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WADDEL James (non-fatal) - 1891 - 05/08/1891 – Miner. Newhouse, Newhouse Coal Co., Holytown, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place.

WADDELL James (non-fatal) - 1891 - 28/01/1891 – Age 40 - Loco. Driver. Shieldhill, Carron Co., Stirling. Crushed by engine. 55 days off.

WADDINGTON S. - 1896 - 13/04/1896 – Age 22 – Labourer. Hainworth Shaw (quarry), John Foulds, Yorkshire. Fall of ground from place within his control.

WADDINGTON William - 1893 - 29/11/1893 – Age 18 – Jigger. Ladyshore, John Fletcher, Little Lever, Lancashire. Crushed by tub when jigging, as the empty tub approached he failed to apply the break and tub ran onto him.

WADDLE Robert - 1897 - 19/06/1897 – Age 27 – Stone putter. Murton, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While a full tub was being made ready in a landing twenty nine full tubs amain down the landing. The deceased was standing opposite a refuge hole shouting for other men to get out of the way when the tubs caught and killed him.

WADDLE William - 1896 – 27/02/1896 – Hewer. Longhirst Grange, Longhirst Grange Coal Co., Longhirst Grange, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. A heavy fall of roof occurred close up to the face of the bord reeling prop at one edge. Although he had planked about every yard as a rule the last one was 5 feet from the face. Had he put up another as he should have done, the accident would not have happened.

WADE Thomas - 1898 – 23/09/1898 – Age 30 – Labourer. Holmwood, Hardwick Coal Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was working near a boiler chimney, in the erection, when a portion of the brickwork fell from the top of it the and struck the deceased. He died 25th.

WADE W. - 1890 – 22/02/1890 – Age 20 – Hanger on. Carlton Main, York and Derby Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Run over by tubs.

WADLE James - 1896 – 21/07/1896 – Age 33 – Engine driver. Enderby Hill (quarry), Enderby & Stoney Stanton Granite Co., Leicester. A shot was fired and a piece of stone, from the shot, hit the deceased breaking his thigh. He was standing 150 yards away from the shot hole. He died on the 24th July.

WADMAN John - 1897 - 19/07/1897 – Age 26 – Collier. Griffin No. 2, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Killed instantly in his working place by a fall of roof from between slips. The place was moderately well timbered.

WADMOOR J. - 1898 - 09/06/1898 – Age 50 – Byeworkman. Monk Bretton, Monk Bretton Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

WAGGOTT Ralph - 1896 - 28/07/1896 – Age 18 – Hewer. Hunter, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was hewing the upper portion of a seam when it gave way at a slip, on each side, and fell upon his head and killed him.

WAIN John - 1898 - 28/01/1898 – Age 67 – Quarryman. Grin Buxton Limestone Quarry, Buxton Lime Firms Co., Derbyshire. Fall of stone from the upper portion of the quarry face. Deceased was boring a shothole in a piece of stone near the face of the quarry, and on the floor, when he was struck by the falling stone. He died the same day.

WAINE W. - 1894 - 24/09/1894 – Age 14 - Airway boy. Berry Hill, H Warrington and Sons, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. While leaving work he got onto a set of tubs, on a surface incline, and was knocked off while the tubs were passing under a low bridge.

WAINWRIGHT J. - 1892 - 31/05/1892 – Age 21 – Driver. Houghton Main, Houghton Main Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Crushed by a pony.

WAINWRIGHT John - 1893 - 05/12/1893 – Age 17 – Driver. Talk o’th’ Hill, Talk o’th’ Hill Colliery Co. Ltd., Talk o’th’ Hill, Staffordshire. Kicked on forehead by a horse which he was following to the stables.

WAITE J. - 1894 - 26/03/1894 – Age 50 – Engineman. Waterloo Main, Brooks and Pickup, Leeds, Yorkshire. Crushed by waggons, died 27th.

WAKE James (injured) - 1890 - 09/01/1890 – Age 23 – Shaftman. Dolcoath (metalliferous), Dolcoath Mining Co., Camborne, Cornwall. A large fire was found to have broken out, just below the 264 fathom level near the main engine shaft, rendering the pumping engine unmanageable. The four shaftmen mentioned went underground with a view to ascertain what had occurred but several hours elapsed without any alteration in the working of the engine or the reappearance of the men and it was then feared that they had been suffocated by the volumes of smoke that were issuing from the shaft. Tom Eva, another shaftman gallantly volunteered to descend in the skip to search for the men if someone would accompany him. He found a ready helper and worthy comrade in John Rule and both these men were quickly on their way to the 80 plat, where it was believed the men were to be found. The rescuers had not been long gone when a signal was given to draw them to the surface with the almost lifeless body of Weeks. The two men again descended, this time accompanied by another miner named Williams, and shortly afterwards returned with Trevarthen who was not quite so much overpowered. The rescuers made a third descent and ultimately discovered Sowden and Wake in the 80 level so weak and exhausted that they were unable to signal to stop the skip. Under the treatment of the mine doctor the men soon recovered however, and the fire was prevented from spreading to other parts of the mine, as it was feared at first it might do and subsequently extinguished by the pouring of water down the shaft. As it happened comparatively little damage was done but it was only by the narrowest chance that a serious disaster to the mine, from a financial point of view, was prevented. 4 injured.

