ARMSTRONG Joseph Jobling - 1901 - 10/01/1901 – Age 66 - Usworth Shifter. Johnasson Gordon and Co., Co.Durham. Inquest attended. The deceased died from blood poisoning resulting from a cut on the knee caused by a sharp edged stone falling on it.

ARMSTRONG Robert William - 1908 - 29/12/1908 – Age 29 - Roachburn Boiler fireman. Haworth Coal Co., Cumberland. While walking to his work, along the Colliery railway on a stormy morning, he was knocked down by a locomotive.

ARMSTRONG Samuel - 1902 - 21/1905/1902 – Age 64 - Hillhead No. 13 Bottomer. J and M Craig Ltd., Ayrshire. When an adjusting chain, of the gate indicator at a mid working, while he was on the cage after he had signalled it away the cage was raised and he was crushed against the side of the shaft.

ARMSTRONG Thomas - 1901 - 22/07/1901 – Age 20 - Blantyre No. 3 Waggon shifter, William Dixon Ltd., Lanarkshire. While illegally spragging a wagon with a prop the sprag stuck and threw him in front of the wheels which ran over him.

ARMSTRONG Thomas - 1905 - 12/09/1905 – Age 64 - Newstead Stallman. Newstead Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. The deceased men were working at the gate end when a heavy fall of roof occurred, a slip or dislocation of the roof had been previously seen but no extra timber had been set to provide against the danger of such a slip. 2 killed.

ARMSTRONG William - 1903 - 01/1905/1903 – Age 37 - Alexandra Collier. Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged at the coal face when a fall of roof occurred from between three slips capping some props set about three feet apart in the Arley Mine. He succumbed to the injuries received at the infirmary the same day.

ARMSTRONG William - 1903 - 19/11/1903 – Age 50 - Lanemark No. 2 Bricklayer.Lanemark Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof while building a dam. It had not been properly inspected.

ARMSTRONG William Robert - 1904 - 29/04/1904 – Age 20 - Cramlington Sinker. Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. While deceased was walking home, with his dog, between 11 and 12 p.m. on a moonlight night along the colliery company‘s private railway when a locomotive engine going tender first and drawing 24 loaded wagons ran over both him and his dog. He was caught near switches where his legs were found his body having been trailed some hundreds of yards by the locomotive. Although notice boards are fixed up forbidding persons to walk along the railway it is regularly used by miners and others. Early in the same day one of the deceased's mates had been killed by falling down a sinking pit and the deceased had helped to recover the body, had it not been for this fatality he would have been at work.

ARNOLD Alfred - 1908 - 15/03/1908 – Age 52 - Old Delabole, Slate Quarry Filler. Old Delabole Slate Co. Ltd., Cornwall. Crushed between two blocks of slate, one of which was about a ton in weight. He and his comrade had prized this block with bars into a position to allow them to put a sling chain around it for lifting purposes, when it fell over and crushed him against the other.

ARNOLD Charles Joseph - 1904 - 14/01/1904 – Age 20 - Cossall Loader. Cossall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was laying rails in the stall when a large fall of roof occurred pushing the timber out and killing the deceased. The stall was passing through a fault.

ARNOLD Harry - 1909 - 14/01/1909 – Age 27 - Tilmanstone Sinker. East Kent Colliery Co. Ltd., Kent. The winding engine man overwound the water barrel, which, becoming detached from the rope, owing to breakage of the pin of the D link, fell down the shaft and caused the death of these three men, who were on a scaffold to steady the barrel, about 310 yards from the surface and 5 or 6 yards from the bottom. 3 killed.

ARNOLD James - 1900 - 12/11/1900 – Age 16 - Newton (Wood) Engine boy. Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased got caught in the machinery of the shaker screen
Engine, his body being found underneath. Nobody saw how the accident took place but it is supposed he went to examine some part of the engine when in motion and got caught and crushed. The flywheels were fenced on each side.

ARNOLD Thomas - 1903 - 16/06/1903 – Age 56 – Coegnant Labourer. Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. He entered a place containing firedamp and fenced off and he was suffocated. The occurrence took place at the end of his shift and it was thought he was there to hide his tools.

ARNOLD William – 1902 – 26/04/1902 – Age 44 – Castle Overman. Crawshay Bros Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. As deceased was examining the roadway, the framing of a bevel wheel on a curve was broken by the strain on it. The rope sprang and struck him on the legs fracturing both below the knees. Died in two days.

ARNOLD William – 1909 – 10/02/1909 – Age 15 – Albion Collier boy, Albion Steam Coal Co Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face clod, 4 foot 6 inches by 6 inches by 3 foot 3 inches, crushing out a sprag which fell on the deceased thigh and fractured it. He died in 8 days from bronchitis and shock. Nine feet seam.

ARNOTT Robert James Hogarth – 1904 – 26/01/1904 – Age 47 – Pegswood Hewer. Owners of Bentinck West Hartley Colliery, Northumberland. The Low Main seam, at this colliery, is made up of 10 inches of top coal, 2 feet 3 inches of Band, often called ramble, and 3 feet 8 inches of bottom coal. Deceased worked in a bord, 5 yards wide, and had prepared to fire a shot in the bottom coal at the left side of the place and after it had exploded he returned to the face and appeared to have been crossing from the right side, where the tub road was, when a mass of the ramble, 5 feet long and 2 feet deep, fell from the centre of the place and killed him. The bottom coal was worked for about 8 feet under the ramble, which was not supported in any way in fact it is of so short a nature that it is difficult to support and the practice is to take it down as soon as soon as possible. The ramble is a soft fireclay and in this case slips helped to relieve it. There was plenty of timber ready for use. The Local Inspectors examined the place soon after the accident but at the inquest no report from them was produced.

