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GIBBON Anthony - 1897 - 06/05/1897 – Age 41 – Shifter. East Hetton, Walter Scott Ltd., Co. Durham. Inundation of water in Cassop way of Harvey seam owing to working holing into old workings in Cassop Colliery 10 killed.

GIBBON Henry - 1894 - 07/07/1894 – Age 59 – Overman. Whitworth, TM Reay, Spennymoor, Co. Durham. Hand injured by shovel, he was afterwards working amongst some bad water which caused blood poisoning and he died on the 15th.

GIBBON James - 1899 - 20/04/1899 – Age 46 – Collier. Dinas Main No. 3, Dinas Main Coal Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face rock and cliff 10 feet x 4.5 feet x 3 foot thick, one prop was crushed out. No. 3 Rhondda seam.

GIBBON John - 1892 - 26/08/1892 – Age 31 – Collier. Park Slip, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Tondu, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 112 killed.

GIBBONS Anthony - 1898 - 25/06/1898 – Age 67 – Furnaceman. Ryhope, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Co. Durham. He was walking on the railway, to his work, when he was run over by a North Eastern Railway locomotive and his foot was cut off. Died two days afterwards.

GIBBONS John (non-fatal) - 1893 – 22/05/1893 – Age 30 – Miner. Pentland & Straitton, Clippens Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of gas.

GIBBONS John - 1890 – 01/10/1890 – Age 28 – Rolleywayman. Alexandrina, Marquess of Londonderry, Fence Houses, Co. Durham. Fall of stone. He drew a prop while repairing main engine road.

GIBBONS Mick (non-fatal) - 1891 – 31/03/1891 – Age 25 – Driver. Earnock, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of stone.

GIBBONS Thomas - 1894 – 28/05/1894 – Age 18 – Loader. Hollingwood, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Staveley, Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was assisting the stallman to draw timber from an airway when another prop was pushed out and a quantity of roof fell on him.

GIBBS Alfred - 1899 – 07/03/1899 – Age 49 – Collier. Dean Lane, Bedminster Coal Co. Ltd., Somerset. Fall of roof from a slip in his working place, which discharged the pair of timbers he had just set, thus releasing a further quantity of roof.

GIBBS Henry - 1890 – 08/01/1890 – Age 26 – Haulier. Kay’s Slope, Blaenavon Co. Ltd., Blaenavon, Monmouth. Fall of roof stone, and timber, in consequence of a tram getting off the rails at a turn and knocking out a prop, etc.

GIBBS James - 1892 – 26/08/1892 – Age 19 – Collier. Park Slip, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Tondu, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 112 killed.

GIBBS John - 1895 – 19/10/1895 – Age 23 – Collier. Gueret’s Graigola, L Gueret, Glamorgan. Scalded to death in outlet slant while attempting to reach the surface, by that road, while the steam was on the engineman having left before they reached the shaft shortly after 1 pm. on a Saturday. 2 killed.

GIBBS William - 1894 – 28/05/1894 – Age 33 – Horse driver. California Oldland Common, Oldland Colliery Co. Ltd., Bristol, Gloucester. Having lashed his horse, as he was taking a truck of coal from under the screens, it started off at a good speed and in attempting to reach the break he appears to have stumbled and fallen in front of the wheels which went over both his legs and caused his death.

GIBBY William - 1896 – 22/12/1896 – Age 29 – Timberman. Ocean Dare, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road while standing on a tram of rubbish and about to fix a pair of timbers. Lower Seam.

GIBLIN Thomas - 1898 – 05/08/1898 – Age 47 – Screenman. Berry Hill, H Warrington and Sons, Staffordshire. Struck on head by handle of drum on screen incline.

GIBSON Archibald (non-fatal) - 1890 – 03/11/1890 – Pony driver. 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.

GIBSON Archibald - 1898 - 04/02/1898 – Age 25 - Brusher. Loudoun, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof at coal face while knocking out a prop preparatory to brushing.

GIBSON Benjamin - 1899 - 03/04/1899 – Age 14 – Drawer. Carmuir, Carmuir Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. Deceased was against the Special Rule, taking a hutch laden with clay down an inclined road by going in front of it he was overpowered and run over.

GIBSON Duncan (non-fatal) - 1892 - 08/03/1892 – Age 16 – Collier. Earnock, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Explosion of gas. 42 days off.

GIBSON Enock - 1897 - 23/02/1897 – Age 59 – Dataller. Pinxton No. 3 Coke and Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. The deceased and others were repairing the roadway and preparing for the setting of an incline wheel when the roof fell on the deceased.

GIBSON Frank - 1897 - 13/10/1897 – Age 22 – Collier. Maritime, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face rock 3.5 feet x 2.5 foot from a slip close to face, visible where a previous fall had occurred. Forest fach seam.

GIBSON George - 1893 - 08/02/1893 – Age 38 – Timberman. East Hetton, Walter Scott Ltd., Coxhoe, Co. Durham. While setting a safety prop, preparatory to drawing some chocks, a large stone fell from between two slips.

