| Date |
Name |
Age |
Colliery |
Cause of Accident |
02-01-1886 |
L Lambeth |
48 |
Whitwood |
Fall of roof |
04-01-1886 |
T Harrison |
40 |
Sharlston |
Fall of coal |
04-01-1886 |
T Parkes |
40 |
Featherstone Main |
Fall of coal |
05-01-1886 |
J Pearce |
58 |
Monckton Main |
Fall of roof |
06-01-1886 |
William Ratcliffe |
46 |
Birley Moorpit |
Rope broke fell down shaft |
09-01-1886 |
S Medley |
29 |
Stanley Liversedge |
Fall of roof |
14-01-1886 |
J Sanderson |
25 |
Whitwood |
Run over by wagons on the surface 12 Jan 1886 |
14-01-1886 |
F Roystone |
18 |
Nunnery |
Crushed by tubs |
16-01-1886 |
E Hepworth |
23 |
Thorncliffe |
Hit by pulley wheel 11 Dec 1885 |
16-01-1886 |
G Lockwood |
22 |
Old Flockton |
Fall of roof |
18-01-1886 |
W Holdsworth |
59 |
Barrow |
Fall of roof |
19-01-1886 |
D Holmes |
30 |
Mirfield |
Fall of roof 07 Oct 1885 |
22-01-1886 |
J Fretwell |
44 |
Wombwell Main |
Caught in machinery |
27-01-1886 |
G Herbert |
15 |
East Gawber |
Hit by a haulage rope |
30-01-1886 |
John William Brown |
19 |
Birley West |
Fall of roof |
03-02-1886 |
W Rowe |
43 |
Treeton |
Fall of roof |
13-02-1886 |
W Massey |
54 |
Snydale |
Fall of roof |
13-02-1886 |
J Osborn |
48 |
Roundwood |
Fall of roof 31 Jan 1886 |
15-02-1886 |
W Perry |
19 |
West Riding |
Run over by tubs |
17-02-1886 |
E Roberts |
41 |
East Gawber |
Run Over by tubs |
23-02-1886 |
G Barrow |
27 |
Nostell |
Fall of roof |
27-02-1886 |
T Wright |
42 |
Waleswood |
Fall of coal 21 Jan 1886 |
08-03-1886 |
S Hodgson |
29 |
Carlton Main |
Fall of coal |
11-03-1886 |
J Edis |
22 |
Sharlston |
Run over by a loco surface |
15-03-1886 |
F Featherstone |
14 |
Whitwood |
Crushed by tubs |
24-03-1886 |
W Brooke |
54 |
Shaw Cross |
Fall of roof |
30-03-1886 |
W Petch |
14 |
Sinking Wood |
Fall of roof |
01-04-1886 |
Joseph Harris |
19 |
Monckton Main |
Fall of roof |
06-04-1886 |
F Clifford |
21 |
East Gawber |
Fall of roof |
08-04-1886 |
J Morris |
49 |
Wheldale |
Fall of roof |
16-04-1886 |
R Brindle |
36 |
Nostell |
Crushed by the cage |
17-04-1886 |
J Wiper |
30 |
Church Lane |
Fall of roof |
07-05-1886 |
J Swift |
52 |
Hemingford |
Fall of coal |
11-05-1886 |
F Rudge |
34 |
Stanley |
Fall of coal |
15-05-1886 |
J Moat |
55 |
Nunnery |
Fall of roof 10 May 1886 |
21-05-1886 |
H Bartholomew |
42 |
Treeton |
Crushed by wagons on the surface |
22-05-1886 |
R Pattison |
55 |
Denaby Main |
Crushed by tubs |
26-05-1886 |
C Firth |
60 |
Kippax |
Run over by tubs |
29-05-1886 |
G Taylor |
50 |
East Gawber |
Crushed by the cage |
03-06-1886 |
D Heeley |
18 |
Thorncliffe |
Fall of roof |
06-06-1886 |
T Wilkinson |
21 |
Blacker Main |
Fall of coal 04 Jun 1886 |
08-06-1886 |
E Ingram |
|
Howley Park |
Run over by tubs |
30-06-1886 |
H Stother |
15 |
Thorncliffe |
Run Over by tubs |
01-07-1886 |
Robert Ashmore |
38 |
Birley West |
Fall of roof |
05-07-1886 |
S Shepherd |
45 |
West Riding |
Fall of roof |
07-07-1886 |
J Dagnall |
46 |
Denaby Main |
Fall of coal |
14-07-1886 |
H Cowell |
30 |
Allerton Bywater |
Fall of coal |
17-07-1886 |
W Battison |
26 |
Thrybergh Hall |
Fall of roof |
18-07-1886 |
J Whitehouse |
39 |
Waleswood |
Fall of roof 16 Jul 1886 |
20-07-1886 |
S Jackson |
30 |
Mitchell Main |
Fall of coal |
21-07-1886 |
A Butterfield |
42 |
Waterloo |
Fall of roof |