ARNOTT William – 1908 – 22/09/1908 – Age 43 – Dundonald Boiler fireman. Dundonald Collieries, Fife. Boiler explosion.

ARREL Thomas – 1907 – 26/11/1907 – Age 53 – Seaton Burn Hewer. Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died November 28. Deceased had just commenced work in the fore shift and was sitting on his jacket kyrving in the top of the Yard seam, 2 feet 9 inches thick, in longwall workings in the 5th East Way when a blue metal stone, about 7 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 7 inches thick, suddenly fell from the roof, between the timber and coal face, and fractured his right thigh. His marrow working on the other side of the gateway released him at once but in the meantime the deceased had struggled to free himself and had thereby intensified his injuries, and although his leg was bandaged he lost a good deal of blood while being taken out-bye. He was taken to Newcastle Infirmary where he died. The deputy had examined the place 14 hours before the accident and before the hewers had started and he left it in his judgement safe. The stone did not, in its fall displace any timber, but fell between the last props and the face. There was a sufficient supply of loose timber convenient to the place available for use. The Local Inspectors reported ‘Consider it a pure accident and attach no blame to anyone.’

ARROWSMITH James – 1900 – 09/11/1900 – Age 48 – Scot Lane King Collier. William Woods and Sons, Lancashire. Fall of middle dirt from the face, 11 foot long, 1 foot 2 inches wide, at the top and 6 inches wide at the bottom, 2 foot 4 inches deep, overhanging 2 inches. Two short upright sprags under required a long sloping sprag to secure.

ARROWSMITH Reuben – 1909 – 23/08/1909 – Age 22 – Marine Collier. Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in the "Big Vein" at a "Barry" face. Thinking the roof was good, he appears to have knocked out a pair of flats in order to move the rails forward, and having done so he intended to reset them. He was however mistaken, as the fall occurred in the shape of a bell with smooth top and caught him under it.

ARTFIELD Stewart – 1901 – 09/04/1901 – Age 17 – Royshaw, Shale Quarry Labourer, William Matthews and Sons, Lancashire. Crushed by jenny wheel of endless chain conveying shale from the quarry. While going over the wheel, with the tub his feet got into the wheel. Insufficiently fenced and was not required to pass over the wheel.

ARTHUR Llewellyn – 1909 – 15/01/1909 – Age 62 – Llwynypia No. 6 Repairer. Glamorgan Coal Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by a runaway horse. He sustained a fractured skull and died in 5 days.

ARTHUR Robert – 1900 – 17/02/1900 – Age 22 – Easington Sinker. Easington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A full kibble of stones was taken up too high, the detaching hook acted all right but one of the links below it broke and the kibble fell into the hotter of the shaft and killed these two men. 2 killed.

ASBURY Edward – 1901 – 09/07/1901 – Age 53 – Morewood Basalt Quarry Quarryman. Ireland and Knight, Warwick. Deceased expired at home and said he had received an injury in the Quarry on 4th July. The jury returned a verdict that 'he died from peritonitis' and that the evidence of an accident was so slender that we cannot attribute his death to a slight slip he may have made in the Quarry or elsewhere.'.

ASH Henry – 1908 – 27/08/1908 – Age 34 – Ferndale No. 1 Electrician. D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Electrocuted.

ASHBRIDGE Robert Henry – 1905 – 27/10/1905 – Age 17 – Moorhouse Guards Set rider. Seaton Firebrick Co., Cumberland. Died Oct. 28. Deceased with the sets, went to within 30 yards of the shaft and occasionally assisted the onsetter there but was not doing so on the day of the accident. The shaft is 18 fathoms deep to the seam, in which deceased worked, but  was being sunk another 5 fathoms to a lower level which was being opened out by hewers, and the deceased was in the act of leaning over a crossbar fencing of the shaft at the upper seam to converse with them. There was only one cage in the shaft and the onsetter signalled it to the surface, empty, and the engineman lifted it away but finding it was empty set it back again as there were no empty tubs at the surface. After it had gone for five fathoms it came in contact with the deceased’s head as he leaned over the crossbar.

ASHBURN Isaac – 1905 – 24/11/1905 – Age 54 – Bullgill Hewer. Bullgill Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. A self-acting incline with a gradient varying from 1 in 7 to 1 in 9 and about 80 yards long ran loaded tubs both from the top and from a point about 23 yards down where there were flat sheets on to which the loaded tubs were run from the side. The trailer or putter runs his tub on to these sheets, scotches both pairs of wheels and twists it into position on the incline, two full tubs are then run down from the top of the incline to the point and the scotched tub is attached to them and the three tubs then run down from the top of the incline to the point and the other two men were down the incline when they passed the intermediate level no full tub were there, but directly afterwards one was brought out and scotched in the usual way, it was placed on the incline and an empty tub taken away. The full tub in some way ran amain down the incline, the rope was not running and no explanation was forthcoming why it did not remain at rest. Deceased was caught by the tub, near the foot of the incline, which was provided with the requisite manholes on the right side of the road, and as he was blind in the right eye this may have prevented him seeing them. It was arranged to have a fixed chock at the intermediate level to prevent runaways.

