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BABB Thomas (injured) - 1894 - 06/04/1894 – Age 33 – Waggonman. Shelton, Rowhurst Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Hanley, Stafford. Crushed between wall and truck. Too little room where it was necessary to use the brake.

BABBS John Thomas - 1896 - 04/06/1896 – Age 33 – Stallman. Clay Cross No.5, Clay Cross Coal and Iron Co., Clay Cross, Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was knocking a prop out with a hammer, instead of using a ringer and chain, as provided by the rules. When the prop fell a large area of roof fell and killed him.

BADDELEY William - 1892 - 15/12/1892 – Age 47 – Stallman. Nuneaton, Stanley Bros., Nuneaton, Warwick. Taking out holing sprags for the purpose of getting coal down. The coal broke over the sprag and fatally injured him.

BADEN Henry - 1898 - 21/01/1898 – Age 48 – Labourer. Rolleston, Sand Pit quarry, Bishop and Pritchett, Wiltshire. When engaged with another labourer, lifting the plank which formed their barrow road from a trestle 9.5ft high, he slipped and the plank fell on him fractured the base of his skull.

BADLEY John - 1893 - 14/08/1893 – Age 54 – Pikeman. Horseley, WJ Hayward, Tipton, Stafford. Severely strained his arm when at work and gangrene supervening, he died 20th Aug.

BAGGLEY Henry - 1895 - 22/10/1895 – Age 27 – Collier. Apedale, Burley Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Apedale, Stafford. Fall of roof while drawing timber in his working place, 7 Feet seam.

BAGGS David - 1897 - 22/04/1897 – Age 38 – Dataller. Snibston No.2, South Leicestershire Colliery Co., Leicester. Fall of roof. A fall of side had occurred and liberated a bar which fell. Deceased and another man were sent to remove this fall and replace the bar when a large quantity of roof fell.

BAGLEY Alfred - 1897 - 31/07/1897 – Age 50 – Miner. Turner’s Yard, Broseley Tileries Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Fall of stone from face of holing in ancient gob over clod coal. Died 16th August 1897.

BAGNALL A.H. - 1899 - 15/04/1899 – Age 17 – Driver. East Cannock, East Cannock Colliery Co. Ltd., Stafford. Found lying dead on the road behind his horse and with a mark on his face which was smashed by a horse shoe.

BAGNALL George - 1897 - 05/05/1897 – Age 28 – Labourer. Clough Hall No.4, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Stafford. While tipping mortar over end of way he climbed on to fence rail, in order to clean the tub, and fell to ground. Died 8th May 1897.

BAILEY Arthur - 1897 - 18/01/1897-  Pumpengineman. Haunchwood Tunnel Pit, Sir Alfred Hickman, Warwick. Deceased died of "septic infection and exhaustion and it was suggested that he had been injured at the mine. No inquest was held, and the doctor did not attribute his death to any injury received while following his employment.

BAILEY Charles - 1894 - 16/04/1894 – Age 49 – Stallman. Cannock Old Coppice, Cannock Old Coppice Colliery Co., Walsall, Stafford. Fall of coal from face, from want of sprags, whilst holing.

BAILEY E. - 1893 - 15/11/1893 – Age 23 – Collier. Greaseborough, Greaseborough Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BAILEY Edward - 1899 - 13/06/1899 – Age 55 – Collier. Dukinfield Chapel, Dukinfield Collieries Ltd., Dukinfield, Cheshire. Fall of fireclay band from side of road near working face in Sod Mine. The fireman had instructed a dataller to set a post to prevent the band falling and to alter some other timber, three and a half hours before the accident. He left this post to the last and it was not set when the fall occurred. Died 17th June.

BAILEY George (injured) - 1894 - 11/04/1894 – Age 25 – Buttocker. Adderley Green, Stirrup and Pye, Longton, Stafford. Fall of coal from working face in Banbury Seam. Legs crushed.

BAILEY George 1896 - 14/09/1896 – Age 30 – Banksman. Podmore Hall, Minnie Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Stafford. While loading timber into cage he fell out of the cage and down the shaft.

BAILEY Henry - 1895 - 14/01/1895 – Age 38 – Crutter. Audley, W Rigby and Co., Audley, Stafford. Irruption of water from old working. 77 killed.

BAILEY J. - 1891 - 07/12/1891 – Age 35 – Sinker. Rotherham Main, J Brown and Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Hit by truck.

BAILEY John (injured) - 1890 - 09/06/1890 – Age 41 – Miner. Snailbeach (metalliferous). A fall had taken place unexpectedly from an arch of ground between the 372 and 402 yards levels knocking away part of the bunning or stull. When the men were clearing away the rock, that had come down, a stone fell and struck them fracturing some of Evan’s ribs. 2 injured, 8 weeks off.

BAILEY John (injured) - 1890 - 16/12/1890 – Age 28 – Miner. Ashton Moss 6 Foot, Ashton Moss Colliery Co., Audenshaw, Lancashire. Injured between tubs, another person bringing one too hastily into the shunt.

BAILEY John - 1891 - 16/04/1891 – Age 37 – Rolleywayman. Skelton Park, Bell Bros. Skelton R.S.O., Co. Durham. Died from rupture of a blood vessel while at his work.

