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Atherton, Thomas, 21 Oct 1919, (accident: 17 Oct 1919), aged 52, Dataller, Ribs fractured by fall of stone. Died 21st. Oct

Barrow, William, 31 Dec 1906, aged 50, Labourer, He was run over by a train of empty trucks while walking to his home along the railway

Black, William, 15 Jul 1925, aged 43, Collier, Crushed between box and roof

Bluck, William, 11 Nov 1925, (accident: 18 Oct 1925), aged 43, Collier, Crushed between tubs and roof. Died 11th

Booth, Charles, 10 Oct 1899, aged 38, Pumpman, Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased attempted getting of the hoppit to the tank before the hoppit stopped, and fell to the pit bottom, a distance of thirty yards, and was killed

Brookfield, Peter, 19 Jan 1915, aged 18, Haulage hand, Lashing chain broke and caught him

Brown, Joseph, 21 May 1919, aged 36, Killed by a fall of roof

Brown, Joseph, 04 Oct 1919, (accident: 31 May 1919), aged 36, Contractor, Fall of roof — fractured spine. Died 4th Oct

Cash, Arthur, 01 Aug 1908, Labourer, When engaged with others fixing girders to make a floor in an engine house, he appeared to have been reaching forward, when he overbalanced himself, and fell 12 feet to the cellar floor below, fracturing his skull

Corbett, Mary E., 04 Mar 1920, aged 17, Cleaner, Clothes entangled in revolving shaft. Female

Critchley, James, 25 Sep 1924, 12.35 p.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 36, Fitter, The deceased was engaged in erecting a small compressed air engine about 10 yards back from the face of a brow, when a fall of roof occurred and fatally injured him. He was pinned beneath the fall and displaced timbers for nearly 5 hours, and although alive when liberated, died on the way to hospital. The fall was apparently due to a fracture in the roof resulting from a severe crump, and was not visible prior to the accident. The fireman had just left the place after testing the roof supports, which he considered safe, when the fall took place

Daniels, Isaiah, 20 Mar 1924, 1.20 p.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 50, Collier, Legs fractured by fall of stone [More information ...]

Davies, Evan, 02 Feb 1918, (accident: 15 Oct 1917), aged 40, Contractors man, Spine injured by tubs 15th Oct 1917. Died this day

Davies, Ivan, 02 Jun 1918, (accident: 12 Oct 1917), aged 40, Crushed by tubs, died 2nd June 1918

Downes, Thomas, 15 Dec 1926, aged 29, Collier, Injuries caused by fall of stone

Evans, William Glaunder, 20 Mar 1917, aged 41, Collier, Fatally injured by fall of dirt

Farrimond, Coleen, 19 Apr 1927, aged 25, Cleaner, Fractured wrist while cleaning power house floor

Fenney, John, 24 Sep 1920, aged 36, Daywageman, Killed by a fall of stone

Glover, William, 23 Jan 1919, aged 28, Haulage hand, Caught by tubs

Gorman, Matthew, 15 Jun 1922, aged 53, Killed by a fall of earth

Gutteridge, George, 28 Nov 1916, aged 55, Collier, Killed by a fall of stone

Harrison, Ralph, 11 Jan 1923, aged 24, Stone fell injuring his spine

Hunter, William, 22 May 1924, 6.10 a.m., 1st hour of shift, aged 45, Collier, Crushed by cage at shaft bottom [More information ...]

Kerrigan, John, 29 Feb 1924, 12.15 a.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 56, Dataller, Crushed by full tub against box [More information ...]

Lowe, Frederick, 10 Oct 1911, (accident: 26 Sep 1911), aged 18, Haulage hand, When taking down brow an empty tub, other three tubs which he had previously unlashed from the haulage rope, followed, and through jamming him against a centre prop, inflicted injuries from which he died on October 10. In this case the centre prop was only six inches from the side of the tub

Macintosh, G. H., 15 Apr 1906, aged 27, Chargeman, Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased with three other men were taking down a wire rope to the pumps, in a sinking tub ; one end was attached to a stretching screw fixed in a steel girder 96 yards from the surface. After they had reached about 200 yards from the surface, and uncoiling the rope, they appeared to have unscrewed the stretching screw, and the rope fell, fatally injuring deceased. The safer method (and usual way) is to take the rope down in the tub, and then haul it up

Minton, Michael, 06 Feb 1928, aged 31, Crushed between tubs fractured pelvis

Minton, Michael, 11 Feb 1928, (accident: 06 Feb 1928), aged 31, Haulage hand, Crushed by tubs — fractured pelvis. Died 11th

Murray, Garrett, 28 Jan 1919, aged 40, Contractors man, Killed by a fall of roof

Murray, Garrett, 28 Jan 1919, aged 40, Killed by a fall of stone

Neary, Andrew, 17 Jul 1896, aged 31, Sinker, Inspection made and inquest attended. They were teeming water out of a hoppit over the sinkers into a water trough when the banksmen slipped their hold of the hoppit and it upset the water down into the pit falling on the deceased and knocking him down by which he was fatally injured

Rigby, Henry, 08 May 1899, aged 20, Pumpman, Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged on a platform in the shaft attending to the pulsometers, when a joint burst in the water pipe, the deceased accidentally fell to the pit bottom, a distance of twenty yards, and was killed. It was recommended at the inquiry that the platform should be better fenced

Riley, James, 19 Feb 1906, aged 21, Sinker, Inspection made and inquest attended. A new winder when learning how to use the engine (when the regular man was present with him), in lowering the empty hoppit let it run past the holding up place, and it ran fast into the bottom alighting on the deceased, who was fatally injured. The sinkers should have been withdrawn whilst these lessons were being given

Ryan, Bernard, 22 Nov 1920, aged 50, Dataller, Killed by a fall of roof

Saxon, James, 31 Aug 1937, aged 29, Contractor, killed by a fall of stone [date of inquest]

Simcock, George W., 11 Oct 1920, aged 38, Contractors man, Killed by a fall of roof

Vardy, George, 17 Apr 1909, (accident: 16 Apr 1909), aged 16, Labourer, When attending to some tubs moved by a creeper (or movable chain) worked by machinery, he accidentally got his leg fatally crushed by the creeper. He expired from the effects of the injuries received the following day

White, Thomas, 18 Nov 1918, (accident: 01 Nov 1918), aged 64, Dataller, Slipped and fell injuring his back. Died on the 18th

White, Thomas, 13 Dec 1918, (accident: 01 Nov 1918), aged 64, Slipped and fell injuring his back died 13th Dec. 1918

Whittaker, James, 21 Jan 1920, aged 18, Lamproom Assistant, Knocked down by loco

Whittall, William, 22 Jan 1919, aged 23, Struck by a brake lever