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BENNETTS James - 1883 - 02/11/1883 – Age 21 – Miner. Dolcoath (metalliferous), Dolcoath Mining Co., Camborne, Cornwall. Was sitting down resting with his comrade on the 290 fathoms level when a large stone came away from the hanging wall and crushed him to death. There was a strong stull a few feet above his head. The stone turned out from just beneath the stull.

BENNETTS John (injured) - 1888 - 16/05/1888 – Age 17 – Miner. Botallock (metalliferous), St. Just, Cornwall. While working at Wheal Cock jumped from the solar to the level below a distance of about three feet and broke his ankle.

BENNETTS Thomas - 1880 - 15/07/1880 – Age 52 – Miner. South Caradon (metalliferous), South Caradon Mining Co., St. Cleer, Liskeard Cornwall. Unexpected fall of ground.

BENNETTS Thomas Henry - 1883 - 16/03/1883 – Age 44 – Miner. Wheal Jane (metalliferous), Wheal Jane Mining Co., Kea, Chancewater, Cornwall. Small unexpected fall of ground.

BENNEY William - 1880 – 15/07/1880 – Age 40 – Bottom cutter. Risca Black Vein, London and South Wales Coal Co., Risca, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp. 120 killed.

BENNIE William - 1889 – 29/09/1889 – Age 26 – Joiner. Greyrigg, Greyrigg Coal Co., Stirling. Crushed by waggon on private branch railway.

BENNISON Alfred - 1886 – Age 17 – Drawer. California, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquest attended. Deceased was uncoupling an empty tub from a gang when some other tubs which were passing at the time and got off the rails and coming in contact with the tub deceased was engaged with forced it upwards and the lad was crushed against the bar above.

BENNISON Robert - 1881 – 04/10/1881 – Age 27 – Shifter. South Durham, South Durham Coal Co., Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham. Fall of roof in long wall.

BENNY Charles (injured) - 1889 – 04/11/1889 – Age 17 – Miner. East Pool (metalliferous), Carn Brea, Cornwall. Whist removing the top from a dynamite can filled with that explosive the contents exploded inflicting severe injuries to the lad's face and head. He was not at the dynamite case on duty but went there to get a piece of fuse to tie his shoe and while taking off the top of the can a spark from his candle the boy says, fell into the can causing the explosion. Beyond this there was nothing to account for the occurrence.

BENSLE Richard - 1886 - 18/12/1886 – Age 17 – Collier. Risca Big Vein, London and South Wales Coal Co. Ltd., Risca, Monmouth. Fall of coal and clod. When stooping to pick up some coal the face fell on to him.

BENSON George (injured) - 1886 – 04/06/1886 – Age 60 – Head fireman. Scot Land No.5, William Woods & Son, Lancashire. Injured by a shot going off when he returned he having mistaken another shot lighted by his son, a Shotlighter, for the shot he himself had lighted.

BENSON Nathaniel - 1883 – 26/01/1883 – Age 58 – Collier. Bamfurlong, Cross Tetley and Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquest attended. The deceased was chipping the roof of a driving road when a drawer carelessly ran against him with a loaded tub.

BENSON Patrick - 1888 – 15/01/1888 – Age 32 – Collier. Shelton, Earl Granville, Hanley, Staffordshire. Fall of coal.

BENSON Thomas (injured) - 1888 – 14/02/1888 – Age 27 – Dayman. Burnt Hills, Executors of Colonel Hargreaves, Burnley, Lancashire. Hand and face slightly burned by the premature explosion of a bobbin cartridge which he was ramming into a hole with a copper stemmer when taking roof down.

BENSTER James (non-fatal) - 1889 – 06/04/1889 – Miner. Meiklehill No.4, James Gardner and Sons, Kirkintilloch, Dumbarton. Explosion of firedamp. 2 injured.

BENT James (injured) - 1887 – 24/03/1887 – Age 30 – Miner. Lower Hall, Westleigh Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Leg broken by coal bursting off the face in front of which he was shovelling.

BENT James - 1881 – 19/12/1881 – Age 27 – Collier. Abram, Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 48 killed.

BENTHAM Daniel (injured) - 1889 – 16/04/1889 – Age 40 – Miner. Outwood No.2, Thomas Fletcher and Sons, Lancashire. Hip broken by top coal, which he and another were taking down, falling on him. Inspection and inquiry.

BENTHAM Henry - 1888 – 07/01/1888 – Age 36 – Collier. Edge Green, Richard Evans and Co., Golborne, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was drawing a chock without first setting a prop to protect himself although told by the fireman to do so when the roof came down upon him.

BENTHAM J. (injured) - 1883 – 01/03/1883 – Age 63 – Miner. Brinsop Hall, Brinsop Hall Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof.

BENTHAM John - 1884 – 17/08/1884 – Age 19 – Putter. Trimdon Grange, Walter Scott, Trimdon Grange, Co. Durham. Blow on forehead from a crossing plate which caused concussion of the brain.

BENTLEY C.N. - 1888 - 14/08/1888 – Collier. Weston Coney, Weston Coney Co., Longton, Staffordshire. Fell off cage working at pump.

BENTLEY Howarth (injured) - 1886 - 30/04/1886 – Age 42 – Miner. Foulclough, Reuben Haigh and Co., Lancashire. Injured. A fall from two slips had left a place in the roof somewhat loose and as he was passing under a small stone dropped cutting his head and hurting his ankle.

