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JONES Griffith - 1892 - 06/04/1892 – Age 22 – Rockman. New Welsh Slate. Unexpected fall of two tons of rock from the side of a pillar about 45 feet above the place where he was at work.

JONES Griffith - 1892 - 12/04/1892 – Age 45 – Rockman. Oakeley (Slate). Explosion of 1 lb. of gunpowder which he was carrying in a tin canister. Face and hand burnt. The powder must have been ignited in some way by a spark from his candle. 4 weeks off.

JONES Griffith - 1895 - 08/08/1895 – Age 45 - Slate maker. Dorothea (quarry), Dorothea Slate Co., Carnarvon. He was kneeling on a plank, putting a belt on to the pulley which drove his sawing table, when his loose jacket was caught by a coupling on the shafting and he was whirled round several times. Died on 15th August.

JONES Griffith A. (injured) - 1894 - 13/12/1894 – Age 19 – Labourer. New Welsh Slate. He was standing in a level and was startled by the noise of blasting near him, he jumped away and suddenly slipped and he fell on the ground. His forehead was severely cut by a sharp stone. It is also possible that the injury was inflicted by a stone, hurled by the blast, as he had not sheltered himself properly. Three and a half weeks off.

JONES Griffiths (injured) - 1891 - 24/11/1891 – Age 23 - Rubbish cleaner. Llechwedd (slate). He was drawing one block of slate from off another with a crane, it slipped and caused a jerk which wrenched the handle from him and made it turn round suddenly striking him on the arm. Simple fracture of right forearm. 6 weeks off.

JONES Gwilym - 1896 - 27/01/1896 – Age 29 – Collier. Ferndale Nos 7 & 8, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 57 killed.

JONES H.D. - 1891 - 26/09/1891 – Age 14 - Collier’s boy. Cwmbargoed, Dowlais Iron Co., Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (cliff) between two slips meeting at a point close to the face, 5.5 feet x 5 feet x 3 foot and 12 inches thick, which had one post under it. Top coal of lower four-foot seam. Long wall.

JONES Henry - 1892 - 16/05/1892 – Age 40 – Engineman. North’s Navigation Caeru, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Maseteg, Glamorgan. Lowered in sump by mistake of the engineman in a sinking pit.

JONES Henry - 1893 - 19/01/1893 – Age 50 – Miner. Halkyn (metalliferous). They set fire to the fuses of two holes charged with gelatine dynamite and retired to a safe place. After waiting a short time they went back to their working place under the impression that both shots had gone off. One hole however had hung fire and exploded almost immediately after their return. 1 killed 1 injured.

JONES Henry - 1894 - 03/01/1894 – Age 20 – Haulier. Dowlais Nantwen, Dowlais Iron Co., Gelligaer, Glamorgan. Found dead under a loaded tram on a rise heading.

JONES Henry - 1895 - 19/02/1895 – Age 60 – Miner. Ash Tree Clay Pit, Coalbrookdale Co. Ltd., Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. Fall of roof clay, from fault at working face, at a place where he had been ordered not to work.

JONES Henry - 1896 - 06/12/1896 – Age 42 – Sinker. Stoneclough, Stoneclough Coal Co., Lancashire. Lowered in hoppet by engineman, at full speed on to a scaffold hoppet, it turned over and Jones fell, by the side of the scaffold, to the shaft bottom, about 80 yards. William Rainer fortunately clutched the scaffold chain and was saved. The engineman admitted having made a mistake. Ought to have lowered steady and stopped at scaffold.

JONES Henry - 1896 - 29/06/1896 – Age 36 – Collier. Great Mountain, Great Mountain Collieries Co. Ltd., Camarthen. Fall at face, clod, while taking coal out, Big seam, 7 foot thick.

JONES Henry - 1899 - 21/06/1899 – Age 38 – Hewer. Tudhoe, Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Co. Durham. Some coal and band fell and cut his head and crushed his back while working at the face of his place. Died July 17th. July.

JONES Hugh (injured) - 1891 - 05/05/1891 – Age 52 – Rockman. Llechwedd (slate). A loose piece of slate slid down the working face and in jumping from a ladder, to escape it, he fell and received some severe cuts and bruises. Still disabled March 1892.

JONES Hugh (injured) - 1892 - 23/08/1892 – Age 27 – Labourer. Oakeley (Slate). A stone from 4 to 6 lbs in weight rolled down at the face of the "fail" and struck him on the head. He had been warned that stuff was being thrown down but did not move away from where he was standing. 3 weeks off.

JONES Hugh - 1890 - 10/11/1890 – Age 33 – Tunneller. Bold, Collin Green Colliery Co. Ltd., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were commencing to drive a tunnel and had been told by the fireman to set a bar at once at the entrance. This they neglected to do and a stone fell from the roof and caught the deceased.

JONES Hugh - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 22 – Pumper. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

JONES Hugh - 1898 - 07/01/1898 – Age 68 – Collier. Broomstair, Dukinfield Coal and Cannel Co. Ltd., Cheshire. Fall of roof in drawing road, 14 yds from working face. From a break caused by weighting. Was in a safe place when alarm was raised, but ran under the roof.

JONES Hugh - 1899 - 26/05/1899 – Age 32 – Rider. Hodgen’s Abercrave, Richard Hodgen, Brecon. He slipped off rope while riding in front of journey and was run over. The first tram was found off the rails.

