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SIMMENS Henry W. - 1898 - 24/10/1898 – Age 14 – Pointsboy. Old Estate Chalk Quarry, J Bazley White & Bros. Ltd., Kent. While he was standing between two waggons and coupling them together the driver started the locomotive, not knowing that any coupling was going on. The deceased was caught between the buffers and died the same day.

SIMMERS George - 1896 – 14/09/1896 – Age 66 – Labourer. Kemnay (quarry), John Fyfe, Aberdeen. Deceased was pinching forward a loaded truck, at a loading bank, when some empties behind were driven against him, by a load truck that had run down from the quarry at the upper end of the lye.

SIMMONDS Henry - 1894 – 07/02/1894 – Age 23 – Collier. Lewis Merthyr, Lewis Merthyr Navigation Collieries Ltd., Havod, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (cliff 5.5 feet x 2.5 feet x 9 inches thick) close to the face from a slant which was visible. He had neglected to put up additional props ordered by the fireman. Red seam.

SIMMONDS William - 1896 – 10/09/1896 – Age 27 – Hewer. Tudhoe, Weardale Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While making a jud a fall of stone took place and killed him.

SIMMONS John (rescued) - 1896 – 30/04/1896. Micklefield, Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 63 killed.

SIMMS Thomas - 1894 – 07/04/1894 – Age 35 – Miner. Grenville (metalliferous), Wheal Grenville Adventurers, Camborne, Cornwall. Crushed by the gig while ascending Peak's Shaft by ladder. These ladders, the manager asserted, were only for the pitmen. In examining and repairing the shaft he alleged that others were prohibited from using them but whether this was or was not the case it was not enforced and the manager was fined by the magistrates £2 plus costs for not doing so.

SIMMS William Henry - 1893 – 04/08/1893 – Age 12 – Driver. Murton, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Co.Durham. Severely crushed about his abdomen by being run over by tubs. Died on 8th.

SIMON John James - 1896 – 10/07/1896 – Age 19 – Dataller. Clay Cross No. 2, Clay Cross Coal and Iron Co., Clay Cross, Derbyshire. He died on 13th July from injuries which were supposed to have been received in the mine but there was no evidence to show how such injuries occurred.

SIMON Rowland - 1896 – 23/10/1896 – Age 19 – Haulier. Vayno Limestone (quarry), Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Brecon. He was riding on the side of a waggon, forming part of an empty train, down into the quarry by a pair of horses and was crushed between the waggon and the side of the tunnel. He received internal injuries and succumbed six days later.

SIMPSON Alexander (non-fatal) - 1890 - 29/07/1890 – Age 33 – Miner. Balbardie, Walker and Cameron, Linlithgow. Breaking of dook rope. Not yet returned.

SIMPSON Archibald - 1895 - 04/02/1895 – Age 55 – Labourer. Leven, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Scalded in brine tank.

SIMPSON Archibald (non-fatal) - 1894 - 17/12/1894 – Age 30 – Roadsman. Arden, William Black and Sons, Lanarkshire. Breakage of rope. 3 injured. Still off work.

SIMPSON Arthur - 1896 - 30/04/1896 – Age 24. Micklefield, Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 63 killed.

SIMPSON G. - 1893 - 16/03/1893 – Age 15 - Incline lad. Walbottle, Walbottle Coal Co., Walbottle, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. This boy was working at the foot of an incline plane coupling tubs. He was sitting in a safe place when the sets started but on hearing the tubs running back he tried to get into another place opposite and was caught. A coupling link broke at the welding causing the full tubs to run against the empty ones and breaking the rope. The accident was evidently due to defective welding but it is doubtful whether it could have been detected on examination.

SIMPSON G. - 1899 - 07/01/1899 – Age 14 - Stone dresser. Bolton Wood Sandstone Quarry, J Riddiough and Son, Yorkshire. Went to a crane boiler to draw the damper, without authority, before going to work. The morning was dark and misty and he fell into the quarry. Died 8th January.

SIMPSON George (non-fatal) - 1890 - 13/11/1890 – Age 48 – Miner. Balgonie, Charles B, Balfour, Fife. Fall of coal and stone. 25 days off.

SIMPSON George - 1893 - 27/11/1893 – Age 26 – Loader. New London, Digby Colliery Co., Kimberley, Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Whilst looking for some rail nails in the roadway a piece of roof fell on the deceased.

SIMPSON George - 1896 - 01/12/1896 – Age 34 – Miner. Crosshill, Anthony Watson, Fife. While lighting the patent fuse of gunpowder, the shot apparently ignited the powder in his face, and he was killed by the shot.

SIMPSON George - 1896 - 30/04/1896 – Age 21. Micklefield, Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 63 killed.

SIMPSON J. - 1890 - 30/01/1890 – Age 40 – Collier. Morley Main, W Ackroyd and Bros., Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

SIMPSON James (non-fatal) - 1893 - 08/05/1893 – Age 41 – Roadsman. Merryton, Merryton Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Explosion of shot. 3 injured, 49 days off.

SIMPSON John (injured) - 1891 - 24/03/1891 – Age 40 – Miner. Clap Gate, Rawstron and Ridings, Norden, Lancashire. Injured by roof stone falling, when beginning a new place. Inspection and inquiry.

