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Allen, John, 10 Jul 1911, aged 45, Enginewright, They were engaged in starting a new steam turbine and went below the engine beds. They had just got down when the valve casting burst, and they were immediately immerased in steam with no chance of escape. The cause of the accident was a "water hammer action" [More information ...]

Allesbrook, H., , [details unknown]

Armstrong, A., 15 May 1960, [details unknown]

Armstrong, Ernest, 29 Mar 1943, aged 39, Fell down the shaft from an inset

Ashton, Richard, 20 Jan 1940, aged 24, Fall of roof

Bailey, Ernest, 08 Apr 1953, aged 31, [details unknown]

Bakewell, Isaac, 09 Jan 1905, aged 43, Ripper, He and another man were ripping the roof and setting bars where required. He had made a scaffold upon the top of a tub on which he was kneeling and in the act of withdrawing a drill from a shot hole in the ripping, when, without warning. A large piece of roof fell upon and killed him instantly

Baldwin, Charles, 26 Jan 1910, aged 36, Collier, He was temporarily acting as driver. He was lowering four full tubs and it is assumed that he went in front of them and stumbled. He was found dead under the second tub

Baldwin, Kenneth, 08 Aug 1946, aged 15, Hit by a haulage rope

Bennet, Leslie, 27 Apr 1925, aged 38, Fall of roof

Bird, John William, 04 Feb 1927, (accident: 03 Feb 1927), aged 58, Fall of coal

Birkinshaw, John T., 19 Aug 1910, aged 19, Rope Runner, Whilst riding on the front of an empty train of tubs, against the rules, his skull was fractured between the top of a tub and a low bar. Five tubs ran over him

Bloor, William, 10 May 1922, aged 17, Run over by tubs

Bowmer, Clarence, 15 Nov 1929, aged 15, Run over by tubs

Box, James, 14 Jul 1931, (accident: 13 Jul 1931), aged 37, Fall of coal

Briggs, Harold, 06 Jul 1928, (accident: 05 Jul 1928), aged 30, Electrocuted

Brough, Wilfred, 05 Oct 1935, aged 35, Fall of roof

Brown, Francis, 31 Oct 1958, aged 26, Crushed chest from being hit by a roadway support

Burton, George, 16 Oct 1959, aged 31, Fall in a roadway

Burton, Leo, 11 Sep 1949, aged 32, Crushed on a conveyor

Butterworth, Clifford, 14 Feb 1940, (accident: 12 Feb 1940), aged 19, Caught in conveyor

Clarke, Albert, 19 Sep 1950, aged 59, Fall of roof [More information ...]

Clarke, B., , [details unknown]

Clarke, Edward Victor, 21 Apr 1904, aged 26, Corporal, He was standing on a full road pushing over at some empty tubs which a driver was taking round a curve whilst a set of full tubs was being lowered by gravity to another set. Evidently he did not see the set was coming, and was fatally crushed

Clarkson, D., , [details unknown]

Conway, John, 05 Oct 1914, aged 43, Collier, He was holing at the loose end of a buttock when a large fall occurred. The timber was run out and deceased was buried. When extricated four hours later he was dead, though he was conscious for some time while heroic efforts were made to release him. The deputy had examined the place an hour before the accident happened and reported it safe. The goaf was upstanding for some considerable time before falling

Cook, George, 05 Jan 1945, (accident: 04 Jan 1945), aged 20, Fall of roof

Cooper, Arnold, 25 Nov 1925, aged 27, Run over by tubs

Cooper, George H., 08 Oct 1949, aged 44, Fractured skull from being hit by a dislodged haulage prop

Cooper, Jonas, 06 Sep 1931, aged 41, Fall of coal

Cope, W., , [details unknown]

Corcoran, P., 07 Aug 1903, aged 53, Dataller, He was repairing a roadway when there was a sharp bump and six bars, ten props, and a girder were thrown out. He was buried under the heavy fall of roof which followed

Cotton, R., , [details unknown]

Craddock, Teal, 10 May 1909, aged 29, Collier, When crossing a haulage road on his way to the pit bottom he was run over by a train of tubs which were being lowered by their own gravity

Crapper, George, 14 Jan 1920, aged 59, Crushed by tubs

Cussack, Martin, 05 Nov 1927, aged 43, Fall of roof

Dean, George, 16 Jul 1931, (accident: 23 Jul 1930), aged 22, Fall of roof

Dennis, Isaac, 31 Oct 1942, aged 54, Hit by a dislodged water pipe

Denton, Albert, 08 Nov 1959, (accident: 06 Nov 1959), aged 54, Fall of coal

Denton, William H., 06 Sep 1939, aged 46, Crushed by tubs

Doughty, H., , [details unknown]

Duckworth, Herbert, 10 Jul 1911, aged 33, Foreman Mechanic, They were engaged in starting a new steam turbine and went below the engine beds. They had just got down when the valve casting burst, and they were immediately immerased in steam with no chance of escape. The cause of the accident was a "water hammer action" [More information ...]

