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L’ANSON V.D. - 1896 - 06/10/1896 – Age 24 - Loco. Fireman. Garesfield Spen. Consett Iron Co., Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was passing in between a tub and a truck when they were moved by the locomotive and he was crushed.

LACEY J. - 1892 - 26/01/1892 – Age 58 – Collier. Howden Clough, Howden Clough Coal Co., Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Died 25th.

LACEY Thomas - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 19 – 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.

LAFFERTY Charles - 1898 - 28/04/1898 – Age 36 – Boilerman. Carfin No. 6, William Dixon Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of stone wall, in front of boilers, owing to the pressure of the dross heaped up behind it.

LAFFERTY John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 23/04/1892 – Miner. Calderbank No. 2, Glasgow Iron and Steel Co., Baillieston, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place.

LAFFERTY Thomas (non-fatal) - 1890 - 05/12/1890 – Age 26 – Miner. Pentland, Clippens Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of gas. Not yet returned.

LAIDLER James - 1890 - 15/11/1890 – Age 33 - Master wasteman. Margaret, Earl of Durham, Fence Houses, Co. Durham. He told one of the wastemen to knock out a prop, to let down some stone, which fell killing him and breaking the back of the other man who was his brother.

LAIDLER Percival - 1899 - 23/02/1899 – Age 47 - Timber drawer. Newbottle, Margaret Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co. Durham. He was drawing a jud and had finished, with the exception of drawing the crossing baulk at the jud end, he was testing out the prop under this baulk when the stone broke down the timber under which he was working and killed him.

LAIDLER Richard - 1893 - 09/11/1893 – Age 21 – Wasteman. Margaret, Earl of Durham, Fence Houses, Co. Durham. Died from injuries received from a fall of stone while drawing a prop on November 15th 1890.

LAING George (non-fatal) - 1892 - 26/01/1892 – Age 24 – Roadsman. Niddrie, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Fall down incline. Still off.

LAING George - 1897 - 18/12/1897 – Age 56 – Miner. Wemyss, Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was proceeding up the rise side of his place, to take off his holed coal, when it fell on him.

LAING James (non-fatal) - 1893 - 22/04/1893 – Age 32 – Miner. Lathallan, Thomas Brown and Sons, Fife. Fall of stone, 29 days off.

LAING James - 1892 - 13/04/1892 – Age 50 – Engineman. Longriggend, James Nimmo and Co., Lanarkshire. Sudden death.

LAING John - 1897 - 23/12/1897 – Age 16 - Shaft siding lad. Houghton, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co. Durham. Killed while following his employment at upcast shaft siding by a fall of stone from the roof.

LAING John - 1899 - 03/07/1899 – Age 54 – Surfaceman. Durie, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. While passing between two wagons deceased appears to have struck his head against a bolt or other projection with fatal result.

LAING Thomas - 1898 - 21/09/1898 – Age 26 – Miner. Deans Oil Shale, Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Two gunpowder shots were ready to fire at the face of a dook. Deceased and another miner agreed to light one shot each. They retired after deceased had lit his shot the fuse of the other shot was thought not to have kindled, but it exploded just as deceased returned to the face after the explosion of the shot he had lit.

LAING William R. - 1891 - 12/10/1891 – Age 37 – Screenman. Gilmerton, Gilmerton Gas Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Run over by waggons.

LAIRD Alexander (non-fatal) - 1890 - 26/03/1890 – Age 13 – Drawer. Grangemouth, Grangemouth Coal Co., Stirling. Fall of roof. 32 days off.

LAIRD Alexander (non-fatal) - 1890 - 27/02/1890 – Miner. Gilbertfield No. 2, Cambuslang Coal Co., Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. While starting a race on a self acting incline the rope struck him.

LAIRD Alexander (non-fatal) - 1894 - 10/10/1894 – Age 50 – Miner. Rochsolloch, Airdrie Coal Co.. Lanarkshire. Fall of top coal. 80 days off.

LAIRD Alexander - 1893 - 28/02/1893 – Age 50 – Miner. Orbiston No. 2, Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Co., Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face while stooping.

LAIRD Charles - 1894 - 25/06/1894 – Age 27 – Miner. Bog Hamilton, McCulloch and Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of stone.

LAIRD David (non-fatal) - 1894 - 25/06/1894 – Age 30 – Miner. Callendar, Callendar Coal Co., Stirling. Fall of stone at face. 32 days off.

LAIRD David - 1896 - 24/03/1896 - Age 38 - Pony driver. North Motherwell, Merry and Cuninghame Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road caused by his pony bolting into an airway and knocked out a prop.

LAIRD James (non-fatal) - 1894 - 04/09/1894 – Age 39 – Miner. Pumpherston, Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of shot. 111 days off.

LAIRD James - 1891 - 26/11/1891 – Age 67 – Sinker. Carfin No. 1, William Dixon Ltd., Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Explosion of dynamite while stemming a shot. 2 killed.

LAIRD James - 1892 - 15/12/1892 – Age 20 – Miner. Gilbertfield No. 2, Cambuslang Coal Co., Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

LAIRD John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 17/05/1890 – Age 41 – Miner. Lochgelly, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of roof. 151 days off.

LAIRD John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 29/10/1892 – Age 30 – Collier. Glespin, Robert Swann, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal. 37 days off.

