Cannock and Leacroft Colliery

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Barnett, Henry, 12 Sep 1890, aged 29, Stallman, Fall of coal when holing. Sprag gave way

Caddick, Robert, 08 Jun 1906, (accident: 21 May 1906, 6.30 p.m.), aged 29, Fireman, When electrically firing a ripping shot charged with 10 ozs. of Monobel powder, deceased placed an empty tub 14 yards from the shot, and took up a position 3 yards outbye from the tub. A piece of rock, probably ricochetting, struck him on right side causing a severe wound. He succumbed to his injuries on 8th June

Crabtree, John E., 21 Aug 1908, (accident: 20 Aug 1908), aged 33, Hanger-on, Deceased was employed at the shaft bottom, at a depth of 390 yds. from the surface, in taking out empty tubs from the cage, the full ones being put in from the opposite side of the shaft. The cages were double decked. The top deck had been loaded, and the bottom deck was almost loaded when a piece of hard splint coal, about 4 ins. square, fell down the shaft, apparently from the full cage at the surface, and struck deceased on the head, fracturing his skull. He was taken to the hospital where he died the next day at 7.45 a.m. The inset was very high, and further protection has since been provided for the cagers

Dudley, Joseph, 20 Jan 1881, (accident: 19 Jan 1881), aged 55, Pikeman, Injured by fall of roof on the 19th inst. Died this day

Grice, William Henry, 12 Apr 1912, aged 60, Stallman, Deceased was wedging down a piece of top coal in the Shallow seam when a piece of roof, 13 feet long, 2 feet 9 inches wide, and from 13 inches thick at one side tapering to a feather edge at the other, fell from between an unseen glassy slip on the line of the coal face and a parallel pressure break. One and three quarter hours previously, before the top coal was got down, the fireman had drawn deceased's attention to the break in the roof, and had warned him to be very careful as he proceeded with his work. A couple of foresets would probably have prevented the accident

Horne, Thomas, 06 Dec 1880, aged 49, Stallman, Fall of coal from the face, together with a fall of roof, which accidentally knocked out a tree, which struck deceased on the back of his neck and killed him

Jackson, James, 23 Sep 1881, aged 18, Driver, Fell down an underground shaft. Deceased, without waiting for instructions, placed himself in the loop of the windlass rope, which immediately snapped and pecipitated him to the bottom

Kent, George, 30 Jul 1880, aged 29, Pikeman

Powis, Isaac, 04 Jun 1881, aged 16, Driver, Fall of rock roof caused (it was stated by a sudden subsidence thereof) by what is technically called a "bump," a phenomenon best known in thick coal mines

Short, Joseph, 22 Jan 1914, aged 16, Horse-driver, Deceased was conducting his horse outbye attached to two tubs of coal, when he was seen to stumble, lurch forward, and strike his head violently against a roof prop set at the side of the haulage road. He sustained a fracture of the base of the skull and almost died immediately

Tolley, G. H., 06 Apr 1897, aged 17, Horse driver, Run over by tubs

Wheatman, G., 15 Aug 1898, (accident: 14 Aug 1898), aged 24, Dataller, Struck by lever of an inclined wheel. Died 15th Aug

Withington, Lewis William, 24 Mar 1911, aged 22, Loader, Deceased was pulling a rate of coal off the face in the Yard Coal when the coal, coming more suddenly than expected, knocked out a prop ; this was immediately followed by a large fall of roof, which reeled out two more props. Deceased was buried beneath the fall and killed instantly. The fall came from between a face break and a slip which rested upon the edge of the coal which deceased pulled ; these met at a point 2½ feet up and were 3 ft. apart at the base, and the extreme length of the fall was 10 feet