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CORRY John (injured) - 1890 - 18/03/1890 – Miner. Danescomb Valley (metalliferous), Danescomb Valley Mining Co., Calstock, Cornwall. Corry's comrade struck him on the arm with a mallet breaking it. They were engaged in boring a hole and the striker accidentally missed the borer.

CORSER Arthur - 1891 - 27/06/1891 – Age 34 – Dataler. Cannock Chase, Cannock Chase Colliery Co., Brownhills, Staffordshire. Fall of roof when preparing to set timber.

CORUM George - 1895 - 01/01/1895 – Age 26 – Collier. Llwynypia No. 2, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of clod 5 ft 9 ins. long 8 ft wide 1 ft. 3 ins. thick which was overhanging the coal 3 ft and said to have had two props under it. New Seam.

COSGROVE Arthur (non-fatal) - 1892 - 15/11/1892 – Labourer. Grougar No. 2, Eglinton Iron Co., Hurlford, Ayrshire. While tipping a bogie of dirt it capsized and fell on him.

COSGROVE Martin - 1898 - 21/07/1898 – Age 32 – Collier. Newton (Wood?), Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was attempting to get some coal off the side of his roadway which was disposed to fall, and which was seven feet thick and in doing so he appears to have stood on the wrong side of it in some danger when it fell on him before he could get out of the way.

COSGROVE Michael - 1897 - 06/07/1896 – Age 36 – Drawer. Usworth, J Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Cosgrove was engaged in raising steel girders on the engine plane landing and was showing the deputy the condition of the place when a fall occurred completely burying them. 2 killed.

COSGROVE Peter (non-fatal) - 1891 - 26/05/1891 – Age 50 – Collier. Woodend Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Fall of coal. 76 days off.

COSLETT John - 1894 - 04/04/1894 – Age 26 – Haulier. Fernhill, Fernhill Merthyr Collieries Co., Treherbert, Glamorgan. Found dead under a full tram Yard seam.

COTHAM Thomas - 1891 - 07/10/1891 – Age 38 – Drawer. Garswood Hall, Garswood Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The collier had holed 5 ft. wide and 18 ins. deep, the drawer was holing it further under when the coal fell over on to him. The collier said he had two sprags set but I think this statement is doubtful. 8.30 am.

COTTERILL Cephas - 1898 - 07/12/1898 – Age 23 – Collier. Brown Lees, R Heath and Sons Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof in a waste at face in Hard mine. The timber had been drawn out of the waste, leaving a roof space 20 feet by 16 feet entirely unsupported. Cotterill was in the waste building a pack when the roof above him fell and killed him. The fall came away at a partly exposed slip. Both the chargeman and the fireman were blameable for allowing Cotterill to work in the waste without setting his protection.

COTTLE Albert - 1890-  02/05/1890 – Age 24 - Night labourer. Lewis Merthyr Hafod, Lewis Merthyr Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fall of coal while stowing in face of stall. He had, without authority, taken out a sprag set by the collier and put in a shorter one which was overbalanced. 4 ft. seam. Longwall.

COTTLE James - 1891 - 15/04/1891 – Age 67 – Quarryman. Westwood (metalliferous), Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Bradford, Somerset. A block of stone, on the surface, which was being moved by a crane toppled over and crushed him against another which was at the side.

COTTON Alfred - 1895 - 25/02/1895 – Age 14 – Horsedriver. Wyken, Wyken Colliery Co., Warwick. Deceased was leaning over some teams and was in the act of coupling them when the horse which was attached started and caused deceased to be crushed between the tram and a slack hopper.

COTTON Benjamin - 1893 - 28/07/1893 – Age 48 - Butty collier. Shelton Rowhurst, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Hanley, Staffordshire. A fall of coal accompanying a Goth knocked out a post which fell on his head at working face in Rowhurst Seam.

COTTON Daniel - 1898 - 03/10/1898 – Age 51 – Dataller. Clough Hall No. 18, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. A tub fell into a jig dip while he was going up, without a signal, and carried him with it to the bottom of the dip.

COTTON R. - 1895 - 29/10/1894 – Age 27 – Collier. Oldfield, Oldfield Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Suffocated by fumes from a gob fire while it was being built off. 2 killed.

COULSON George - 1891 - 27/11/1891 – Age 14 – Driver. Murton, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Co. Durham. Kicked on stomach by pony. Inflammation of the bowels set in and he died 22nd December. 8.0 pm.

COULSON Neil (non-fatal) - 1894 - 17/02/1894 – Age 16 – Miner. Denbeath & Rosie, Bowman and Co., Fife. Riding on dook race, 40 days off.

COULSON Thomas - 1891 - 24/04/1891 – Age 15 - Landing boy. Murton, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Co. Durham. While changing ropes at junction, with a winch, he gave a wrong signal the engine started and the winch handle struck him on the head. 9.30 am.