LAKE W. - 1894 - 03/01/1894 – Age 51 – Collier. North Gawber, Fountain and Burnley, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof, died 6th.

LAKER Henry - 1895 - 23/04/1895 – Age 44 – Labourer. Brockham (quarry), Brockham Brick Co. Ltd., Surrey. He was standing on the brake, of full sized railway waggon, allowing it to descend a railway siding with a slight gradient, he fell off and received fatal injuries from being struck by another waggon of the same short train. Died the same day.

LAKER John - 1891 - 11/06/1891 – Onsetter. Walker, Walker Coal Co., Walker, Northumberland. Inspection made. Fell down the shaft from one seam to another and it is probable he had neglected to put a chain across the top as he ought to have done. 10.45 am.

LAKIN Frederick - 1897 - 06/01/1897 – Age 17 - Horse driver. Conduit, Conduit Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Died Jan 7th. Over run by a full tub descending gradient. A case where first aid would have probably saved a life.

LAKIN James - 1890 - 17/05/1890 – Age 45 – Dataler. Langwith, Sheepbridge Iron and Coal Co., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof whilst repairing an airway. Withdrawing timber, by knocking it out with a hammer instead of using a ringer and chain.

LAKING C - 1899 - 19/10/1899 – Age 13 – Driver. Kiveton Park, Kiveton Park Coal Co., Yorkshire. Crushed between full tub and roof.

LALLY J. - 1896 - 20/07/1896 – Age 61 – Collier. Glass Houghton, TH Thorp Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

LAMB George - 1891 - 20/03/1891 – Age 23 – Banksman. Ryhope, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Co. Durham. Died from the effects of an injury to his knee received on the 2nd May last. A malignant tumour having formed and he died from exhaustion. 6.0 pm.

LAMB James - 1890 - 22/09/1890 – Age 47 – Timberman. Naval, Naval Colliery Co. Ltd., Penygraig, Glamorgan. Crushed between loaded trains on a parting after finishing his shift. On seeing some trams, being let down a short distance, he jumped forward to pick up his measuring stick, which was lying on the road, and was caught by the trams.

LAMB John - 1895 - 09/02/1895 – Age 37 – Sinker. Blaina Arrail Griffin, John Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Blaina, Monmouth. The deceased were descending the shaft to resume sinking operations. When about 56 yards from the bottom the hoppet struck the scaffold used for walling, which was hung up against the side, and caused the four men to fall to the bottom of the shaft where they were found dead. 4 killed.

LAMB John - 1896 - 24/04/1896 – Age 33 – Hewer. Walbottle, Walbottle Coal Co., Walbottle, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was working in a place about 6 feet wide when a large stone about 5 feet in diameter suddenly came away from close up to the face as he was kirving. A plank with two props and another prop were under the stone and were knocked out by the fall.

LAMB Ralph * - 1896 - 31/12/1896 – Age 36. Butterknowle, Butterknowle Coal Co. Ltd., Cockfield, Co. Durham.

LAMB Thomas (non-fatal) - 1892 - 20/03/1892 – Age 37 – Roadsman. Brownyside, William Black and Sons, Linlithgow. Explosion of gas. 42 days off.

LAMBERT Robert - 1899 - 08/02/1899 – Age 40 – Stallman. Birley, West Sheffield Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was getting coal from the face, when a large quantity of the roof and coal came with the coal and killed him. The fall came to a slip which deceased liberated by working the coal.

LAMBERT Thomas (non-fatal) - 1893 - 08/04/1893 – Age 12 – Drawer. Roughrigg, Robert Forrester, Lanarkshire. Crushed by tubs.

LAMBERT Thomas - 1892 - 19/07/1892 – Age 24 – Hewer. Adelaide, Pease and Partners Ltd., Auckland, Co. Durham. While ascending he dropped his lamp in the cage and on attempting to recover it he fell down the shaft, a distance of 260 yards.

LAMBERT Thomas - 1893 - 11/04/1893 – Age 27 – Rider. Great Western, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an underground fire. 63 killed.

LAMBIE George (non-fatal) - 1891 - 19/01/1891 – Age 21 – Collier. Mauldslie, Waddell and Son, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal. 42 days off.

LAMBIE James (non-fatal) - 1891 - 24/01/1891 – Miner. Auchinharvie No. 5, Merry and Cuninghame, Stevenston, Ayrshire. Explosion of firedamp.

LAMBIE James (non-fatal) - 1891 - 24/12/1891 – Miner. Gauchalland No. 2, Gauchalland Coal Co., Galston, Ayrshire. Fall of coal.

LAMBIE James (non-fatal) - 1891 - 30/05/1891 – Age 36 – Collier. Castlehill, Shotts Iron Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of stone. 53 days off. 2 injured.

LAMBIE John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 03/03/1890 – Miner. Newhouse, Newhouse Coal Co., Holytown, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

LAMMIE James (non-fatal) - 1893 - 14/03/1893 – Age 30 – Miner. Muiravonside, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Stirling. Explosion of powder. 2 injured.

LAMONBY Edward - 1898 - 11/01/1898 – Age 22 - Horse shoer. Cramlington Lamb Pit, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Cramlington, Northumberland. Inspection made. When descending the shaft, without a light, he called to someone as he was passing a mid-working and leaning too far out of the cage his head was caught against the scaffold.