SIMPSON John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 05/12/1892 – Age 34 – Collier. Wemyss REG, Wemyss, Fife. Fall of coal. 2 injured. Still off.

SIMPSON John (non-fatal) - 1893 - 25/12/1893 – Age 16 - Pony driver. Rawyards, Rawyards Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Jumping from hutch.

SIMPSON John - 1893 - 08/12/1893 – Age 50 – Roadsman. Lathallan, Thomas Brown and Sons, Fife. Fall of stone.

SIMPSON John - 1896 - 30/04/1896 – Age 26. Micklefield, Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 63 killed.

SIMPSON John George - 1891 - 07/04/1891 – Age 19 – Rolleywayman. Broomhill, Sowerby and Andrews, Broomhill, Northumberland. Inquest attended. Deceased was working on a self acting incline and on hearing the sets running he stepped into a refuge hole and allowed the full tubs to pass by but he, unfortunately, walked out of the refuge hole too soon, and was caught by the empty set of tubs. 10.30 am.

SIMPSON Joseph - 1896 - 20/03/1896 – Age 24 – Putter. Washington, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Washington, Co.Durham. Inquest attended. He was driving a pony and sitting on the limmers when the pony stepped onto a sleeper, which was lying in the middle of the roadway. The broken wood got fast against one of the sleepers and stuck into the lower part of his body.

SIMPSON R. (rescued) - 1896 - 30/04/1896. Micklefield, Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 63 killed.

SIMPSON Ralph - 1893 - 05/01/1893 – Age 45 – Hewer. South Co.Durham, South Co.Durham Coal Co., Auckland, Co.Durham. Fall of coal and stone from a slip in longwall working.

SIMPSON Robert - 1892 - 26/05/1892 – Age 59 – Screenman. Shawfield, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Crushed by waggon.

SIMPSON Thomas - 1895 - 06/06/1895 – Age 32 – Miner. Clyde Wilsons, Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

SIMPSON Walter (non-fatal) - 1892 - 10/02/1892 – Age 17 – Trimmer. Rawyards, Rawyards Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Struck by waggon sprag. 120 days off.

SIMPSON Walter - 1897 - 10/05/1897 – Age 44 – Shunter. Whitfield Chatterley, Whitfield Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed between trucks while lowering a truck into siding and sitting on the brake handle.

SIMPSON William (non-fatal) - 1891 - 04/08/1891 – Age 38 – Shaftsman. Lumphinnans, Cowdenbeath Coal Co., Fife. Overriding. 2 injured. 49 days off.

SIMPSON William (non-fatal) - 1894 14/06/1894 – Age 18 – Miner. Leven, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of roof. 131 days off.

SIMPSON William - 1899 - 12/01/1899 – Age 55 – Miner. Roanhead Iron Ore, Kennedy Bros., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. About 20 feet of an ordinary timber drift suddenly collapsed burying the two men. Ainsworth was rescued after being entombed for 33 hours, apparently little the worse, but he succumbed to shock on the 15th Jan. The place was well wooded and apparently secure. The right side consisted of solid ore, the ore on the other side having been worked out, although there was scarcely any open ground remaining. The roof was simply a mass of old wood and debris left from working previous heights, and it is very unusual for sudden falls to occur in ground of this character. 2 killed.

SIMS Evan - 1896 - 01/02/1896 – Age 65 – Labourer. Foxhole Llanerch Slant, Foxhole Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp.

SIMS Henry William - 1899 - 16/10/1899 – Age 32 – Ashwheeler. Prestongrange, Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Haddington. Deceased had been assisting one of the boiler furnace men to trim forward the dross or gum, which was stored in a large hopper erected in front of the stoke hole. He was seen leaving the hopper but appears to have re-entered it unobserved and to have slid down amongst the gum towards one of the shoots from which it was shovelled into the furnaces. About an hour afterwards his body gravitated to the shoot and he was discovered by one of the furnace men. Death was due to suffocation.

SIMS Thomas - 1892 - 24/08/1892 – Age 70 – Pumpman. Ynyscedwyn, Ynyscedwyn Colliery Co., Swansea Valley, Brecon. While descending main slant the carriages ran wild. 6 killed.

SINCLAIR Alexander (non-fatal) - 1892 - 01/09/1892 – Age 33 – Engineer. Cowdenbeath, Cowdenbeath Coal Co., Fife. By machinery. Still off.

SINCLAIR James (non-fatal) - 1891 - 01/09/1891 – Age 48 – Fireman. Kelty, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Crushed by tub. 42 days off.

SINCLAIR John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 16/08/1892 – Age 38 – Fireman. Arniston, Arniston Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of gas. 34 days off.

SINCLAIR John - 1890 - 09/04/1890 – Age 56 – Roadsman. Bathville, James Wood, Linlithgow. Caught by pinion wheel. 12.30 pm.

SINCLAIR John - 1895 - 15/11/1895 – Age 69 - Mason’s labourer. Bedlington, A Bedlington Coal Co., Bedlington, Northumberland. Deceased fell over a barrow and cut his arm and afterwards died from blood poisoning.

SINCLAIR John - 1895 - 20/05/1895 – Age 40 – Miner. Dunnikeir, Walter Herd and Sons, Fife. Fall of stone.