COULSON Thomas - 1894 - 17/03/1894 – Age 50 – Labourer. Bamfurlong Cross, Tetley and Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was going home along a pathway crossing the railway branches and while passing between two waggons the same were bumped together by the locomotive of the railway company and so injuring the deceased that he died afterwards at the infirmary. A bridge had since been erected over the railway for the men to travel by the colliery company.

COULTER Andrew - 1891 - 28/07/1891 – Age 44 – Collier. Stonecraigs, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

COULTER Edward (non-fatal) - 1892 - 01/02/1892 – Pumper. Clydeside No. 1, Glasgow Iron and Steel Co., Uddingston, Lanarkshire. Explosion of compressed powder in shot hole while attempting to break it up with jumper. 3 injured.

COULTER Henry (non-fatal) - 1894 - 06/11/1894 – Age 22 – Miner. Skellyton, Hamilton Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 25 days off.

COULTHARD John - 1890 - 20/08/1890 – Age 30 – Hewer. Whitehaven, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Whitehaven, Cumberland. Caught by tubs on engine plane. 3.50 am.

COULTHARD Thomas - 1890 - 24/07/1890 – Age 24. Trailer No. 11 (metalliferous), Sir James Bain and Co., Woodend. Fell down shaft. While lifting a bog of metal on the rails of the cage at an eye in the shaft the cage commenced to ascend and deceased fell under it and down the shaft.

COUPE A. - 1899 - 20/04/1899 – Age 47 – Sawyer. Grange, Newton Chambers and Co., Yorkshire. Trapped his finger when using circular saw. Lockjaw supervened. Died 1st May.

COUPER Alexander (non-fatal) - 1894 - 27/08/1894 – Age 22 – Roadsman. Kinneddar, Fifeshire Main Collieries Ltd., Fife. Stepping on cage in motion.

COUPLAND G. - 1899 - 04/08/1899 – Age 30 – Quarryman. Handworth Sandstone Quarry, W Pickard and Sons, Yorkshire. Slipped and fell from a ledge 40 feet from the surface and 40 feet from bottom of quarry.

COURT John - 1897 - 03/06/1897 – Age 45 – Repairer. Coegnant, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side on road, clift and coal 2.5 ft x 2.5 ft x 3 ft. 9 in. thick from a break. Two feet nine seam.

COURTHNALL Alfred - 1891 - 09/06/1891 – Age 24 – Loader. Hamstead, Hamstead Colliery Co., Great Barr, Staffordshire. Fall of coal from bump.

COURTNEY Samuel (non-fatal) - 1894 - 14/02/1895 – Age 15 - Pony driver. Greenfield & Whitehill, Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. Fell in front of tubs, 26 days off.

COVENTRY Alexander (non-fatal) - 1892 29/03/1892 22 Roadsman Hill of Beath Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of tub from hoist, 29 days off.

COVENTRY Edward - 1899 - 26/07/1899 – Age 42 – Collier. Moss No. 3, Pearson & Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased took his sprags down to get off some best coal, when more coal fell upon him, off the face, before having reset the sprags when he was cleaning the holing dirt from the face in the Wigan Four-feet Mine.

COVILLE Charles - 1893 - 11/04/1893 – Age 50 – Collier. Great Western, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an underground fire. 63 killed.

COWAN Andrew - 1896 - 10/01/1896 – Age 32 – Miner. Kelty, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of roof stone at face of place, he had been timbering the road through some troubled ground. He directed his men, for additional timber, and the roof fell breaking a crown which struck him and killed him instantly.

COWAN Marshall (non-fatal) - 1892 - 29/01/1892 – Age 28 – Collier. Kelty, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Crushed by tubs, 81 days off.

COWAN Robert (non-fatal) - 1894 - 06/02/1894 – Age 22 – Pitheadman. Greengairs North, Samuel Ritchie and Co., Lanarkshire. Jammed by tub, 5 days off.

COWAN Thomas - 1894 - 15/10/1894 – Age 32 – Brusher. Sheardale, Robert McAllister and Sons, Clackmannan. Fall of stone. On Monday morning, another fall of coal took place in Sheardale Pit, near Tillicoultry, whereby a brusher named Thos. Cowan lost his life, and Martin Gray, brusher, was severely bruised about the body and legs. The accident happened about four a.m. and the men lay in their perilous position until after six o'clock. Cowan, who was 30 years of age, and lived in Devonside, has left a widow and four children. This is the third fatal accident at Sheardale since the strike.

COWARD J. - 1896 - 10/08/1896 – Age 13 - Screen boy. Lidgett, Lidgett Coal Co., Yorkshire. When on a full waggon another waggon struck it causing him to fall off under the wheels.

COWDEN James - 1892 - 19/08/1892 – Age 58 – Miner. Stravenhouse, Trustees of John Thornton, Lanarkshire. Fall of stone.

COWELL E. - 1890 - 14/03/1890 – Age 19 – Allerton. Bywater, Silkstone and Haigh Moor Coal Co., Pontefract, Yorkshire. Fell into firepan.

