CABLE Sydney - 1906 - 21/03/1906 – Age 19 - South Wales Cwmtillery No.1 Timberman. Lancasters Steam Collieries Co. Ltd., Monmouth. While engaged repairing a road, in the old coal seam where a fall had occurred, a further fall took place, injuring him, so that he died next day. He seems too young for the work of a repairer his assistant was even younger.

CADDICK Robert - 1906 - 21/05/1906 – Age 29 - Cannock & Leacroft Fireman. Cannock & Leacroft Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. When electrically firing a ripping shot charged with 10 ozs. of Monobel powder, deceased placed an empty tub 14 yards from the shot and took up a position 3 yards outbye from the tub. A piece of rock, probably ricocheting, struck him on right side causing a severe wound. He succumbed to his injuries on 8th June.

CADDICK Samuel - 1902 - 25/12/1902 – Age 39 - Timber Tree Loader. S Garratt and Sons, Stafford. The cage, in which he was mending the shaft, was overwound and he jumped out of the cage and received injuries from which he died on the 5th January, 1903.

CADDY Isaac - 1903 - 19/10/1903 – Age 58 - East Pool & Agar Tin Miner. East Pool & Agar United Mines, Cornwall. While engaged throwing ore down a stope, from the 212 fathom level, he slipped and rolled about 12 fathoms receiving such injuries as to cause death.

CADMORE Charles - 1904 - 25/02/1904 – Age 40 - South Duffryn Shunter. Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was riding on the buffer of a locomotive when he fell off and was run over. Riding on the buffers of locomotives or wagons should be strictly prohibited.

CAFFERTY Michael - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 33 - Maypole Contractor. Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

CAHILLL Edward - 1901 - 17/07/1901 – Age 35 - Priestners Fireman. Wigan Coal and Iron Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in haulage brow. Knocked out a prop with short shafted hammer, orders being that all props be drawn by gablock and chain. (Bad roof).

CAIDAY Thomas - 1904 - 05/12/1904 – Age 45 - Closeburn, Sandstone Quarry Labourer. Scottish Freestone Quarries Ltd., Dumfries. A stone fell into the Quarry from the wall of a landing bank and struck him.

CAIN Daniel - 1902 - 12/05/1902 – Age 29 - Ravensworth Hewer. Charles Perkins and Partners, Co.Durham. Deceased was leaving the pit at the end of his shift. A hauling engine at the top of an incline draws the loaded chaldron waggons in use here, up the incline and it is customary to get on behind the loaded waggons and empty ones and draw them up the incline a short distance where they disconnected the spragged and allowed them to run back into the various roads at pit. Deceased got onto the set intending to ride to the bankhead on way home but getting on to the empty waggons by mistake he was crushed between them in some way after they were disconnected and commenced to run back.

CAIN Patrick 1900 29/12/1900 50 Auchinlea (sandstone Quarry) Stonedresser Taylor and King Lanarkshire. The craneman was about to lift a stone when by some means the jib of the crane became loose and fell on deceased who was standing near.

CAIN Thomas - 1901 - 19/09/1901 – Age 16 - Newbottle, Margaret Engineplane lad. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was hanging tubs on to an endless rope when two tubs ran back down an incline and fatally crushed him between them and those he was hanging on to the rope.

CAIN Thomas - 1904 - 01/11/1904 – Age 55 - Battery Pier, Slate Quarry Quarryman. Isle of Man Harbour Commissioners, Isle of Man. The Quarry is in slate rock and the face is more than 100 feet high. It is worked intermittently but deceased and another Quarryman had been working in it for a fortnight before the accident. The face had been examined during the summer and also before work was restarted and it appeared safe. Work was being carried on from a ledge about 30 feet from the floor of the Quarry. Immediately before the accident a second shot had been fired consisting of about 1 lb. of gunpowder in a hole 3 feet deep and the deceased was climbing back to the ledge, by means of a rope, after the shot had exploded when about 150 tons of rock fell away from a face or slip to one side of the shot and commencing 10 feet above it. Deceased had nearly reached the ledge. He was knocked back and buried among the fallen stone in the bottom of the Quarry.