SINCLAIR Thomas (non-fatal) - 1892 - 28/09/1892 – Age 45 – Collier. Lassodie, Thomas Spowart and Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of coal.

SINCLAIR William - 1890 - 17/05/1890 – Age 22 - Chain runner. Westburn, Westburn Colliery Co., Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. Crushed between a race of hutches and a prop.

SINGLETON Benjamin - 1899 - 06/01/1899 – Age 17 - Incline boy. Norwood Sheepbridge. The tubs were running, it was his duty to prop open a door, turn the points and then retire into a manhole for safety. The draw bar of the last tub, of a set of 24, broke and allowed the tubs to run away down the incline where they crushed the deceased who died the same day.

SINGLETON James - 1897 - 31/08/1897 – Age 49 – Metalman. Langtree, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was engaged repairing one of the drawing roads, in the Arley Mine, and when in the act of pulling a stone down from the roof with his pick a portion of the roof fell upon him causing internal injuries to which he succumbed at the infirmary on October 1st, 1897.

SIRAR David (non-fatal) - 1892 - 27/10/1892 – Age 40 – Contractor. Durie, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Log of wood rolled on him. Still off.

SIXSMITH William - 1895 - 03/06/1895 – Age 65 – Dataler. White Moss, Whitemoss Coal Co. Ltd., Rainford, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased, when knocking a bar out, got injured on the hip bone. He had almost recovered from his injuries and had been asking for work again but he expired suddenly on October 10th, 1895.

SKELLINGTON John - 1898 - 19/04/1898 – Age 31 – Dataller. Whitwick No. 5, Whitwick Colliery Co., Leicester. A fire broke out on the main airway of the mine and developed so rapidly that only six men, including the deputy, out of a total of 41 who were at work beyond the fire were able to escape. The bodies of the first nine mentioned in the list were shortly afterwards got out but 25 bodies had not been recovered by the end of the year. 35 killed.

SKELLY Archibald (non-fatal) - 1892 - 09/05/1892 – Miner. Rosehall No. 5, Archibald Finnie and Son, Kilwinning, Ayrshire. Fall of stone from working face.

SKELLY John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 11/03/1890 – Miner. Broomhouse, Haughhead Coal Co., Broomhouse, Lanarkshire. Injured on dook road by hutches going off the rails.

SKELLY Martin - 1890 - 14/03/1890 – Age 39 – Collier. Old Boston, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of roof from slips. The place was fairly well timbered. 11 am.

SKELTON Hugh (non-fatal) - 1894 - 11/12/1894 – Age 30 – Brusher. Benhar, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof.

SKELTON Samuel (non-fatal) - 1890 - 28/01/1890 – Age 13 – Drawer. Longriggend, James Nimmo and Co., Lanarkshire. Caught by cage. Not yet returned.

SKELTON Samuel (non-fatal) - 1894 - 02/05/1894 – Age 59 – Miner. Broadrigg, John Nimmo and Son, Stirling. Fall of stone at face. 77 days off.

SKELTON T. - 1898 - 12/01/1898 – Age 33 – Packer. Manvers Main, Manvers Main Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

SKENE Alexander (non-fatal) - 1892 - 30/05/1892 – Age 45 – Brusher. Lumphinnans, Cowdenbeath Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of roof. 108 days off.

SKEOCH Alexander (non-fatal) - 1892 - 04/03/1892 – Miner. Blair No. 2, Eglinton Iron Co., Dalry, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at brushing face.

SKIDMORE Samuel - 1899 - 08/02/1899 – Age 75 – Manager. Cornwood Clay Quarry, Watts Blake Bearne and Co., Devon. Fall of ground in front of which he had taken refuge during a storm. The depth where this occurred was only 10 feet. It was overburden which was being removed in advance of the China clay and which was being improperly worked in a perpendicular or more or less overhanging face.

SKINNER Richard - 1891 - 30/09/1891 – Age 28 – Sinker. Blaengwynfi, Glyncorrwg Colliery Co. Ltd., Blaengwynfi, Glamorgan. Overwinding of the bowk on which they were ascending the shaft of a sinking pit. 8 killed.

SKINNERS James - 1893 - 18/05/1893 – Age 57 – Sinker. Cardenden, Ratray CCM, Fife. Kettle fell down.

SKIRVING Robert - 1891 – 23/10/1891 – Age 24 – Collier. Wallyford, Deans and Moore, Edinburgh. Fell from cage.

SKITT John - 1897 - 14/05/1897 – Age 67 – Collier. Brynkinalt, WY Craig and Sons, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was pulling a piece of coal off the face when a piece of roof coal fell upon him before he could clear himself from between three slips. There appeared to be not sufficient room to set any more props until they had removed the loose coal from the face.

SKITT Richard - 1890 - 30/04/1890 – Age 24 – Pikeman. New Horne, New British Iron Co., Cradley, Worcestershire. Died May 31st. Fall of coal in a low holing head.

SKONE William - 1895 - 18/10/1895 – Age 39 - Asst. timberman. Ocean, Lady Windsor Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Died on 23rd October from fracture of skull caused by a small stone falling from a height of 11 feet, while assisting to timber the roof where there had been a fall. No. 2 seam.