WAKEFIELD Frederick (injured) - 1894 - 16/07/1894 – Age 14 – Coupler. Dukinfield, Dukinfield Coal and Cannel Co. Ltd., Dukinfield, Cheshire. Crushed by tubs. He was uncoupling tubs at the shaft when a journey of tubs ran in.

WAKELAM J. - 1894 - 22/12/1894 – Age 33 – Pikeman. Himley, Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of coal when drawing timber.

WAKENSHAW John - 1898 - 18/02/1898 – Age 41 - Waiter on. Pegswood, Owners of Bentink, West Hartley, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged at the top of a staple into which he fell, there being no fence or other protection.

WALBEY Thomas - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 28 – 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.

WALBY Arthur - 1895 - 20/07/1894 – Age 13 – Haulier. Cymmer, Cymmer Colliery Co., Glamorgan. Found fatally injured between the corner of the tram on the side of the road and gun of horses shaft. The accident appeared to have been caused by the pin connecting the gun to the shaft coming out while deceased was riding on the gun down a slight dip.

WALBY George - 1894 - 14/11/1894 – Age 55 – Ripper. Penrhiwfer, Glamorgan Coal Co., Penrhiwfer, Glamorgan. Fall of stone from side of heading (12 feet x 3 feet x 3 feet thick). He had bored a shot hole in it and then quite unnecessarily went under it to take way some more coal. No. 2 Rhondda seam. Died 8th December.

WALDEN Alfred - 1899 - 28/09/1899 – Age 35 – Timberman. Arral Griffin, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof. He and others were repairing, with a view to making a place safe, where a large fall had occurred on the Main East Level. While so engaged a further fall took place causing his death. Their judgement as to the condition of the stone was apparently in error.

WALDRAN Alfred - 1896 - 04/06/1896 – Age 39 – Deputy. Eston Ironstone, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., N. Yorkshire. While he, and another deputy, were carrying a prop into a place it caught and displaced on a set and in falling it injured him so severely about the back that he died 5th.

WALDRAN Michael - 1895 - 29/11/1895 – Age 58 – Collier. Legh, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was working at the face of a road, 8 feet high, he had not plucked sufficient of the top dirt which, when a portion of the dirt and coal fell was slightly overhanging above him, causing internal injuries to which he succumbed on December 2nd 1895.

WALES Hugh - 1892 - 27/08/1892 – Age 19 – Waggonshifter. Ayr, Sundrum No. 3, George Taylor and Co. Ayrshire. He fell while he was breaking loaded waggons and was run over.

WALKELAIN James - 1891 - 02/04/1891 – Age 60 – Pikeman. Himley, Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcestershire. Fall of coal that he was trying to get down. Died same day.

WALKER A. - 1897 - 26/03/1897 – Age 14 – Trapper. Soothill Wood, Soothill Wood Coal Co., Yorkshire. Run over by Corves on the engine plane.

WALKER Alexander (non-fatal) - 1890 - 04/04/1890 – Age 27 – Miner. Benhar, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Explosion of powder. 1 day off.

WALKER Alexander (non-fatal) - 1892 - 18/01/1892 – Age 32 – Collier. Fordell, Fordell Trustees, Fife. Fall of coal, 133 days off.

WALKER Con - 1899 - 08/06/1899 – Age 15 - Collier’s boy. Aberaman, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, clod 9.5 feet x 2 feet 10 inches x 21 inches thick, inside of props 6 feet back from face. Seven feet seam.

WALKER Edward (non-fatal) - 1892 - 23/02/1892 – Joiner. Ellismuir No. 3, Glasgow Iron and Steel Co., Baillieston, Lanarkshire. Fell off a scaffold.

WALKER H. - 1898 - 16/08/1898 – Age 44 – Deputy. Denby Grange, Miss E Lister Kaye, Yorkshire. Rope broke as he was being drawn up to water level.

WALKER H. - 1898 – 23/02/1898 – Age 30 – Collier. Foxholes, W Wood and Sons, Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Died 18th Sept.

WALKER Henry - 1893 - 20/03/1893 – Age 44 – Miner. Eston (metalliferous), Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. While barring down stone a piece suddenly fell away from the top part of the seam and hit him on the head and back injuring him so severely that he died in a few minutes.

WALKER Isaac - 1899 - 04/12/1899 – Dayman. Holmwood, Hardwick Coal Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was taken ill while at work in the mine and died shortly after. The Coroners jury found that his death was due to ‘heart disease’.

WALKER J. - 1893 - 06/01/1893 – Age 54 – Shunter. Garforth, Garforth Coal Co., Leeds, Yorkshire. Injured by prop on branch railway.

WALKER James (non-fatal) - 1890 - 31/01/1890 – Age 15 – Miner. Ashgill No. 4, Brand and Co., Lanarkshire. Crushed while coupling tubs. 35 days off.

WALKER James - 1893 - 31/01/1893 – Age 25 – Hewer. Dipton, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Dipton, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was evidently hewing when a flat stone, about 5 inches thick, fell out from between two backs, one of them close up to the face of the coal. It is doubtful whether he had any props under the stone but considering the nature of the roof and that the face was 5 foot from the pack he ought to have had more props set.

