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POTKINS Joseph William - 1898 - 05/10/1898 – Age 41 – Quarryman. Ball’s Hill Quarry, Henry Norris, Hertford. Whilst working in a gravel quarry and under an overhanging face, a fall of gravel occurred which fatally killed the deceased.

POTTER Daniel - 1897 - 27/08/1897 – Age 38 – Brakeman. Loanhead, Shotts Iron Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased came in contact with the drum while it was revolving and thrown over against the frame whereby he was crushed.

POTTER David - 1892 - 26/08/1892 – Age 38 – Collier. Park Slip, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Tondu, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 112 killed.

POTTER Isiah - 1891 - 27/04/1891 – Age 41 – Collier. Dukinfield Dewsnap, Dukinfield Coal and Cannel Co. Ltd., Dukinfield, Cheshire. Fall of roof near working face while preparing to set timber in Roger Mine.

POTTER James - 1895 - 13/03/1895 – Age 15 - Asst. onsetter. Great Fenton, Homer, Staffordshire. Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Great Fenton, Staffordshire. Run over by tubs drawn by horse while attempting to jump on tubs in motion.

POTTER John - 1896 - 12/12/1896 – Age 55 - Waggon trimmer. Bent, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. A waggon, which deceased was trimming, was moved forward and deceased was crushed by it.

POTTER Josiah - 1890 - 14/07/1890 – Age 17 - Bank boy. Clay Cross No. 3, Clay Cross Iron and Coal Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Crushed by the flywheel of a screen engine whilst trying to lift the engine off the centre with the steam turned on. He had no business whatever in the engine house nor any work in connexion with the
engine.

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

POTTS James - 1897 - 18/01/1897 – Age 63 – Miner. Whitfield, Chatterley Whitfield Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Struck by locomotive engine while going to work along private branch railway.

POTTS Joseph - 1893 - 11/04/1893 – Age 25 – Banksman. Birley West, Sheffield Coal Co., Sheffield, Yorkshire. Deceased was attempting to put a leather belt on revolving pulley when his coat caught in the machinery and he was pulled round the shaft and killed before the machinery was stopped.

POTTS Joseph - 1893 - 15/03/1893 – Age 24 – Shunter. Whitfield, Chatterley Whitfield Co. Ltd., Tunstall, Staffordshire. Fell in front of trucks while lowering them to screens end and was run over.

POTTS Robert (non-fatal) - 1893 - 22/09/1893 – Age 13 – Coupler. Newbattle, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Run over by tub.

POULSON John - 1891 - 25/02/1891 – Age 42 - Collier. Lewis’ Merthyr Coedcae, Lewis’ Merthyr Navigation Collieries Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, 5 feet x 5 feet x 21 inches thick, from between slants, two props discharged. Roof strong cliff but slanty. Hafod seam, 2 foot 5 inches thick. Long wall.

POUNDER Henry - 1896 - 06/08/1896 – Age 29 - Asst. banksman. Wheatley Hill, Weardale Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The bottom deck of the cage had been cleared for men to ride and was being lowered when he attempted to get two tokens which, were lying on the cage bottom, but he was caught between the cage and flat sheets and killed instantly.

POVER Edward - 1890 - 27/02/1890 – Age 26 – Drawer, Ashtons Green, Bromilow Foster and Co. Ltd., St. Helens Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was lashing his full tub on to the endless rope when a second tub was allowed to run down the incline by another drawer and he was crushed between the two. 11.30 am.

POVER George - 1895 - 14/01/1895 – Age 13 - Hooker-on. Audley, W Rigby and Co., Audley, Staffordshire. Irruption of water from old working. 77 killed.

POVER James - 1895 - 14/01/1895 – Age 16 – Jigger. Audley, W Rigby and Co., Audley, Staffordshire. Irruption of water from old working. 77 killed.

POW Adam (non-fatal) - 1893 - 21/06/1893 – Age 30 – Miner. Bog & Home Farm, Hamilton McCulloch and Co., Lanarkshire. Crushed by hutch.

POW David (non-fatal) - 1894 - 02/11/1894 – Age 35 – Runner. Cowdenbeath & Foulford, Cowdenbeath Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Leg broken by screening engine. Still off.

POW David - 1899 - 29/12/1899 – Age 33 – Miner. Dysart, Earl of Rosslyn’s Collieries Ltd., Fife. A mass of coal and stone fell upon him from the side of a room.

POW George (non-fatal) - 1894 - 28/06/1894 – Age 60 – Labourer. Lochgelly, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Struck by crane mast, 3 days off.

POW James - 1894 - 29/11/1894 – Age 14 – Trapper. Lumphinnans, Cowdenbeath Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fell on spur wheels. Not employed at the time.

POWELL Albert - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 14 – 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.

POWELL Anthony - 1895 - 21/10/1895 – Age 47 – Miner. Blaina Lower Deep, John Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Blaina, Monmouth. Fall of roof coal from slip where he was working between a pair of timbers and the face, the distance between being only 4.4 feet.

POWELL Charles - 1895 - 09/02/1895 – Age 24 – Haulier. Cymmer, Cymmer Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of clift roof (10 feet x 13 feet x 3 feet thick) on a double parting. Three pairs of timbers within the 10 foot but the middle pair was cracked. Five feet seam.

