Another man was injured. 2 killed.

READ Joseph – 1909 – 05/03/1909 – Age 52 – Deep No.2 Collier, Garswood Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. A fall of roof took place upon the deceased from a slip at the face.

READER John William – 1900 – 29/10/1900 – Age 33 – Millbank (Shale Quarry) Quarrier, Millbank Brick Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of earth from baring. Baring or cover not set back.

READING William – 1908 – 30/11/1908 – Age 35 – Merthyr Vale No.2 Haulier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was injured by a horse falling on him. He worked intermittently for a few weeks, but complained of internal pain. He did not resume work after Christmas, and died from peritonitis on February 14th, 1909.

READMAN Anthony – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 15 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 14 High Street.

REARDON John – 1909 – 02/01/1909 – Age 29 – Ferndale No.1 Haulier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road, strong fireclay, 30 feet by 11 feet by 21 inches thick, was burst from the roof by a sudden crush, and buried deceased who was passing with his horse and tram. The heading was untimbered. Two feet nine seam.

REAVLEY Daniel – 1908 – 20/08/1908 – Age 13 – Ashington Driver, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Pony fell and caused tub to slide over on to him.

REAY John – 1900 – 05/02/1900 – Age 22 – Walkmill Roadman, Moresby Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was illegally riding on the front clutch bogie attached to a set of full tubs when he fell off and the set of 24 tubs passed over him.

REAY Luke – 1908 – 26/03/1908 – Age 14 – Tanfield Lea Pony driver, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. His set was derailed and he was crushed by the tubs.

REAY Luke – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 37 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 11 High Street, Stanley.

REAY Thomas – 1903 – 28/08/1903 – Age 53 – Blenkinsop Farmer, Thompson and Sons, Northumberland. While filling his cart with coal, from a wagon at the colliery, he fell back and expired. He suffered from heart disease. No inquest was held.

REDDICK William – 1907 – 06/03/1907 – Age 27 – Prospect Metalman, Wigan Iron and Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When engaged at the face of a stone tunnel a fall of roof occurred from a slip capping a bar and fatally injuring deceased.

REDDISH Walter – 1904 – 24/06/1904 – Age 27 – Alma No.2 Dataller, Alma Colliery Co., Derbyshire. He was taking a full tub down an inclined roadway by walking in front of it, contrary to the rule of the mine, when the tub overpowered him and ran over him.

REDDY Patrick – 1901 – 25/01/1901 – Age 38 – Haughhead Miner, 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.

REDFERN Arthur – 1909 – 02/12/1909 – Age 42 – Cadley Hill Stallman, Halls Collieries Ltd., Derbyshire. The night deputy had set two props in the stall, to take the place of one which had run out, and told the Jay shift of men and the deputy they should start re-timbering the place with bars. One bar was put up, and deceased was passing a pack to assist in setting the next bar, when 20 tons of roof coal fell and killed him.

REDFERN James – 1900 – 13/08/1900 – Age 62 – Stanton, Stanhope Coal Stallman, JN Nadin and Co., Derbyshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was holing the coal face between sprags which were 5 feet 2 inches apart when the coal fell from between the sprags and fatally injured him. He died on the 15th instant.

REDFERN R. – 1903 – 16/10/1903 – Age 27 – Wath Main Trammer, Wath Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 17th. He went to the assistance of a driver whose horse had fallen when bringing a set of tubs up a gradient. He was stumbling over the tubs to get the back ones when the pony regained it feet and slipped out of its gears. The tubs ran back and Redfern was fatally crushed against an iron girder. A back stay would have prevented the accident and should have been used.

REDFERN William – 1903 – 31/08/1903 – Age 60 – Pendleton Collier, A K Nowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in roadway, whilst building a pack, premature withdrawal of chocks and failure to put up other supports, a large pothole nearby. Fireman ought to have directed him. (Average roof.)