SKYE Richard - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 28 – 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.

SKYM Benjamin - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 29 – Ripper. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

SLACK Abraham - 1899 - 08/05/1899 – Age 36 – Stoneman. South Co.Durham, South Durham Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was building a gateway pack in the longwall when a fall of stone from the roof took place and caught him on the head and killed him.

SLACK J. - 1896 - 02/01/1896 – Age 55 – Collier. Woolley, Fountain and Burnley, Yorkshire. Fall of side.

SLACK James - 1890 - 04/11/1890 – Age 46 – Hewer. Byers Green, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Spennymoor, Co.Durham. Took an apoplectic fit while at work and died soon after being brought out of the pit. Ventilation all right. Not comprised.

SLACK Thomas - 1890 - 01/05/1890 – Age 20 - Landing man. West Wylam, Mickley Coal Co., West Wylam, Northumberland. He slipped while attempting to take a chain off a set of full tubs. 6.30 am.

SLANE Patrick - 1892 - 21/12/1892 – Age 24 – Putter. Eden Pit, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Leadgate, Co.Durham. Alleged to have sprained himself while at work in September but on a post mortem being made it was found that he died from disease of the mesenteric glands with localised peritonitis.

SLANEY Joseph - 1892 - 08/04/1892 – Age 27 – Collier. Hall End, Morris and Shaw, Tamworth, Staffordshire. Fall of roof whilst at work getting down coal. The place was very faulty and had a bad roof.

SLATE J.W. - 1890 - 01/07/1890 – Age 17 – Waggoner. Bredbury, J and R Stott-Milne, Stockport, Cheshire. Fall of roof of level in new mine.

SLATER Thomas - 1890 - 10/04/1890 – Age 30 – Pikeman. Brickhouse, J and G Dunn, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. Fall of coal, cause converging slips and timber knocked out.

SLATER William - 1897 - 22/01/1897 – Age 45 – Stallman. Southgate, Shire Oaks Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was withdrawn a prop from the coal without using a ringer as required by the Special Rules.

SLATER William Alfred - 1895 - 23/09/1895 – Age 15 – Horsedriver. Pilsey No. 2, Pilsey Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. He was riding on the limmers or shafts when the pin came out, causing him to fall under the trams. He died the same day.

SLATTER Thomas - 1898 - 18/03/1898 – Age 60 – Labourer. Bardon Hill Granite Quarry, Ellis and Everard, Leicestershire. Deceased stumbled and fell with his foot and leg under a moving railway truck, near the stone breakers outside the quarry. He died on the 27th.

SMALL Benjamin - 1891 - 21/01/1891 – Age 17 - Horse driver. Priors Lee Staffordshire No. 4, Lilleshall Coal Co. Ltd., Priors Lee, Staffordshire. Crushed between tub and side of road while taking locker out of tub.

SMALL James (non-fatal) - 1892 - 14/03/1892 – Miner. Lanemark, Afton Lanemark Coal Co., New Cumnock, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at working face.

SMALL James - 1893 - 22/08/1893 – Age 28 – Drawer. Cleland No. 40, Ravenshall Coal Co., Holytown, Lanarkshire. Kicked by pony.

SMALL Stephen - 1897 - 03/03/1897 – Age 57 – Collier. Cleynen Newport, Abercarne Black Vein Steam Coal Co., Monmouth. Fall of roof in his working place in Black Vein. The place was insufficiently secured.

SMALL William - 1891 - 24/11/1891 – Age 35 – Labourer. Fence, Nitshill and Lesmahagow Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Crushed by waggon.

SMALLSHAW John - 1896 - 18/05/1896 – Age 50 – Enginewright. Bold, Collins Green Colliery Co. Ltd., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made, and inquest attended. He was looking around the new fan engine-house, which they were erecting at the time, when he slipped and fell between the pillars of the foundation, a distance of six yards, causing internal injuries from which he died.

SMALLSHAW William - 1891 - 04/02/1891 – Age 47 – Collier. White Moss, White Moss Coal Co., Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Inspection made. He went under some top coal and commenced nicking it before setting any props under it and it fell upon him, 13 yards of top coal fell and deceased was working half way under it instead of at one end. He had not been instructed how to proceed. 6.0 am.

SMALLWOOD C. - 1898 - 12/01/1898 – Age 62 – Collier. Rockingham, Newton Chambers and Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof. 2 killed.

SMALLWOOD John - 1891 - 11/07/1891 – Age 61 – Dataler. Clough Hall No. 6, Kidsgrove Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. Fall of stone while repairing in a jig in Bullhurst Seam. Died 18th Sept.

SMART A. - 1897 - 09/09/1897 – Age 47 – Collier. Foxholes, W Wood and Sons, Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Died 24th Sept.

SMART John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 10/11/1890 – Age 41 – Miner. Lochgelly, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Explosion of shot. 38 days off.

SMART William James - 1897 - 02/04/1897 – Age 32 – Hewer. Broomhill, Broomhill Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased and his marrow were working in a broken lift, which was considered safe by them and the chargeman. A shot had been fired and deceased began to fill away whilst his marrow was hewing in the fast side. The deceased was in the act, shortly afterwards, of sounding the roof (top coal) when it and the stone above came away on him. It fell from a decided slip running along the coal face. The place appeared to have been properly timbered.

