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IBBESON T. - 1886 - 02/10/1886 – Age 15 - Asst. plumber. Silkstone, Normanton, Yorkshire. Explosion of coal dust. 20 were killed at once, one died 4th Oct and one on the 31st Oct. 22 killed.

IDLE B. - 1889 - 13/06/1889 – Weighman. Foxholes, W Wood and Sons, Leeds, Yorkshire. Fell off pit bank steps.

IDLE J. - 1886 - 26/11/1886 – Age 36 – Collier. Prince of Wales, John Rhodes, Pontefract, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

ILINGWORTH J. - 1882 - 21/12/1882 – Age 52 – Labourer. Stanley, R Hudson and Co., Wakefield, Yorkshire. Crushed and fell from cage in hoist on surface.

ILLINGWORTH C. - 1889 - 23/03/1889 – Age 64 – Byeworker. Swaithe Main, Edmunds and Swaithe Main Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Run over by corves. Died 24th Mar.

ILLINGWORTH R. - 1889 - 09/05/1889 – Collier. Foxholes, W Wood and Sons, Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Died 25th May.

ILLSLEY Henry - 1880 - 22/01/1890 – Age 14 – Driver. Annesley, Annesley Colliery Co., Annesley, Nottinghamshire. Run over by loaded tubs riding on the horses limmers.

IMMERY John - 1882 - 25/08/1882 – Age 24 – Miner. Broxburn Hayscraig (shale), Broxburn Oil Co Ltd., Uphall, Linlithgow. Explosion of firedamp. Danks and Neil, without thought, went with naked lights into a place which they knew was unventilated. They all lived more than a week after the accident and could explain how it happened. 4 killed.

INCE James - 1889 - 22/04/1889 – Age 25 - Gang rider. Ellerbeck Yard, Ellerbeck Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal from injury received riding up the engine brow with full tubs died at home. Inspection and inquest.

INCE T. (injured) - 1883 - 06/12/1883 – Miner. Duxbury Park, Duxbury Park Colliery Co., Lancashire. Tub unhooked on brow.

INGHAM Laurence - 1885 - 21/11/1885 – Age 20 – Miner. Towneley, Brooks & Pickup, Lancashire. Fatal. Having just completed knocking out props in part of his place which was finished in the Arley Mine a large stone dropped out from between two slips in the roof and caught him. He had only just relieved his comrade, an experienced miner, who was within a few yards of him at the time.

INGHAM S. - 1884 - 17/12/1884 – Age 40 – Collier. Clifton, Low Moor Iron Co., Bradford, Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Died 11th Feb 1885.

INGHAM T. (injured) - 1883 - 22/03/1883 – Age 19 - Bank rider. Botany Bay, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co., Lancashire. Crushed against roof.

INGLEBY John - 1885 - 18/03/1885 – Age 48 – Shifter. Usworth, John Bowes and Partners, Usworth, Co. Durham. Explosion in Maudlin Seam. 42 killed.

INGLEBY William - 1889 - 21/05/1889 – Age 61 – Shifter. Haswell, Haswell Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Co. Durham. Fall of large stone from the roof while he was engaged building a pillar.

INGLIS James (non-fatal) - 1889 - 20/09/1889 – Age 17 – Drawer. Broxburn, Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Struck by crane handle. 53 days off.

INGLIS James - 1883 - 10/11/1883 – Age 68. Reddsman Hill, McLean Dalzell and Co., Dalserf, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof while putting a hole through a stoop on an old road newly repaired.

INGLIS James - 1885 - 26/05/1885 – Age 33 – Collier. Cowdenbeath, Cowdenbeath Coal Co., Beath, Fife. Fall of side while filling coal, long wall.

INGLIS Robert (non-fatal) - 1887 - 30/09/1887 – Collier. Gauchalland No.2, Gauchalland Coal Co., Galston, Ayrshire. Fall of coal.

INGRAM Richard - 1885 - 25/09/1885 – Age 38 – Labourer. Maindy, D Davis and Co., Treorky, Glamorgan. Fall of roof. 2 killed.

INGRAM W. - 1880 - 15/04/1880 – Age 54 – Pikeman. Alston, R Mason and Sons, Oldbury, Worcester. Smothered by rush of fallen shutt, filling the bolt hole of a thick coal rib and pillar pit.

INGRAM W.H. (injured) - 1880 - 01/11/1880 – Age 21 – Miner. Towneley, Brooks and Pickup, Burnley, Lancashire. Skull fractured. Drawing props.

INGRHAM E. - 1886 - 08/06/1886 – Driver. Howley Park, Howley Park Coal Co., Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Run over by corves.

INIMIS William (injured) - 1886 - 24/11/1886 – Age 35 – Miner. Bower, William and Robert Mailland. Lancashire. Leg broken by tubs, in the engine brow. He slipped from the side as the train was passing. There was a manhole five yards off.

INMAN John - 1887 - 15/03/1887 – Age 29 – Miner. Burton Nook, Denton Colliery Co., Lancashire. Fatal fall of coal from a back at the face of a strait or narrow place he having apparently recommenced holing after the sprag was taken out.

INNES Alexander - 1884 - 16/06/1884 – Age 28 – Miner. Pumpherston (shale), Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd., Uphall, Linlithgow. Explosion of shot which was thought to have misfired.

INNES John - 1887 - 27/01/1887 – Age 19 – Carberry, Deans and Moore, Inveresk, Edinburgh. Crushed by pump rods.

INSTONE Thomas - 1889 - 09/10/1889 – Age 65 – Collier. Madely Court, Madely Court Co., Madely, Shropshire. Fall of coal whilst holing.

IONS John - 1881 - 17/03/1881 – Age 19 – Hewer. Townley, Stella Addison, Stella Coal Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland. Fall of stone and coal.