BENTLEY J. - 1884 - 06/02/1884 – Age 34 - Waggon shunter. Wheldale, Wheldale Coal Co., Castleford, Yorkshire. Run over by waggons.

BENTLEY J. - 1886 - 24/12/1886 – Age 28 – Hurrier. East Gawber, R Craik and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Died 31st Dec.

BENTLEY John - 1883 - 07/11/1883 – Age 32 – Moorfield, Altham Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Explosion of gas 68 killed.

BENYON Alfred - 1880 - 26/05/1880 – Age 27 – Haulier. Middle Duffryn, Powells Duffryn Co., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

BENYON John - 1880 - 31/01/1880 – Age 34 – Hitcher. Abergorki, Burnyeat Brown and Co., Treherbert, Glamorgan. Crushed by a descending cage.

BENYON W. - 1887 - 25/08/1887 – Age 17 – Collier. Long Range Level Aberdare, Merthyr Colliery Co. Ltd., Hirwain, Glamorgan. Fall of a portion of the bottom coal and mid stone (blast) in face of stall in 9ft. seam.

BENYON William - 1887 - 18/04/1887 – Age 54 – Labourer. Ty Trist, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Tredegar, Monmouth. Crushed between railway waggons. In passing between the buffers of two trucks, which were slowly moving, he got his head between them and was killed.

BEOR Alfred - 1884 - 31/05/1884 – Age 19 – Haulier. Park, David Davies and Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fell under trams.

BERESFORD William - 1882 - 17/05/1882 – Age 50 – Pikeman. Blackheath, Thomas Llewellyn, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. Fall of roof coal in a stall 14 feet. Cause, a bump which knocked out 3 trees.

BERGIN Joseph - 1887 - 27/01/1887 – Age 48 – Hewer. Houghton, Earl of Durham. Fence Houses, Co. Durham. Had received an injury to his foot but afterwards died of pneumonia, the result of a cold. Not comprised.

BERRESFORD George - 1886 - 25/02/1886 – Age 60 – Contractor. Mexborough, Butterley Iron and Coal Co., Codnor Park. Fall of roof.

BERRESFORD J. - 1884 - 20/03/1884 – Age 38 – Ripper. Rockingham, Newton Chambers and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof. 2 killed.

BERRESFORD William - 1886 - 15/03/1886 – Age 20 – Loader. Brereton, Earl of Shrewsbury, Rugeley, Staffordshire. Fall of coal in working face of deep coal. Cause encircling slips.

BERREY James (injured) - 1880 - 06/08/1880 – Age 52 – Miner. Mosley Common, Bridgewater Trust, Tyldesley, Lancashire. Thigh broken. Coal falling as he was preparing to take it down. Crumbouke Mine.

BERRIMAN or BERRYMAN Jacob - 1882 - 16/02/1882 – Age 37 – Hewer. Trimdon Grange, Walter Scott, Trimdon Grange, Co. Durham. Killed by explosion gas in Harvey Seam. 74 killed. Buried in Kelloe Cemetery. Left a wife and 3 children.

BERRINGTON Noah - 1886 - 08/02/1886 – Age 40 – Pikeman. Crown Meadow, R Mason and Sons, Tipton, Staffordshire. Died 17th. Fall of coal from a height of 13 feet at brow of thick coal opening.

BERRINGTON William - 1886 - 18/04/1886 – Age 42 – Stallman. Coneygre, Trustees of the Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcester. Foolishly stood in front of a rate from the side 5’x3’x1’ to pull it off when it suddenly fell and fatally injured him.

BERRY Adam (injured) - 1886 - 09/01/1886 – Age 59 – Daywageman. Clifton Moss, Andrew Knowles and Sons, Ltd., Lancashire. Injured by a tub which he was taking to a gig brow, his clogs having slipped on the iron plates. Accidental.

BERRY George (injured) - 1888 - 16/02/1888 – Age 54 – Miner. Withins Lane, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatally injured by coal falling over sprags.

BERRY George - 1883 - 08/09/1883 – Age 23 – Holer. New Hucknall, New Hucknall Colliery Co., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof while building a pack.

BERRY George Enoch - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 20 – Wagoner. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons, Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

BERRY Henry (injured) - 1886 - 31/05/1886 – Age 37 – Screener. Ashton’s Field Sidings, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Breast crushed between buffers of railway waggons following closely one after another. Arrangements to be made in future for men moving waggons to give warning. Accidental.

BERRY James - 1882 - 29/12/1882 – Age 25 – Miner. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Manchester, Lancashire. Roof coal in taking down.

BERRY James - 1886 - 15/06/1886 – Age 20 - Bank rider, George Powell, Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Fell under full tram.

BERRY John (injured) - 1885 - 21/01/1885 – Age 28 – Miner. Ashton Moss, Ashton Moss Colliery Co., Lancashire. Injured. A stone fell from a pot hole close to his working face.

BERRY John - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 16 – Jigger. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

BERRY John - 1885 - 27/07/1885 – Age 17 – Drawer. Kersland No.2 (ironstone or fireclay), Eglington Iron Co., Dalry Ayrshire. By part of a full race on dook becoming detached the hutches ran back and jammed him.