23-07-1886 |
E Lax |
14 |
Waleswood |
Run over by wagons on the surface |
27-07-1886 |
A Speight |
28 |
Lofthouse |
Crushed by tubs 20 Jul 1886 |
02-08-1866 |
G Green |
19 |
Wheldale |
Kicked by a pony |
02-08-1886 |
J Nicholson |
48 |
Flatts |
Fall of roof |
17-08-1886 |
G Jackson |
29 |
Strafford |
Fall of roof |
18-08-1886 |
F Liversedge |
16 |
Nunnery |
Crushed by a pony |
31-08-1886 |
P Fox |
26 |
Park Hill |
Fall of roof |
04-09-1886 |
H Sanson |
54 |
Thorncliffe |
Fall of roof |
06-09-1886 |
C leak |
16 |
Manvers Main |
Crushed by wagons on the surface |
06-09-1886 |
G Mosby |
55 |
Micklefield |
Fall of roof |
16-09-1886 |
R Tempest |
40 |
Morley Main |
Fall of roof |
21-09-1886 |
W Hammond |
22 |
Nunnery |
Crushed by tubs 19 Sep 1886 |
25-09-1886 |
T Green |
30 |
Denaby Main |
Run over by wagons on the surface |
25-09-1886 |
D Overend |
60 |
Woolley |
Fall of coal 13 Sep 1886 |
29-09-1886 |
W Fish |
20 |
Mitchell Main |
Run over by tubs 19 Aug 1886 |
Altofts Colliery Explosion.
A Report was made by Frank N. Wardell. Her Majesty's Inspector of Mines and was presented to both houses of Parliament in 1887.
The explosion took place on the 2nd October 1887, but the inquest could not be held until all the bodies had been recovered, some ten weeks afterwards. This was owing to the fact that the work of recovery and of restoration of the ventilation system was very slow, and was carried out with the greatest deliberation and caution.
Until a few months previous to October, the system of lighting had been one of naked lights exclusively. By degrees, safety-lamps had been introduced, and at the time of the explosion were in use throughout the mine, with the exception of the bottom of the shafts, and for certain prescribed distances along the main intake roads.
The pit porch, and an underground engine-house, as well as the roads immediately in the vicinity of the shafts, were lighted by gas, which was brought by means of pipes from the surface.
The day on which the explosion occurred was a Saturday, and the time about three o'clock in the afternoon. The regular day-shift of workmen had left the pit about one o'clock, and this was a matter of thankfulness, inasmuch as had the explosion taken place previous to this hour, there would probably have been about 400 persons in the mine.
The number actually down at the time was 28. Of these, 20 were killed and eight injured, two of these latter dying from the effects of their injuries.
The verdict of the jury at the inquest was that "The whole of the workmen killed, except the two deputies, met their deaths from an explosion of coal dust, which originated in the West Bord, and was caused by the firing of an unskilfully drilled shot by one of the men engaged in widening the road; and the two deputies were suffocated by the stoppage of ventilation consequent on the explosion."
This was probably the first recorded case in which a verdict had been returned of death from explosion of coal-dust alone.
The Altoft Explosion led to a demand for the addition to the Coal Mines Act (1872) to deal with dangers arising from coal dust. It was not until the Coal Mines Act of 1887 that amongst the precautions required, was that of watering the dust in the vicinity of shots for a radius of 20 yards.
