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Cannon, George W., 03 Oct 1924, (accident: 01 Oct 1924, 1 a.m., 3rd hour of shift), aged 18, Haulage Hand, He was standing at a junction waiting for a set of empty tubs which was being lowered on a gradient of 1 in 36 by a direct rope. The clivvy became detached with the result that the tubs ran away and struck him while he was attempting to reach safety in the mouth of a gate. He walked home but was afterwards sent to hospital, and after undergoing an operation died on 3rd October from peritonitis following rupture of the intestines

Clifford, Michael, 03 Oct 1933, aged 48, Collier, Walking along face carrying a bar when he was struck on side of head by a fall of coal

Deakin, Horace, 22 Feb 1933, aged 29, Collier, Assisting to remove a fall of roof 6 hours before, just inbye of a face ripping lip of a crossgate in longwall workings, when a heavy bump occurred and he was killed by a large fall of coal

Frost, Albert, 29 Aug 1914, aged 49, Corporal, He was sent to fetch two men from the intake airway. For some unknown reason he took another road and passed a fence, and was found dead some hours later. Two members of the rescue party were overcome by noxious gas

Gibson, Edward, 08 Jul 1914, aged 52, Stallman, A piece of roof coal, weighing 3 cwts., fell on to him as he sat holing at the face. The roof was faulty but appeared safe when examined by the deputy an hour before the accident. There was no contravention of the timbering rules

Hall, Herbert, 01 May 1919, aged 22, Dataller, There had been a heavy fall and place left standing because of strike. Repairing was in progress and there was a fall which buried him

Harper, John George, 07 Dec 1933, aged 33, Collier, Lifting coal onto conveyor belt when he was knocked down and fatally injured by fall of coal which discharged steel prop

Hoyland, Patrick, 03 Jul 1915, aged 28, Collier, He and another were sawing a prop which he had placed across the rails of haulage road and was fatally injured by first tub of a set. They had been warned of the dangers

Hunter, Frank, 25 Sep 1911, aged 24, Joiner, Whilst sawing a plank on a new screening plant he overbalanced and fell to the floor, a distance of 25 feet. He could have done the work quite safely if he had moved the plank 18 inches

Ironmonger, Benjamin E., 07 Nov 1914, aged 35, Stallman, He was withdrawing timber from a waste by means of a safety appliance when a sudden weight ran out several props and he was buried under a heavy fall. Several hours elapsed before his body was recovered

Kenney, Denis, 30 Apr 1910, aged 27, Sinker, He was on a suspended scaffold in a sinking pit with a number of other men who had been repairing a water ring. The scaffold was being lowered from a capstan engine and the engineman failed to get the clutches of one drum home. The result was that the scaffold tilted and the deceased fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 59 feet

Leatham, William, 22 Mar 1915, aged 32, Miner, Turning tub on plates when he twisted himself. No one saw it happen and he reported it next day when he was obliged to work. Died same night from shock

Lee, George, 15 Feb 1915, aged 53, Collier, Getting coal with a ringer and as piece he was working came away it was followed by another and this pinned him against a bar leg. Died in hospital 6hrs. later

Little, Frederick, 27 Sep 1913, aged 39, Stallman, Deceased, aided by another worker, was engaged ripping the roof down in a side gate off a haulage road. Soon after starting work he went to the opposite end to see to the taking down of a bad stone resting on a corner woodpack at the gate entrance. Under his direction his assistant pulled down the stone, and in its fall it struck one of the props carrying a bearing girder, and, through displacing it, brought down the girder, which killed Little. At the same time his assistant received a broken collar bone. The stone was only 2 feet or so from the prop which it knocked out, and, consequently, an additional prop should have been set to the carrying girder before attempting to take down the stone referred to

Mason, Edward, 14 Jul 1915, aged 40, Collier, Filling a tub when a block of coal burst off face and struck him

Metcalfe, Thomas Edwin, 16 May 1933, aged 30, Collier, Four colliers lowered a tub of dirt onto flat sheets at face of a gate when tub struck a prop and roof fell — he was bruied and asphixiated

Mettham, Harold, 12 Dec 1913, aged 24, Onsetter, Deceased walked into the cage seat and was crushed by the cage descending upon him. His action was contrary to General Regulation 22

Morton, Enoch, 19 May 1915, aged 27, Collier, He and a stallman were sawing a prop when there was a bump which caused a fall and 8 or 9 bars were run out

Ratcliffe, David, 16 Oct 1924, 11.50 p.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 31, Corporal, In the absence of the regular rope runner, deceased — a corporal — was helping to lower a run of 8 empty tubs down an incline having a gradient of 1 in 9. He walked down in front of the tubs to turn the points at a junction 60 yards further inbye, and while he was so doing the tubs left the rails at a crossing and crushed him against a brick wall. He was quickly extricated and sent to hospital but died on his way there. The management have a rule that the rope runner must keep at least 25 yards in front of his run, but deceased can only have been a few yards in front

Rees, Donald, 08 Sep 1924, 9.20 a.m., 4th hour of shift, aged 17, Rope Runner, He was walking in front of a set of 12 full tubs which was being brought down a road on a gradient of about 1 in 60, by a main and tail haulage set, at a speed of about three miles an hour. He appears to have stumbled or fallen as he was passing through a door and was crushed between the tubs and the door. Men accompanying trains on haulage roads will never be absolutely free from danger

Roberts, Walter, 29 Mar 1933, aged 26, Collier, On hand got face close to three small faults and a parallel slip he was preparing to get out faults in the floor of a narrow tub road when roof coal fell from fracutured area and he was killed

Shelbourne, Joseph, 08 Jan 1914, aged 42, Assistant Enginewright, He was engaged with a sinker fitting pipes in a well shaft when, on being raised in accordance with a signal, he fell from the scaffold to the bottom, a distance of about 38 feet. The scaffold was built off the cage top and, at places, the clearance on the brickwork was 24 inches, 26 inches and 31 inches. There was no protection as required by General Regulation 176

Smith, Frederick, 30 Apr 1915, aged 17, Haulage hand, Stationed at an old road to watch haulage rope and to stop tubs by an electrical signal. He was also expected to pull rope into position and it was throught he was pulled off his feet and dagged 75 yards

Summersgill, Frank, 16 Sep 1913, aged 17, Rope runner, Deceased had to attend to a haulage set on a plane about 200 yards in length. The speed of the haulage was 2 miles an hour, and he was found dead under the set

Valverdie, Walter Henry, 25 Apr 1919, aged 44, Collier, Been given permission to leave before time and was travelling on haulage road when he was killed by tubs

Whitehead, Bill, 11 Nov 1913, (accident: 20 Sep 1913), aged 36, Stallman, Whitehead, under the superintendance of a deputy, was filling dirt in a jinney where there had been a fall of side. One prop had been set to secure the road side, and while room was being made to get up an additional support, another fall of side occurred, which knocked Whitehead against the tub he was filling and inflicted injuries from which he died on the 11th November

Woolfit, Charles, 08 May 1919, aged 15, Haulage hand, Stationed to watch empty tubs at a curve and was found under set with rope out of pulleys. He had probabaly been changing a clip and slipped

York, Thomas, 23 Jun 1914, aged 38, Dataller, He was chargeman in the drawing of some girders from an old road. He fastened his sylvester chain to a prop he wished to draw and brought the lever and ratchet and fastened them to another prop on the same side. When the chain was tightened it drew the back prop instead of the front one and buried him under a fall. Both the girder he stood under and the next one inbye were centre propped but they were run out