REDFORD William – 1901 – 10/06/1901 – Age 48 – John Pit Dataller, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged roofing down near the face of the roadway when the roof gave way from a slip capping some props and crushing him.

REDHEAD James – 1906 – 27/04/1906 – Age 38 – Newton (Wood) Daywageman, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. When setting a jack prop under a running bar, he appeared to have disturbed the other supports as the running bar, and three other bars fell, with some dirt upon the deceased.

REDMAYNE James – 1909 – 30/04/1909 – Age 13 – Aspen Drawer, Oswaldtwistle Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Water from old workings broke through coal into their place, it continued from two days previously, 80 men and boys' lives endangered, fortunately all but this poor boy escaped. James Kenyon, a collier at the pit gave evidence at the inquest. He told that he was at his work place when the water burst in, and the water overtook him and flooded the roadway. Struggling forwards with only five or six inches of air space between the water and roof, he came across the young lad James Redmayne, who was crying out in fear for his mother. Kenyon told the lad, whose light had been extinguished, to stick close by him. Together they struggled forward yard by yard, till they were both thrown down by the force of the water. Kenyon told the inquest "The poor little fellow cried out to me for help, and quaking with fear gasped out "Shall we die?". He replied "We shall get drowned if we don't get out of this" and said to the lad "Thou must stick by me". Further along the force of the water threw Kenyon down again, and his lamp too went out. He was dazed, but feeling something against his legs was sure the lad was still with him. To his horror, when he reached down there was only a lump of shale being washed along with the water. Cold, dazed and nearing exhaustion he cried out "Hast thou left me". There was no reply. The poor lad was found many hours later washed against the underground ginney drowned.

REDMOND James – 1907 – 21/03/1907 – Age 33 – Deep Lane, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, John Murgatroyd, Yorkshire. He and two other men were removing a large heap of rock, which had fallen from the Quarry face during frosty weather when the Quarry was not at work; they were placing a clam round a large stone to remove by the steam crane when another large stone rolled down the heap and caught him. Died 23rd.

REDPATH Alexander – 1900 – 20/03/1900 – Age 63 – Barrington Deputy, Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. While engaged in drawing a jud a large stone fell from a slippery parting and a jack. The deceased had previously remarked that the stone would not fall after the timber was drawn but in spite of his 50 years' experience he was deceived.

REDSHAW Paul – 1901 – 26/01/1901 – Age 56 – Medmosley Shifter, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When travelling outbye, at the end of his shift, he fell into the arms of another shifter and died from heart disease.

REED Andrew – 1909 – 08/06/1909 – Age 57 – Ty Trist Timberman, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. In moving a tram, which he and a youth were filling in a rise heading, the tram being full overpowered him, owing to the removal of one or two sprags on a steep part of the road. The youth states that he took one out by Reed’s instructions and a second one was found on the road, it is thought that Reed removed by himself. An error of judgement in removing the sprags on this part of the road, which dipped 3 inches to the yard. His spine and left leg were fractured. He died on 27th October from the effects of the injury.

REED George – 1903 – 19/01/1903 – Age 36 – Whitburn Hewer, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A small pillar of coal known as a stook, was being taken out in the second or broken workings in the Bensham seam when some coal from it suddenly fell upon deceased. The coal usually sticks to the roof but in this case it came away easily. The Local Inspectors examined the place and were of opinion that deceased 'met with his death accidentally.'

REED Henry – 1908 – 13/02/1908 – Age 44 – Tower Platelayer, Marquis of Bute, Glamorgan. Deceased and another man were taking some screen bars down an incline on a trolley. They were riding, each controlling the speed with a brake stick, when they lost control, and the trolley ran away and both were thrown off. Deceased died on 6th April. It was little short of madness to attempt to ride on an incline dipping 5 inches per yard.

REED James – 1906 – 01/09/1906 – Age 48 – Loftus Ironstone Overman, Pease and Partners Ltd., North Yorkshire. They were killed by the bearing girders of a crossing being let down by the stone on which they were placed giving way. The bearing girders falling allowed part of the crossing and the dirt above to fall on to them. 2 killed.

