Eccleston Hall

Bethel, George, 20 Feb 1896, aged 17, Door tenter, Inspection made and inquest attend. He was getting off the journey to loose the horse when he fell in front of the full boxes and was partly run over. He got off where were empty tubs alongside the full ones instead of waiting until he had passed them where there was plenty of room

Fillingham, John, 04 Dec 1903, aged 20, Oiler, Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged in haulage downbrow, and got crushed by two tubs getting uncoupled from the set, attached to rope, as he was apparently about entering a manhole. Some of the tubs were off the rails, which accounted for them getting uncoupled. It was suggested at the inquiry that colliery couplings should be improved

Greenall, Levi, 06 Oct 1909, aged 30, Dataller, They had been unloading long bars in a mouthing, and had signalled the cage away, and the next time the cage descended, it struck the bars, which tilted up, fatally injuring the two deceased persons, owing to the bars having been left too near the pit shaft [More information ...]

Jones, David, 20 Dec 1893, aged 23, Drawer, Inspection made and inquest attended. A balance box broke loose in a brow through a faulty link in a coupling chain breaking and getting off the road knocked some timber out causing the roof to fall upon the deceased

Lewis, William, 26 Dec 1896, aged 67, Sinker, Inspection made and inquest attended. Whilst leaning over the hoppit repairing the walling of the shaft with another person the winding engine started owing to steam escaping through the throttle valve causing the deceased to be crushed against bearer in the shaft a few feet above. The winder stated he was standing behind the handles with the brake down at the time. On examining the valve, some loose pieces of India rubber were found lying in the valve which might have assisted the escape of the steam

Lythgoe, Thomas, 26 Apr 1893, aged 64, Shotlighter, Inspection made and inquest attended. He was in the act of firing a shot in metal they were roofing down from under which they had taken two sprags and a prop when a portion of the roof gave way to a slip crushing the deceased

Pilkington, Thomas, 06 Oct 1909, aged 51, Fireman, They had been unloading long bars in a mouthing, and had signalled the cage away, and the next time the cage descended, it struck the bars, which tilted up, fatally injuring the two deceased persons, owing to the bars having been left too near the pit shaft [More information ...]