SMEATON Alexander (non-fatal) - 1890 - 19/09/1890 – Age 28 – Brusher. Darngavil, Darngavil Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 14 days off.

SMEATON George - 1897 - 25/02/1897 – Age 14 - Coal picker. Crofthead, Peter Thornton, Linlithgow. Deceased left his place at the shaker and went to the siding and by some means unknown fell in front of a loaded moving waggon.

SMEDLEY Frank - 1893 - 25/07/1893 – Age 52 – Stallman. Clay Cross No. 2, Clay Cross Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of roof whilst passing under the gate end where shortly before a prop had been taken out to make room for the tubs to pass.

SMEDLEY William Cooley - 1899 - 08/02/1899 – Age 16 - Machine boy. Stancliffe, Gritstone Quarry, Stancliffe Estates Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was pushed between the arm of a stone pressing machine and the fencing of the gearing. He was probably looking at the working of the machinery or clearing away the chippings when the moving arm crushed him.

SMELLIE George (non-fatal) - 1892 - 28/05/1892 – Age 20 – Collier. Buckhaven, Bowman and Co., Fife. Fall of coal. 46 days off.

SMELLIE John (non-fatal) - 1891 - 07/09/1891 – Age 24 – Collier. Haywood, Haywood Gas Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of stone.

SMETHELLS Richard - 1897 - 17/09/1897 – Age 22 – Collier. Newtown No. 1, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Suffocated in firedamp. Travelling to working place by route, not before travelled, got into old place full of firedamp, unfenced, clear at 5 am. when fireman examined.

SMETHURST James - 1897 - 05/01/1897 – Age 18 - Gang rider. Wet Earth, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in engine brow. A piece of rock, triangular in shape, a foot along base, 8 feet perpendicular, 5 inches thick, splintered off without any warning.

SMETHURST Noah (injured) - 1891 - 16/03/1891 – Age 43 – Miner. Tong 5 Quarter, Jethro Scowcroft, Tong, Lancashire. Back injured by coal falling as he was setting a prop. Inspection and inquiry.

SMILLIE Robert (non-fatal) - 1891 - 17/11/1891 – Miner. Enterkine No. 9, George Taylor and Co. Ayrshire. Fall of coal.

SMILLIE Thomas (non-fatal) - 1891 - 23/04/1891 – Brusher. Blair No. 7, Eglinton Iron Co., Dalry, Ayrshire. While breaking a stone he was struck on the eye by a chip.

SMITH Adam (non-fatal) - 1892 - 12/10/1892 – Age 48 – Collier. Kingseat, Wallace Bros., Fife. Injured in shaft. 81 days off.

SMITH Alexander (non-fatal) - 1892 - 20/12/1892 – Fireman. Overjohnstone No. 8, Belhaven Colliery Co., Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

SMITH Alexander - 1897 - 24/05/1897 – Age 60 – Rolleywayman. Seaton Delaval Hastings, Seaton Delaval Coal Co., Northumberland. Inquest attended. Strained when lifting an empty tub on to the way, which aggravated an internal injury received by him on 4th July 1895. Died May 31st 1897.

SMITH Benjamin - 1893 - 17/04/1893 – Age 28 – Runner. Wooley, Pease Partners Ltd., Crook, Co.Durham. He was injured on the shoulder by slipping his foot on the gangway on 1st inst. and died today but the doctor certified death was due to influenza and inflammation of the brain and no inquest was therefore held.

SMITH C. - 1896 - 02/06/1896 – Age 32 – Collier. Corton Wood, Corton Wood Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

SMITH Charles - 1891 - 30/11/1891 – Age 30 – Dayman. Moston Great, Platt Bros. and Co. Ltd., Moston, Lancashire. Killed by a water tank that he slipped in front of, after riding up the engine brow. Inspection and inquest attended.

SMITH Charles - 1895 - 25/02/1895 – Age 24 – Haulier. Ynishir House, Thomas Jones, Glamorgan. Found fatally injured under the front loaded tram of a journey, he was bringing down a heading dipping 3 inches per yard. It was his first day hauling.

SMITH Charles - 1899 - 25/01/1899 – Age 17 - Brake boy. Montreal Iron Ore, John Stirling, Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The youth was employed at the top of a steep selfacting incline. He put a bogie over the top of the incline without first taking the precaution to see that the brake was tight on the drum. The consequence was that the bogie ran away at a great speed and in his hurry to get to the brake lever he was caught by the ascending chain and whirled round the drum.

SMITH Daniel - 1896 - 08/05/1896 – Age 45 – Collier. Podmore Hall, Minnie Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof coal while drawing back timber in the working place with a long-handled mallet. The accident might have been avoided if he had used the ringer and chain provided.

SMITH Daniel - 1899 - 26/01/1899 – Age 21 – Loader. Saltwells, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of coal in an opening from a height of 8 yd.

SMITH David (non-fatal) - 1892 - 12/07/1892 – Age 18 – Shunter. Hill of Beath, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fell before waggon. Still off.

SMITH David - 1893 - 24/04/1893 – Age 46 – Miner. Clyde, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Crushed by hutches on haulage road.