LAMOND Francis - 1897 - 28/05/1897 – Age 35 – Labourer. Muiravonside, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Stirling. Deceased, and another, were on the top of a pithead frame, fixing a pulley block with which to raise the stays when it fell.

LAMONT Thomas (non-fatal) - 1891 - 04/05/1891 - Loco. Driver. Eglinton No. 1, Eglinton Iron Co., Irvine, Ayrshire. Fell while jumping off a waggon and got ran over.

LAMPIN Henry - 1899 - 27/01/1899 – Age 55 – Miner. Gawton Arsenic, Devon Gawton Co. Ltd., Devon. Fall of hanging wall in their work place owing to its not having been secured. 3 killed.

LANCASHIRE or LANCASTER William - 1899 - 21/02/1899 – Age 45 – Miner. Kelton Iron Ore, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. This accident occurred in a soft working about five feet high. The face was apparently well timbered but a sudden weighting or settling displaced some of the wood and Lancaster was caught by a falling head tree. Injuries considered slight at first but he died on the 5th March.

LANCASTER J. - 1893 - 01/05/1893 – Age 54 – Collier. East Ardsley, R Holliday and Sons, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Fall of roof, died 5th.

LAND W. - 1892 - 14/01/1892 – Age 40 – Holer. West Riding, Pope and Pearson, Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of coal, died 27th.

LANDERS John - 1897 - 20/02/1897 – Age 21 - Wagon lowerer. Bickershaw, Ackers Whitley and Co. Ltd., Leigh. Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged lowering an empty wagon, in the slack road of the siding towards the screen, with his right arm over the front buffer and his left arm held the brake, with his back in the direction the wagon was moving. The deceased appears to have forgotten the empty wagons standing behind him, which were not quite clear of the slack road, and he got crushed between the buffers of the wagons.

LANE Issac - 1890 - 01/11/1890 – Age 52 – Shunter. Streetley, Shireoaks Colliery Co., Worksop, Derbyshire. Supposed to have been crushed by the chain used for shunting and the side of an empty waggon whilst shunting waggons.

LANE Jesse W - 1894 - 16/10/1894 – Age 37 – Miner. Eston (metalliferous), Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. Fall of a piece of stone after a shot knocked a prop out.

LANE John (non-fatal) - 1894 - 02/02/1894 – Age 58 – Brusher. Fordell, Fordell Trustees, Fife. Hand crushed by cage when riding, 102 days off.

LANE John - 1895 - 07/06/1895 – Age 69 – Miner. Mauricewood, Shotts Iron Co., Edinburgh. Suffocated.

LANE Richard - 1894 - 10/05/1894 – Age 39 – Sinker. Peel Hall, James Roscoe and Sons. Little Hulton, Lancashire. Crushed by cage when getting in at intermediate mouthing. Engine crept away owing to break not being secure.

LANE William - 1896 - 01/09/1896 – Age 37 – Labourer. Tillery, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. While in an old road in which he was unloading rubbish a fall occurred causing his death. He is supposed to have been drawing a flat of timbers when it happened. It is alleged that the fireman, when with him, two or three hours before had told him not to touch it.

LANE William - 1899 - 12/05/1899 – Age 20 – Putter. Bowden Close, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co. Durham. When pushing a full tub he was strained internally and died from the effects there on the same day.

LANETON Lewis - 1899 - 07/11/1899 – Age 28 – Loader. Great Fenton, Kemball Coal and Ironstone, Staffordshire. Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Stafford. Thrown off a timber tram, which ran loose down inclined plane while being brought down by hand.

LANG Alfred - 1896 - 15/06/1896 – Age 24 – Collier. Pentre, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face, slip of coal while cutting under it. Died from fractured spine on 12th July.

LANG Andrew (non-fatal) - 1890 - 04/12/1890 – Miner. Dykes No. 1, Eglinton Iron Co., Cumnock, Ayrshire. Fall of coal.

LANG James (non-fatal) - 1890 - 04/06/1890 – Age 38 – Miner. Birkenshaw, Birkenshaw Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

LANG James - 1899 - 30/11/1899 – Age 15 – Cranefooter. Whitehall, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was hanger on at the foot of the wheel brae, 60 fathoms in length, and having a gradient of 1 in 5. The road was double throughout and the tubs were raised and lowered by overhead endless rope, passing round horizontal pulleys at top and bottom. The brake was attached to the bottom pulley and was under the charge of the deceased. The tubs were run in sets of two and were attached to the rope, by a coupling chain coiled four times round the rope and hooked back upon itself immediately behind the coils. The security of the attachment could only be tested when the load got on the incline and therefore beyond control of the drawer hanging it on. The attachment of two loaded tubs slipped on the rope the tubs ran away and struck deceased killing him instantly. He had only commenced work in the mine on the previous day.

LANG John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 11/02/1890 - Road repairer. Bothwell Park No. 2. William Baird and Co., Bothwell, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road.

LANG John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 08/07/1892 – Age 14 - Miner’s boy. Carn Brea (metalliferous), Carn Brea Mine Adventurers, Carn Brea, Cornwall. He overbalanced and fell from the scaffold in an engine house on the surface.