BAILEY John - 1895 - 07/02/1895 – Age 32 – Collier. Pendlebury, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. In working place, knocked props out after getting all down thought loose a further piece about 2 cwt. fell caught deceased's leg, broke small bone. Mortification caused death on 14th May.

BAILEY John 1895 - 14/01/1895 – Age 21 – Crutter. Audley, W Rigby and Co., Audley, Stafford. Irruption of water from old working. 77 killed.

BAILEY John 1899 - 17/11/1899 – Age 30 – Brakesman. Moss, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was engaged in shunting operations and somehow fell under the wagons attached to the loco. There was a dense fog at the time and nobody appears to know how this accident occurred.

BAILEY Samuel (injured) - 1894 - 07/05/1894 – Age 30 – Collier. Clough Hall No. 18, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Kidsgrove, Stafford. Fall of coal from working face in Bullhurst Seam. Angle 35 degrees. Thigh broken.

BAILEY William - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 15 - Door boy. Llanerch, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Pontypool, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp at naked lights in the No. 4 heading, off Cooke's slope, about 8.30 a.m. after the men had been at work in their places two to two and a half hours. 176 killed.

BAILEY William - 1893 - 06/05/1893 – Age 53 – Labourer. Haunchwood, Sir A Hickman, Nuneaton, Warwick. Was knocked down by some trucks which were being shunted into the colliery sidings.

BAILEY William - 1894 - 06/07/1894 – Age 64 - Horse Fettler. Adderley Green, Stirrup and Pye, Longton, Stafford. Drowned in sump at bottom of shaft.

BAILEY William - 1899 - 19/12/1899 – Age 66 – Wasteman. Hartford, Scott Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased and his marrow were ridding stones and repairing in a return airway, when a large side waver fell upon then. The master wasteman had previously warned them about this particular stone and instructed them to set timber under it which they failed to do.

BAILLIE Alexander - 1898 - 09/02/1898 – Age 20 – Fireman. Longrigg, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanark. Deceased attempted to stop some waggons, which were moving too fast, by inserting a prop into the spokes of one of the wheels and the prop not getting sufficiently far into the wheel came round, and striking him, threw him under the moving train. There were plenty pointed sprags at hand.

BAILLIE Alexander - 1898 - 12/01/1898 – Age 20 – Fireman. Kinniel, Kinniel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. While pushing an empty waggon forward, to the screen, another moved forward, and deceased was crushed between them. The latter waggon was not trigged.

BAILLIE Andrew (non-fatal) - 1892 - 09/11/1892 – Age 15 – Drawer. Bridgeness, Bridgeness Coal Co., Linlithgow. Tubs collided 36 days off.

BAILLIE David (non-fatal) - 1890 - 03/02/1890 - Screen cleaner. Netherjohnstone No. 1, Lord Belhaven’s Trustee, Motherwell, Lanark. Caught by coal cleaning machinery.

BAILLIE George (non-fatal) 1892 - 05/10/1892 – Age 52 – Collier. Elgin, Thomas Spowart and Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of roof.

BAILLIE Henry (non-fatal) - 1891 - 09/04/1891 – Brusher. Braehead No. 6, Eglinton Iron Co., Cumnock, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at brushing face.

BAILLIE Thomas - 1896 26/07/1896 – Age 60 – Blacksmith. Brownyside, William Black and Sons Ltd., Lanark. A flat wire rope was being stitched and while deceased was engaged at it the iron gland, which held the bottom pension of the rope and cage suspended in the shaft, slipped and the rope fell down the shaft carrying deceased with it.

BAIN Agnes - 1898 - 28/05/1898 – Age 13 - Pithead worker. Kelty, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. While a boy was lowering a hoist cage, which had risen too far, a tub containing an iron pipe was pushed on to it and the cage fell away suddenly before the hutch was secured, the hutch fell off and struck the deceased girls who were sitting on a box near foot of hoist. 2 killed Female.

BAIN David - 1899 - 22/11/1899 – Age 19 – Miner. Whitehall, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was taking some coal off a longwall face when the sandstone roof suddenly fell in over an area 25 ft. by 4 ft. 6 ins. swinging out some props as it fell. A portion of it fell upon deceased fracturing his collarbone and suffocating him. A fellow workman narrowly escaped with his life.

BAIN Hugh (non-fatal) - 1890 - 30/01/1890 – Manager. Wellshot No. 1, David G Dunn, Cambuslang, Lanark. Injured by a shot blowing through from the bottom of a blind pit while they were in a drift below it. 2 injured.

BAIN John (non-fatal) - 1891 - 29/06/1891 – Age 30 – Contractor. Wellsgreen, Fife Coal Co., Fife. Fall of coal. 44 days off.

BAIN Lindsay (non-fatal) – 1890 – 20/02/1890 – Age 18 – Labourer. Rosebank, John Nimmo and Son, Fife. Fall of roof.

BAIN Thomas (non-fatal) – 1890 – 16/04/1890 – Age 40 – Sinker. Muiravonside, James Nimmo and Co., Stirling. Struck by falling in shaft. 60 days off.