SMITH David - 1894 - 20/01/1894 – Age 38 – Hewer. Cornsay, Ferens and Love, Lanchester, Co.Durham. Died in hospital today from injuries received to his spine by a fall of stone on the 28th December last.

SMITH Duncan (non-fatal) - 1893 - 13/10/1893 – Age 21 – Runner. Champfleurie, Linlithgow Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Hands crushed by buffer of hutch. 68 days off.

SMITH Edward (injured) - 1890 - 20/06/1890 – Age 16 – Drawer. Mossband, John Dunn, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof. 4 days off.

SMITH Edward (non-fatal) - 1894 - 10/07/1894 – Foreman. Limpley Stoke (metalliferous), Bath Stone Firms Ltd., Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire. Fall of ground.

SMITH Edward - 1891 - 07/08/1891 – Age 36 – Banksman. Newfield, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Willington, Co.Durham. While employed doing some repairs, to the pulley, he slipped and fell down-the head stocks, a distance of 40 foot. It appeared that his duties did not require him to go on to the top of the head stocks at all. 4.30 pm.

SMITH Edward - 1894 - 07/05/1894 – Age 55 – Brusher. Burntbroom, Dunn Bros., Mount Vernon, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at roadhead.

SMITH Edward - 1897 - 06/05/1897 – Age 26 – Shifter. East Hetton, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. Inundation of water in Cassop way of Harvey seam, owing to working holing into old workings in Cassop Colliery. 10 killed.

SMITH Edward - 1898 - 23/12/1898 – Age 21 – Drawer. Newtown No. 2, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of side in jig brow. Ought either to have been got down or secured.

SMITH Elijah - 1895 - 18/11/1895 – Age 24 – Loader. Knowle, Knowle Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Fall of coal in thick coal opening from height of 12 feet.

SMITH Enoch - 1895 - 04/09/1895 – Age 15 – Driver. Usworth, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Usworth, Co.Durham. Inquest attended. Deceased was probably driving too fast, and the pony swerving, the limmers were broken and deceased thrown to the ground. The broken part of the limmers showed no signs of any defect.

SMITH F.J. - 1897 - 18/11/1897 – Age 16 – Collier. Mardy No. 2, Lockets Merthyr Collieries (1894) Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed by the upsetting of loaded trams which had run away owing to the breaking of a shackle on a gradient of 35 inches per yard. Four other persons were more or less seriously injured.

SMITH Frederick - 1891 - 06/08/1891 – Age 39 – Ripper. North, Dunraven London & South Wales Coal Co. Ltd., Treherbert, Glamorgan. Fell out of cage, while descending the cage, having caught a spike which fastened one of the "fang guides." 2 killed.

SMITH Frederick - 1895 - 24/12/1895 – Age 33 – Collier. Park Lane, Garswood Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Inspection made. Deceased was working a second ribbing, about 6 feet in width, and had been instructed by the fireman to get a bar set near the face, which he appears to have neglected doing. The nearest bar on the face being 6 feet back when a fall of ley took place on him from slips in the roof. Died in Infirmary, March 12th.

SMITH G. - 1890 - 23/05/1890 – Age 37 – Collier. Treeton, Rothervale Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

SMITH G. - 1894 - 22/12/1894 – Age 22 – Filler. Fence, Rother Vale Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of stone.

SMITH George (non-fatal) - 1890 - 30/08/1890 – Age 26 – Brusher. Ormiston Station, Ormiston Coal Co., Haddington. Fall of roof. 2 injured. 9 days off.

SMITH George (non-fatal) - 1892 - 22/10/1892 – Age 33 – Collier. Birkrigg, Birkenshaw Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Explosion of gas.

SMITH George - 1890 - 10/04/1890 – Age 13 – Doorboy. Blaensychan, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Pontypool, Monmouth. An underground engine started on the previous day, exhausted into a small cistern or reservoir of water on the side of the road along which he and another boy of about the same age were making their way in the dark, having lost their lights. The cistern had not been covered over and they fell into it and were scalded from the effects of which he died on the 26th. He left the door which he had charge of and went with the boy Evans to a different part of the mine, against rules.

SMITH George - 1890 - 17/11/1890 – Age 35 – Miner. Upleatham (ironstone), Pease and Partners Ltd., Marske, Yorkshire. Severe injury to foot by fall of stone. Died in hospital from tetanus on December 6th.

SMITH George - 1894 - 13/11/1894 – Age 61 – Stoneman. Binchester, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Auckland, Co.Durham. Fall of stone from between two baulks after having fired a shot in the bottom, the shot appeared to have either blown out or undermined some timber.

SMITH George - 1896 - 20/07/1896 – Age 50 – Picker. Barn Stone (stone), Barth Stone Firms Ltd., Wiltshire. Whilst drawing a block of stone forward, by a hand crane, the block tippled over the bench causing the crane to swerve suddenly and the handle crushed him against a pillar.

SMITH George - 1896 - 27/10/1896 – Age 26 – Shunter. Netherseal, Netherseal Colliery Co., Leicester. Attempting to go between two full railway waggons to couple them when be slipped and was run over. He died a few hours after. Had deceased used a coupling pole this accident would not have happened.