POWELL Charles - 1895 - 27/03/1895 – Age 30 – Repairer. South Tunnel, Dowlais Iron Co., Glamorgan. While clearing a large fall on the road and retimbering it another fall occurred suddenly from the same cavity burying the four men engaged two of whom escaped with slight injuries. Top coal seam. 2 killed.

POWELL David - 1892 - 26/08/1892 – Age 22 – Collier. Park Slip, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Tondu, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 112 killed.

POWELL David - 1892 - 26/08/1892 – Age 42 – Repairer. Park Slip, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Tondu, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 112 killed.

POWELL David - 1895 - 21/05/1895 – Age 26 – Collier. Ferndale No. 1, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. While assisting a haulier to take a loaded tram from the stall on to the heading and about to sprag the tram it left the rails and crushed his head against a cog.

POWELL David John - 1893 - 11/04/1893 – Age 13 – Collier. Great Western, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an underground fire. 63 killed.

POWELL Edwin - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 35 – Haulier. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

POWELL Elton - 1897 - 16/02/1897 – Age 15 – Labourer. Crumpmeadow, Lydney & Crumpmeadow Collieries Co. Ltd., Gloucester. Run over by a railway waggon at the screens which he, and another boy, were moving contrary to rules.

POWELL Evan - 1893 - 19/12/1893 – Age 64 – Shunter. Griffin, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Blaina, Monmouth. Blocked between the buffers of railway trucks under the screens while lowering them for filling.

POWELL George - 1893 - 17/10/1893 – Age 43 – Repairer. Dowlais Cwmbargoed, Dowlais Iron Co., Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Fall of small stone from a hole in the roof where there had been a large fall while he was clearing the
side making room for timbers. Lower four feet seam. Died 18th.

POWELL George - 1896 - 02/06/1896 – Age 19 – Collier. Llanbradach, Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof from a smooth slip at the face.

POWELL Isaac - 1891 - 25/08/1891 – Age 48 – Collier. Rhos Llantwit, Rhos Llantwit Coal Co. Ltd., Caerphilly, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp at a naked light. 2 killed.

POWELL Ivor - 1896 - 21/05/1896 – Age 15 - Colliers’ boy. South Wales, Rose Heyworth, Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. When jumping clear of a fall of coal, at the face, he struck against the corner of a full tram causing internal injuries from which he died on the 23rd.

POWELL Jason - 1891 - 17/07/1891 – Age 25 – Collier. Nantmelyn, Nantmelyn Colliery Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of face slip of top coal which was spragged with an iron rail while holing below it. It broke off at a false slip.

POWELL Llewelyn - 1899 - 24/02/1899 – Age 30 – Collier. Abergorky, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at road cliff, 10 feet x 6 feet x 5.5 feet thick, while a fall was being cleared a pair or timbers above them broke and they were buried. 2 killed.

POWELL or REES Thomas - 1891 - 29/09/1891 – Age 39 - Pumpman. Glyn Collenna, Glamorgan Colliery Co. Ltd., Llantrissant, Glamorgan. Drowned by an influx of water in face of a dip slant in course of being driven. The water came from old workings, the existence of which was unknown.

POWELL Phillip - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 29 – 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.

POWELL S. - 1896 - 19/02/1896 – Age 40 – Collier. Warren Vale, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. Fall of side.

POWELL Thomas - 1892 - 04/03/1892 – Age 26 – Rider. Elliot, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., New Tredegar, Monmouth. The cage in which they were ascending in an underground staple pit (65 yards deep) fell away from the top in consequence of the rope pulling through the socket. A long iron bar which they were bringing up on top of the cage caught under the framing and caused the accident. 3 killed.

POWELL Thomas - 1893 - 02/09/1893 – Age 68 – Haulier. Cwmbran, Patent Nut and Bolt Co. Ltd., Cwmbran, Monmouth. On the surface his horse apparently took fright and bolted with the trams to which it was hitched. In trying to stop the horse he was run over by the trams and killed.

POWELL Thomas - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 31 – Timberman. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion 290 killed.

POWELL Thomas - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 35 – Master haulier. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

POWELL Thomas - 1894 - 23/06/1894 - Age 50 – Ripper. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

POWELL Thomas - 1898 - 16/03/1898 – Age 20 - Night haulier. Griffin No. 3, John Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in a rubbish road along which he was returning with an empty tram.

POWELL Thomas - 1898 - 28/09/1898 – Age 25 – Ostler. Llanbradach, Cardiff Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. When descending the shaft the cage, in which there were 15 persons, struck slightly against the staging at the Four Foot Seam, which had not apparently been drawn far enough back. The two men fell a distance of 45 yards to the bottom of the shaft. Three others were more or less injured by the shock. No other damage was done and winding proceeded in the ordinary course. 2 killed.

POWELL William - 1890 - 12/12/1890 – Age 33 – Pikeman. Horseley, Thomas Fieldhouse, Tipton, Staffordshire. Killed by fall of pouncil in which he was holing.