ASHBURN Joseph – 1907 – 31/12/1907 – Age 54 – Clifton Hall Collier. A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall in jig brow whilst repairing, deceased stood on three iron pipes (compressed air) 4 feet from the floor, stowing dirt on iron girders. From 2 yards higher up the brow and from the slip edge of the roof some stone fell displacing a prop, one stone fell on the three pipes whilst he was getting down, astride the pipes, the stone slid down on the pipes struck his back, forcing the lower part of his body against a pipe flange, the serious injury caused his death in three and a half hours. Two companions standing on the floor got away uninjured. The slip edge of the roof ought to have had a bar under or more props. (Roof good).

ASHBURNER Thomas K. - 1902 - 17/07/1902 – Age 25 - Wyndham Iron Ore Miner. Wyndham Mining Co. Ltd., Cumberland. During the ascent of the loaded kibble, in a sinking shaft, Ashburner was struck by a stone, supposed to have come from the kibble. This shaft was exceptionally well protected, doors are placed on the pit top and both ends of the pit are covered leaving only the winding shaft in the middle open, where no one ought to have been during the ascent of the loaded kibble.

ASHCROFT Henry - 1905 - 08/06/1905 – Age 52 - Park Surface hand. White Moss Coal Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased after unloading timber from a waggon on the empty road, under the screens, he went to uncouple it and when attempting to get out between the buffers of the two waggons, two other waggons were lowered by the waggon lowerer against the eight waggons standing there and the deceased was fatally crushed between the buffers.

ASHCROFT Peter – 1906 – 01/1905/1906 – Age 27 – Parr No. 2 Collier. Richard Evans and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Whilst wedging the top coal down, more came than he expected, coming away from a slip running with the face. He succumbed to the injuries received through being crushed by the coal on May 4th, 1906.

ASHCROFT Richard – 1909 – 30/08/1909 – Age 18 – Sutton Heath No. 2 Labourer. Sutton Heath and Lea Green Co. St Helens, Lancashire. The deceased, who was acting as a banksman, when putting an empty tub into the cage the engine winder started the cage off, apparently without the proper signal, and the deceased and the tub fell down the shaft.

ASHCROFT Thomas John – 1901 – 18/01/1901 – Age 13 – Gilfach Collier boy. Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. The face coal and bast, which was unsupported, fell on to the deceased as he was filling a tram. Brithdir seam.

ASHLEY Henry – 1908 – 01/12/1908 – Age 23 – Cadley Hill Deputy. Halls Collieries Ltd., Derbyshire. He was struck by a stone from a shot of Bellite, as he failed to take sufficient cover. Died 24th December.

ASHLEY James – 1904 – 16/11/1904 – Age 52 – Bentley Lane Miner. Fellows and Co., Stafford. Fell down a gin pit from the surface.

ASHMAN Edward – 1908 – 20/02/1908 – Age 41 – Washington Glebe Deputy. Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of firedamp. 14 killed.

ASHMAN Fredrick – 1902 – 14/02/1902 – Age 27 – Houghton Hewer. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was standing on the pit heap, ready to go down the pit, when he fell down and died from heart disease.

ASHMAN James – 1908 – 09/04/1908 – Age 34 – Norton Hill Collier. Norton Hill Colliery Co., Somerset. Explosion of firedamp or coaldust. 10 killed.

ASHMAN Jesse – 1908 – 26/02/1908 – Age 42 – Newdigate Stallman. Newdigate Colliery Co. Ltd., Warwick. He died on 31st March, and although the doctor gave a certificate that death was due to natural causes, an inquest was held and the jury returned a verdict that his death was due to septicaemia caused by a slight scratch on the arm, and received in the mine.

ASHMORE Frederick Cobb – 1905 – 04/10/1905 – Age 32 – Bentley Labourer. Barber Walker and Co., Yorkshire. Some sand tubbing was being lowered by screw jacks, prior to the sinking of a shaft, being commenced when one or more of the jacks was swaying and the tubbing and timber fell and the deceased was caught and killed.

ASHMORE T. – 1903 – 28/10/1903 – Age 32 – Fryston Collier. Wheldale Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was removing rock, which had been blasted from the roof of a gateroad, when a large piece of rock fell from the roof and killed him. Cause breaks from the shot and want of temporary timbering.

ASHMORE William Morrell – 1907 – 09/11/1907 – Age 31 – Teversal Labourer. Stanton Iron Works Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was assisting to remove two wire rope conductors from a railway wagon, when one of the conductors slipped and struck him in the abdomen. He died 14th Nov.

ASHTON Edward – 1904 – 04/01/1904 – Age 18 – Lea Green Drawer. Sutton Heath & Lea Green Collieries Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made. He was engaged working out a narrow strip of coal, which had been left behind, partly the Waste, when a fall of roof occurred upon him. He succumbed to the injuries received the following day.

ASHTON James – 1904 – 13/10/1904 – Age 45 – Bedwellty Timberman. Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Killed by a fall of roof in a road. It appears that a new horse was working in this road. It is said to have been quiet but stupid or strange to underground work, so much so that in turning round it knocked out a couple of pairs of timbers which were supporting the roof down. The timbers in a road should be wedged or strained so tightly that a horse, in turning round, could not knock them out and the officials should see that this is done.