SMITH George - 1897 - 13/01/1897 – Age 22 – Roadsman. Clough Hall No. 18, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed by cage while improperly attempting to cross the bottom of the shaft instead of going by the pass by road.

SMITH George - 1897 - 19/08/1897 – Age 23 – 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.

SMITH George - 1898 - 26/04/1898 – Age 17 - Pony driver. Westminster, Westminster & Brymbo Coal & Coke Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. Inquiry made and inquest attended. The deceased was a pony driver on the main road, near the pit shaft, and is said to have struck the pony with his whip when it kicked behind striking him in the stomach. He succumbed to the injuries received the following day.

SMITH George - 1899 - 08/09/1899 – Age 38 – Onsetter. Houghton, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Crushed between coal tub and cage. He was putting a full tub into the cage when another full tub ran down and crushed him. Died on the 10th inst.

SMITH Harry - 1898 - 18/05/1898 – Age 72 – Labourer. Quarter, Colin Dunlop and Co., Lanarkshire. Deceased was employed cleaning bricks on the side of the railway leading to the Colliery and it is supposed he was struck by the locomotive engine as it passed.

SMITH Henry - 1894 - 01/02/1894 – Age 35 – Deputy. Clifton, Clifton Colliery Co., Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. He was with two other men setting timber when the roof fell. He died 7th. The other two men were injured.

SMITH Henry - 1896 - 06/11/1896 – Age 45 – Fireman. Hulton, Hulton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed between the endless rope and wheel. Endeavouring, with others, to get out, a lashing chain which had been carried round the wheel entangled with rope. No one at signals. Ought to have cut the chain off.

SMITH Henry - 1899 - 21/07/1899 – Age 60 – Ripper. South Wales, Rose Heyworth, Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. His leg was crushed by a tram running wild in a road dipping 1 in 3 on which he was engaged repairing. The haulier intended to push it back into a rubbish stall but he had not sufficiently spragged the tram, to keep it stationary when the horse was taken out.

SMITH Issac - 1894 - 18/05/1894 – Age 25 – Driver. Barn, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Donnington, Shropshire. The chain gears of his horse caught a rail, lying loose on the road, and caused it to strike his Smith breaking his jaw and collar bone.

SMITH J. - 1890 - 23/07/1890 – Collier. Bowling (ironstone), Bowling Iron Co., Bradford, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

SMITH J. - 1894 - 22/11/1894 – Age 22 – Driver. Monk Bretton, W Pepper, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Crushed by tubs.

SMITH J. - 1897 - 29/09/1897 – Age 13 – Trapper. Denaby Main, Denaby & Cadeby Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Full Corves ran over him when they turned over and crushed his head against a prop.

SMITH J. - 1898 - 24/06/1898 – Age 44 – Engineman. Bolton Woods Sandstone Quarry, E Wood and Co., Yorkshire. The jib of a steam crane gave way on him, it also broke the steam pipe and he was scalded. Died 27th June.

SMITH Jacob - 1895 - 15/06/1895 – Age 14 – Driver. St. Helens, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of stone in a station he was entering with empty tubs.

SMITH James (non-fatal) - 1892 - 06/09/1892 – Age 22 – Miner. Bonnybridge, Bonnybridge Silica and Fireclay Co., Stirling. Explosion of gunpowder 130 days off.

SMITH James (non-fatal) - 1892 - 08/12/1892 – Age 38 – Collier. Lumphinnans, Cowdenbeath Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of roof. Still off.

SMITH James (non-fatal) - 1892 - 12/01/1892 – Fireman. Bothwell Park No. 2, William Baird and Co., Bothwell, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp while firing a shot. 2 injured.

SMITH James (non-fatal) - 1892 – 18/10/1892 – Sinker. Blackston No. 1, Blackston Mineral Co., Paisley, Lanarkshire. Hands injured between pulley and chain of a cuddie brae.

SMITH James (non-fatal) - 1893 - 20/04/1893 – Age 19 – Miner. Mainbank, George Burt, Lanarkshire. Explosion of a shot. 9 days off.

SMITH James - 1890 - 08/11/1890 – Age 16 - Horse driver. Bowden (metalliferous), Bowden Lime Co., Linlithgow. Crushed by hutch.

SMITH James - 1890 - 11/03/1890 – Age 15 - Coal picker. Loganlea, John McCulloch, Edinburgh. Run over by waggons. 4.00 pm.

SMITH James - 1893 - 22/01/1893 – Age 37 – Repairer. North’s Navigation, Norths Navigation Collieries Ltd., Nantymoel, Glamorgan. Fall of piece of roof from edge of ripping where heading was being enlarged while he was breaking some big stones below the opening between old and new timbers. Two feet nine seam.

SMITH James - 1894 - 17/10/1894 – Age 21 - Sett rider. Usworth, John Bowes and Partners, Usworth, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was riding at the back of the set, when the tubs knocked some props out causing the roof to fall on to him.

SMITH James - 1895 - 02/02/1895 – Age 29 – Pikeman. Bornehills, Bornehills and Withymoor Colliery Co., Staffordshire. collapse of working place. 2 killed.

