Blaensychan Colliery

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Baber, Trevor, 25 Mar 1920, Heavy fall of roof

Birchall, Thomas, 25 Mar 1920, Strain — lifting a tram

Burchild, Thomas, 25 Apr 1928, (accident: 25 Mar 1920), aged 47, Haulier, Putting tram on road when pony backed knocked him down and dragged him a few yards. Died 25th Apr. 1928

Coldrick, Edgar, 17 Jun 1907, 2.40 p.m., After hours hour of shift, aged 23, Collier, He was travelling along the colliery branch line in the colliers' train on his way home from work, and as the carriage was full, was sitting on the footboard. When passing the bridge between the screens and the tip, at Llanerch Colliery, he appears to have come in contact with some scaffolding, and to have been knocked off the train and killed. He should not have been riding on the footboard. There is much need for improved discipline in connection with this travelling in colliers' trains

Collins, Jeremiah, 28 Jun 1915, Damaged elbow

Connop, Robert, 18 Apr 1918, Struck by a falling timber

Edwards, Henry, 24 Sep 1891, aged 49, Shunter, As he was engaged lowering a railway truck to the screens for loading he went to use the break handle which was on the pit bank or retaining wall side and where there was not proper space for a man to stand between the truck and the pit bank

Gough, William, 28 Oct 1905, aged 41, Labourer and Assistant Pitman, While engaged on top of the cage with the pitman examining the shaft, they stopped at a small pump situated at the side of the pit, about 150 yards from the top, and without any apparent cause, he fell down the shaft to the bottom, about 200 yards. The pitman first missed him upon asking for a spanner, with which he wanted to screw up a bolt of the engine. The cage is a small one, but he seems to have had experience upon it in this work

Griffin, William, 25 Mar 1920, Fell under trams

Hewitt, Charles, 25 Mar 1920, Shovelling snow

Hill, Leonard, 19 Jun 1905, aged 18, Labourer, When filling a tram in a double parting where they were engaged repairing, the roof collapsed and killed him, and also injured his brother, who was working with him. They had set several timbers for their safety, but these were knocked out

Hyde, Frederick, 21 Mar 1916, Knocked down by trams

Jayne, Clifford, 01 Dec 1919, Fall of stone

Keys, John, 17 Oct 1903, aged 30, Mechanic, He had been examining the shaft with the manager on the cage top, on alighting at the bottom he fell off the cage to the flat sheets and died in a few minutes. Whether he slipped or was struck by something falling down the shaft is uncertain

Lewis, Emanuel, 03 Sep 1907, 1.30 a.m., 8th hour of shift, aged 37, Overman, He fell from the cage when descending after having had his supper on the surface. Apparently the result of his own carelessness in not holding the rail provided for the purpose, as there was nothing to account for his falling out. The cages do not appear to have met with any obstacle in the run according to the evidence of the Engineman, Banksman, and Hitoher. It has been suggested as usual in these cases that he may have had a fit or seizure of some sort, but he was said to enjoy good health and was never known to be liable to any thing of the sort. These accidents naturally give support to the proposal that gates should be placed on the cages when men are ascending or descending

Miles, Tom. Benj., 25 Aug 1901, (accident: 23 Aug 1901), aged 21, Collier, Fall of coal and clod from the face of his working place. He died on the 25th August

Morgan, George, 12 Nov 1884, aged 24, Collier, Explosion of gunpowder. He had put about five inches of stemming on the powder, and was hammering the pricker through it when the charge exploded, and he was killed on the spot. The pricker was made of the ordinary composition commonly used in the district

Nelms, Alfred, 25 Mar 1920, Strain — heart rupture

Payne, John, 09 Feb 1882, aged 23, Haulier, Killed by descending cage when attempting to cross the bottom of the shaft

Pugh, John, 13 Apr 1911, aged 42, Haulier, While lifting one of two trams on to rails on a slight gradient the coupling bar between the trams was displaced and one of them moved and crushed him

Reed, Francis, 24 Sep 1889, aged 62, Collier, On knocking out a prop in the stall road to get the roof down, it fell unexpectedly before he could get away

Rudge, John, 16 Feb 1887, aged 34, Collier, Fall of stone. He and another man were preparing to blast off some stone on the side of a heading when it suddenly fell owing to two slips which ran together at the back and which were previously invisible

Smith, Frederick, 25 Mar 1920, Struck on head by timber

Smith, George, 26 Apr 1890, (accident: 10 Apr 1890), aged 13, Doorboy, An underground engine started on the previous day exhausted into a small cistern or reservoir of water on the side of the road along which he and another boy of about the same age were making their way in the dark having lost their lights. The cistern had not been covered over and they fell into it and were scalded from the effects of which he died on the 26th. He left the door which he had charge of and went with the boy Evans to a different part of the mine against rules

Stephens, William, 19 Dec 1917, Run over by trams

Taylor, Thomas, 24 May 1905, aged 43, Repairer, When wedging down side in a main road near the shaft, he loosened the timber supporting the roof, and let down a stone, which killed him

Williams, John, 21 Apr 1908, aged 26, Collier, Fall of roof in a "Meadow Vein" road, where he and his brother were sent to clean up a fall and to do any repairs required. The roof is hard, and this stone appears to have been tried a quarter of an hour before by the examiner and a roadman, who considered it safe. Deceased was trying it when it fell