POWELL William - 1891 - 28/01/1891 – Age 17 – Collier. Whitworth Drift, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Tredegar, Monmouth. Fall of roof. On returning to his place, with his butty, after firing a shot they found that a prop had been knocked out and while engaged resetting it some of the roof fell killing this youth and injuring the other man.

POWELL William - 1893 - 06/05/1893 – Age 28 – Screener. Sneyd, Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks Co. Ltd., Burslem, Staffordshire. Crushed between trucks while assisting to place them at screens.

POWER John - 1895 - 06/02/1895 – Age 29 – Wagonshunter. Plymouth Abercanaid Hills, Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed between the buffers of two wagons while deceased was moving the front one and another man the hinder one from the screens.

POWER Michael - 1891 - 20/06/1891 – Age 50 – Sinker. Wigan Junction, Wigan Junction Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He would not allow the banksman to put down both safety doors before he got out of the hoppet. After getting out he appeared to have stepped over the edge of the open door and fell down the shaft. 3.50 am.

POWER Michael - 1894 - 02/01/1894 – Age 45 – Timberman. National, United National Collieries Ltd., Wattstown, Glamorgan. Fall of side in main road in Two feet nine seam where the road was being widened for a double parting. After trying to bar down a stone he commenced to fill rubbish in front of it when it fell on him.

POWER Patrick (injured) - 1891 - 16/07/1891 – Age 16 - Water ladder. Clonbrock, Clonbrock Coal Co., Crettyard, Ireland. Slightly burned by powder firing at their candles, it belonged to another person and they were meddling with it away from their own work. Inquiry. 2 injured.

POWERS Reuben - 1894 - 30/11/1894 – Age 38 – Brusher. Himley, Woodall and Co., Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of coal face while drawing a sprag. Died 7th Dec.

POXON A. - 1899 - 01/07/1899 – Age 21 – Corporal. Carlton Main, Yorkshire and Derbyshire Coal and Iron Co., Yorkshire. Crushed by tubs on engine plane.

POXON William - 1897 - 17/05/1897 – Age 38 – Stallman. Ellistown, Executors of JJ Ellis, Leicester. Deceased said he had struck a pulley in the mine with his head. He died from "meningitis," which did not appear to have been accelerated by any blow he may have received to his head.

PRATT J. - 1895 - 31/01/1895 – Age 48 – Hurrier. Barrow, Barrow Haematite Steel Co., Yorkshire. Crushed by corf against side. He was in front of corf.

PRATT John - 1899 - 08/12/1899 – Age 30 – Trammer. Gawton Arsenic, Devon Gawton Co. Ltd., Devon. A stone appears to have caught the iron bar, which he was using for filling a waggon and at the same time clearing the shute on the 167 fathom level. The bar sprung up and pinned him against the timber in the back of the level where he was found dead, his neck apparently having been broken.

PRATT Mark - 1893 - 29/09/1893 – Age 60 – Shifter. Sherburn, Earl of Durham, Durham, Co.Durham. Died from blood poisoning from alleged injuries to his arm. No evidence to show that he even received any accident or sprain in the mine.

PRATT W.F. - 1897 - 22/03/1897 – Age 30 – Pointsman. Cambrian Navigation No. 2, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. A shackle opened and seven trams ran back, crushing the deceased against the side of the road.

PRATT William (non-fatal) - 1892 - 25/11/1892 – Age 23 – Collier. Kelty, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of coal. Still off.

PRATT William (non-fatal) - 1894 - 13/01/1894 – Age 46 – Miner. Kelty, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of coal at face. 39 days off.

PREECE John - 1898 - 23/04/1898 – Age 31 - Tram spragger. Llanbradach, Cardiff Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Head fatally crushed by trams on the rubbish tip while greasing one of them.

PRENTICE ? - 1890 - 06/10/1890 – Age 8 - Not employed. Millburn, Cornsilloch Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Decapitated by waggons.

PRENTICE John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 03/06/1890 – Waggoner. Shields No. 1, James Wood, Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Fell in front of loaded waggon and was injured by the wheel.

PRENTICE John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 21/11/1892 – Drawer. Haughead, Haughead, Uddingston, Lanarkshire. Caught between two hutches.

PRENTICE William P. - 1897 - 22/02/1897 – Age 35 – Manager. Dalmeny Oil Shale, Dalmeny Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Two seams of oil shale were separated by a few feet of blaes. A miner engaged in making a road from a place in the upper seam to a place in the lower seam fired a shot in the pavement in the upper seam, which blew through into the lower seam and struck the deceased who was examining the workings at the time.

PRESCOT Ann - 1894 - 05/07/1894 – Age 15 – Screener. Abram, Abram Coal Co. Ltd., Bickershaw, Lancashire. Inspection made. While in the act of coming down the steps, from the screen, to which there was a hand rail attached, she accidentally fell and received injuries, died the following day. Female.

PRESCOT Peter - 1892 - 18/07/1892 – Age 29 – Fireman. Ashtons Green, Bromilow Foster and Co. Ltd., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased had been repairing a brattice cloth on an endway when he was struck by a runaway tub, the drawer having used a wooden scotch which broke. Iron scotches will be used in future. Died 14th. Aug.