BERRY John - 1888 - 22/08/1888 – Age 30 – Collier. New Boston, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. As he was charging a shothole the cartridge stuck fast and contrary to rules he was trying to force it out with an iron rammer.

BERRY John E. - 1881 - 23/03/1881 – Age 18 – Dataller. Bettisfield, Bettisfield Colliery Co. Ltd., Bagillt, Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. He and his father were engaged in timbering a road when a sudden fall of top coal came from between two slips.

BERRY Robert (injured) - 1887 - 21/10/1887 – Age 20 – Labourer. Hewlett, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Arm broken by slipping in front of tubs on pit bank.

BERRY Thomas (injured) - 1880 - 26/04/1880 – Man. Ellesmere, Bridgewater Trust, Worsley, Lancashire. Leg broken. He fell whilst helping to remove a locomotive with levers.

BERRY Thomas (injured) - 1889 - 13/11/1889 – Age 54 – Miner. Linnyshaw 5 Foot, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Bruised by roof clod from a slip where he was getting coal. Inspection and inquiry.

BERRY Thomas (injured) - 1889 - 27/08/1889 – Age 19 – Engineman. Clapgate, Rawstron and Riding, Lancashire. Leg injured by a cog wheel of the engine working the incline into the mine the engine having unexpectedly started when he was not at the handles and he was caught in making his way over the fencing to stop it. Inspection and inquiry.

BERRY Thomas - 1882 - 07/11/1882 – Age 34 – Bricklayer. Clay Cross No.7, Clay Cross Iron and Coal Co., Clay Cross, Derbyshire. Explosion of gas 48 killed.

BERRY Thomas - 1885 - 10/02/1885 – Age 35 – Collier. Moss, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Pemberton, Wigan Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Hauling rope broke and the gang ran hack on to deceased who was busy placing some trams in the shunt. The rope appeared to have been overloaded and the trailer failed to act at the time. The load to be put on the rope seemed to have been left to the discretion of the gang rider instead of the proper load fixed by the manager or mechanical engineer.

BERRY Thomas - 1887 - 28/05/1887 – Age 25 – Miner. Udston, Udston Coal Co. Ltd., Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Explosion of gas 73 killed.

BERRY William - 1882 - 21/01/1882 – Age 15 - Horse driver. Talk ’o’th Hill, New North Staffordshire, Newcastle, Staffordshire. Crushed by full tub.

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

BERRY William - 1887 - 28/05/1887 – Age 22 – Miner. Udston, Udston Coal Co. Ltd., Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Explosion of gas 73 killed.

BERRYMAN or BERRIMAN Jacob - 1882 - 16/02/1882 – Age 37 – Hewer. Trimdon Grange, Walter Scott, Trimdon Grange, Co. Durham. Killed by explosion gas in Harvey Seam. 74 killed. Buried in Kelloe Cemetery. Left a wife and 3 children.

BERTRAM Gilbert (non-fatal) - 1884 - 03/10/1884 - Collier. Glenbuck, Cairntable Gas Coal Co., Muirkirk, Ayrshire. Fall of coal.

BESANT G.H. (injured) - 1884 - 04/12/1884 – Age 17 - Gang rider. Gin, Astley & Tyldesley Coal & Salt Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Train of tubs on engine plane got off rails.

BESSON Thomas - 1882 - 02/05/1882 – Age 41 – Collier. Addesley, WS Dugdale, Atherstone, Nottinghamshire. Explosion of gas 31 killed.

BEST James - 1880 – 08/09/1880 – Age 51 – Shifter. Seaham, Marquess of Londonderry, Sunderland, Co. Durham. Explosion of gas 164 killed.

BEST James - 1888 – 27/08/1888 – Age 47 – Hewer. Hetton, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Fence Houses Co. Durham. While engaged going with another man in taking an empty tub up an incline, a full tub of stone run amain from the top which joined them with great force and Best was killed.

BEST Martin - 1888 - 08/05/1888 – Age 21 – Putter. Seaham, Marquess of Londonderry, Seaham, Co. Durham. Head crushed between tub and a prop by the tub taking the wrong way at a turn.

BESTFORD Thomas - 1882 - 11/02/1882 – Age 40 – Hewer. North Brancepeth, North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., Durham, Co. Durham. Fall of side stone while taking off coal.

BESWICK Thomas (injured) - 1887 - 10/11/1887 – Age 55 – Miner. Scout Moor, Executors of Lawrence Duckworth, Lancashire. Leg broken by collision of tubs on engine road. He ran the tram on which he was riding against the tram
instead of going into a man hole.

BETNEY Charles - 1880 –30/03/1880 - Age 48 – Collier. New Sharlston, New Sharlston Coal Co., Normanton, Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Died 16th Apr.

BETT William - 1889 - 30/07/1889 – Age 18 – Bottomer. Hill of Beath, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fell from cage.

BETTANY G. - 1885 - 20/02/1885 – Age 44 - Collier. Hulme, Messrs Waine, Longton, Staffordshire. Fell into sump through part of scaffold.

BETTRIDGE John Henry - 1882 - 25/02/1882 – Age 17 – Driver. Coton, Coton Park Colliery Co., Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire. Run over by loaded tubs.

