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BABES William - 1887 - 28/05/1887 – Age 41 – Miner. Udston, Udston Coal Co. Ltd., Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Explosion of gas 73 killed.

BACCHUS John (non-fatal) - 1886 - 21/12/1886 – Drawer. Blackstone, Blackstone Mineral Co., Paisley, Lanarkshire. Injured by runaway hutch.

BACKHOUSE S. - 1884 - 05/02/1884 – Age 37 – Shaftsman. Garforth, Garforth Coal Co., Leeds. Yorkshire. Fell off cradle while putting water pipe in shaft. 2 killed.

BACKHOUSE W. - 1881 - 10/01/1881 – Age 51 – Collier. Wentworth Main, Coopers and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BACKHOUSE W. - 1883 - 27/02/1883 – Age 48 – Collier. Hemsworth, Hemsworth Coal Co., Pontefract, Yorkshire. Fall of roof died 28th.

BACON Benjamin - 1887 - 30/01/1887 – Age 36 – Stallman. Plumbley, Plumbley Colliery Co., Eckington, Leicester. Fall of coal while taking it down.

BACON George - 1884 - 19/01/1884 – Age 27 – Stallman. Birchwood, C Seely and Co., Alfreton, Derbyshire. Fall of roof, Injured 6th July 1883.

BACON Lewis Frederick - 1880 - 12/04/1880 – Age 22 – Onsetter. Cottam, Renishaw Iron Co., Eckington, Derbyshire. Tub wheel fell down the shaft and struck deceased who stood at the bottom.

BACON William - 1886 - 09/02/1886 – Age 27 – Loader. Birchwood, C Seeley and Co., Alfreton, Derbyshire. Fall of roof whilst at work holing near the gate end. 2 killed.

BADDELEY J. - 1886 - 01/12/1886 – Age 66 – Repairer. Shelton, Earl Granville, Stoke, Staffordshire. Crushed between cage and plates on surface.

BADDEY William - 1880 - 08/09/1880 – Age 26. Seaham, Marquis of Londonderry, Sunderland, Co. Durham. Explosion of gas 164 killed.

BADGER Esther - 1883 - 04/09/1883 – Age 62 – Oiler. Gospel Oak, Grazebrook and Aston, Tipton, Staffordshire. By tubs on the surface. Injured 31st August. When oiling the sheaves she in some way allowed the full tubs to run over her leg. Female.

BAGALLY William (non-fatal) - 1889 - 11/01/1889 – Drawer. Govan No.6, William Dixon Ltd., Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at face.

BAGE James - 1881 - 04/11/1881 – Age 15 – Putter. Wingate Grange, Wingate Grange Coal Co., Wingate Grange, Co. Durham. Got his head fast between a tub and a Prop and was crushed to death.

BAGGELEY J. - 1881 - 13/04/1881 – Age 22 – Collier. Madeley, Madeley Coal Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Fall of coal.

BAGGS John - 1885 - 04/10/1885 – Age 45 - Boiler man. Low Hall, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased went through the fence gates to shout down the shaft to a pump man below about his steam and appears to have leaned over the pit to do so when the descending cage struck him. It was his duty to see where the cage was before putting himself in such a dangerous position.

BAGLEY George - 1885 - 25/03/1885 – Age 35 – Stallman. Holmewood, Hardwick Coal Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of roof whilst drawing out back timber.

BAGLEY Thomas - 1885 - 11/09/1885 – Age 63 – Banksman. Elemore, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Fence Houses, Co. Durham. Died from the effects of being crushed between waggons in Jan. 1880. (Not comprised).

BAGNALL J. - 1881 - 11/01/1881 – Age 24 – Brakesman. Talk o’th’ Hill, North Staffordshire Coal Co.. Stoke. Staffordshire. Jig chain breaking.

BAGOT John - 1881 - 30/05/1881 – Age 46 – Sinker. Clifton Moss, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Clifton, Lancashire. Falling off a bearer, when bell-mouthing the shaft near the shaft bottom.

BAGUELEY Thomas (injured) - 1886 - 26/06/1886 – Age 21 – Gigger. Linnyshaw, Crumbuke, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Leg broken while gigging the tubs having run off the rails causing the rope to slacken and his foot was caught in a coil.

BAIL Henry - 1887 - 12/07/1887 – Age 56 – Pikeman. Hamstead, Hamstead Colliery Co., Great Barr, Staffordshire. Fall of coal in a thick coal opening which injured deceased fatally and another seriously. Cause, a sharp bump.

BAILES John - 1885 - 03/06/1885 – Hewer. Newbottle, Margaret Fence Houses, Co. Durham. Killed in Maudlin Seam by an eruption of water and gas. 13 killed. Left a wife and 2 children, buried in St. Matthew's Churchyard Newbottle.

BAILES Thomas - 1881 - 17/01/1881 – Age 16 – Driver. Willington, Strakers and Love, Willington, Co. Durham. Run over by set of tubs, while coming down the bank the horse appears to have got out of the right tracks.

BAILEY C. - 1889 - 12/07/1889 – Age 22 – Byeworker, Manvers Main, Manvers Main Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Accident occurred 28th Sept 1888.

