Hindley Field Colliery

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airhurst, Peter, 29 Jul 1909, aged 15, Engine minder, Deceased was killed by tubs running back, in the endless rope motion road, through the lashing chain breaking. The road was a good size, with proper refuge places. The trailer behind the tubs failed to stop them in this case

Ashcroft, James Armstrong, 08 Sep 1917, aged 23, Haulage hand, Killed by a fall of roof on haulage road

Banner, John, 04 Oct 1880, aged 23, Collier, Fall of roof when building a pack, the roof having been weakened by deceased drawing a chock to get the pack wall in

Barrow, John, 30 Sep 1881, aged 22, Drawer, Inquest attended. The deceased was filling his last tub for the day when a piece of top coal fell on him from between two "slips," and knocking out the two supporting props

Birchall, Thomas, 18 Jun 1919, aged 32, Dataller, Killed by a fall of roof

Brown, John, 30 Aug 1916, aged 18, Haulage hand, Head fast between door and door frame — strangled

Caldwell, William, 25 Feb 1909, aged 16, Engine-minder, Deceased when attempting to pass between two railway waggons got fatally crushed owing to another waggon being lowered at the time

Cherry, Thomas, 07 Dec 1926, aged 18, Haulage, Stumbled and fell under tubs

Cooper, Richard, 21 Oct 1903, aged 23, Coalcutter-man, Inspection made and inquest attended. He was going around a coal cutting machine which was holing the coal ; when a fall of roof occurred between two slips, capping some props, and crushing the deceased

Croston, William, 30 Nov 1872, Collier, Fall of roof

Darlington, John, 07 Aug 1878, aged 29, Fireman, Killed by a fall of roof when preparing to set a prop

Evans, George, 11 Oct 1897, aged 16, Drawer, Inspection made and inquest attended. This accident occurred at a jigger shunt where a tub had to be lowered a short distance with a chain. This chain was not hooked as intended and the tub ran down and caught the deceased and crushed him against another tub. The shunt was low and narrow. Jury asked for it to be enlarged

Evans, Ralph, 11 Mar 1882, aged 28, Collier, Inspection made and inquest attended. A stone fell just within one of the mouthings and rolled into the shaft, striking the cage in which deceased with others were preparing to ascend. It appeared to have been an unforeseen accident

Farnworth, Peter, 07 Jul 1917, aged 17, Haulage hand, Killed by a fall of roof

Farrimond, George, 25 May 1912, (accident: 22 May 1912), aged 50, Collier, Farrimond was building a pack 3 feet 9 inches from coal face, when a piece of coal and dirt, 8 feet long and 4 feet high, and from 3 inches to 18 inches thick, fell over from the face from off a slip in the coal, and struck him on the abdomen inflicting injuries from which he died on 25th instant. The falling coal displaced a prop set close up to the coal face

Farrimond, William, 08 Sep 1891, (accident: 12 Aug 1891, 6.40 a.m.), aged 40, Joiner, Inspection and inquiry made. He was erecting some new additions to the screens on the surface when he overbalanced and fell into the staging below a distance of 21 feet. He died on 8th September

Gibbs, George H., 05 Dec 1907, aged 24, Collier, When ripping top coal and dirt down in a brow, a fall of roof from some slips fell upon the deceased, capping two bars

Glover, James, 12 Sep 1898, aged 14, Pony driver, Inspection made and inquest attended. The journey of 30 tubs was being drawn towards the pit bottom siding but the hauling engine was not stopped in time to prevent the front tubs being pulled up into a pulley attached bar under the roof. The bar was knocked out and the roof fell on the deceased who was attending to his pony. At the inquiry an improved method of signalling was suggested direct to the engineman instead of having to transmit a signal up the shaft by a second signalling apparatus as the engineman failed to get the signal in

Gregory, John, 26 Feb 1879, aged 19, Collier, Fall of roof from slips. A simple accident

Hayes, William, 08 Aug 1894, aged 54, Daywageman, Inspection made and inquest attended. He went to a disused road to take up some rails when a large stone fell on him from the roof. It was stated that he and the fireman had examined it half an hour previously and considered the place quite safe