BAIN William (non-fatal) – 1891 – 21/12/1891 – Age 16 – Brass Picker. Fairhill, Archibald Russell, Lanark. Injured by picking table. 24 days off.

BAINBRIDGE George Cuthbert – 1893 – 30/11/1893 – Age 23 – Hewer. Lutterington, Thomas Boddy, Auckland, Co. Durham. Severely crushed by fall of coal. Died on December 3rd.

BAINBRIDGE Joseph – 1899 – 10/11/1899 – Age 33 – Quarryman. Parson Byers Limestone quarry, Bell Bros. Ltd., Co. Durham. While lifting stone with a heavy bar he fell a distance of 40 feet on to a bench, 12 feet from the ground, and was so severely injured that he afterwards died.

BAINBRIDGE R. – 1895 – 05/03/1895 – Contractor. Wharncliffe Silkstone, Wharncliffe Silkstone Coal Co., Yorkshire. Full corves ran into empty corves. The shock broke the tail rope opposite where he was standing and the rope struck him on the head.

BAINBRIDGE Ralph – 1894 – 18/08/1894 – Age 28 – Hewer. Hutton Henry, Hutton Henry Coal Co. Ltd., Wingate, Co. Durham. While coming outbye on the main alley way a sudden fall of stone took place.

BAINBRIDGE Robert – 1899 – 19/05/1899 – Age 14 – Driver. Boldon, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co. Durham. Inquest attended. The deceased was riding on the limbers, driving a pony attached to two tubs, when the pony fell and threw the tubs off the road and deceased was crushed under the first tub.

BAINBRIDGE Thomas William – 1898 – 19/06/1898 – Age 16 – Labourer. East Hetton, East Hetton Co. Ltd., Co. Durham. He had been taking some food to his brother-in-law, who was employed at the colliery as a boiler minder, and when returning took a road, under which a coke oven flue passed, and when he was walking over it the fire collapsed he fell in and was burned to death.

BAINBRIDGE William – 1893 – 27/06/1893 – Age 73 – Pumpman. Wingate Grange, Owner of Wingate Grange Colliery, Wingate, Co. Durham. Alleged to have fallen off the kip and injured himself in May last.

BAINES Robert – 1890 – 17/11/1890 – Age 64 – Cartman. Lumley, Earl of Durham, Fence Houses, Co. Durham. While preparing to fill a cart, with coal, he fell and died immediately, supposed from heart decease. He had been about seven hours at work. Not comprised.

BAIRD George (non-fatal) – 1892 – 08/07/1892 – Miner. Caprington No. 40, WCS Cunninghame, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at working face.

BAIRD James (non-fatal) – 1890 – 14/05/1890 – Age 45 – Bottomer. Tranent, James Waldie and Sons, Haddington. Caught by cage 39 days off.

BAIRD James (non-fatal) – 1892 – 25/10/1892 – Fireman. Eddlewood, John Watson Ltd., Lanark. Explosion of gas, 3 injured.

BAIRD James (non-fatal) – 1894 11/01/1894 – Age 14 – Miner. Wilsontown, William Dixon Ltd., Lanark.

BAIRD John (non-fatal) – 1893 22/12/1893 – Age 33 – Roadsman. Manuelrigg, Manuelrigg Coal Co., Stirling. Fall of roof, 23 days off.

BAIRD John – 1894 – 17/11/1894 – Age 22 – Miner. Wilsontown, William Dixon Ltd., Lanark. Fall of stone.

BAIRD William – 1892 – 27/01/1892 – Age 24 – Miner. Herbertshire No. 3, Robertt Addie and Sons, Denny, Stirling. Fall of roof at working face.

BAKER Charles - 1892 - 01/09/1892 – Age 53 – Ostler. Gadlys, New Waynes Co. Ltd., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Caught by full journey, on engine plane, while attempting to drive a horse and tram out along the plane.

BAKER David - 1899 - 30/10/1899 – Age 14 - Collier boy. Pwllfaron, Morgan S Williams, Glamorgan. Crushed between a tram and a prop while assisting to lift the tram on to the road.

BAKER Elijah - 1893 - 14/11/1893 – Age 29 - Loco. Guard. Clough Hall, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Kidsgrove, Stafford. Run over by trucks white attempting to sprag a wheel with a piece of rail weighing 81 lbs.

BAKER Henry - 1896 - 05/11/1896 – Age 31 – Labourer. Ocean Deep Navigation, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road where a bad stone was being taken down by a repairer. Four feet seam.

BAKER Henry - 1899 - 02/01/1899 – Age 18 – Inclineman. Clay Cross No. 7, Clay Cross Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was assisting to set a prop, in a self acting incline where a small fall of roof had occurred, when a further fall of roof took place and killed the deceased. Another man was injured.

BAKER Job - 1891 - 19/12/1891 – Age 25 – Pikeman. Wednesbury Oak, Philip Williams and Sons, Tipton, Stafford. Fall of roof in Bottom Coal Seam which knocked out timber. Cause surrounding slips. 2 killed.