SMITH James - 1895 - 30/08/1895 – Age 21 – Filler. Gwersyllt, Westminster & Brymbo Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was filling a tub of coal at the face, which had been got down by a shot, when a piece of coal from the side came off to a slip crushing the deceased against the tub. His father and the fireman had considered the place safe.

SMITH James - 1896 - 04/12/1896 – Age 23 – Labourer. Shirebrook, Shirebrook Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. While working a hydraulic jack at the end of a steam boiler preparing to seating it the jack flew out and the revolving handle struck him fracturing his skull. Died next day.

SMITH James - 1897 - 16/10/1897 – Age 15 – Miner. Merryton, Merryton Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Deceased were driving a place alongside a stoop when a large stone fell on them. 2 killed.

SMITH James - 1897 - 17/07/1897 – Age 22 – Filler. Rockingham, Newton Chambers and Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

SMITH James - 1899 - 16/10/1899 – Age 25 – Miner. Bowhill, Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was engaged cleaning up a place of some debris when the coal suddenly burst out and crushed him against a tub at the roadhead.

SMITH James - 1899 - 28/11/1899 – Age 31 – Dayman. Glapwell, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased and the stallman were starting to remove the rock which had been got down from the gate end lip and before they began a safety prop was set. A further fall occurred fatally injuring deceased and injuring the stallman.

SMITH John (injured) - 1890 - 23/06/1890 – Age 50 – Tunneller. Crumbuke Day Eye, Fletcher Burrows and Co., Atherton, Lancashire. Injured by roof falling as he was testing it by sounding after a shot.

SMITH John (injured) - 1891 - 26/04/1891 – Age 39 – Miner. Alkrington, Chamber Colliery Co. Ltd. Alkrington, Lancashire. Shepherd killed and Smith injured by a missed shot going off as they were either undrilling it or drilling a new hole too near to it in an underground staple or air pit. Inspection and inquiry attended. 1 killed, 1 injured.

SMITH John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 30/08/1890 – Brusher. Ormiston Station, Ormiston Coal Co., Haddington. Fall of roof. 2 injured, 16 days off.

SMITH John (non-fatal) - 1891 - 15/05/1891 – Miner. Bothwell Castle No. 2, William Baid and Co., Bothwell, Lanarkshire. While riding on a loaded hutch he was jammed against roof.

SMITH John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 22/04/1892 – Miner. Ramkinston No. 3, Glengarnock Iron and Steel Co., Ayrshire. Fall of coal.

SMITH John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 28/10/1892 – Miner. Eastfield, JR Gray Buchanan, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 2 injured.

SMITH John (non-fatal) - 1893 - 25/12/1893 – Age 15 - Pony driver. Arniston, Arniston Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Caught by trap door.

SMITH John - 1890 - 18/06/1890 – Age 40 – Onsetter. Cannock Chase, Cannock Chase Colliery Co., Walsall, Staffordshire. Found in cage hole dead, directly after he had descended from the surface.

SMITH John - 1891 - 08/09/1891 – Age 38 – Miner. Monkland No. 9, Calderbank Steel and Co. Ltd., Airdrie, Lanarkshire. Fall of mid stone.

SMITH John - 1891 - 13/03/1891 – Age 23 – Collier. Meiros, Welsh Estate & Property Co. Ltd., Llantrissant, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (rock), 5 feet x 24 feet x 1 foot, where the stall was crossing a small fault.

SMITH John - 1892 - 02/12/1892 – Age 40 – Hewer. Buckhill, Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Allerdale, Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He had been taking some props from under the top coal when it suddenly fell and caught him before be could get away.

SMITH John - 1892 - 19/04/1892 – Age 21 – Miner. Addiewell, Youngs Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Fall of roof.

SMITH John - 1893 - 06/11/1893 – Age 64 – Stallman. Cadley Wood, Woodfield Coal Hall and Boardman, Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire. Fall of coal. A shot had been fired in the coal but did not bring it down. The sprags were reset and deceased was holing when the coal fell upon him.

SMITH John - 1893 - 17/03/1893 – Age 22 – Shifter. Ashington, Ashington Coal Co., Ashington, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased, and another man, were travelling outbye on what is known as the putters road when a sudden fall of stone took place, at a part which was considered quite safe, and killed the deceased.

SMITH John - 1894 - 06/06/1894 – Age 24 – Collier. Sowfield Chamber Oil Co. Ltd., Oldham, Lancashire. Fall of roof coals which ought to have been pulled down at top of jig brow.

SMITH John - 1895 - 12/01/1895 – Age 40 – Miner. Shawfield, Wilsons and Clyde Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Crushed by hutches.

SMITH John - 1895 - 19/11/1895 – Age 53 – Miner. Eston (ironstone), Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Eston, Co.Durham. Fall of stone from roof while he was engaged fill a tub of ironstone.

SMITH John - 1895 - 31/08/1895 – Age 14 – Miner. Lanemark No. 2, Lanemark Coal Co., Ayrshire. Fall of roof near working face.

SMITH John - 1896 - 10/02/1896 – Age 17 – Labourer. Reservoir, Overseal Reservoir Pipe Co., Leicestershire. While assisting to remove a brick wall it fell over and fatally crushed him.

SMITH John - 1896 - 21/12/1896 – Age 45 – Miner. East Parkhead, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.