ASHTON James – 1907 – 11/09/1907 – Age 21 – Ashtons Green Drawer. Bromilow and Foster, St. Helens, Lancashire. When bringing his tub out to the downbrow shunt a fall of roof occurred upon the deceased. It was recommended at the inquiry that the place should be barred.

ASHTON John – 1903 – 03/07/1903 – Age 28 – Pendlebury Collier. A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in waste of working place. He went in the waste, 12 feet from the face, to get stone to build a pack wall when a piece of overhanging stone fell just as he got to the place. There were plenty of large pieces of stone close by the pack, he could not break these but sought smaller stones. (Bad roof)

ASHTON Joseph – 1901 – 26/07/1901 – Age 24 – Pendleton Filler. Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place. A layer or stratum, 9 inches thick, insufficiently supported. A bar would have been best secured. Fireman failed to discover the danger. (Average roof).

ASHTON Joseph – 1909 – 10/06/1909 – Age 57 – Three Nuns Collier. Low Moor Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased was working in the coal face when a large stone fell from the roof and fatally injured him. The stone should have been pulled down before the accident happened. It fell from a fault slip and a small parting.

ASHTON Richard – 1908 – 04/03/1908 – Age 33 – Hamstead Haulage man. Hamstead Colliery Co. Ltd., Stafford. Underground fire. 25 killed.

ASHTON T. – 1901 – 07/02/1901 – Age 42 – Middleton Hanger on. Middleton Estate and Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Pushed a tub into the shaft, from mid inset, and fell with it to the bottom. He thought the cage was at the inset.

ASHTON William – 1908 – 30/06/1908 – Age 36 – Walbottle Hewer. Walbottle Coal and Firebrick Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of roof stone at the working face.

ASHTON Williams – 1907 – 18/04/1907 – Age 30 – Nunnery Collier. Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He and his mate were lowering a full tub down aboard and locked all the wheels after lowering it about 10 yards, they reached a place where a chain passes around a prop, to act as a brake, and is usually attached to the tubs as the gradient below it is 1 in 5. On this occasion his mate was about to attach the chain to the tub when Ashton, who was in front of the tub, called out that it was getting away, his mate tried to hold it back but failed and the tub overpowered Ashton and crushed him against a standing tub and fractured his jaw and collar bone. An abscess was afterwards formed on the jaw and an operation was successfully performed on it at the Sheffield Infirmary on the 28th inst. but he never regained consciousness and died half an hour after the operation from suffocation due to vomited material.

ASHURST Henry – 1905 – 05/12/1905 – Age 49 – White Moss Collier. White Moss Coal Co., Rainford, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was setting his drill underground and trying to shorten the stand and after striking it suddenly shortened and crushed his finger. Blood poisoning afterwards set in, and he died from the effects December 19, 1905.

ASHURST James – 1903 – 25/03/1903 – Age 33 – Bickershaw Collier. Ackers Whitley and Co., Leigh, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A stone about six feet in length fell from between some slips in the roof, capping a prop and severely injuring his head. He died from the effects of the accident the following day.

ASHURST John – 1902 – 20/07/1902 – Age 69 – Wingate Grange Shifter. Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery, Co.Durham. Died from the effects of a strain received on March 18th last when lifting a tub on to the way.

ASHURST John – 1905 – 25/09/1905 – Age 59 – Hazelrigg Stoneman. Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died 26th September. Deceased and another stoneman, who was seriously injured, were driving a stone Drift, 10 feet wide, in wet sandstone, they had drilled a hole about 2 feet deep near the roof and charged it with half pellet of saxonite and fitted it with a detonator and 2 feet 6 inches of gutta-percha fuse. The shots were fired by holding touch paper, which had been ignited by a hot wire heated in the flame of a safety lamp, to the fuse. Deceased remained, to fire the shot, his mate and a putter going outbye. As the deceased was a long time in lighting up, his mate returned to him when the shot exploded on them. It is probable that the fuse had been damp and smouldered and the powder had been ignited unknown to them. A piece of fuse, when tested, ran 1 foot in 33 seconds. The Local Inspectors reported it as being a pure accident.

ASHURST Joseph – 1909 – 13/10/1909 – Age 33 – Moss Hall Drawer. Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When pushing his empty tub upbrow, he got fatally crushed by another drawer’s tub, who failed to hold it owing to the scotch coming out.

ASHURST Richard – 1909 – 26/11/1909 – Age 56 – Monk Bretton Miner. Monk Bretton Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was setting a prop when a bump knocked it against him, breaking his ribs. He died on 2nd December.

ASHURST Thomas – 1905 – 02/07/1905 – Age 52 – White Moss Furnaceman. White Moss Coal Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was ascending the shaft, in the cage, when the engineman winding failed, through a mistake, to stop the cage, until it struck the bell cylinder in the head gear, when the capping gave way, and the deceased fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 200 yards, and was killed. This accident occurred on a Sunday morning, the engineman having been on duty 17 hours.

ASHURST William - 1900 - 24/09/1900 – Age 29 - Garswood Hall No. 5 Collier. Garswood Hall Collieries Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was engaged holing under the coal, the floor being in a very wet state, when a piece of coal 8 feet in length capped two short sprag set under the coal and crushed the deceased. There had been a shot fired in the adjoining coal which may have disturbed the other portion that fell.

ASHURST William – 1902 – 14/04/1902 – Age 24 – Ashton Moss Collier. New Moss Colliery Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face whilst pulling, standing in front. Had been holed by machine a month.

