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Anderton, Alfred, 04 Dec 1888, aged 48, Inspector, Inspection made and inquest attended. They were fixing a pipe in the pumping shaft when one of the planks forming the scaffold on which they stood broke with their weight and they both fell down the pit. On inspection the plank proved to be quite rotten. Anderton was in charge of this shaft and it was his duty to examine the scaffold [More information ...]

Appleton, James, 27 Mar 1901, aged 32, Fireman, Inspection made. The deceased, with others, was engaged fixing air-pipes in the shaft, standing on the cage top, to which a flap had been added to make it larger, when by some means he overbalanced himself and fell to the bottom of shaft

Arnold, William, 29 Apr 1925, aged 37, Collier, Killed by a fall of roof

Ashurst, Thomas, 28 Oct 1880, aged 15, Pony driver, In bringing out a journey he had neglected to put in the scotches at an inclined part of the road, and the tub on which he was riding turned over and fell upon him

Ashurst, Thomas, 01 Feb 1918, aged 24, Haulage hand, Killed by a fall of roof

Aspinall, James, 11 Mar 1889, aged 56, Collier, Inspection made and inquest attended. He had gone down on the night shift but remembering that he had left his tallies at bank was signalled by one of the other men who then went to his work. As the engineman did not respond to the signal being at the boilers at the time it is supposed that deceased got out of the cage to signal again and in getting in was caught by the cage as it ascended. When at the boilers the engineman could not hear the signal

Baxendale, William, 10 Dec 1919, aged 42, Dataller, Struck by prop — head injured

Berry, John, 17 Feb 1910, aged 49, Screen foreman, He had gone inside the fence to oil the machinery, when he got crushed

Blackburn, Peter, 24 May 1916, aged 24, Drawer, Killed by a fall of roof

Bridge, James, 04 Mar 1870, aged 23, Collier, Injured by fall of roof and died of appolexy

Cropper, William, 25 Apr 1865, Collier, Fall of roof in the Blaguegate mine

Culshaw, William, 24 Mar 1885, aged 16, Pony driver, Inspection made. The deceased was taking out a journey of loaded tubs and appeared to have been going too fast when the front tub on which he was riding got off the rails and was turned upside down on to the top of him. The road was in fair order

Dawson, Thomas, 19 Feb 1885, aged 45, Collier, Inspection made. In getting down his coals he bared a slip at the face causing a stone to fall out between the face and the props. The place seemed to be fairly well timbered

Eccleston, John, 19 Aug 1878, aged 55, Mechanic, Crushed by boiler rolling on him whilst assisting in its removal

Eccleston, Richard, 12 Jul 1864, aged 13, Horse driver, A tub falling upon him out of the cage

Farrell, Patrick, 17 Nov 1910, aged 30, Drawer, Farrell rushed into the bottom deck of winding cage not used for winding men, and when stepping out again got crushed by the cage as it was being lowered to allow the top deck to be opposite the mouthing

Forshaw, Peter, 18 Jul 1927, (accident: 14 Jul 1927), aged 46, Dataller, Burns and shock following an ignition of gas at coal cutter face. Died 18th [More information ...]

Gregson, John, 29 Mar 1927, aged 15, Haulage, Caught and crushed by runaway tubs

Halgrave, John, 18 Dec 1895, aged 42, Collier, Inspection made and inquest attended. While cutting a ribbing through into old workings on the lower side of his road the roof fell upon him from between two slips in the shape of a pothole. The seam was only 2 feet thick and the roof appeared to have been well propped

Hogarth, John, 03 Aug 1866, aged 35, Waggoner, Crushed bewteen the buffers of two coal waggons on the surface railway

Houghton, James, 04 Dec 1888, aged 44, Carpenter, Inspection made and inquest attended. They were fixing a pipe in the pumping shaft when one of the planks forming the scaffold on which they stood broke with their weight and they both fell down the pit. On inspection the plank proved to be quite rotten. Anderton was in charge of this shaft and it was his duty to examine the scaffold [More information ...]

Kenyon, William, 27 Jun 1887, (accident: 16 May 1887), aged 48, Collier, A quantity of coal fell on deceased's leg from the injury to which he died on the 27th June

Lee, William, 12 Jul 1929, aged 39, Dataller, Trapped by set of tubs

Longton, Thomas, 21 Mar 1927, aged 30, Collier, Scratch on thumb became septic

Lyon, John, 12 Jan 1895, aged 26, Labourer, Inspection made and inquest attended. The grate to keep the pit warm during the frost set fire to the pit mouth and while the deceased was getting water on to extinguish the fire he slipped and fell down the shaft

Marsh, Matthias, 13 Sep 1881, (accident: 13 Jun 1881), aged 40, Collier, Inquiries made and inquest attended. A drawer brought his tub out and left it at the top of an incline without properly securing it. Another man ran his tub against it, and started it off down the incline, and it struck deceased, who was travelling to the shaft. Died 18th September. Proceedings were taken against the drawer for a breach of the special rules, but the case was dismissed

Parry, John, 20 Oct 1877, aged 24, Collier, Crushed between trams

Patterson, Henry, 18 Jul 1927, (accident: 14 Jul 1927), aged 55, Coal cutterman, Burns and shock following an ignition of gas at coal cutter face. Died 18th [More information ...]

Reeves, Peter, 18 Jun 1925, aged 43, Fireman, Killed by a fall of roof

Rigby, Samuel, 03 Aug 1912, aged 34, Boiler stoker, Deceased was stoking a boiler, forming one of a range of five boilers, when a brick wall, 7 feet 6 inches high and 22 yards long, built for the purpose of holding back fuel from front of boilers, suddenly collapsed along its entire length and buried him. The falling wall broke off the boiler feed pipes, through which steam and boiling water was then emitted on to debris under which deceased was lying. He was dead when extricated an hour later

Roughley, Henry, 06 Mar 1861, aged 47, Sinker, Fell into a sinking pit containing water and drowned

Roughley, Thomas, 19 Sep 1891, 12 a.m., aged 31, Collier, Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was drawing some back props but whilst doing so, sat under the unsupported roof which suddenly fell and buried him

Smith, Joseph, 19 Aug 1885, aged 58, Dataler, Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was run into by a drawer with a full tub. The road was low and the drawer could not see over his tub

Thompson, William, 10 Jan 1882, aged 50, Dataller, Inspection made and inquest attended. A loaded tub was accidentally allowed to run down the brow, and struck the deceased before he could reach the refuge hole

Tyrer, Benjamin, 12 Mar 1910, aged 59, Collier, When starting a ribbing, a sudden weighting of the roof took place, and he was fatally injured by a fall of roof

Vose, Richard, 12 Jun 1877, aged 21, Gang rider, Fall of roof

Webster, George, 11 Oct 1877, aged 28, Collier, Crushed between cage and landing plates in endeavouring to get into the cage when in motion

Yates, Joseph, 22 Dec 1910, aged 37, Collier, While engaged at the coal face a fall of roof occurred between a slip and break, broke and displaced wood supports and killed deceased