Gwersyllt Colliery

Brain, Samuel, 01 Nov 1876, aged 33, Collier, Fall of roof

Colley, James, 03 Jun 1896, (accident: 29 May 1896), aged 22, Collier, Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased and his father were working a ribbing when a stone fell upon him from roof in the shape of a pot hole. A prop was capped which had not been set quite in the middle of the stone. He died in the infirmary on 3rd June after undergoing an operation

Davies, Samuel, 20 Feb 1918, aged 39, Collier, Killed by a fall of roof

Edwards, George T., 27 Feb 1910, (accident: 17 Mar 1909), aged 43, Collier, When capping a prop, a stone fell from the roof upon him. He died February 27, 1910

Ellis, Charles, 05 Jul 1899, aged 52, Collier, Inspection made and inquest attended. He was in the act of capping a sprag with an iron puncher, when the coal off the face knocked out two props, causing the roof to fall from between three slips upon the deceased

Jones, Joseph, 25 May 1895, aged 40, Collier, Inspection made and inquest attended. They had bored a hole and charged it near the top of the Main Coal Seam and into the clod above which they had failed to get down with the pick when the clod suddenly give way crushing the deceased

Lloyd, George, 29 Jul 1879, aged 46, Filler, A piece of top coal fell from a slip and over the sprags onto him as he was loading his tub

Parry, Robert, 19 Jan 1893, (accident: 20 Dec 1892), aged 64, Byeman, Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was attempting to get a piece of coal and clod down with an iron bar which was overhanging on side of roadway when he was caught before he could clear himself. He succumbed to the injures received January 19th 1893

Pickering, John, 08 Nov 1873, aged 21, Collier, Explosion of gas in Brassey Coal [More information ...]

Roberts, Edward, 20 Jan 1893, (accident: 07 Jan 1893), aged 34, Collier, Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased had been getting the clod down front above the coal but had left a small portion which he thought secure and while he was getting a hole stemmed in the coal the same fell fracturing his leg. He died at the infirmary on the 20th instant

Roberts, John, 30 Aug 1873, aged 46, Horse Keeper, Drowned by cage being lowered in water

Rogers, Richard Harold, 28 Oct 1913, aged 15, Door-boy and jig attendant, A fall of roof occurred on a self-acting jig in the Two Yard seam, and when a pony driver was taking an empty tub attached to the pony up the jig brow, the pony stopped suddenly at a wooden air-door. The sudden stop caused the hook of the pony's chain to become detached from the coupling link of the tub and the tub to run back, fatally crushing the deceased at the bottom of the brow. The pony driver omitted to use the back-stay provided in the shunt at the bottom of the brow

Rogers, Thomas L., 04 Feb 1925, aged 16, Horse boy, Killed by a fall of rock from side

Smith, James, 30 Aug 1895, aged 21, Filler, Inspection made and inquest attended. He was filling a tub of coal at the face which had been got down by a shot when a piece of coal from the side came off to a slip crushing the deceased against the tub. His father and the fireman had considered the place safe

Thomas, Charles, 04 May 1877, aged 20, Hooker on, Fell from mouthing in pit