Waleswood Colliery

Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Adamson, Horace, 29 Apr 1933, aged 28, Collier, Assisting to set centre steel bar on conveyor face to support roof near a natural slip when piece of band fell discharging adjacent bar which fell on his back. Died 5 days later

Banks, A., 04 Dec 1901, aged 34, Collier, Fall of roof at gate end whilst he was examining it. Cause — a sudden weight

Barker, James, 09 Jun 1934, (accident: 31 May 1934), aged 54, Collier, Working alone at buttock when piece of stone band came from roof and fell on his back pinning him to floor. Died 9 days later

Bean, George, 27 Apr 1871, aged 22, Collier, Explosion of gas

Bradley, J., 05 Nov 1896, aged 29, Corporal, Run over by corves on inclined plane

Chillery, John William, 25 Nov 1924, 4.30 a.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 42, Collier [More information ...]

Corbut, Thomas, 18 Jul 1870, Collier, Fall of coal

Dailey, James, 10 Dec 1924, 9 p.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 54, Collier [More information ...]

Goddard, George, 26 Feb 1874, aged 36, Collier, Fall of roof

Green, Edward, 08 Jul 1872, aged 18, Collier, Explosion of gas [More information ...]

Griffiths, David, 25 Nov 1924, 4.30 a.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 21, Filler [More information ...]

Haynes, Arthur, 11 Aug 1915, aged 38, Onsetter, Coming out of cage at pit bottom when a conveyor pan overbalanced on him and he fell heavily on sheets with pan on top of him. Neck fractured and died in pit yard

Hobson, Robert, 02 Sep 1880, (accident: 30 Aug 1880), aged 27, Roadsman, Crushed by corves. Died 2nd Sept

Hoyland, Frederick, 06 May 1919, aged 56, Deputy, He and another were walking down gate to measure some ripping when without warning a piece of stone fell striking him and killing him outright

Humphrey, W., 16 Jul 1880, aged 19, Filler, Fall of roof

Hutchinson, C., 27 Apr 1888, Crushed by waggons on surface

Jackson, W., 11 Feb 1889, Run over by locomotive

Lax, E., 23 Jul 1886, aged 14, Screen boy, Run over by waggons

Loy, M. T., 12 Jan 1892, (accident: 31 Dec 1891), aged 23, Blacksmith, Burnt by hot iron. Died 12th Jan 1892

Outram, William, 07 May 1868, aged 37, Banksman, Repairing the signal wire at the shaft bottom, when the cage was lowered upon him [More information ...]

Platts, J., 27 Nov 1886, aged 21, Collier, Fall of roof

Poulsan, James, 15 Aug 1924, 8.30 a.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 48, Contractor, In order to make sufficient height for a new electric winder and headgear the rock roof overlying the Flockton seam was being blown down. A shot-hole was bored and charged with 2 ozs. of Seamex. The shot-firer instructed deceased to warn the men that he was about to fire a shot. This he did, but for some unknown reason himself returned to the shot-hole and was immediately in front of it when the shot exploded. The shot-firer should have made quite certain that deceased had taken proper shelter before he fired the shot

Richmond, W., 28 Oct 1875, aged 28, Dataller, Fall of roof

Rowbotham, H., 25 Jan 1871, aged 64, Furnace man, Got in the cage when in motion

Saunders, J., 09 May 1881, (accident: 07 May 1881), aged 22, Filler, Fall of roof ; died 9th

Severn, W., 21 Dec 1876, aged 14, Coupler, Crushed by underground machinery [More information ...]

Shirtcliffe, Thomas, 29 Oct 1914, aged 45, Stallman, He was drawing timber from the goaf with a ringer and chain when a large stone fell with the prop that was drawn. It came away from a weight break at the back of him and buried him before he could get clear

Short, Bernard, 25 Nov 1924, 4.30 a.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 31, Collier, Died from gas poisoning whilst trying to save fellow workmen, Buried: Ecklington Churchyard [More information ...]

Simmonds, W., 02 Mar 1901, aged 34, Collier, Fall of rock in working place. Cause — two converging slips

Sparkham, George Joseph, 01 Apr 1913, aged 23, Filler, Deceased was engaged in filling coal at the face when a fall of roof occurred which fractured the base of his skull. The roof was insufficiently supported, but was timbered according to rule. The stone came from a "pot-hole" after a "weight bump"

Stevenson, William, 15 Oct 1907, (accident: 14 Oct 1907), aged 41, Hanger-on, The deceased and other three men were being lowered to the Flockton Seam, for the purpose of repairing a pump, when the engineman was unable to stop the cage and it dashed on to the bottom of the shaft with great violence and seriously injured three of them. The deceased died the following day. The reason the winding engineman could not stop the engine was that a fitter had been removing the spindle of a valve in connection with a sight feed lubricator and had placed a bucket under it to catch the water that was liberated and, without noticing it, the edge of the bucket was under the edge of one of the balance weights attached to the horizontal shafts of the reversing gear of the engine and when the engineman attempted to pull over the reversing lever, in order to put steam against the engine, the weight came on to the top of the bucket and prevented his doing so. These balance weights have since been boxed in

Street, W., 09 Dec 1884, aged 33, Collier, Fall of roof

Thompson, B., 18 Jul 1870, Collier, Fall of roof

Turner, W., 08 Feb 1899, aged 31, Collier, When descending, and about half way down the shaft, fell out of the cage

Vaines, H., 05 Jan 1898, (accident: 03 Jan 1898), aged 36, Collier, Crushed by corves on engine plane. Died 5th January

Walker, John, 08 Jul 1872, aged 17, Collier, Explosion of gas [More information ...]

Wallis, Harry, 22 Dec 1933, aged 47, Drawer off, His mate went to fetch a ringer bar to remove dirt which prevented the withdrawl of a waste prop already capped — he was standing in the waste beyond supports when a fall killed him

Warrick, T., 16 Jun 1875, aged 17, Incline boy, Fell off corves on engine plane

White, John, 02 May 1882, aged 60, Collier

White, W., 10 Dec 1872, aged 50, Collier, Fall of coal

Whitehouse, J., 18 Jul 1886, (accident: 16 Jul 1886), aged 39, Collier, Fall of roof. Died 18th July

Williams, Charles, 30 Jun 1864, Fall of stone in the shaft [More information ...]

Willotts, J., 01 Apr 1885, (accident: 31 Mar 1885), aged 15, Screen boy, Run over by waggons. Died 1st Apr

Wright, T., 27 Feb 1886, (accident: 22 Jan 1886), aged 42, Filler, Fall of coal. Died 27th Feb