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Date

1937

Date Name Age Colliery How caused
01-01-1937 George Hodgson 34 Lofthouse Ignition of methane 28-12-1936
02-01-1937 John Dunn 18 Wharncliffe Woodmoor Crushed by tubs
11-01-1937 Thomas E Roden 20 Frickley Run over by tubs
13-01-1937 Kenneth Oliver 14 Bullcroft Main Crushed by tubs
13-01-1937 Francis E Wilson 32 Askern Main Fall of roof 10-02-1936
21-01-1937 Cyril Jobes 14 Bentley Crushed by the cage on the surface
28-01-1937 Herbert Lister 37 Sunny Vale Buried under a collapsed platform
30-01-1937 John Charles Walters 52 Thorne Fall of roof
30-01-1937 Frederick George Everett 26 Manvers Main Fall of roof
02-02-1937 William Hopkinson 39 Wharncliffe Silkstone Fall of roof
02-02-1937 J Butterfield 30 Fryston Fall of roof
03-02-1937 John Edward Willis 52 Rockingham Fall of side 19-01-1937
09-02-1937 Joseph Marston 29 Hemsworth Fall of coal
10-02-1937 Sydney Marsden 66 Shuttle Eye Fall of roof
13-02-1937 Horace Vaughn 37 Nunnery Run over by tubs
17-02-1937 Arthur Richardson 61 Grimethorpe Crushed by a manrider 13-02-1937
17-02-1937 John Kirkham 38 Grimethorpe Fall of roof pick blade pierced body
13-02-1937
17-02-1937 Ernest White 51 Dodworth Buried under collapsed brick arch on surface
22-02-1937 George Henry Fairham 49 Houghton Main Fell into a pond on the surface drowned
04-03-1937 Abel Skidmore 49 Treeton Fall of roof
05-03-1937 W H Stemmersman 43 Waterloo Main Fall of roof
05-03-1937 Ernest Marsden 34 Allerton Main Fall of roof
13-03-1937 Joseph Hallmark 32 Ackton Hall Crushed by a falling girder
14-03-1937 Albert Friary 53 Bullcroft Main Hand injury11-12-1936 Septicaemia
15-03-1937 Joseph Marshall 45 Dinnington Main Thumb injury 18-01-1937 cellulitis
16-03-1937 Gilbert Henshaw 65 Yorkshire Main Run over by tubs on the surface
10-03-1937
17-03-1937 Joseph Watson 23 St Johns Hit by a falling steel pipe
26-07-1937 Ernest Binns 38 Mitchell Main Fall of roof in a roadway
27-03-1937 William Stokes 51 West Riding Fall of roof 23-03-1937
27-03-1937 John Williams 40 Thorne Fall of roof
02-04-1937 Thomas Drewett 32 Wath Main Fall of roof
05-04-1937 Sidney Richardson 22 Haughton Main Fall of roof
10-04-1937 Cyril G Chappell 29 Wharncliffe Silkstone Fall of roof 09-04-1937
12-04-1937 Nathan Gill 61 Hemsworth Crushed by the cage
20-04-1937 Thomas O Milner 36 Grimethorpe Fall of roof
21-04-1937 John T Hobson 31 Wheldale Fall of roof
22-04-1937 Aaron Tatham 53 Brodsworth Main Fall of roof
27-04-1937 Richard Deakin 23 Manvers Main No 1 Fall of coal
27-04-1937 Thomas Rose 51 Ackton Hall Fall of roof
29-04-1937 John T Brooks 45 Park Hill Hit by a crane jib on the surface
03-05-1937 Griffith Griffiths 56 Cadeby Main Fall of roof 05-03-1937 TB - Pleurisy
04-05-1937 Thomas Gorman 56 Sharlston West Fall of roof 21-04-1937
14-05-1937 Percy Brown 39 Thorne Crushed by a girder 11-05-1937
22-05-1937 Desmond Ward 25 Rockingham, Run over by tubs 23-03-1937
25-05-1937 Frank Fields 38 Birley East Fall of roof
28-05-1937 Stanley Gyte 34 Birley Beighton Fall of roof
01-06-1937 Alfred Taylor 65 Thorne Shotfiring accident 04-05-1937 Toxaemia
01-06-1937 William James Hodgson 20 Thorne Run over by tubs
02-06-1937 Raymond John Sparrow 15 Bentley Run over by tubs
07-06-1937 Eric McIntyre 14 Hemsworth Run over by tubs
08-06-1937 Thomas Eastwood Teale 34 Hartley Bank Run over by tubs 22-05-1937
21-06-1937 John William Drake 61 Ford Hill Fall of roof
25-06-1937 William Glass 40 Hatfield Main Fall of coal 14-06-1937 Embolism
