In certain areas of the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, coalfield thin seams were accessible at the surface or within a few feet or yards of the surface. Usually they were too thin or of poor quality for commercial exploitation. In times of a prolonged strike or short time working some miners worked outcrop coal as it was called from pits they dug themselves. Inevitably fatalities occurred. During the Second World War and afterwards, many of these seams were worked commercially when the surface soil was stripped the coal removed by machinery and the soil replaced. This method was termed open-cast mining. Below are names of victims of outcropping.
|
Age |
Date |
Inquest Date-Place |
Accident Place |
Detail |
Charles Wray
Mount Pleasant
Newton |
53 |
16-03-1921 |
18-05-1921
Tibshelf |
Council Refuse Tip |
Fall of clay |
John Frederick Soar
130, Loscoe Road
Heanor Derbyshire |
17 |
26-06-1921 |
28-06-1921
Heanor |
Back Garden |
Overcome by blackdamp |
Joseph John Toulson
Unknown
Derbyshire |
34 |
22-06-1922 |
15-07-1922
Chesterfield |
Mouse Park Wood
New Whittington |
Overcome by blackdamp |
George Merrick
Unknown
Derbyshire |
37 |
22-06-1922 |
15-07-1922
Chesterfield |
Mouse Park Wood
New Whittington |
Overcome by blackdamp |
John Henry Ross
6, Henson’s Row
Old Basford |
16 |
30-06-1926 |
02-08-1926
Nottingham General
Hospital |
Trowell Moor |
Fall of earth |
George Bucknall
6, Soudan Terrace
Hawthorne Street |
13 |
24-07-1926 |
28-07-1926 |
Clifton Colliery
waste tip |
Fall of earth |
Reginald Davidson
Top Row
Callow Derbyshire |
34 |
12-08-1926 |
14-08-1926
Chesterfield |
Callow |
Fall of clay |
William Henry Allen
38, Burnt House Road
Heanor Derbyshire |
40 |
12-01-1927 |
14-01-1927
Heanor |
Heanor |
Overcome by blackdamp |
Ernest Arthur Wilson
15, Slade Street
Ilkeston Derbyshire |
27 |
10-09-1930 |
12-09-1939
Middleton Hotel
Ilkeston |
Grange Farm
Cossall |
Overcome by blackdamp |
Leonard Meakin
Station Street
Ilkeston Derbyshire |
39 |
10-09-1930 |
12-09-1939
Middleton Hotel
Ilkeston |
Grange Farm
Cossall |
Overcome by blackdamp |
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