WALKER James - 1899 - 14/09/1899 – Age 49 – Miner. Herdshill, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased and a fellow workman were kneeling side by side sumping a holing. The latter’s pick swung through, meeting with less resistance than he had anticipated, and struck the deceased on the other side of the left knee. The injury was considered trifling and continued to work for some hours. Blood poisoning supervened resulting in his death five days afterwards.

WALKER John - 1895 - 17/01/1895 – Age 50 - Mech. Engineer. Berrylaw (quarry), George Dick, Fife. Fell into quarry.

WALKER John - 1896 - 17/10/1896. Seaham, Marquis of Londonderry, Seaham, Co.Durham. Back injured by a fall of ramble stone. Died Feb. 2nd 1897.

WALKER John - 1897 - 11/10/1897 – Age 19 – Drawer. Newliston, Youngs Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased, and another, were driving a slope road up through some stoops near to the outcrop. While the latter was charging a shot the former went up an adjoining upset for a purpose and ignited some gas at his naked light. The upset had been inspected by the fireman a few hours previously and reported clear, and his chalk mark was subsequently found in it.

WALKER John - 1897 - 15/09/1897 – Age 62 – Collier. Manor, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face of working place. Undermined, overhanging, and unspragged.

WALKER Joseph - 1891 - 03/08/1891 – Age 15 - Metal picker. Postlethwaites (metalliferous), Postlethwaites Eskett Mining Co., Eskett. This boy's father was engaged barring a piece of metal off the timbers in his working place when it suddenly fell and reeled several sets of timbers out, burying the deceased. Inspection made and inquest attended. 10.0 am.

WALKER Noah - 1898 - 18/11/1898 – Age 45 – Collier. Denton, Denton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place from slip, it ought to have been seen, and probably a prop was taken out, which should not have been.

WALKER Peter - 1890 - 11/09/1890 – Age 65 – Collier. Park Lane, Garswood Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made. Died from inflammation of the lungs, which was said to have been induced by three fractured ribs caused by lifting a tub.

WALKER Richard - 1895 - 16/04/1895 – Age 64 – Shifter. Cornsay, Ferens and Love, Co.Durham. Returning home from his days work, he fell down on rolleyway and died from heart disease.

WALKER Richard - 1897 - 12/01/1897 – Age 44 - Haulage Contractor. Pleasley Top Hard Coal, Stanton Iron Works Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was the contractor for getting coal out from the working stalls to the pit bottom. A train of four tubs got off the rails, in the engine plane, and deceased instead of stopping the endless rope, as provided for by the rules of the mine, attempted to put the trams on the rails and another train came into collision and crushed him.

WALKER Robert (injured) - 1891 - 04/07/1891 – Age 35 – Miner. Ivan’s Hope, Bauxite Co., Straid, Ireland. Injured by roof as they were commencing work. Inspection and inquiry. Douglas died December 11th, Inquest. 1 killed 1 injured.

WALKER Robert (injured) - 1891 - 10/06/1891 – Age 15 – Drawer. Yard, Westhoughton Coal and Cannel Co. Ltd., Westhoughton, Lancashire. By roof from an unseen slip in a shunt. Inspection and inquest attended. 2 killed, 1 injured.

WALKER Robert (non-fatal) - 1890 - 10/06/1890 – Age 21 – Miner. Holmes, Holmes Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Explosion of firedamp. 7 injured. Left district.

WALKER Robert (non-fatal) - 1894 - 15/06/1894 – Age 40 – Miner. Callendar, Callendar Coal Co., Stirling. Fall of coal. 14 days off.

WALKER Samuel (non-fatal) - 1892 - 05/05/1892 - Contractor brusher. Rosehall No. 5, Robert Addie and Son, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Fall of side.

WALKER Stephen - 1898 - 02/07/1898 – Age 61 – Shifter. Bewick Main, Charles Perkins and Partners, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was engaged in cleaning a water level, and in doing so he had evidently undermined a prop which was supporting a balk, the result being that a stone fell away at a slip in the roof.

WALKER Thomas (injured) - 1890 - 04/12/1890 – Age 13 - Taker off at jig, Mosley Common No. 2, Crumbouke, Bridgewater Trustees, Tyldesley, Lancashire. Leg and ankle broken by an escaped tub in a part of the mine where he was trespassing.

WALKER Thomas - 1892 - 30/12/1892 – Age 25 – Shifter. Trimdon Grange, Walter Scott Ltd., Trimdon Grange, Co.Durham. While engaged shooting out an air crossing a large stone fell off from a slip which had been shaken by a shot.

WALKER Thomas - 1893 - 13/10/1893 – Age 40 – Backoverman. East Hetton, Walter Scott Ltd., Coxhoe, Co.Durham. Severe injury to spine by fall of stone. Died on 18th inst.

WALKER Thomas - 1897 - 20/02/1897 – Age 65 – Miner. Hill of Beath, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. An extensive fall of blaes took place at face of deceased's longwall working and buried him.

WALKER Thomas - 1898 - 17/05/1898 – Age 29 – Waggonman. Clough Hall, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Injured himself while assisting to lift a beam of timber. Died of strangulated hernia on 22nd May.

WALKER Thomas - 1898 - 23/03/1898 – Age 33 – Hewer. Pelton Fell, Lord Dunsaney and Partners, Co.Durham. Severely injured by a fall of stone in face of working place owing to the presence of slips. Died the following day.