COWELL Henry - 1897 - 30/08/1897 – Age 37 - Haulage hand. Deep, St Helens Collieries Co. Ltd., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased had signalled for the journey of full tubs to start out of shunt and when in the act of guiding the tubs around the curve he got crushed by the tubs, some of them accidentally having got off the rails.

COWELL John - 1894 - 17/12/1894 – Age 67 – Shifter. Seaham, Marquess of Londonderry, Sunderland, Co. Durham. Died in the pit from natural causes while following his employment.

COWELL Thomas Gordon - 1896 - 13/01/1896 – Age 23 – Hewer. Springwell, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Springwell, Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was killed by a fall of stone and top coal when working in a jud.

COWIE George (non-fatal) - 1892 - 25/01/1892 – Age 28 – Drawer. Pentland, Clippens Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Crushed by tub Did not return.

COWIE James (non-fatal) - 1892 - 22/06/1892 – Age 55 – Collier. Wemyss, REG Wemyss, Fife. Fall of coal 83 days off.

COWIE Nicholas - 1896 - 14/07/1896 – Age 58 – Stoneman. Houghton, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co. Durham. He was drawing timber when a fall of stone, about 14 inches thick, took place and knocked four baulks out and killed him.

COWIE Robert (non-fatal) - 1893 - 06/04/1893 – Age 14 - Hanger on. Kelty, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Knocked down by hutches 110 days off.

COWLEY George - 1893 - 06/09/1893 – Age 13 – Driver. Murton, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Co. Durham. Head crushed between tub and prop.

COWLEY William - 1898 - 08/10/1898 – Age 26 – Collier. Ashtons Green, Bromilow Foster and Co. Ltd., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The night-banksman had left his post and went to turn steam on at the Boilers, leaving an empty tub unsecured in the cage top of pit. The winder receiving a signal from pit bottom that men wanted to ascend started to wind the two men up without having a signal from the banksman when the empty tub fell out of the descending cage and struck the lower cage causing the deceased to fall to the bottom of the shaft and was killed.

COWSILL Richard (injured) - 1891 - 12/09/1891 – Age 21 – Labourer. Pendleton, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Pendleton, Lancashire. Injured above ground, the driving chain from the engine to coal picking belts having broken, he was stopping the engine when the broken chain hit him. Inspection and inquiry.

COX Charles - 1895 - 10/07/1895 – Age 26 – Collier. Dinas Main, Dinas Main Coal Co., Glamorgan. Fall of clift, a bell stone 5 ft. x 4 ft from between props 4 ft. back as he was working off a slip of coal. No. 3  Rhondda seam.

COX Enoch (injured) - 1894 - 31/01/1893 – Age 61 – Sawyer. Hanley, Hanley Colliery Co. Ltd., Hanley, Staffordshire. Left thumb cut off while working at circular saw.

COX Enoch - 1892 - 28/11/1892 – Age 60 - Cleaning roads. Llwynypia No. 1, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Llwynypia, Glamorgan. Run over by loaded trams which had run wild owing to hitching plate breaking.

COX John - 1891 - 08/03/1891 – Age 17 – Collier. Cwmsychan Abersychan, Elled House & Steam Coal Co., Abersychan, Monmouth. Fall of following stone from a slip. It had been overhanging the coal face about 10 inches. He and his comrade omitted to sprag it as they considered it unnecessary. Another added to the list of lives thrown away by not spragging. Oened by Hoskins and Llewellwyn.

COX John - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 32 – Labourer, Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion, 290 killed.

COX Richard - 1895 - 27/09/1895 – Age 46 – Pikeman. Black Lake, Black Lake Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Fall of rock in gate road. 13th Oct.

COX Robert - 1899 - 06/02/1899 – Age 24 – Collier. Cleworth Hall, Tyldesley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place from between pronounced break, known to be there, and a back holed to therefore should have been seen. Had drawn five sprags, one after the other, after drawing two there was a slight fall of roof it was then that props should have been placed so as to secure roof.

COX Sidney - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 22 - Asst. ripper. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion 290 killed.

COX Thomas (non-fatal) - 1890 - 03/11/1890 – Haulageman. Hamilton Place No. 1, Bent Colliery Co., Bothwell, Lanarkshire. Injured by a hutch, in which they were put by their companions, running off down a dook and colliding with full hutches at the foot. 2 injured.

COX Timothy - 1895 - 29/11/1895 – Age 38 – Pikeman. Delph, John Hall and Co., Staffordshire. Fall of coal from side of shaft inset.

COX William - 1896 - 03/11/1896 – Age 42 – Collier. Douglas Bank, Rosebridge & Douglas Bank Collieries Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made, and inquest attend. He was walking up the endless rope haulage, tunnel rising 1 in 3, when his foot slipped causing him to fall and before he could recover himself he was crushed by a full tub which was travelling at the rate of about one mile an hour. He succumbed to his injuries received on December 2nd.

COXFORD Jacob - 1896 - 22/09/1896 – Age 30 – Hewer. Trimdon Grange, Walter Scott Ltd., Co. Durham. While hewing in a place, in pillar workings with another man, a stone fell from a slip and killed him.