BEVAN Edmund - 1883 - 10/06/1883 – Age 34 – Collier. Navigation, Nixon’s Navigation Co., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

BEVAN Henry - 1887 - 25/01/1887 – Age 15 - Door boy. Clydach Vale, Thomas Riches and Co., Tonypandy, Glamorgan. Run over by a tram. He had several sheet doors to attend to.

BEVAN James - 1884 - 08/11/1884 – Age 39 – Labourer. Pochin, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co., Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp. 14 killed.

BEVAN John - 1882 - 10/08/1882 – Age 40 - Collier. Cefn Slip, Bryndu Coal and Coke Co., Bridgend, Glamorgan. Killed by trams passing over him.

BEVAN John - 1884 - 04/06/1884 – Age 24 – Haulier. Dowlais, Dowlais Iron Co., Dowlais, Glamorgan. Fell under tram.

BEVAN John - 1887 - 25/11/1887 – Age 20 – Collier. Pochin, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Tredegar, Monmouth. Fall of roof in his working place in consequence of neglecting to prop.

BEVAN John William - 1880 - 29/01/1880 – Age 14 – Driver. Haswell, Haswell Shotton & Easington Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Fence Houses, Co. Durham. Fall of stone on tramway while passing with his tub.

BEVAN Rees - 1884 - 06/02/1884 – Age 25 – Collier. Clydach, Merthyr Cory Bros and Co., Clydach, Swansea, Glamorgan. Fall of coal.

BEVAN T. - 1881 - 11/03/1881 – Age 36 – Collier. Coalbrook Vale, Coalbrook Vale Coal Co., Monmouth. Crushed by a tram against the side of an underground engine place about three yards from a refuge hole. He was disobeying orders in being there while the engine was working.

BEVAN Thomas - 1880 - 27/10/1880 – Age 29 – Miner. Wigpool (Metalliferous), Lydney and Wigpool Iron Ore Co., Forest of Dean, Gloucester. Fall of stone. He had been cautioned by the men in charge not to go beyond where the timber was standing but did so and the top fell upon him.

BEVAN Thomas - 1884 - 16/01/1884 – Age 35 – Collier. Garnant, Garnant Collieries Co., Cwmaman, Glamorgan. Breakage of rope. 10 killed.

BEVAN Thomas - 1887 - 05/07/1887 – Age 15 – Haulier. Pentrefellen, Vivian and Sons, Swansea, Glamorgan. Squeezed between empty tram and road-side prop while changing trains at lace of a level. Road 10ft. wide and 7ft. high. Died 9th July.

BEVAN W. - 1884 - 09/01/1884 – Age 56 – Collier. Prior’s Lee, Lilleshall Co., Shifnal, Staffordshire. Fall of roof.

BEVAN Walter - 1887 - 18/02/1887 – Age 30 – Haulier. National, National Colliery Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas and dust caused by a shot. 39 killed.

BEVAN Wiliam - 1886 - 09/06/1886 – Age 28 – Collier. Lady Windsor, Davies Scots and Co., Ynisybwl, Glamorgan. A fall of coal drove deceased falling on his mandrill, which passed through his head killing him at once.

BEVAN William - 1884 - 26/07/1884 – Age 37 – Collier. Oakwood, Cwmavon Estate and Works Co., Cwmavon, Glamorgan. Fall of stone.

BEVERDIGE Andrew - 1884 - 30/03/1884 - Age 35. Elgin, Thomas Spowart and Co., Dunfermline, Fife. Suffocated by smoke.

BEVERIDGE Andrew - 1884 - 30/03/1884 – Age 35 – Oversman. Elgin, Thomas Spowart and Co., Dunfermline, Fife. Suffocated by smoke and fumes while trying to reach by the return air course the seat of a fire at an underground engine. 3 killed.

BEVERIDGE B A. (non-fatal) - 1887 - 19/07/1887 – Drawer. Blair No.10, Eglinton Iron Co., Dalry, Ayrshire. Fall of roof.

BEVERIDGE David (non-fatal) - 1889 - 27/12/1889 – Age 30 – Brusher. Hill of Beath, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of roof. Not yet resumed.

BEVERIDGE David - 1885 - 18/03/1885 – Age 24 – Shifter. Usworth, John Bowes and Partners, Usworth, Co. Durham. Explosion in Maudlin Seam. 42 killed.

BEVERIDGE James - 1887 - 10/03/1887 – Age 14 - Hanger on. Hill of Beath, Ord Adams, Beath, Fife. Fall of roof on horse road, longwall.

BEVERIDGE John - 1880 - 21/08/1880 – Age 28 – Miner. Blackstone (ironstone or fireclay), Blackstone Mineral Co., Paisley, Ayrshire. Fall of roof.

BEVERIDGE Robert - 1888 - 15/11/1888 – Age 60. Little Raith, Fife. Pulley accident.

BEVERIDGE Thomas (non-fatal) - 1889 - 07/08/1889 – Age 26 – Miner. Champfleurie & Ochiltree, Linlithgow Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Explosion of firedamp. 2 injured. 53 days off.

BEVERIDGE William (non-fatal) - 1888 - 28/02/1888 – Collier. Govan No.6, William Dixon Ltd., Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Overwinding of the cage on which they were being lowered struck the cage seat forcibly and injured 3.