WALKER W. - 1891 - 16/04/1891 – Age 41 – Collier. Morley Main, A Ackroyd and Bros., Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

WALKER William (injured) - 1890 - 07/04/1890 – Age 57 – Labourer. Hole House, Cliviger Coal Co., Cliviger, Lancashire. Two fingers cut off by a capstan engine above ground as he was helping to wind on slack chain.

WALKER William (non-fatal) - 1893 - 26/08/1893 – Age 33 – Trimmer. Bellsdyke, Bellsdyke Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Run over by waggon.

WALKER William (non-fatal) - 1894 - 05/01/1894 – Age 44 – Borer. Blairhill, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Fife. Explosion of firedamp. 2 injured, 20 days off.

WALKER William - 1892 - 24/06/1892 – Age 39 – Hewer. Walbottle, Walbottle Coal Co., Walbottle, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was working at the bottom coal when a piece of overhanging clay band, under which he had set a prop and plank, suddenly fell upon him. He should have taken the band down before commencing work.

WALKER William Edward - 1897 - 28/06/1897 – Age 26 – Fireman. Nook, Astley and Tyldesley Coal & Salt Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of pulley wheel frame on haulage road. Insecurely fixed. Displaced either by fall of side or pulled down by haulage rope when the set left the rails.

WALKINGSHAW James - 1892 - 04/08/1892 – Age 60 – Miner. Lochgelly, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of coal.

WALKINGSHAW John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 23/04/1890 – Age 23 – Miner. Tarbrax, Caledonian Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Explosion of gunpowder. 2 injured.

WALKINSHAW Andrew (non-fatal) - 1893 - 16/01/1893 – Age 25 – Miner. Bog & Home Farm, Hamilton McCulloch and Co., Lanarkshire. Explosion of gas.

WALL Charles - 1891 - 30/01/1891 – Age 57 – Pikeman. Pool Hayes, W Bickley, Short Heath, Staffordshire. Fall of rock roof.

WALL Noah - 1896 - 17/08/1896 – Age 26 – Holer. Brownhills, William Harrison, Staffordshire. Fall from face while holing.

WALL Thomas - 1892 - 09/01/1892 – Age 48 – Miner. Levant (metalliferous), Levant Mining Co., St. Just, Cornwall. His son was climbing down a winze to their working place, 2 or 3 fathoms below the 190-fathom level, he knocked their water canteen off a plank, at the top of the winze on which he had placed it so as to be within reach of him. In falling it struck deceased in the loins. The injury incapacitated him from further work but he refused to go up to the surface until the end of the shift, some two or three hours later. He ascended, unassisted by the man engine, but had to be conveyed home from the mine. The doctor saw him and he died the following evening. It appears that he had been, for some time, in a bad state of health suffering from what in Cornwall is called "Miner's complaint," the result of working in badly ventilated places, etc.

WALL Thomas - 1895 - 16/04/1895 – Age 44 – Shotfirer. Felling, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Felling, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased may either have been lighting up a shot, when the charge exploded or he may have lit up and thinking there was a misfire returned to the place too soon.

WALL Thomas - 1898 - 05/07/1898 – Age 16 – Pumper. Boltsburn Lead (metalliferous), Weardale Lead Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When travelling outbye from his, a piece of stone fell from the roof, the level, and killed him.

WALLACE Alexander (non-fatal) - 1890 - 27/05/1890 – Age 32 – Miner. Oakbank, Oakbank Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Fall of shale. 84 days off.

WALLACE Alexander - 1898 - 24/02/1898 – Age 14 – Drawer. Montgommeriefield, A Kenneth and Sons, Ayrshire. While descending the shafts, in the cage, the rope slipped over the flange of the drum. The cage dropped and the rope stented the connection, with the rope broken the cage fell to the bottom of the shaft. 4 killed.

WALLACE Andrew (non-fatal) - 1892 - 30/11/1892 – Miner. Southerhouse No. 1, Robert Pettigrew, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

WALLACE Andrew - 1891 - 08/06/1891 – Age 14 – Drawer. Pennyvenie No. 1, Dalmellington Iron Co., Galston, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at face.

WALLACE George (non-fatal) - 1890 - 24/06/1890 – Miner. Blantyre No. 2, William Dixon Ltd., Blantyre, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road.

WALLACE George - 1890 - 11/04/1890 – Age 19 – Drawer. Balgonie, Charles B Balfour, Fife. Fall of stone. 9.00 am.

WALLACE H. - 1895 - 19/03/1895 – Age 15 – Driver. Monk Bretton, Monk Bretton Coal Co., Yorkshire. Crushed between Corves on engine plane.

WALLACE Hector (non-fatal) - 1890 - 31/10/1890 – Age 25 – Miner. Broxburn, Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Fall of shale. 3 days off.

WALLACE J. (non-fatal) - 1892 - 06/12/1892 – Drawer. Haughead, Haughead Coal Co., Broomhouse, Lanarkshire. Injured by break handle.

WALLACE James (non-fatal) - 1890 - 21/11/1890 – Miner. Rosehall No. 7, Robert Addie and Sons, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

WALLACE James (non-fatal) - 1892 - 25/02/1892 – Age 22 – Collier. Earnock, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof. 14 days off.

