Fenton Colliery

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Baker, Paul, 18 Sep 1867, aged 33, Collier, Fell off water tub

Boulton, Samuel Charles, 06 Feb 1914, aged 29, Collier, Deceased was engaged with his mates in ripping a jig in the Hard Mine seam within a few yards of the working face. Owing to the presence of two parallel slips, the ripping had fallen higher than expected, and while the men were engaged in removing the fall, a large body of stone fell from the side over the pack and crushed deceased so severely that he died shortly after admission to the infirmary. A careful examination of the roof and sides had been made about 1½ hours previously by the fireman and the men, and they all considered that the place was safe

Burgess, -, 18 Jul 1866, Sinker, Explosion under scaffold [More information ...]

Challinor, Charles, 13 Feb 1893, aged 64, Owner, Crushed by pumping engine while examining machinery

Cooper, William Henry, 07 Dec 1914, aged 18, Taker-off, Deceased was employed at the bottom of a jig in the Hard Mine seam. He had just sent away a tub from the bottom of the jig, when a large slab of rock, 18 feet long by 6 feet wide and 9 inches thick, suddenly fell from the roof, knocked him down, and partially buried him. He was quickly extricated, but he died half-an-hour afterwards. The roof was considered to be strong and was therefore not timbered. After the fall a slip was exposed along the right hand side. The fireman, who was within 10 yards of the place, said the fall was immediately preceded by the sound of a "Goth." Instructions were subsequently given that all similar landings must be timbered in future

Deaville, Thomas, 06 Sep 1913, aged 51, Collier, The roof in this place required extra care owing to the proximity of old workings, and the fireman warned the men about it. The collier in charge went to fetch a bar to set to the roof in advance of the foreset, but during his absence deceased drew the foreset and a large stone fell from between two slips and killed him. slips and killed him. His action was unaccountable, as, being a collier of long experience, he should have known the risk attending the drawing of a foreset before further timber had been set

Hughes, J., 18 May 1884, aged 32, Sinker, Fell into sump and was drowned

Lee, T., 21 Dec 1868, aged 45, Collier, Explosion of firedamp

Mountford, Frederick, 19 Nov 1914, aged 50, Fireman, The accident happened in a jig having an inclination of 1 in 4. While two tubs were being jigged the front one left the rails. Shortly afterwards, the deceased arrived on the scene and having, together with another man, examined the coupling between the tubs and satisfied himself that it was secure, he went to the lower end of the tub and was lifting it on to the rails, when by some means it became detached and overpowered him. He was thrown on his back and pinned to the floor by the runaway tub four yards lower down, and his neck was dislocated. The hooks on the ends of the tub drawbars are inverted, and owing to their shape and the length of the big links at the ends of the coupling chain (being about 5 inches) it is assumed that while he was tilting the tub to replace it on the rails, the coupling became slack and one of the end links fouled a piece of dirt and became detached from the drawbar. It was arranged to alter the couplings in order to prevent a similar accident happening in future

Perry, George, 29 Sep 1873, aged 20, Waggoner, Fall of roof in jig

Podmore, Francis, 08 Dec 1875, aged 44, Engineman, Scalded by bursting of blow-off pipe under boiler [More information ...]

Rogers, W., 22 Feb 1866, aged 22, Banksman, Fell down the shaft

Ward, Humphrey, 08 Nov 1893, aged 27, Collier, Crushed against jigpost by fall of roof at longwall face in Moss Seam

Wheatley, John Graham, 20 Jul 1914, aged 16, Haulage attendant, Deceased was employed as a hooker-on and signaller at a shunt in the Hard Mine Main engine dip. He also had occasionally to go down 60 yards to the New Moss shunt to send up a set of tubs. He was there at snapping time, and had signalled a journey away, but as it did not move he proceeded up the dip to ascertain the cause of the delay. When he had travelled 15 yards, the tubs were put in motion and travelled up the dip at the rate of three miles per hour. Deceased arrived at the Hard Mine shunt, and a roadman saw him place a hand on the leading tub and then to slip against the tubs. He was dragged along for a distance of 12 yards and sustained serious injuries from which he died on the same day