ROBSON Stephen - 1901 - 04/09/1901 – Age 36 - Auchinraith No.2 Miner, Merry and Cuninghame Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

ROBSON Thomas - 1900 - 20/02/1900 – Age 46 - Craghead Stoneman, Thomas Hedley Bros., Co.Durham. A staple was being put up to Five-Quarter from Main Coal Seam and when it was nearly at the top an outburst of stythe occurred which overpowered deceased and another four men. He died on 23rd inst. the others recovered.

ROBSON Thomas - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 43 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 12 Beaconsfield Terrace, Stanley.

ROBSON William - 1903 - 09/09/1903 – Age 42 - Spa Wood Ironstone Assistant Deputy, Sir B Samuelson and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. When replacing a prop, which had been displaced by a stone from a shot, a fall occurred and killed him.

ROBSON William - 1905 - 20/05/1905 – Age 22 - Chopwell Joiner, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The upcast shaft was being fitted with wire rope guides, and the first guide, consisting of 80 fathoms of rope, 1.25 inches in diameter, had been attached to one of the winding ropes, wound on the drum and then lowered into the shaft over one of the pulley wheels. Deceased was standing on a platform of the headgear to which the bell of the detaching hook was fixed. The guide rope was fastened to the winding rope by a 3/8 inch lashing chain, one end of which was fastened to the socket of the winding rope, and the chain then attached to the guide rope by seven half hitches. The rope hole in the engine-house wall was built up too high and the guide rope moved over the brickwork. All went well until the chain reached this wall, when it was telescoped down the guide rope, which became free, and the end, flying over the pulley wheel, struck deceased on the head, killing him instantly. The rope did not go down the pit, but jammed itself in the headgear. The Jury added to their verdict of accidental death a rider that in future lifting clamps on the chain should he used as an additional security. The Local Inspectors reported ‘In our opinion it is a pure accident.'

ROBY James - 1904 - 25/04/1904 – Age 18 - Garswood Hall Drawer, Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was taking a full tub of coal out to the shunt when another drawer, on the same road, let his tub run down to the scotch coming out, it crushed deceased when in the act of lifting his tub on the rails.

ROCHE James - 1902 - 08/10/1902 – Age 18 - Rockingham Screenman, Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was wheeling a barrow from the screens across the siding and not noticing approaching wagons he was run over and killed.

ROCHE Michael - 1903 - 04/03/1903 – Age 26 - Raisby Hill, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Raisby Hill Limestone Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. In jumping back, to escape a fall of baring whilst working on a post, he fell over into the Quarry to the bottom, a distance of 128 feet and was killed.

ROCHE Patrick - 1907 - 25/04/1907 - Age 29 - Hulton No.4 Dataller, Hulton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Attempting to leave the cage, after it had started from the surface to descend, he was cut in two by the top hoop of the cage and the edges of the landing plates. The last of 16 men who entered the cage he stood at the end when the banksman shouted ‘Down to Trencherbone’ deceased realised he was in the wrong cage he should have got into the cage to go to the Arley. Gates at the end of cage would have prevented this loss of life. They have since been applied.

ROCHELLE David - 1903 - 19/08/1903 – Age 53 - Holly Bank No.5 Stallman, Holly Bank Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of side (coal) at working face in a stall, 15 yards wide in the 5 feet seam. He was holing about the middle of the face, where a small face crossed the face diagonally. The fall was about 8 feet long by 3 feet at the widest, it appeared to have pushed out a sprag. The fault caused the floor to be on the slope and the sprag may not have been securely set in consequence.

ROCKETT Peter - 1904 - 23/02/1904 – Age 54 - Aldwarke Main Collier, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When descending the shaft the winding rope broke. 7 killed.

ROCKLEWICS K. - 1902 - 02/04/1902 – Age 33 - Garswood Hall Sinker, Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Explosion of firedamp in the sinking shaft at the Ravine seam which probably was ignited by a short circuit of the electric light cable. 9 killed.

RODDA Samuel James - 1908 - 25/09/1908 – Age 20 - Barlborough No.1 Dataller, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased and another youth had been instructed to take some rails on a trolley down an inclined roadway. They were told that the load must not exceed five pairs, but they were attempting to take ten pairs. The trolley ran away, and a hook on the holding-back chain, getting into deceased’s boot, he was pulled down the incline and killed.

RODDIS Thomas - 1903 - 18/06/1903 – Age 12 - Adderley Park, Clay Quarry Boy, Adderley Park Brick Co., Warwickshire. Deceased was riding on the side of a loaded clay waggon when the horse suddenly turned round and crushed deceased between the horse gears and the side of the waggon. Deceased was not employed at the Quarry.