BAKER John - 1892 - 07/10/1892 – Age 19 – Collier. International, International Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Garw Valley, Glamorgan. Fall of roof about 9 ft x 6 ft said to have had five props below it.

BAKER Samuel - 1896 - 05/11/1896 – Age 53 – Miner. Dolcoath Tin (metalliferous), Dolcoath Mine Ltd., Cornwall. He was found dead in a ladder way, his head being cut and bruised. An autopsy, not having been made, the doctors could not agree as to whether death resulted from an accident or from heart disease. In deference to the verdict of the jury and the possibility of its being so I have treated it as an accident.

BAKER Thomas - 1892 - 26/08/1892 – Age 40 – Collier. Park Slip, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Tondu, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 112 killed.

BAKER Tom 1897 - 28/10/1897 – Age 36 - Master builder. Tame Valley Clay (quarry), George Skey and Co., Warwick. Deceased was building a chimney for the brickworks, which had reached a height of 70 feet. The tripod, which the rope worked, slipped and knocked deceased over the side and he fell to the ground.

BALDARY Peter - 1896 - 21/12/1896 – Age 29 - Dataller Park Lane, Garswood Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Inspection made. Deceased and another man were removing a fall of roof and whilst doing so the leg of a bar was accidentally knocked out and the roof overhead fell upon him before he could clear himself.

BALDWIN Alfred - 1896 - 05/04/1896 – Age 40 – Collier. Trafalgar, Trafalgar Colliery Co. Ltd., Gloucester. In firing a shot he lit the squib instead of the match, and was unable to get away before the shot went off.

BALDWIN Edgar - 1899 - 03/02/1899 – Age 24. Riber New, Tredegar Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When coupling railway waggons, which were being let down from the screens, he fell and one of the wheels passed over his leg rendering amputation necessary. He died under the operation.

BALDWIN James - 1892 - 09/02/1892 – Age 14 – Rolleyhooker. Moss, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. The deceased slipped on the running rope, top of a jig, and was crushed under the drum. He died March 1st.

BALDWIN Timothy - 1896 - 25/02/1896 – Age 62 – Tramp. Elliott Monmouth. He was fatally burned at the Elliott Colliery coke ovens having lain down too near the fire which ignited his clothes. Not comprised under the Act.

BALE Francis - 1896 - 11/01/1896 – Age 17 - Asst. timberman. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on a double parting while holding light to his father, a timberman who was cutting out timbers to enlarge road.

BALE Henry John - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 23 – Labourer. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion, 290 killed.

BALE John - 1890 - 23/08/1890 – Age 30 – Collier. Henwain, John Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Blaina, Monmouth. Fall of coal which he was holing. He had holed the coal with sprags, set these he knocked out and as the coal did not fall he, without resetting the sprags, resumed holing and within a very few minutes it dropped upon him and killed him. It seems a case of recklessness approaching to "suicide." It leads to the opinion that the officials have not regularly and strictly enforced the 22nd General Rule.

BALFOUR James (non-fatal) - 1894 - 22/01/1894 – Age 22 – Trimmer. Elphingstone, R and J Drurie, Haddington. Fell off ladder.

BALFOUR John - 1895 - 26/06/1895 – Age 28 – Miner. Thankerton No. 7, John McAndrew and Co., Lanark. Fall of coal.

BALFOUR William (non-fatal) - 1890 - 09/12/1890 – Age 54 – Miner. Bathville, James Wood, Linlithgow. Fall of coal. Not yet returned.

BALL Arthur - 1894 - 04/12/1894 – Age 13 – Collier. Abernant, Bargoed Coal Co. Ltd., Bargoed, Monmouth. His arm was crushed and fractured between trams which he was shoving up on a sliding near the door (at bottom of a heading), which it was his proper work to attend to. He was, it seems, a puny little fellow and died from shock.

BALL George - 1898 - 13/10/1898 – Age 21 - Coal trimmer. Cleynen Newport Abercarne, Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fatally crushed between two railway trucks which he was lowering from the screens.

BALL Harry - 1896 - 22/08/1896 – Age 3 – Child. Ellistown, Executors of JJ Ellis. Leicester. He was scalded by walking into a drain at the time when the colliery boilers were being blown off for cleaning purposes.

BALL Henry - 1895 - 31/12/1895 – Age 35 - Wagon lowerer. Taylor, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection and inquiry made. The deceased, with others, was lowering railway wagons under the screens. He was pushing at the buffers when another man lowered a wagon against him causing such injuries that he died the same day. He made a statement that he was informed that the man was about to bring the wagon down.

BALL James (injured) - 1890 - 18/07/1890 – Age 14 - Coal cleaner. Pit Bank, Ellerbeck Collieries Ltd., Coppull, Lancashire. Injured by falling about 8 feet from a stage where he was swinging round a post to escape.

BALL James 1894 - 20/07/1894 – Age 40 – Collier. Tawd Vale, Arley Tawd Vale Collieries Ltd., Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They had been getting down the ley stone in a long wall face and had knocked out the sprags and while clearing the dirt a piece of ley stone and coal fell striking the deceased against a chock which was about 4 feet from the coal face.