JONES Humphrey (non-fatal) - 1893 - 07/07/1893 - 23 Age – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). Explosion of a charge of gunpowder while they were unramming the hole which had missed fire. They were prosecuted. 2 injured. 4 days off.

JONES Humphrey - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 39 – Ripper. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

JONES Isaac (injured) - 1891 - 31/08/1891 – Age 18 – Miner. Bryn-yr-afr (metalliferous). Explosion of a detonator with which he was playing, at the barracks, hands injured. 8 weeks off.

JONES Isaac - 1898 - 24/11/1898 – Age 23 – Filler. Mountain, G Watkinson and Sons Ltd., Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. A piece of ley stone from above the main coal fell upon the deceased when he was attempting to fill a tub of coal. The fireman had given instructions to the Collier to get it down, but he had not carried out the orders stating he had not sufficient time. The Colliers and the fireman were censured at the inquest.

JONES Isiah - 1895 - 25/11/1895 – Age 37 – Labourer. Bedlinog No. 2, Dowlais Iron Co., Glamorgan. Fall of clod roof at face (8.5 feet x 4 feet x from 6 to 13 inches thick) while clearing rubbish to move road forward in a Nottinghamshire face. Props on each end 13 foot apart.

JONES Issac - 1890 - 21/04/1890 – Age 42 – Collier. Hopwell Engine, James Rosser Coleford, Forest of Dean, Gloucester. While being drawn up the shaft (a depth of 22 yards) the rope broke and he fell to the bottom. Gross irregularities and recklessness were shown to have existed. The owner was found guilty of manslaughter before Mr. Justice Cave at the Gloucester Summer Assizes and was sentenced to three months imprisonment.

JONES J. - 1892 - 06/12/1892 – Age 27 – Collier. Lidgett, Lidgett Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof, died 12th.

JONES J. - 1895 - 02/08/1895 – Age 62 – Collier. Aldwarke Main, John Brown and Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

JONES J. - 1899 - 17/10/1899 – Age 48 – Collier. Wheldale, Wheldale Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Died 18th Oct.

JONES Jacob Elias - 1896 - 27/01/1896 – Age 18 – Collier. Ferndale Nos 7 & 8, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 57 killed.

JONES James (injured) - 1894 - 11/01/1894 – Age 23 – Driver. Freehold, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Donnington, Shropshire. Crushed between tub and post while bringing a tub out. Hip hurt.

JONES James (non-fatal) - 1891 - 10/06/1891 - Stone picker. Dechmont No. 1, Dechmont Colliery Co., Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. Pinion wheel of picking table caught his hand.

JONES James - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 31 – 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.

JONES James - 1890 - 26/04/1890 – Age 50 - Master haulier. Tylor’s, A Tylor and Co. Ltd., Tylorstown, Glamorgan. Struck by chain at end of tail rope, the shackle pin having broken owing to a sudden jerk caused by the train leaving the rails. He had almost recovered but took a chill and died 4th September.

JONES James - 1892 - 01/03/1892 – Age 18 – Dataler. Crow Orchard, Whitemoss Coal Co. Ltd., Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased were killed by a collision of the cages in the shaft caused by oscillation, the guide ropes being too slack. 3 killed.

JONES James - 1892 - 13/09/1892 – Age 62 – Labourer. Lydbrook Deep Level, Richard Thomas and Co. Ltd., Forest of Dean, Gloucester. Part of a wooden gangway, which he was engaged pulling down on the surface, fell on him. In retreating from what he deemed the point of danger he actually walked into it.

JONES James - 1893 - 05/04/1893 – Age 54 – Repairer. Gadlys, Graig Waynes Merthyr Co. Ltd., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (3 feet x 3 feet x 18 inches thick) while wedging it down Seven foot seam.

JONES James - 1894 - 13/02/1894 – Age 70 – Roadman. Bettisfield, Bettisfield Colliery Co. Ltd., Bagillt, Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was clearing dust on the main horse level on a curve and was knocked down by the horse and tram's whereby he sustained a shock to the system. The nearest manhole was about eleven yards from that point. Another manhole to be made for safety on the curve.

JONES James - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 27 – Labourer. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

JONES James - 1895 - 16/09/1895 – Age 30 – Haulier. Mardy Locketts, Merthyr Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on a double parting in New seam. Six pairs of timbers in a length of 16 feet, width 15 feet, gave way suddenly.

JONES James - 1896 - 04/08/1896 – 51 Age – Collier. Main Bryncoch, Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 7 killed.

JONES James - 1897 - 07/12/1897 – Age 28 – Hewer. Trimdon Grange, Walter Scott Ltd., Co. Durham. While hewing in the main coal seam a piece of the top coal fell away at a breaker and killed him.

JONES James - 1897 - 29/11/1897 – Age 23 – Collier. International, French Anthracite, Brecon. Fall of side at face top coal in which a shot had been fired.

JONES James - 1899 - 19/08/1899 – Age 23 – Labourer. Llest, Llest Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 19 killed.

JONES James Robert - 1892 - 11/08/1892 – Age 20 - Surface chain rider. National, National Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Slipped off chain and was run over on rubbish tip incline.

