Egremont (Iron ore)

Carr, Ethelred, 21 Mar 1887, aged 26, Miner, the deceased was engaged driving a narrow heading by a check or footwall of slate, which had on it a thickness of shale, the deceased had set a sprag to a piece of this shale ; on the overman visiting the place, he ordered the deceased to set a pair of timbers then remove the sprag ; on commencing to pick a hole for the leg in the shale, deceased found it very tough and bad, so to save labour he knocked the sprag out to let the piece of shale down, when it fell over him causing injuries from which he died ; if this man had obeyed the overman, this accident would not have occurred

Doley, James, 02 Apr 1887, aged 57, Miner, the deceased was stemming a hole with a copper stemmer, when the charge exploded causing injuries which resulted in his death ; this hole had been charged with blasting powder, and as the hole was in hard blue ore, and was very much shattered by a previous shot, it is probable that two small pieces of metal were knocked together, causing a spark to ignite the loose powder in the shot hole

Jenkinson, Robert, 16 Jun 1885, aged 23, Miner, killed by a fall of roof

Joyce, Henry, 05 Oct 1887, (accident: 28 Sep 1887), aged 30, Miner, deceased was standing at an eye in No. 4 and was looking into the shaft for some unknown reason when the descending cage struck him; he had no business at the shaft, died from erysipelas