ASHWORTH Daniel – 1900 – 20/08/1900 – Age 18 – Wet Earth 5 Quarters Gangrider. Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst riding up the engine plane, permitted in front of 8 full tubs, he was caught in a low part and severely crushed. Died 21st August.

ASHWORTH Thomas – 1906 – 08/08/1906 – Age 58 – Harrington Hewer. James Bain and Co., Cumberland. Deceased and another hewer were working together in a longwall face, 13 yards wide, fastened both sides, going to the rise at 1 in 9 alongside a pillar of coal, left to protect a main road in the Swamp section of the Six Quarters band, 11 feet thick, of No. 9. pit. They were in the afternoon shift and, after working an hour and 20 minutes, a blue metal stone, 9 feet long, parallel to the face, 24 feet wide and 14 inches thick, fell from the roof, close to the face opposite the road-head relieved by a glassy slip lying forward along the face a joint parallel to it and joints at each end. The roof in the road had been brushed the night before and the packs were about a yard from the coal. The fall may have canted a prop. There was sufficient loose timber lying close by and a good deal set in the place. Deceased appears to have caught his lamp up when he heard the stone working and this may have delayed his escape, or he may have come in contact with a prop. The deputy had examined the place half-an-hour before the men started work in the afternoon shift and it then appeared safe.

ASKEW George – 1902 – 07/05/1902 – Age 46 – Shildon Shaftsman. Shildon Coal Co., Co.Durham. When putting ladders in the upcast shaft the engineman was lowering them and lost control of the engine and ran the kibble hard on to the bottom. Both had broken legs and internal injuries. Askew died on the 16th inst. and O'Hagan on June 10th.

ASKEW John – 1903 – 03/11/1903 – Age 45 – Seymour Banksman. Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased had completed his day's work and was crossing a siding belonging to the Midland Railway Co. when he was caught by a moving waggon and killed.

ASKEW Joseph – 1907 – 19/03/1907 – Age 34 – Wath Main Collier. Wath Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was cutting a prop loose at the top to draw it when a weight bump took place and caused it to fall off  the roof which knocked him down. While some men were trying to liberate him a second fall took place and killed him.

ASKEW William – 1909 – 26/02/1909 – Age 20 – Bankfield Limestone Quarry Shunter. Richard Briggs and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Having uncoupled waggons, pushed by a locomotive, he attempted to pass between them, a waggon rebounded crushing him between the buffers of a waggon.

ASPINALL Thomas – 1907 – 25/01/1907 – Age 17 – Maypole Drawer. Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. The lashing chain attaching a set of tubs to the endless rope haulage slipped and got loose and the tub ran back, crushing the deceased.

ASPINALL William – 1904 – 19/04/1904 – Age 30 – Moss No. 6 Drawer. Pearson and Knowles, Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was working at the longwall face in the six feet mine when a fall of top coal occurred at the face capping a prop and fatally injuring him. Died 24th.

ASQUITH George Edward – 1909 – 11/03/1909 – Age 27 – Barnsley Main Onsetter. Barnsley Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Asquith was coming to the surface from the Lidget Seam when the cages collided in the shaft. He was thrown out and fell to the bottom of the shaft.

ASTLEY Edward – 1908 – 15/07/1908 – Age 54 – Fochriw No. 2 Master haulier. Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was riding between two rams of an empty journey up a dip, when by some means he fell off the shackle, and was run over.

ASTON H. – 1901 – 09/02/1901 – Age 50 – Wheldale Collier. Wheldale Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in working place. Timber was displaced.

ASTON Joseph Henry – 1906 – 27/02/1906 – Age 15 – Park Hall Door keeper. Park Hall Collieries Ltd., Stafford. Two empty tubs became uncoupled from a set when going down an engine dip and ran away. Deceased appeared to have opened his door for them, but to have got in the way instead of remaining in a recess made for him. He was struck by the tubs and killed almost instantly.

ASTON Milson – 1905 – 30/10/1905 – Age 54 – Lydbrook Repairer. R Thomas and Co. Ltd., Gloucester. Fall of side where he and another were engaged ripping at a flat place in No. 2 Incline and where they had previously blasted. He was at the time barring down a small stone which proved to be the key to that which fell.

ATACK Ernest – 1902 – 18/04/1902 – Age 19 – Shirebrook Asst. onsetter. Shirebrook Colliery Co., Derbyshire. An iron rail on the roadway at the pit bottom projected into the shaft and when the descending cage came down it struck the end of the rail causing the other end to fly up and strike the deceased. The rail appeared to have slipped forward after being laid in position.

ATHER Thomas – 1909 – 12/08/1909 – Age 59 – New Brancepeth Hewer. Cochrane and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Eight men were in the cage, ready to ride and the onsetter had rapped away. There was some little delay in stating and just as the cage was raised the set came in sight as it ran on to the kip. For some reason, one or more of the men became frightened and created great disorder in the cage, with the result that this man was pushed out after it had been raised some yards up the shaft. The set was coming in at its usual speed, and was stopped at the appointed place. As a rule men are not allowed to get into the cage when the set is landing but for the delay in raising the cage it would have been half way up the shaft before the set reached the kip.