PRESCOTT R - 1893 - 22/07/1893 – Age 52 – Paltelayer. Greaseborough, Greaseborough Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of loading stage on branch railway, died 24th.

PRESCOTT Samuel (injured) - 1891 - 09/04/1891 – Age 40 – Labourer. Ellerbeck, Ellerbeck Collieries Ltd., Coppull, Lancashire. Leg broken by falling when moving boiler plates above ground. Inspection and inquiry.

PRESCOTT Thomas - 1897 - 08/09/1897 – Age 38 – Collier. Golborne, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Golborne, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was working the coal off the side of a brow when a fall of roof occurred, from between two slips, capping a prop and crushing the deceased. His brother, the fireman, was present at the time. The jury suggested at the inquiry that more bars should be used in faulty ground.

PRESCOTT Walter - 1893 - 26/01/1893 – Age 22 – Browman. Craven, WS and J Harris, Coventry, Warwick. Deceased went down the landing, at the top of the incline, in front of 10 full tubs which overpowered and ran over him. Died same day.

PRESHER John - 1896 - 24/11/1896 – Age 22 – Miner. Blantyre Farme, AG Moore and Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

PRESS William (non-fatal) - 1893 - 06/09/1893 – Age 22 – Fireman. Dalbeath & Hill of Beath, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Explosion of blasting gelatine. 43 days off.

PRESSLEY J. - 1891 - 14/10/1891 – Age 26 – Collier. Nunnery, Nunnery Coal Co., Sheffield, Yorkshire. Fall of coal.

PRESTON George - 1896 - 19/05/1896 – Age 38 – Bricklayer. Lamb Cliff Chalk (quarry), IC Johnson and Co. Ltd., Kent. Unexpected fall, of some slightly overhanging brickwork and concrete standing about four feet high, underneath which he and a man named Martin were working while preparing to rebuild a drying chamber at some Portland cement works. Preston was killed on the spot, Martin received internal injuries.

PRESTON H. - 1892 - 24/12/1892 – Age 56 – Labourer. Fishley, Fishley Colliery Co., Bloxwich, Staffordshire. Found dead in pumping engine house.

PRESTON John - 1898 - 19/08/1898 – Age 72 – Wasteman. South Hetton, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Neck broken by a fall of stone from the roof while engaged clearing away a fall in the return airway. The size of the stone was 6 feet by 3 feet by 3 inches thick.

PRESTON Richard - 1896 - 30/04/1896 – Age 40 – Collier. Birchley, H Atherton, St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was working alone cutting in the coal in an upthrow fault 9 feet distance. He was visited by the fireman at 2 o'clock who found the place free from gas and fired a shot there but when he got there again at 5 o'clock he found the deceased suffocated by a blower of gas given off from the new coal top of step. The level was ventilated in the bottom of the step. The fireman stated no gas had been seen previously.

PRESTON Robert (non-fatal) - 1891 - 08/04/1891 – Miner. Great Western, James F Waldie, Maryhill, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

PRESTON Thomas - 1895 - 01/10/1895 – Age 35 – Fireman. Shakerley, William Ramsden and Sons, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp which ignited at a bonneted Clanny lamp whilst trying to remove firedamp. Probably the gauze became red hot. 5 killed.

PRETTY Thomas - 1899 - 06/06/1899 – Age 42 – Labourer. Nuckley Hill Granite Quarry, Mountsorrel Granite Co., Leicestershire. Run over by a travelling crane on the railway sidings of the quarry. His leg was amputated but he died of shock the same day.

PRICE Benjamin - 1890 - 22/05/1890 – Age 34 – Collier. Kelty, J Williams, Wellington, Shropshire. Fall of coal while holing in new mine. Died 13th June.

PRICE Charles - 1890 - 01/05/1890 – Age 19 - Asst. timberman. Ocean Park, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Treorky, Glamorgan. While deceased, and another repairer, were pulling out old timbers, to enlarge an airway, the roof to a height of 8 foot above with eight pairs of timbers suddenly fell upon him. It took 10 hours to get him free and
although reported slightly injured he died three days afterwards. Lower seam Longwall.

PRICE Charles - 1891 - 13/09/1891 – Age 13 - Collier’s boy. Abergorky, Burnyeat Brown and Co., Treorky, Glamorgan. Fall of side from rippings not squared back on road side 18 foot long, 1.5 foot to 3 foot wide, 14 inches thick. "6-ft." seam. Longwall.

PRICE Daniel - 1890 - 21/02/1890 – Age 20 – Engineman. Dunraven, Mortgagees of Thomas Joseph, Treherbert, Glamorgan. Found dead and crushed in flywheel pit of haulage engine which he attended. He had apparently been adjusting the indicator while the engine was in motion.

PRICE Daniel - 1894 - 19/03/1894 – Age 20 – Repairer. Deep Navigation, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Treharris, Glamorgan. Found dead, with his clothes entangled in the crank shaft of a small crab engine which he attended.

PRICE Daniel - 1895 - 01/01/1895 – Age 24 – Labourer. Llwynon (quarry), WP Powell, Brecon. Fall of a small stone from the top of the quarry, a height of 120 feet above him. There had been a hard frost and the stone fell when the ground was thawed a little by the warmth of the sun. Killed on the spot.