REED John – 1905 – 17/03/1905 – Age 37 – Lower Duffryn Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Cut on the head by a small stone, which fell from the roof as he was walking out at the end of his shift. He died seven days later from sceptic pneumonia. Seven feet seam.

REED Thomas – 1900 – 19/02/1900 – Age 46 – Bargoed, New Sinkings Sinker, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of ground where he and others were making a water reservoir for an intermediate lift in which to collect water from above for pump, with a view to keeping it out of the pit bottom. They were walling one part and had set timber to secure the remainder pending its being walled. One of deceased's comrades was injured at the same time.

REED Thomas – 1908 – 10/01/1908 – Age 38 – Frickley Stoneman, Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was working in a level taking some side off, and he and another man were fixing a drilling machine. To do this, it was necessary to cut a hole in the stone. He was in the act of doing this, when he fell backwards with his neck on a loose sleeper lying by the side of the road. Death was almost instantaneous, his neck being broken by the fall.

REED William John – 1903 – 23/06/1903 – Age 25 – Seven Sisters Labourer, Evans and Bevan, Glamorgan. Died on 28th June from acute croupous pneumonia, the result, according to the evidence of a blow on the chest from a tram at the top of the pit.

REEDMAN Anthony – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed.

REEKES John William – 1905 – 31/07/1905 – Age 34 – Chanters Collier, Fletcher Burrows and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face, after removing a sprag coal did not fall. He was further undermining, not having set the sprag.

REEKIE John – 1907 – 22/08/1907 – Age 15 – Oakley Assistant bottomer, Oakley Collieries Ltd., Fife. Deceased’s work was to take the empty tubs from the cages and couple them up into rakes, while engaged in this work he slipped on the iron plates at the pit bottom, and fell into the cage seat, and just then the cage descended on him.

REEKIE Thomas – 1902 – 24/09/1902 – Age 20 – Oakley Drawer, Oakley Collieries Ltd., Fife. Deceased was shovelling down some lying coals in an air course 6 feet wide when a large stone fell from between two new lypes parallel in direction but converging upwards. A portion of it fell upon him killing him instantly.

REES Abel – 1908 – 14/12/1908 – Age 30 – Albion Master haulier, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was making his way into a district when he was overtaken by an empty journey. The riders at the end of the journey became aware that something was wrong by the trams getting derailed. Deceased was then discovered lying partly across the road, and so fearfully injured that he died in fifteen minutes. In my opinion deceased, seeing the journey going in, got into a manhole, and as it was passing him, attempted to jump on the fifth shackle, but slipped and fell under. The first six trams were on the rails and the remaining seven off. If he had been knocked down by the front tram, the whole of the trams would have been thrown off the rails.

REES Charles – 1908 – 04/01/1908 – Age 38 – Nine Mile Point Repairer, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in a road near the face, where he was ripping to make height. The ground in the neighbourhood was disturbed, and there was a fault close to the place. He evidently misjudged the stone which fell.

REES David (injured) – 1901 – 10/09/1901 – Llanbradradach No.2 Ostler, Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion formed the subject of a special report by Mr. J. S. Martin. Cd885. 8 killed. some injured.

REES David – 1900 – 09/03/1900 – Age 68 – Gelliceidrim Labourer, Gelliceidrim Collieries Co. Ltd., Camarthen. While excavating for new siding a fall of earth took place and killed him.

REES David – 1900 – 28/05/1900 – Age 35 – Clynbebog Collier, Pontyberem Collieries Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. While waiting outside of their working place where a pillar of coal was being worked out the roof fell and gas, which apparently was liberated by the fall, was carried by the current upon their naked lights. Pumpquart vein anthracite. Rees died on the 3rd and Davis on 14th June. 2 killed.