Dunning, Frederick, 06 Nov 1913, aged 13, Screen Lad, He climbed on to an iron fence and took hold of a bare copper wire at 220 volts pressure A.C. to see if he would get a shock. He was immediately electrocuted

Dye, Arnold, 07 Oct 1959, aged 41, [details unknown]

Earl, W., , [details unknown]

Eastwood, G., , [details unknown]

Ellis, T., , [details unknown]

Evans, James, 29 Oct 1949, aged 47, Crushed by wagons on the surface

Fearn, G., , [details unknown]

Fenton, Arthur, 21 Jul 1927, aged 16, Crushed by a pony

Fletcher, I., , [details unknown]

Fogg, James, 26 Nov 1909, (accident: 22 Nov 1909), aged 42, Deputy, He was travelling along a haulage road in front of a train of 24 tubs when it is probable that he was tripped by the rope for he was run over by the tubs and so badly injured that he died on 26th November

Foreman, Ernest, 05 Feb 1952, aged 56, [details unknown]

Fowler, Arthur, 09 Jun 1934, aged 41, Bricklayer, At curve on temporary haulage road 90 yards from shaft he was unloading a tub of bricks — a set of empties was being hauled inbye when a timber batton failed at curve and fouled a deflection pulley pulling it out it struck his head. Died two and half years later

Gagan, George Edward, 04 Aug 1976, aged 58, [details unknown]

Gibson, H., , [details unknown]

Gibson, John Thomas, 18 Sep 1931, aged 36, Fall of coal

Gillespie, Manassah, 27 Jul 1944, aged 59, Fall of roof

Godbold, E., , [details unknown]

Golding, Athol, 12 Sep 1936, (accident: 11 Sep 1936), aged 47, Screen Engineman, He was seen to fall inside a fence protecting some machinery

Goodfellow, G., , [details unknown]

Goodworth, William, 28 Jan 1932, (accident: 18 Jan 1932), aged 27, Injured his hand, toxaemia set in

Grainger, John William, 12 Jun 1903, aged 21, Labourer, Leaned upon a plank which was temporarily fixed as a fence during alterations to the screens. The plank gave way and he fell 19 feet and was killed

Gray, Sidney, 28 Feb 1956, aged 26, Fall of roof

Green, Frank, 10 Jul 1911, aged 42, Engineer, They were engaged in starting a new steam turbine and went below the engine beds. They had just got down when the valve casting burst, and they were immediately immerased in steam with no chance of escape. The cause of the accident was a "water hammer action" [More information ...]

Green, Reginald, 04 Jun 1946, aged 51, Fall of roof

Gregory, Richard, 04 Apr 1928, aged 29, Fall of roof

Hallas, Ernest Thorpe, 17 Oct 1912, aged 33, Labourer, Whilst pushing at the buffer of a full wagon he was caught by other wagons which got out of hand, due to violation of Special Rule 22 for Colliery Sidings

Hambleton, Charles, 03 Aug 1935, (accident: 02 Aug 1935), aged 59, Fell from a wall on the surface

Hambleton, James Wilfred, 19 Jun 1963, aged 59, [details unknown]

Handley, Cyril, 08 Sep 1954, aged 44, Caught in a conveyor

Harding, Enoch, 02 Dec 1912, aged 39, Dataller, He was travelling along a main and tail rope haulage level whilst the rope was running, and was knocked down and run over by 18 tubs. Had he carried out the posted order, prohibiting travelling while the rope was in motion, the accident would not have happened

Hatfield, S., , [details unknown]

Hawley, Joseph, 16 Feb 1931, aged 23, Crushed by tubs

Haynes, Horace, 01 Jul 1940, aged 34, Fall of roof

Hellewell, Harold, 14 Dec 1935, aged 17, Caught in machinery on the surface

Henstock, Ernest, 21 Dec 1929, aged 32, Fall of roof

Hill, E., 30 Mar 1903, aged 28, Collier, Fall of roof when timber was being drawn in the goaf behind a working place. He was working in apparent safety, but the fall threw out seven props

Hirst, John, 02 Nov 1927, aged 35, Run over by tubs

Hyde, Thomas, 23 Mar 1924, (accident: 22 Mar 1924, 11.30 a.m., 6th hour of shift), aged 14, Pony Driver, He was struck on the head by a ventilation door which was suddenly thrown open towards him by empty tubs which the corporal was pushing at the time the boy approached the door to open it. He was rendered unconscious, his skull being fractured at the base, and died the following day