BEVERLEY Thomas - 1885 - 07/08/1885 – Age 64 – Shifter. Radcliffe, Radcliffe Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of side stone after kirving.

BEVINS Thomas - 1886 - 27/01/1886 – Age 47 – Dataler. Coton Park, Coton Park Colliery Co., Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire. Fall of roof whilst building a pack.

BEWICK Hogg (non-fatal) - 1889 - 06/02/1889 – Age 14 – Driver. Townhill, Townhill Coal Co., Fife. Scalded by tea. 25 days off.

BEWSHAR or BEWSHER Isaac - 1885 - 03/11/1885 – Age 39 – Miner. Woodend No.1 (metalliferous), Moss Bay Haematite Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Midlegging a head tree over which was boarding and Norway timber packing with loose rubbish above. The head tree broke and let the loose stuff on the deceased. 2 killed.

BEXON John Henry - 1880 - 30/11/1880 – Age 13 – Driver. Wollaton, Wollaton Colliery Co., Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. Travelling up a self-acting incline whilst the tubs were running, and struck by the loaded train.

BEYNON David - 1882 - 04/04/1882 – Age 37 – Collier. Tynybedw, Thomas and Griffiths, Pentre, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

BEZER Henry - 1887 - 04/05/1887 – Age 26 - Truck loader. Sandwell Park, Sandwell Park Colliery Co., West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Crushed dead between full and empty trucks at the points of a railway siding.

BIBBY John (injured) - 1885 - 05/03/1885 – Age 14 – Rolleyhooker. Ellerbeck, Ellerbeck Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Injured by a scale of top coal about 2 or 3 inches thick and 3 to 4 feet square falling on them from a parting or break. It occurred near the shaft. 2 injured.

BICKERSTAFF David (non-fatal) - 1889 - 16/05/1889 - Pony driver. Haugh No.1, William Baird and Co., Kilsyth, Ayrshire. Fell and pony drew the hutch on him.

BICKERSTAFF John (injured) - 1883 - 07/11/1883. Moorfield, Altham Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Explosion of gas 68 killed.

BICKERSTAFF William - 1885 - 20/10/1885 – Age 54 – Miner. Great Harwood, Great Harwood Colliery Co., Lancashire. Fatal fall in very steep engine brow (dip 3 in 4). He seems to have pushed his tub into it thinking that the carriage on which the tubs are drawn was standing at his level and to have fallen with it. A fence at each level has been recommended for the future.

BICKERTON A - 1881 - 07/02/1881 – Manager. Whitfield, Chatterley Co., Tunstall, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp. 25 killed.

BIDDULPH Samuel - 1881 - 03/05/1881 – Horseman. Lillydale, Enoch Perrins, Bucknall, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp and interruption of water. 8 killed.

BIDDULPH T. - 1885 - 05/12/1885 – Age 33 – Collier. Mitchel Main, Mitchel Main Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of coal.

BIDDULPH W. (injured) - 1883 - 15/06/1883 – Age 24 – Waggoner. Gibfield Arley, Fletcher Burrows and Co., Lancashire. Gig prop dragged out.

BIGGERSTAFF John (non-fatal) - 1888 – 28/02/1888 – Reddsman. Barrwood No.2, William Baird and Co., Kilsyth, Stirling. Explosion of firedamp.

BIGGERSTAFF William - 1885 - 11/05/1885 – Age 44 – Sinker. Nitshill (ironstone or fireclay), Eglington Iron Co., Nitshill Lanarkshire. While engaged in sinking a plank fell on him from the surface a depth of 17 fathoms.

BILL George - 1883 - 28/09/1883 – Age 25 – Blower. Goscote, John Strakey, Pelsall, Staffordshire. He exploded l lb. of gunpowder with his candle when charging a shot. Injured 21st Sept.

BILLINGTON Thomas - 1888 - 31/07/1888 – Age 43 – Quarryman. Lawn’s Delf (metalliferous), John Laithwaite, Upholland, Lancashire. Inspection made. The men were holing under the stone a length of 12 feet to a slip at either side and had got
about 6 feet wide when it fell to another slip at the back. They were not using a sprag or nan as they should have done. 2 killed.

BIMPSON W.M. (injured) - 1884 - 28/07/1884 – Age 15 - Pony driver. Gib Field, Arley No.2, Fletcher, Burrows and Co., Lancashire. Leg broken, his pony in turning drew out an iron bar.

BINKS T. - 1889 - 15/04/1889 – Age 38 – Collier. Nunnery, Nunnery Coal Co., Sheffield, Yorkshire. Run over by corves.

BINNEY George - 1888 - 20/01/1888 – Age 16 - Set rider. Boldon, Harton Coal Co., Boldon, Co. Durham. Set got off the way and drew timber causing a fall of stone which crushed deceased.

BINNS James - 1882 - 10/02/1882 – Age 24 – Putter. Silksworth, Marquess of Londonderry, Sunderland, Co. Durham. Head crushed between a plank and tub top.

BIRCH Edward - 1880 – 07/05/1880 – Age 23 – Hewer. West Shield Row, R Dickinson and Co., Shield Row, Northumberland. Crushed by cage in shaft.

BIRCH Isaac - 1884 – 22/02/1884 – Age 62 – Byeworker. East Gawber, R Craik and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Run over by corves.