COXON Mark - 1898 - 18/04/1898 – Age 18 – Putter. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co. Durham. While driving a full tub from the face and sitting on the limbers he raised his head and was caught between the timber and the tub and so seriously injured that when found he was quite dead.

COXON William - 1895 - 12/11/1895 – Age 32 – Shifter. Seaton Burn, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Seaton Burn, Northumberland. Inquest attended. Deceased was stowing stones in an old gateway and was at the time of the accident getting down sitting for a boy who was some distance fell on him. The place was considered to be safe about an hour before by the deputy.

COXWELL Joseph - 1898 - 09/02/1898 – Age 40 – Putter. Deepmore, Richard Fardoe, Staffordshire. Bursting of a boiler. 4 killed. Died 14th Feb.

COYLE Andrew (non-fatal) - 1890 - 10/12/1890 – Age 30 – Drawer. Deans, West Lothian Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Fall of roof at face. 6 days off.

COYLE James (non-fatal) - 1893 - 04/03/1893 – Age 50 – Miner. Lassodie, Thomas Spowart and Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of coal, 95 days off.

COYLE Partick (non-fatal) - 1894 - 17/12/1894 – Age 18 – Drawer. Forkneuk & Hopetoun, Youngs Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Struck his eye with a pick point, Still off.

COYNE Patrick (non-fatal) - 1893 - 11/07/1893 – Age 22 – Miner. Pentland & Straitton, Clippens Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of gas.

COYNE Philip - 1896 - 23/08/1896 – Age 25 – Waggon shunter. Kinneddar, Fifeshire Main Collieries Ltd., Fife. Deceased was shunting a loaded truck. When stepping aside, after unhooking the horse's tall chain, his heel slipped in between the switch and the stock tall and before he could extricate it the wheel ran forward upon him crushing his leg and abdomen.

CRABTREE Joseph - 1890 - 10/02/1890 – Age 68 – Lampman. Cornfield, Executors of Col. Hargreaves, Padiham, Lancashire. Died 25th from injuries he and others being overpowered by weight on the capstan.

CRADDICK G. - 1897 - 15/07/1897 – Age 20 – Cager. Conduit, Conduit Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Fall of piece of coal down shaft. Died 16th July.

CRADDOCK William - 1890 - 01/08/1890 – Age 17 – Miner. Carn Brea (metalliferous), Carn Brea Mining Co., Carn Brea, Cornwall. The lad was engaged on the stull in pulling stuff into the pass to fill the waggon when a stone came down from a stope above and struck his head. There was no evidence to show why the stone fell or where it came from but it is surmised that it must have been shot out by men in the previous shift and lodged on a ledge that had been left on the foot wall and that the concussion caused by the bursting of a hole. In Tincroft the adjoining mine shifted the stone off the ledge. The ground all round was quite sound and the place properly secured. The lad died the day after the accident occurred.

CRAGGS Thomas - 1894 - 07/11/1894 – Age 17 - Landing boy. Murton, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Co. Durham. Crushed by set getting off the way.

CRAIG James (non-fatal) - 1891 - 12/06/1891 – Miner. Lanemark No. 2, Lanemark Coal Co., New Cumnock, Ayrshire. Explosion of firedamp.

CRAIG John - 1895 - 18/08/1895 – Age 46 – Shaftsman. Leasingthorne, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Leasingthorne, Co. Durham. Scalded arms and face by a steam joint blowing out at pit bottom. Died 27th.

CRAIG John - 1897 - 23/03/1897 – Age 19 – Clerk. Burnt Broom, Dunn Bros., Lanarkshire. Caught by a waggon while spragging it.

CRAIG William (non-fatal) - 1892 - 14/01/1892 – Miner. Drumsmudden, Dalmellington Iron Co., Ayrshire. Fall of coal.

CRAIG William (non-fatal) - 1893 - 02/03/1893 – Age 19 – Miner. Barncluith, Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

CRAIG William - 1896 - 21/10/1896 – Age 60 – Carter. Gauchalland No. 4, Gauchalland Coal Co., Ayrshire. By his horse swerving over embankment he fell off his cart.

CRAIGS William - 1896 - 27/10/1896 – Age 34 – Oversman. Bedlington, A Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland Inquiries made and inquest attended. He was going to help a putter with his tub but before he reached him the tub was put on the rails and the latter, not being able to hold the tub, it ran against the deceased and crushed him about the lower part of the body.

CRANDON John - 1899 - 16/01/1899 – Age 26 – Collier. Glyngwyn, Nixons Navigation Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff 8.5 ft. x 4.5 ft. x 11 in. thick while holing no prop under the part which fell. No. 3 Rhondda seam.

CRANE Thomas Jones - 1893 - 27/11/1893 – Age 24 – Collier. Rhymney, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Rhymney, Monmouth. Fall of top coal while engaged setting a prop in his working place for his own protection.