PRICE Daniel - 1899 - 22/02/1899 – Age 31 – Collier. Tunnel, Aberdare Works and Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face clod 4 foot x 4 foot x 1.5 foot thick, which he was wedging down when it fell suddenly and he failed to get out of its way. Gellidaeg seam. Died 17th September 1899.

PRICE David - 1895 - 27/03/1895 – Age 57 – Collier. North’s Dunraven, George Watkinson and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of clift roof at face, a bell stone 6 foot diameter 2 foot 2 inches thick, no prop under it. No. 2 Rhondda seam.

PRICE David - 1897 - 07/04/1897 – Age 33 – Ripper. Naval Nantgyn, Naval Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fatally injured by full journey while passing in to his work.

PRICE David - 1897 - 26/07/1897 – Age 13 - Collier boy. Fochriw No. 2, Dowlais Iron Co., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face coal, while filling the coal box a piece about 10 lb fell on his head striking it against the sharp edge of the box and fracturing his skull. Rhas Las seam 3.5 foot thick.

PRICE Edmund - 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.

PRICE Enyon - 1890 - 08/03/1890 – Age 21 – Collier. Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen Colliery Co. Ltd., Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan. While boring a hole, with a rotary machine, a rail with which he was pressing forward on the upright post slipped, and he fell upon it. Died 19th March.

PRICE G. - 1891 - 01/04/1891 – Age 27 – Collier. Prince of Wales, J Rhodes, Pontefract, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

PRICE George - 1893 - 01/05/1893 – Age 19 – Hewer. Bedlington, Doctor Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Bedlington, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He had kirved a jud and taken out a tack or coal sprag at the loose end. On again commencing to kirve, the coal fell on to him from a straight face and slippery back.

PRICE George - 1893 - 02/03/1893 – Age 32 – Collier. Lady Windsor, Ocean Coal Co., Ynysbwl, Glamorgan. Fall of side at face (8 foot x 3 foot 9 inches x 3 foot thick) it was resting partly on Cogs and two props. No. 2 seam.

PRICE Henry - 1890 - 22/01/1890 – Age 17 – Collier. Glyn, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypool, Monmouth. Where two timbermen were engaged repairing in the engine plane (the main intake air road) they ignited some firedamp with their naked lights, being an issue through broken ground it continued burning and set the timbers on fire resulting in the suffocation of these men. 5 killed.

PRICE Henry - 1896 - 18/11/1896 – Age 61 – Brakesman. Gadlys, New Waynes Merthyr Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by waggons on sidings during shunting operations.

PRICE Isaac - 1897 - 10/03/1897 – Age 34 – Haulier. East Elliot, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fatally crushed on a double parting between two full trams, which he had pushed forward, and one of which he
expected to remain stationary, but which from some cause got into motion and followed without his knowledge. Having lost his light he did not become aware of the latter tram approaching him until it crushed him.

PRICE John - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 13 - Door boy. Llanerch, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Pontypool, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp at naked lights in the No. 4 heading, off Cooke's slope, about 8.30 a.m. after the men had been at work in their places two to two and a half hours. 176 killed.

PRICE John - 1893 - 18/10/1893 – Age 14 - Collier’s boy. Dowlais Bedlinog, Dowlais Iron Co., Bedlinog, Glamorgan. Fall of coal (3 feet x 8 inches x 8 inches thick) from face, which was said to be standing vertical. Raslas seam.

PRICE John - 1894 - 12/02/1894 – Age 55 – Pikeman. Wednesbury Oak, P Williams and Son, Tipton, Staffordshire. Blood poisoning, through a wound in the arm, from the point of a pike.

PRICE John - 1894 - 23/03/1894 – Age 27 – Haulier. Dowlais No. 1, Dowlais Iron Co., Bedlinog, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (coal and clod) on heading as he was passing with his horse and tram. The fall which was 6 foot 10 inches x 4 foot 11 inches to 3 foot wide and 3 foot thick, crushed out two pairs of timbers adjoining some new timbers put up on the previous night, Ras Las seam.

PRICE John - 1896 - 19/11/1896 – Age 42 – Labourer. Bedlinog No. 2, Dowlais Iron Co., Glamorgan. Fall at face coal and rubbish, 8 foot thick, in a Nottinghamshire stall, while shifting rails, face not overhanging and not spragged.

PRICE John - 1897 - 20/08/1897 – Age 42 - Asst. Night overman. Mardy, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A fall of roof caused death before he could be released. He seems to have been on his rounds through the workings, and in travelling between two working places to have somehow disturbed the stone, which had give way and was not safe. Some of the night men whom he had just left heard him shout and went to his assistance but were unable to release him alive.

PRICE John - 1899 - 08/09/1899 – Age 29 – Haulier. Castle, Crawshay Bros. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at road top coal 3 feet x 16 inches x 9 inches thick, while passing where an arm had been knocked out by his horse owing to too little side space. Nine feet seam.

PRICE or HAVARD James - 1891 - 25/05/1891 – Age 50 – Platelayer. Duffryn Rhondda, Wright Butler and Co., Llangonoyd, Glamorgan. Knocked down and run over by a journey of full tram on the incline.