WALLACE James - 1897 - 06/03/1897 – Age 57 – Miner. Deans Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was finishing the holing when a part of the shale fell away from a clay back which was unseen.

WALLACE James - 1898 - 22/06/1898 – Age 26 - Pony driver. Gauchalland No. 7, Gauchalland Coal Co., Ayrshire. While illegally riding between hutches, drawn by a pony, upon going through a screen he got caught by the lintel.

WALLACE John (non-fatal) - 1891 14/12/1891 52 Brusher Kelty Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of stone. Still off.

WALLACE John (non-fatal) - 1891 - 24/01/1891 – Age 30 – Fireman. Shawfield, John Wilson, Lanarkshire. Fall of stone. 108 days off.

WALLACE John - 1892 - 23/02/1892 – Age 42 – Overman. North Motherwell No. 1, Merry and Cuninghame, Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Fell down shaft from a midworking.

WALLACE Peter - 1896 - 19/02/1896 – Age 27 – Shifter. Backworth Church, Owners of Backworth & West Cramlington Collieries, Northumberland. Inquest attended. He strained his back while lifting a stone and died on May 29th from consumption, of long standing, accelerated by accidentally injuring himself.

WALLACE Robert - 1891 - 24/03/1891 – Age 28 – Miner. Merryton, Merryton Coal Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of stone, stone mine.

WALLACE Robert - 1895 - 24/07/1895 – Age 50 – Labourer. Leven, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Crushed by capstan.

WALLACE Walter - 1899 - 12/06/1899 – Age 13 - Horse driver. Markham No. 1, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was passing down a roadway, in charge of a horse conveying two full tubs of coal. The horse ran into the side of the roadway and knocked out a prop which supported the end of a bar. The bar being liberated a quantity of roof fell and fatally injured the deceased. He died same day.

WALLACE William - 1898 - 24/02/1898 – Age 12 – Drawer. Montgommeriefield, A Kenneth and Sons, Ayrshire. While descending the shafts in the cage the rope slipped over the flange of the drum. The cage dropped and the rope stented the connection, with the rope broken the cage fell to the bottom of the shaft 4 killed.

WALLAM James (survivor) - 1898 - 19/04/1898 – Age 23. 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.

WALLBUTTON Frederick - 1897 - 29/05/1897 – Age 25 - Coke burner. Gelli Steam, Cory Bros. Ltd., Glamorgan. Journey of 6 trams of shale, from the coal washer, had just been stopped on the rubbish tip incline when the link next the shackle broke, the trams running down over an embankment at the bottom and striking Pocock, who happened to be passing and killing him on the spot, and fatally injuring Wallbutton who was loading bricks. 2 killed.

WALLER James - 1897 - 22/04/1897 – Age 22 – Miner. North Motherwell No. 3, Merry and Cunninghame Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at Cousie head.

WALLHEAD George - 1891 - 15/04/1891 – Age 35 – Stallman. Newstead, Newstead Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. The dangerous state of the roof had been pointed out to the deceased but after trying it he went on getting coal until it fell upon him. 8.50 am.

WALLIS John - 1896 - 30/04/1896 – Age 48. Micklefield, Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 63 killed.

WALLIS Joseph (injured) - 1890 - 29/10/1890 – Age 21 – Miner. Dolcoath (metalliferous), Dolcoath, Camborne, Cornwall. A small stone fell from the back of the stopes in which the man was working, cutting the back of his head and bruising his arm and shoulder.

WALLIS William (injured) - 1890 - 02/05/1890 – Age 26 – Miner. Dolcoath (metalliferous), Dolcoath, Camborne, Cornwall. Wallis was standing on a ladder in a stope at the 388-fathom level, lifting a large piece of timber, when the stuff on which the ladder was resting shifted and the ladder slipped causing the man to fall 6 feet. His collar bone was broken which was his worst injury.

WALLS Henry Richard - 1893 - 29/07/1893 – Age 29 – Fireman. Chisnall Hall, Pearson and Knowles Coal & Iron Co. Ltd., Coppull, Lancashire. Sinking pit. Engineman made a mistake, he thought they were being raised from the shaft bottom whereas they started 70 yards from the pit top, he over wound, the safety hook detached but the hoppet hook uncoupled from the safety hook and let the hoppet and the men fall to the bottom of the shaft, 170 yards. 2 killed.

WALLS John (non-fatal) - 1892 - 05/11/1892 – Miner. Southerhouse No. 1, Robert Pettigrew, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

WALLWORTH George - 1892 - 25/03/1892 – Age 32 – Collier. Tyldesley Astley & Tyldesley Coal & Salt Co. Ltd., Tyldesley, Lancashire. Fall of roof coal. He was knocking a sprag prop out, from under the coal, when he lost his balance and fell with the prop, the coal dropped upon his head. Died same day.

WALMESLEY James (injured) - 1890 - 10/02/1890 – Age 24 – Fireman. Hewlett No. 2 Yard, Wigan Iron and Coal Co., Westhoughton, Lancashire. Back injured by roof falling where he was making room on an endless rope brow.

WALMESLEY James - 1890 - 25/04/1890 – Age 60 – Labourer. Moorfield, Altham Colliery Co., Altham, Lancashire. Walmsley killed and Walsh injured. A knot in one of the guy ropes slipped when an iron girder was being raised.