GIBSON Henry - 1891 - 09/01/1891 – Age 22 - Pony driver. Tanfield Moor, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Tanfield Moor, Co. Durham. Inquest attended. Deceased caught his head against a projecting stone as he was jumping on the tub. 1:30 pm.

GIBSON Henry - 1896 - 17/07/1896 – Age 28 – Daywageman. Strangeways Hall, Crompton and Shawcross, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was in the act of drawing a prop with a gablock and chain and had drawn two or three without setting others to protect himself when a fall of dirt about 1 foot thick came crushing the deceased.

GIBSON James - 1899 - 27/09/1899 – Age 23 – Shaftsman. Burnhope, UA Ritson, Co. Durham. When he was examining the upcast shaft a piece of stone weighing 28 lb fell out of the shaft side, about 40 yards from the surface, and hit decease 120 yards lower down and killed him.

GIBSON James William - 1892 - 03/11/1892 - Age 14 – Driver. Watnall, Barber Walker and Co., Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Deceased was travelling up an incline roadway end, whilst endeavouring to get out of the way of a runaway tub, when he was struck by it and fatally injured.

GIBSON John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 13/11/1890 – Age 18 – Coupler. Kinniel, Kinneil Coal and Coke Co., Linlithgow. Riding on loaded tub. 7 days off.

GIBSON John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 21/11/1892 – Pitheadman. Common No. 16, Eglinton Iron Co., Cumnock, Ayrshire. Was struck by a sprag while spragging a waggon.

GIBSON John - 1895 - 11/011/1895 – Age 17 – Horsedriver. Blackwell, A Blackwell Colliery Co. Ltd., Derby. An explosion in Low Main, Coal Main haulage road. 7 killed.

GIBSON Joseph - 1891 - 11/06/1891 – Age 39 – Inspector. Marsden, Whitburn Coal Co., Marsden, Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased, and others, were engaged removing a small fall when another fall occurred and caught the deceased. The roof at this point was broken and timbered. 11.0 am.

GIBSON Joseph - 1894 - 17/01/1894 – Age 51 – Blacksmith. Grinkle (metalliferous), Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Co. Ltd., Port Mulgrave. He received a slight scratch on his hand by a piece of iron on 17th November last and died today from blood poisoning.

GIBSON Morton - 1894 - 18/01/1894 – Age 59 – Hewer. Charlaw, Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Co. Ltd., Sacriston, Co. Durham. Died from the effects of a blow from a pick on his chest on the 16th Dec 1892.

GIBSON Nicholas (injured) - 1891 - 08/04/1891 – Age 14 - Rope tenter. Nook Crumbouke, Astley and Tyldesley Coal & Salt Co. Ltd., Astley, Lancashire. Three fingers cut off between rope and pulley wheel on endless rope engine plane. Inspection and inquiry. Two firemen fined 10s. each for not making a more thorough inspection of the fencing.

GIBSON Robert (non-fatal) - 1892 - 24/08/1892 – Age 47 – Collier. Kelty, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of roof. Still off.

GIBSON Robert (non-fatal) - 1894 - 25/05/1894 – Age 29 – Labourer. Haywood, Haywood Gas Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Struck by crane handle.

GIBSON Samuel - 1894 - 20/09/1894 – Age 27 – Pikeman. Hungary Hill, Rufford and Co., Stourbridge, Worcestershire. Fall of roof coal improperly left overhanging.

GIBSON Thomas - 1898 - 24/06/1898 – Age 15 – Driver. Trimdon, Walter Scott Ltd., Co. Durham. He was going inbye and was riding on the limbers, when a fall of stone came away at a parting in the roof and killed him.

GIBSON Thomas - 1899 - 12/09/1899 – Age 16 - Belt boy. Earsdon, Church Owners of Backworth Colliery, Northumberland. Inquest attended. The boy left his proper employment and without any authority set in motion a waggon under the screens and before the waggon could be stopped he was crushed between it and another.

GIBSON W. - 1899 - 27/03/1899 – Age 57 – Dataller. Cadeby Main, Denaby and Cadeby Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

GIBSON William - 1891 - 08/12/1891 – Age 47 – Miner. Glenclelland No. 1, Kerr and Mitchell, Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Premature ignition of a shot while lighting it.

GIBSON William - 1891 - 15/09/1891 – Age 31 – Dayman. Hewlett No. 2, Westleigh Colliery Co. Ltd., Westhoughton, Lancashire. Killed by roof from between two ships. 2 killed Inspection and inquiry.

GIBSON William - 1897 - 30/08/1897 – Age 50 – Collier. Clough Hall No. 6, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof in working place feet Banbury seam.

GIDDINGS Thomas - 1894 - 14/11/1894 – Age 39 – Collier. Llwynpia No. 1, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Llwynpia, Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face of heading in Two Feet Nine seam. He had just knocked out a prop set in middle of rippings to get this bed (20 inches thick) down when it and a large bell-stone in the bed above fell upon him.

GILBERT Alfred - 1898 - 29/11/1898 – Age 20 – Loader. Whitwick No. 6, Whitwick Colliery Co., Leicester. Fall of Coal. While deceased was holing under the coal, a large piece fell from the face and struck a prop which was knocked out and striking deceased on the head killed him.

