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Date

1913
1916

Date Name Age Colliery Cause of Accident

08-04-1916

William Millington

32

Denaby Main

Fall of roof

02-09-1916

William Cocking

34

Edlington
Fall of roof Wm-Cocking

24-09-1916

Edward Riley

31

Waleswood

Caught in machinery 2 Sep 1916

14-10-1916

James Proud

15

Maltby

Run over by tubs

28-11-1916

Arthur Alderson

35

Denaby Main

Fall of roof

00-11-1916

James Rogers

38

Denaby Main

Rub over by a wagon on the surface
Date Name Age Colliery Cause of Accident

17-01-1917

Samuel Smith

20

Waleswood

Fall of roof

18-02-1917

George William Lee

41

Maltby

Crushed by tubs on the surface 17 Feb 1917

31-03-1917

William Hargreaves

42

Maltby

Fall of roof  30 Mar 1917

04-05-1917

Herbert Thompson

43

Wath Main

Unknown

19-05-1917

Michael Patten

55

Denaby Main

Run over by tubs

30-06-1917

Arthur Smales

29

Manvers Main

Fall of roof

30-10-1917

Matthew Wilkinson

35

Dinnington
Fall of roof

17-11-1917

Charles Trott

57

Maltby

Fall of roof

28-11-1917

Arthur Alderson

35

Denaby Main

Fall of roof
Date Name Age Colliery Cause of Accident

02-05-1918

Clifford Jacobs

15

Maltby

Crushed by tubs

11-05-1918

Henry Oakton

51

Kiveton Park

Fall of roof

31-05-1918

Fred Moore

52

Barnsley Main

Unknown

00-06-1918

Herbert Brook

28

Denaby Main

Fall of roof

12-07-1918

Oliver Maundrill

51

Wharncliffe Silkstone

Fall of roof

20-07-1918

Wilfred Hargreaves

33

Hartley Bank
Unknown
Date Name Age Colliery Cause of Accident
03-01-1919 Harry Blakeley 42 East Ardsley Fall of roof
05-01-1919 James Edwards 37 Denaby Main Fall of roof
10-01-1919 William Henry Dabell 24 Bentley Crushed by tubs
10-01-1919 William Utley 57 Wharncliffe Silkstone Run over by wagons on the surface
16-01-1919 Horace Guest 17 Ackton Hall Fall in a roadway
18-01-1919 Leonard White 37 East Barnsley Arm injury Toxaemia
23-01-1919 Henry Green 44 Barrow Fall of roof
27-01-1919 Harry Drury 16 Elsecar Main Run over by tubs
29-01-1919 George Stenton 43 Wharncliffe Woodmoor Shotfiring accident
30-01-1919 Herbert Bedford 36 Houghton Main Run over by tubs
04-02-1919 Arnold Coupe 27 Orgreave Fall of roof
04-02-1919 Michael Cohern 49 Monckton Main Fall of roof 23-Dec-1918
10-02-1919 William Henry Tibb 25 Wheldale Electrocuted
12-02-1919 Arthur Wear 37 Glass Houghton Fall of roof 07-Feb-1919
13-02-1919 Henry Victor Foster 18 Tinsley Park Fall of roof 05-Feb-1919
14-02-1919 Thomas Carr 33 Whitwood Fall of roof
17-02-1919 William Leonard Lynes 14 Askern Main Crushed by tubs
18-02-1919 John Hallam 16 Ryhill Main Fall of coal
26-02-1919 William Tuke 55 Silverwood Fall in a roadway
03-03-1919 Thomas William Wright 48 Nostell Run over by tubs
05-03-1919 John Henry Manning 23 Parkhill Fall of side
07-03-1919 William T Winstanley 23 Darton Main Fall of roof
12-03-1919 Albert Bradley 58 Wheldale Fall of roof
13-03-1919 John William Riley 24 Orgreave Fall in a roadway
14-03-1919 Ernest Lyles 19 Shaw Cross Caught in a haulage rope
17-03-1919 Arthur Maxfield 59 South Kirkby Run over by wagons on the surface
17-03-1919 Collinson Crowther 47 Water Haigh Shotfiring accident 05-Mar-1919