BIRCH James (injured) - 1880 – 14/06/1880 – Age 21 – Miner. Hagside, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Radcliffe, Lancashire. Gas suddenly appeared for the first time when they were using candles building pack wall. 4 injured.

BIRCH Richard (injured) - 1889 - 20/09/1889 – Age 62 – Coker. Bank Hall Coke Ovens, Executors of Col. Hargreaves, Lancashire. Injured and burned the travelling coal hopper which runs on rails, having come against him as he was
plastering the crevices at one of the covers of one of the coke ovens. Inspection and inquest attended.

BIRCH Thomas - 1885 - 21/02/1885 – Age 19 – Shackler. Llwynpia, Glamorgan Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fell under tram.

BIRCHALL Alfred - 1888 - 01/06/1888 – Age 18 – Drawer. Nook, Crumbuke Astley & Tyldesley Coal & Salt Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal fall of roof between two unseen slips falling over the capping of a prop as he was filling coal in his working place.

BIRCHALL John - 1886 - 25/01/1886 – Age 38 – Collier. Pewfall No.2, Richard and Evans Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. This man was getting a pillar of coal and three of his props got capped and he appears to have gone on working without resetting them although told by the fireman to do so when the roof fell on him.

BIRCHALL Mary - 1886 - 09/07/1886 – Age 39 – Pit Brow Woman. Queen, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The waggon lowerer was lowering the waggon down to the next screen when deceased who was in the waggon was crushed against the screen shoot. The deceased told the man to lower the waggon but she must have been taken by surprise as she could easily have slipped on one side of the shoot. Female.

BIRCHALL Thomas - 1884 - 22/08/1884 – Age 29 – Collier. Llanhilleth, H Powell, Monmouth. His stall dipped outwards for about 20 yards and the custom was to take the trams down with three sprags in the man shoving behind. On the day in question he took out all but one, and went in front of the tram to steady it, but was overpowered, lost his light, and was killed.

BIRCHBANK John - 1881 - 07/02/1881 – Manager. Whitfield, Chatterley Co., Tunstall, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp. 25 killed.

BIRCHELL J. - 1883 - 29/01/1883 – Age 42 – Foreman. Talk o’th Hill New, North Stafford Coal and Iron Co., Stoke, Staffordshire. Fall of stone.

BIRCHELL Stephen - 1885 - 21/05/1885 – Age 26 – Collier. Risca, London and South Wales Coal Co. Ltd., Risca, Monmouthshire. Injured by a fall of coal and died on the 23rd. He was holing under the coal when he pricked a back slip and a lump of coal rolled over on to him.

BIRD George - 1886 - 06/12/1886 – Age 49 – Miner. Eston (ironstone), Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Middleborough, Yorkshire. Fall of stone while baring down a piece loosened by a shot it fell unexpectedly.

BIRD Henry (injured) - 1886 - 15/04/1886 – Age 28 – Miner. Gibfield, Arley Fletcher Burrows and Co., Lancashire. Leg broken. A piece of holing dirt between the coal and the roof flirted off unexpectedly and caught him. Accidental.

BIRD J. (injured) - 1883 - 12/06/1883 – Age 15 - Hooker-on. Marland’s, JW and R Marland and Co., Lancashire.

BIRD James - 1886 - 01/07/1886 – Age 34 – Contractor. Cronberry No.4, Eglinton Iron Co., Muirkirk, Ayrshire. By cage coming down on him while working below it.

BIRD John - 1887 - 11/05/1887 – Age 27 – Miner. Oakbank (shale), Oakbank Oil Co. Ltd., West Calder, Edinburgh. Fall of roof at face.

BIRD Thomas (injured) - 1888 - 02/10/1888 – Age 55 – Dayman. Bower Great James, William and Robert, Marland, Lancashire. Leg broken by shale from the side which was stuck by a prop in repairing.

BIRD Thomas - 1888 - 06/10/1888 – Age 48 – Stallman. Amington, Glascote Colliery Co., Tamworth, Staffordshire. Fall of roof while building a stall pack.

BIRDS Joseph - 1889 - 04/04/1889 – Age 27 – Miner. Mogshaw (metalliferous), Mogshaw Mining Co., Blackwell, Derbyshire. Fall of roof driving a roadway through old workings.

BIRKBECK Joseph - 1880 - 08/09/1880 – Age 64 – Shifter. Seaham, Marquess of Londonderry, Sunderland, Co. Durham. Explosion of gas 164 killed.

BIRKBECK Joseph - 1889 - 16/04/1889 – Age 35 – Hewer. Auckland Park, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Auckland, Co. Durham. Killed by fall of top coal while working under it without having put in sprags.
BIRKENSHAW A. - 1886 - 11/11/1886 – Age 14. Park Hill, Victoria Coal and Coke Co., Wakefield, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BIRKENSHAW J. - 1887 - 10/06/1887 – Age 26 – Dataller. Woolley, Woolley Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BIRKETT William - 1883 - 28/11/1883 – Age 50 – Hewer. Ryhope, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Co. Durham. Severe internal strain in the pit while filling a tub, and there died.

BIRKIN John - 1881 - 13/05/1881 – Age 37 – Stallman. High Park, Barber Walker and Co., Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof while building a gate end pack.

BIRKIN Thomas - 1882 – 07/11/1882 – Age 38 – Stallman. Clay Cross No.7, Clay Cross Iron and Coal Co., Clay Cross, Derbyshire. Explosion of gas 48 killed.

