Norton Hill Colliery

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Ashman, John James, 09 Apr 1908, 9.45 p.m., aged 34, Collier, Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing, Explosion of Coal dust from shotfiring in the Slyving Vein Main haulage road (Self Acting Incline), without watering the place. (See Special report of September, 1908 [Cd. 4,330], price 4½d.) [More information ...]

Box, William, 10 Oct 1902, aged 40, Colliee, He and his comrade were 'charging' a hole in the roof with compressed powder. The hole appears to have been small at some part, and force being exerted to get the pellet down it exploded

Brooks, Andrew, 09 Apr 1908, 9.45 p.m., aged 27, Collier, Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing, Explosion of Coal dust from shotfiring in the Slyving Vein Main haulage road (Self Acting Incline), without watering the place. (See Special report of September, 1908 [Cd. 4,330], price 4½d.) [More information ...]

Burge, Charles, 09 Apr 1908, 9.45 p.m., aged 32, Examiner, Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing, Explosion of Coal dust from shotfiring in the Slyving Vein Main haulage road (Self Acting Incline), without watering the place. (See Special report of September, 1908 [Cd. 4,330], price 4½d.) [More information ...]

Cornick, Albert, 26 Sep 1908, aged 42, Collier, When walking up the "Slyving Vein" Incline, on his way to his work, he fell on a glass bottle in which he had his tea, and cut the fleshy part of his left hand. When afterwards in the cage ascending the shaft he appears to have become violent and was held on the cage with difficulty by a man who was accompanying him. The man stated that his head was outside the cage as they approached the surface and that it was crushed against the framing, causing death

Doughty, William, 09 Apr 1908, 9.45 p.m., aged 20, Collier, Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing, Explosion of Coal dust from shotfiring in the Slyving Vein Main haulage road (Self Acting Incline), without watering the place. (See Special report of September, 1908 [Cd. 4,330], price 4½d.) [More information ...]

Down, Frank, 24 Jul 1906, aged 25, Collier, Fall of roof in consequence of the place not having been properly secured, reflecting considerably upon the management with regard to supervision and the enforcing of the Special Rules

Foxwell, William George, 07 Jan 1924, 8.0 a.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 18, Carting Boy, The deceased was a carting boy employed in a gate road, the average gradient of which was 1 in 3. The coal was brought from the face in "putts" and filled into tubs which were jigged a distance of just under 30 yards to a level below. A single road only was laid in the gateroad, a widening of the road being provided at "meetings" to enable the empty tub to be "tumbled over" and pulled up past the full tub. The deceased had just got the empty past the full tub at "meetings," and was giving the full tub a push away when the jig chain broke and the empty tub ran back on to him

Gould, James, 04 Jul 1905, aged 55, Collier, Fall of roof near the face, where allowed to work clearing up after a shot. The examiner had apparently not fulfilled his duties in the way of examination of the working place as required by the general rule

Gray, James, 06 Jan 1903, aged 58, Shot-firer, Deceased was firing two shots in a heading, and after applying a light to the fuzes, stated that one would misfire as it had not been lighted properly on hearing one go off he immediately returned, and had just arrived at the place when the second exploded.

Gregory, Ernest, 01 May 1911, aged 31, Repairer, Whilst removing a large fall near to the drawing shaft in order to clear the road for coaldrawing, a piece of stone, 2½ ft. square, fell from the roof of the cavity and killed him. Some temporary timber was put up, and it was known that one particular part of the roof was not sound, but under this no protection was placed, as the Undermanager thought they could remove sufficient of the fall in safety to allow of permanent timber being erected. The result proved his judgment to be at fault

Jones, Ernest, 09 Apr 1908, 9.45 p.m., aged 23, Carting Boy, Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing, Explosion of Coal dust from shotfiring in the Slyving Vein Main haulage road (Self Acting Incline), without watering the place. (See Special report of September, 1908 [Cd. 4,330], price 4½d.) [More information ...]

Jones, Frank, 09 Apr 1908, 9.45 p.m., aged 41, Collier, Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing, Explosion of Coal dust from shotfiring in the Slyving Vein Main haulage road (Self Acting Incline), without watering the place. (See Special report of September, 1908 [Cd. 4,330], price 4½d.) [More information ...]

Jones, Stanley, 09 Apr 1908, 9.45 p.m., aged 16, Carting Boy, Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing, Explosion of Coal dust from shotfiring in the Slyving Vein Main haulage road (Self Acting Incline), without watering the place. (See Special report of September, 1908 [Cd. 4,330], price 4½d.) [More information ...]

Maggs, George, 09 Apr 1908, 9.45 p.m., aged 20, Incline Man, Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing, Explosion of Coal dust from shotfiring in the Slyving Vein Main haulage road (Self Acting Incline), without watering the place. (See Special report of September, 1908 [Cd. 4,330], price 4½d.) [More information ...]

Mead, William, 17 Mar 1904, aged 32, Collier, Fall of roof. A stone fell from three slips and pitching forward crushed him against a post. The place was fairly well timbered

Sage, Henry, 09 Apr 1908, 9.45 p.m., aged 14, Examiner, Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing, Explosion of Coal dust from shotfiring in the Slyving Vein Main haulage road (Self Acting Incline), without watering the place. (See Special report of September, 1908 [Cd. 4,330], price 4½d.) [More information ...]

Smith, George Leonard, 17 Oct 1910, aged 24, Carting boy, He was engaged filling coal into a tub when standing between the side of the road and the side of the tub. A piece of overhanging stone fell off the side on to his back. There were props set beneath the stone, but the part which fell came off at two hidden slips

Thomas, John, 26 Nov 1854, aged 18, Collier, Fall of coal down shaft

Winsley, Gilbert, 09 Apr 1908, 9.45 p.m., aged 25, Incline Man, Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing, Explosion of Coal dust from shotfiring in the Slyving Vein Main haulage road (Self Acting Incline), without watering the place. (See Special report of September, 1908 [Cd. 4,330], price 4½d.) [More information ...]