ATHERTON Herbert – 1908 – 05/1905/1908 – Age 29 – Outwood Dataller. Thomas Fletcher and Sons, Lancashire. In the roadway, whilst repairing, in pulling down stone to make height he loosened another large stone which came away from a slip. A bar should have been set. (Good roof)

ATHERTON J. – 1901 – 04/03/1901 – Age 32 – Tong Royd Miner. T Blockage, Yorkshire. Fall of clay from face. Cause, a slip and want of sprags.

ATHERTON J.T. – 1902 – 19/02/1902 – Age 15 – White Moss Arley Pony driver. White Moss Coal Co., Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Inspection made. He was guiding the tubs round a curve on the haulage road and had to loosen the chain attaching the tub to the rope as the tub approached the curve pulley, and when doing this he appears to have had some difficulty and seems to have persevered until his arm got fast and his head got crushed against the cross bar fatally injuring him.

ATHERTON William – 1902 – 27/03/1902 – Age 45 – Victoria Dataller. Victoria Colliery Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased and another person were setting a chock in the longwall face, which enclosed a prop within it and which had been standing some time. Deceased attempted to knock the prop out with his hammer when the roof gave way and fell upon him.

ATHEY Chrisopher – 1904 – 26/1905/1904 – Age 48 – Trimdon Grange Deputy. Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He was travelling down a self-acting incline and got into a refuge hole, to let the full set pass him, and then came out when four full tubs ran amain owing to the chock in the landing at the top having been carelessly left open.

ATKIN Horace – 1907 – 18/02/1907 – Age 26 – Silverwood Hurrier. Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Died from injuries caused by a fall of roof on March 25th, 1906, when following his employment.

ATKIN Richard – 1908 – 26/10/1908 – Age 27 – Glapwell Dayman. Sheepbridge Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. The stallman was dressing up the ripping lip at the gate end, after a shot had been fired, and told deceased to re-set a prop which had been pushed out. A fall occurred and killed him.

ATKINS Edmund – 1905 – 15/12/1905 – Age 59 – Cannock Chase No. 5 Fireman. Cannock Chase Colliery Co., Stafford. Fall of roof (shale) in air road about 10 yards from the face as he was travelling through. The fall came off at a slip and reeled the timber out.

ATKINS George – 1902 – 24/06/1902 – Age 22 – Coates Park Loader. James Oakes and Co., Derbyshire. He returned to the colliery after going home from work and was drowned in the colliery reservoir while bathing.

ATKINS Harry – 1902 – 24/11/1902 – Age 29 – Baddesley Dataller. Baddesley Colliery Trustees, Warwick. Fall of coal. Deceased was widening a main roadway driven in the solid coal. He was getting the side off when it fell and killed him.

ATKINS John Samuel – 1905 – 23/01/1905 – Age 37 – Griff Clara Shunter. Griff Colliery Co., Warwick. Employed by the London Western Railway Co., as a shunter and was run over on the colliery railway 440 yards from the mine.

ATKINSON Colin Watson – 1901 – 04/06/1901 – Age 69 – Whitburn Truck greaser. Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham Inspection made and inquest attended. Supposed to have been crushed between waggons which were being lowered into the colliery sidings.

ATKINSON Frank – 1907 – 05/07/1907 – Age 19 – Shildon Lodge Putter. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was hewing off the wall side when a large stone fell away and killed him.

ATKINSON George - 1902 - 10/10/1902 – Age 17 - Blaydon Burn Helper up. Owners of Priestman Colliery, Co.Durham. Died 11th January. Deceased who was placed to assist hand putters to push their loaded tubs up a rising road was waiting near the point where his duties commenced and in some unexplained way was crushed between a full tub and a prop.

ATKINSON George William - 1904 - 23/12/1904 – Age 14 - Hylton Landing boy. Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died December 25th. The empty set of 30 tubs was being drawn inbye by the tail rope, at a speed of between four and five miles per hour, and on arriving at the outbye end of a landing, which had only been in use a week, they collided with the first tubs of the full set, which were standing on the full way and forced it back. Deceased, who was standing behind the last tub of the full set and appears to have had one foot in the large link of the coupling chain, was run over by the last two tub. The switches at the outbye end and the landing were in position and no defect observed in the road or tubs. The first of the full tubs may have been standing too far forward or the wooden drags in their wheels may have projected too far or the empty set may have jumped the rails at the crossing. The signal wires did not extend into the landing and it was the custom to shout to a point, some distance outbye where they terminated, when signalling was necessary. This absence of means of signalling from the landing did not however contribute to the accident as the engineman stopped his engine at once on feeling the obstruction.

ATKINSON James - 1903 - 17/06/1903 – Age 40 - Whitehaven Hewer. Whitehaven, Cumberland. Deceased worked in a solid place, 6 yards wide, going to the rise in the Main Band, which is here 7 foot thick. The roof in the district is generally good but in this place the presence of several glassy slips and small hitches had caused some timber to be used which was set by special men known as joiners. Notwithstanding the timber set, a large stone fell between the last pair of gears at the face. There was not sufficient timber near the place, although there was plenty at the bank head some distance away. It would have been prudent considering the character of the roof to have had supports nearer the face.

ATKINSON John * 1904 - 27/12/1904 – Hylton, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham.

ATKINSON John - 1900 - 26/07/1900 – Age 54 - Cowpen Isbella Labourer. Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was getting on to a waggon, in order to discharge trees, when he suddenly fell backwards and his head striking the rail dislocated his spine.