BAILEY D. - 1889 - 14/09/1889 – Age 44 – Collier. Hoyland Silkstone, Hoyland Silkstone Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BAILEY Eman - 1889 - 18/01/1889 – Age 47 – Collier. Hyde, Hyde and Houghton Colliery Co., Hyde, Cheshire. Explosion 23 killed.

BAILEY Enoch - 1881 - 08/02/1881 – Age 50 – Stallman. West Cannock, West Cannock Colliery Co., Hednesford, Staffordshire. While he was carrying his cartridge box into his place of work on the 23rd. Jan, by some unexplained manner the cartridges were ignited, by which he was severely injured. Died this day.

BAILEY Henry - 1886 - 20/05/1886 – Age 34 – Hewer. Langley Park, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Durham Co. Durham. Fall of stone from a hitch leader in board.

BAILEY Isaac - 1880 - 21/01/1880 – Crutter. Leycett, Crewe Coal Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp. 62 killed.

BAILEY J. - 1885 - 29/10/1885 – Age 14 – Trapper, Car House, John Brown and Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Run over by corves. Died 2nd Nov.

BAILEY James - 1880 - 15/05/1880 – Age 42 – Labourer. New Tredegar, Powells Duffryn Co., Tredegar, Monmouth. He was employed to carry timber from the saw-mill to the depot a train on the main line attracted his attention, and he was run over by some empty waggons which were being let down to the pit.

BAILEY James - 1883 - 03/04/1883 – Age 43 – Stallman. Seymour, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Staveley, Derbyshire. Fall of roof while withdrawing timber.

BAILEY James - 1888 - 25/10/1888 – Age 19 – Loader. Lane Head Bridge, John Adams and Co., Short Heath, Staffordshire. Died 26th October. Explosion of firedamp.

BAILEY James Henry - 1889 - 16/10/1889 – Age 18 - Horse driver. Mossfields, Hawley and Bridgwood Ltd., Longton, Staffordshire. Explosion 64 killed.

BAILEY John - 1880 - 03/03/1880 – Loader. Podmore Hall, Cooper and Craig, Newcastle, Staffordshire. Fall of roof.

BAILEY John - 1889 - 16/08/1889 – Age 56 – Collier. Poynton & Worth, Lord Worth, Stockport, Cheshire. Fall of roof (top coal). The deceased had twice been ordered to set timber but he neglected to do so. The officials also neglected to see
that he set the timber when ordered to do so.

BAILEY John - 1889 - 16/08/1889 – Age 56 – Collier. Poynton & Worth, Lord Worth, Stockport, Cheshire. Fall of roof (top coal). The deceased had twice been ordered to set timber but he neglected to do so. The officials also neglected to see that he set the timber when ordered to do so.

BAILEY John - 1889 - 18/01/1889 – Age 52 – Collier. Hyde, Hyde and Houghton Colliery Co., Hyde, Cheshire. Explosion 23 killed.

BAILEY Joseph - 1884 - 17/06/1884 – Age 41 – Collier. Llay Hall, Llay Hall Coal and Clay Works Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was getting coal from under some tops which were not propped. It appeared that the timber had been blown out by a shot, and deceased had gone on working without resetting it. This accident was due to gross carelessness.

BAILEY Thomas - 1880 - 12/01/1880 – Age 23 – Collier. Brindley Ford, Wedgewood Coal Co., Tunstall, Staffordshire. Fall of roof.

BAILEY William - 1880 - 21/01/1880 – Waggoner. Berry Hill, William Bowers, Stoke Staffordshire. Killed under waggon on surface railway.

BAILEY William - 1881 - 19/12/1881 – Age 21 – Collier. Abram, Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 48 killed.

BAILEY William - 1883 - 24/08/1883 – Age 50 – Miner. Roanhead (metalliferous), Crossfield Iron Ore Co., Lancashire. Fall of ore.

BAILEY William - 1883 - 24/08/1883 – Age 50 – Miner. Roanhead, Kennedy Bros., Lancashire. Fall of roof.

BAINBRIDGE Joseph - 1888 - 11/08/1888 – Age 64 – Screener. South Derwent, Owners of South Derwent Colliery, Durham, Co. Durham. Waggon man bringing two empty waggons to place under screens allowed them to get too much headway they came violently against those already under screens upon one of which deceased was standing causing them to fall amongst wheels and the waggons passed over them. 2 killed.

BAINBRIDGE William - 1885 - 04/05/1885 - Age 28 – Hewer. Blenkinsopp, Thompson and Sons, Northumberland. Fall of stone.

BAINBRIDGE William - 1889 - 18/09/1889 – Age 27 – Banksman. White Lee Drift, Pease and Partners, Crook, Co. Durham. While engaged disconnecting the main rope from a set of tubs at bankhead he slipped and fell before the run which passed over his head.

BAINES Frank - 1881 - 22/08/1881 – Age 30 – Engine tenter. Ellerbeck, Ellerbeck Collieries Ltd., Coppull, Lancashire. Falling when about to ascend from a pumping station at a mouthing.

BAINES George - 1881 - 19/12/1881 – Age 20 – Collier. Abram, Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 48 killed.

BAINES James - 1880 - 18/06/1880 – Age 51 – Carpenter. Newton, Lamb and Moore, Wigan, Lancashire. He was scraping a bearer close to the edge, when the engineman lowered the cage without warning, and he was caught and crushed against the head gear.

