Garw Colliery

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Atkinson, William, 24 Dec 1910, aged 19, Collier, Fall of roof at working face while he was cutting out an arm

Barwick, Frank J., 23 Jul 1914, aged 15, Collier Boy, Fall of roof near face of working place, as he was filling coal into a tram. The stone which fell was a small one, but it broke his neck

Clark, Arthur Charles, 17 Apr 1907, aged 14, Collier's boy, Fall of roof. At face. A sudden crush caused the collapse of two pairs of timbers, and a fall of roof measuring 12 ft. by 8 ft. by 17 ins. resulted. The roof was a "slanty" shale. Six feet seam. Safety lamps

Daniels, John, 25 Mar 1909, aged 30, Collier, Fall of roof. At face ; the roof of the stall gave way as deceased was knocking out sprags set against heavy face slips of coal. Several slants were visible in the roof after the accident occurred. The face appeared to have been well timbered. New Seam. Safety lamps

Davies, Edwin, 02 Oct 1913, aged 48, Timberman, Fall of side on roadway. He intended getting out an old arch on a road, and was removing the packing before doing so, when the side above the archway fell and buried him

Davies, Thomas, 18 Oct 1910, aged 43, Labourer, Fall of roof at working face where he was gobbing rubbish from a tram. The place was well timbered, but the debris was small and came away from between the sets. Death was due to suffocation

Edwards, Thomas, 31 Jul 1907, aged 21, Assistant Timberman, Fall of roof. On road while repairing. The deceased had been assisting a timberman to strengthen the timbers on a roadway which had shown evidence of considerable roof crush. They had been setting timbers on either side of those already standing. They then went to a manhole to prepare wedges to fasten the timbering to the sides, when a huge fall of roof crushed down and killed Edwards, the timberman being also slightly injured. About 40 tons of roof material was estimated to have come down. Lower seam. Safety lamps

Griffith, David, 17 May 1887, aged 43, Ripper, Fall of roof which they were about to blast after failing to pinch it down. Main deep. Longwall [More information ...]

Howells, Thomas, 29 Jan 1906, aged 45, Collier, Fall of side. At face ; while working out the "butts," some 16 ft. in length of coal from the upper part of the seam fell over the sprags and knocked out a prop which apparently struck the deceased on the head, fracturing the skull. The prop was an old "arm" with its head reduced, and would not have such a good grip as an ordinary one

Jones, David, 12 Jan 1909, aged 58, Rider, He was shunting waggons near a bridge at the top of an incline, when he was seen to get under the waggons as if to couple them together, and then to fall under them, the wheels passing over the lower part of his abdomen

Jones, Henry, 04 Oct 1901, aged 22, Haulier, They were taking out a water tank in order to put in the cage in the upcast shaft to lower the men, when the two trolleys on which they stood separated, and they fell down from the six feet landing to the bottom. They had neglected to fasten the two trolleys together before getting on to them [More information ...]

Jones, William John, 09 Feb 1907, aged 26, Haulier, He was found under the first of two trams loaded with coal which were being drawn by a horse along a roadway having a gradient of 1 in 12 to 1 in 36. He probably fell off while riding on the "gun"

Leonard, Henry, 04 Oct 1901, aged 42, Hitcher, They were taking out a water tank in order to put in the cage in the upcast shaft to lower the men, when the two trolleys on which they stood separated, and they fell down from the six feet landing to the bottom. They had neglected to fasten the two trolleys together before getting on to them [More information ...]

Llewellyn, David, 09 Feb 1910, aged 63, Repairer, Fall of side on road. While weakening a prop with an axe preparatory to extracting it with a Sylvester prop drawer, the prop gave way and a stone from the side fell with it and caught him

Morgan, D. J., 23 Nov 1910, aged 28, Haulier, Fell off gun and was run over by tram

Owen, David W., 20 Dec 1913, (accident: 17 Dec 1913), aged 46, Collier, As he was walking in front of a horse and tram, his light went out, he stepped to the side of the road, but was crushed by the passing trams. He died December 20th, 1913

Rees, John, 09 Jan 1913, (accident: 14 Dec 1912), aged 62, Haulier, Struck and fatally injured by detached haulage rope, the chain of which had caught in moving trams. He died January 9th, 1913

Roberts, William, 17 May 1887, aged 26, Ripper, Fall of roof which they were about to blast after failing to pinch it down. Main deep. Longwall [More information ...]

Samuel, John, 29 Jun 1905, aged 39, Timberman, Fell into a shaft at a mid-landing while attempting to get on the cage

Sappell, James R., 09 Jun 1914, aged 16, Assistant Collier, Fall of roof at face from unseen slants

Stone, Alfred, 23 Apr 1906, aged 20, Assistant Hitcher, Struck by a piece of coal falling from the cage as it landed at the surface

Thomas, -, 26 Nov 1932, Hitcher, while crossing the bottom of the pit he was struck and killed by a cage [date of report]

Thomas, Samuel, 11 Jan 1907, aged 40, Timberman, While walking along an engine plane towards pit-bottom at the end of the shift, he was run over and killed by an empty "journey" of trams coming to meet him. There appears to have been a misunderstanding as to the direction in which the "journey" was travelling. Manholes were in good order

Tudor, David, 16 Jul 1928, aged 43, Pitman, Cleaning gearheads and examing shaft and had descended 239 yards to landing when curb 35 yards from top gave way killing him [More information ...]

Williams, Edwin, 07 Dec 1908, aged 53, Labourer, He was killed by being run over by a "journey" of trams while engaged in cleaning an engine plane. It seems probable that deceased had left his shovel in a manhole, where it was found, and walked forward to pick up any large pieces of coal there might be on the road (as was his custom), and had lost his light, and failed to get into the manhole before the "journey" reached him. The road was of good size and in good repair, and the manholes were in order. There was nothing about it to account for the accident

Williams, John, 25 Sep 1886, aged 22, Collier, Fall of clod

Williams, Rashley, 10 Sep 1902, 3.15 p.m., aged 42, Ostler, He was going down the upcast pit from "Lower seam" to "New seam," when the cage caught in the collar-board of lower seam landing, and he fell out