PRICE Rees - 1891 - 21/01/1891 – Age 69 – Haulier. Aberdare, Aberdare Coal Co., Aberdare Glamorgan. He was riding in an empty tram, drawn by a horse, on top of embankment 6.5 foot wide and unfenced when the tram left the rails and it together with the deceased and the horse rolled to the bottom of the slope a distance of 61 ft.

PRICE Rees - 1897 - 27/03/1897 – Age 29 – Hitcher. Ferndale No. 4, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Struck by a lump of coal falling down the shaft.

PRICE Richard - 1891 - 19/12/1891 – Age 66 - Preparing shots. Dowlais Cardiff, Dowlais Iron Co., Llanvabon, Glamorgan. While heating water in a kettle, for thawing dynamite cartridges, an explosion occurred causing injuries from which he died on 23rd December.

PRICE Richard - 1899 - 12/09/1899 – Age 29 – Stallman. New London, Digby Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was pulling coal from the face and this liberated a large quantity of roof which fell on him. The roof was supposed to be a very good one and no bars had been set.

PRICE Robert (injured) - 1891 - 27/07/1891 – Age 25 – Miner. Cilcychwyn (metalliferous). He fired a hole charged with dynamite and it did not do its work properly. He then started to bore the same socket, left by the explosion, when some unexploded remnants of the charge went off and injured his eye. Three and a half weeks off.

PRICE Samuel - 1891 - 22/10/1891 – Age 30 – Collier. Brymbo, Brymbo Co., Wrexham, Denbigh. Inspection made. The deceased was getting down coals, which had been loosened by a shot, when a thin layer of metal roofing fell upon him. He had his props too far from the coal face. 10.0 am.

PRICE Thomas (injured) - 1891 - 07/01/1891 – Age 50 – Labourer. Oakeley (slate). A crane fell upon him, while he was shifting it, and broke his collar bone. Seven and a half weeks off.

PRICE Thomas - 1893 - 11/04/1893 – Age 15 – Doorboy. Great Western, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an underground fire. 63 killed.

PRICE Thomas - 1894 - 27/08/1894 – Age 17 – Carter. New Welsh Slate. Inhaling air containing carbonic oxide discharge into a level from the fire of a steam boiler. They were returning along a level, through which they had entered the workings, about half an hour before when they were overcome by the poisonous atmosphere and died before they were discovered. 2 killed.

PRICE Thomas - 1895 - 14/11/1895 – Age 54 – Roadsman. Dowlais-Bedlinog, Dowlais Iron Co., Glamorgan. Run over by runaway trams, owing to the breaking of a hitching plate, while he was standing on full road near bottom of inclined plane.

PRICE Thomas - 1899 - 25/05/1899 – Age 39 – Hitcher. Ferndale No. 3, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed against cage by two trams running past the stop blocks. Died 10th December.

PRICE Walter - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 21 – Haulier. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

PRICE Walter - 1898 - 10/12/1898 – Age 45 – Labourer. Henwain, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of side in the Big Vein Heading, along which he was passing on his way out from work.

PRICE Wiliam - 1899 - 23/06/1899 – Age 32 – Fitter. Main, Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over on incline down which he was walking.

PRICE William - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 29 – Haulier. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

PRICE William William (injured) - 1890 - 05/09/1890 – Age 30 – Quarryman. Oakeley (slate). Inadvertently let the handle of the winch of a crane slip from his grasp while lowering a block of slate. It flew round and struck him on the face. 7 week off.

PRICHARD Joseph - 1899 - 22/12/1899 – Age 27 – Collier. Naval Nantgwyn, Naval Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face top coal, 8 foot x 8 foot from 1 to 2 foot thick. It fell from a slant discharging two pairs of timber, the arms having been stood on the bottom coal gave way. Nine feet seam.

PRIDE Isaac - 1896 - 27/01/1896 – Age 19 – Labourer. Ferndale Nos 7 & 8, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp, 57 killed.

PRIDE Isaac - 1897 - 03/04/1897 – Age 48 – Overman. Cymmer, New Onsoles Ltd., Glamorgan. While riding in a tram, behind another loaded with timbers, one of the props caught the side of the road, rebounded and struck him, causing fatal injuries.

PRIEST Richard Thomas - 1899 - 14/06/1899 – Age 16 – Trammer. Swanwick, CR Palmer-Morewood, Derbyshire. Deceased was said to have received a slight injury in the mine on the 12th. but he died from natural causes, unconnected with the injury. An inquest was held when the jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes.

PRIESTLEY I. - 1896 - 27/05/1896 – Age 52 - Clay feeder. Bracebridge (quarry), Lincoln Brick Co., Lincolnshire. Fell into pan when cleaning it. Died 20th June.

PRIESTLEY S. - 1898 - 12/08/1898 – Age 44 – Collier. Lofthouse, Lofthouse Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

PRINCE John - 1890 - 03/03/1890 – Age 24 – Stallman. Cannock Wood, Cannock and Rugeley Colliery Co., Hednesford, Staffordshire. Fall of roof. Cause, a previously unseen slip and timber knocked out.