IREDALE Joseph - 1888 - 19/04/1888 – Age 44 – Shiftman. St. Helens, St. Helens Colliery and Brick Co., St. Helens, Cumberland. Explosion of gas. 35 killed.

IRVINE James - 1881 - 30/09/1881 – Age 18 – Furnaceman. Barrwood No.2, W Baird and Co., Kilsyth, Ayrshire. Got entangled with machinery.

IRVINE James - 1889 – 05/09/1889 – Age 32 – Miner. Pencuick, Shotts Iron Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Suffocation by smoke. 63 killed.

IRVINE John (non-fatal) - 1884 – 01/12/1884 – Chainman. Ballochmyle, W Walker, Auchinleck, Ayrshire. Run over by race of loaded hutches.

IRVINE William (non-fatal) - 1885 - 18/09/1885 – Collier. Haugh No.1, William Baird and Co., Kilsyth, Stirling. Injured on the dook by a hutch getting off the rails.

IRVINE William (non-fatal) - 1889 – 06/09/1889 – Waggon trimmer. Southook No.1, Merry and Cunninghame, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Fell off a waggon of coal while trimming it.

IRWIN W. - 1885 - 13/11/1885 – Age 68 – Labourer. Houghton Main, Houghton Main Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Run over by waggons.

ISAAC Abraham - 1880 - 15/08/1880 – Age 41 – Engineman. Deep Duffryn, Nixon Taylor and Cory, Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Crushed by winding engine.

ISAAC David - 1887 - 30/03/1887 – Age 37 – Repairer. Cymmer, G Insole and Son, Porth, Glamorgan. Fall of roof while re-timbering a road.

ISAAC David W. - 1886 - 30/04/1886 – Age 13 - Collier boy. Park, Aberdare Works and Collieries Ltd., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of stone.

ISAAC George - 1884 - 19/12/1884 – Age 29 – Sinker. Transatlantic, Transatlantic Colliery Co., Bridgend, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 3 killed.

ISAAC Henry - 1880 - 10/12/1880 – Age 32. Naval Steam, Naval Steam Co., Penycraig, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 101 killed.

ISAAC Henry - 1885 - 23/12/1885 – Age 21 – Haulier. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Steam Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 81 killed.

ISAAC Thomas - 1880 - 10/12/1880 – Age 28. Naval Steam, Naval Steam Co., Penycraig, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas 101 killed.

ISAACS James - 1881 - 09/02/1881 – Age 27 – Hewer. Cramlington, Amelia WA Potter and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland. Fall of stone.

ISHAMAEL William (injured) - 1889 - 08/10/1889 – Age 35 – Miner. Lisburne (metalliferous). They were working in some overhand stopes when the top of an adjacent pass (mill) collapsed causing the stuff upon which they were standing to run. They were carried down and entangled with the stuff receiving severe bruising and some flesh wounds. The pass was one which they themselves had built with large stones. 2 injured. Four and half weeks off.

ISHERWOOD Fergus - 1886 - 16/09/1886 – Age 39 – Collier. California, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquest attended. Deceased was ribbing a pillar when a stone fell upon him. According to the evidence of the other men the place was well timbered.

ISHERWOOD Robert (injured) - 1889 - 21/07/1889 – Age 35 – Sinker. Alkrington No.2, Sinking Chamber Colliery Co., Lancashire. Injured by falling 10 yards from a scaffold which he was cleaning. Inquiry.

ISHERWWOD William (injured) - 1886 - 19/04/1886 – Age 39 – Miner. Linnyshaw Brassy, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Fatal fall of roof after taking down clod in their working place and before they had been able to reset props. They had just before examined and considered it safe. 1 killed 1 injured.

ISHMAEL David (injured) - 1883 - 11/12/1883 – Age 38 – Miner. Lisburne (metalliferous). He was at the surface with his comrade getting down timber to the mouth of the adit level when a piece of timber sent rolling down the hillside by his comrade struck him on the breast. Still unable to work March 1884.

ISON Arthur - 1884 - 11/11/1884 – Age 16 – Onsetter. Glapwell, Sheepbridge Iron and Coal Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Engineman supposed to have gone on without signal he was pushing water tub onto cage.

ISON Thomas - 1887 - 06/06/1887 – Age 62 – Dataler. Glapwell, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Taking out timber to repair a roadway a bar struck him and killed him instantly.

ISONS James - 1889 - 01/04/1889 – Age 13 – Hewer. Burradon, NG Lambert and Co., Burradon, Northumberland. Fall of coal and roof.

IVEY James - 1882 - 15/07/1882 – Age 17 - Asst. pitman. Gawton (metalliferous), Gawton Mining Co., Gawton, Tavistock, Devon Was working with his father in the engine shaft at the 100-fathom level, and went up to the 70 fathoms level to get a dag or hatchet. As he was absent longer than necessary, one of the miners went in search for him and found him dead on the cistern at the 95 fathoms level, the dag being found at the 80 fathoms level. In coming down he, by some means, missed his hold and fell away.

IVILLE Levi (injured) - 1885 - 08/08/1885 – Sinker. Rocher Hill, Rocher Colliery Co., Lancashire. Head cut by a small stone which fell about 5 yards from below a seam of coal which they had passed through in the sinking pit.

IVINS Robert - 1880 - 25/09/1880 – Age 15 – Haulier. Penrhiwfer, Glamorgan Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Falling under loaded tram.

IZATT Andrew - 1881 - 10/05/1881 – Age 24 – Collier. Govan No.6, WS Dixon, Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

IZATT Archibald - 1880 - 02/07/1880 – Contractor. Muiredge No.1, Bowman and Co., Leven, Fife. While riding on hutches he attempted to jump off at a level and was jammed.