Watnall Colliery

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Barrows, Moses, 20 Sep 1866, Collier, Explosion of gunpowder in tin can

Burrons, Noah, 19 Dec 1867, aged 15, Driver, Run over on level

Burrows, William, 29 Apr 1853, Falling down the shaft

Chambers, Alfred Thomas, 17 Apr 1919, aged 33, Shotfirer, Firing shot in stone drift with cable and battery. He retired behind props but was struck on head by piece of stone. Died in hospital same evening

Chapman, Ernest, 28 Aug 1924, 11.15. a.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 21, Loader, Deceased was in the act of eating his "snapping," sitting on the floor at the side of the gate, 35 yards back from the face, when a flat stone, weighing about 2 cwts., suddenly burst out of the roof and dropped on to his leg, which was stretched out toward the middle of the road. He sustained a fractured thigh and died the same night from the effects of shock and loss of blood. The stone broke away from the edge of the bar, and the cavity in the roof revealed the presence of a large nodule of ironstone surrounded by smooth facings which probably caused the stone to break away

Clark, Henry, 21 Aug 1894, (accident: 20 Aug 1894), aged 29, Loader, Whilst pushing a full tub of coal along the face a piece of top clod rolled off the coal and fastened deceased against the tub. He died the next day

Cooke, Edward, 20 Sep 1851, aged Boy, Fall of roof in the mine

Drury, William Henry, 11 Sep 1888, aged 21, Dayman, Fall of roof while building a pack

Fisher, John Thomas, 20 Nov 1893, aged 12, Assistant horse driver, Fall of side whilst travelling along a roadway behind a train of full tubs

Freeman, John Joseph, 12 Oct 1934, aged 29, Coal Cutter, by machinery

Gibson, James William, 03 Nov 1892, aged 14, Driver, Deceased was travelling up an incline roadway end whilst endeavouring to get out of the way of a runaway tub was struck by it and fatally injured him

Gibson, Joseph Edwin, 06 Aug 1907, aged 30, Stallman, Fall of coal. Deceased was holing when a sprag gave way, and the coal fell and killed him (Top hard coal)

Kirk, Edwin, 10 May 1905, aged 25, Loader, Fall of roof. Deceased was in front of a slab of coal when it fell, and knocking a prop out a fall of roof occurred which caught the deceased and fatally injured him. He died the same day (Top hard coal seam)

Leivers, Joseph, 25 Sep 1887, aged 42, Stallman, Fall of roof

Makin, George, 09 Aug 1904, aged 17, Trammer, Deceased fell off the cage while ascending the shaft after completing his work for the day. No guard rails were placed at the ends of the cage

Meakin, Thomas, 22 Dec 1893, (accident: 19 Dec 1893), aged 34, Holer, Whilst getting coal a piece of overhanging stone fell and fatally injured the man. The coal is holed on the top and the stone was part of the holing and should have been taken down instead of being left overhanging. He died on the 22nd

Ryder, William, 08 Oct 1903, aged 18, Horse-driver, Fall of roof. Deceased was in a gate near the stall, when a fall of roof occurred and killed him. Another youth was injured by the fall (Top hard coal seam)

Wagstaff, William, 13 Oct 1903, aged 16, Assistant onsetter, Deceased was attempting to pull an empty tub off before the cage had settled at the pit bottom. A part of the cage caught him on the head and killed him

Webster, George, 12 Nov 1902, aged 16, Horse-driver, Fall of roof. Workmen were taking down the roof of a roadway, and deceased was assisting with the loading of a tub, when a fall took place and killed him (Top hard coal)