GILBERT Henry - 1891 - 04/06/1891 – Age 19 – Hitcher. Pennfau, Christopher Pond, Abergeeg, Monmouth. Contrary to Special Rules and orders he was riding down a self acting incline on the side of a steep hill on the surface on approaching halfway the trams climbed the rails and toppled over. His head was crushed under one.

GILBERT James (non-fatal) - 1894 - 11/12/1894 – Age 23 – Brusher. Benhar, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof. Not yet returned.

GILBERT Joseph - 1896 - 12/12/1896 – Age 62 – Overman. Himley, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Crushed by full tub on inclined plane.

GILBODY Abner - 1890 - 03/11/1890 – Age 38 – Dataler. Abram, Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. Some empty tubs were being lowered down the incline, to rest against a stop prop, when the latter was knocked out, owing to its being too short, and the tubs caught deceased who was taking his clothes off in the brow.

GILCHRIST David (non-fatal) - 1891 - 24/12/1891 – Age 14 – Drawer. Arniston, Arniston Coal Co., Edinburgh. Crushed by Coal. 7 days off.

GILCHRIST William (non-fatal) - 1892 - 29/04/1892 – Age 42 – Collier. Drumshangie, Drumshangie Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof, 39 days off.

GILES Eli - 1896 - 11/07/1896 – Age 30 – Rider. Great Western Hetty, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on engine plane while passing with journey. The road was being repaired during the night shift and was not timbered. Six feet seam.

GILES F. - 1899 - 06/10/1899 – Age 15 - Saw feeder. Backworth Sandstone Quarry, Camplin Bros., Yorkshire. Got underneath connecting rod of steam saw.

GILES Stephen - 1890 - 04/11/1890 – Age 17 – Shunter. Pleasley, Stanton Iron Co., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Crushed between railway waggons. He was passing between the waggons to couple them by hand instead of using his Coupling pole which he threw down on the railway sidings.

GILFELLAN John - 1896 - 09/05/1896 – Age 30 – Hewer. Beamish Second, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Beamish, Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. The engine road was in good order and it is difficult to say how he met with the accident.

GILFILLAN James (non-fatal) - 1890 - 31/10/1890 – Labourer. Gartsherrie No. 7, James Nimmo and Co., Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Fell off a waggon.

GILFOYLE Emanuel - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 34 – Labourer. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

GILHOOLEY James - 1899 - 17/01/1899 – Age 28 – Labourer. Roscobie, Limestone Quarry, John S Baird, Fife. Deceased was lighting a shot in the tirr with a lucifer match. The charge which consisted of seven pounds of gunpowder was not stemmed. The fuse had been cut too short, its upper end being two inches below the mouth of the hole and on lighting it a spark fell upon and ignited the charge. Deceased was blown some distance away and fell into water in the quarry bottom.

GILHOOLY John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 19/12/1892 – Age 29 – Miner. Pentland, Clippens Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of gas, 2 injured. 21 days off.

GILHOOLY Thomas (non-fatal) - 1892 - 19/12/1892 – Age 25 – Miner. Pentland, Clippens Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of gas, 2 injured. 21 days off.

GILL Abraham (injured) - 1891 - 23/03/1891 – Age 38 – Miner. Arley Yard, Thomas Fletcher and Sons, Atherton, Lancashire. Injured by roof stone falling from a slip when taking down top coal. Inspection and inquiry.

GILL C. - 1890 - 25/08/1890 – Age 19 – Pumper. Whitwood, H Briggs and Son, Normanton, Yorkshire. Kicked by horse. Died 10th Nov.

GILL Daniel - 1896 - 03/12/1896 – Age 45 – Miner. Whitrigg’s Iron Ore (metalliferous), Barrow Haematite Steel Co. Ltd., Lindal, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Accident through the mans carelessness. When holing through an old working, which had blown out, and was covered by a quantity of stones. He then proceeded to the road, at the top of the rise, and foolishly stood on top of the rise, the stones which had not fallen, and tried to push them by stamping on them with his feet with the immediate result that they gave way and he fell 28 feet.

GILL Edward - 1898 - 18/09/1898 – Age 39 – Stoneman. Whitehaven Wellington, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Whitehaven, Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. This accident occurred in a stone drift. Deceased and his marrow were about to start work when the overman, who had accompanied them, told Gill to examine the roof. As he was doing so a stone fell from a slip and so severely injured Gill that he died on October 11th. A shot had been fired by the men in the previous shift which possibly may have loosened the stone.

GILL Frederick - 1896 - 29/10/1896 – Age 16 – Putter. Trimdon Grange, Walter Scott Ltd., Co. Durham. In Coming outbye he fell and injured his right knee and died from tetanus, the result of the injury, at Hartlepool Hospital on February 4th, 1897.