20-03-1919 Joseph Smith 37 Wheldale Fall of roof
21-03-1919 John Harrison 45 Darfield Main Fall of coal
22-03-1919 Aaron Lowe 44 Whitwood Fall of roof
29-03-1919 Albert Hawden 24 Middleton Broom Fall of roof 23-Apr-1918
00-03-1919 John Kaye Parkin 68 Woolley Fall of roof 28-Jan-1919
04-04-1919 Percy Bell 25 Rotherham Main Fall of roof
05-04-1919 William Cox 48 Bentley Fall of roof
12-04-1919 James Kane 38 Denaby Main Hit head on rail after falling over
16-04-1919 Walter Woodward 19 Nunnery Run over by tubs
16-04-1919 Cecil Senior 30 Ackton Hall Fall of roof
21-04-1919 James Lindsell 37 Whitwood Fall of roof 12-04-1919
25-04-1919 Walter Henry Valderdie 44 Yorkshire Main Run over by tubs
26-04-1919 Friend Mallison 35 Denby Grange Fall of roof
27-04-1919 George Jackson 48 Monckton Main Foot injury 04-Apr-1919 Toxaemia
19-04-1919 Charles Browning 50 Silverwood Fall of roof
30-04-1919 Frederick Shaw 15 Treeton Leg injury 14-Mar-1919 Toxaemia
01-05-1919 Herbert Hall 22 Yorkshire Main Fall of roof
02-05-1919 John Robinson 32 Wrenthorpe Fall of roof
03-05-1919 Joseph Woodhead 39 Wheldale Foot injury 08-Aug-1918
05-05-1919 William Henry Creeton 22 Elsecar Main Fall of roof
06-05-1919 Fred Hoyland 55 Waleswood Fall of roof
06-05-1919 Frederick Taylor 26 Elsecar Main Fall of roof 02-May-1919
08-05-1919 Charles Woolfit 15 Yorkshire Main Run over by tubs
08-05-1919 Fred Birkinshaw 14 Hickleton Main Fall of roof
09-05-1919 John William Steel 57 South Kirkby Crushed by wagons on the surface
10-05-1919 Charles Guest 34 Monk Bretton Fall of roof
10-05-1019 John Frederick Clark 22 South Kirkby Run over by tubs
13-05-1919 William Hutchinson 20 Hatfield Main Run over by tubs
15-05-1919 Alfred Hozier Morgan 29 Featherstone Main Fall of roof
16-05-1919 Samuel Wright 43 Grimethorpe Caught in machinery on the surface
17-05-1919 David Frith 40 Rockingham Main Fall of roof
19-05-1919 John Thomas Atkinson 52 Rockingham Main Fall of roof
20-05-1919 James Israel Green
(Fred West)		 30 Brierley Fall of roof
(West name alias)
22-05-1919 Samuel Haywood 27 Dinnington Main Fall of roof
05-06-1919 Harold Millward 17 Treeton Run over by tubs
06-06-1919 Albert Edward Barker 16 Ackton Hall Run over by tubs
13-06-1919 Edward Marson 40 Barrow Fall of roof
19-06-1919 Stenton Scorah 16 East Barnsley Head injuries
21-06-1919 Ernest Tipper 19 Wrenthorpe Fall of coal
28-06-1919 John William Lawn 27 Manvers Main Fall of coal
03-07-1919 Richard Holland 20 Tinsley Park Caught in machinery
05-07-1919 Alfred Booth 36 Ingleton Fall of roof
08-07-1919 Thomas Shaw 43 Prince of Wales Fall of roof
10-07-1919 Edward Wheelan 22 West End Cage overwind into sump 03-Jun-1919
14-07-1919 Arthur Lee 41 Old Roundwood Fall of roof
15-07-1919 Edwin Walker 16 South Kirkby Kicked by a pony 07-Jul-1919
21-07-1919 Edward Guest 45 Wath Main Fall of roof 21-Jun-1919
31-07-1919 Harry Hillyard 38 Featherstone Main Fall of roof 06-Feb-1919
25-08-1919 Edward Hyde Pasley 51 Wath Main Run over by tubs
29-08-1919 David Jones 65 Darton Main Fall of roof
29-08-1919 Charles Alonzo Tanner 59 Allerton Bywater Scalded on the surface 21-Aug-1919 
29-08-1919 Arthur Watson 45 Shaw Cross Fall of roof