BALL John - 1898 - 23/06/1898 – Age 34 – Stallman. Pleasley, Stanton Iron Works Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was building a pack in the stall when a quantity of roof fell and killed him.

BALL Levi - 1890 - 01/07/1890 – Age 62 – Digby, Digby Colliery Co., Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. He was taken seriously ill whilst hurrying to the pit bottom. He was taken home and died during the night. No inquest held. Doctor certified that he died from ‘temporary cardiac syncope, due to heart disease.

BALL Noah - 1896 - 30/04/1896 – Age 37. Micklefield, Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 63 killed.

BALL Richard - 1895 - 04/09/1895 – Age 19 – Trammer. Ubberley. Chatterley Whitfield Collieries Ltd., Ubberley, Stafford. Fall of roof in waggoning level in 10 feet seam.

BALL Samuel - 1898 - 18/04/1898 – Age 35 – Loader. Madeley Court No. 7, Madeley Court Co., Shropshire. Fall of roof at long wall working face in coal clod. The coal had just been got down from under the stone, which fell, and was being removed to make room for a face post.

BALL Thomas - 1892 - 12/09/1892 – Age 28 – Collier. Parr, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Suffocated by firedamp. 3 killed.

BALL Thomas - 1894 - 10/09/1894 – Age 30 – Stallman. Glapwell, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was holing when the coal burst over the sprags and fell upon him. He died the same day.

BALL William (non-fatal) - 1891 - 04/03/1891 – Age 18 – Miner. Callington United (metalliferous), Callington United Mines Ltd., Callington, Cornwall. Fell 10 feet down a "pass," receiving injury to his shoulder and a cut on the chin.

BALL William 1890 - 03/09/1890 – Age 63 – Pikeman. Ettingshall (ironstone), John Bayliss, Deepfields, Stafford. Fall of ironstone ground when holing without sprags.

BALL William - 1898 - 13/09/1898 – Age 25 – Collier. Bispham Hall, Bispham Hall Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was working under a ley stone which they had attempted but failed to get down and when in act of filling a tub it gave way and fell upon him. He succumbed to injuries received the following day. The stone should have been propped under until they were able to get down.

BALLANTYNE Andrew (non-fatal) – 1893 – 19/09/1893 – Age 14 – Labourer. Grangemouth, Grangemouth Coal Co., Stirling. Foot crushed by waggon.

BALLANTYNE Daniel (non-fatal) – 1892 – 18/07/1892 – Chainman. Drumpeller Nos. 3 & 4, Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Co., Coatbridge, Lanark. Caught between hutch and the roof while riding on race.

BALLANTYNE William (non-fatal) – 1890 – 08/12/1890 – Age 35 – Miner. Allanshaw, Allanshaw Coal Co., Lanark. Fall of roof. 57 days off.

BALLING William C. – 1893 – 11/04/1893 – Age 21 – Collier. Great Western, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an underground fire. 63 killed.

BALLOCH David (non-fatal) – 1893 – 29/09/1893 – Age 55 – Sinker. Ingleston, Youngs Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Fell from kettle.

BALMFORTH W. – 1899 – 14/01/1899 – Age 29 – Carter. Upper Moor Quarry, Myers Murgatroyd and Myers, Yorkshire. Found dead in a quarry. Not at the time being worked. Not known how he got there.

BALSTONE Thomas – 1897 – 23/06/1897 – Age 19 – Labourer. Garrison Farm (quarry), Midland Brick Co., Warwick. Whilst filling clay into a tram he fell down in a fit with his face in the moist clay, and was suffocated.

BALWER Robert – 1899 – 13/02/1899 – Age 36 – Hewer. Bourn Moor, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co. Durham. He and another man were working in a skirting and kirved a jud. Deceased then started to make a hole in the coal to put a wedge in to get the coal down when it fell away at a slip causing such severe injuries he died shortly afterwards.

BAMBRIDGE James 1891 16/11/1891 – Age 52 – Hewer. Andrews House, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Durham, Co. Durham. Inquest attended. After holing into an old bord he neglected to set a prop as directed by the deputy and a stone fell on to him and killed him. 8.30 am.

BAMFORD A. – 1899 – 09/12/1899 – Age 47 – Byeworkman. Thrybergh Hall, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BAMFORD Thomas – 1892 – 27/04/1892 – Age 52 – Dataler. Grassmoor No. 3, Grassmoor Colliery Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased were engaged building a pack wall, at the gate-end, when a heavy fall of roof occurred and broke down the bars and other timber. 2 killed.

BAMFORTH Daniel – 1899 – 12/01/1899 – Age 40 – Collier. Dukinfield Astley, Dukinfield Collieries Ltd., Dukinfield, Cheshire. Fall of roof, near working face in Black Mine, while he was drawing timber to obtain stone for building a pack wall.

BAMFORTH T. – 1897 – 25/08/1897 – Age 27 – Shunter. Thrybergh Hall, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. Fell off shunting stick on which he was riding and thrown under the waggons which ran over him.

BANCHE William – 1892 – 14/12/1892 – Age 14 – Pony boy. Bamfurlong Cross, Tetley and Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Underground fire. 16 killed.