BIRMINGHAM Edward (injured) - 1885 – 06/10/1885 – Age 25 – Miner. Linnyshaw, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Jaw broken by a fall of coal which fell from a slip in the roof in his working place. Insufficient propping.

BIRMINGHAM John - 1886 – 15/01/1886 – Age 23 – Gang rider. Deep, St. Helens Collieries Co. Ltd., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was a gang rider on a down brow and rode on the chain in front of the tubs. Whilst coming up some of the tubs got off the road and he was jerked off and the tubs caught him. Died 27th April.

BIRMINGHAM John - 1889 - 11/11/1889 – Age 50 – Waggon shifter. Bredisholm No.1, Provanhall Coal Co., Uddingston, Lanarkshire. While spragging waggons he was thrown in front of wheels and was run over.

BIRT James - 1889 - 10/09/1889 – Age 50 – Collier. St. Vincent, E Wanklyn and Co., Coleford, Forest of Dean. Fall of rock roof about 6 yards in length, three and half wide in the centre and less at the ends feather-edged, two and a half feet thick at the side away from the coal. It dropped from a smooth or slip as well as an upright joint.

BIRT Richard (injured) - 1888 - 17/03/1888 – Age 30 – Miner. Atherton Arley, Fletcher Burrows & Co., Lancashire. Eye destroyed by a piece of steel flying from the head of a wedge which he was striking when wedging coal.

BIRTLEY Joseph - 1889 - 17/09/1889 – Age 7 - School boy. Eppleton, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Fence Houses, Co. Durham. Run over by waggons while taking his father's dinner to the works. Not comprised under the Act.

BIRTLEY Robert - 1885 - 22/05/1885 – Age 32 – Deputy. Alexandrina, Marquess of Londonderry, Fence Houses, Co. Durham. Fall of stone while drawing timber out of a jud.

BIRTWISTLE William (injured) - 1886 - 20/10/1886 – Age 56 – Miner. Crompton Fold Breightmet Colliery Co., Frank Hardcastle, Lancashire. Two fingers crushed by a stone falling from the roof.

BISHOP Henry - 1881 - 02/12/1881 – Age 25 – Hewer. Bowthorn, Whitehaven Haematite Iron and Steel Co., Whitehaven, Cumberland. Fall of fireclay band.

BISHOP John - 1884 - 28/08/1884 – Age 24 – Collier. National, National Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Cymmer, Glamorgan. Fall of stone.

BISHOP William (non-fatal) - 1889 - 02/08/1889 – Age 24 – Drawer. Bathville, James Wood, Linlithgow. Thumb crushed by tub. 61 days off.

BISHOP William - 1884 - 21/06/1884 – Age 49 – Metalman. Hafod-y-Bwch, Ruabon Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Ruabon, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was engaged in widening a road, and was taking the bottom
part of the side off when a piece of the overhanging top stone fell upon him. He appeared to have neglected to set sufficient timber.

BISSELL J. - 1887 – 30/06/1887 – Age 26 – Collier. Rockingham, Newton Chambers and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Crushed by corf.

BISSET David - 1883 – 02/03/1883 – Age 14 – Engine keeper. Broxburn (shale), Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Uphall, Linlithgow. Crushed by gearing of pump, which he was oiling while in motion.

BITHALL J. - 1885 – 08/04/1885 – Fireman. Great Fenton, Staffordshire Coal and Iron Co., Stoke, Staffordshire. Killed by an explosion. 8 killed.

BITHELL John - 1883 – 09/07/1883 – Age 42 – Dataler. California, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Was in the act of drawing a prop when a stone fell on him. He was not seriously injured, but he left the house too soon and caught cold, the result being that erysipelas set in, causing his death 25th July.

BITTON John - 1889 – 09/04/1889 – Age 23 – Carter. Huish, Writhlington & Huish & Foxcote Collieries Co., Radstock, Somerset. When letting a tub down an incline a hook at the end of a chain, which he had attached to his waist for pulling
with, caught in the bridle chains of the tub which dragged him with it halfway down the incline he was crushed by the ascending tub. This method of drawing tubs by girdle chains is now rare but is still in vogue in the Somerset collieries. It
is 'a barbarous system,’ but the difficulty is how to alter it under existing circumstances.

BLACK Adam - 1882 - 18/10/1882 – Age 18 – Screener. Eppleton, Hetton Coal Co., Fence Houses, Co. Durham. Run over by full waggon under screens. Died on 26th.

BLACK Alexander - 1889 – 13/08/1889 – Age 12 – Miner. Whitehall, Archibald Hood, Edinburgh. By tub.

BLACK Henry - 1880 - 18/03/1880 – Age 55 – Miner. Broxburn (shale), Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Uphall, Linlithgow. Fall of shale while holing, Stooping.

BLACK James (non-fatal) - 1886 – 13/05/1886 – Miner. Cadder No.14, Carron Co., Bishopbriggs, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof.

BLACK James - 1882 – 20/05/1882 – Age 23 – Brusher. Haughhead, John Macdonald, Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at face of brushing long wall. Died 2nd June.

BLACK John (non-fatal) - 1885 - 04/03/1885 – Miner. Cadder No.14, Carron Iron Co., Bishopbriggs, Lanarkshire. Fall of stone at face while holing.

