Tincroft (Metalliferous)

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Allison, Robert, 28 Aug 1882, aged 31, Lander, While in the act of landing stuff at the man engine shaft, he fell in between the skip and the lap and was killed instantly. It is impossible to tell what caused him to fall

Bath, Michael, 20 Jun 1873, aged 20, Miner, Fall down a winze. Deceased was helping take some timber off a tram waggon previous to sending it down the winze, he slipped and fell down the winze. He was blind of one eye which was turned towards the winze

Bawden, Ernest, 26 Oct 1895, aged 25, Tin dresser, While engaged on the dressing floors he was seized with a fit and fell from a cross piece on which he was standing into a wooden launder, about 14 ins. deep and 15 ins wide. He was dead when noticed within a few minutes of the occurrence

Carpenter, James, 15 Aug 1873, aged 12, Tin dresser, Entangled in machinery. Boy left his work during the night and climbed up to a place where his clothes got caught by a revolving shaft

Collins, Richard, 15 Feb 1873, Miner, Fell from 224 fathom to 234 fathom level. Deceased was leaning against a windlass, slipped and fell down the winze

Craze, Thomas, 30 Sep 1884, aged 22, Miner, Explosion of missed hole charged with dynamite that he was engaged boring out

Gill, William, 30 Jan 1881, (accident: 25 Jan 1881), aged 19, Miner, Deceased, and a lad called William Willy, were engaged filling a car on the 258-fathoms level, when some ground burst out of the side and crushed Gill's foot. He was removed to the miner's hospital, at Redruth, and died from the effects of the injury on 30th January

Hicks, John, 12 Oct 1886, aged 25, Labourer, Took shelter during a violent storm of rain under a burrow formed of sand from dressing floors which was being dug away for pulverisers. No doubt it had been too much undercut as a quantity fell on deceased and smothered him

Hodge, Joseph, 08 Mar 1873, aged 63, Stampsman, Deceased took a short cut on the dressing floors, and was caught by a revolvong shaft

Hosking, Henry, 23 Mar 1877, aged 60, Miner, Crushed while ascending by man-engine

Jennings, Charles, 20 May 1896, aged 21, Miner, On returning after blasting he commenced moving the loose ground with a pick and a quantity became released from soapy joints fell on him

Jones, Richard, 02 May 1890, aged 25, Shaftsman, Johns was engaged with others in sinking and after firing a hole rode away behind the kibble intending to take hold of the ladder but missed it and fell about 5 fathoms receiving rather severe injuries to his knees arms, and other parts of his body

Madden, Frederick, 01 Nov 1892, aged 17, Miner, He fell on the edge of the stope on which he was working as a tributer with his father and brother. He apparently approached the edge of the stope to speak to his brother who had gone down to the level below and overbalancing himself where he died in a few minutes

Mitchell, Thomas, 07 Nov 1873, aged 17, Miner, Crushed by a fall of ground while working in stopes

Pellew, Hannibal, 06 Aug 1880, aged 19, Miner, Whilst ascending to surface in the skip with two others, contrary to the rules of the mine, a stone which had probably lodged upon timber in the side of the shaft fell and struck him on the head, death being instantaneous

Prout, William, 25 Sep 1889, aged 29, Miner, The men were engaged in stoping and after having blasted three holes returned within a quarter of an hour to the pitch when a scale of ground came away on them. Prout was killed outright and his body was not extricated from the debris for a considerable time. Nicholls' injuries consisted of a fractured leg and thigh. The occurrence was evidently an accident as the men who were experienced and careful miners were seen to test the ground by sounding some little time before it came away and then there was apparently no danger [More information ...]

Pryor, James Bennett, 24 Jan 1894, aged 26, Assistant timberman, He fell about 20 fathoms in the shaft having apparently overbalanced himself while engaged casing off the drawing shaft from the footway. Improved methods for working in the shafts appear to me to be desirable in many of the Cornish mines

Pryor, Thomas, 10 Nov 1883, aged 50, Miner, Was working at the bottom of a winze below the 142 fathoms level, when a plank slipped away from beneath his comrade's feet at the windlass, fell down the winze a distance of 8 fathoms, and struck him in the head

Sherman, John Francis, 24 Oct 1877, aged 16, Trammer, Unexpected fall of ground [More information ...]

Stephens, John, 24 Oct 1877, aged 15, Trammer, Unexpected fall of ground [More information ...]

Thomas, Richard, 03 Apr 1877, aged 17, Trammer, Breaking of a plank, causing him to fall 10 fathoms

Trevarthen, Richard, 01 Apr 1878, aged 30, Miner, Fall down some underhand stopes while climbing down over them by a chain

Truran, Samuel John, 07 Oct 1913, (accident: 06 Oct 1913), aged 53, Shaftsman, He was standing on a ladderway sollar in a vertical shaft, some of the sollar boards fell from under his feet and he with them, a distance of 47 feet. He succumbed to his injuries on the following day. The sollar was badly constructed. The boards which fell were the short ones extending from the end of the shaft where they were supported by a sollar-piece to the side of the ladder manhole. At this end they were supported by nails driven downwards into a cleat, 6 inches by 2 inches, which did not extend from side to side of the shaft. The cleat was fixed on the under side of the longer sollar boards and supported by nails driven downwards through them. Apparently the cleat had been gradually working loose from the nails, but the defect had not been observed by the pitmen or the shaftmen. If, at the man-hole end of the short sollar boards, a substantial sollar-piece had been fixed across the full width of the shaft and each end of it hitched into the shaft side, the accident would not have happened