WALSALL Samuel - 1892 - 07/12/1892 – Age 39 – Deputy. Cramlington, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Cramlington, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Drawing a broken jud, he had taken all the props but two, when the roof fell in and caught him. Had he used the punch, which was lying within a few yards of him, his life would have been saved.

WALSH J. - 1891 - 07/11/1891 – Age 18 – Trammer. Greaseborough, Greaseborough Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

WALSH J. - 1893 - 18/08/1893 – Age 40 – Sinker. Warren House, J Brown and Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fell out of trunk in sinking shaft. 3 killed.

WALSH John - 1898 - 10/06/1898 – Age 36 – Pitheadman. Bredisholme No. 3, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. After re-hosing the winding-rope he was steadying it until the engineman lifted the cage. The cage was raised suddenly, and caused him to fall between the cage and the pithead frame where he was crushed.

WALSH Patrick - 1892 - 30/04/1892 – Age 54 – Shifter. Cramlington, Cramlington Coal Co., Cramlington, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was cleaning up an airway and building a pack when a sudden weight came on and before he could escape he was caught by a fall of stone which knocked out some props.

WALSH Patrick - 1894 - 27/07/1894 – Age 60 – Greaser. Chapel House, Executors of Edward Smith, Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased appeared to have gone to clean the crank, during a short stoppage of the winding engine, and appears to have thought the cage was at the bottom of the pit whereas it had been stopped part way down and was unexpectedly started again, to go to the bottom, when he was caught by the crank and crushed.

WALSH Patrick - 1898 - 15/05/1898 – Age 40 - Contractors man. Bickershaw, Ackers Whitley and Co. Ltd., Leigh, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was a Contractor's man and when engaged packing dirt from the roofing down, a stone fell upon him from slip in the roof, capping a prop and crushing the deceased.

WALSH Samuel - 1890 - 16/12/1890 – Age 19 – Drawer. Ashtonfield, Bridgewater Trustees, Little Hulton, Lancashire. Died 26th from injury by his pick point running into his knee; he fell upon it whilst waggoning.

WALSH Thomas - 1891 - 17/07/1891 – Age 32 – Dataler. Garswood Hall, Garswood Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was engaged dinting the floor of a main downbrow when it is thought, in doing so he undermined some props which eventually gave way, and the roof fell upon him. The place appeared to have been well timbered. 4.30 am.

WALSH Thomas - 1892 - 16/02/1892 – Age 52 – Collier. Ashtons Field, Bridgewater Trustees, Little Hulton, Lancashire. In working place from slip not discovered. Died 18th.

WALSH William (injured) - 1890 - 25/04/1890 – Age 22 – Labourer. Moorfield, Altham Colliery Co., Altham, Lancashire. Walmsley killed and Walsh injured. A knot in one of the guy ropes slipped when an iron girder was being raised.

WALSH William - 1899 - 24/06/1899 – Age 15 - Smith’s striker. South Tunnel, Dowlais Iron Co., Glamorgan. Run over while six trucks were being shunted. He was not engaged and was playing with other boys during breakfast hour.

WALSHAM J. - 1893 - 13/12/1893 – Age 71 – Platelayer. Whitwood, H Briggs and Son, Normanton, Yorkshire. Run over on branch railway, died 24th.

WALTERS A. - 1894 - 27/08/1894 – Age 30 – Collier. Aldwarke Main, J Brown and Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of coal.

WALTERS Albert Edward - 1895 - 15/03/1895 – Age 17 - Examiner’s boy. Malgo Vale, Briston Collieries Co. Ltd., Malgo Vale, Somerset. Abrahams fired a shot which ignited gas in cracks in the roof or coal dust in the roadway which had not been damped thus creating an extensive explosion. 2 killed.

WALTERS Daniel - 1894 - 20/07/1894 – Age 64 – Repairer. Barn, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Donnington, Shropshire. Broken thigh and injury to back by fall of roof and side on the road near the face in the Deep Coal. The place should have been timbered. Died 24th Sept.

WALTERS Henry - 1896 - 28/09/1896 – Age 22 - Incline man. Swanwick, CR Palmer, Morewood, Derbyshire. Deceased was lifting some trams upon the rails, in a self-acting incline, and before doing so he removed the safety over-chain when three trams had been put on the rails and when the deceased was attached to a tram by a belt and chain, the trams ran away down the incline through a coupling being unfastened dragging the deceased with them.

WALTERS Isaac - 1890 - 10/03/1890 – Age 23 - Fan driver. Morfa, Vivian and Sons, Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 87 Killed.

WALTERS James - 1893 - 31/10/1893 – Age 40 – Miner. Kingsteignton (metalliferous), Watts Blake Bourne and Co., Kingsteignton. A prop, which was being lowered into one of the shallow clay pits, slipped through the chain hitch and striking his head caused his immediate death.

WALTERS John - 1892 - 22/01/1892 – Age 18 – Collier. North Dunraven, London and South Wales Coal Co. Ltd., Treherbert, Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, inside timbers 5 foot from the face, a bell stone 5 foot x 3.5 foot.

WALTERS Joseph - 1897 - 26/04/1897 – Age 59 – Stoneman. Binchester, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Thigh broken by a fall of stone while setting timber in face of gateway. Died May 23rd.