JONES Jemima (injured) - 1891 - 27/04/1891 – Age 17 - Coal cleaner. Hewlett No. 2, Westleigh Colliery Co. Ltd., Westhoughton, Lancashire. Thigh broken by falling about four yards from the stage where she worked. She fell underneath a fence rail as she was resting. Inspection and inquiry. Female.

JONES John (injured) - 1890 - 11/04/1890 – Age 22 – Labourer. Wrysgan (slate). He was at the handle of a crane lowering a flat block of slate so that it might rest upon the ground through inadvertence he let go of the handle too soon and the block in moving caused the handle to he whirled round and he was struck on the face. 2 weeks off.

JONES John (injured) - 1890 - 16/01/1890 – Age 31 – Rockman. Rhosydd (slate). He was about to fire a pillaring hole a second time, the hole was charged with powder up to the top and a wad of grass rammed in. Somehow the grass took fire and the hole went off. Three and a half weeks off.

JONES John (injured) - 1890 - 26/09/1890 – Age 48 – Filler. Minera (metalliferous). The kibble was rather full and while the lander was pulling it back, from the shaft to tip it, a stone fell down and struck Jones who was in the plat.

JONES John (injured) - 1890 - 31/10/1890 – Age 24 – Rockman, Llechwedd (slate). He was pushing a waggon, containing rubbish, when a piece of slate fell from it and cut two of his fingers. 10 weeks off.

JONES John (injured) - 1891 - 09/12/1891 – Age 46 – Miner. South Darren (metalliferous). He was helping to chip one of the cast iron crusher rolls when a piece flew off and went into one of his eyes. Still disabled March 1892.

JONES John (injured) - 1894 - 16/11/1894 – Age 16 – Driver. Bunkers Hill, W Rigby and Co., Audley, Staffordshire. Leg injured by tub getting off rails while he was driving a journey out.

JONES John (non-fatal) - 1893 - 09/08/1893 – Age 27 – Clearer. Oakeley (slate). Hit by the handle of the crane he was working with at the time. He was raising a small block of slate, with a crane, and let go the handle which turned round and struck him on the side of the head. Two and three quarter weeks off.

JONES John (non-fatal) - 1893 - 11/09/1893 – Age 28 – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). Fell down the working face, from his rope breaking, apparently the rope had been partly severed by a fall of rock and the injury had escaped his notice. Ten and a half weeks off.

JONES John (non-fatal) - 1893 - 15/09/1893 – Age 46 – Rockman. Maen Offeren (slate). While John Jones was loading two blocks of slate, with a crane, on to a truck one slipped out of the chain in which they were slung and struck him breaking his leg in two places. 28 weeks off.

JONES John (non-fatal) - 1893 - 17/08/1893 – Age 26 – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). He was pouring a few ounces of gunpowder into a crack, formed by firing some gelignite, when it exploded. It is supposed that there were a few grains of loose powder about the top of the crack and that a spark from his candle set fire to them and so ignited the whole charge. 2 weeks off.

JONES John (non-fatal) - 1893 - 22/03/1893 – Age 40 – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). A hole charged with gunpowder exploded prematurely, while he was in the act of tamping it with a bar, tipped with bronze; he lost the sight of one eye. Twenty four and a half weeks off.

JONES John (non-fatal) - 1893 - 22/03/1893 – Age 40 – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). He was engaged in cutting the free side, on one side of the chamber, when a thick slice of the upper part of the working face came away unexpectedly from a joint and struck him in its fall. The piece which fell was estimated to weigh 80 tons. Thigh and leg fractured. Leg amputated above the knee. Unfit for work underground.

JONES John (non-fatal) - 1893 - 24/03/1893 – Age 40 – Lander. Bryn-y-Afr (metalliferous). He was engaged, with three others, in sending a piece of larch 9 feet long down the shaft with a winch. Somehow he let go and the handle struck him on the side. 16 days off.

JONES John (non-fatal) - 1893 - 29/11/1893 – Age 26 – Miner. Bwichglas (metalliferous). William Edward was pushing a cartridge of gelatine dynamite into a hole with a wooden rod when it exploded. The hole was 2 inches wide at the top to 1.5 inches wide at the bottom and the cartridges were seven eighths inch in diameter. There had been hard frosty weather about a week before the accident. Possibly he was using a somewhat hard cartridge. 1 killed 2 injured. 19 days off.

JONES John - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 20 – 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.

JONES John - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 41 – 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.

JONES John - 1890 - 06/05/1890 – Age 26 – Haulier. Lewis Merthyr, Lewis Merthyr Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. While riding on the hook, between loaded trams of another haulier's journey, the first trams left the rails and he was blocked between them.

JONES John - 1890 - 10/03/1890 – Collier. Morfa, Vivian and Sons, Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 87 Killed.

JONES John - 1890 - 30/09/1890 – Age 12 - Collier’s boy. Cwm, Crawshay Bros., Merthyr, Glamorgan. While attempting to cross a siding, in front of some moving trams, he was crushed between them and others standing on the siding. He had been brought out of the face to act as a door boy that day.

JONES John - 1891 - 22/01/1891 – Age 28 – Collier. Ystradgynlais, Ystradgynlais & Swansea Colliery Co. Ltd., Swansea Valley, Brecon. Fall of roof (cliff, 10 feet x 4 feet) between two unseen slips, one of which had just been reached, 4 feet seam, pillars and stall.