BANCROFT Aaron – 1893 – 28/07/1893 – Age 35 – Roadsman. West Hallam No. 4 Deep Soft Coal, West Hallam Colliery Co., Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Full tub broke away on self acting incline, due to improper coupling of the under chain. Had the chain been properly attached the accident would not have occurred.

BANISTER George – 1890 – 08/12/1890 – Age 28 – Sinker. Tillery Vivian Sinking, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Abertillery, Monmouth. Nine shots, with 2.5 lbs. of gelatine dynamite each having been fired by electricity about 5.30 a.m. this shift of men came on at 6 a.m. and filled the loosened stone up until 1 p.m. when while a steel point was being driven to get up a stone which had been shaken, one of the shots or part of one which had previously failed to go off exploded, 10 men being at the time in the pit bottom. It resulted in the death of three men and serious personal injury to four others.

BANKS Alexander (non-fatal) – 1892 – 28/09/1892 – Age 26 – Miner. Pumpherston, Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of shot 48 days off.

BANKS John – 1891 – 01/09/1891 – Age 47 – Brusher. Springhill No. 4, Archibald Finnie and Son, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at road head while knocking out props.

BANKS Jonathan – 1893 – 06/07/1893 – Age 38 – Collier. Stopes, Thomas Fletcher and Sons, Little Lever, Lancashire. Fall of coal from face not sufficient sprags, two set 3 feet 10 inches apart in a holed length of 17 feet 3 inches.

BANKS Robert (injured) – 1890 – 25/07/1890 – Age 55 – Miner. Hewlett No. 2, Arley Wigan Iron and Coal Co., Westhoughton, Lancashire. Leg broken by coal and dirt falling as he was sounding.

BANKS Thomas Rutherford – 1898 – 15/08/1898 – Age 19 – Putter. North Seaton, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inquest attended. Deceased was found by another putter lying dead in the middle of the way about 30 yards from the flat. He had been bringing out a full tub and had probably fallen between the limbers and the tub, the latter going over him. The pony was a quiet one and the road in go order.

BANKS William 1899 – 10/11/1899 – Age 38 – Oiler. Walkmill, Moresby Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The endless haulage rope broke, it is supposed that deceased, who was caught by the tubs, was either on the clutch-bogie or was walking besides the set.

BANNISTER E.P. – 1892 – 04/05/1892 – Age 24 – Electrician. Glass Houghton, TH Thorpe, Castleford, Yorkshire. By machinery.

BARBER Benjamin – 1894 – 03/01/1894 – Age 13 – Coupler. East Howle, Carlton Iron Co. Ltd., Ferry Hill, Co. Durham. Run over by set of tubs but it is not known how he became entangled with them.

BARBER D. – 1895 – 21/11/1895 – Age 54 – Collier. Newmarket, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. Explosion of gas, 2 killed. Died 23rd Nov.

BARBER George – 1891 – 31/08/1891 – Age 43 – Waggon repairer. Bryn Hall, EF and HH Crippin, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made. The deceased was repairing a brake and, in passing between two waggons to fetch his tools, was caught between the buffers and received injuries to his arm. He died the following day. 9.15 am.

BARBER W.H. – 1892 – 20/07/1892 – Age 44 – Dataler. Talk o’th’ Hill, Talk o’th’ Hill Colliery Co., Talk, Stafford. Crushed by fall in a jig while assisting to lift it on the rails.

BARBER William – 1892 – 09/01/1892 – Age 17 – Gripper. Brownhills, William Harrison, Brownhills, Stafford. Fell down before a train of tubs on endless rope and was run over.

BARCLAY Alexander – 1893 – 23/05/1893 – Age 48 – Pit bottomer. Dysart, Earl of Rosslyn, Fife. Coal fell down pit.

BARCLAY John (non-fatal) – 1891 – 09/05/1891 – Age 30 – Collier. Westcraigs, A and G Anderson, Lanark. Fall of roof.

BARCLAY Robert (non-fatal) – 1894 – 25/12/1894 – Age 28 – Miner. Donibristle, Donibristle Colliery Co., Fife. Fall of roof at face.

BARKER Alfred Royal – 1899 – 21/08/1899 – Age 26 – Blacksmith. Victoria Garesfield, Owners of Priestman collieries, Co. Durham Inspection made and inquest attended. A platelayers tram was being moved, by a locomotive, and the deceased in attempting to pass from the latter to the tram, while in motion, he fell and was run over by the engine.

BARKER Arthur (non-fatal) – 1891 – 05/09/1891 – Age 30 – Roadsman. Little Raith, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Crushed by tub. 56 days off.

BARKER Benjamin – 1896 – 08/09/1896 – Age 56 – Stallman. Grassmoor No. 4, Grassmoor Co. Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was cutting coal when a prop gave way and allowed the roof to fall on him. Died Sept. 18th.

BARKER C. – 1895 – 22/08/1895 – Age 14 – Scale picker. Sharlston, New Sharlston Coal Co., Yorkshire. Crushed between waggons.

BARKER G. – 1896 – 20/10/1896 – Age 16 – Hurrier. Sharlston, New Sharlston Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of side.