GILL G. - 1890 - 18/06/1890 – Age 50 – Collier. Car House, J Brown and Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

GILL Henry - 1895 - 06/07/1895 – Age 60 – Miner. Dolcoath (metalliferous), Dolcoath Mine Adventurers, Cornwall. Fall of ground which carried away the timbers that he and others had nearly completed setting.

GILL J. - 1894 - 11/08/1894 – Age 40 – Dayman. Allerton Byewater, S and H M Coal Co. Castleford, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

GILL James - 1891 - 14/11/1891 – Age 15 – Driver. Ripley, Butterley Iron and Coal Co., Ripley, Derbyshire. Found dead in front of a train of loaded tubs. 9.30 am.

GILL John - 1896 - 15/09/1896 – Age 15 - Cleaning coals. Quarry, Woodlands Coal Co. Ltd., Co. Durham. He was moving trucks contrary to orders and was crushed between one of them and the screen so severely that he was killed on the spot.

GILL John - 1897 - 14/01/1897 – Age 44 – Labourer. Threlkeld Granite Quarry, Threlkeld Granite Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was clearing from a cutting when a loose boulder weighing about a ton and which had become embedded amongst the debris rolled out and caught him. The place had been officially inspected twice during the shift but nothing dangerous was detected.

GILL Sampson - 1899 - 08/04/1899 – Age 76 – Ganger. Swelltor Granite Quarry, Pethick Bros., Devon. Killed by a large block of granite (15 tons) rolling over upon him as he was passing round after ordering it to be split up, it being too much for the crane to move. It had been lying on the loose rubble for several days after being released from the face and it is probable that the heavy rain had caused the rubble to settle a little thus liberating it from the position it had occupied.

GILL Thomas - 1893 - 02/05/1893 – Age 40 – Hewer. Lutterington, Thomas Boddy Auckland Co., Co. Durham. Found dead in his working place. He had been attended for some time by a doctor for heart disease. The ventilation of the pit was all right.

GILL Thomas - 1893 - 03/11/1893 – Age 50 – Wasteman. Ushaw Moor, Henry Chaytor, Durham, Co. Durham. Fall of stone while wedging it down.

GILL Thomas - 1895 - 30/08/1895 – Age 28 – Pikeman. Coneygre, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of roof coal at top of an old incline.

GILLARD G. - 1892 - 07/10/1892 – Age 41 – Sinker. Chidswell, Crawshaw and Warburton, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Fell from hoppet.

GILLES Robert (non-fatal) - 1890 - 05/11/1890 – Miner. Nethercoy No. 3, Carron Coal Co., Kilsyth, Ayrshire. Explosion of firedamp. 2 injured.

GILLESPIE Edward - 1893 - 19/05/1893 – Age 45 – Brusher. Govan No. 5, William Dixon Ltd., Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at brushing face.

GILLESPIE James (non-fatal) - 1891 - 24/11/1891 – Brusher. Garturk, Todd William Dixon Ltd., Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Explosion of powder by a spark from a pipe. 3 injured.

GILLESPIE Joseph * - 1895 - 31/10/1895 – Age 29. Gil Foot Park, Co. Durham.

GILLESPIE Joseph - 1898 - 22/10/1898 – Age 61 – Oversman. Harthill, James Wood Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was directing some others who were redding an air course through a longwall waste. They had just commenced at the side of a haulage road when the roof fell and a large stone pressed deceased's face down upon the debris. He was extricated in a about an hour and a half, but meantime he had died from suffocation.

GILLESPIE Thomas (non-fatal) - 1893 - 20/05/1893 – Age 17 – Miner. Mainbank, George Burt, Lanarkshire. Fall of stone and coal. 14 days off.

GILLIES James (non-fatal) - 1892 - 12/01/1892 – Age 35 – Collier. Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Benhar, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof. 150 days off. 2 injured.

GILLILIN James - 1897 - 11/12/1897 – Age 28 – Miner. Hareshaw, Hareshaw Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Deceased had the fingers of his right hand slightly injured by his loaded tub roofing; blood poisoning set in and he died three weeks thereafter.

GILLION John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 21/01/1892 – Age 26 – Collier. Shawsrigg, Stonehouse Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal. 42 days off.

GILLIS Henry - 1893 - 27/01/1893 – Age 41 – Miner. Lochgelly, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of stone.

GILLON Bernard - 1891 - 26/11/1891 – Age 30 – Sinker. Carfin No. 1, William Dixon Ltd., Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Explosion of dynamite while stemming a shot. 2 killed.

GILLON David (non-fatal) - 1894 - 21/11/1894 – Age 16 – Drawer. Pirnie, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Crushed by tubs. 218 days off.

GILLON James - 1898 - 04/02/1898 – Age 58 – Roadsman. Southerhouse No. 1, Southerhouse Collieries Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road while repairing it.

GILLON Patrick (non-fatal) - 1890 - 17/01/1890 – Brusher. North Motherwell No. 2, Merry and Cuninghame, Motherwell, Lanarkshire. While lighting the fuse, of a shot, some firedamp ignited and the shot went off prematurely. 2 injured.