| Date |
Name |
Age |
Colliery |
Cause of Accident |
02-10-1886 |
George Edward Cookson |
16 |
Altofts |
Explosion of coal-dust |
02-10-1886 |
W Barker |
27 |
Altofts |
Explosion of coal-dust |
02-10-1886 |
George Allatt |
27 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
Soloman Green |
44 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
Joseph Gill |
50 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
Thomas Ibbeson |
16 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
George Arthur Colley |
29 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
Martin Buxton |
44 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
Abraham Davies |
17 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
John Barker Newton |
39 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
John Hancock |
36 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
George Wilcock |
29 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
John Trueman |
38 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
J Nicholson |
44 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
John Fox |
26 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
Samuel Flint |
41 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
Henry Deakin |
53 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
Thomas Oakley |
21 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
Charles Edward Plimmer |
18 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
02-10-1886 |
Samuel Lomax |
58 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust |
03-10-1886 |
T Hough |
15 |
Whitwood |
Crushed by the cage -1-10-1886 |
04-10-1886 |
William Megson |
36 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust 02-10-1886 |
08-10-1886 |
F Rowbottom |
30 |
Kiveton Park |
Fall of roof |
19-10-1886 |
W Ashwood |
19 |
Mitchell Main |
Fall of roof |
19-10-1886 |
P Malloy |
35 |
Nunnery |
Crushed by wagons on the surface |
21-10-1886 |
James Worthington |
25 |
Altofts |
Explosion of Coal Dust 02-10-1886 |
02-11-1886 |
J Cauldwell |
17 |
East Gawber |
Run over by tubs |
08-11-1886 |
J Newton |
15 |
Box Ings |
Overcome by blackdamp |
09-11-1886 |
S Arundel |
44 |
East Ardsley |
Fall of roof |
11-11-1886 |
S Birkenshaw |
14 |
Park Hill |
Fall of roof |
14-11-1886 |
Thomas Turnbull Dial |
37 |
Kiveton Park |
Fell down the shaft |
17-11-1886 |
H Griffiths |
29 |
Sharlston |
Fall of roof |
18-11-1886 |
B Summers |
31 |
Nunnery |
Fall of coal |
19-11-1886 |
T Hall |
40 |
Wombwell Main |
Fall of coal |
19-11-1886 |
A Woodhead |
15 |
Wharncliffe Silkstone |
Crushed by wagons on the surface 08-11-1886 |
20-11-1886 |
J Hudson |
19 |
Lofthouse |
Crushed by the cage 19-11-1886 |
21-11-1886 |
J Firth |
59 |
Carlton Main |
Crushed by wagons on the surface |
22-11-1886 |
J Clayton |
17 |
Aldwarke Main |
Fell from the cage |
26-11-1886 |
J Idle |
36 |
Prince of Wales |
Fall of roof |
27-11-1886 |
J Platts |
21 |
Waleswood |
Fall of roof |
04-12-1886 |
F Elliott |
41 |
North Staveley |
Fall of roof |
07-12-1886 |
R Barker |
35 |
Mitchell Main |
Crushed by tubs 26-11-1886 |
08-12-1886 |
G Blackburn |
37 |
South Kirkby |
Crushed by tubs 30 -11-1886 |
08-12-1886 |
J Roberts |
52 |
Simon Wood |
Fall of coal |
| 15-12-1886 |
Samuel Burden |
55 |
Lundhill |
| Fall of coal 29-11-1886 |
 |
|
20-12-1886 |
T Dixon |
44 |
Whitwood |
Fall of roof |
27-12-1886 |
E Wigley |
37 |
Denaby Main |
Overcome by blackdamp |
30-12-1886 |
Joseph Walker |
49 |
Houghton Main |
Winding rope broke |
30-12-1886 |
Samuel Walker |
20 |
Houghton Main |
Winding rope broke |
30-12-1886 |
Charles Walker |
19 |
Houghton Main |
Winding rope broke |
30-12-1886 |
James Hardcastle |
18 |
Houghton Main |
Winding rope broke |
30-12-1886 |
Joseph Pearson |
47 |
Houghton Main |
Winding rope broke |
30-12-1886 |
Joseph Pearson |
20 |
Houghton Main |
Winding rope broke |
30-12-1886 |
Edward Baxter |
29 |
Houghton Main |
Winding rope broke |
30-12-1886 |
William Barton |
17 |
Houghton Main |
Winding rope broke |
30-12-1886 |
Alvin Hardcastle |
18 |
Houghton Main |
Winding rope broke |
30-12-1886 |
William Manning |
40 |
Houghton Main |
Winding rope broke |
31-12-1886 |
T Boyd |
47 |
Church Lane |
Fall of roof |
31-12-1886 |
J Bentley |
28 |
East Gawber |
Fall of roof 24-12-1886 |
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