Mansfield Colliery

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Allen, Henry, 26 Oct 1908, aged 41, Screenman, Deceased appears to have been oiling machinery while it was in motion, and was caught by the revolving spur-gearing and killed. It was against the rule of the mine to oil such machinery when in motion

Blackburn, James, 22 Oct 1912, aged 22, Dayman, Deceased asked the stallman to get down some coal to complete the filling of a tub, and while this was being done he moved in front and was caught against the tub by the falling coal-about 40 cwts.

Brown, Thomas, 18 Jan 1919, aged 58, Stallman, Building gateside pack when the whole of waste collapsed and buried him

Chadburne, Walter, 06 Sep 1919, (accident: 17 Aug 1919), aged 35, Pulley oiler, Taking a pulley out of last tub of set of empties which had been drawn into side gate. A set of tubs was coming up straight and last tub was not clear of main set and they collided and he was pinned

Lyons, Charles, 01 Jul 1934, (accident: 11 May 1934), aged 58, infection from injury

Mayfield, John, 22 Sep 1913, aged 15, Driver, He was killed by a fall of bind from the side weighing 30 tons, which occurred as he was driving down a gate. The pony was also killed

Powell, George, 22 May 1908, aged 40, Dataller, Deceased was crossing the partly covered sump when he stepped on to a loose plank which tipped up and he fell into the sump. He had passed through a fence and was taking tools to a box on the opposite side of the shaft

Rawson, Samuel, 19 Nov 1908, aged 35, Banksman, Crushed by the top deck of a cage while attending to the tubs which had got fast. A signal to start the cage had been given from the lower deck to the engineman, but the man in charge of this signal had not received a signal from deceased that all was ready on the top deck

Slaney, Harry, 18 Jan 1909, aged 15, Horse-driver, He was turning his horse round in a pass-bye, when the slowly moving tubs struck the limbers and fastened the deceased against other tubs (Top Hard Coal seam)

Smedley, Charles, 30 Oct 1907, aged 21, Loader, Some full tubs had been left in the gateroad, when they ran back into the gate-end and striking another tub standing there, injured the deceased. He died the same day (Top hard coal)

Smith, Samuel, 08 Nov 1905, (accident: 23 Oct 1905), aged 45, Sinker, Deceased was leaving the pit top at night and stepped into a hot water tank from which the lid had been removed and left open. He died 8th November

Stocks, John, 02 Apr 1913, (accident: 28 Mar 1913), aged 21, Dayman, Owing to a bump a short length of holed coal over-rode a sprag and knocked out a watch prop. This prop caught deceased across the back and ruptured his kidneys, from which he died 5 days later

West, James Richard, 22 Dec 1937, aged 38, he was fatally crushed against the roof by a piece of coal on a moving conveyor