GILLON Robert (non-fatal) - 1892 - 17/05/1892 – Brusher. Broomhouse, Haughead Coal Co., Broomhouse, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

GILLON Samuel (non-fatal) - 1890 - 24/01/1890 – Age 13 – Miner. Cornsilloch, Cornsilloch Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Ankle bruised by tubs. 24 days off.

GILMARTIN Daniel (non-fatal) - 1891 - 07/07/1891 – Miner. Rosehall No. 5, Robert Addie and Sons, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

GILMORE John - 1891 - 07/09/1891 – Age 31 – Hewer. Brayton Domain, Joseph Harris, Brayton Domain, Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Fall of coal when working near a fault. 11.30 am.

GILMOUR James - 1892 - 22/12/1892 – Age 60 – Joiner. Wanlockhead (metalliferous), Duke of Buccleuch, Wanlockhead. Fell part way down the shaft.

GILMOUR John - 1891 - 11/09/1891 – Age 66 – Carter. Ballochmyle, William Walker, Auchinleck, Ayrshire. Hutch fell into the scree at the pithead and struck him.

GILMOUR Peter jnr. (non-fatal) - 1892 - 06/04/1892 – Miner. Tannochside No. 2, Claderbank Steel and Coal Co., Uddingston, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road.

GILMOUR William (non-fatal) - 1891 - 11/05/1891 – Miner. Common No. 16, Eglinton Iron Co., Cumnock, Ayrshire. Fall of Coal.

GILMOUR William (non-fatal) - 1894 - 10/02/1894 – Age 18 – Miner. Allanshaw, Allanshaw Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal and stone. 232 days off.

GILMOUR William - 1896 - 30/06/1896 – Age 53 – Miner. Balognie, CB Balfour, Fife. Fall of coal at face in top section of Dysart, above longwall waste.

GILROY James - 1899 - 21/09/1899 – Age 13 – Flatter. Ashington, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Ashington, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Some boys were descending and when nearing the bottom it is supposed that the deceased put his head out and was crushed between the cage and a bunton.

GILROY Samuel - 1892 - 24/11/1892 – Age 28 - Timber drawer. Murton, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Co. Durham. Engaged drawing timber out of a broken jud, when a heavy fall of roof took place killing them both on the spot. 2 killed.

GILROY Smith (non-fatal) - 1893 - 17/11/1893 – Age 17 – Drawer. Polbeith & Limefield, Youngs Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Fell over the rail.

GILROY Walter (non-fatal) - 1892 - 23/11/1892 – Age 33 – Collier. Wallyford, Deans and Moore, Edinburgh. Fall of coal, 10 days off.

GILSON George - 1896 - 13/01/1896 – Age 28 – Collier. Edford, Edford Colliery Co. (HT Ridler), Somerset. A crush having occurred the second collier, about 4.5 feet back from the face, was knocked over and the roof ran in like gravel and sand burying him. His body was recovered in about nine hours life being extinct.

GINDLE D. - 1896 - 20/05/1896 – Age 51 – Collier. Denaby Main, Denaby and Cadeby Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of side. Died 20th May.

GINDLE J. - 1896 - 29/06/1896 – Age 15 – Driver. Denaby Main, Denaby and Cadeby Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Riding in front of his corves and fell off.

GINNIS Thomas - 1897 - 26/11/1897 – Age 18 - Taker off. Moss No. 3, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The full set was coming down the jig when by some means the front tub became uncoupled and running into deceased at the bottom crushed him before he could get out of the way.

GIRDWOOD James (non-fatal) - 1891 - 04/11/1891 – Miner. Wellwood, Eglinton Iron Co., Muirkirk, Ayrshire. Fall of coal.

GIRVAN James (non-fatal) - 1893 - 02/08/1893 – Age 41 – Miner. Bathville, James Wood Ltd., Linlithgow. Fall of coal.

GIRVAN William jnr. - 1899 - 31/07/1899 – Age 23 – Quarryman. Whinstone Quarry, William Girvan, Ailsa Craig, Ayrshire. While driving a wedge into an open joint into which he had previously poured gunpowder, the powder ignited and dislodged a block of stone which fell with him to the bottom of the quarry.

GITT INCHES Thomas - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 26 – Ripper. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

GLADALL George - 1890 - 21/01/1890 – Age 17 – Waggoner. Astley, Dukinfield Coal and Cannel Co., Dukinfield, Cheshire. Injured by a fall of roof at hooking place in gin dip in Black Mine. Died 7th February.

GLADDON William - 1891 - 22/12/1891 – Age 32 – Banksman. Castle Eden, Castle Eden Coal Co. Ltd., Castle Eden, Co. Durham. Deceased had been in a depressed state of mind for some time and this morning committed suicide by jumping down the shaft a distance of over 1,000 feet.

GLAISTER William - 1893 - 16/08/1893 – Age 15 – Driver. Mickley, Mickley Coal Co., Mickley, Northumberland. Inquiries made. He was found dead on the road in front of some tubs. It transpired after the accident that the deceased had been unwell on the previous day and had fallen off the set and it is supposed that he had had a fit on the day in question.