WALTERS Michael - 1892 - 23/05/1892 – Age 33 – Miner. Winder Gill (metalliferous), Winder Gill Iron Ore Co., Winder, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. After firing a shot he commenced to get the loose ore down when a huge piece suddenly rolled off the side on to him. He had got up to the top of the timber to pull the ore otherwise he would have been safe.

WALTERS R.C. - 1891 - 23/01/1891 – Age 27 – Haulier. Tylors, A Tylors and Co. Ltd., Tylorstown, Glamorgan. Crushed by a runaway tram on engine-plane while waiting at a branch. The journey had been sent away, without the usual safety rope which had broken on the previous run, and a shackle became detached causing the tram to "run wild".

WALTERS Ralph - 1892 - 11/10/1892 – Age 33 – Signalman. Deaf Hill, Trimdon Coal Co., Trimdon, Co.Durham. Left his work and went round to a new pit, just sunk, where he fell into the sump and was drowned.

WALTERS Robert - 1897 - 14/01/1897 – Age 39 - Slant hitcher. Pont Henry, Pont Henry Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. Fatally injured by a runaway journey which had been improperly fastened to the rope.

WALTERS Robert - 1899 - 03/02/1899 – Age 51 – Stallman. Swanwick Deep, CR Palmer, Morewood, Derbyshire. A full tub ran away down the stall face and fatally crushed the deceased.

WALTERS Stephen - 1897 - 12/11/1897 – Age 16 – Collier. Ffaldau, Ffaldau Collieries Co., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face top coal, 10 foot x 2 foot x 18 inches thick, one sprag said to have been under it. Nine feet seam.

WALTERS Thomas - 1890 - 26/03/1890 – Age 62 – Smith. Dunraven, Montagues of Thomas Joseph, Treherbert, Glamorgan. He was attempting to put a strap on a pulley, that was in motion, when by some means he got entangled in the machinery.

WALTERS Thomas - 1895 - 14/11/1895 – Age 50 – Fireman. Dowlais Bedlinog, Dowlais Iron Co., Glamorgan. Knocked down and run over by loaded trams while attempting to cross the rope in front of the journey.

WALTERS William - 1890 - 06/05/1890 – Age 42 – Miner. Withins Lane, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Radcliffe, Lancashire. Killed by roof falling. He had just tapped it and said it was not good.

WALTERS William - 1895 - 25/10/1895 – Age 28 – Ripper. Plymouth-Abercanaid Hills, Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on main heading in Seven feet seam, strong sandy clift, 40 foot long 5 foot wide 21 inches thick. A shot had just been fired at one end of it. Heading not double timbered.

WALTHAM Henry - 1897 - 16/02/1897 – Age 62 – Dataller. Nailstone, Nailstone Colliery Co., Leicester. Fall of roof. Deceased had been sent to pull down some bad stone and had just commenced work when the stone fell and killed him instantly.

WALTON Charles (non-fatal) - 1891 - 25/02/1891 – Collier. Castlehill, Shotts Iron Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of stone.

WALTON Fred - 1899 - 25/08/1899 – Age 15 - Jig hooker. Poynton Lawrance, Lord Vernon, Poynton, Cheshire. Fall of roof on drawing road caused by one of a journey of full tubs, drawn by a horse, getting off the rails and knocking a post out.

WALTON James - 1897 - 30/12/1897 – Age 65 – Collier. Ellesmere, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Fall of coal from working face. Reckless disregard of slips and want of sprags at loose corner. Died 3rd January 1898.

WALTON John (injured) - 1890 - 13/05/1890 – Age 21 – Drawer. Tyldesley Brassey, Astley and Tyldesley Coal & Salt Co. Ltd., Tyldesley, Lancashire. Injured by a pick running into his side, he having slipped on a landing plate.

WALTON John - 1893 - 01/08/1893 – Age 27 – Collier. Blaina Henwain, John Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Blain, Monmouth. Fall of rock roof in Elled seam from unseen slips. This is another Elled accident and demonstrates that there evidently is need for the use of more timber in this seam however satisfactory the roof may appear. There is no reason why the timber should not be set in these places as if the roof was bad and thus obtain security.

WALTON John - 1897 - 15/09/1897 – Age 41 – Stoneman. Cornsay, Ferens and Love, Co.Durham. Died today from an injury caused by a fall of stone while following his employment on November 17th 1892.

WALTON John - 1899 - 21/03/1899 – Age 23 – Hewer. Etherley, Henry Stobart and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was sent to work in a broken lift but had gone into the goaf, to reach some coal which had been left next to a hitch, when a large stone fell and killed him.

WALTON John jnr. - 1899 - 21/02/1899 – Age 14 – Driver. Edmondsley, Edmondsley Coal Co., Co.Durham. Sprained his side when pushing some full tubs. Died on Sept. 14th.

WALTON Utrick - 1898 - 17/02/1898 – Age 21 – Putter. Thornley, Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While hewing in a place, with another man, a fall of roof took place at a glassy parting between the timber and the coal and killed him.

WALTON William - 1897 - 04/06/1897 – Age 14 – Driver. Croxdale, Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A set of tubs got detached, by some means, from a rope and ran back into a landing and caught and killed him.