LANG John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 09/11/1892 – Age 60 – Engineman. Earnock, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Explosion of gas. 2 injured, 14 days off.

LANG Louis - 1899 - 10/02/1899 - Age 15 – Driver. Wallsend, Wallsend & Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Wallsend, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was leading a pony, attached to four full tubs and an empty timber tram, down a slight incline, when the pony ran away and deceased was over by the tubs.

LANG William (non-fatal) - 1891 - 04/04/1891 – Miner. Glenbuck, Galawhistle Cairntable Gas Coal Co., Muirkirk, Ayrshire. Fall of side while brushing.

LANGDALE H. - 1899 - 20/03/1899 – Age 28 – Engineman. Beverley Clay Quarry, Storry Witty and Co. Yorkshire. Fell into washer mill when machinery was working.

LANGDON Frederick - 1894 - 15/01/1894 – Age 14 – Driver. South Moor, South Moor Coal Co. Ltd., Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham. The pony stumbled and threw the tub aside, and he fell off the tub head and was crushed to death.

LANGDON James (non-fatal) - 1894 - 26/01/1894 – Age 18 – Miner. Dolcoath (metalliferous), Dolcoath Mine Adventurers, Camborne, Cornwall. Struck by debris from a shot which was fired without proper warning having been given.

LANGFORD John - 1897 - 15/11/1897 – Age 67 – Byeman. Llay Hall, ES Clark, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased, and two other men, were taking a full tub of dirt towards the face of a roadway, the deceased went in front to clear any dirt off the rails and told the other men to bring the tub along, but as they proceeded they found the tub had crushed the deceased against a low bar. He succumbed to the injuries received in a few minutes after the accident.

LANGFORD Robert (injured) - 1891 - 15/01/1891 – Age 52 – Miner. East Pant Du (metalliferous). He was working with a pick, in the bottom of a shaft, when a slight explosion took place injuring his eye. It is supposed that he either struck a cap or some remnants of gelatine dynamite, the explosive used in sinking the shaft 20 weeks off.

LANGLANDS Taylor - 1898 - 12/08/1898 – Age 65 – Stoneman. Seaham, Marquis of Londonderry, Co. Durham. Died from having been slightly injured on July 22nd last by a small piece of stone falling from the roof and displaced the timber and this causing a slight cut on the head. Cerebral meningitis set in from which he died.

LANGLEY Alfred - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 15 – 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.

LANGLEY John - 1894 - 01/08/1894 – Age 22 – Collier. Llwynpia No. 3, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Llwynpia, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp.

LANGLEY Oliver - 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.

LANGSTON Thomas - 1896 - 16/01/1896 – Age 14 – Driver. Wardley, John Bowes and Partner Ltd., Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was driving four full tubs out when his pony ran up against another set of full tubs knocking the first tub off the way and crushing deceased between a prop and the tub.

LANGTON William - 1893 - 20/04/1893 – Age 62 - Asst. enginewright. Butterley Park, Butterley Co., Alfreton, Derbyshire. Deceased had been attending to some repairs to a pumping engine and when it started the beam knocked down a ladder on which he was standing throwing him to the ground and struck him. Died 30th.

LANGWORTH Joseph - 1899 - 31/05/1899 – Age 27 – Drawer. Turton Moor, Turton Moor Sanitary Pipe Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place from between two slips one, of which was known.

LANNAN James (non-fatal) - 1890 - 09/07/1890 – Age 15 – Driver. Whitehill, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Crushed by tubs.

LANNEN Thomas (non-fatal) - 1891 - 18/08/1891 – Age 23 – Collier. Whitehall, Lothian Coal Co., Edinburgh. Fall of roof.

LAPPIN John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 27/10/1892 – Roadsman. Strone, Strone Colliery Co., Kilsyth, Ayrshire. Struck by runaway hutches on dip mine.

LARKEN John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 07/11/1890 – Miner. Hallside, James Dunlop and Co., Newton, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

LARKIN J. - 1898 - 14/12/1898 – Age 38 – Labourer. Monckton Main, Monckton Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. When getting clay from an excavation he was injured by a fall and died 22nd Dec.

LATHAM William - 1892 - 01/03/1892 – Age 37 - Asst. blacksmith. 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.

LATHAM William - 1895 - 14/01/1895 – Age 18 - Taker-off. Audley, W Rigby and Co., Audley, Staffordshire. Irruption of water from old working. 77 killed.

LATHAM William - 1895 - 19/01/1895 – Age 35 – Collier. Llwynpia No. 3, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of strong clift from between two slips or joints 6 foot apart at right angles to face extending from coal to gob wall 11 foot back. No props within the area of fall. No. 3 Rhondda seam.

LAUCHRAY Thomas (non-fatal) - 1892 - 04/10/1892 – Brusher. Newton No. 1, James Dunlop and Co., Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road.

LAUGHARNE Dan - 1896 - 22/04/1896 – Age 13 - Door boy. Cwrt-y-Bettws, Hendleys Collieries Co., Glamorgan. Run over by two loaded trams, which he started in the absence of the haulier. It was thought he was riding on the shaft and fell off it.

LAUGHLIN Edward (non-fatal) - 1892 - 13/09/1892 – Age 27 – Collier. Rawyards, Rawyards Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal, 90 days off.