JONES John - 1891 - 23/01/1891 – Age 20 – Collier. Plymouth Works, Hill’s Plymouth Co. Ltd., Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (16 feet x 12 feet x 1 foot thick) at face of heading while cutting bottom. Two side props and top of a Cog on opposite side were crushed out by the fall which burst out of the solid rock roof. Road 10 foot wide. "Five feet six seam." Long wall.

JONES John - 1891 - 23/01/1891 – Age 64 – Airwayman. Berry Hill Deep, H Warrington, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Fall of coal from side of air road in Yard seam.

JONES John - 1892 - 10/10/1892 – Age 70 – Doorkeeper. Aberdare Merthyr, Aberdare Merthyr Collieries Co. Ltd., Hirwaun, Glamorgan. Crushed by journey of trams having apparently been too late in opening door.

JONES John - 1892 - 18/01/1892 – Age 19 – Labourer. Coed Talon, Coed Talon Colliery Co., Mold, Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was waiting for a drawer, who was lowering a tub down a brow from which the scotch came out and the tub overpowering the drawer got off the rails and striking against a prop causing a fall of roof on him.

JONES John - 1893 - 06/09/1893 – Age 45 – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). He was on the working face, prizing down a piece of rock, in its fall it struck the tail end of his supporting chain and caused it to squeeze his thigh. Severe contusion of thigh. Has not yet resumed work.

JONES John - 1893 - 07/01/1893 – Age 28 – Haulier. Gelli, Gelli and Tynybedw Collieries Co., Ystrad, Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road while taking empty trams in the tram, getting off the rails and knocking a pair of timbers out. Two feet nine seam.

JONES John - 1893 - 11/08/1893 – Age 55 – Collier. Tunnel, Aberdare Works and Collieries Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face (12 feet x 3.5 feet x .5 foot thick) between gob and face of coal, in a heading, cutting off faces. Six feet seam.

JONES John - 1893 - 12/06/1893 – Age 21 – Collier. Ocean Garw, Ocean Coal Co., Blaengarw, Glamorgan. Fatally injured by a loaded tram, which had been left standing on an inclined road running back wild into their stall but how it came to do so was not satisfactorily ascertained. There appeared to have been carelessness in the changing of the trams. 2 killed.

JONES John - 1894 - 02/08/1894 – Age 30 – Hardgroundman. Bwllfa Dare, Bwllfa & Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries (1891) Ltd., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Struck on the back of his head by a stone blown out by a shot from which he had retreated 50 yds. He was standing on the straight road with no protection between him and the shot except three brattice sheets.

JONES John - 1894 - 16/10/1894 – Age 12 - Collier’s boy. Ebbw Vale No. 22, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Ebbw Vale, Monmouth. He and his Collier having got a few yards up the stall road on their way to the face heard the haulier call to them to stand clear as the tram he was fetching with his horse had got out of control. The Collier returned to the heading but the boy got on to the side where he thought he was clear, in which he proved to be wrong, and was fatally injured.

JONES John - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 17 – Labourer. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

JONES John - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 26 – Labourer. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

JONES John - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 37 – Ripper. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

JONES John - 1895 - 10/12/1895 – Age 20 – Collier. Sirhowy Engine, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Sirhowy, Monmouth. Fall of roof, coal from slips while getting down coal from the face. There apparently might have been more timbers set.

JONES John - 1895 - 11/011/1895 – Age 41 – Dataller. Blackwell, A Blackwell Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. An explosion in Low Main Coal, main haulage road. 7 killed.

JONES John - 1895 - 11/04/1895 – Age 50 – Timberman. Vauxhall, Vauxhall Colliery Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged enlarging and timbering, the main level, when a fall of roof occurred knocking out the last two bars they had set before they had completed covering them and crushing the deceased before he could clear himself.

JONES John - 1895 - 14/03/1895 – Age 29 – Collier. Llwynypia No. 1, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. He had attempted to draw a lump of the upper coal down but failed and while in act of holing under to remove it without having set a sprag a piece 4 feet x 4 feet x 9 inches fell upon him. Six feet seam.

JONES John - 1895 - 14/11/1895 – Age 24 – Collier. Fochriw No. 2, Dowlais Iron Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof in face of a cross heading, in Ras Las seam, while fixing a prop under a collar. Five pairs of timber from 2 to 2.5 foot apart discharged and 20 trams of rubbish fell.

JONES John - 1895 - 20/10/1895 – Age 36 – Collier. Wynnstay, Wynnstay Collieries Co. Ltd., Wynnstay, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. A pulley prop, which his partner had not properly secured in the other shift came free as they were jigging a full tub down their road the prop striking the deceased on the head causing such internal injuries that he died to the 31st.

JONES John - 1895 - 23/02/1895 – Age 41 – Quarryman. Minera Lime (quarry), Minera Lime Co. Ltd., Denbigh. He was struck by a stone projected by a small shot, pop shot, fired in a loose stone. He had retired to a distance of 54 yards. At the time of the accident there were no shelters in the quarry. Died on 25th Feb.

JONES John - 1895 - 27/12/1895 – Age 63 – Carpenter. Ynysfaio, Troedyrhiw Coal Co., Glamorgan. Found dead in crank pit of fan engine. It is supposed he slipped in while leaning through the fencing to feel the crank pin.