BAINES Johnathan - 1881 - 19/12/1881 – Age 51 – Collier. Abram, Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 48 killed.

BAINES William - 1881 - 19/12/1881 – Age 25 – Dataller. Abram, Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 48 killed.

BAINES William - 1888 - 06/04/1888 – Age 52 – Sinker. Douglas Bank, Rose Bridge & Douglas, Bank Coal & Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The contractor with two men were going down in the hoppet when by some means they were thrown out, and falling to the bottom a distance of 200 yards killed two other men. 5 killed.

BAIRD Alexander - 1885 - 13/01/1885 – Age 52 – Collier. Garriongill, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire. Fall of head coal stoop and room.

BAIRD David - 1884 - 02/10/1884 – Age 15 – Collier. Stonecraigs, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire. Crushed at cage door heads while stepping on to ascend. Confusion in signals.

BAIRD Hay - 1881 - 05/10/1881 – Age 22 – Collier. Knightswood No.9, Summerlee Iron Co., Maryhill, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 2 killed.

BAIRD James (non-fatal) - 1889 - 23/05/1889 – Age 40 – Miner. Benhar, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal, leg fractured. 90 days off.

BAIRD John (non-fatal) - 1889 - 20/05/1889 – Age 30 – Fireman. Briadenhill Ferrier and Strain, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 3 injured. 30 days off.

BAIRD John - 1882 - 13/01/1882 – Age 14 – Boy. Misk, Eglington Iron Co., Kilwinning, Ayrshire. Explosion of firedamp.

BAIRD John - 1885 - 27/07/1885 – Age 50 – Roadsman. Craighead, William Baird and Co., Hamilton, Lanarkshire. While repairing a road a drawer ran a loaded hutch against him. Died 14th Aug.

BAIRD John jnr. (non-fatal) - 1889 - 11/04/1889 – Miner. Clonbeith No.1 (metalliferous), Eglinton Iron Co., Kilwinning, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at roadhead.

BAIRD Martin (injured) - 1888 - 07/08/1888 – Age 39 – Contractor. Red Moss, Worsley Menses Colliery Co., Lancashire. Leg broken by roof he was taking down falling unexpectedly from between two slips.

BAKER A. - 1880 - 15/07/1880 – Age 24 – Roadman. Risca Black Vein, London and South Wales Coal Co., Risca, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp 120 killed.

BAKER F. - 1880 - 15/07/1880 – Age 17 – Haulier. Risca Black Vein, London and South Wales Coal Co., Risca, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp 120 killed.

BAKER G. - 1889 - 07/08/1889 – Age 44 – Byeworker. Car House, John Brown and Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BAKER George - 1889 - 01/08/1889 – Age 35 – Collier. Griff, Griff Colliery Co., Nuneaton, Warwick. Whilst pushing two tubs into a pass-bye other tubs came behind and fatally crushed the deceased.

BAKER Henry - 1880 - 15/07/1880 – Age 24 – Haulier. Risca Black Vein, London and South Wales Coal Co., Risca, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp 120 killed.

BAKER Henry - 1887 - 27/05/1887 – Age 65 – Labourer. Malgo Vale, Bristol Collieries Co. Ltd., Bristol. Explosion of firedamp. He died June 16th. His duty was to stow rubbish from the working faces. He went into an airway where he had no business with a naked light and ignited some gas which had collected in a hole in the roof where a fall had occurred.

BAKER James - 1889 - 07/06/1889 – Age 16 – Driver. Boythorpe, Boythorpe Colliery Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of coal from the side of a roadway.

BAKER Joe - 1885 - 23/12/1885 – Age 17 – Collier. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Steam Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 81 killed.

BAKER John - 1882 - 14/11/1882 – Age 31 – Collier. Lan Drift, Receiver of Booker, Pentrich, Glamorgan. Fall of clod.

BAKER John - 1889 - 14/02/1889 – Age 18 – Repairer. Waun & Llwyd, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Ebbw Vale, Monmouth. While engaged building a pack wall near the working face a large piece of insufficiently spragged coal broke off and crushed him.

BAKER Joseph - 1881 - 04/10/1881 – Age 17 – Labourer. Maindy, D Davies and Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Killed by falling under trams.

BAKER Phineas - 1882 - 07/11/1882 – Age 53 – Stallman. Clay Cross No.7, Clay Cross Iron and Coal Co., Clay Cross, Derbyshire. Explosion of gas 48 killed.

BAKER Samuel - 1886 - 20/12/1886 – Age 68 – Overman. Ramrod Hall, Trustees of the Earl of Dudley, Oldbury, Worcester. Fall of coal.

BAKER Thomas - 1888 - 19/01/1888 – Age 54 – Miner. Eston (ironstone) 3, Bolckow Vaughan and Co., Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. Struck on the head by a piece of stone falling from the roof which had apparently been loosened by a shot fired previously.

BAKER Walter (injured) - 1880 - 07/04/1880 – Age 25 – Carter. Allens Green, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Radcliffe, Lancashire. Leg broken by a horse falling.