REES David – 1901 – 06/09/1901 – Age 35 – Penrikyber Haulier, Penrikyber Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. On the 6th September 1901 deceased, while riding on the gun, was crushed slightly between it and the tram through the horse turning one side. He resumed work on the 9th December, 1901 and continued to work until the 14th January of this year. He was taken ill and died on the following day from general inflammation of the bowels together with rupture.

REES David – 1901 – 18/09/1901 – Age 57 – Ynyshir Haulier, Ynyshir Steam Coal Co., Glamorgan. Deceased was unshackling two trams when the horse, to which they were attached, moved on suddenly and he was blocked between the trams. His injuries were very slight but he had been previously ruptured and he died on September 25th from congestion of the lungs and strangulated hernia.

REES David – 1903 – 05/05/1903 – Age 63 – Cambrian No.2 Collier, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 26 feet by 39 inches by 15 inches thick. The fireman noticed on his first inspection that the roof was uneasy and told deceased to put up a flat. Deceased set a prop near where he was told to put up the flat and was working away a piece of coal to make room for one of the props of the flat when a large piece of coal fell knocked out the prop and liberated the roof. Red vein.

REES David – 1904 – 07/06/1904 – Age 33 – Ynysfaio No.2 Haulier, Troedyrhiw Coal Co., Glamorgan. Deceased had been bringing a horse, with a tram attached, along a heading and when the horse and tram arrived at the parting without him a search was made and he was found lying dead on the road. It was thought that deceased had been riding on the gun and fallen off.

REES David – 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. 19 School St, Wattstown, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

REES David – 1905 – 25/01/1905 – Age 15 – Ferndale No.8 Collier boy, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was walking towards the pit at the end of his shift, when a journey of six trams of coal overtook him and ran over him. He had a light and there were sufficient manholes provided.

REES David – 1906 – 29/10/1906 – Age 43 – Cwm Roadsman, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, cliff, 8 feet by 6 feet by 5 inches. thick, fell on deceased as he was passing along a double parting. The road was 15 feet wide and was supported by a row of middle posts. It broke down between the middle posts and the side of the road. Seven feet seam.

REES David – 1909 – 01/01/1909 – Age 36 – Graig Merthyr Collier, Graigola Merthyr Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 5 killed.

REES David – 1909 – 16/10/1909 – Age 55 – Coegnant Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries Co. (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face; a small stone fell from the roof and injured his leg. The wound did not appear to respond to medical treatment. He died from heart failure, due to pneumonia following influenza, on 5th January, 1910. Lower Seam Safety lamps.

REES David – 1909 – 25/05/1909 – Age 52 – Bryn Navigation Roadsman, Baldwins Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road; a loaded tram becoming derailed, knocked out a pair of timbers, and damaged the railway. A fireman sent the roadman to repair, and set the railway to gauge. While the work was proceeding, a wedge-shaped piece of stone fell from the roof, which had previously been supported by the pair of timbers, it fell upon, and so injured him that he died on the 12th of August. The fireman was at fault in that he did not test and secure the roof after the timbers fell, and before the man was set to work at the place. Middle Seam. Safety lamps.

REES David Edward – 1909 – 01/11/1909 – Age 18 – Tareni Collier, South Wales Primrose Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Irruption of water 5 killed.

REES David J. – 1905 – 21/01/1905 – Age 21 – Elba Trammer, Baldwins Ltd., Glamorgan. By explosion of gas and coal dust. 11 killed.

REES David John – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 15 – 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. 21, South St, Ynyshir, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

REES David John – 1909 – 27/01/1909 – Age 28 – Bryn Navigation Haulier, Baldwins Ltd., Glamorgan. While lifting the front end of a tram, which had been derailed, and to which a horse was attached, the horse bolted away suddenly. The tram knocked the haulier down and rolled him aside. He died from his injuries on the 7th of February.

REES Edward – 1902 – 01/02/1902 – Age 34 – National Ropeman, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Struck on leg by a haulage rope. He was drawing the rope towards a bevel sheave and in doing so raised it too high with the result that it missed the sheave and crushed his ankle against the rail. There was a slight turn in the road at that spot. Died in 2 days.