Heyes, James, 23 Sep 1898, aged 21, Gang rider, Inspection made and inquest attended. There had been a fall some 20 feet long in the main downbrow haulage road in the Arley Mine knocking out some timber, this was partly repaired but 11 feet in length was left untimbered, and a day or two later another fall came away and fell on deceased

Heyes, William, 22 Oct 1896, aged 58, Fireman, Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of roof occurred on deceased at the far end of the haulage road where a fault crossed the roadway and where the roof was rather disturbed. The road was propped but not barred

Horrocks, Edward, 10 May 1912, aged 18, Dataller, He was engaged filling dirt at side of a main haulage road, when a sudden "weighting" of the roof displaced three bars and caused a heavy fall of roof, 10 feet by 9 feet by 3 feet high, which completely buried him

Houghton, Thomas, 08 Jun 1897, aged 25, Fireman, Inspection made and inquest attended. He was found suffocated by venturing too far to repair the brattice on top of an upthrow fault where a blower of firedamp was giving off. His safety lamp was found few yards behind him

Hoyles, Henry, 12 Dec 1919, aged 22, Haulage, Killed by runaway tubs

Makinson, William, 12 Jan 1924, 7.30 a.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 58, Collier, Killed by a fall of roof [More information ...]

Mason, James, 06 Apr 1926, (accident: 30 Mar 1926), aged 60, Collier, Leg fractured by fall of stone. Died 6th Apr

Millichip, James, 12 Jan 1914, (accident: 09 Jan 1914), aged 32, Collier, Deceased brought a full tub out of a level road on to a main haulage brow, dipping 1 in 6. The haulage was worked by over-tub endless rope, and while deceased was placing his tub in position for attaching it to a rope, the lashing chain attached to two tubs, 26 yards up brow, broke. There was a trailer attached to these tubs, but they rode over it, ran down brow and struck the tub at which deceased was working and inflicted injuries from which he died on the 12th January, 1914

Morris, Israel, 10 Mar 1885, aged 14, Drawer, Inspection made and inquest attended. This accident was caused by a fall of roof in a main road breaking down the bars and props. It appeared to have been timbered to the best of the officials' judgement

Napier, Henry, 07 Aug 1888, aged 34, Collier, Inspection made and inquest attended. He had just commenced work and had filled one tub from coal got down the night before when the top coal fell suddenly capping two props. The place was well timbered but the props were overbalanced by an overhanging stone extending into the waste

Potter, James, 24 Jul 1866, aged 35, Sinker, Something falling down the shaft while he was working at the bottom

Ratcliffe, Joseph, 24 Mar 1908, (accident: 05 Mar 1908), aged 41, Blacksmith, He was driving a plug in one of the tubes in a locomotive boiler when the tube slipped back, allowing the water out of the boiler to escape, which scalded the lower parts of his body. He succumbed to the injuries received March 24, 1908. The locomotive had stood without fire from 8 p.m. previous evening until 1.30 a.m., when the accident occurred

Richardson, John, 06 Dec 1897, aged 60, Watchman, Inspection made and inquest attended. He was in the act of crossing the line when the locomotive was shunting empty wagons in from the screens and was knocked down and run over. The brakesman who had to warn persons about the screens did not take adequate steps in so doing

Scotson, Peter, 21 Nov 1912, aged 20, Hooker-on, Deceased had just signalled away a loaded cage and was reaching to close the fence gate at the mouthing of the seam, when he was struck by full tubs and knocked into the shaft. He fell 35 yards to the shaft bottom and was killed. A set of full tubs had been allowed to pass too quickly through the "squeezers" a few yards away, and these ran into the standing tubs at the inset, which were not held up by any form of catch

Tabernacle, James, 26 Jun 1907, (accident: 05 Jun 1907), aged 24, Collier, He was pushing his full tub, and was said to have injured his arm when twisting the tub around. He expired from the effects of blood poisoning on the 26th instant

Tickle, Bryan, 23 Dec 1871, aged 56, Fireman, On an inclined plane by a tub

Turner, Alexandra, 26 Dec 1902, aged 60, Collier, Inspection made. He was attempting to jump out of the cage at the surface, before the cage came to rest, the engineman suddenly lowering the cage at the time, and deceased was crushed between the cage and flatsheets. Catches were provided, but it was stated the men were in the habit of getting out before the cage came to rest on them