02-09-1919 Francis H Oxley 17 Silverwood Run over by wagons on the surface
16-09-1919 Frederick Moody 23 Rothwell Main Fall of roof
19-09-1919 Frank Raynor 20 Monckton Main Fall of roof
19-09-1919 Herbert Maundrill 31 Monckton Main Fall of roof
22-09-1919 Thomas Slaney 42 Ackton Hall Fall of roof 08-Sep-1919
22-09-1919 Francis H Waring 54 North Gawber Fell from a height
22-09-1919 John Edward Buxton 29 Monckton Main Fall of coal
23-09-1919 William Worrell 44 West Audley Caught in machinery
26-09-1919 Walter Jones 42 Monckton Main Run over by tubs 26-Jul-1919
27-09-1919 George William Jollicliffe 52 Fryston Shotfiring accident
01-10-1919 Joseph Taylor 32 Orgreave Crushed by the cage
06-10-1919 Donald Crabtree 18 Askern Main Crushed by tubs
08-10-1919 Lewin Smith 52 Nunnery Fall of roof
09-10-1919 George Dixon 45 Bullcroft Main Knee injury Toxaemia
09-10-1919 Leonard Steer 17 Elsecar Main Hit by a haulage rope
10-10-1919 Joseph Henry Smith 43 Whitwood
Fell down the shaft
13-10-1919 Alfred Percival 16 Wrenthorpe Caught in Machinery on the surface
20-10-1919 James William Robinson 37 Great Niers Fall of roof
21-10-1919 Wilfred Cocking 14 Dinnington Main Run over by tubs
24-10-1919 Thomas Billby 15 Monckton Main Crushed by tubs 09-Oct-1919
27-10-1919 Joseph Dilkes 22 Dinnington Fall of roof
28-10-1919 Albert Charles Hipsley 19 Askern Main Run over by tubs
29-10-1919 Copley Earnshaw 49 Emley Moor Fall of roof
30-10-1919 Leonard Osborn Cowell 48 New Middleton Fall of roof
01-11-1919 Fred Bennett 57 Soothill Wood Fall of roof
04-11-1919 Walter Stead 50 ? Knee injury 30-Sep-1919
11-11-1919 William Cross 41 Bullcroft Main Hand injury 05-Nov-1919, Toxaemia
11-11-1919 Fred Nicholson 42 Denaby Main Hit by a girder
20-11-1919 John James Hinchcliffe 33 Tinsley Park Crushed by tubs
20-11-1919 Frank Jarvis 26 Cortonwood Fall of coal
22-11-1919 Leonard Boardman 17 ? Head injury 05-Nov-1919, Meningitis
23-11-1919 Harry Nuttall 14 Nunnery Run over by tubs
23-11-1919 Ernest H Merchant 44 Mitchell Main Caught in machinery
24-11-1919 Edward Slack 49 Grimethorpe Fall of roof
24-11-1919 Edward Websdale 23 Whitwood Fall of roof
15-11-1919 Henry Bowley 62 Elsecar Main Fall in a roadway
26-11-1919 Henry O’ Hara 17 Ackton Hall Fall in a roadway
26-11-1919 George Hawcroft 46 Manvers Main Fall in a roadway
27-11-1919 William Lunn 51 Stanhope Silkstone Fall of roof
29-11-1919 Fred Kitchen 20 Hartley Bank Hit by a haulage rope
02-12-1919 George Forrest 17 South Kirkby Run over by tubs
11-12-1919 William Charles Harris 40 Norfolk Head injury 24-Oct-1919 Toxaemia
12-12-1919 William Moorhouse 49 Hoyland Silkstone Hand injury 20-Nov-1919 Toxaemia
13-12-1919 Herbert Archer 53 Hoyland Silkstone Hand injury 02-Dec-1919 Toxaemia
17-12-1919 Charles Balmforth 16 Howden Clough Fall in a roadway
22-12-1919 William Oliver 39 Maltby Main Fall of roof
23-12-1919 William Athorn 16 Ackton Hall Crushed by tubs
29-12-1919 John Pussley 36 Houghton Main Fall of roof
30-12-1919 Wilfred Makings 21 Brierley Fall in a roadway
30-12-1919 John Edgar Colbeck 26 Wrenthorpe Fall of roof 26-Nov-1919
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