REES Edward – 1904 – 01/03/1904 – Age 22 – Pandy Collier, Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was riding on the gun attached to two full trams when his head came in contact with a low and broken collar which caused him to fall off. The front tram passed partly over him.

REES Edward – 1905 – 21/01/1905 – Age 26 – Elba Collier, Baldwins Ltd., Glamorgan. By explosion of gas and coal dust. 11 killed.

REES Edward – 1909 – 16/03/1909 – Age 25 – National Hardground man, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face, cliff, 6 feet by 3 feet by 2 feet thick, fell from between two converging slips and broke his neck. He was working in a hard-heading in faulty ground.

REES Evan – 1901 – 18/06/1901 – Age 24 – Maesteg Deep Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1899) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 8 feet x 6 feet x 7 inches thick, fell upon him as he was passing out. There was a slip on one side and another at one end of the stone that fell. Roadway not double timbered. Four feet seam.

REES Evan – 1909 – 13/08/1909 – Age 51 – Morlais Repairer, Thomas Williams and Sons, Carmarthen. Fall of roof on road; while standing at the foot of an incline, a stone, 4 feet 6 inches by 3 feet, and varying in thickness from 9 inches to 4 inches, fell from a thick, rotten joint in the roof, which, although visible on one side, and which necessitated timbering, was said to have been invisible on the other. It should have been anticipated. Six Feet Seam.

REES Fred – 1901 – 11/07/1901 – Age 26 – Blaenclydach Collier, Blaenclydach Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 12.75 feet by 5 feet by 15 inches thick, it fell suddenly, crushing one prop out. At least three more props ought to have been stood under it. No.2 Rhondda seam. 2 killed.

REES George – 1903 – 20/03/1903 – Age 52 – New Tredegar Labourer, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was overpowered and run over while endeavouring to stop an insufficiently spragged tram of rubbish, which was being put into an old stall place for stowage purposes. The haulier was apparently more or less to blame in the matter.

REES George – 1905 – 21/01/1905 – Age 23 – Elba Trammer, Baldwins Ltd., Glamorgan. By explosion of gas and coal dust. 11 killed.

REES Gomer – 1901 – 22/04/1901 – Age 22 – Hogdens Collier, Richard Hogden, Brecon. While pulling down a piece of hanging coal he failed to get clear, probably owing to having his tram too near and was struck with a piece about 2 cwts. killing him instantaneously. Big vein 9 feet thick.

REES Gwilyn – 1909 – 08/09/1909 – Age 18 – Brynmenin Collier, S Andrews and Son, Glamorgan. Fall of side on road while walking behind a loaded tram which was being drawn by a horse, he was struck by a stone 4 feet 6 inches, by 1 foot 6 inches, by 8 inches in thickness, which fell from the side in consequence of the tram striking against and dislodging a prop which was keeping it in position. The floor is of soft clay and the prop could not have been firmly fixed. Rock Fawr Vein. Naked lights.

REES Henry – 1906 – 10/12/1906 – Age 19 – Llwynwern, Slate Quarry Sawyer, Maglona Quarries Ltd., Montgomery. In crossing a footbridge he fell 15 yards and was killed.

REES Isaac – 1903 – 01/11/1903 – Age 26 – Bedlinog No.1 Fireman, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and a repairer were ascending the shaft and when 10 yards up the cage tilted on one side and deceased was thrown out. The repairer's collar-bone was fractured by his being thrown violently on to the floor of the cage. After the accident, four feet of one of the T head rail guides was found broken off, though it was thought the fish-plate breaking and liberating the guide end at which the cage caught. The shaft and guides were examined a few hours previously and found in good condition.

REES Isaac – 1909 – 01/11/1909 – Age 38 – Tareni Hardground man, South Wales Primrose Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Irruption of water 5 killed.