CRANK Thomas - 1895 - 26/07/1895 – Age 35 – Fireman. Sovereign, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face drew the sprag then placed put himself in front of the coal to charge a shot, immediately the coal fell.

CRANSHAW William Henry - 1898 - 13/09/1898 – Age 23 – Drawer. Cleworth Hall, Tyldesley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst pushing an empty tub he slipped on a sleeper. Died from exhaustion following an operation for strangulated hernia on 15th.

CRANSTON George - 1899 - 03/07/1899 – Age 50 – Stoneman. Stanley, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was taking up a bottom canch, at the junction of two roads, when either the crossing plank or some of the planks, which were supported by it, gave way and a heavy fall of roof occurred.

CRATE Charles - 1894 - 05/11/1894 – Age 54 – Miner. Lanemark No. 2, Lanemark Coal Co., New Cumnock, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at working face.

CRAVEN J. - 1899 - 21/07/1899 – Age 22 – Byeworker. St. Johns, Locke and Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

CRAWFORD Benjamin - 1898 - 17/02/1898 – Age 27 – Labourer. Birtley Clay Quarry, T Blythe and Sons, Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. His mate was pinching down a piece of clay, and deceased stood on a bogie, believing he was at a safe distance. However a lump struck the bogie and jerked him off, when another piece of clay rolled down and crushed him.

CRAWFORD George - 1898 - 24/10/1898 – Age 42 – Miner. Loftus Ironstone, Pease and Partners Ltd., N. Yorkshire. Some small shale fell from the roof at the face of his working place and covered him up and before he could be got out he was suffocated.

CRAWFORD James (non-fatal) - 1892 - 04/10/1892 – Age 34 – Miner. Pentland, Clippens Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of gas, 2 injured, 10 days off.

CRAWFORD John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 31/01/1890 – Miner. Braidhurst, Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Co., Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Premature ignition of a shot.

CRAWFORD John (non-fatal) - 1894 - 31/12/1894 – Age 35 – Miner. Vogrie, Vogrie Colliery Co., Edinburgh. Fall of stone and coal.

CRAWFORD Joseph - 1896 - 17/08/1896 – Age 18 - Loco. Brakesman. Twechar, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Dumbarton. While uncoupling waggons from loco. he fell and was run over by loco.

CRAWFORD Matthew (non-fatal) - 1891 - 12/08/1891 – Age 15 – Collier. Bent, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal. 2 injured. 44 days off.

CRAWFORD Peter (non-fatal) - 1891 - 25/06/1891 - Pony driver. Gauchalland No. 4, Gauchalland Coal Co., Galston, Ayrshire. Fell in front of hutches and was run over.

CRAWFORD Robert * - 1897 - 24/02/1897 – Age 36. White Lea, Co. Durham.

CRAWFORD Steven (non-fatal) - 1891 - 28/12/1891 – Miner. Stonelaw, FR Reid, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

CRAWFORD William (non-fatal) - 1892 - 22/04/1892 – Age 18 – Drawer. Bellfield, William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. Crushed by tub. Still off.

CRAWFORD William (non-fatal) - 1893 - 26/01/1893 – Age 29 – Filler. Polbeith & Limefield, Youngs Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of gas. 2 injured. 18 days off.

CRAWFORD William - 1896 - 04/12/1896 – Age 16 - Point shifter. Lamb Cliff Chalk (quarry), IC Johnson and Co. Ltd., Kent. In order to move the points he jumped down from the locomotive, on which he was riding, and was somehow run over by it. Killed on the spot.

CRAWFORD William - 1896 - 25/09/1896 – Age 13 - Brass picker. Bent, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Crushed between stationary and moving waggons while crossing rails close to pit.

CRAWLEY Patrick - 1893 - 09/10/1893 – Age 27 – Hewer. Whitburn, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Whitburn, Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was kirving in the bottom coal and the band above fell on him. He had been told to set sprags but neglected to do so.

CRAY Albert - 1899 - 01/08/1899 – Age 24 - Carting boy. Wellsway, Rt Hon Earl of Waldegrave, Somerset. He, with others, had entered the cage in order to ascend the shaft but owing to a misunderstanding, as regards the signals in the absence of a regular hitcher, the engineman lowered the cage into the sump in which there was hot water from condensed steam. They were all more or less severely scalded and this man died from the effects on the 15th. The hitcher who had left the pit and the overman who did not replace him were returned by the Coroner's jury for manslaughter. Died from severe scalds received at Welleway Colliery. Radstock - A misunderstanding between the engineman and banksman resulted in a tragic error. With John Dando and Alfred Wilton, Albert Cray entered the middle deck, of a three decker cage, to be drawn up. When in, Lewis Hills signalled to the engine driver, William Beaverstock, to pull up a little to allow others to get on to the lower deck. The cage ascended about a foot and was then lowered into a sump hole which contained boiling water. Hills was not sufficiently experienced to put on the catches (brakes) to stop the cage being lowered into the sump for he was not the regular man for "rapping". He was John Davis who received an extra shilling a week to perform the duty. Beaverstock, who had been employed at the pit 24 years, said he had not received the proper signal to ascend which was three knocks and should have been given when somebody entered the cage. The upper deck of the cage was usually filled first and for this purpose the lower deck had to be lowered into the sump. Benjamin Gullick, who was on the upper deck, said he had heard no signal. He admitted he was breaking a rule when he himself failed to signal upon entering. Edward Gregory of Midsomer Norton, a miner for fifty years (30 of them at Welleway), said he did not hear a single signal and did not understand the rapping. He had never read the rules. Simon Simmons and Frederick Gregory had been in the cage with him. The inquest jury decided that there was a case to answer by John Davis, the rapper, who it was said left his post before time and Eli Hamilton, the under-bailiff of the colliery. Both men were arrested on a charge of manslaughter and admitted to bail.