LAUGHTON J. - 1891 - 04/02/1891 – Age 41 – Ripper. Allerton Byewater, Silkstone and Haigh Moor Coal Co., Castleford, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

LAURENCE Joseph Thomas - 1899 - 08/08/1899 – Age 6 – Child. Garrison Farm Clay Quarry, Midland Brick Co., Warwick. He was drowned in a pool of water in the quarry.

LAVENDER James Samuel - 1896 - 24/09/1896 – Age 15 - Colliers’ boy. Celynen, Newport Abercarn, Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He and three others took an empty tram and rode down an incline, loosing control. This boy, who was sitting at the front, was crushed against full trams standing in the road. He died from the injuries the following day.

LAVERICK Henry - 1899 - 16/03/1899 – Age 50 – Hewer. Hebburn, Wallsend & Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. While hewing in a wide bord a large stone, with slippery sides (cauldron bottom), fell knocking out the timber under it. The place had been carefully examined by the deputy (who set some props) and deceased about two hours previously and was then considered to be securely timbered.

LAVERICK Thomas - 1890 - 16/12/1890 – Age 22 – Borer. North Biddick, Sir G Elliot MP, North Biddick, Co. Durham. Suffocated by gasses from old workings. 3 killed.

LAVERS Mason (non-fatal) - 1891 - 31/08/1891 – Age 41 – Miner. Dolcoath (metalliferous), Dolcoath Mining Co., Camborne, Cornwall. A stone fell down the shaft and striking his ankle broke it.

LAVERY James - 1891 - 09/07/1891 – Age 52 – Hewer. St. Hilda, Harton Coal Co., Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Whilst riding outbye, on a tram, the pony seems to have bolted and in some way the deceased fell in front of the third tram which passed over him. 10.45 am.

LAVIN Thomas - 1893 - 17/02/1893 – Age 23 – Dataler. Billinge Lane, Winstanley Collieries Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was a contractor's man and while preparing to drill a hole, in a stone which they had failed to bar down from the roof, it gave way to a slip falling upon him.

LAVINGTON James - 1890 - 21/10/1890 – Age 49 – Engineman. Llynypia, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Tonypandy, Glamorgan. While putting a belt on the revolving pulley, over the roof of a coal washing machine, his clothes got entangled with the shaft or pulley and he was crushed to death.

LAW C. - 1891 - 17/04/1891 – Age 55 – Shotfirer. Cortonwood, Cortonwood Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Injured by tubs.

LAW Hugh - 1897 - 03/04/1897 – Age 15 – Brakesman. Ochiltree, Linlithgow Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Fell on to drum of self acting incline which he was braking.

LAW John Robert (injured) - 1890 - 04/08/1890 – Age 31 – Miner. Ashtonfield Trencherbone, Bridgewater Trustees, Little Hulton, Lancashire. Injured by roof from near the face of his place.

LAW Joseph - 1890 - 20/03/1890 – Age 43 – Stallman. Fishley, Fishley Colliery Co., Bloxwich, Staffordshire. Fall of roof at way end. Deceased had removed the tree which supported it himself, and took no further precaution.

LAW William (non-fatal) - 1891 - 13/03/1891 – Age 28 – Contractor. Avonhead, Avonhead Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 26 days off.

LAWLER James (non-fatal) - 1892 - 10/03/1892 – Miner. Garscube No. 1, Robert Addie and Sons, Maryhill, Lanarkshire. Ignition of a shot which he had thought had missed fire.

LAWLEY John - 1893 - 23/09/1893 – Age 34 – Pikeman. Saltwell, Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcestershire. Avalanche of coal on slope of 35 degrees.

LAWMAN William - 1893 - 23/06/1893 – Age 24 – Hewer. Allhallows, Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Allhallows, Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. While the deceased was working at the coal a large stone fell from between slips on one side, and a fracture near the face on the other side, on to him. The place was examined and reported safe by the deputy only a few minutes before the accident happened.

LAWNS Robert - 1895 - 13/12/1895 – Age 20 – Putter. Eppleton, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Eppleton, Co. Durham. Suffocated by gases entering a place which had been fenced off. Brown, the deputy, went first and took the putter with him and when they were overpowered by the gas the hewer perished in an attempt to save him, 3 killed.

LAWRENCE Philip - 1899 - 16/01/1899 – Age 45 - Timber taker. Pemberton, J Blundell and Sons, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was loosening a prop, from under a bar, with his hammer when the roof fell crushing him. They had the gablock with them. He succumbed to the injuries received.

LAWRENCE William - 1896 - 11/09/1896 – Age 39 – Fireman. Trimsaran, Trimsaran Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. Fall on main slant, while repairing and working alone about it, 16 feet x 8 feet x 4 foot thick. Big vein.

LAWRENSON James - 1890 - 04/06/1890 – Age 34 – Collier. Parr No. 1, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inquest attended. He was holing when the coal fell over his sprag onto him.

LAWRENSON Joseph - 1898 - 16/02/1898 – Age 49 – Labourer. Haydock, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was pushing at the buffer of a new coal wagon, with four other men, when the buffer, which appears to have been caught somehow in its fittings, and unnoticed by the men sprang out and struck the deceased on the head. He died shortly afterwards at the hospital.

