Wheal Grenville (Metalliferous)

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Barnes, William John, 18 Jul 1878, aged 11, Tin dresser, Strangulation between one of the spokes of a waterwheel and the wheel-pit, while playing after having left work [More information ...]

Bolitho, William, 29 Jun 1905, Miner, Fall from hanging wall or roof in a pitch or old stope about 18 feet high, where he was working and where blasting had taken plaoe shortly before. The stone which fell was about 6 feet by 3 feet and from 6 inches to 9 inches thick. So far as they were able to judge by appearances they considered the place safe

Carter, Richard, 31 Dec 1890, aged 26, Miner, He was working on tribute below the 150 fathom level and having blasted two holes returned to the pitch. While examining the result of the shots a piece of the lode about seven or eight tons came away buried and killed him instantaneously. The manager a short while previously warned deceased to be careful of the part which came away. This accident was by mistake omitted from the list of fatal accidents in 1890

Ivey, William, 01 Jul 1878, aged 20, Miner, Unexpected fall of ground which knocked him down the shaft

Keverne, Ewart, 22 Feb 1901, aged 8, [Not employed], Ewart Keverne, a boy eight years of age, was on the 22nd of February playing with other boys at Wheal Grenville, near the engine shaft, having followed a traction engine which was delivering coal. He began swinging on the haulage rope which was suspended about four feet from the ground, when suddenly the rope began to rise and he with it. When about 22 feet from the ground he fell, receiving injuries from which he died the next day [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]

Neslon, Henry, 31 Mar 1897, aged 63, Mason, When erecting a scaffolding to execute repairs to the engine house and chimney which had been recently struck by lightning he fell a distance of 25 feet sustaining fatal injuries

Prisk, William, 04 Jan 1902, aged 46, Timberman, When at the 120 fathom level, hearing what he probably thought to be the cage, or gig, descending, he stepped into the skip road either to examine the cage as it passed or to speak to the occupants. It was, however, the skip which was being lowered and not the cage, or gig. This caught and crushed him against the shaft side and killed him

Richards, William, 26 Jan 1875, aged 44, Miner, Premature fall of ground

Roberts, Alfred, 19 Jul 1905, aged 22, Trammer, While travelling up Fortescue's Shaft from the 262 fathom level to the 220 fathom level he apparently had a seizure of the heart and fell, resulting in his head being injured by the pump rod

Sarah, Joseph, 27 Jan 1896, aged 21, Tin dresser, He walked in some black tin just drawn out of the burning furnace and before it had been properly cooled. His feet were badly burned and in consequence of the state of his health death resulted a week afterwards

Treloar, Edwin James, 23 Apr 1912, aged 24, Miner, The lode at this mine sticks in masses to the hanging wall, and these masses being low in value, are not worked. In the present instance such a mass existed and two stout props had been set to support it. Unfortunately, at the inbye end of the mass there was a "slip" or "soapy head" running through it at right angles to the hanging wall. Deceased after blasting eight holes in the face of a stope immediately to the deep of the 320 fathoms level, returned along the level to see the result, when the piece of lode stuff on the inbye side of the above mentioned "slip" or "soapy head" immediately over the level and some 6 feet above the tram-rails, fell from the hanging wall, and, striking him in the abdomen, caused injuries from which he died an hour afterwards. The amount of lode stuff which fell was small, and but for the "slip" or "soapy head," causing it to be detached from the mass supported by the two props, it probably would not have fallen. The "slip" or "soapy head" could only have been detected prior to the fall by a very minute examination. It is probable that the blasting in the stope, which had been close to and was, at the time of the accident, some 5 to 6 yards away, had caused the loosening of the stone from the hanging wall

Willey, William James, 14 Oct 1884, aged 17, Employed on dressing floors, Got his clothes entangled in the overhead shafting which drives some of the buddles, and received injuries from which he subsequently died. How this happened is not known, as the lad had no business to be where he was found, and the shafting is elevated at least seven feet above the floors