CAIRNEY Daniel 1908 - 13/02/1908 – Age 31 - Blairdam Asst. machineman. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The dook section of the Dunfermline Splint coal was holed by a coal cutting machine, and the run was about 100 yards in length the cutting being done in the back shift, as usual, and the deceased men had charge of the operations. At the time of the accident the machine was nearing the top end of the run when the roof suddenly collapsed burying the men. The fall was very large and bad, broken along the face for a distance of 36 feet and over to the waste for at least 18 feet, its average thickness was 5 feet to 2 feet next to the coal face. The stone which was one solid mass, except a small detached portion at the top end, sat down on the wood pillars and threw out the props. The roof was sandstone of a strong nature and had evidently taken a sudden break. 2 killed.

CAIRNS David - 1909 - 16/06/1909 – Age 36 - Polton Brusher. Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was building the debris made from the brushing, when a stone fell upon him injuring his head. He walked home, and died from a fractured skull six day afterwards.

CAIRNS Henry - 1900 - 26/01/1900 – Age 38 - Hallside Repairer. James Dunlop and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road while repairing it.

CAIRNS Hugh - 1900 - 15/12/1900 – Age 34 - Avondale Miner. James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was making up a shot when an explosion occurred inflicting injuries which caused his death next day. No one saw the accident but from the position in which deceased was found and other circumstances surrounding the place of the accident it is very probable he had tied two cartridges of gelignite together and was unduly pressing the detonator into one of them for the primer when the whole exploded.

CAIRNS James - 1904 - 11/11/1904 – Age 44 - Drumshangie Miner. Drumshangie Coal Co., Lanarkshire. A hitch had been crossed and the deceased was ripping the pavement to make the road have an easy grade, the debris made was thrown into the space above the timbers. A crown broke and the debris fell on to the deceased while he was boring a hole for a shot. The crown which was a plank 9 inches by 3 inches with an 8 feet span, it appeared to be fresh but there was an old bolt hole at the part where the rupture took place.

CAIRNS James - 1909 - 02/10/1909 - Lumphinnans Bottomer. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was uncoupling loaded tubs when a horse rake collided with the tubs and the fingers of his left hand were crushed and badly bruised. He died from blood poisoning ten days later.

CAIRNS William - 1905 - 27/11/1905 – Age 45 - Rosie Miner. Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was taking coal off a roadway, to make a siding, suddenly it fell over and fatally crushed him.

CALDER John - 1905 - 06/11/1905 – Age 53 - Holytown No.6 Miner. James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place, owing to the want of props. Injured on 6th November, 1905, and died on 11th June, 1906.

CALDER William - 1906 - 26/03/1906 – Age 31 - Earnock Waggon trimmer. John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. When between two waggons, at the screens shovelling coals, the waggoner brought forward other waggons which moved one of the standing waggons, and he was caught between the buffers.

CALDICOTT George - 1909 - 14/09/1909 – Age 39 - Hafod Shotman. Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was standing near the shaft, watching a fireman who was taking a tram of coal towards the pit, when a handspike, with which the latter was controlling the tram, struck a stop-block, flew forward, and knocked him into the shaft. He fell through a hole in sump-planks, 2 feet by 11 inches, to a landing 40 yards below.

CALDWELL James - 1905 - 31/05/1905 – Age 21 - Rosehall No.3 Miner. R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face while holing or taking down coal.

CALDWELL John - 1901 - 19/06/1901 – Age 27 - Herbertshire No.2 Brusher. R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Stirling. Fall of side at working face. A prop was being got ready to set beneath it.

CALDWELL William - 1909 - 25/02/1909 – Age 16 - Hindley Field Engine minder. Hindley Field Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Deceased, when attempting to pass between two railway waggons, got fatally crushed owing to another waggon being lowered at the time.

CALDWELL William Henry - 1906 - 12/02/1906 – Age 18 - Royal Arley Drawer, Hulton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Whilst filling coal into a tub at the face a large quantity of reef fell onto him, 22 feet long, 1 feet 10 wide, and 22 inches thick. It came from between a pronounced slip at the face and a break, both were known, yet the props were 10 inches and 12 inches beyond the regulation distance from the face. The rule requiring props to be not more than 4 feet from the face. Although the colliers had been absent from the place for half an hour, taking breakfast, they allowed the deceased to get in by himself to fill coal, no examination being made (Roof. good.).

CALIP Charles - 1906 - 26/03/1906 – Age 70 - Osmondthorpe Labourer. Low Moor Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He went on to the boilers to eat his dinner instead of into a cabin which is provided for the purpose, and when coming down some stone steps he fell and was severely shaken, although he only fell a distance of 3.5 feet he died on April 11th.