LAWRY Nicholas (non-fatal) - 1892 - 22/08/1892 – Age 22 – Labourer. Levant (metalliferous), Levant Mining Co., St. Just, Cornwall. Struck by the handle of a winch which slipped from his hand.

LAWRY William Henry - 1893 - 18/11/1893 – Age 16 - Asst. timberman. Botallock (metalliferous), Botallock Mine Adventurers, St. Just, Cornwall. He was assisting the shaftsman, near top of the shaft. He appears to have slipped
on the top ladder and fallen a very few feet. He was picked up, dead, his neck having been broken. The fall was not actually seen, although the shaftsman was working only a few feet from him. There was a hurricane blowing at the time and the shaft is close to the cliffs so that conversation could only be heard with difficulty where they were. The wind may have caused him to slip.

LAWS William - 1892 - 09/02/1892 – Age 18 – Putter. Cambois, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Cowpen, Northumberland. Inquiries made and inquest attended. Whilst riding on the limmers, and in crossing from one side to the other as he approached a turn in the road, his head caught against the roof and he was forced back on to the tub injuring his spine.

LAWS William - 1896 - 13/04/1896 – Age 21 – Stoneman. Brancepeth, Strakers and Love, Durham, Co. Durham. An explosion occurred on a main haulage road. 7 killed.

LAWSON Alexander - 1893 - 04/01/1893 – Age 21 – Screenman. Bickershaw, Ackers Whitley and Co. Ltd., Leigh, Lancashire. Inspection and inquiry made. The waggon lowerer left some waggons near the crossing and lowered some more which bumped against the others and drove them suddenly down, crushing the deceased between the buffers.

LAWSON Andrew (non-fatal) - 1891 - 03/03/1891 – Engineman. Cadder No. 16, Carron Co., Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Burned by naphtha while throwing it on a stove pipe.

LAWSON Edward (injured) - 1891 - 31/01/1891 – Age 13 – Drawer. Cathall, George Hargreaves and Co., Broad Oak, Lancashire. Leg broken by a runaway tub on a slope; another drawer having bumped his tub against some tubs that were standing and started one. Inspection and inquiry.

LAWSON Henry - 1894 - 13/10/1894 – Age 10. Cossall, Cossall Colliery Co., Cossall, Nottinghamshire. The Midland Railway Company's locomotive was shunting empty waggons into the colliery siding and ran over the deceased. He was not employed at the colliery and the accident happened on the footpath crossing the railway.

LAWSON James (non-fatal) - 1890 - 02/10/1890 – Age 19 – Drawer. Lassodie, Thomas Spowart and Co. Ltd., Fife. Leg broken by chain on wheel brae. Not yet returned.

LAWSON James (non-fatal) - 1893 - 17/11/1893 – Age 14 – Miner. Earnock, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fell on road.

LAWSON John (non-fatal) - 1891 - 07/10/1891 – Age 27 – Collier. Shieldhill, Carron Co., Stirling. Fall of coal. Still off.

LAWSON John William - 1896 - 01/04/1896 – Age 26 – Deputy. Tibshelf No. 2, Babbington Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was knocking a prop out in a waste, when the roof fell and killed him. He neglected to use a ringer and chain as provided by the rules.

LAWSON Ralph * - 1896 - 13/04/1896 – Age 60 – Brancepeth. A Pit, Strakers and Love, Co. Durham.

LAWSON Thomas (non-fatal) - 1892 - 29/01/1892 – Age 28 – Collier. Home Farm Hamilton, McCulloch and Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of wood from roof 50 days off.

LAWSON Thomas - 1896 - 13/04/1896 – Age 65 – Stoneman. Brancepeth, Strakers and Love, Durham, Co. Durham. An explosion occurred on a main haulage road. 7 killed.

LAWSON William (non-fatal) - 1890 - 04/02/1890 – Age 23 – Brusher. Kingseat, Wallace Bros., Fife. Fall of stone. 55 days off.

LAWTHER George William - 1896 - 13/04/1896 – Age 39 – Stoneman. Brancepeth, Strakers and Love, Co. Durham. An explosion occurred on a main haulage road. 7 killed.

LAWTON Albert - 1896 - 20/08/1896 – Age 35 – Fireman. Knutton Manor, Knutton Manor Mining Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fell out of cage while ascending the shaft. 2 killed.

LAWTON Alfred (injured) - 1894 - 28/09/1894 – Age 42 – Crutter. Harrison & Woodburn, Madeley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Leycett, Staffordshire. Head cut by stone from shot of gelignite. The shot was fired by electricity when the shot firer thought Lawton was in safety.

LAWTON Eli - 1899 - 16/01/1899 – Age 16 - Dip rider. Leycett, Fair Lady, Madeley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed by low bar while riding on engine dip on top of tub instead of on chains.

LAWTON James - 1891 - 10/12/1891 – Age 34 – Collier. Northwood, Hanley Colliery Co., Hanley, Staffordshire. Fall of coal and roof at working face in 10-foot Seam.

LAWTON John - 1895 - 25/10/1895 – Age 38 – Collier. Apedale Burley, Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Apedale, Staffordshire. Gob slipped down into his working place on 10 feet seam and buried him. Angle 45 degrees.