CRAZE John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 05/08/1892 – Age 32 – Miner. East Pool (metalliferous), East Pool Mining Co., Carn Brea, Cornwall. He fell away in a stope in the 170 fathom level where he was about to fasten a chain for climbing purposes. He seems to have lost his grip of the chain which he was using at the time to assist him in climbing.

CREAMER Patrick (non-fatal) - 1890 - 17/02/1890 – Roadsman. Govan No. 6, William Dixon Ltd., Glasgow, Lanarkshire. He fell and broke his arm while jumping off the top of the cage in the pit bottom.

CREAMER Patrick (non-fatal) - 1891 - 27/07/1891 – Reddsman. Govan No. 6, William Dixon Ltd., Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 2 injured.

CREASE Walter - 1899 - 09/01/1899 – Age 26 – Labourer. Pwllypant Stone Quarry, Topham Jones and Railton, Monmouth. A stone, about 6 lbs. in weight, projected by a shot ricocheted from a ledge in the quarry and striking him knocked him over the ledge of rock on which he was at work. He fell on some low stones about 12 feet below and fractured his skull. Apparently due precaution had not been taken but the Special Rules were not established.

CREE John - 1899 - 30/01/1899 – Age 42 – Miner. Cowdenbeath, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was working in a narrow place, between two diverging hitches, when the roof suddenly fell swinging out the timbers and killing him instantly.

CREE Robert - 1897 - 19/10/1897 – Age 47 – Overman. Ballochmyle Nos. 5 & 6, William Walker Hood, Ayrshire. While descending the shaft a fall of roof took place at the mouth of an air drift at the ground level and the falling stones crashed through the cage cover. The two deceased and another man fell out of the cage while a fourth who remained in the cage was injured. 2 killed.

CREE William (non-fatal) - 1892 – 22/01/1892 - Pony driver. Bredisholm No. 3, Glasgow Iron and Steel Co., Uddingston, Lanarkshire. Caught by a hutch.

CREESE Edwin - 1892 - 23/08/1892 – Age 22 – Haulier. Naval, Naval Colliery Co. Ltd., Penygraig, Glamorgan. His head came in contact with a brow in the roof while riding on shaft road dipping.

CREIGH William - 1891 - 08/08/1891 – Age 26 – Hewer. Cramlington, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Cramlington, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Fall of coal from between a fault and a slippery parting. 4.30 am.

CREIGHTON C. - 1890 - 13/03/1890 – Age 32 – Ripper. Hemsworth, Hemsworth Coal Co., Wakefield, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

CRELLAN Thomas - 1891 - 14/05/1891 – Age 54 – Hewer. Flimby, Richard Graves, Flimby, Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Fall of roof from between two slips. 10.0 am.

CRESSWELL Peter - 1890 - 02/08/1890 – Age 46 – Hewer. Sherburn, Earl of Durham, Durham, Co. Durham. Died from apoplexy while following his employment in the pit. No falls in his place and ventilation all right. Not comprised.

CRESWELL George - 1899 - 29/08/1899 – Age 29 – Stallman. Bolsover, Bolsover Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof while taking stone down for the purpose of building the gate packs and making the roadway higher.

CRESWELL Thomas - 1890 - 30/10/1890 – Age 34 - Prop taker. Brynn Hall, EF and HH Crippin, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were commencing to draw the timber from a finished pillar and were busy with the first prop when the whole place came in without warning carrying all the timber with it.

CREW J. - 1897 - 05/01/1897 – Age 16 – Driver. Darfield Main, Mitchell Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Crushed between corves and trap door.

CREW Joseph - 1895 - 25/10/1895 – Age 26 – Collier. Dean Lane, Bedminster Coal Co., Bedminster, Somerset. Premature explosion of a shot fired by electricity. It occurred apparently by the wires accidentally coming into contact with the poles of the battery.

CREW William - 1897 - 07/04/1897 – Age 38 – Collier. South Liberty, Aston Vale Iron Co. Ltd., Somerset. Fall of roof from slips, one of which at least was well known. It was a large and heavy stone and deceased’s comrade had a very narrow escape. The place generally needed additional timber to make it appear satisfactory. From the size and position of the stone however ordinary timbering would probably not have prevented it.