Illingsworth, George H., 02 Nov 1906, aged 43, Bricklayer's Labourer, He and another workman were being taken by their foreman across the sidings, where there are five sets of rails, and as they were passing across the first set, between some empty wagons, where there was 3 feet of space, a shunter brought seven other wagons down on the brakes and ran into those standing. The foreman had got through, the second man was knocked down but not hurt, but deceased was caught between the first set of buffers and instantly killed. The survivors stated that they looked and did not see any wagons approaching, and the shunter also said he did not see the men. The wagons were brought down on a slight curve, and it was raining heavily at the time

Ingram, Thomas, 05 Mar 1924, 8.45 p.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 44, Collier, He was proceeding from the passbye to open a ventilation door on the crossgate to allow a full set of tubs, of which he was in charge, to pass. These were to be lowered by a small compressed air driven main rope haulage installed in the passbye. There were 17 tubs in the set and a timber trolley, which was between the sixth and seventh. The last tub in the set, to which the haulage rope was attached, was uncoupled. This caused the remaining 16 tubs to be set in motion. They ran away out of the passbye and down the crossgate, and before deceased could take refuge he was struck by them and severely crushed against the side of the road

Iverson, G., Oct 1953, [details unknown]

Jagger, F., , [details unknown]

Jeffries, John William, 25 Apr 1932, (accident: 15 Mar 1932), aged 51, Injured his hand, septicaemia set in

Jenkins, Edward, 07 Jan 1935, (accident: 05 Jan 1935), aged 40, Injured by a pressure hose

Jennings, Michael, 14 Apr 1925, (accident: 05 Apr 1925), aged 46, Injured hand

Joburns, Thomas, 19 Sep 1950, aged 54, Fall of roof [More information ...]

Johnson, George William, 08 Jul 1924, 8.45 a.m., 3rd hour of shift, aged 16, Haulage Hand, The secondary main and tail haulage had brought out a set of 36 full tubs to the passbye at the endless rope. It was deceased's duty to uncouple the tubs into trains of seven tubs and then attach them to the endless rope. Finding that the couplings were tight, another boy in the passbye went to lower the tubs by taking out the lockers or sprags at the other end, upon which the tubs moved slowly forward. A corporal near saw deceased fall and found him fastened by the head between the tubs. He liberated him but he died in a few minutes. Deceased evidently had his head between the tubs to reach the couplings, which is a very dangerous method of coupling or uncoupling tubs. He had previously been warned about doing so

Johnstone, H., 29 Mar 1896, aged 48, Sinker, Struck by the truck being lowered onto the scaffold on which he was working in sinking shaft

Jones, Frank, 04 Jun 1906, (accident: 01 Jun 1906), aged 18, Pony Driver, He was bringing out three full tubs around a bend out of a gate with a crossgate when, he stated, the timbers caught and displaced a prop supporting a bar. The bar fell on the pony's back and then slipped off behind, and the deceased, who was walking at the pony's side, was crushed between the bar and the first tub and so severely injured that he died on the 4th inst.

Joyner, Henry, 10 Sep 1900, (accident: 08 Aug 1900), aged 42, Contractoe, Fall of side. Died 10th September

Kelsall, Frederick, 04 Jun 1938, (accident: 03 Apr 1938), aged 26, Hit by a piece off burst motor casing

Kenealy, James, 18 Jan 1938, aged 52, Crushed by tubs

Kinsey, Enoch, 26 Sep 1900, aged 45, Collier, Struck himself with his pick, when getting down some clay seam above him

Kirkham, John, 17 Feb 1937, (accident: 13 Feb 1937), aged 38, Fall of roof, the pick blade pierced his body

Kirkwood, W. Harry, 23 Apr 1969, aged 51, [details unknown]

Lacey, George, 19 Feb 1955, aged 38, [details unknown]

Lamb, D., , [details unknown]

Lambert, F., 25 Nov 1902, aged 29, Onsetter, Crushed by the cage at the pit-bottom, owing to a mistake in signalling

Laycock, Arthur, 10 Feb 1959, aged 65, [details unknown]

Layton, T., , [details unknown]

Linford, Cyril, 06 Apr 1927, (accident: 05 Apr 1927), aged 28, Fall of coal

Lockwood, Wilfred, 19 Mar 1941, (accident: 18 Mar 1941), aged 20, Crushed by tubs

Lodge, Henry, 09 May 1932, aged 15, Fall of roof in a roadway

Lumb, J., , [details unknown]

Lunn, Joseph, 17 Jul 1905, aged 45, Datalman, When timbering om a road, owing to sudden weight a fall of roof took place and killed him

McGowan, Thomas, 13 Jan 1938, aged 40, conveyor motor exploded [More information ...]

