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Aplin, G. H., 02 Dec 1874, (accident: 30 Nov 1874), aged 22, Collier, Fall of coal. Died 2nd Dec

Barton, Harry, 18 Sep 1907, 10.30 a.m., 4th hour of shift, aged 24, Collier, Fall of coal from the face. It burst off just above a sprag ; the place appears to have been well timbered

Beddis, Sydney, 05 Sep 1907, 11.40 a.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 39, Stoker, Became entangled with the crank of the winding engine while engaged oiling. He passed the fence and was oiling, or about to do so, in order not to stop the winding, as should have been done. His brother was the engineman at the time

Bendall, Joseph, 03 Sep 1890, aged 15, Door boy, Crushed by a tram against the corner of a stall road into which he was driving off the straight horse road. Apparently he intended to ride in the tram and must have stumbled in some way

Benfield, Joseph, 29 Jun 1884, aged 54, Collier, He was working in the High Delf seam, and the man with him noticed some stone and coal easing off from the face. He called five times to the deceased to come away, but he would not, and when the fall took place he was killed

Brain, John, 17 Nov 1870, aged 15, Stoker, Entangled in machinery and killed whilst oiling an engine which works the saw mill

Brown, James, 27 Jul 1874, (accident: 24 Jul 1874), aged 40, Roadman, Fall of rubbish caused iron bar to strike him so severely. Died 27th

Burlford, Thomas, 12 Mar 1885, (accident: 13 Jun 1884), aged 26, Collier, This man was injured on the spine when pulling down stone coal in the High Delf seam on the 13th June 1884. He lingered until 12th March 1885, and then died

Butt, Alfred John, 26 Mar 1915, aged 42

Byett, William, 20 Jan 1870, aged 20, Collier, Some stone fell from roof and knocked him against trolley cart which he was filling and so wounded him that he died next day

Carpenter, Joseph, 15 Jan 1863, aged 23, Collier, Coming up with others, there appears to have been a misunderstanding about signals. When at the top, some of the men fearing they would go over the pulley, jumped out ; but the band was lowered again and the deceased, in attempting to scramble out, was caught by the "gamborine" and thrown to the bottom of the pit, more than 200 yards

Chivers, Moses, 10 Dec 1868, aged 35, Fettler, Killed by falling down the shaft from the rocky vein to the bottom, whilst clearing the plunger of mud. The stage on which he stood was small and insufficiently protected

Clutterbuck, Jacob, 26 Dec 1864, (accident: 22 Oct 1864), aged 30, Collier, Injured by a heavy fall of roof in one of the "Lowery" stalls, occasioning such injury to the spine that after lingering two months he died on the 26th of December. The place was well enough timbered, but an undetected slip intervened and no doubt caused the fall

Crump, Henry, 24 Aug 1867, aged 31, Collier, The cage stopped 47 yards from the bottom to take 2 workmen and Crump thought he had arrived and stepped out, fell and was killed. They may take people in coming up but not in going down

Hale, Joseph, 23 Jan 1881, (accident: 17 Dec 1880), aged 20, Collier, Injured by a fall of stone and died January 23rd, 1881

Hall, William, 14 Jun 1903, aged 21, Collier, Fall of side. When holing, he cut into an unseen slip, which released the coal and caused it to burst over the sprags and injured him fatally

Harris, John, 14 Aug 1884, aged 21, Collier, Run over by carts on an engine plane. Deceased and others were going to work down an engine road ; they knew the journey was coming to meet them, but it came upon them rather suddenly. A cross hole was close by, and all got clear except Harris, who was run over, and killed on the spot. The coroner's jury recommended that it future a lamp should be fixed on the first tram of each journey, which has since been done

Harris, Marling, 14 Nov 1897, aged 28, Collier, Fall of coal and clod which he was getting down. He had removed the sprags and was standing back on the gob pinching it down with an iron bar; the bar slipped and caused him to tumble forward under the falling coal, which killed him