JONES John - 1896 - 03/01/1896 – Age 40 - Daywageman. Bold, Collin Green Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were engaged repairing bars on a brow and after they had put up a new bar they proceeded to draw a prop when the roof gave way carrying all the timber before it and crushing deceased. The accident was at cross roads where it was bared out, closed with covering timber.

JONES John - 1896 - 05/06/1896 – Age 61 – Timberman. Gelli Steam, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Found dead under a journey of trams near where he had been repairing, his lamp was found hanging on the side, so that apparently he was not on the point of leaving.

JONES John - 1896 - 05/07/1896 – Age 54 – Labourer. Netherseal, Netherseal Colliery Co., Leicester. He was supposed to have received a slight injury whilst lifting a sack of corn, but he died from "fatty degeneration of the heart" and "bronchitis." No inquest was held.

JONES John - 1896 - 05/10/1896 – Age 30 - Asst. ripper. Cambrian, Cambrian Collieries Co., Glamorgan. Died on 13th Oct. from erysipelas from injury to head (blow from a prop). Injury not reported to officials and notice to inspector sent after death.

JONES John - 1896 - 31/10/1896 – Age 31 – Haulier. Ferndale No. 7, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Injured on hip by horse's shaft or "gun" while horse was turning. Died 8th January 1897.

JONES John - 1897 - 02/01/1897 – Age 36 – Collier. Nixon’s Navigation, Nixon’s Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face, top coal 5 feet x 3 feet 9 inches x 18 inches to 0 inches, while assisting another collier to raise a lump of coal. Six feet seam.

JONES John - 1897 - 04/06/1897 – Age 29 – Collier. Cwmbach, Aberdare Works and Collieries Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road clift 13 feet, from 6 feet to 3 feet 10 inches to nothing thick, only one prop discharged. No. 2 yard seam.

JONES John - 1897 - 13/07/1897 – Age 35 – Roadsman. Court, Herbert Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face clift 8 feet x 2 feet x 15 inches from between two slips propped on each side. Graigola seam.

JONES John - 1897 - 13/10/1897 – Age 55 - Stone blower. Wren’s Nest Limestone Quarry, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of roof after a shot had been fired.

JONES John - 1897 - 15/10/1897 – Age 62 – Ripper. Ferndale No. 1, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road near where he had been repairing part of rippings. Elled seam.

JONES John - 1897 - 18/04/1897 – Age 50 – Timberman. Fernhill, George Watkinson and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, while knocking out a broken collar. Gorllwyn seam.

JONES John - 1897 - 21/06/1897 – Age 56 – Labourer. Upper Glynrhonwy Slate Quarry, Upper Glynrhonwy Slate Co. Ltd., Carnarvon. Unexpected fall of a slab off the side of a tramway which he was widening. He died in a few minutes.

JONES John - 1897 - 26/03/1897 – Age 13 - Signal boy. Gelli Steam, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by two runaway empty trams on incline dipping 10 inches per yard, the rope having broken. Deceased had just replaced a cross-bar which had fallen out of trams, thus accounting for his being on the dip.

JONES John - 1897 - 28/04/1897 – Age 50 – Collier. Ferndale No. 7, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face of coal. Died 21st May from blood poisoning, the result of the injury to his hand.

JONES John - 1898 - 01/11/1898 – Age 57 - Slate getter. Dorothea Slate Quarry, Dorothea Slate Quarry Co. Ltd., Carnarvon. Unexpected fall of a block of slate weighing about 2.5 cwt. from a point some three feet above him. Died same day. The block had probably been split from the main mass by a shot fired by deceased half an hour previous though there was no indications of danger.

JONES John - 1898 - 15/11/1898 – Age 69 – Weigher. Graig Ddu Slate Quarry, TP Whittaker, Merioneth. While he was riding his 'car gwyllt’ down an inclined plane he lost control of it and ran into that of a man riding in front of him. He was thrown off and so badly injured that he died the same evening. The other man received injuries to the head and back.

JONES John - 1899 - 13/09/1899 – Age 51 - Screen attdnt. Llanbradach, Cardiff Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fatally crushed by a loco. on surface railway sidings. He stood between the rails to see whether the waggon, which he was loading, was full or not.

JONES John - 1899 - 16/02/1899 – Age 59 – Collier. Kays Slope, Blaenavon Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof were he was getting stones to build the gob wall at the edge of an old road close to his working place.

JONES John A. - 1892 - 23/01/1892 – Age 33 – Hitcher. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Rhondda Fach, Glamorgan. Cage descended on him as he was crossing the shaft bottom.

JONES John C. - 1892 - 23/05/1892 – Age 56 – Collier. Primrose, Cwm Nant Llwyd Primrose Coal Co., Pontardawe, Glamorgan. Fall of side of top coal while holing without sprags or holing props.

JONES John D. (injured) - 1894 - 07/06/1894 – Age 28 – Quarryman. Oakeley (slate). While dressing slate, with a revolving slate dressing machine, he placed his hand too far and had one inch of forefinger of right hand cut off. 7 weeks off.

JONES John Francis - 1899 - 08/12/1899 – Age 15 - Labourer. Trimley Hall Limestone Quarry, Frith Quarries Co., Flint. While he was climbing up a pole, into which he had driven strong nails to give himself a foothold, he fell and struck his head against one of the nails which penetrated his skull. There were proper steps provided but to save himself the trouble of going round by them the lad had improvised the short cut which cost him his life.

