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1940

Date Name Age Colliery How caused
04-01-1940 Peter Revill 58 Wharncliffe Woodmoor Fall of roof
04-01-1940 Joseph Caulton 50 Frickley Fall of roof 04-11-1939
07-01-1940 George Sanderson 49 Hickleton Main Groin injury 27-12-1939 Embolism
08-01-1940 Thomas Hayes 58 Askern Main Fall of roof 12-12-1939 Toxaemia
10-01-1940 Charles Ward 36 Houghton Main Crushed by a tub on the surface waste tip
12-01-1940 Bernard Stringer 17 Shuttle Eye Crushed by tubs
12-01-1940 Patrick Gillen 20 St Johns Crushed by tubs 10-01-1940
14-01-1940 Peter Farley 55 Denaby Main Fall of coal 12-01-1940
17-01-1940 Walter Fairham 37 Barnsley Main Crushed by a wood chock
19-01-1940 John W White 56 Frickley Run over by wagons on the surface
17-01-1940
20-01-1940 Walter Blackburn 64 Treeton Scalded in the boiler house 19-01-1940
20-01-1940 Albert Denham 47 Cadeby Main Crushed by wagons on the surface
20-01-1940 Richard Ashton 24 Grimethorpe Fall of roof
23-01-1940 George J R B Marsh 38 Orgreave Fall of roof 06-04-1939
25-01-1940 William Henry Booth 54 Emley No. 3  Drift Fall of roof 19-01-1940
26-01-1940 Alexander Cope 38 Dinnington Main Fall of roof, broken neck
27-01-1940 John Higgs 61 Wharncliffe Woodmoor Fall of roof 23-12-1939 Pneumonia
31-01-1940 Walter Jennings 55 Newmarket Silkstone Run over by a loco on the surface
30-01-1940
31-01-1940 Herbert Walker 45 Yorkshire Main Fall of roof
31-01-1940 William Kirk 65 Aldwarke Main Fall of roof
01-02-1940 Fred Batley 18 East Ardsley Run over by wagons on the surface
02-02-1940 James L Mc Gee 15 Markham Main Hit by a prop
05-02-1940 Edward Richard Hall 49 South Kirkby Fall of roof
09-02-1940 William Coe 49 Monckton Main Run over by tubs 01-02-1940
14-02-1940 Percy N Cartwright 43 Thorne Fall of roof 12-02-1940
14-02-1940 Clifford Butterworth 19 Grimethorpe Caught in a conveyor 12-02-1940
17-02-1940 Thomas Greensmith 57 Smithy Wood Fall of roof
19-02-1940 Albert Stanley Chivers 39 Wombwell Lane Fall of roof 17-02-1940
21-02-1940 John R Hargraves 43 Yorkshire Main Run over by tubs
22-02-1940 George Cheesbrough 36 Dodsworth Explosion of powder 15-02-1940
24-02-1940 Edward Foulkes 49 Barnsley Main Caught in machinery on the surface
28-02-1940 William McMakin 23 Barrow Fall of roof 22-02-1940
29-02-1940 Levi Howcroft 38 Bentley Fall of coal 28-02-1940
01-03-1940 Herbert Tyne 34 Hartley Bank Fall of roof
04-03-1940 Robert Snowdon 47 Norwood Green Fall of roof 27-02-1940
04-03-1940 Ernest Padgett 36 Grimethorpe Crushed by tubs
04-03-1940 Water Fretwell 31 Stocksbridge Fall of roof
07-03-1940 George Yates 59 Rockingham Fall of roof
08-03-1940 Frederick Charles Lound 25 New Stubbin Fall of roof
08-03-1940 Harry Cox 42 Thurcroft Main Fall of roof
09-03-1940 Ernest A Huskins 20 St Johns Hit by a Haulage rope
10-03-1940 Thomas Nuttall 56 Sharlston West Fall of roof 18-01-1940
11-03-1940 D Owens 18 Ackton Hall Scalded on the surface 15-02-1940
13-03-1940 James Hodson 58 Lofthouse Fall of roof
16-03-1940 Aquilla Shaw 58 Waleswood Fall of roof
18-03-1940 William Young 68 Kiveton Park Fall of roof
18-03-1940 Joseph Tate 59 Wharncliffe Woodmoor Caught in a coal cutter
21-03-1940 Frank Greensmith 24 Markham Main Hit by a girder 14-12-1939
04-03-1940 Tom Pickersgill 52 Cortonwood Fall of roof 04-03-1940
25-03-1940 George Fletcher 41 Fryston Fall of roof 20-03-1940
09-04-1940 Alan Kennedy 18 Lepton Run over by tubs
