Farrington Colliery

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Badman, Arthur James, 06 May 1913, aged 43, Timberman, He was in a machine-cut longwall face at the beginning of his shift and had taken down some following stone. Whilst this was being removed, a solid piece of rock, boat-shaped, 10 to 12 feet long, with a maximum width of about 4 feet and a maximum depth of 2½ feet, fell from between two slippery joints, converging upwards, on to his legs and the lower part of his body. He was quickly released and taken to hospital, but died the same day. He had sounded the stone which fell and had remarked that it was as hard as a bell ; its great thickness would prevent its looseness being detected by sounding. The face had been standing for a week, and this circumstance would contribute to the fall of the stone

Bigwood, William, 31 May 1896, aged 61, Labourer, Deceased was riding up incline on water tank in order to empty it approaching the top he had to get off and open the door in the engine plane apparently he slipped and the tank passed over him

Blanning, John, 26 Feb 1856, aged 55, Smith, Jumping on to ascending tub in shaft

Clare, Henry, 12 Dec 1895, aged 38, Collier, Fall of roof while getting coal at the face where there a been a crush. The place appeared to have been well timbered

Curtis, Austin, 17 Nov 1910, aged 34, Timberman, He was engaged putting up timber in an engine-plane, but wanted the help of the runrider, and was waiting for him, when a stone 4ft. by 2 ft. by 15 ins. thick fell from the roof on to him. The stone was part of the roof which projected from the side and was loose towards the middle of the engine-plane. After it had fallen, two joints were visible from between which the stone had fallen. It is unfortunate that he did not realise that the stone was so insecure, as, apparently, he might easily have discovered its actual state by "jowling"

Dix, Jonah, 15 May 1888, Collier, Fall of roof from slips over the working face

Emery, Frederick, 01 Mar 1908, aged 31, Stoker and Pumpsman, He appears, when starting a Cornish pumping engine, to have allowed the condensed water and steam to escape too rapidly, resulting in his being scalded. The accident occurred during the night, and there appeared to have been considerable laxity in the matter of rules, &c.

Gulliford, Frank, 26 Jul 1901, aged 17, Carting-boy, He was pulling instead of pushing a tram down an incline and fell. His head was fatally crushed by the tram

Lewis, James, 22 Apr 1887, aged 27, Collier, Fell out of the cage. He and another man were coming up the pit together and he fell out. The cage got out of the guides but it is uncertain whether his falling knocked the cage out or the cage leaving the guides caused him to fall

Norris, Elijah, 19 Apr 1853, Collier, Fall of roof

Rogers, John, 17 Aug 1878, (accident: 16 Aug 1878), aged 18, Haulier, Injured by trams on incline and died the next day

Shrieves, H., 06 Feb 1898, (accident: 03 Feb 1898), aged 60, Engineer, He had been sent by a firm of engineers to superintend the fixing of a new pump and while steam was being turned on from the surface the rush of condensed water caused one of the joints to give way resulting in his being scalded on the hands and face. He died on the 6th

Small, John, 15 Nov 1886, aged 55, Labourer, Explosion of steam boiler

Stokes, Thomas, 20 Nov 1900, aged 26, Hitcher, The cage into which he was drawing a loaded tub backwards was drawn up without being signalled away, as he was walking backwards he was unaware of it and fell into the sump (in which there was 8 feet of water and a considerable depth of mud and rubbish), pulling the loaded tram in with him

Talbot, Edward, 06 Apr 1858, aged 57, Collier, Fall of roof in top seam

Wall, Sydney, 30 Apr 1886, aged 14, Carting boy, The boy pulled a full cart over the top of an incline he was hitched to it and it overpowered him and dragged him down at the passing place he was caught by the up coming empty and killed