BLACK John - 1881 - 24/03/1881 – Age 50 – Brusher. Brownieside No.1, William Black and Sons, New Monkland, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at face of brushing while putting in a building long wall.

BLACK John - 1887 - 21/06/1887 - Loco. Driver. West Longrigg, James Gemmell, New Monkland, Lanarkshire. Loco left rails and waggons jammed him.

BLACK John - 1887 - 29/04/1887 – Age 57 – Plasterer. Alloa, Alloa Coal Co., Gartmorn, Clackmannan. Crushed by bell crank while repairing engine seat.

BLACK Ralph - 1889 - 20/12/1889 – Age 42 – Engineman. Ingoe, John Russell, Ingoe, Northumberland. Fell under pumping beam while engine in motion.

BLACK Robert - 1889 - 18/04/1889 – Age 44 – Miner. Eglinton No.10, A Kenneth and Sons, Kilwinning, Ayrshire. He ignited the powder in a squib instead of the match and the shot killed him.

BLACK Samuel - 1885 - 16/05/1885 – Age 29 – Sinker. Ashington, Ashington Coal Co., Ashington, Northumberland. Stone fell from side of sinking shaft.

BLACKBURN Alexander - 1886 - 25/08/1886 – Age 59 – Collier. Bredisholm, Provenhall Coal Co., Bothwell, Lanarkshire. Explosion of gas at face, stoop and room.

BLACKBURN G. - 1886 - 30/11/1886 – Age 37 – Hurrier. South Kirkby, South Kirkby Coal Co., Pontefract, Yorkshire. Crushed by corves. Died 8th Dec.

BLACKBURN George - 1884 - 05/01/1884 – Age 47 – Pitman. Original, Messrs Hankey, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Breaking of rope. 2 killed.

BLACKBURN James - 1883 - 15/01/1883 – Age 14 - Coal cleaner. Garesfield, Marquis of Bute, Garesfield, Co. Durham. Run over by waggons on surface.

BLACKBURN John (injured) - 1881 - 10/10/1881 – Age 30 – Shaftman. North Wales Copper (metalliferous), Conway. A few stones fell from kibble and struck them. 4 days off. 2 hurt.

BLACKBURN John - 1883 - 22/01/1883 – Age 34 – Hewer. Usworth, J Bowes and Partners, Usworth, Co. Durham. Crushed by water tub.

BLACKBURN Joseph - 1886 - 02/04/1886 – Age 59 – Deputy. Brancepeth, Strakers and Love, Willington, Co. Durham. Fall of a large stone which broke over the props while he was drawing a jud.

BLACKBURN Robert - 1886 - 14/10/1886 – Age 23 – Driver. Normanby (ironstone), Cargo Fleet Iron Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough Yorkshire. While driving a set of tubs inbye the first one got off the way drawing out some timber which caused a fall of stone.

BLACKBURN Thomas - 1883 - 07/11/1883 – Age 38. Moorfield, Altham Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Explosion of gas, 68 killed.

BLACKETT George - 1885 - 08/09/1885 – Age 21 – Hewer. Pelton, Lord Dunsany and Partners, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham. Fall of stone in a loose end jud which he had just holed.

BLACKHURST Richard Arthur - 1889 - 22/11/1889 – Age 21 - Loco. Stoker. Park (metalliferous), Barrow Haematite Steel Co., Park, Lancashire. Run over by waggons on railway sidings. He slipped off buffer in front of a waggon and was run over.

BLACKIE William - 1888 - 27/06/1888 – Age 12 - Collier’s boy. Rose Heyworth, South Wales Coal Co. Ltd., Abertillery, Monmouth. Fall of coal at the face of his working place from slips which the collier alleges could not be seen previously.

BLACKLEDGE Joseph (injured) - 1888 - 16/03/1888 – Age 60 – Miner. Duxbury Park, Duxbury Park Colliery Co., Lancashire. Ribs broken by stone which he had been ordered to prop falling out of a pothole close to the face.

BLACKLEY Duncan (non-fatal) - 1889 - 28/01/1889 – Age 43 – Miner. Hallcraig, Coltness Iron Co Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fell down staple due to breaking of windlass rope. 2 injured. 196 days off.

BLACKMAN S. - 1887 - 15/07/1887 – Age 45 – Collier. Monk Bretton, Monk Bretton Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BLACKWELL Charles - 1887 - 31/12/1887 – Age 19 – Collier. Henllys, Patent Nut and Bolt Co. Ltd., Cwmbran, Monmouth. Fall of coal from the face due to neglect in spragging.

BLACKWELL James - 1887 - 03/01/1887 – Age 55 – Collier. Cinder, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Blaina, Monmouth. Run over by trams on engine plane. He was sitting on the side of the road having his breakfast. The man in charge of the journey told him to sit still and called to him again when he knocked the journey away but he got up and was run over. There was three feet clear where he was sitting.

BLACKWELL John - 1886 – 09/12/1886 – Age 32 – Collier. Pleasley, Stanton Iron Co., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Fall of coals.

BLACKWOOD Hugh (non-fatal) - 1889 – 05/07/1889 – Miner. Knockterra No.1, Eglington Iron Co., Cumnock, Ayrshire. Fall of roof.