Eatock Colliery

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Bent, Richard, 26 Mar 1901, aged 45, Brakesman, In a gale of wind, whilst getting off the buffer of one of a train of waggons, he either slipped, clothes caught, overbalanced, or by force of wind fell so that the slowly moving waggons crushed his head. Accident occurred on branch line one mile from pit

Brown, Richard, 16 Nov 1918, aged 37, Hooker on, Struck by a plank

Bullough, James, 01 Apr 1908, aged 56, Dataller, Fall of roof. On drawing road whilst repairing ; removing fall when further fall occurred. (Average roof) (Arley seam)

Clark, Thomas, 06 Mar 1899, 3 p.m., 9th hour of shift, aged 39, Collier, Fall of stone from working face, undermined, had been spragged, sprags taken out ; was getting coal from under the stone to make out a tub. At 1.30 ordered by a fireman to get stone down, and also by another fireman at 2 p.m

Dean, James, 28 Nov 1889, aged 30, Foreman, Killed in erecting a pair of sheer legs 80 feet in length which when partly raised fell and struck him, the hoisting balk underneath having slipped. Inspection and inquest attended

Derbyshire, Henry, 31 Dec 1899, (accident: 05 Dec 1899, 7 a.m., 1st hour of shift), aged 20, Drawer, Crushed by tub running away ; scotch came out, held on till tub turned over in drawing road. Died 31st. December

Dootson, John, 31 Dec 1894, aged 60, Dataller, Fall of roof from slips and weight breaks known to be there after taking out prop ordered by the fireman not to be taken

Edge, Reuben, 21 May 1914, (accident: 08 May 1914), aged 36, Collier, Deceased was getting down some top coal, while his drawer was wedging up the bottom coal, when a small piece of steel flew off the end of the wedge and severed the main artery of Edge's arm. The bleeding was promptly stopped, but septic poisoning supervened, and caused his death thirteen days later. A small piece of steel was afterwards found in the wound

Fogg, Robert, 06 Apr 1910, aged 38, Collier, Fall from face of working place, pulling down "ley" overlying coal, using a pick, stood in front, a prop close behind him and loose dirt, as the "ley" came he slipped, falling forward so that the "ley" fell on him. He ought to have worked at the end, more room and less liability for "ley" to catch him (Top Arley seam)

Harrison, Harold, 02 Nov 1914, aged 18, Drawer, Deceased was taking a full tub along a drawing road, when a stone fell from a cavity and fractured his skull. Another drawer had previously allowed his tub to overrun a landing at a cross road end and knocked out a bar leg and displaced some timber. Some datallers removed the timber, and the drawers commenced work before the covering timber had been replaced

Harrison, Richard, 22 Jun 1915, aged 47, Killed by a fall of top coal

Harrison, Thomas, 01 Nov 1909, aged 17, Haulage hand, In roadway while passing along tunnel 12 ft. wide, 6 ft. high. Had been examining the haulage road and stopped to signal, exactly coincident with the fall of a piece of rock from each side of a bar. The stone was 14 ft. long by 4 ft. wide. It must have been ripe to fall. (Roof average) (Arley seam)

James, Warren, 11 Sep 1889, aged 52, Undermanager, Killed by falling through a hole in the scaffold which men were at the time removing over the dib hole or sump in the shaft. Inspection and inquiry

Livesley, John, 26 Mar 1917, aged 20, Head crushed between runaway tubs

Rudd, Sarah Ann, 22 Jul 1910, aged 32, Coal Picker, Crossing railroad near screens, whilst passing between buffers of two waggons a shunter on opposite side lowering an empty waggon bumped it against waggon standing, she was crushed so that she died in an hour. She was crossing to go to breakfast

Sharrock, Henry, 02 Aug 1886, aged 45, Fireman, Found drowned in the sump at bottom of shaft after making his morning's inspection of the mine. He with help had removed the cover from the sump on the Saturday for water to be wound and he was apparently giving the signal for help on the Monday to put it on again when he fell in. Verdict of accidental death

Shepherd, Albert, 06 Mar 1908, (accident: 04 Mar 1908, 12.10 noon), aged 13, Lamp lad, Caught by wagon wheel, falling out of wagon, riding prohibited (Died on 6th inst)

Shepherd, Thomas, 11 Sep 1911, aged 17, Drawer, Struck by two full tubs which became unhooked through jolting of tub off the rails and ran back down main haulage road

Tickle, Charles, 10 Dec 1912, aged 59, Collier, At face of working place from a pot hole

Tickle, Frank, 16 Jul 1924, (accident: 14 Jul 1924, 10.30 a.m., 4th hour of shift), aged 42, Collier, The deceased was in the act of pulling some coal off the face in his working place, when a fall of roof occurred which caused severe injuries from which he died two months later. The stone came away between two slips, about 3 ft. apart, the exposed one being hardly visible before the accident. The place was well timbered, but if the presence of the slips had been noticed previously it would have been much safer to have used bars on the props instead of props and headpieces

Unsworth, John, 01 Jul 1892, 2.30 a.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 32, Dataller, Whilst knocking out a prop he stood where he had knocked out three other props ; when the prop fell a large stone came down on him, 8 feet square. Gross recklessness

Woods, William, 12 May 1891, aged 41, Metalman, Killed by roof in a drawing road near where the floor was being lowered. Inspection and inquiry