BARKER James – 1897 – 24/05/1897 – Age 60 – Collier. Crawford No. 1, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was wedging some coal down when a portion of it fell, knocking a prop out, which struck the deceased. He died from pleurisy accelerated by the accident on October 7th. 1897.

BARKER James H. (injured) – 1891 – 11/06/1891 – Age 16 – Pony driver. Stockfield, Chamber Colliery Co. Ltd., Chadderton, Lancashire. Thigh broken by his train as he was replacing the hook of his horse's drawing chain that had become unfastened. Inspection and inquiry.

BARKER John – 1891 – 29/01/1891 – Age 13 – Pumper. Meiros, Welsh Estate & Property Co. Ltd., Llantrissant, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (rock), 5 ft. x 3 ft. from 3 ft. to ins. thick on main heading.

BARKER Robert * 1895 – 28/06/1895 – Age 16. Crossgates (metalliferous), Askham and Millom Iron Co., Crossgates, Lancashire.

BARKER W. – 1897 – 20/03/1897 – Age 31 – Collier. Fence, Rothervale Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof. 2 killed.

BARKER William – 1895 – 07/01/1895 – Age 44 – Deputy. South Skelton (ironstone), Clay Lane Iron Co. Ltd., Skelton, North Yorkshire While preparing to set up some timber a fall took place.

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BARKER William – 1896 – 30/04/1896 – Age 40. Micklefield, Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp, 63 killed.

BARLOW Charles – 1897 – 02/09/1897 – Age 18 – Asst. Onsetter. Trimdon Grange, Walter Scott Ltd., Co. Durham. He was descending the shaft to his work and by some means, just as the cage was leaving the hempstead it stopped, and the cage chains lowered on to the top, he attempted to get out and while the cage doing so the cage dropped away and he was crushed between the cage shoe and point skeet and killed instantly.

BARLOW John – 1891 – 22/11/1891 – Age 52 – Miner. Spindlepoint, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Kersley, Lancashire. Died today from exhaustion accelerated by striking his back against a broken bar in the mine, Aug. 27th. which he did not report at the time. Inquest attended.

BARLOW Luke – 1891 – 30/07/1891 – Age 49 – Miner. Bridgewater No. 3, Bridgewater Trustees, Worsley, Lancashire. Died same day from injury, by roof falling from a level break in beginning a new bay. Inspection and inquest attended.

BARLOW Paul (injured) – 1894 – 20/06/1894 – Age 60 – Collier. Clough Hall No. 18, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Kidsgrove, Stafford. Injury to hip by fall of coal which knocked a sprag out at working face in Bullhurst Seam.

BARLOW Richard (injured) – 1890 – 08/07/1890 – Age 17 – Drawer. Chanters 5 Foot, Fletcher Burrows and Co., Atherton, Lancashire. Injured by tubs which became uncoupled in the engine brow and crushed them as they were getting into a manhole. 2 injured.

BARLOW W. – 1896 – 30/08/1896 – Age 45 – Screener. Hickleton Main, Hickleton Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Run over by waggons on sidings.

BARNARD George – 1897 – 11/12/1897 – Age 55 – Repairer. Crumpmeadow, Lydney & Crumpmeadow Collieries Co. Ltd., Gloucester. Fall of roof and side, from an unseen face joint which killed him instantly. He and another man were at the time engaged in repairing and enlarging a siding or pas-bye in the Churchway High Delf seam.

BARNARD William Robert – 1893 – 18/11/1893 – Age 25 – Waggonman. Lumley, Earl of Durham, Fence Houses, Co. Durham. While guiding some full waggons along a siding he fell and his leg was broken and afterwards amputated but he died a few hours after.

BARNES Alfred – 1899 – 28/08/1899 – Age 31 – Collier. Dean Lane, Bedminster Coal Co., Somerset. Fall of coal from the face in his working place in a steep pitching seam in consequence of insufficient spragging.

BARNES Edward (injured) – 1890 – 08/04/1890 – Age 39 – Miner. Croft Side Trencherbone, Darcey Lever Coal Co., Darcey Lever, Lancashire. Ankle broken by roof falling as he was cutting through to a former working.

BARNES James – 1899 – 07/10/1899 – Age 34 – Brow major. Dukinfield Astley, Dukinfield Collieries Ltd., Dukinfield, Cheshire. Knocked down by gang in engine brow. Died 14th October.

BARNES John – 1898 – 24/01/1898 – Age 53 – Dataller. Clough Foot, JG Dearden, Lancashire. Fall of roof in drawing road whilst repairing.

BARNES Joseph – 1894 – 15/02/1894 – Age 56 – Wasteman. Walker, Walker Coal Co., Walker, Northumberland. Inquest attended. Barnes was engaged drawing props in a return airway when some stone fell and broke his leg and he died some time after. The place appears to have been considered quite safe.

BARNES Leonard – 1891 – 05/06/1891 – Age 34 – Stallman. Holbrook, J and G Wells, Eckington, Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was engaged building a pack to support the roof when it fell upon him. 9.50 am.

BARNES Thomas – 1890 – 01/08/1890 – Age 21 – Hooker on. John, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of dirt from the side close to the pit bottom. The place will now be arched.