PRINGLE James (non-fatal) - 1892 - 30/12/1892 – Age 30 – Miner. Pentland, Clippens Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of gas. Still off.

PRINGLE James (non-fatal) - 1893 - 24/04/1893 – Age 46 – Miner. Tyneside, A White and Co., Haddington. Fall of roof.

PRINGLE James - 1899 - 08/12/1899 – Age 21 – Bencher. Cadder No. 15, Carron Co., Lanarkshire. While walking up a dock close behind a race of full hutches a coupling broke and the hutches ran back on him.

PRINGLE John - 1890 - 19/03/1890 – Age 59 – Enginewright. Longhirst Grange, James Telford, Longhirst Grange, Northumberland. Fell from surface into old shaft which he and others were repairing. 8.0 am.

PRINGLE John - 1894 - 08/01/1894 – Age 57 – Shifter. Washington, Washington Coal Co., Washington, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased, with other men, was walking along an engine plane going to work when a fall of stone took place, part of which caught the deceased. The roof was considered to be good.

PRINOLD James - 1890 - 11/09/1890 – Age 25 – Screener. Apedale Sladder Hill, Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Crushed between truck and retaining wall at screens while lowering truck.

PRIOR James (non-fatal) - 1894 - 18/05/1894 – Age 23 – Miner. Broxburn & Roman Camp, Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Explosion of shot. 21 days off.

PRIOR Michael - 1895 - 03/09/1895 – Age 65 – Mechanic. Universal, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While superintending the erection of a pair of large winding engines, he slipped off a plank and fell on to a stage, 7 feet below, and from that to the bottom of the enginehouse, 12 feet below.

PRISHOUSE William - 1892 - 10/08/1892 - 16 Driver. Auckland Park, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Auckland, Co.Durham. Fell off timbers and a set of tubs ran over him.

PRISK Henry - 1890 - 26/09/1890 – Age 22 – Miner. Tregurtha Downs (metalliferous), Tregurtha Downs Mining Co., Marazion, Cornwall. Deceased was a tributer at the time of the accident and was engaged in cutting out tin ground from the side. A rock of about half a ton came out just above and fell on Frisk. His comrade immediately removed the rock but deceased never spoke and died within about two minutes. Evidence was given at the inquest by experienced miners, who knew the place that the ground was considered quite safe, and also the men were fully supplied with timber for the purpose of making everything secure. A verdict of "accidental death', was returned by the jury.

PRITCHARD David - 1895 - 23/03/1895 – Age 54 – Ashman. Llay Hall, ES Clark, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was guiding the haulage rope with his hand (instead of using an iron hook) in order to get the rope to roll properly on the drum, when be got entangled between the rope and the drum, causing him to be drawn over the drum and instantly killed.

PRITCHARD Edward (injured) - 1894 - 16/10/1894 – Age 18 – Driver. Biddulph Valley Havelock, R Heath and Sons, Tunstall, Staffordshire. Kicked on temple by horse.

PRITCHARD Edward - 1894 - 11/05/1894 – Age 47 – Metalman. Ashton’s Green, Bromilow Foster and Co. Ltd., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They had been trying to get a stone down from the
roof but had failed and while preparing to set a prop it gave way to a break crushing the deceased so much that he died the following day.

PRITCHARD George - 1899 - 24/02/1899 - Age 45 – Pikeman. Thornleigh, Stourbridge Glazed Brick & Fireclay Co. Ltd., Worcestershire. Premature explosion of a blasting powder shot. Died 1st Mar. 2 killed.

PRITCHARD Griffith - 1899 - 23/11/1899 – Age 70 – Labourer. Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry Co. Ltd., Carnarvon. Unexpected fall of about 5 cwt of boulder clay from a height of 8 or 9 feet. Killed on the spot.

PRITCHARD J. - 1899 - 01/09/1899 – Age 18 – Labourer. Ynyshir, Thomas Jones, Glamorgan. While assisting to shift wagons at screens he was crushed between the draw-bars probably as he was detaching the horse's chains.

PRITCHARD James - 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.

PRITCHARD James - 1893 - 23/06/1893 – Age 58 – Labourer. Ferndale No. 1, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Fendale, Glamorgan. Fall of roof, while resting with his partner near face of stall, under edge of rippings 4 yards from where they were gobbing rubbish. Six feet seam.

PRITCHARD James - 1897 - 24/08/1897 – Age 37 – Nightman. Tillery Powells, Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in a roadway where deceased and another collier (Williams) were engaged repairing. The overman, when in the place about five hours before the accident, seeing that the roof was not safe to work under ordered Williams, the man in charge, to rip it all down and left them as practical men, to go with the work. Had Williams not been injured himself he should have been held responsible under the Act but under the circumstances it would be persecution and not merely prosecution to do so.

PRITCHARD John - 1891 - 20/02/1891 – Age 62 – Labourer. Graig Fawr, Ebbw Vale Steel and Iron Co. Ltd., Ebbw Vale, Monmouth. Caught in the belting of a mortar mill, on the surface, while picking up his pipe which had fallen on the inner side of the fly-wheel. Died from the injuries on the 22nd.