JONES John George - 1894 - 11/08/1894 – Age 13 - Door Boy. Griffin No. 2, John Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Blaina, Monmouth. Crushed between a full train and the side of the road about 50 yards from the door which he was attending to. The reason he went there could not be ascertained, the hauliers denying all knowledge of his leaving the door.

JONES John Giles - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 64 – Repairer. 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.

JONES John Griffith - 1896 - 08/06/1896 – Age 27 - Slate maker. Cilgwyn Slate (quarry), Cilgwyn Slate Co., Carnarvon. He fell down while moving a large slab of slate in order to close up his dressing shed and had his neck dislocated. He died the next day.

JONES John L. - 1892 - 06/12/1892 – Age 34 – Roadsman. Tylors, A Tylor and Co. Ltd., Tylorstown, Glamorgan. Squeezed between tram and side, the horse starting while taking out sprags.

JONES John Lloyd (non-fatal) - 1893 - 04/01/1893 – Age 29 – Quarryman. Oakeley (slate). Some large stones slipped down while he was excavating rock and rubbish of the fall and one caught his leg, inflicting injuries which necessitated amputation above the knee. Permanently disabled after the accident.

JONES John Morris (injured) - 1891 - 25/03/1891 – Age 45 – Rockman. Llechwedd (slate). He was at a crane engaged in drawing a block of slate from near the bottom of the face. It slid down quicker than expected and somehow jerked the crane down and brought a second crane down also. Knee sprained and back bruised. 8 weeks off.

JONES John Morris (injured) - 1892 - 03/06/1892 – Age 24 – Labourer. Oakeley (Slate). He was using a crane to lift a block of slate and was struck by the handle. Probably the slate, in some way, lurched and caused a sudden jerk which wrested the handle from his grasp. 8 weeks off.

JONES John O. - 1891 - 24/08/1891 – Age 16 – Collier. Big Pit, Blaenavon Co. Ltd., Blaenavon, Monmouth. Fall of roof. A slab about 6 inches thick at one side and running to nothing at the other, 8 feet wide and 5 feet long burst off the roof as he was filling a tram with coal. The place it is alleged was well timbered at the time.

JONES John Owen (non-fatal) - 1893 – 22/11/1893 – Age 32 – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). He was working the fall and had put a second charge of powder into a crack formed by the first blast. While waiting for the general signal for firing some ashes of his burning touch paper were blown away and ignited the powder. Face burnt. Three and a half weeks off.

JONES John R. - 1890 – 02/08/1890 – Age 23 – Inclineman. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. A full journey had gone off the rails, on a self acting incline, and while deceased was assisting to replace the trams a shackle snapped. He endeavoured to stop the trams thus set loose, and was crushed by them.

JONES John R. - 1896 - 17/06/1896 – Age 13 - Door boy. Bersham, Bersham Colliery Co. Ltd., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attend. He went from his door, to assist a pony-driver to lift a tub on the road, not noticing it appears that a prop had been knocked out, from when it fell upon him causing such injuries that he died 27th.

JONES John R. - 1898 - 04/01/1898 – Age 17 – Collier. Avon Level, Sir Daniel Gooch, Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face over road-end while filling coal, clift 6 feet x 6 feet x 1 foot thick, fell from between road-side props. Rhondda seam.

JONES John Rees - 1897 - 03/08/1897 – Age 33 – Collier. Ynyshir Steam, Ynyshir Steam Coal Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on Barry road, fireclay 8 feet x 3 feet x 1 foot over road, timbered. Nine feet seam which was not double. 2 killed.

JONES John snr. (non-fatal) - 1890 - 14/05/1890 – Miner. Dalquharran, FTR Kennedy, Maybole, Ayrshire. Fall of coal and roof.

JONES John V. (injured) - 1892 - 14/01/1892 – Age 52 – Labourer. Aberllefenny (Slate). He was was clearing rubbish at the bottom of a shaft when a small stone fell down the shaft and struck him on the head. Scalp wound. One and a half weeks off.

JONES John. R. - 1895 - 19/10/1895 – Age 26 – 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.

JONES Jonah - 1891 - 12/12/1891 – Age 18 – Collier. Park, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Treorky, Glamorgan. Fall of clod (4 feet x 1 foot x 0 inches thick) at face while enlarging an old road for a stable. It fell off at a "back slip," and did not appear to have been overhanging. Seam 5 foot thick. Long wall.

JONES Jonathan - 1895 - 22/02/1895 – Age 19 - Kibble filler. Minera (metalliferous), Minera Mining Co. Ltd., Denbigh. While engaged in sending a waggon, slung in a chain down a shaft from one level to another, he fell a distance of 45 yards. It is supposed that instead of using the ladder way he intended to descend in the waggon and that he slipped on trying to get into it while it was hanging in the shaft.

JONES Joseph - 1890 - 10/03/1890 – Collier. Morfa, Vivian and Sons, Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 87 Killed.

JONES Joseph - 1891 - 23/04/1891 – Age 32 – Miner. Halkyn (metalliferous). He had uncovered a hole in a level, to tip a waggon into it, and fell through the hole while walking backwards. He fell 45 yards and fractured his skull.

