Emley Moor Colliery

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Baddeley, Hiram, 25 Feb 1908, aged 40, Manager, The coal for the coke ovens, after being crushed, is elevated by means of a chain and bucket elevator to a hopper from which it is filled into coke oven tubs and then taken to the ovens. The elevator was erected in October, 1907, and is placed at an angle of about 70 degrees from the horizontal, and the distance from the centre of the top drum to that of the bottom drum is 75 feet. The buckets are attached to two link chains 20 inches apart, centre to centre. Considerable trouble had been experienced from the commencement with the chains owing to the links breaking. On the day prior to the accident the chains broke and they and the buckets were precipitated into the hole into which the coal is delivered by the crusher in the crusher house. At the time of the accident they had been got into position by means of blocks and coupled together. The blocks, although not detached, were eased, and the weight taken off them. The bottom portion of the chains and buckets were secured by a chain fastened to an iron bar across the casing, in which the buckets travel, and new pins were being put into the links. The coke oven manager was about half way up on a bucket and the deceased was standing on a bucket about level with the floor of the crusher house putting pins in when the two links, within six feet of the top, broke, and the chains and buckets fell to the bottom and the deceased was carried with them and killed. The coke oven manager was carried through the opening in the wall of the crusher house but, owing to the buckets jamming at the opening, he was saved from instant death. The accident was caused by the defective quality of the links forming the chain and the presence of fractures and flaws in them

Beckwith, Ben, 04 Jul 1911, aged 25, Machine Chargeman, He was fatally injured by having his legs cut off by the cutting wheel of a disc machine, electrically driven

Bulmer, Benjamin, 09 Feb 1961, [details unknown]

Butcher, J., 13 Feb 1895, aged 52, Hurrier, Kicked by horse

Clegg, Samuel, 11 Dec 1905, (accident: 28 Feb 1905), aged 58, Collier, When working at coal face getting down top coal some roof fell upon him and fractured his spine. The fall disclosed a slip between the timber and the face which could not have been foreseen. Died 11th December

Duncan, J., 02 Dec 1896, aged 26, Collier, Fall of side [More information ...]

Dyson, Walter, 09 Mar 1911, (accident: 06 Mar 1911), aged 23, Filler, He was bringing a full tub of coal into the gate road, when a piece of clod fell suddenly from the roof and fractured his skull. He died on the 9th instant. The clod came away from a "weight break"

Earnshaw, J., 10 Oct 1884, aged 32, Collier, Fall of coal

Fisher, Benjamin, 21 Nov 1905, (accident: 11 Nov 1905), aged 46, Boiler Fireman, Turning on the blow-off tap to sludge out a 30 ft. by 8 ft. boiler, working at a pressure of 100 lbs. per square inch, when the blow-off pipe broke off close around the flange connecting it to the boiler and scalded him about the legs and arms. Died on the 21st

Gibson, Thomas, 30 Dec 1909, aged 20, Trammer, Fall of side. He was loading timber in a roadway when a large stone fell from the side and fatally injured him. The fall disclosed a slip. The strata at this place was treacherous, and stretchers should have been set

Hepple, Kenneth William, 21 Oct 1960, aged 21, Killed by a fall of roof

Lodge, William, 19 Dec 1910, aged 15, Conveyor Attendant, He became entangled in the wheel of a self-acting conveyor. The wheel should have been fenced

Mallinson, Joe, 15 Mar 1907, (accident: 14 Mar 1907), aged 15, Hurrier, The haulage rope was being extended for a distance of 110 yards. Deceased was tramming for his father, who was making the hole in the floor for the new wheel and frame, and taking the excavated stone into the faces. While at work the lad lost his light and his father sent him in the dark to get his lamp relighted. On his way he must have passed the deputy but the latter never saw him. When about 20 yards on the in-bye side of the old wheel he met a joiner who says he told him to stay where he was as he could not get a light there and he would have to go about a mile. This joiner had already taken up the covering from the old wheel and frame and he and others were pulling at the new length of rope which was carried up the road and round a prop and being moved by being clamped to the endless rope. While doing this the lad had walked down the road unseen and was caught in the moving wheel and so seriously injured that he died the following day

Oldroyd, Henry, 20 Sep 1851, aged Boy, Falling down the shaft

Peel, Joseph, 09 May 1902, aged 16, Hurrier, Fall of roof in a roadway. Cause — a weight, and water in the roof

Smith, Owen, 21 Apr 1911, aged 14, Hurrier, Whilst taking an empty tub out of the pass-bye he was caught by a set of runaway tubs which fell over when passing him

Stringer, J., 25 Aug 1896, aged 55, Labourer, Crushed between waggons on sidings

Telford, J., 02 Dec 1896, aged 19, Hurrier, Fall of side [More information ...]

Turton, Frank, 15 Jan 1907, (accident: 12 Jan 1907), aged 28, Filler, He and another man were filling, one at either end of some coal which had been got down, when some clod fell upon them. Turton was severely injured and died on the 15th. The men must have felt some uncertainty about the condition of the roof as they had set two bars and also two additional props between the face and the "break" from the previous fall of coal

Unknown, -, 14 Feb 1852, aged Boy, Run over by a corf in the mine

Walker, J. H., 25 Jun 1902, (accident: 23 Jun 1902), aged 23, Shot-lighter, Died 25th June. Fired a quantity of gunpowder when carelessly testing tape fuse

Woodhead, J., 25 Sep 1877, (accident: 30 Jul 1877), aged 15, Hurrier, Explosion of gas ; died 25th Sept

Woodhead, James, 29 Nov 1852, Fall of roof in the mine