PRITCHARD John - 1894 - 21/05/1894 – Age 29 – Miner. Talacre (metalliferous). Fall of a rider or guiding frame for a bucket in a shaft which was being sunk.

PRITCHARD John - 1895 - 09/09/1895 – Age 41 – Sinker. Dowlais Cardiff, Dowlais Iron Co., Glamorgan. Fell out of bowk while ascending sinking pit, the bowk having caught a byat supporting the pumps. 6 killed.

PRITCHARD John - 1897 - 19/08/1897 – Age 33 – Collier. Oak, G Watkinson and Sons Ltd., Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were engaged cutting roof coal down, in a roadway, when the roof gave way from a slip running parallel with the road, capping the timber they had set and burying the deceased. 2 killed.

PRITCHARD John H. - 1892 - 25/07/1892 – Age 24 – Shifter. Walker, Walker Coal Co. Ltd., Felling, Northumberland. Inquiries made. Said to have sprained himself when pushing a kibble. He went on with his work and was going about as usual at night. No report made at the Colliery until his death.

PRITCHARD Joseph - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 19 – Haulier. 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.

PRITCHARD Joseph - 1898 - 29/07/1898 – Age 24 – Stallman. Ashmore Park, Ashmore Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Stafford? Explosion of Compressed blasting powder. Died 1st Aug.

PRITCHARD or RICHARDS Amos - 1896 - 27/01/1896 – Age 46 – Haulier. Ferndale Nos 7 & 8, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp 57 killed.

PRITCHARD Robert H. - 1899 - 01/03/1899 – Age 44 - Slate getter. Dinorwig Slate Quarry, GW Duff Assheton Smith, Carnarvon. He neglected to use his suspending rope while working with a crow bar 8 feet above ground. He fell over and fractured his skull. Died on the 8th.

PRITCHARD Rosser - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 37 – 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.

PRITCHARD Thomas - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 12 - Door boy. Llanerch, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Pontypool, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp at naked lights in the No. 4 heading, off Cooke's slope, about 8.30 a.m. after the men had been at work in their places two to two and a half hours. 176 killed.

PRITCHARD Thomas - 1891 - 23/03/1891 – Age 20 – Wheeler. Townhill, Townhill Coal Co., Fife. Fall of coal and stone.

PRITCHARD Thomas - 1892 - 06/04/1892 – Age 40 – Hitcher. Aberaman, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Struck by a piece of ball ironstone, falling from the side of the shaft and going through the cage cover, semicircular and made of iron.

PRITCHARD Thomas J. - 1899 - 07/06/1899 – Age 27 – Quarryman. Darbishire’s Granite Quarry, Darbishire’s Ltd., Carnarvon. He had inserted a charge of about 7 lb of gunpowder into a hole, and while he was probing with a copper scraper, to ascertain whether the charge had reached the bottom, it exploded. Died on the 12th July.

PRITCHARD W. - 1895 - 13/05/1895 – Age 45 – Collier. Allerton, T and RW Bower, Yorkshire. When pushing a corf he slipped and strained himself. Died 17th May.

PRITCHARD William (injured) - 1891 - 24/10/1891 – Age 14 – Rubbisher. Oakeley (slate). While playing with another boy he had his foot caught by the spokes of the pulley of a sawing table. Leg broken near ankle. 17 weeks off.

PRITCHARD William (injured) - 1892 - 30/11/1892 – Age 20 – Miner. New Welsh Slate. A hole was charged with gelatine-dynamite and a candle-end or "snuff" was put under the fuse and lighted. Hearing no report the man waited 15 minutes and then returned to the hole where upon it went of at this moment, the fuse having hung
fire. Scalp wounds, Four and a half weeks off.

PRITCHARD William (injured) - 1894 - 04/05/1894 – Age 35 – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). A piece of rock, which he was in the act of getting down from the working face of a chamber, struck him on the foot and broke one of his
toes. Nine and a quarter weeks off.

PRITCHARD William - 1891 - 14/07/1891 – Age 35 – Miner. Aberllefenny (slate). A man had bored a hole 9 inches deep and charged it with gunpowder, while he was about to fix up the candle end or snuff he somehow ignited the end of the fuse, which was very short and had not been turned back into a lump of clay and the hole went off almost at once. He was not hurt, but Pritchard and Williams received blows from stones thrown by the explosion. 1 killed 1 injured.

PRITCHARD William - 1895 - 11/02/1895 – Age 32 - Asst. timberman. Ocean Deep Navigation, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of timbers and roof on road in four feet seam. He was engaged with others preparing a place for side walls of an arch when five pairs of timbers suddenly collapsed.

PRITCHARD William - 1897 - 22/03/1897 – Age 40 - Collier. Griffin No. 2, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof from unseen slants or slips which were liberated by the coal which he had just worked off the face.

PROBBERT Job - 1896 - 30/09/1896 – Age 60 – Collier. Blaenavon, Blaenavon Co. Ltd., Blaenavon, Monmouth. Fall of roof at the face. A thin piece of shell fell on his head causing a wound which at the time was not considered serious but erysipelas supervened and he died on the 27th October.