Bradley Fold Colliery

Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Darlington, Adam, 10 Mar 1885, aged 47, Miner, Fatal fall of roof on his working place a bay 8 yards wide Trencherbone Mine. It fell from slips and capped three props. The place was well propped

Grundy, J., 20 Apr 1883, Miner, Fall of roof

Hall, John, 23 Dec 1862, (accident: 12 Dec 1862), aged 26, Miner, Explosion of firedamp in No. 2 pit. Died 23rd. Another miner was injured

Hilton, Noah, 20 Nov 1872, aged 18, Coal Miner, Coal falling on him as he was working in the ten Feet mine. His father was hurt

Hollinshead, George, 09 Dec 1897, aged 35, Collier, Fall of coal from face of working place. Probably getting it down after drawing a sprag

Lawton, James, 20 Mar 1885, aged 53, Dayman, Fatal strain while lifting a tub onto the rails in a brow

Morris, James, 17 Aug 1884, aged 35, Miner, Roof, in taking down

Openshaw, John, 23 Sep 1892, 2 p.m., 8th hour of shift, aged 52, Dataller, In working place, cleaning up old fall, piece overhanging allowed to remain so until it fell

Openshaw, Thomas, 12 May 1887, aged 54, Miner, Fatal fall of roof and coal which came over two sprags from a slip previously unseen

Pedlar, John, 16 Dec 1889, Miner, Fatal by roof falling where a strip of coal was being taken off the face of a pillar which had been left unworked for some months. Inspection and inquest attended [Five Quarters Seam]

Ramsden, John, 13 Sep 1866, aged 13, Waggoner, Crushed by a waggon which a miner accidently missed hooking at the top of the brow in the Doe mine

Robert, Thomas, 04 Dec 1894, aged 65, Collier, On December 4th, Thomas Robert, 65, collier, whilst at work in the Bradley Fold Colliery, died from natural causes [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]

Rostron, John, 18 Jul 1890, aged 19, Shunter, Killed between the colliery locomotive engine and a railway waggon which was being shunted. It was an empty foreign waggon which proved to have one of the tie rods bent and the wheels out of true line and it went off the rails in going slowly round a slight curve. The rails being in good order and the gauge right

Rothwell, William, 19 Jul 1886, aged 49, Banksman, Injured by falling off the pit bank three and a half yards in height above ground. He was in the act of sitting down on a balk of timber near the edge when he overbalanced it and fell. Accidental

Standring, John, 09 Nov 1872, aged 61, Coal Miner, Falling from a mouthing in the shaft, where he got out at the wrong side of the cage

Unknown, -, 30 Oct 1883, Explosion of gas [More information ...]

Williams, T., 17 Nov 1883, aged 26, Sinker, Unstemming a shot unlawfully