CREWE Aaron - 1893 - 08/02/1893 – Age 49 – Pikeman. Woodside, Cochrane and Co., Dudley, Worcestershire. Run down shaft in cage into sump. Aaron of 35, Angel St., Dudley. 3 killed.

CREWE James - 1898 - 02/11/1898 – Age 16 - Collier’s boy. Waun Llwyd, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Crushed against a prop by an empty tram which was turned over at the side, in a stall road, but not far enough to clear the full tram which he was about to sprag.

CRIGHTON David - 1890 - 13/10/1890 – Age 16 - Pony driver. Hattonrigg No. 3, Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Co. Bellshill Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on drawing road.

CRIMMINS Daniel - 1899 - 12/05/1899 – Age 27 - Hooker on. Garswood Hall, Garswood Hall Colliers’ Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were sending bars down top of cage roped together. The deceased got on top of the cage and appears to have loosened the rope instead of sliding it up. The bars got loose and fell over knocking him down and he fell on his head on the iron landing plates. He succumbed to his injuries 14th.

CRIPPS John - 1894 - 26/06/1894 – Age 40 – Miner. Eston (metalliferous), Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. While engaged filling a tub of large quantity of stone recently loosened by a shot suddenly fell on him.

CRISP William - 1891 - 13/02/1891 – Age 48 – Stoneman. Cramlington, Cramlington Coal Co., Cramlington, Northumberland. Inquiry made. Fall of stone. 6.20 pm.

CRITCH William - 1893 - 03/11/1893 – Age 29 – Holer. Manners, Manners Colliery Co., Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Fall of coal. The stallman eased some sprags, near where deceased was working, and the coal fell over on to the deceased.

CRITCHLEY Edward (injured) - 1891 - 17/09/1891 – Age 39 – Miner. Wharton Hall No. 1, Bridgewater Trustees, Tyldesley, Lancashire. Injured by coal from between two sprags falling and knocking him against a prop. Inspection and inquiry.

CRITCHLEY James H. - 1897 - 04/06/1897 – Age 16 - Door boy. Sherdley, Whitecross Co. Ltd., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was engaged near bottom of a jig and after signalling to the jigger to start, he proceeded to open the air doors, when he was run over by the journey, before he had got secure in the manhole. The manholes were provided every ten yards.

CRITCHLEY John - 1893 - 27/06/1893 – Age 29 - Waggon lowerer. Wood Richard, Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspected and inquiry made. Deceased was caught between two waggons, which were being lowered by hand, he appeared to have slipped on the railway metal.

CROCKETT Charles - 1895 - 23/03/1895 – Age 38 – Inclineman. Ferndale No. 3, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. In attempting to cross between some empty waggons, while others were being lowered into same siding, he was crushed between the buffers.

CROFT Henry (injured) - 1890 - 17/03/1890 – Age 29 – Miner. Tong 5 Quarter, Jethro Scowcroft, Tong, Lancashire. Injured by coal falling from the level break as they were preparing to begin work. 3 injured.

CROFT John - 1893 - 04/07/1893 – Age 33. Coombs, ET Ingham, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Explosion of gas 139 killed.

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CROFT Peter - 1896 - 20/02/1896 – Age 14 - Jig tenter. Westleigh, Westleigh Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fell in cage from top to bottom of pit. Engineman started upwards instead of downwards. Disengaging hook fixed the cage but the safety catches, which should have held the cage, did not do so. 8 killed.

CROFT Samuel - 1893 – 04/07/1893 – Age 28. Coombs, ET Ingham, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Explosion of gas 139 killed.

CROFT William - 1895 – 29/08/1895 – Age 44 – Dataller, Cannock Chase, Cannock Chase Colliery Co. Staffordshire. Fall of roof. Died 30th Aug.

CROKER John - 1898 - 25/03/1898 – Age 47 - Surface foreman. Fforchaman, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While working a 12-inch haulage engine his coat got entangled in the wheels and he was drawn in.

CROME John Pugh - 1894 - 13/08/1894 – Age 14 – Driver. Houghton, Earl of Durham, Fence Houses, Co. Durham. Fall of stone from roof as he was taking an empty set of tubs into station, caused by some timber being displaced which caught and killed him instantly.

CROMPTON Thomas - 1891 - 14/09/1891 – Age 35 – Sinker. Great Lever Sinking, Earl of Bradford, Great Lever, Lancashire. Died 21st. from injuries in the bottom of the shaft by a hoppet falling. The contractor, Thomas Atherton, who was in the hoppet, measuring the shaft, fell with it about 40 feet and was injured, he having apparently ascended with the hoppet improperly hooked. Inspection and inquest attended.

CRONCOMBE Edward - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 50 – Labourer. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

CRONE Andrew - 1897 - 27/03/1897 – Age 34 – Banksman. Springwell, J Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased and another man were cleaning the shaft bottom sump out, when the cage came on them. There was plenty of room in the shaft and he should have stood to one side when he knew the cages were in motion but he neglected to avail himself of the opportunity. He was accustomed to the work. He died April 2nd.