LAWTON Samuel - 1893 - 19/01/1893 – Age 19 – Dataler. Talk ‘o’th’ Hill, Talk o’th’ Hill Colliery Co. Ltd., Talk o’th’ Hill, Staffordshire. Fall of roof while building a packwall at longwall face in Bullhurst Seam.

LAWTON Thomas (injured) - 1890 - 01/11/1890 – Age 16 – Drawer. Peel Hall White, James Roscoe, Little Hulton, Lancashire. Piper died next day from burns by firedamp which ignited at his open light, near the bottom of the engine brow. The gas was apparently driven out of old workings, by water that was being run in, and safety lamps were used except on the engine brow. 1 killed, 1 injured.

LAWTON Thomas - 1896 - 18/09/1896 – Age 24. Denaby Main, Denaby and Cadeby Coal Co., Yorkshire. Died in mine (apoplectic fit).

LAYCOCK Aaron - 1893 - 23/11/1893 – Age 41 – Shifter. Burnhope, UA Ritson, Lanchester, Co. Durham. While descending the Fell pit the winding rope broke, when they had got about 80 yards from the surface, and they all fell to the bottom of the pit, about 150 yards. 4 killed.

LAYNE M. - 1897 - 12/02/1897 – Age 30 – Collier. Snydale, H Briggs Son and Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

LAYTON Thomas William - 1896 - 08/10/1896 – Age 14 – Driver. Kimblesworth, Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Co. Ltd., Co. Durham. He came away from flat, with an insufficient number of sprags in his first set, the first tub got off the way and crushed his leg against a prop. Died Nov. 1st.

LAYTON William - 1895 - 07/05/1895 – Age 41 - Loco. Driver. West Wylam, Mickley Coal Co., Northumberland. Inspection made. He was leaning over from his engine, looking back over the end of the train, when his head came in contact with a lamp post, which stood 2 feet 6 inches from the engine.

LAYTON William - 1898 - 12/07/1898 – Age 27 – Blacksmith. Byer Moor, J Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co. Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Some iron ladders were being put into a staple and deceased, who was guiding the last one which was suspended on a rope, into its place is supposed have clutched one of them, which had not been securely fastened, fell with it to the bottom, a distance of 23 feet.

LEACH Henry - 1895 - 14/01/1895 – Age 19 – Loader. Audley, W Rigby and Co., Audley, Staffordshire. Irruption of water from old working. 77 killed.

LEACH Thomas - 1897 - 11/05/1897 – Age 31 – Roadsman. Whitehaven Croft, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The set was on the engine plane, when one of the drag bars broke and part of the set got fast. Deceased and others had lifted a tub from the full to the empty road and placed it behind the bogie. He was lowering the set down, in the ordinary way, when he lost control and on jumping from the bogie slipped and was caught behind him.

LEADBETTER John - 1898 - 25/01/1898 – Age 36 – Miner. Whitehall, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased worked in a stooping place, and while engaged holing he heard the roof working to fall, and before he got clear he was buried beneath the fallen roof.

LEADBITTER Noah - 1893 - 15/09/1893 – Age 57 – Labourer. Clough Hall, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Harecastle, Staffordshire. Crushed by crank of mortar-mill engine while a belt was being repaired.

LEAH Joseph - 1894 - 12/02/1894 – Age 13 - Horse driver. Clay Cross No. 6, Clay Cross Colliery Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Run over by a runaway empty tub which broke away from a descending train of empty tubs, whilst being lowered down an engine plane. Had an over chain been used it would probably have prevented the accident.

LEAK J. - 1893 - 16/03/1893 – Age 42 – Dataler. Denaby Main, Denaby Main Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Sprained his back carrying a rail, died 29th May.

LEAR James - 1899 - 15/09/1899 – Age 19 – Collier. Cleynen Newport Abercarn, Black Vein Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. While passing between two journey trams (one full and one empty), on the No. 16. Double Parting of the Main East Road they were started and he appears to have got under the empty journey in some unknown and unexplained way and was found dead on the road.

LEAR William - 1897 - 22/04/1897 – Age 35 – Brancher. Tyning, Trustees of late Countess, Waldegrave, Somerset. Fatally injured by a charge of dynamite, upon his returning to ignite it after a charge of powder had gone off. The flame from the powder shot ignited the fuse and thus caused the accident. He died the following day. This consequently is really due to powder although actually caused by an explosion of dynamite.

LEARMOUTH Richard (non-fatal) - 1893 - 10/04/1893 – Age 54 – Fireman. Polbeith & Limefield, Youngs Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of gas, 21 days off.

LEATHER John (injured) - 1890 - 09/12/1890 – Age 50 – Dayman. Broomstair, Great Dukinfield Coal and Cannel Co., Haughton, Lancashire. Leg broken by floor dirt rolling from the higher side where he was ridding up.

LEBROND J. - 1897 - 07/01/1897 – Age 49 – Dataller. Kiveton Park, Kiveton Park Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of side. 2 killed.

LECKIE William (non-fatal) - 1892 - 05/07/1892 – Age 19 – Collier. Barblues, A and G Anderson, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof, 62 days off.

LEDGERWORTH Thomas - 1891 - 05/11/1891 – Age 17 – Putter. Ashington, Ashington Coal Co., Ashington, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. When starting his tub, from the face, a stone fell from the roof on to the deceased. 12.30 pm.