12-04-1940 Edward Goodwin 28 Rockingham Caught in a coal cutter
13-04-1940 Laurie Evans 36 Snydale Fall of coal  04-03-1940
18-04-1940 Ernest Newby 40 Silverwood Hand injury 01-04-1940 Toxaemia
18-04-1940 William Thomas 50 Bentley Fall of coal
26-04-1940 John England 35 Frickley Fall of coal
30-04-1940 Edgar Howarth 18 Ackton Hall Fall of roof in a roadway
09-05-1940 George Reginald Moses 23 Cortonwood Run over by tubs
10-05-1940 Percy Charles Jarman 52 New Stubbin Fall of roof
10-05-1940 Sidney Bradwell 45 Dinnington Main Fall of coal
16-05-1940 James John Fletcher 44 Markham Main Fall of roof
16-05-1940 James Ruse 38 Fryston Crushed by tub 08-05-1949 Pneumonia
17-05-1940 Harry Wood 14 Waterloo Main Run over by wagons on the surface
20-05-1940 John G Corbett 56 Prince of Wales Fall of roof
20-05-1940 William Iams 48 Askern Main Leg injury 31-01-1940 Embolism
24-05-1940 Walter Percy Rhodes 30 St Johns Fall of roof
28-05-1940 Thomas Cowling 56 East Ardsley Fall of roof
31-05-1940 John Carrington 58 Allerton Bywater Hit by a prop
04-06-1940 Albert J Bannister 53 Upton Fall of roof 08-05-1940
05-06-1940 John Turner 46 Upton Ignition of Methane
04-06-1940 Charles Cartwright 36 Upton Ignition of Methane
05-06-1940 Leslie  Rich 29 Upton Ignition of Methane
05-06-1940 Noah Overton 36 Upton Ignition of Methane
05-06-1940  James Coleman 42 Upton Ignition of Methane
05-06-1940 Alexander England 22 Upton Ignition of Methane
04-06-1940 James Joseph Hughes 36 Upton Ignition of Methane
04-06-1940 James Stevens 49 Upton Ignition of Methane
06-06-1940 James W Dakin 40 Upton Ignition of Methane
14-06-1940 Albert Collins 38 Thurcroft Main Fall of roof
16-06-1940 Clarence Firth 43 Sharlston West Run over by tubs 15-06-1940
18-06-1940 John W Foster 37 Upton Ignition of methane 04-06-1940
19-06-1940 Charles Cyril Nell 34 Nunnery Fall of roof
19-06-1940 George Hall 28 Nunnery Fall of roof
19-06-1940 Frank Dutton 52 Rossington Main Fall of coal
20-06-1940 Clifford Roberts 18 Lepton Run over by tubs
21-06-1940 Joseph Wright 30 Wharncliffe Woodmoor Crushed by tubs
26-06-1940 William Brown 45 Hickleton Main Fall of roof 21-06-1940
27-06-1940 Robert Middleton Fail 56 Rossington Main
Fall of Coal
28-06-1940 Lawrence Wiseman 49 Mitchell Main Fall of side
29-06-1940 Leslie Pendleton 27 Dinnington Main Fall of coal
01-07-1940 Ernest Wilson 32 Wharncliffe Crushed by tubs 03-06-1940
01-07-1940 Horace Haynes 34 Grimethorpe Fall of roof
04-07-1940 J W Butterworth 47 Birkenshaw Crushed by falling timber
04-07-1940 Samuel Riley 54 Sharlston West Run over by tubs
11-07-1940 John W Booth 32 Cadeby Main Fall of coal
12-07-1940 Charles William Butter 47 Silverwood Fall of roof
13-07-1940 Sam Moore 33 Thurcroft Main Fall of roof 25-06-1940
13-07-1940 Ronald Pearson 15 Cortonwood Crushed by tubs
17-07-1940 William Wilson 17 Wharncliffe Woodmoor Crushed by the cage
18-07-1940 Arthur Hinchcliffe 55 Prince of Wales Fall of roof 06-07-1940
18-07-1940 Joseph |Beardsmore 36 Glass Houghton Caught in a conveyor on the surface
20-07-1940 James Waller 62 Treeton Fall of roof  06-07-1940
26-07-1940 Charles Henry Morgan 52 Birley Beighton Fall of roof
26-07-1940 Arthur Widdison Foulds 55 Dinnington Main Fall of roof
27-07-1940 Paul B Shaw 42 Yorkshire Main Fall of coal 26-07-1940
29-07-1940 George A Taylor 54 Bullicliffe Old Lane Hit by a drilling machine 24-07-1940
29-07-1940 Titus Howson 65 Whitwood Fall of roof 26-07-1940