CRONE David - 1894 - 17/11/1894 – Age 15 – Labourer. Birks No. 7 (metalliferous), Frizington Mining Co. Ltd., Frizington, Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Irruption of water from the workings of an old adjoining pit. 3 killed.

CRONIN James - 1894 – 23/06/1894 – Age 28 – Haulier. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion 290 killed.

CRONSHAW Joseph - 1892 – 12/02/1892 – Age 20 – Waggoner. Stopes, Thomas Fletcher and Sons, Little Lever, Lancashire. Whilst waiting in the slant for tubs a large fall of roof buried him. The roof was drawn and said to be broken along the middle.

CROOK Joseph - 1895 – 23/07/1895 – Age 19 – Waggoner. Charlton, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Deceased had fastened the rope to an empty tub, pushed it up brow 5 yard or so, propped it, shouted to waggoner at top of brow (22 yard) to go on then proceeded to arrange a second empty tub to rule in the brow. The waggoner at the top pushed the full one, it went faster than expected; on taking up the slack of the rope the rope broke, the full tub ran to the bottom and crushed deceased. The rope was a new one of hemp, five eighths in diameter.

CROOKE Frederick - 1891 – 05/08/1891 – Age 21 – Collier. Great Western, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fall of top coal and clod, from an irregular face slip, while working out the bottom coal, without having sprags fixed. Seam 5.5 ft. thick, wide heading in disturbed ground.

CROOKER William Luke - 1896 – 13/04/1896 – Age 50 – Quarryman. Blamey’s, Stone (quarry), Miss Blamey, Cornwall. When loosening a stone in the face of the quarry, with an iron bar, a piece of ground gave way carrying him with it. The stone on falling on his back, fracturing his spine.

CROOKS George Needham - 1898 – 20/02/1898 – Age 62 – Dataller. Seymour, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. He died from gangrene of the foot due to an accident caused by the fall of a small piece of roof which injured one of his toes. The gangrene was accelerated by diabetes. He died 1st Mar.

CROOKS William - 1896 – 14/07/1896 – Age 65 – Miner. Meiklehill No. 5, James Wood Ltd., Dumbarton. Fall of coal.

CROOKSTON James (non-fatal) - 1894 – 06/03/1894 – Age 33 – Miner. Climpy, Climpy Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof. 2 injured. 14 days off.

CROOKSTON Robert - 1893 – 06/11/1893 – Age 17 – Drawer. Gilmerton, Gilmerton Gas Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Fell down incline.

CROSBY James - 1899 – 12/09/1899 – Age 66 – Collier. Knutton Manor Coal and Ironstone, Knutton Manor Mining Co., Staffordshire. While holing the back part of the dressing settled down on his head and shoulders. He had two sprags under the holing, 12 inches from front, but the ironstone, being broken and full of slips, he had holed too far under for safety.

CROSBY Samuel - 1895 – 14/01/1895 – Age 18 – Engine driver. Audley, W Rigby and Co., Audley, Staffordshire. Irruption of water from old working. 77 killed.

CROSLAND D. - 1898 – 06/05/1898 – Age 58 – Collier. Ryhill Main, H Lodge Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

CROSS Alexander - 1892 – 01/10/1892 – Age 35 – Collier. Nook Broad, Oak Colliery Co., Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. Suffocated by firedamp and minings from an outburst, out of the solid coal at the face of his working place.

CROSS James (injured) - 1891 – 29/01/1891 – Age 15 – Horse driver. Nook Broad, Oak Colliery Co., Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. Injured by the lash of a coupling chain which broke from the strain as he and some other boys were running away after mischievously starting the above ground incline engine the wrong way. Inspection and inquiry.

CROSS John (non-fatal) - 1891 – 25/08/1891 – Age 22 – Bottomer. Ross, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Crushed by tub.

CROSS John - 1896 – 27/06/1896 – Age 32 – Pitman. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Collieries (1894) Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed by machinery while oiling the bearings of shafting in workshops while the machinery was in motion.

CROSS Richard - 1899 – 24/07/1899 – Age 31 – Loco. Driver. Sandwith Sandstone Quarry, St Bees Head Red Sandstone Quarry Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased left his engine to lower a wagon down a occurred there was only 6.5 ins. of clearance and the jury recommended that if possible more space should be provided between the wall and the rails.

CROSS William - 1890 – 03/12/1890 - Age 21 – Shunter. Siding, Ellerbeck Collieries Ltd., Coppull, Lancashire. Killed between railway waggons whilst braking one from the screens.

CROSS William - 1897 – 26/11/1897 – Age 42 – Contractor. Moss No. 3, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A shot had been fired for roofing down, and they did not appear to have examined sufficiently after the shot as a portion of the roof afterwards fell upon the deceased The road was packed on both sides.

CROSSDALE John - 1897 - 12/07/1897 - Age  17 - Pony driver. Stockfield, Chamber Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by tub at bottom of a jig brow. Tub in some unexplained way ran from the top unhooked.