BAKER William - 1880 - 25/03/1880 – Age 41 – Sinker. Netherton Old, W and M Grazebrook, Dudley, Worcester. Whilst ascending by a horse gin the hemp rope overlapped and slipped over the flange or shrouding and precipitated the two of the deceased men to the bottom of the shaft. 2 killed.

BALD F. - 1880 - 15/07/1880 – Age 38 – Labourer. Risca Black Vein, London and South Wales Coal Co., Risca, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp 120 killed.

BALDRY Arthur - 1888 - 12/11/1888 – Age 38 – Collier. Bradley Hall, Bradley Hall Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was driving a narrow place when some of the ley overlying the coal and which was projecting about 18 inches unsupported by timber fell upon him.

BALDWIN Charles - 1889 - 16/03/1889 – Age 30. Ganger Farley Stone (metalliferous), Bath Stone Firms Ltd., Farley, Wiltshire. Fall of roof while engaged in securing the same.

BALDWIN Frederick - 1888 - 26/04/1888 – Age 23 – Mason. Sirhowy No.9, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Sirhowy, Monmouth. While engaged building side walls in an engine plane for an air crossing a large quantity of roof gave way without warning and knocked out the timbers which had been set to make it secure. 2 killed.

BALDWIN Gabriel (injured) - 1880 - 03/02/1880 – Age 19 - Ginny tenter. Gannow, Executors of John Hargreaves, Burnley, Lancashire. Thigh broken. Caught by fly wheel of the ginny engine in getting the engine off the centre.

BALDWIN William - 1880 - 14/07/1880 – Age 43 – Labourer. Chapel House, Chapel House Co. Ltd., Skelmersdale, Lancashire. The pit fencing had been temporarily removed, and in handing some material to another man, the deceased overbalanced and fell down the shaft.

BALDWIN William - 1880 - 17/04/1880 – Age 38 – Collier. Micklefield, Micklefield Coal Co., Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Died 28th May.

BALL Amos - 1882 - 02/05/1882 – Age 26 – Collier. Addesley, WS Dugdale, Atherstone, Nottinghamshire. Explosion of gas 31 killed.

BALL Charles - 1887 - 17/01/1887 – Age 17 - Horse driver. Netherton, J and G Dunn, Dudley, Worcester. Found bleeding to death from a punctured wound in the temporal artery. He was lying between a full tub and the side of the road.

BALL George - 1884 - 28/10/1884 – Age 34 – Stallman. Baddesley, Trustees of WS Dugdale, Nuneaton, Warwick. Fall of coal setting holing sprags.

BALL George - 1886 - 24/04/1886 – Age 38 – Miner. Holmbush (metalliferous), New Mining Co., Callington, Cornwall. Whilst working with a boring machine an explosion took place. It is supposed that the drill came in contact with some unexploded dynamite remaining in the socket or bottom of a hole that had been previously blasted.

BALL Henry - 1888 - 14/01/1888 – Age 36 – Collier. Bestwood, Bestwood Coal and Iron Co., Bestwood, Nottinghamshire. Sitting on a coal tippler waiting to descend the mine when the catch was released by some person causing the tippler to revolve and crush him.

BALL Jabez - 1882 - 03/11/1882 – Age 36 – Pikeman. Withymoor, J and G Dunn, Dudley, Worcester. Fall of coal from roof of holing in a gate road. Cause numerous converging slips. Injured Oct 9th. Died this day.

BALL James (injured) - 1888 - 20/12/1888 – Age 35 – Miner. Stockfield, Royley Chamber Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Back hurt by a following tub coming upon him as he was waggoning his clog iron having caught in the rails and as he expected to have his clog loose in time he did not shout to the person with the following tub.

BALL John - 1880 - 23/06/1880 – Age 23 - Small trimmer. Ryhope, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Durham. Crushed between buffers of waggons while passing between them while in motion.

BALL John - 1883 - 23/02/1883 – Age 33 – Stallman. Blackwell, A Blackwell Colliery Co., Alfreton, Derbyshire. Fall of roof when getting coals down.

BALL John - 1884 - 10/09/1884 – Age 50 - Coal trimmer. Gib Field Siding, Fletcher Burrows and Co., Lancashire. Moving railway waggons. Died 11th.

BALL John - 1885 - 18/03/1885 – Age 68 – Shifter. Usworth, John Bowes and Partners, Usworth, Co. Durham. Explosion in Maudlin Seam. 42 killed.

BALL John - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 64 – Pikeman. Norton Cannock, Norton Cannock Colliery Co., Bloxwich, Staffordshire. Slightly injured on the head on the 19th Dec. 1884 by a piece of a rock falling upon him. Through improper treatment it ended fatally six months afterwards.

BALL John - 1889 - 16/10/1889 – Age 36. Mossfields Hawley and Bridgwood Ltd., Longton, Staffordshire. Explosion 64 killed.

BALL Joseph - 1882 - 02/05/1882 – Age 48 – Enginewright. Addesley, WS Dugdale, Atherstone, Nottinghamshire. Explosion of gas 31 killed.

BALL Noah - 1889 - 16/10/1889 – Age 39 - Horse driver. Mossfields, Hawley and Bridgwood Ltd., Longton, Staffordshire. Explosion 64 killed.