LEE A. - 1892 - 06/05/1892 – Age 32 – Shunter. Aldwarke Main, J Brown and Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Crushed by waggons, died 8th.

LEE David - 1895 - 21/08/1895 – Age 18 – Sinker. Netherton Old, M and W Grazebrook, Worcestershire. Fell insensible at the bottom of the shaft, with a wound at the base of the skull, as if something had stuck him.

LEE E - 1899 - 05/09/1899 – Age 22 – Sinker. Barnsley Main, Barnsley Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. When walling in sinking shaft he fell from the scaffold to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of about 24 yards.

LEE Elijah (injured) - 1890 - 06/11/1890 – Age 21 – Drawer. Oak Lower Bent, Chamber Colliery Co. Ltd., Hollinwood, Oldham, Lancashire. Injured by roof falling unexpectedly.

LEE George - 1891 - 06/10/1891 – Age 29 – Stallman. Pleasley, Stanton Iron Co., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Fatally injured by a shot. The deceased had charged two shots, very near each other, in the roof of a roadway. He fired one and after it had exploded he went back to fire the second when it exploded, the first shot having ignited the fuse of the second. Died 19th October. 3.40 pm.

LEE German - 1896 - 11/02/1896 – Age 35 – Stallman. Bolsover, Bolsover Colliery Co., Bolsover, Derbyshire. Fall of roof. He was getting coal down, in very faulty ground, when a portion of the roof fell upon him. He died the same day.

LEE Henry - 1895 - 14/01/1895 – Age 14 – Driver. Audley, W Rigby and Co., Audley, Staffordshire. Irruption of water from old working. 77 killed.

LEE J. - 1893 - 22/03/1893 – Age 50 – Collier. East Ardsley, R Holliday and Sons, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Injured by tubs.

LEE John - 1894 - 16/07/1894 – Age 40 – Hewer. Washington, Washington, Washington, Co. Durham. Inspection made. Deceased was riding on the full set, contrary to rules, and for some reason did not get off when approaching the kip and was caught against a baulk.

LEE John - 1897 - 11/03/1897 – Age 48 – Collier. Staffordshire, Staffordshire Coal Co., Yorkshire. Strained himself when lifting a corf on the rails. Died 3rd Apr.

LEE John D. (injured) - 1891 09/12/1891 28 Sinker Knotts, John Cottier, Hapton, Lancashire. Burned by flame from firedamp, which came out of the ground and fired at a lighted candle in the bottom of the shaft, as he was descending the sinking pit, the barometer had suddenly fallen. Inspection and inquiry.

LEE Joseph - 1891 - 23/12/1891 – Age 20 – Loader. Mossfield, Hawley and Bridgewood, Longton, Staffordshire. Struck on head by a temporary jig post coming out. Died 3rd January 1892.

LEE Joseph - 1896 - 11/02/1896 – Age 40 – Quarryman. Greengates, Whinstone (quarry), Lunesdale Whinstone Co., North Yorkshire. He was holding four steel plates and a chain was put round them and they fell over upon him.

LEE Joseph - 1897 - 07/04/1897 – Age 35 – Banksman. Manners, Manners Colliery Co., Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Deceased had suffered from a discharge, in the right ear, and he stated that he had bumped his head against the door of a railway waggon but went on working for two months. He became ill with abscess on the right side of the head and this reached the brain. He did not report any accident and went to the sick club and not the accident club doctor.

LEE Joseph - 1897 - 14/07/1897 – Age 16 - Horse driver. Barlborough, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. A train, of full trams, ran away down an engine plane, owing to the clip having been taken off too early. The deceased was crossing the road, to avoid the runaway tram, when he was run over. He died 16th.

LEE Lewis - 1893 - 04/07/1893 – Age 26. Coombs, ET Ingham, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Explosion of gas, 139 killed.

LEE R. - 1894 - 17/12/1894 – Age 16 – Byeworker. Lofthouse, Lofthouse Coal Co., Wakefield, Yorkshire. Struck by crab handle.

LEE Sykes - 1893 - 04/07/1893 – Age 18. Coombs, ET Ingham, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Explosion of gas, 139 killed.

LEE William - 1895 - 31/01/1895 – Age 20 – Horsedriver. Mickleton (quarry), Cargo Fleet Iron Co. Ltd., Mickleton, North Yorkshire. foot severely crushed run over by waggon while shunting. Died from lockjaw, 10th.

LEE William - 1899 - 09/09/1899 – Age 40 – Deputy. Esh, Pease and Partners, Co. Durham. Died today from inflammation of the brain, caused by slipping when lifting a siphon pipe and catching his head against the roof timber on Aug. 19th last.

LEECE William - 1897 - 01/10/1897 – Age 28 – Quarryman. Burlington Slate Quarry, Victor CW Cavendish, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was filling a waggon when he was struck by a mass of rock which fell from the side without any warning from a point only a few feet above his head.

LEECH Henry - 1897 - 28/08/1897 – Age 16 – Labourer. Miller’s Dale Limestone (quarry), Buxton Lime Firms Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was loading a tram at the foot of the quarry face when a stone fell out of the face and killed him. Deceased's father was in charge of that part of the quarry.

LEECH J. - 1899 - 15/08/1899 – Age 15 - Rope boy. Hoyland Silkstone, Hoyland Silkstone Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.