JONES Joseph - 1893 - 08/02/1893 – Age 42 – Pikeman. Woodside, Cochrane and Co., Dudley, Worcestershire. Run down shaft in cage into sump. Of Cooper Bank, Sedgley. 3 killed.

JONES Joseph - 1894 - 25/05/1895 – Age 40 – Collier. Gwersyllt, Westminster & Brymbo Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. They had bored a hole and charged it, near the top of the Main Coal Seam, and into the clod above which they had failed to get down with the pick when the clod suddenly gave way crushing the deceased.

JONES Joseph - 1898 - 12/08/1898 – Age 22 – Filler. Brynkinalt, WY Craig and Sons, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was getting coal down at the face, when the roof coal fell upon him from between two slips running with the coal face. One of the slips was visible previous to the accident but they had not secured the roof sufficiently.

JONES Joseph - 1899 - 25/08/1899 – Age 45 – Collier. Deep Duffryn, Nixons Navigation Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on main engine plane, a lump of mine fell on him while riding in with others to work. Riding permitted. A fall 9 foot high had occurred the previous day which had been cleared but not secured by timbers. Died 7th.

JONES Lewis - 1894 - 19/06/1894 – Age 20 – Collier. Cyfartha Cwm, Crawshay Bros. Ltd., Merthyr, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (8 foot long) at face of a heading in the Bute seam. He died from injuries to his back in Merthyr, Hospital on 8th October.

JONES Lewis - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 21 – Ripper. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

JONES Lewis jnr. - 1896 - 04/08/1896 – Age 25 – Collier. Main, Bryncoch Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 7 killed.

JONES Lewis snr. - 1896 - 04/08/1896 – Age 54 – Collier. Main, Bryncoch Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 7 killed.

JONES Leyshon - 1896 - 04/08/1896 – Age 21 – Collier. Main, Bryncoch Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 7 killed.

JONES Livinus - 1891 - 08/09/1891 – Age 39 – Dayman. Brackley No. 1, Bridgewater Trustees, Middle Hulton, Lancashire. Fatally injured by roof falling in a roadway where he was repairing. Inspection and inquiry. Died next day in Bolton Infirmary. Inquest attended.

JONES Llewellyn - 1896 - 13/04/1896 – Age 22 - Engine fitter. Plasynaston, Wynasty Collieries Ltd., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased got out of the cage, at the main coal mouthing, and after a short conversation with the foreman he turned around to re-enter the cage to go to the surface again but he appears to have gone the wrong side (where there was no cage) and fell down the shaft a distance of 50 yards with a safety in his band. The Colliery was not working rising coal on that day.

JONES Llewelyn - 1899 - 05/09/1899 – Age 66 - Slate getter. Hendreddu Slate Quary, Jacob Bradwell, Merioneth. While the deceased was engaged drilling a hole in the working face, in a block of slate weighing about 20 tons, it became suddenly loose and caught him against the side of the chamber. He was killed instantly.

JONES Methusaleh - 1892 - 19/08/1892 – Age 16 - Collier’s boy. Cwmbargoed, Dinas Iron Co., Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Fall of coal side 11 foot 6 inches in length. Face slips over two iron sprags.

JONES Morgan - 1893 - 25/08/1893 – Age 20 – Haulier. Nant Merthyr, David Thomas, Crynant, Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road while turning a tram at a parting for the haulier to pass out with full tram. Road not double timbered. Red seam. 2 killed.

JONES Morris (injured) - 1890 - 09/06/1890 – Age 50 – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). Head cut by a small stone which came away unexpectedly from the working face. 5 weeks off.

JONES Morris (non-fatal) - 1893 - 05/06/1893 – Age 45 – Miner. Oakeley (slate). A stone, about 10 lbs. in weight, rolled some three or four yards down the fall and hit Jones on the shoulder fracturing a bone. 10 and three quarter weeks off.

JONES Moses (injured) - 1892 - 17/05/1892 – Age 35 – Rockman. Oakeley (Slate). He and another man were using a crane to move a large stone while one end was resting on the ground, it fell over and jerked the chain so violently that Jones lost his hold and was struck on the face by the handle. Nose broken. 9 days off.

JONES Moses - 1896 - 14/05/1896 – Age 33 – Collier. Cwm, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face, first ripping, 2 foot thick, one prop under it. Seven feet seam.

JONES Noah (injured) - 1894 - 28/12/1894 – Age 55 – Dataler. Wombwell, Hopley Bros., Wellington, Shropshire. Hand injured by fall of a lump of coal.

JONES Noah - 1892 - 28/01/1892 – Age 22 – Stallman. West Cannock, West Cannock Colliery Co., Hednesford, Staffordshire. Died February 4. Fall of rock roof in deep coal face which knocked out the timber.

JONES O. Llewellwyn (injured) - 1892 - 15/02/1892 – Age 37 – Miner. Minera (metalliferous). He let a boring machine fall, while he was endeavouring to fix it, and he himself fell 12 feet from the stage on which he was working. 6 weeks off.

JONES or KENNET Henry - 1890 - 20/09/1890 – Age 27 - Fan engineman. Plymouth Works, Plymouth Works Mortgagees, Merthyr, Glamorgan. He stopped the fan engine on the Saturday night, to make some small repairs to it. When done the engine being "on centre” he went into the fan chamber to move the fan round a little by getting on the blade and not having opened the cocks to drain the cylinder of steam the fan revolved quickly and he was drawn in and crushed.