BALL Richard - 1880 - 04/12/1880 – Age 67 – Labourer. Fair Oak, Fair Oak Colliery Co., Rugeley, Staffordshire. Accidentally crushed by trucks at the loading and screening stage.

BALL S. - 1881 - 17/06/1881 – Age 18 – Loader. Harecastle, Bidder and Elliot, Stoke, Staffordshire. Fall of roof.

BALL Thomas - 1880 - 10/03/1880 – Age 34 – Collier. Bedwellty, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co., Bedwellty, Monmouth. Explosion of gas. 4 killed.

BALL Thomas - 1887 – Age 66. Heskin Hall, John Bowling and Co., Lancashire. Died in the boiler house where he had been permitted to sleep at nights. Natural causes. No inquest Not comprised by the Act.

BALL Thomas - 1888 - 01/08/1888 – Age 57 – Hewer. North Seaton, Cowpen Coal Co., North Seaton, Northumberland. Fall of following stone. Deceased knew stone to be bad but had placed his boring machine stand under it and whilst boring the stone came away and canted machine stand.

BALL William - 1881 - 19/12/1881 – Age 49 – Fireman. Abram, Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 48 killed.

BALL William - 1889 - 14/02/1889 – Age 27 – Pikeman. Himley, Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcester. Avalanche of coal down the slope of the shutt in a thick coal pit. Died February 20th.

BALLANTINE John - 1888 - 19/04/1888 – Age 54 – Lampman. St. Helens, St. Helens Colliery and Brick Co., St. Helens, Cumberland. Explosion of gas. 35 killed.

BALLANTYNE William - 1886 - 08/03/1886 – Age 20 – Collier. Trees, James Wood, Bathville, Linlithgow. Explosion of gas at face, stoop and room.

BALSOM William - 1885 - 16/04/1885 – Age 18 – Haulier. Llwynpir, Glamorgan Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

BALTON W. - 1881 - 02/12/1881 – Age 15 – Driver. Abberley, Chatterley Co., Hanley, Staffordshire. Crushed between tub and side.

BAMBER Henry - 1884 – 15/12/1884 – Age 25 – Dataler. Crow Orchard, Crow Orchard Colliery Co. Ltd., Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was laying rails in a drawing road along the face when the roof came in, capping four or five props. He had previously drawn two props which were in his way, and this appears to have caused it to fall.

BAMBRO John - 1887 – 10/02/1887 – Age 28 – Hewer. Pelton Drift, Lord Dunsany and Partners, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham. Severe injury to spine by fall of stone. Died 11th March.

BAMFORD Stephen - 1884 – 12/08/1884 – Age 15 – Driver. Cottam, Appleby and Co., Eckington, Derbyshire. Timber gave way when he was passing under and roof fell on him.

BANHAM James (injured) - 1887 – 24/08/1887 – Age 30 – Miner. Old Clough, George Hargreaves and Co., Lancashire. Foot badly hurt by roof, he was wedging down coal.

BANK Charles - 1885 – 03/08/1885 – Age 85 – Blacksmith. Little Town, Earl of Durham, Durham, Co. Durham. Arm and leg scalded by falling into hot water pond. Died on 7th.

BANKS George - 1881 – 10/03/1881 – Age 23 – Collier. Bradley Hall, B and R Fisher, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The top coal fell on to deceased, in consequence of his neglecting to set a sufficient number of props.

BANKS James - 1880 - 18/11/1880 – Age 14 – Pusher-on. Garswood Hall, Smethurst Hoyle and Grime, Wigan, Lancashire. The deceased was pushing an empty tub (contrary to rules) across the cage at the pit bottom, when the engine was started, and the tub catching against a bearer, the deceased was thrown out. The evidence as to whether a signal had been given to the engine man was very conflicting, but it was thought that the signal had been unintentionally given by the deceased himself.

BANKS James - 1887 - 11/07/1887 – Age 46 – Overman. Lanehead Bridge, John Adams and Co., Willenhall, Staffordshire. Died 23rd July. Foolishly crossed the bottom of the shaft as the cage was descending and was fatally crushed by it.

BANKS John (injured) - 1886 - 09/01/1886 – Age 22 - Engine tenter. Little Harwood, EM Sharp and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Injured by being lowered suddenly to the bottom when descending the shaft the attention of the man at the engine being taken off his work by talking to the book keeper for which he was to be dismissed. proceedings were taken against the owners at the County Court, Blackburn 15th Mar 1887 for compensation under the Employers Liability Act. None-suited. An engineman not being a superintendent.

BANKS John - 1882 - 16/05/1882 – Age 33 – Miner. Ellerbeck, Ellerbeck Collieries Ltd., Coppull, Lancashire. Roof from between slips.

BANKS Joseph - 1887 - 26/09/1887 – Age 42 – Chargeman. Taylor, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A tunnel was being driven between two pits about 170 yards down and after examining the plan deceased set the men to work. As he was watching them a piece of stone suddenly fell from the side and caught him.

BANKS Joshua - 1881 - 09/05/1881 – Carter. Roundthorn, Lancashire. On crossing pit heap which was on fire he sank in. Not comprised.

BANKS Joshua - 1881 - 28/04/1881 – Dayman. Clifton, Executors of Col. Hargreaves, Burnley, Lancashire. Stone which he was dressing, died May 12th.