RODDISS William - 1908 - 14/09/1908 – Age 48 - Beechburn Hewer, H Graham and Sons, Co.Durham. He was turning away a wall, and had only advanced two or three feet. The bord, out of which he was turning the wall, had holed into the goaf. The goaf was an old one, and was filled tight with dirt. The wall was properly crossed off, i.e., a plank had been set to take the ends of those in the bord at the turn away, with four props beneath it. The planks in the bord were six inches apart only. There were two pairs of gears set in the wall. The places were 5.5 to 6 feet wide. The roof was clay and shale. The man was setting a prop, when the roof above the crossing timber collapsed and fell in, partially burying him. He was fast by the head, and before he could be released  he was smothered.

RODDY Matthew - 1909 - 14/05/1909 – Age 19 - Washington Putter, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. His head was crushed between the tub and timber while riding on limbers.

RODEN Frank - 1908 - 22/01/1908 – Age 16 - Whitfield Screenboy, Chatterley Whitfield Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased had apparently gone into the screen engine-house in the temporary absence of the engineman, to help himself to some paraffin oil to saturate a torch with which to light himself home. He had passed under (or over) the fence and when handling the oil can, he had come in contact with the driving pulley or rope drive. He was drawn round the pulley and killed instantly.

RODEN John - 1904 - 01/09/1904 – Age 40 - Prior’s Lee Woodhouse No.1 Stallman, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Fall of roof (sandstone) at longwall face in Top Coal. Two men were injured by the fall, and Roden died on 6th September.

RODERICK David - 1901 - 27/07/1901 – Age 38 - Deep Navigation South Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by a journey of loaded trams on which he was supposed to have been riding.

RODERICK Roderick - 1900 - 25/07/1900 – Age 33 - Abercothi Quarry Labourer, Thomas Lewis, Carmarthen. While upon a ladder, placed on the face of the Quarry and barring a piece of limestone down a fall from the top of Quarry, it carried away the ladder and killed him.

RODERICK Roderick - 1908 - 17/02/1908 – Age 26 - Ferndale No.7 Assistant repairer, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was expecting some empty trams, and hearing the journey he went a short distance up the drift to secure them. The journey was stopped about 50 yards higher up the drift for the purpose of discharging a tram of timber, when by some means, probably by the pin of a shackle rising, two trams were liberated. These ran for 50 yards, jumped the rails, and crushed deceased against the side. He died on April 12.

RODGER Andrew - 1908 - 26/02/1908 – Age 35 - Aitken Labourer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was cleaning dross from the rails at the coal washery dross pits when some loaded waggons, which had got out of control, ran over him.

RODGERS Harold - 1908 - 10/08/1908 – Age 20 - Ashton Moss Drawer, New Moss Colliery Ltd., Lancashire. On 10th August he was crushed by tubs. No drag in front of the tubs on the incline road, he should have turned the tubs from the rails before going in front. (Died 12th September.)

RODGERS Henry - 1902 - 29/10/1902 – Age 32 - Eston Ironstone Labourer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was holing a fall of soil on the surface when a portion of it suddenly fell away upon him and killed him.

RODGERS James - 1904 - 21/03/1904 – Age 54 - Kirkwood Pump attendant,  Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When walking up a dook, with a double line of rails, in some unknown manner he was run over by the hutches.

RODGERS James - 1908 - 17/12/1908 – Age 31 - Gartcosh, Fireclay Miner, Glenboig Union Fireclay Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. On-going up to the face of his working place, after being out for some time, his naked light ignited firedamp. There was a feeder of gas and the ventilation was insufficient to keep it from accumulating as it had to be "wafted" out with a piece of screen cloth. Safety lamps ought to have been used. The under-manager entered this place the following day with a naked light and caused another explosion which injured him also.

RODGERS James - 1909 - 03/09/1909 – Age 62 - Cleator No.6 (metalliferous) Miner, Cleator Iron Ore Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Several pieces of stone weighing 3 or 4 lbs. weight fell from the roof in front of the last headtree of a close-timbered working, about 7 feet high and struck Rodgers in the back while he was in a stooping position. Died June 14th.

RODGERS James Frederick - 1903 - 27/08/1903 – Age 29 - Backsbottom, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Col. Foster, Lancashire. Fell from ledge, 46 feet, whilst moving a block of stone a piece broke and he fell backwards over the ledge. He ought to have been secured to the rope and worked at the stone from behind.

RODGERS Joseph - 1905 - 21/09/1905 – Age 22 - Blantyreferme Miner, AG Moore and Co., Lanarkshire. While illegally drawing in front of a hutch he lost control of it and got run over.

RODGERS Joseph - 1906 - 15/10/1906 – Age 27 - Montreal, Iron Ore Labourer, John Stirling, Cumberland. Died October 16. The deceased waited, filling a bogie with ore in a robbery working, 7 feet high by 9 feet wide, with a fairly strong limestone roof, when a piece of ore, weighing about 7 cwts fell from the side and struck him. Systematic timbering is the rule in this type of working and there was one prop about three feet from the face and a headtree 3 feet further back. There was a good supply of loose timber. The overman had visited the place before the accident occurred and thought everything was in good order. Three shots were subsequently fired and all the loose ground dressed down. The side from which the piece fell, about an hour later, was also examined and it sounded all right. The fall disclosed a slippery parting not previously visible.

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