JONES Owen (injured) - 1890 - 11/02/1890 – Age 38 – Rockman. New Welsh Slate. He was tamping a small socket, left from a pillaring hole, which he had charged with gunpowder when an explosion took place. It is not quite certain what kind of tamping bar he was using. 4 months off.

JONES Owen (non-fatal) - 1893 - 23/06/1893 – Age 50 – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). A 2 ton stone lurched while he was splitting it and squeezed his right foot, fracturing one of the toes. Fourteen and a half weeks off.

JONES Owen - 1890 - 05/03/1890 – Age 51 - Hooker on. Votty & Bowydd (slate). Struck by an empty truck on a pass-by at the foot of an incline. The truck was hooked on to the rope at the top of the incline when the pin of the link of the coupling chain came out and the truck ran away down the incline. The pin came out owing to the absence of or imperfection in the cotterel which had not been noticed. 3 killed.

JONES Owen - 1890 - 16/06/1890 – Age 16 - Door boy. Abergorky, Burnyeat Brown and Co., Treorky, Glamorgan. Crushed between loaded train and roadside on road dipping one in seven, the tram having run wild owing to horse's gears coming loose.

JONES Owen - 1891 - 14/06/1891 – Age 26 – Sinker. North’s Navigation Wyndham, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Maesteg, Glamorgan. The foreman sinker and deceased were at work during the Saturday night fixing airboxes in a sinking pit and filling up byatt holes and while getting the walling stage into position he slipped off one of the "half-moons" and fell to the bottom, a depth of 40 yards.

JONES Owen - 1893 - 01/04/1893 – Age 29 – Hitcher. Cymmer, Cymmer Colliery Co., Cymmer, Glamorgan. While crossing the pit bottom he was struck on the head by a piece of coal falling down the shaft. He should have gone by the back slum.

JONES Owen - 1893 - 31/05/1893 – Age 56 – Rockman. Braichgoch (slate). He was startled by a falling chain and while walking rapidly backwards, along the floor of the chamber, he stumbled and fell against a waggon loaded with slate rubbish, which was standing in the tram road. The blow caused a bad scalp wound and concussion of the brain and he died from these injuries nine days afterwards.

JONES Owen - 1894 - 12/05/1894 – Age 50 - Slate getter, Rhosydd (slate). His partner was on the working face getting down slate by crowbar after blasting. Jones heard a piece rolled down and ran to the side of the chamber where he would be in shelter but he was struck on the head by a stone which unexpectedly came to the very spot where he was standing.

JONES Owen - 1895 - 20/02/1895 – Age 20 – Carter. Dinorwic (quarry), GWD Assheaton Smith, Dinorwic, Carnarvon. He was helping to tip a tram waggon when it rolled down the rubbish heap and carried him with it. Died same day.

JONES Peter (injured) - 1890 - 20/06/1890 – Age 35 – Miner. Rose Hill, Samuel Scowcroft and Co., Bolton, Lancashire. Injured whilst riding down the engine brow, a coupling having broken by a jerk in stopping part of the train.

JONES Peter - 1893 - 21/11/1893 – Age 47 – Collier. Bettisfield, Bettisfield Colliery Co. Ltd., Bagillt, Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was a Contractor working pillars out in the 5 yard seam. He had set two sprags under a piece of top coal, which he had attempted to get down, when a squeeze came over the road and a portion of the coal fell upon him.

JONES Peter - 1899 - 09/08/1899 – Age 50 – Dataller. Garswood Hall, Garswood Hall Collieries Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were roofing down the main road and after they had finished making the kench edge safe, as they thought, one of the deceased went back for some reason, possibly to draw a prop which was in the way of the tubs, when a piece of roof coal fell on him.

JONES Philip - 1893 - 01/09/1893 – Age 73 – Roadsman. Graigola Merthyr Clydach, Graigola Merthyr Co. Ltd., Clydach, Glamorgan. Knocked down by a tram while cleaning the road. He stepped out of the way of a full tram and into the way of an empty tram coming in the opposite direction.

JONES Phillip - 1891 - 15/09/1891 – Age 23 – Loader. Cannock Chase, Cannock Chase Colliery Co., Brownhills, Staffordshire. Fall of coal from working face.

JONES Phillip - 1893 - 11/04/1893 – Age 42 – Collier. Great Western, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an underground fire. 63 killed.

JONES Price - 1898 - 20/12/1898 – Age 27 – Collier. Pentre Lower, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face clod, 4.5 feet x 11 feet x 8 inches thick, inside of timbers 3 feet back. Five feet seam.

JONES Pryce - 1893 - 14/01/1893 – Age 29 – Holer. Vron, Vron Colliery Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was in the act of holing, under the main coal, against which he had set sprags when a piece of coal, which had been loosened by a shot going off previously, fell striking him above the ankle which had to be amputated. He died from shock and exhaustion on the 19th. inst.

JONES R. Isaac (injured) - 1894 - 14/09/1894 – Age 20 – Labourer. Oakeley (slate). He was lowering a block of slate, with a crane, when he let the handle slip, it whirled round and struck his forehead. One and a half weeks off.