Highley Colliery

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Bodfield, J., 15 Oct 1937, aged 17, Horse Driver, Killed by a fall of roof

Davis, Alfred, 02 Jan 1905, 12.30 p.m., aged 17, Driver, Burnt by paraffin oil spilled by another boy while filling a lighted lamp from an open topped tin canister

Dudley, William, 14 Aug 1905, (accident: 05 May 1905, 9 a.m.), aged 39, Loader, Fall of side (clod) at working face. Another man was injured by this fall. Dudley died on the 14th August

Evans, Norman, 04 Sep 1908, aged 35, Stallman, Deceased was working in a longwall face where the seam was 3 ft. 8 ins. thick, exclusive of 1 ft. of top coal which formed the roof. A heavy fall had taken place at the end of the gate road and the usual working roof having been lost, a new entry under the top coal had been made opposite the gate read to a depth of 2 feet, extending 12 ft. along the face. Deceased was in the act of making a foot-hole few a prop to the top coal, when a fall occurred causing fatal injuries. The coal had been loaded from beneath this roof and a fresh holing appeared to have been commenced before the fall occurred. It is probable that if props had been set under the top coal as soon as room was made for them this accident would not have happened

France, Henry, 22 Apr 1896, 6.0 a.m., aged 32, Incline brakesman, While he was lowering a loaded truck from the screens with his hand on the brake handle the trucks got off the rails at a crossing and was crushed against a wharf wall. The crossing was in bad repair

Hart, John Henry, 04 Apr 1924, 12.30 a.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 48, Stallman, Killed by a fall of roof [More information ...]

Sankey, Henry, 01 Oct 1912, aged 55, Horse-driver, Deceased was driving two horses which were employed to shunt railway wagons. He attempted to cross in front of the moving wagons, fell, and was run over. A proper path was provided, but it was wet, and deceased did not use it

Tolley, William, 08 Sep 1909, aged 50, Collier, Fall of Roof. Deceased was killed by a fall of roof at a longwall face in the Brooch Coal Seam. He was knocking out a sprag at the centre of a length of about 4 yards of face which had been holed to a depth of 2 ft. The coal fell over from a slip and knocked out two props standing close to the coal and allowed the roof to fall for a distance of 5 yards. The roof fell from a hanging slip previously invisible, parallel to the face, and from a break running along the ends of the last row of bars set to keep the roof up over the wagon way along the face. The place was well timbered while the coal was up and the sprags were supporting it. The mistake was in attacking so great a length of coal as 4 yards, from the middle instead of from either end

Weale, John, 15 Nov 1889, aged 40, Collier, Fall of dirt while holing in stall