BANKS Robert (injured) - 1887 - 21/02/1887 – Age 44 – Miner. Lovers Lane, Fletcher Burrows & Co., Lancashire. Rib broken by tubs which he had omitted to secure running down the road of a working face.

BANKS Robert (non-fatal) - 1886 - 05/04/1886 – Brusher. Springhill No.11, Archibald Finnie and Sons, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. Fall of roof.

BANKS Rueben - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 19 – Jigger. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

BANKS Thomas - 1887 - 18/11/1887 – Age 25 – Collier. Bamfurlong Cross, Tetley and Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. He was engaged in filling his tub when a piece of coal rolled off the face and crushed him against a prop.

BANKS William (injured) - 1889 - 13/07/1889 – Age 22 – Miner. Brinsop Hall, Arley Brinsop Hall Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Ribs broken in pulling bell wire, it broke he slipped and fell on the edge of a tub. The wire broke apparently at a weld. Inspection and inquiry.

BANKS William - 1885 - 25/10/1885 – Age 45 – Blacksmith. Ince Hall, Crompton and Shawcross, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made. Deceased was on a plank under the pit staging putting some bolts in an engine when he overbalanced himself and fell to the ground a distance of 15 feet.

BANN A. - 1889 - 09/03/1889 – Age 30 – Labourer. Low Moor, Low Moor Co., Bradford, Yorkshire. Run over by waggons on private branch railway.

BANNAN John - 1883 - 29/03/1883 – Age 31 – Miner. Great Laxey (metalliferous), Fall of some ground which he knew was unsafe and which he should have taken down instead of working under it.

BANNER George - 1880 - 25/10/1880 – Age 44 – Loader. No. 4 Clay Cross, Clay Cross Iron and Coal Co., Clay Cross, Derbyshire. Fall of roof whilst loading coals.

BANNER John - 1880 - 04/10/1880 – Age 23 – Collier. Hindley Field, Norris and Lees, Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of roof when building a pack, the roof having been weakened by deceased drawing a chock to get the pack wall in.

BANNISTER Stephen - 1887 - 01/07/1887 – Age 19 - Horse driver. Dudley Wood, Noah Hingley and Sons, Dudley, Worcester. Trampled to death by a frightened horse in a gate road.

BANNISTER William - 1887 - 07/06/1887 – Age 24 – Pikeman. Rowley Station, Rowley Station Colliery Co., Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. Killed when drawing timber in a road only 4 feet wide between the trees, by the following roof falling upon him.

BANT William (injured) - 1889 - 05/02/1889 – Age 22 – Miner. Drakewalls (metalliferous), Ginnislake, Cornwall. On the morning the accident occurred Rule and Bant with two other miners went underground to their work as usual. They commenced work by removing some boards to let down a quantity of sand to fill up a stope which they had previously worked out. During the operation they lost control of the running sand which came away in such quantities that the men had to fly for their lives and Rule and Bant's retreat was cut off by the stope and the level below being filled with the sand. They were ultimately rescued by a new level being driven from above after being five days underground without light or food and were affected to some extent from exposure and starvation. A special report was made in this case giving full details and this was subsequently presented to Parliament. 2 injured.

BANT William (injured) - 1889 - 28/03/1889 – Age 22 – Miner. Drakewalls (metalliferous), Ginnislake, Cornwall. Whilst working underground the point of the pick Bant was using glanced from the side and entered his eye destroying his sight.

BANTON William - 1888 - 19/04/1888 – Age 37 – Hewer. St. Helens, St. Helens Colliery and Brick Co., St. Helens, Cumberland. Explosion of gas. 35 killed.

BARBER Charles - 1889 - 13/02/1889 – Age 61 – Repairer. Glyn, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypool, Monmouth. His legs were so severely crushed between trams on a double parting that amputation was necessary. He died the 9th May.

BARBER J. - 1887 - 16/09/1887 - Age 43 – Collier. Lofthouse, Lofthouse Coal Co., Wakefield, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BARBER James - 1881 - 28/04/1881 – Age 33 – Hewer. Oakenshaw, Strakers and Love, Willington, Co. Durham. Fall of stone while holing a jud through a breaker.

BARBER Thomas - 1883 - 04/09/1883 – Age 14 – Driver. Car House, John Brown and Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Crushed between pony and door frame.

BARBER William - 1888 - 24/08/1888 – Age 23 – Dayman. Grassmoor No.4, Grassmoor Colliery Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of roof.

BARBOUR James (non-fatal) - 1885 - 19/03/1885 – Miner. Common No.14, Eglington Iron Co., Lugar, Ayrshire. Fall of roof.

BARBOUR John - 1883 - 06/04/1883 - Pony driver. Braehead No.6, Eglington Iron Co., Lugar, Ayrshire. Fell down the shaft from a midworking.

BARCLAY Hermit - 1889 - 20/05/1889 – Age 65 – Furnaceman. Aberdare Works, Aberdare Works and Collieries Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Crushed by cage descending on him while attempting to cross bottom of shaft instead of going round by the proper road.

BARCLAY James (non-fatal) - 1885 - 09/10/1885 – Drawer. Broomhouse, John Hendrie, Broomhouse. Caught by a runaway hutch.