GLANVILLE James (non-fatal) - 1891 - 04/09/1891 – Age 52 – Miner. South Wheal Crofty (metalliferous), South Wheal Crofty Mining Co., Carn Brea, Cornwall. A rock which slipped out from the breast broke his leg.

GLANVILLE Thomas - 1892 - 30/03/1892 – Age 33 – Hewer. Cramlington, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Cramlington, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Killed by a stone falling on him, which broke off at the face, and came from slippery partings at the top and on two sides. As he was working close to an old board he should have had more timber set.

GLASSFORD James (non-fatal) - 1890 - 16/05/1890 – Age 33 – Miner. Motherwell, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at face. 16 days off.

GLAUCHAN William - 1895 - 02/08/1895 – Age 28 – Miner. Auchenharvie No. 4, Glengarnock Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Outburst of water from old workings. 9 killed.

GLAZE G. - 1897 - 15/09/1897 – Age 40 – Overman. Stour, D Parson and Son, Staffordshire. Fall of coal from side.

GLEDHILL James - 1895 - 28/05/1895 – Age 47 - Jinney Tenter. Towneley Drift, Brooks and Pickup, Lancashire. Crushed between a tub and endless chain wheel, the latter had a sheet iron guard 1 foot deep around. Probably while pushing a tub under chain, another one ran against him, behind causing him to fall backwards on the tub (21 inches high) he was then carried forward under the wheel and under the bearing down pulley. No one saw the accident.

GLEED J. - 1893 - 05/10/1893 – Age 25 – Byeworker. Snydale, Rhodes and Dalby, Pontefract, Yorkshire. Crushed by tubs. Died 12th Nov.

GLEN John (non-fatal) - 1893 - 19/09/1893 – Age 21 – Miner. Darngavil, Darngavil Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of stone. 120 days off.

GLEN M. - 1890 - 23/09/1890 – Sinker. Low Laithes, Low Laithes Coal Co., Ossett, Yorkshire. Fell from scaffold. 2 killed.

GLENCORSE Thomas (non-fatal) - 1893 - 28/07/1893 – Age 47 – Miner. Hassockrigg, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal. 69 days off.

GLENCOURSE Hugh (non-fatal) - 1893 - 16/08/1893 – Age 40 – Miner. Muiravonside, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Stirling. Fall of coal. 24 days off.

GLENDINNING Robert - 1896 - 14/12/1896 – Age 38 – Labourer. Wooley, Pease and Partners, Co. Durham. Died from heart disease in his employment.

GLENN Thomas - 1894 - 02/05/1894 – Age 49 – Stallman. Dale No. 2, Stanton Iron Co., West Hallam, Derbyshire. Fall of coal. He was loading coal in front of overhanging coal, part of a web had fallen when the sprags had been taken out.

GLIDDEN John - 1897 - 27/12/1897 – Age 37 – Bottomer. Glencraig, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased pushed a loaded hutch into the shaft, at a mid working, when the cage was not there. The gate at the mid working had been connected with an indicator in the engine house as required by Special Rules, but the wire forming the connection had broken during the previous shift and had not been repaired.

GLOVER H. - 1890 - 01/09/1890 – Age 17 – Driver. Manvers Main, Manvers Main Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Kicked by pony. Died 26th.

GLOVER J. - 1892 - 30/04/1892 – Age 32 – Horsekeeper. Thorncliffe, Newton Chambers and Co., Sheffield, Yorkshire. Kicked by a horse, died 1st May.

GLOVER James - 1892 - 26/07/1892 – Age 46 - Pusher on. Edge Green, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Golborne, Lancashire. Inspection made. Deceased was working with a new pony on the new road when by some means it knocked him down, fracturing his skull, he was found in front of the full tubs. There was ample room on the roadway.

GLOVER James - 1898 - 12/09/1898 – Age 14 - Pony driver. Hindley Field, Hindley Field Coal Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The journey of 30 tubs was being drawn towards the pit bottom siding but the hauling engine was not stopped in time to prevent the front tubs being pulled up into a pulley attached bar under the roof. The bar was knocked out and the roof fell on the deceased, who was attending to his pony. At the inquiry an improved method of signalling was suggested, direct to the engineman, instead of having to transmit a signal up the shaft by a second signalling apparatus as the engineman failed to get the signal.

GLOVER William - 1892 - 07/07/1892 – Age 35 – Header. Snibston No. 3, South Leicestershire Colliery Co., Coalville, Leicester. Fall of roof. A fall of roof occurred in the heading in which he was working. Died 25th Mar.

GLYNN Michael (injured) - 1890 - 06/08/1890 – Miner. Aghabehy, Arigna Mining Co., Co. Roscommon, Ireland. Injured by roof falling whilst he was setting a prop.

GODBER Sam - 1896 - 30/04/1896 – Age 16. Micklefield, Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 63 killed.

GODFREY Charles - 1893 - 11/04/1893 – Age 28 – Collier. Great Western, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an underground fire. 63 killed.

GODFREY H. - 1896 - 06/03/1896 – Age 21 – Hurrier. Manvers Main, Manvers Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of side.