WANLESS John - 1899 - 24/03/1899 – Age 35 - Shaft sinker. Newdigate sinking, FA Newdigate MP, Warwick. Deceased was getting out of a sinking bowk at a partially built scaffolding, 200 yards down a sinking shaft, when he fell to the bottom, a further distance of 100 yards and was drowned there being a depth of 50 yards of water in the shaft at the time.

WARBURTON James (injured) - 1890 - 17/09/1890 – Age 28 – Miner. Spindlepoint Cannel, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Kersley, Lancashire. Thigh broken by top coal and roof where he was moving dirt.

WARBURTON John - 1891 - 02/04/1891 – Age 43 – Fireman. Apedale Sladderhill, Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Explosion. 10 killed.

WARBURTON S. - 1894 - 09/02/1894 – Age 34 – Collier. Nostell, Lord St Oswald, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Fall of stone, died 10th.

WARD D. - 1896 - 02/11/1896 – Age 31 – Labourer. Grange, Newton Chambers and Co., Yorkshire. Run over by waggons on sidings.

WARD Daniel (non-fatal) - 1890 - 25/06/1890 – Age 25 – Drawer. Earnock, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof. 167 days off.

WARD Daniel (non-fatal) - 1891 - 05/10/1891 – Age 27 – Driver. Earnock, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Horse fell on him. Still off.

WARD Dennis - 1895 - 24/10/1895 – Age 23 – Labourer. Whistleberry, Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. While a branch railway was being made a runaway waggon ran into the waggons which were being emptied by the deceased and others. 4 others injured.

WARD Edward - 1890 - 30/01/1890 – Age 37 – Collier. Blaenclydach, Forest Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Pontypool, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (rock 2 foot thick) between face and gob where it was apparently well timbered. No. 2 Rhondda seam. Pillar and stall.

WARD Elias Alfred - 1896 - 01/08/1896 – Age 44 - Barer Hall, Cowm Stone (quarry), Henry Heys and Co. Lancashire. Fall of ground from face of baring.

WARD George - 1892 - 22/11/1892 – Age 27 – Chargeman. Brynn Hall, EF and HH Crippen, Ashton, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was building a pack wall, behind the widework face, when the roof gave way suddenly. The Contractor was present at the time but noticed no apparent danger.

WARD George - 1895 - 15/11/1895 – Age 46 – Loader. Wollaton, Wollaton Colliery Co. Ltd., Nottingham. Fall of roof. Deceased was watching the stallman fall some coal when a portion of the roof fell and struck the deceased. He died 26th Nov.

WARD H. - 1897 - 30/11/1897 – Collier. Barrow, Barrow Haematite Steel Co., Yorkshire. Fall of side. Died 15th May 1898. Accident 30th Nov 1897.

WARD Hugh - 1898 - 18/10/1898 – Age 17 – Labourer. Bloomhill Sandstone Quarry, James Dickson Co., Tyrone, Ireland. Fell from a gangway or bridge, a distance of 12 feet into water 10 feet deep; he was drowned. Gangway broke owing to too much weight and defect in timber.

WARD Humphrey - 1893 - 08/11/1893 – Age 27 – Collier. Glebe, John Challinor and Co. Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Crushed against jig post by fall of roof at longwall face in Moss Seam.

WARD J. - 1893 - 23/01/1893 – Age 56 – Collier. Oaks, C Cammell and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of coal.

WARD J. - 1896 - 13/08/1896 – Age 62 – Byeworker. Robin Hood, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

WARD James - 1890 - 23/12/1890 – Age 50 – Stallman. Blackwell A Winning, Blackwell Colliery Co., Alfreton, Derbyshire. Fall of roof. He was withdrawing back timber from the goaf.

WARD James William - 1899 - 09/05/1899 – Age 19 – Putter. Wheatley Hill, Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While assisting to lift a full tub on to the rails, at the face of a working place, he sprained himself severely and died the following day.

WARD John - 1898 - 09/08/1898 – Age 50 – Stallman. Shady Birchwood, Babbington Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. He was withdrawing a prop from the goaf, by knocking it out with a hammer instead of using a ringer and chain as required by the rules of the mine. He died 21st December.

WARD John William - 1898 - 24/06/1898 – Age 25 - Coke burner. Esh, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. While attempting to get on to a railway truck in motion, he slipped his foot and fell amongst the wheels, three trucks and the guard's van passed over and killed him.

WARD Manus - 1895 - 22/01/1895 – Age 30 – Miner. Cobbinshaw (shale), Caledonian Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Fall of oil shale.

WARD Peter - 1892 - 20/12/1892 – Age 23 – Miner. Pumpherston, Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Explosion of shot.

WARD Ralph - 1894 - 18/01/1894 – Age 14 – Driver. Seghill, Joseph Laycock and Co., Seghill, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The pony, which the deceased was driving, swerved and drew out some props the baulks following and causing a fall of stone which caught and killed the deceased. The road was in good order.

WARD Samuel - 1890 - 04/06/1890 – Age 14 – Driver. Grassmoor No. 3, Grassmoor Colliery Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Crushed between a loaded tub and the side of a road.

WARD Samuel - 1893 - 15/06/1893 – Age 52 – Stoneman. Usworth, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Usworth, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Several men were coming outbye on the engine plane and hearing the set approaching he went into refuge holes. As the set was passing some of the tubs got off the way and crushed the deceased who was looking out of the refuge hole about the body and he afterwards died from the injuries.