BARCLAY Robert (non-fatal) - 1884 - 29/03/1884 – Collier. Broomhouse, John Hendrie, Broomhouse, Lanarkshire. Injured while riding on a race of hutches.

BARKABY or BARKSBY John - 1889 - 06/04/1889 – Age 58 – Shifter. Seaham, Marquess of Londonderry, Seaham Harbour, Co. Durham. Fall of large stone whilst putting a pillar in to support it.

BARKER Abram (injured) - 1888 - 19/04/1888 – Age 39 – Miner. Townley, Upper Mountain Brooks and Pickup, Lancashire. Jaw broken and back bruised by roof falling from between two slips coal which had just been taken down having liberated this part of the roof.

BARKER Alfred - 1885 - 15/08/1885 – Age 15 – Driver. Hornthorpe, J and G Wells Ltd., Eckington, Derbyshire. Found dead under a loaded tub at the bottom of air incline.

BARKER Edward * - 1882 - 19/12/1882 – Age 46. Murton, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Co. Durham.

BARKER F. - 1882 – 17/03/1882 – Age 15 – Driver. Hoyland, Silkstone Wells and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Crushed by corves.

BARKER G. - 1882 – 23/09/1882 – Collier. Cortonwood, Cortonwood Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of coal Died 24th Sept.

BARKER J. - 1882 – 14/11/1882 – Age 40 – Filler. Denaby Main, Denaby Main Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BARKER J. - 1887 – 26/02/1887 – Age 19 – Driver. Monckton Main, Monckton Main Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BARKER Job - 1884 – 05/03/1884 – Age 41 – Stallman. Manners, Manners Colliery Co., Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Fall of roof while drawing timber.

BARKER John - 1880 - 24/12/1880 – Deputy. Gregory Spring, Gregory Spring Coal Co., Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BARKER John - 1885 - 20/06/1885 – Age 34 – Butty. Apedale, Stanier and Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Killed by an explosion. 9 killed.

BARKER R. - 1883 - 16/08/1883 – Age 20 – Miner. Haigh’s, Haigh Reuben and Co., Lancashire. Tubs on engine brow.

BARKER R. - 1886 - 26/11/1886 – Age 35 – Hurrier. Mitchell Main, Mitchell Main Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Crushed by corves. Died 7th Dec.

BARKER T. - 1885 - 24/11/1885 – Age 51 – Collier. Killingbeck. York Road Coal and Iron Co., Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Died 28th Dec.

BARKER W. - 1886 - 02/10/1886 – Age 27 – Fitter. Silkstone, Normanton, Yorkshire. Explosion of coal dust. 20 were killed at once, one died 4th Oct and one on the 31st Oct. 22 killed.

BARKER Walter - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 13 - Stable boy. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

BARKER William (injured) - 1885 - 16/12/1885 – Miner. Foulclough, Reuben Haigh and Co., Lancashire. Injured by fall of roof from slips at the face while getting coal. It appeared safe shortly before when he examined and knocked it.

BARKLE Sampson - 1880 - 01/05/1880 – Age 49 – Timberman. Wheal Kitty (metalliferous), Wheal Kitty Mining Co., St. Agnes, Cornwall. Fell down shaft either while descending it on a ladder or while at work wedging the stays of pump rods.

BARKSBY Issac - 1888 - 05/04/1888 – Age 19 – Dataler. Ireland, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Staveley, Derbyshire. Fall of roof.

BARLAS James - 1884 - 14/07/1884 – Age 15 - Pony driver. Bankhead No.2, Eglington Iron Co., Hurlford, Ayrshire. Run over by hutches.

BARLOW Andrew (injured) - 1887 - 17/11/1887 – Age 50 – Miner. Foggs, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Injured by stone falling without warning between the pack and the face of work. It came from a small throw and a roll in the roof and knocked out a prop. 2 injured.

BARLOW Anthony - 1881 - 03/05/1881 – Loader. Lillydale, Enoch Perrins, Bucknall, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp and interruption of water. 8 killed.

BARLOW David - 1886 - 31/08/1886 – Age 16 – Drawer. Bridgewater No.3, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Chain broke on a self-acting gin brow, and a full tub ran down upon him as he was engaged with an empty tub off the road at the bottom of the brow. Accidental.

BARLOW E. - 1881 - 03/05/1881 – Collier. Lillydale, Enoch Perrins, Bucknall, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp and interruption of water. 8 killed.

BARLOW Frederick - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 23 – Miner. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

BARLOW J. (injured) - 1883 - 19/01/1883 – Age 56 – Miner. Croftside, Darcy Lever Coal Co., Lancashire. Fall of roof.

BARLOW J. (injured) - 1883 – 26/07/1883 – Age 20 – Miner. Whitaker Bridge, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Explosion of gas.

BARLOW John - 1882 – 25/03/1882 – Age 65 – Miner. Blue Hole (metalliferous), John Grindrod and Co., Whitworth, Lancashire. Caught between the incline chain and drawn into the engine.

