Foxfield Colliery

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Ball, William, 20 Oct 1905, 2 p.m., aged 30, Miner, Run over by two tubs which he was taking down the engine dip (about 1 in 12) by hand against orders, and apparently going in front of the tubs contrary to rule. A companion who was taking other tubs down was prosecuted and fined

Barnes, Ernest, 05 Jun 1959, aged 38, Roadman, Crushed by tub

Brough, Frederick, 02 May 1906, 7.30 a.m., aged 26, Roadman, Deceased was riding on the last load of a journey of twelve when a load left the metals and knocked out one leg of a set of timber, causing 6 or 7 sets to reel out and letting down a large quantity of small roof bass, under which deceased was buried

Burton, J., 26 Mar 1964, aged 51, face worker, Killed by a fall of roof

Gimbert, John Michael, 20 Nov 1924, (accident: 28 Oct 1924, 9.30 a.m., 3rd hour of shift), aged 22, Loader, Deceased was sent on the 28th October to the hospital, suffering from a lacerated wound of the foot, which was caused by a fall of coal from the working face. Gangrene set in, and later the leg was amputated below the knee. He died of septicaemia on the 20th November

Harvey, Luke, 18 Oct 1911, aged 72, Labourer, A railway truck was being loaded with slack wheeled from a heap on the pit bank across a gangway over a space of 3 ft. composed of two 9 in. planks laid side by side. Deceased was in the truck levelling the slack and was ordered out to some other work by the foreman. In stepping across the gangway he slipped or stumbled and fell head first a distance of 8 ft. to the ground level

James, Thomas, 15 Dec 1910, (accident: 26 Nov 1910), aged 45, Banksman, Deceased was employed as a banksman, and died on December 15th from septic pleuro-pneumonia, stated to have been set up from a bruise caused by a tub falling against his foot on November 26th

Shaw, James, 25 Jun 1903, 8 a.m., aged 41, Byeworkman, Full of roof (shale) at longwall face while he was removing a previous fall

Whitehurst, John, 01 Jul 1907, 1.45 a.m., aged 44, Collier, Deceased was killed by a fall of coal from a machine face. He had already drawn some sprags and dropped some coal. The loader was filling this coal and deceased had gone along the face cleaning up holing dirt where the sprags were still in. While so doing, a fall of about 15 cwt. of coal occurred, reeling two sprags and rolling on deceased. A shot had been fired 9 feet 6 inches away some time previously, and it is probable that the holed coal was shaken for some distance along, and that when deceased scraped out the dirt from the cutting, the sprags could no longer hold the weight resting on them

Whitehurst, R. J., 25 Aug 1905, 9.30 p.m., aged 45, Fireman, Fall of roof (shale) at a gate end in the main level, apparently due to a carrying bar reeling out and letting three other bars down. No one except deceased, who was on his round, was at the place when the fall occurred

Whitehurst, Richard, 10 Sep 1894, aged 67, Coal loader, Crushed between trucks on colliery sidings

Wordsworth, Arthur William, 21 Dec 1956, aged 53, Deputy, Killed by a fall of roof [date of inquest]