28-06-1937 John Derbyshire 39 Brodsworth Main Fall of roof
29-06-1937 William Edward Brunt 53 Brodsworth Main Crushed by a pony 22-06-1937 Pneumonia
30-06-1937 Arthur Lynas 42 Crigglestone Fall of roof
31-06-1937 Arthur Machin 59 Silverwood Fall of coal 24-05-1937 Embolism
07-07-1937 Harry Gray 42 Park Hill Fall of roof -1-07-1937
07-07-1937 Arthur Banks 40 Glass Houghton Crushed by wagons on the surface
07-07-1937 Henry Clay 47 Bentley Fall of roof
07-07-1937 George Booth 28 Bentley Fall of roof
07-07-1937 Henry Robinson 53 Bentley Fall of roof
18-07-1937 John Henry Self 38 Maltby Main Fall of coal 06-07-1937
19-07-1937 John Robinson 61 Bullcroft Main Fall of roof
28-07-1937 Joe Sales 54 Kilnhurst Cage overwind into the pit bottom
07-08-1937 James Gent 41 Silverwood Hit by a dislodged prop heart disease
19-08-1937 William Moran 17 Ackton Hall Run over by tubs
21-08-1937 George Robey 35 Brodsworth Main Caught in a conveyor drum on the surface
26-08-1937 Albert Wilkinson 28 Cortonwood Fall of roof
11-09-1937 Sidney Murdock 27 Nunnery Fall of roof
15-09-1937 Ernest Woodcock 32 Cortonwood Fall of roof
11-09-1937 James Whitehouse 36 Dinnington Main Fall of roof
14-09-1937 Fred Spurr 31 Fryston Crushed by tubs 09-09-1937
17-09-1937 Joseph Meldin 46 Frickley Fall of coal
27-09-1937 Robert Luke 23 Birley Beighton Crushed by tubs
01-10-1937 Arthur Beaumont 45 Manvers Main Crushed unloading a wagon on the surface
07-10-1937 Horace Noble 31 Haigh Fall of roof
09-10-1937 Martin Grimes 51 West Riding Fall of roof
09-10-1937 Frederick Bennett 56 Silverwood Fall of roof
09-10-1937 Ernest Methley 63 Nunnery Run over by tubs
15-10-1937 Abraham Gething 28 Manvers Main No 3 Fall of roof 02-09-1937
16-10-1937 Frederick C Mee 44 Cadeby Main Fell from a height on the surface
19-10-1937 John Parr 29 Brodsworth Main Fall of roof 07-03-1937
19-10-1937 William Arthur Williams 14 Dinnington Main Run over by tubs
21-10-1937 William W  Webster 54 Yorkshire Main Fall of coal
23-10-1937 Norman Smith 23 Frickley Fall of roof
26-10-1937 Harold Skelton 33 Nunnery Fall of roof
27-10-1937 James Wigfield 55 Tinsley Park Run over by tubs
29-10-1937 John Dickinson 18 Nunnery Fall of roof
30-10-1937 James Hill 36 South Kirkby Fall of roof
30-10-1937 Arthur Ormshaw 51 Markham Main Fall of side
02-11-1937 Charles H Leaver 17 Barlborough Main Fall of roof in a roadway
03-11-1937 Willie Issott 25 Shuttle Eye Fall of roof Peritonitis 29-10-1937
06-11-1937 William E Smith 51 Prince of Wales Fall of roof
06-11-1937 Thomas  A Macdonald 17 Denaby Main Hit by a dislodged prop
10-11-1937 Eric J Glover 27 Ash Grove No 1 Crushed by tubs 08-12-1937
11-11-1937 George Henry Senior 15 Cortonwood Shotfiring accident
16-11-1937 Johnson Harris 51 Yorkshire Main Fall of roof
21-11-1937 Joseph Fearnside 31 Monckton Main No 1 Fall of roof
29-11-1937 George C Charlesworth 28 Frickley Crushed by tubs
30-11-1937 Frank Hassel 52 Upton Fall of coal 16-11-1937
08-12-1937 Percy Clarkson 16 Ackton Hall Caught in a haulage rope
13-12-1937 Fredrick Martin 60 Whitwood Fall of roof 07-12-1937
14-12-1937 Thomas J Simms 14 Dodworth Run over by tubs
15-12-1937 Charles Ellis 24 South Kirkby Fall of coal
17-12-1937 Isaac Cope 58 Bentley Fall of roof
19-12-1937 Sam Taylor 43 Birley East Fall of roof 13-12-1937
23-12-1937 Benjamin Barker 30 Birley East Fall of roof
28-12-1937 John Turner 34 Frickley Overcome by fumes from an u/ground fire
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