GODWIN Edwin - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 47 – Labourer. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

GODWIN George - 1896 - 23/07/1896 – Age 53 – Labourer. Podmore Hall, Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. He got with his feet on the brake lever, of a set of waggons, which were passing his place of work and slipped off, and his legs were caught in the wheel of the following waggon. He had no business to interfere with the waggons.

GODWIN William, J. - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 13 – Collier. 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.

GOLD Andrew (non-fatal) - 1892 - 07/09/1892 – Age 14 – Labourer. Ashgill Brand and Co., Lanarkshire. Thrown over bogie.

GOLD John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 20/09/1890 – Age 35 – Roadsman. Cornsilloch, Cornsilloch Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 2 injured, 11 days off.

GOLD John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 21/07/1892 – Age 31 – Collier. Bellfield, William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. Crushed by tub. 32 days off.

GOLDBY John - 1894 - 20/12/1894 – Age 24 – Holer. Bedworth, Bedworth Coal and Iron Co., Bedworth, Warwick. Fall of coal. Deceased had holed the coal and took the sprags out to do the slotting. After this was done he again went under the coal without having previously reset his sprags as required by the colliery rules.

GOLDEN Joseph - 1899 - 24/01/1899 – Age 32 – Hewer. Auckland Park, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co. Durham. While coming outbye, after finishing his shift, he attempted to jump on the engine set which is against the rules and fell amongst the wheels and was crushed inwardly and his back was broken.

GOLDIE Allan (non-fatal) - 1891 - 18/11/1891 – Miner. Plann No. 8, Plann Fireclay Co., Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Fall of roof.

GOLDIE Joseph - 1899 - 19/06/1899 – Age 59 – Miner. Margaret Iron Ore, Cleator Iron Ore Co., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was boring a pophole in ore, shaken by a previous shot, when a portion the ore suddenly fell and caught him.

GOLDIE William - 1892 - 21/10/1892 – Age 23 – Sinker. Newbattle, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Fell off scaffold in shaft.

GOLDING Samuel - 1897 - 05/06/1897 – Age 43 – Collier. Prospect, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They had a missed roburite shot and fired another shot, to blow down the missed shot without success. They then, in the presence of the fireman, proceeded to cut the coal away from below the shot when it exploded and killed the deceased.

GOLDSWORTHY Thomas (non-fatal) - 1892 - 29/09/1892 – Age 52 – Miner. Tincroft (metalliferous), Tincroft Mining Co., Carn Brea, Cornwall. While assisting at the capstan, he was crushed against a wall by the end of one of the arms when foolishly climbing from one to another.

GOLDTHORPE William - 1893 - 04/07/1893 – Age 41. Coombs, ET Ingham, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Explosion of gas. 139 killed.

GOLDTHORPE William - 1893 - 04/07/1893 – Age 70 – Coombs, ET Ingham, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Explosion of gas. 139 killed.

GOLIGHTLY Thomas - 1893 - 05/05/1893 – Age 14 - Driver Lady. Co. Durham, Earl of Durham, Co. Durham. Neglecting to put the Cotter into limber's bolt, they became detached from the set, and he fell before the tubs and was run over.

GOLLICK J. - 1898 - 19/03/1898 – Age 35 – Collier. Park Hill, Victoria Coal and Coke Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Died 2nd Sept.

GOMERSALL William - 1893 - 16/11/1893 – Age 62 – Hewer. Newfield, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Auckland, Co. Durham. Commenced spitting blood after his day's work and died within a few hours. He was alleged to have sprained himself but the doctor was of opinion that the cause of death was heart disease.

GOOD John R - 1890 - 24/02/1890 – Age 41 – Collier. Denaby Main, Denaby Main Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of coal. Died 3rd Mar.

GOOD Robert (non-fatal) - 1892 - 24/03/1892 – Age 25 – Collier. Mauldslie, Waddell and Son, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal. 88 days off.

GOODALL Edward - 1896 - 30/04/1896. Micklefield, Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 63 killed.

GOODALL James - 1890 - 27/10/1890 – Age 27 – Dataler. Pilsley No. 1, Pilsley Colliery Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of roof. When he and the deputy were going to pull down a loose piece of roof it fell upon the deceased.

GOODALL Sam - 1896 - 30/04/1896. Micklefield, Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 63 killed.

GOODALL W. - 1897 - 10/09/1897 – Age 18 – Engineplaneman. Wheldale, Wheldale Coal Co., Yorkshire. Crushed by Corves on engine plane. Died 13th Sept.

GOODFELLOW John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 23/05/1892 – Age 32 – Roadsman. Bent, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Jammed between tub and prop. 42 days off.

GOODIER Henry - 1898 - 08/07/1898 – Age 33 – Collier. Pendleton, A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in jig brow whilst going down to repair from between slips two of which were known.

GOODMAN George William - 1899 - 14/04/1899 – Age 19 – Quarryman. Holderness Limestone Quarry, Samuel Taylor, Derby. Fall of stone from the quarry face, some distance above where deceased was working. The day was wet and the quarry face was intersected by clay, from which the fall came away.