BARLOW Noah - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 20 – Miner. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

BARLOW Peter - 1885 – 07/10/1884 – Age 27 – Miner. Outwood, Thomas Fletcher and Sons, Lancashire. Fatal, by explosion of gas at his candle in an old bay which he had cut into. The gas collected in a corner which the fireman failed to examine and where the air slipped past it. The deceased also should have tried with the Davy lamp with which he was provided. The fireman was taken before the magistrates and fined 5s. and costs.

BARLOW Philip (injured) - 1888 – 08/11/1888 – Miner. Shakerley, Nelson William, Ramsden, Lancashire. Crushed, one between each buffer in passing between railway waggons at the screens some other waggons that were being brought down having bumped against another and caused it to move. The Brakesman bringing the waggons called out but the colliers were busy reading their work ticket and not on the alert. 2 killed.

BARLOW Robert - 1885 – 12/10/1885 – Age 39 – Collier. Reedley, Executors of Col. Hargreaves, Lancashire. Died suddenly in his working place from heart disease. The ventilation was good. (Not comprised).

BARLOW Thomas (injured) - 1889 06/02/1889 – Age 43 – Miner. Stopes No.3, Thomas Fletcher and Sons, Lancashire. Killed by roof falling from a slip as the father was wedging down top coal. 1 killed 1 injured. Inspection and inquest attended.

BARLOW Thomas - 1885 - 02/05/1885 – Age 15 - Screen boy. Langwith, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Playing with a revolving shaft.

BARLOW Thomas - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 54 – Miner. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

BARLOW Thomas jnr. - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 30 – Miner. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

BARLOW William (injured) - 1886 - 23/11/1886 – Age 44 – Miner. Blainscough Hall, Arley Blainscough Hall Colliery Co., Lancashire. Leg broken. In stepping out of the way of some dirt which he was dressing down his foot caught against a prop and he stumbled. Accidental.

BARLOW William - 1886 - 09/09/1886 - Hooker on. Stopes No.3, (injured) Thomas Fletcher and Sons., Lancashire. Injured by the cage descending at the Two Yards Mine mouthing as he was taking a person’s breakfast out of a tub in the cage. The cage according to what the hooker-on said was restarted without signal but the engineman said he had not stopped the cage.

BARLOW William - 1888 - 29/11/1888 – Age 63 – Lampman. Whittaker Bridge, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatally hurt by following about five yards from a surface tramway to some plates on the canal bank as he was before daybreak without light going to his work by a short cut and not a proper road.

BARLOW William Henry - 1889 - 06/02/1889 – Age 16 – Drawer. Stopes No.3, Thomas Fletcher and Sons, Lancashire. Killed by roof falling from a slip as the father was wedging down top coal. 1 killed 1 injured. Inspection and inquest attended.

BARNBROOK Joseph or Thomas - 1887 - 23/03/1887 – Age 51 – Pikeman. Saltwells, Trustees of the Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcester. Foolishly stepped under coals in roof of roadway which he had just cut to drop, when a bump threw them upon him and killed him.

BARNBROOK R. - 1883 - 13/04/1883 – Age 16 – Driver. Homer Hill, Homer Hill Colliery Co., Cradley, Staffordshire. Fall of timber and roof, caused by full tub upon which he was riding getting off the rails.

BARNBROOKS J. - 1881 - 19/12/1881 – Age 39 – Pikeman. Timbertree, New British Iron Co., Old Hill, Staffordshire. While engaged repairing the side of the rock road a large mass fell off and killed him on the spot.

BARNES Charles - 1880 - 17/06/1880 – Age 41 – Collier. St. Helens, St. Helens Collieries Co Ltd., St. Helens, Lancashire. Fall of roof from between the bars, which, considering the nature of the roof, were not near enough to each other.

BARNES David Ridley - 1880 - 20/10/1880 – Age 24 – Collier. Adelaide, Joseph Pease and Partners, Bishop Auckland, Durham. Injury to back by roof at a small fault. Died 23rd January 1881.

BARNES George (injured) - 1888 - 02/07/1888 – Age 54 – Miner. Atherton Yard, Fletcher Burrows & Co., Lancashire. Injured when riding down in engine brow with a train of men the leading tub got off the rails.

BARNES Hiram - 1886 - 03/08/1886 – Age 19 – Gigger. Linnyshaw Brassy, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. In loosening his tubs which were off the rails in the gig brow, some of the tubs became uncoupled and crushed him against the side. Accidental.

BARNES James - 1880 - 12/11/1880 – Age 35 – Miner. Lower Darwin, Lower Darwin Coal Co., Lower Darwin, Lancashire. Roof falling from slips. Props not set.

BARNES John - 1881 - 04/05/1881 – Age 40 – Stallman. Plumptree, Butterley Iron and Coal Co., Langley Mill, Derbyshire. Heavy weight came on the stall causing large fall of coal and roof. 2 killed.

BARNES Joseph - 1886 - 21/06/1886 – Age 50 – Stallman. Moorgreen, Barber Walker and Co., Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Piece of coal falling from the ascending cage struck him.

BARNES R. - 1883 - 18/12/1883 – Age 27 – Miner. Broadfield, Thomas Simpson and Co., Lancashire. Fall of roof. A collier of Green Haworth, working at Messrs Thomas Simpson's Broadfield Colliery was following his employment in the pit last week when the roof gave way, and he sustained serious injuries to his back". (Blackburn Times 29-12-1883).