Mee, Frank, 20 Oct 1931, aged 22, Crushed by tubs

Mills, W., , [details unknown]

Milner, Thomas O., 20 Apr 1937, aged 36, Fall of roof

Morley, John, 07 Jul 1941, aged 53, Crushed by a tippler on the surface

Morrell, George, 14 Nov 1927, (accident: 17 Oct 1927), aged 50, Fall of roof

Morris, Walter, 17 Apr 1941, aged 25, Fall of roof

Mosley, Walter, 11 Jun 1913, Collier, Whilst filling a tub of coal on the flat sheets at his gate end a "weight bump" caused the roof, composed of coal, to break and fall upon him. The place was well timbered

Neatby, Thomas Henry, 14 Mar 1895, aged 39, Fell from the headgear on the surface

Nicoll, Albert, 11 Sep 1939, aged 24, Fall of roof

Oakey, George, 16 Sep 1941, aged 32, Fall of side

Padgett, Ernest, 04 Mar 1940, aged 36, Crushed by tubs

Padgett, Harold, 03 Jan 1930, aged 45, Chest injury on surface screens

Parnham, Albert, 19 Nov 1925, (accident: 18 Nov 1925), aged 38, Hit by a haulage rope

Pickering, William, 24 Jan 1936, aged 55, [details unknown]

Pickles, Simon, 10 Aug 1939, aged 46, Fall of roof

Portman, Henry, 27 Aug 1929, aged 56, Run over by tubs

Richardson, Arthur, 17 Feb 1937, (accident: 13 Feb 1937), aged 61, Crushed by a manrider

Robinson, Harold, 25 May 1936, (accident: 23 May 1936), aged 30, Caught in a coal cutter

Rogers, L., , [details unknown]

Rose, S. H., , [details unknown]

Round, George, 25 Aug 1922, aged 49, Fall of roof

Rowbotham, Ethelbert, 16 Oct 1959, aged 46, Caught in machinery

Rowe, C., , [details unknown]

Shaw, Arthur, 29 Dec 1920, aged 17, Crushed by tubs

Shenton, Arthur, 02 Mar 1929, aged 46, Fall of coal

Sissons, John William, 12 Jul 1912, aged 17, Screen Lad, Deceased, while following his employment on the screens, fell through a hole in the floor to the ground 14 feet below. The hole was made in the course of structural alterations and ought to have been fenced or otherwise protected

Slack, Edward, 24 Nov 1919, Fall of roof

Smith, E., , [details unknown]

Smith, Frederick, 07 Jun 1939, aged 37, Crushed by tubs

Smith, Joseph, 20 Nov 1929, aged 15, Run over by tubs

Smith, William, 28 Feb 1941, aged 22, Fall of roof

Snowden, A., 15 Apr 1903, (accident: 21 Dec 1902), aged 36, Collier, Died 15th April 1903. Sprained his back when lifting a tub. An abcess formed and eventually became morbid and destroyed the bone and he died. He was suffering from tuberculosis

Squires, Samuel, 07 Sep 1912, aged 25, Boiler Chargeman, Deceased, 4 hours after sludging a boiler, was attempting to remove the manhole door. His spanner slipped and, having partly uncovered the culvert in which the water was standing, he fell into it. He died from shock due to scalding

Squires, William, 31 Aug 1936, (accident: 08 Aug 1936), aged 42, Hit by a dislodged prop

Standish, J., , [details unknown]

Stonier, George, 30 Mar 1938, aged 44, Fall of roof

Swift, T., , [details unknown]

Sykes, J., , [details unknown]

Taylor, Charles H., 10 Aug 1953, aged 55, [details unknown]

Thomas, H., , [details unknown]

Thorpe, Arthur, 19 Oct 1911, aged 35, Collier, Whilst cutting "top softs" in the gate way of his working place he was struck in the abdomen by a prop, which was forced out by a fall of coal

Turner, James, 11 Apr 1902, (accident: 10 Apr 1902), aged 43, Collier, Died 11th April. Fatally strained himself when lifting a tub

Underwood, Francis, 04 Feb 1939, aged 27, Crushed by wagons on the surface

Walton, Isaac, 18 Oct 1910, aged 45, Sinker, Whilst crossing the sidings near to the screens he was crushed against a brick wall by moving wagons. If he had travelled the proper way the accident would not have happened

Warren, Francis, 19 Sep 1950, aged 54, Fall of roof [More information ...]

Watney, Frederick, 01 Nov 1932, (accident: 15 Oct 1932), aged 39, Fall of coal

Wheeler, Andrew, 23 Feb 1915, aged 63, Dataller, Timbering a junction where there was a cavity when some roof fell and he was partially buried

White, Alan, 16 Aug 1938, aged 26, Fall of coal

Wiggins, R. H., , [details unknown]

Williams, Francis, 20 May 1945, aged 33, Caught in a conveyor drum

Wright, Samuel, 05 May 1919, Caught in machinery on the surface

Yates, Leonard, 01 Apr 1928, (accident: 31 Mar 1928), aged 17, Crushed by tubs