Crop and Deep Colliery

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Briscoe, Thomas, 28 Jun 1911, aged 60, Collier, While lifting a full tub on to rails in main haulage road, the journey started and fatally injured Briscoe between the tubs. The engineman stated that a signal had been given to start, but haulage hands denied this

Burns, John, 09 Nov 1909, aged 42, Collier, When getting coal at the face a fall of roof occurred upon the deceased, from between two slips, fatally injuring him

Gormley, James, 20 Dec 1900, aged 27, Metal-man, Inspection made and inquest attended. He was a contractor, repairing an airway, and he was trying to pull some loose roof down with an iron bar, when more came than he expected crushing him

Green, Thomas, 08 Nov 1924, (accident: 03 Nov 1924, 2.0 a.m., 2nd hour of shift), aged 50, Haulage Engineman, The deceased received injuries from which he died five days later. A set consisting of 18 tubs had been hauled out by the electric hauler and the rope disconnected. As the tubs did not run so far as usual, the deceased and a fireman proceeded to push the set a few yards, and while so engaged the former, apparently in order to support himself, placed one hand on the sheet iron covering suspended from the fence rail, The sheet iron slipped along the rail from which it was suspended and canted out obliquely at the bottom and thus came in contact with the moving tubs. The impact with the tubs resulted in the sheet iron pinning the deceased against the end of the engine house. His injuries were not considered very serious at the time, but it was afterwards found that his pelvis was fractured. He died on 8th November from pneumonia, accelerated by the accident

Grundy, Edward, 23 Oct 1909, aged 55, Contractor, He was engaged widening a roadway when a portion of side fell, knocking out a prop, causing a fall of roof upon the deceased

Hill, James, 28 Feb 1908, aged 44, Collier, A road endway on downbrow had fallen up, and been re-timbered by deceased and two other men, when a week later another fall of roof took place, knocking out the new bars, and fatally injuring deceased

Murray, Martin, 10 Jun 1898, aged 37, Drawer, Inspection made and inquest attended. He was bringing out a full tub of coal out along the drawing road when a fall of roof occurred from a slip capping a bar and crushing the deceased. Several of the bars had been weighting and had to be jack-propped in that roadway

Pennington, James, 28 Aug 1891, aged 45, Dataler, Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was cleaning up a return airway when he disturbed the packing on the high side which allowed the roof to fall and bury him. An examination of the place was made by the underlooker five minutes previous to the accident

Pigot, Ralph, 22 Jan 1903, aged 39, Collier, Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was engaged at the face getting some bottom coal and had put one sprag under the roof coal, which eventually fell over upon him

Reece, John, 19 Nov 1892, 2.10, 9th hour of shift, aged 26, Drawer, Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased met with his death by main haulage rope breaking on engine brow the journey running back down brow crushing him he was following the journey up to a shunt if the trailer had been attached by the person in charge this accident might not have occurred

Spencer, Richard, 19 Sep 1924, 2.10 p.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 20, Haulage hand, Illegally riding on tubs — caught against roof [More information ...]

Unsworth, Thomas, 28 May 1903, (accident: 09 Feb 1903), aged 37, Metalman, Inquiry made and inquest attended. Deceased was attempting to take out the end prop from under a bar supporting the roof, which he intended replacing with another prop, when the bar and top covering and some dirt fell upon him. He succumbed to the injuries received, May 28th, 1903

Wilkinson, Joseph, 15 Aug 1904, aged 32, Pony-driver, Inspection made and inquest attended. He appears to have missed putting the scotches in the wheels, at a point on the level, and he got run over in a steep portion of the roadway

Winders, William, 10 Oct 1899, aged 61, Collier, Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was getting coal in the lower side of his road, when a fall of roof occurred, between two slips without any warning, capping three props, and burying the deceased

Woodward, George, 20 Apr 1901, aged 27, Carpenter, Inspection made and inquest attended. Two carpenters were upon a frame carrying a pulley, which carries the winding rope between engine-house and main pulley. They were changing and putting on a new rope, using a capstan engine to pull it ever the pulley shaft, when the capping of the rope caught a fast hold of the pulley shaft, and before the men could shout hold ! the capstan engine pulled the frame and wheel down bodily, and deceased fell under the frame and was fatally injured