ATKINSON John - 1906 22/02/1906 – Age 16 - Sharlston West Pony driver. New Sharlston Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. No one saw the accident happen but from the fact that the deceased was found in a standing position, between the side of a road and the first full tub of a set of four full tubs, it appears probable that his pony had stopped in a part of the road where there is very little space by the side of the tubs, and as he was going past the tubs the pony had started again.

ATKINSON John Gerwan - 1908 - 17/08/1908 – Age 18 - Pontop & Jarrow Railway Shunter. John Bowes and Partners, Co.Durham. Crushed between trucks while signalling.

ATKINSON Joseph - 1900 - 28/08/1900 – Age 57 - Sacriston Platelayer. Charlaw and Sacriston Colliery Co. Ltd., Sacriston, Co.Durham. While working on a private branch railway, nearly a mile from the colliery, he was run over and killed by a set of six trucks. (Not comprised)

ATKINSON Joseph - 1903 - 11/08/1903 – Age 26 - Monckton Main Collier. Monckton Main Collieries, Yorkshire. He was following a set of full trams inbye when a coupling broke and the tubs ran back. In the confusion he did not notice a refuge hole and fell when trying to escape down the engine plane and was run over by the tubs.

ATKINSON Joseph - 1904 - 07/01/1904 – Age 55 - St. Helens Deputy. St. Helens Colliery and Brickworks Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Explosion of firedamp. 2 killed.

ATKINSON Matthew - 1905 - 19/08/1905 – Age 32 - Bamfurlong Brakesman. Cross Tetley and Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He appears to have attempted to get between two railway waggons, that were in motion in the siding, when his head got crushed and he was fatally injured between the buffers.

ATKINSON Matthew - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 35. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 12 Ramsey Street Stanley.

ATKINSON Ralph - 1906 - 11/10/1906 – Age 28 - Framwellgate Hewer. Framwellgate Coal & Coke Co., Co.Durham. When turning away from a place, a stone fell from between parallel slips and killed him.

ATKINSON Reuben - 1907 - 02/10/1907 – Age 61 - Barnsley Main Banksman. Barnsley Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. A cage containing four tubs, two on each deck, had just been brought up the shaft and he had unloaded the bottom deck and put two empty tubs into it. He then signalled to the winding engineman to lower the top deck on to the fallers. The engineman lowered the cage but the deceased had not got the fallers in and the cage went past the level of the landing. He was attempting, as the cage was being lowered, to lift the catch which secures the tubs in the cage and was carried with it causing him to fall with his head and shoulders on the top of the tubs and he was crushed between the top of the cage and the floor of the pit bank and instantly killed.

ATKINSON Robert - 1900 - 27/08/1900 – Age 55 - Claughton (Shale Quarry) Quarrier. Claughton Manor Brick Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of baring earth from the face of the Quarry. Died 7th September.

ATKINSON Robert - 1904 - 28/11/1904 – Age 50 – Easington Sinker. Easington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inrush of water in sinking pit. His body was not recovered until 3 years later.

ATKINSON Robert - 1905 - 21/02/1905 – Age 28 - Tanfield Moor Hewer. James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The Main Coal seam, 2 feet 5 inches thick, was being worked longwall below the Hutton seam goaf 24 feet above. The gateway in which the deceased worked had been brushed in the roof stone close to the coal and packs built on each side and the deceased was hewing the left-hand pack and the face when a stone about 3.5 feet square and 1 ft thick, next the pack, tailing out to the face fell on him. The stone was relieved by jacks on three sides a false bed above. There was no timber set under the stone but there was an ample supply close at hand. The deputy had examined the place about two hours before the accident. The Local Inspectors reported ‘it was a pure accident and no one to blame.’

ATKINSON Robert - 1907 - 07/10/1907 – Age 51 - Kimblesworth Hewer. Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. A stone fell away from a breaker running parallel to the coal face, and killed him. The timbering rule had not been carried out.

ATKINSON T. - 1901 - 24/06/1901 – Age 17 - Snydale Haulage boy. H Briggs Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Owing to a jerk the haulage rope lashed across the road and knocked him in front of the tubs and he was fatally crushed against a pulley.

ATKINSON William - 1902 - 13/09/1902 – Age 52 - Hoddlesden Collier. Thomas Place and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face of working place, overhung and undermined, 4 feet 11 feet in length. He had also tried to wedge the coal down yet he placed himself under this long length, unsupported, and was further undermining when the coal fell on him.

ATTEWELL Eli - 1900 - 19/07/1900 – Age 43 - Llanbradach Collier. Cardiff Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of coal, which he was getting down from the face, knocked out a post which struck him in the stomach resulting in injuries from which he died in two days' time although they were considered slight at the time of the accident.

ATTEY George - 1900 - 07/03/1900 – Age 18 - Springwell Roadsman. John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Four tubs became uncoupled from a full set as it was running down the acting incline and ran over the deceased at the shaft bottom.

ATTWOOD George - 1907 - 06/09/1907 – Age 34 - Dawdon Sinker. Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. The cable of an electric lamp broke and fell on to them, and others, as they were descending the pit in a kibble. 2 killed.

ATTWOOD Henry - 1902 - 19/12/1902 – Age 16 - Rock Runner out. Thomas Jones, Shropshire. The winding rope broke while they were ascending the shaft and they fell to the bottom, a distance of about 20 yards. 3 killed.

ATTWOOD Walter - 1904 - 14/04/1904 – Age 35 - South Kirkby Collier. South Kirkby Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The deputy, when visiting the place, told him and his mate to take a piece of clay dirt, which was overhanging, down and when they were doing it a large fall of roof at three slips took place and killed him.