Hawkins, Charles, 17 May 1872, aged 15, Labourer, Fell off old engine house ; wall plate rotten

Hopkins, Joseph, 09 May 1893, aged 68, Door minder, Run over by a journey of cart or trams on the engine plane where he was in charge of a door. He went to open the door on the approach of the journey but miscalculated its distance and did not close in time. The door was carried away and he was fatally injured

James, J. B., 21 Jan 1883, (accident: 03 Jan 1883), aged 61, Fetler, When riding in a cart over a parting it came in contact with another cart, and he was thrown out on to his head. He continued working for a day or two, but died on 21st, of compression of the brain

Jenkins, James, 28 Oct 1886, (accident: 26 Oct 1886), aged 45, Collier, Injured by a horse and tram squeezing him against the side of theroad. He died on the 28th

Jenkins, Thomas, 12 Feb 1891, aged 26, Collier, Fall of roof while getting down coal from the face. He and his comrade omitted to set props in time. This is a life thrown away through neglecting to set props where they were required

Lucas, James, 18 Aug 1869, (accident: 10 Aug 1869), aged 30, Collier, Fall of roof on the 10th ; died on the 18th

Mercy, Samuel, 14 Aug 1867, aged 22, Collier, Killed by a fall of about 2 tons of clod. He certainly ought to have set another prop

Morgan, Isaac, 17 Sep 1929, aged 53, Onsetter, Found under cage

Morgan, William, 01 Mar 1865, aged 32, Engineer, Fell down shaft 300 yards

Niblett, John, 20 Jul 1860, aged 37, Horse Keeper, Not liking to wade through some water at the bottom he unhitched the cart and sat in it, the band in the meanwhile ascending, but on its re-descent he hitched on one ring only and went about 30 yards, and then got on to a guide rope to slide down again, but the other band coming down, it with the gamborine came on him and killed him. It he had remained in the scending cart, though "tipped," he would have been safe

Potter, Edward, 09 Jan 1907, 11 a.m., 4th hour of shift, aged 31, Collier, Fall of roof at the face, in the Twenty-inch Seam. He was in the act of setting a prop when the stone fell in an umbrella shape from a smooth surface, which could not be seen previously. The place was well timbered in the ordinary course

Saunders, Henry, 29 Jun 1872, aged 30, Roadman, Fall of stone

Tims, Philip, 29 Jun 1888, aged 50, Collier, Fall of roof and coal at his working place

Trafford, Thomas, 21 Dec 1903, aged 68, Pumpman, Wishing to see how the water stood in the sump he, directly after the cage was taken up from the landing, walked under it, contrary to S.R. 57 ; being a single engine and having failed to pass the centre the cage, upon being let back, crushed him

Wellington, Samuel, 23 Nov 1886, aged 33, Collier, Fall of roof. A glassy joint in the roof caused the stone to fall it overbalanced two props which were standing under it

Wicks, Arthur James, 20 May 1913, aged 28, Collier, He was filling the loose stone from a shot in a bottom caunch into a tub when a stone, weighing some 3 to 4 cwt., fell out of the side next the roof from between a slippery joint and a fault-leader on to his neck and shoulders and killed him instantly. A shot had been fired in the bottom caunch a few minutes previously, and probably this caused the stone to fall

Williams, Charles, 11 Oct 1855, aged 16, Collier, Skull fractured by handle of windlass

Williams, James, 26 Jan 1901, aged 35, Shunter, Crushed between buffers when shunting waggons on the railway sidings

Williams, W., 20 Oct 1880, aged 32, Roadsman, Fall of roof

Winkle, Isiah, 15 Sep 1890, aged 21, Haulier, Taking his horse into the workings for some trams it became restive and kicked him causing his death. He apparently must have been doing something to the animal which had worked in the mine for some years

Yemm, Richard, 13 Aug 1860, (accident: 30 Jul 1860), aged 31, Collier, Somebody had left the half flap up in the shaft, which, Yemm being acquainted with, walked over the opposite flap and fell to the bottom on this day, but lingered until the 13th of August