01-08-1940 John Lamb 15 Newmarket Silkstone Crushed by tubs
01-08-1940 Harold Prime 24 Barnsley Main Fall of roof
02-08-1940 Richard John Perry 49 Dinnington Main Fall of roof
09-08-1940 Walter Rothery 53 Manvers Main Fall of roof
09-08-1940 John William Brigg 40 Birley East Fall of roof 09-08-1940
12-08-1940 Simon Rhodes 50 Nunnery Fell from a tub
16-08-1940 Thomas Sayles 47 Thurcroft Fall of roof
26-08-1940 W G Coming 42 Ackton Hall Fall in a roadway
26-08-1940 Alexander Taylor 19 Ackton Hall Fall in a roadway
29-08-1940 George J H Carling 17 Hatfield Main Run over by rubs
03-09-1940 James H Ripley 39 Lofthouse Fall of roof 02-08-1940
06-09-1940 George Fox 40 Hemsworth Fall of roof
10-09-1940 William T Blewitt 47 Waleswood Fall of roof
12-09-1940 Edgar Wright 51 Whitwood Fall of roof
17-09-1940 Ernest Clarke 50 New Stubbin Fell over head injury 14-09-1940
19-09-1940 Arthur Turpin 39 Water Haig Struck by rails in the shaft
21-09-1940 Edmund Frost 27 Cadeby Main Crushed in a door frame
24-09-1940 Joseph Worrall 65 Snydale Fall of roof 23-09-1940
25-09-1940 John H Beardsley 50 Markham Main Fall in a roadway
27-09-1940 Walter H Fox 38 Brodsworth Main Fall of roof
01-10-1940 Ronald F Wrigglesworth 38 Peckfield Fall of roof in a drift
06-10-1940 Henry J Ryles 30 Markham Main Fall of coal 29-08-1940
07-10-1940 Lockwood Naylor 55 Shuttle Eye Fall of roof
11-10-1940 Joseph Broxholme 45 Silverwood Struck by a girder
15-10-1940 Leonard Young 30 Orgreave Fall of roof 11-10-1940
16-10-1940 Fred Toft 25 Denaby Main Fall of roof
17-10-1940 Edgar Simms 33 Rossington Main Fell into a chute on the surface
22-10-1940 Arthur Clapham 52 Lofthouse Crushed by tubs
24-10-1940 Bernard Grunwell 26 New Stubbin Fall of roof
25-10-1940 Eric Endicott 14 New Stubbin Caught in a haulage engine
29-10-1940 George Carnes 39 Crigglestone Fall of roof
29-10-1040  Charles J Stubbs 54 Ackton Hall Fall of side
29-10-1940 Hezekiah Darby 34 Monckton Main Fall of roof
01-11-1940 Robert Mills 33 Brodsworth Main Run over by tubs
04-11-1940 Albert Thewlis 54 Woolley Run over by tubs
04-11-1940 Harold Moosan 20 Dodworth Fall of roof
08-11-1940 Samuel Hughes 50 Orgreave Fall of roof
11-11-1940 Arthur Fretwell 39 Bentley Fall or roof
12-11-1940 George Herring 56 Bentley Fall of roof
15-11-1940 Thomas Curley 52 Thurcroft Main Fall of roof
15-11-1940 George Binns 45 Ledston Luck Crushed by tubs
21-11-1940 Stanley Sykes 17 Bullcroft Main Crushed by tubs
22-11-1940 Harry Gibson 61 Robin Hood Fall of roof at a Junction
29-11-1940 Norman Dickenson 32 Walter Haigh Fall of roof in a  in a roadway
29-11-1940 A Davies 24 Aldwarke Main Fall of roof 12-04-1940
29-11-1940 George Fearnside 24 Denaby Main Fall of roof
04-12-1940 Arthur G Hepworth 29 Prince of Wales Fall of roof
07-12-1940 J C Prince 33 Upton Hit by girders on the cage
07-12-1940 George Dove 51 Hemingfield Hit by shaft guide
11-12-1940 Harry Cusworth 35 Thurcroft Main Fall of roof 02-12-1940
12-12-1940 Richard Wright 29 Whitwood Fell on the screens on the surface
18-12-1940 Thomas McCall 21 Hartley Bank Fall of side
25-12-1940 Alfred Butterworth 28 Houghton Main Hit by a haulage rope 24-12-1940
25-12-1940 Joseph Simpson 57 Peckfield Fall of roof
29-12-1940 Charles Kaye 54 Barnsley Main Fall of side 23-12-1940
31-12-1940 Stanley Murphy 17 Bentley Fall of side 30-12-1940
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