Kemberton Colliery

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Davis, John, 26 Nov 1889, aged 35, Engine driver, Fell down shaft while repairing the gland of a pump

Glenister, Thomas, 04 Dec 1910, aged 37, Collier, Shaft accident [More information ...]

Gough, George, 04 Dec 1910, aged 53, Fireman, Shaft accident [More information ...]

Holbrook, James, 31 Jan 1891, aged 56, Collier, Fall of ironstone from face in Pennystone seam while drawing a sprag

Jones, Albert, 04 Dec 1910, aged 14, Trammer, Shaft accident [More information ...]

Miles, Randolph Cecil, 04 Dec 1910, aged 14, Trammer, Shaft accident [More information ...]

Parkinson, James, 12 Oct 1914, (accident: 10 Oct 1914), aged 43, Collier, The accident happened at the coal face. The roof was supported by bars, set about four feet, apart, one end of the bar being fixed in the coal, and the other end resting on props. Deceased was engaged in removing a narrow strip of coal from the face, to enable the coal-cutting machine to pass the posts, when the coal fell suddenly from an unseen break, thus liberating a bar and props, and the roof 4 feet by 3 feet by 1 foot 4 inches thick followed immediately and buried him. He sustained a fracture of the spine and died on 12th October

Ray, Ernest, 10 Feb 1914, aged 17, Horse driver, The deceased was employed in the Clod Coal seam, and while coming outbye behind a loaded tub attached to his horse, a piece of the roof 4 feet by 3 feet by 10 inches thick reeled out a prop and fell upon him. When discovered, he was found to be dead. The prop had been set on a canch at the roadside, apparently it had moved inwards imperceptibly under the superincumbent weight until it came in contact with the passing tub, which probably knocked it out and caused the roof to fall. Two and a half hours previously, the fireman had inspected the roof and sides of the road and found it in safe working order

Rogers, Richard, 04 Dec 1910, aged 41, Filler, Shaft accident [More information ...]

Skitt, Henry, 06 May 1908, aged 41, Loader, This accident occurred on a "chain-bank" where the inclination varies from level to 1 in 15. Loads are taken down by horses, but at the top of the bank a long chain which passes round a post and extends down the full length of the bank is attached to the back end of a load and acts as a brake. A load going down the bank had stopped through the chain becoming entangled with the wheels. Deceased and two other men put the load right and it started away. The rattle of the chain round the post at the top startled a horse waiting there with a load to go down, and it set off down the bank at a good speed. The driver having failed in an attempt to check it shouted down to the men on the bank. Two of them and the driver of the first horse managed to take refuge in a manhole, but deceased was knocked down by the horse and crushed by the load against a prop at the lower corner of the manhole before he could get clear

Stanley, Alfonso, 04 Dec 1910, aged 19, Trammer, Shaft accident [More information ...]

Ward, Frederick, 27 Oct 1913, aged 29, Collier, Killed in the pit

Wilton, Arthur, 04 Dec 1910, aged 48, Daywageman, Shaft accident [More information ...]

York, W., 14 Apr 1874, Banksman, Struck by spur wheel which broke