BARNES W. – 1892 – 25/08/1892 – Age 59 – Collier. Waleswood, Waleswood Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

BARNETT Edward – 1895 – 30/12/1895 – Age 41 – Stallman. Annesley, Annesley Colliery Co. Ltd., Nottinghamshire. Fall of side. Deceased was working at the coal face when some coal and clod rolled off. He died 23rd Jan. 1896.

BARNETT Emmanuel – 1893 – 06/05/1893 – Age 28 – Horse driver. Brickhouse, GH Dunn, Netherton, Stafford. Crushed against side by tub.

BARNETT Frederick (injured) – 1890 – 03/07/1890 – Age 14 – Drawer. Rishton Mountain, Peter Wright Pickup, Rishton, Lancashire. Injured by a tub of coal which he was down a slope.

BARNETT George (non-fatal) – 1890 – 02/04/1890 – Miner. Annandale No. 9, Archibald Finnie and Son, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at working face.

BARNETT Henry – 1890 – 12/09/1890 – Age 29 – Stallman. Cannock & Leacroft, Cannock & Leacroft Colliery Co., Cannock, Stafford. Fall of coal when holing. Sprag gave way.

BARNETT Henry – 1892 – 26/08/1892 – Age 28 – Collier. Park Slip, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Tondu, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 112 killed.

BARNETT James – 1892 – 26/08/1892 – Age 24 – Collier. Park Slip, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Tondu, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 112 killed.

BARNETT John – 1896 – 20/01/1896 – Age 45 – Brickearth getter. Keymer clay (quarry), Keymer Brick and Tile Co. Ltd., Sussex. Unexpected fall of earth front, a working face 9 feet high. Killed on the spot.

BARNISH William – 1899 – 16/03/1899 – Age 48 – Collier. Victoria Fletcher, Burrows and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in drawing road while repairing.

BARNS Alfred – 1890 – 12/09/1890 – Age 40 – Waggon examiner. Merthyr Vale, Nixon’s Navigation Co. Ltd., Merthyr Vale, Glamorgan. While crossing in front of an empty waggon, standing on siding, some loaded waggons were let down and he was crushed between them.

BARNS F. – 1894 – 20/09/1894 – Age 66 – Clay miner. Caledonian, C Bramall, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Fall of coal, died 21st.

BARNS John – 1894 – 20/01/1894 – Age 59 – Miner. Dykehead, Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Co., Lanark. Fall of stone.

BARON John (injured) – 1891 – 13/04/1891 – Age 61 – Storekeeper. Limehurst, Limehurst Coal Co., Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. Injured by the explosion of 3.5 lbs. of gelignite (Settle's water cartridge) caused by the store house getting on fire. Inquiry. 4 police officers also injured.

BARON William Henry (injured) – 1898 – 18/05/1898 – Age 43. Taylors Greem, Messrs Thomas Knowles and Co., Lancashire. Married, of 11 Bury Fold Lane. Two men were getting coal, one was at the pit bottom drawing coals out, whilst the other man, also a drawer, was stationed at the pit mouth. Riley was working a few yards further in the pit than Baron, and one of our representatives was informed that he was getting coal from a point where he had been forbidden by the manager. This coal was comparatively easy to get, but it is known, among the men, that to work it is a source of danger. Baron, whose business it was to take soundings of the roof, had just done so when the accident took place. He had sounded the roof and assured himself that all was right, when without a moments warning the roof of the workings caved in, bringing down about 100 tons of earth, stone and coal. George Egan, the drawer, was luckily just outside this particular workings, and escaped without injury, but Baron, who was just within, was pinned to the ground by an immense stone. Poor Riley however had no possible chance of escape and was crushed and buried alive. As soon as Egan saw what had happened he rushed to Baron's assistance, but he found it impossible to remove, unaided, the stone that held his fellow worker a prisoner. He communicated therefore with those above, and when Baron was at last extricated it was found that his left thigh had been broken six inches above the knee. He was at once brought to the surface and conveyed to the East Lancashire Infirmary, where he now lies, and is making fair progress. The men having extricated Baron, redoubled their efforts in search of Riley. Shortly after Monday midnight one of the poor fellow's arms was found, and about half past two, Tuesday morning, his body was recovered. He was found in such a position as would indicate that he made a desperate attempt to escape. Of course he was dead, but not mutilated as badly as one might expect. (Darwen News, May 18th. 1898).

BARR Adam (non-fatal) – 1892 – 12/12/1892 – Miner. Ayr Enterkine No. 10, George Taylor and Co., Ayr, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at roadhead.

BARR Henry (non-fatal) – 1893 – 23/03/1893 – Age 24 – Miner. Callendar, Callendar Coal Co., Stirling. Fall of stone.

BARR Hugh (non-fatal) – 1890 – 21/12/1890 – Roadsman. Blair No. 7, Eglinton Iron Co., Dalry, Ayrshire. Fall of stone from side.

BARR James (non-fatal) – 1894 – 10/05/1894 – Age 38 – Fireman. Birkrigg, Darngavil Coal Co. Ltd., Lanark. Explosion of gas 14 days off.