GOODMAN Samuel - 1892 - 29/11/1892 – Age 40 – Banksman. Blackwell, B Blackwell Colliery Co., Alfreton, Derbyshire. Deceased was about to ascend a ladder and had only taken two steps from the ground when he was seen to fall sideways and immediately expired. The doctor's evidence was, "died from rupture of the aorta," but whether it occurred before he commenced to ascend the ladder or whilst taking the two steps he would not say. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict that he slipped and fell and the fall caused the rupture.

GOODMAN William - 1891 - 21/07/1891 – Age 64 – Waterman. Penrhiwfer, Glamorgan Coal Co., Penygraig, Glamorgan. While on top of the coke oven, pressing down the weights to raise a door, the weights fell and he tumbled off the oven on his head.

GOODWIN Charles H. - 1890 - 30/04/1890 – Age 13 - Door boy. Hamstead, Hamstead Colliery Co., Great Barr, Staffordshire. Crushed between tub and door.

GOODWIN G. - 1891 - 08/12/1891 - Age 32 - Collier. Wheldale, Wheldale Coal Co., Castleford, Yorkshire. Fire in engine plane. 5 killed.

GOODWIN John - 1893  - 19/12/1893  - Age 57 – Collier. Risca United, National Collieries Ltd., Risca, Monmouth. A fall of roof occurred in his working place and injured his spine, it was not considered very serious at the time but he appears to have been greatly depressed as the result of it and on the 20th May he committed suicide. The medical evidence at the inquest clearly attributed his action to that of the injury.

GOODWIN John - 1897 - 20/12/1897 - Age 65 - Collier. Blaendare, Blaendare Co. Ltd., Pontypool, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp, at his naked light, when entering his place of work in the morning. He was burned more or less about the face and hands and died on 1st January 1898. Fortunately the accumulation was not a large one so that no one else was injured.

GOODWIN John - 1899 - 29/03/1899. King’s Dyke Quarry, AW Itter, Cambridge. He was not employed at the works and was run over by railway trucks.

GOODWIN William - 1890 - 22/10/1890 - Age 22 - Collier. Harris’ Navigation, Deep Navigation Collieries Ltd., Treharris, Glamorgan. While assisting haulier with a horse, which had fallen, in bringing a tram from the stall, dipping 5 inches per yard, the tram ran back after the horse was unhitched and in attempting to stop it deceased fell and was run over.

GORDEN George - 1896 - 15/12/1896 – Age 18 - Driver. Cannock & Rugeley, Cannock & Rugeley Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Found dying by side of a sett of empty tubs.

GORDON Alexander - 1893 - 28/05/1893 - Age 36 – Sinker. Newbattle, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Rider fell on him.

GORDON David (non-fatal) - 1891 - 16/06/1891 – Age 52 – Collier. Niddrie, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Fall of coal. 112 days off.

GORDON George - 1894 - 27/12/1894 – Age 16 – Rider. George Powell, Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Run over by a journey on surface rubbish tip, while attempting to get on to the rope in front.

GORDON J. - 1896 - 09/09/1896 – Age 62 – Labourer. Soothill Wood, Soothill Wood Coal Co., Yorkshire. Got entangled with machinery connected with slack machine.

GORDON James (non-fatal) - 1892 - 22/03/1892 – Trimmer. Skerrington No. 20, J and R Howie, Hurlford, Ayrshire. Fell off a waggon.

GORDON John (non-fatal) - 1891 - 19/06/1891 – Miner. Gauchalland No. 4, Gauchalland Coal Co., Galston, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at working face.

GORDON John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 07/04/1892 – Miner. Gauchalland No. 4, Gauchalland Coal Co., Galston, Ayrshire. Fall of roof on road.

GORDON John - 1896 - 28/07/1896 – Age 50 – Miner. Roman Camp (shale), Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Fall of roof stone inn stooping place.

GORDON John - 1898 - 28/01/1898 – Age 48 – Fireman. Drumpeller Nos. 3 & 4, Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Lanark. Explosion of coal dust. A shot of gunpowder, instead of a permitted explosive, was fired in a place which was very dry and dusty and which had not been watered properly. A special report was published. 4 killed.

GORDON Maxwell (non-fatal) - 1890 - 30/04/1890 – Age 60 – Miner. Niddrie, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Fall of coal, 56 days off.

GORDON Michael - 1894 - 04/09/1894 – Age 46 – Engineman. Lanemark No. 2, Lanemark Coal Co., New Cumnock, Ayrshire. Struck by hutch falling down a hoist.

GORDON Patrick (non-fatal) - 1891 - 19/03/1891 – Age 28 – Miner. Pentland, Clippens Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of gas, 18 days off.

GORDON Robert - 1897 - 07/05/1897 – Age 18 - Pony driver. Wallyford, Deans and Moore, Edinburgh. Deceased was taking a set of empty tubs inbye, along a level road, when a fall of roof took place at a point where the road was barred and poled, the distance between the poling and the roof being about 8 feet. A large fiat stone broke one pole, displaced some others, and fell upon deceased killing him instantly.