ATWOOD Alexander - 1901 - 02/04/1901 – Age 31 - Dowlais Cardiff Haulier. Guest Keen and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed between empty tram and side at the mouth of a rubbish stall, the tram having been struck by other loaded trams passing down the heading.

AULD George - 1907 - 02/04/1907 – Age 19 – Lumphinnans Miner. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was taking down coal which, when it fell, relieved the roof and it came away on him causing instant death.

AULD James Blythe Willis – 1904 – 29/03/1904 – Age 17 – Seaton Delaval Labourer. Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased and a horse driver took a tipping stone wagon, locally known as cowpey and which had buffers at one end only, laden with refuse from the coal washer to the end of the dirt heap, the road being first level and then rising about 0.75 inch per yard. They put switches near the bottom of the inclined part of the road, which here made a slight turn into position after they had passed. The wagon was tipped and drawn back a few yards by the horse and then the deceased got on to one of the buffers, which were at the front end, and it began to gravitate back to the washer. There was a brake on the wagon, with the lever convenient to the buffers, but it was not necessary to use it as the speed gained during the first part of the return journey did not carry the wagon to its destination on the level portion of the road where the horse had to be used. About 4 yards past the switch, that was on left of the rails and deceased either jumped off or was thrown off and run over. The rails in use were old and worn and the road not in very good condition.

AUTY A. – 1901 – 09/02/1901 – Age 29 – Soothill Wood Loco. Driver. Soothill Wood Colliery Co., Yorkshire. The loco. failed to hold a train of wagons down a gradient and they collided with an empty wagon and he was killed.

AVER William - 1908 - 13/04/1908 – Age 20 - Carn Brea & Tincroft, Tin Miner. Carn Brea & Tincroft Mines Ltd., Cornwall. Timbermen were altering some staging, about the 300-fathom level, and accidentally allowed a loose plank to fall away; in falling it struck the deceased and knocked him off a stage on which he was working, about five fathoms below the 300 fathom level. He fell to the 320 fathom level, where he was picked up fatally injured.

AVERSTON George E. - 1905 - 29/06/1905 – Age 18 - Thrislington Spare putter. Thrislington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When hewing in a bordways gate a stone came away from between two slips and killed him.

AVERY John Robert - 1905 - 15/06/1905 – Age 14 - Dinnington Tub spragger. Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was employed near the shaft receiving and spragging tubs, which were automatically detached from an endless rope to which they were attached by clips in sets on two. The road dipped outbye fairly heavily near the shaft where it flattened to about 0.75 inches per yard, it was lighted near the shaft by five incandescent electric lights. The rope was standing, at the time of the accident, but just before an empty and full set had caught further inbye and caused a jerk which appeared to have released the clip attaching two full tubs to the rope and these ran amain and collided with a set in front of them attached to the rope and it broke away and collided with two full tubs standing free of the rope, both wheels of the first of these tubs was spragged. Deceased heard the runaways and was crossing in front of the spragged tub when it was struck and he was caught by it and killed. The clip of the first runaway was found 60 yards inbye. A recommendation by Mr. Abbott that a refuge hole be made at the point where the lads received the tubs was adopted by the jury. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘In our opinion the accident could not have been foreseen and no blame is attached to anyone.’

AVERY Samuel - 1900 - 02/03/1900 – Age 49 - Llwynypia No. 1 Repairer. Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road main return, fireclay 3 foot x 2.5 foot x 15 inches while enlarging it. Died in three days. Four feet seam.

AVEYARD J. - 1900 - 10/09/1900 – Age 31 - Wheldale Collier. Wheldale Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

AVISON George - 1905 - 06/12/1905 – Age 27 - Crow Trees (sandstone) Labourer. S Marshall and Sons Ltd., Yorkshire. A block of stone was being pulled along the floor of the mine, by means of a pulley block fastened to a prop at the bottom of the shaft, through which a rope attached to the winding rope was passed, and in doing this the winding rope shackle touched the side of the shaft and loosened a small piece which hit the deceased on the leg and injured it so severely that it had to be amputated. Died on the 9th inst.

AYRE Matthew - 1901 - 28/08/1901 – Age 24 - Wingate Grange Hewer. Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery, Co.Durham. Killed by a large fall of stone at working face. The place had holed into the goaf the previous day and as soon as the coal was removed the fall occurred.

AYRES Arthur John – 1909 – 24/08/1909 – Age 44 – Tareni Hardgroundman. South Wales Primrose Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While stemming a shot hole charged with Rippite, soft yellow clay being used, and a wooden rammer, the charge suddenly exploded and killed him. Considerable difficulty was experienced in ascertaining the exact circumstances attending the accident; but it would appear from evidence that considerable force was used in stemming, and probably the detonator was struck by a small stone or pebble. The charge was to have been fired electrically.

AYRES J. – 1901 – 15/02/1901 – Age 28 – Gilroyd, Clay Quarry Quarryman. JW Wood and Sons, Yorkshire. Clay fell from the face of the Quarry above him.

AYRTON Enoch – 1904 – 23/03/1904 – Age 30 – Hoyland Silkstone Screener. Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He appears to have climbed the fence, protecting the driving wheel of the engine working the screens, for what purpose is not known and to have been caught by the wheel and killed. The whole of the machinery was well fenced.