CALLACHER William - 1902 - 01/07/1902 – Age 32 - Milnwood No.2 Miner. Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

CALLADINE George - 1905 - 11/10/1905 – Age 48 - Clay Cross No.4 Coal cutter. Clay Cross Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was working a coal cutting machine when a bar set from the coal-face to a prop gave way and a quantity of roof coal fell with it and slightly injured his ankle of the right leg. Blood poisoning set in and he died 5th November.

CALLADINE Henry - 1901 - 03/04/1901 – Age 38 - Bentink Stallman. New Hucknall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. While working in the stall he fell down with his back across an iron rail and lacerated his kidney. He died the next day.

CALLAGHAN Charles - 1906 - 13/03/1906 – Age 17 - Jarrow No.7 Asst. blacksmith. RH Prior Wandesforde Co., Kilkenny, Ireland. Whilst descending in the cage along with the horse shoer, the cage rested on a bunton, which had been displaced in the shaft in removing a pump set. The cage tilted and threw out the deceased, fortunately the lad held tight and remained in the cage. The shaft ought to have been examined after drawing out the pump set before allowing any one to descend. The men having worked at removing the pump set had gone to dinner. Died 14th.

CALLAGHAN Joseph - 1909 - 04/01/1909 – Age 14 - Garesfield Driver. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fell off tub before set of tubs he was driving.

CALLAGHAN M. - 1903 - 08/04/1903 – Age 24 - Waterloo Main Collier. Brooks and Pickup, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in a gateway displacing a prop. Cause, two converging slips and a smooth parting.

CALLAGHAN Thomas - 1901 - 02/10/1901 – Age 47 - Merthyr Vale Ostler. Nixons Navigation Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by ash tram on a bridge, one of the trams having caught his clothing.

CALLAND James - 1901 - 09/02/1901 – Age 23 - Moss No.1 Collier. Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of roof occurred at the face, capping a prop and fatally injuring deceased. The props were set about three feet apart but the fall capped the prop next to the face.

CALLER George - 1902 - 11/08/1902 – Age 29 - Manor Works, Chalk Quarry Labourer. Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers (1900) Ltd., Kent. While engaged filling a tram or trolley-truck a large piece of chalk 18 feet in length fell upon him from the perpendicular side or face in consequence of an unseen back or slip The place the chalk fell from was just below a ledge which was only 9 feet above the trolley-road on which he was working.

CALLIGHAN J - 1903 - 27/03/1903 – Age 37 - New Oaks Collier. C Cammell and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 30th April. Fall of roof in a working place. Cause, a sudden weight and converging slips. Timber was displaced by the fall.

CALVERT James - 1909 - 20/08/1909 – Age 18 - Lingdal ironstone Driver. Pease and Partners Ltd., North Yorkshire. Ruptured himself when lifting an empty tub on to the road.

CALVERT Matthew – 1907 – 25/05/1907 – Age 36 – Holmside, Thomas Deputy. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. When endeavouring to draw some tram rails from a fallen jud, he was buried under a fall of roof.

CAMERON Albert – 1909 – 12/10/1909 – Age 30 – Canderigg, Broomfield No.4 Miner. James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working place while holing.

CAMERON Allan – 1906 – 11/09/1906 – Age 16 – Robin Hood Asst. banksman. Flimby & Broughton Moor Coal & Firebrick Co. Ltd., Cumberland. The loaded tubs, from Seaton Moor Colliery, are led by horses in sets of six or seven from the bottom of a self acting incline along a road, which crosses by a wooden bridge the pit and close to Robin Hood pit. This bridge is about 50 yards long and 7 feet wide, and is laid with single way it is 10 feet above the water, which is 13 feet deep about the centre a post and single rail fence is fixed on each side of the bridge the single rail at the top of the posts was 3 feet from the floor of the bridge. One of the two regular drivers had gone after the horse, that had run away, and the other was arranging a set at the foot of the incline and a lad, who worked a small engine at Robin Hood pit, was driving a set of loaded tubs across the bridge with the other horse, the third tub of the set appears to have been off the way from the points at the far side of the bridge. The set was stopped about the middle of the bridge, and deceased came to help to put it on the rails, and while doing so his feet slipped. He wore clogs and he fell under the fence into the pond and was drowned. He was quickly got out and subjected to artificial respiration without avail. The Jury recommended an additional rail to the fence.

CAMERON David * – 1900 – 01/01/1900 – Age 60. Aitken Fife.

CAMERON James – 1909 – 29/03/1909 – Age 30 – Rosehall No.3 Drawer. R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. When holing, a small piece of coal fell and cut his finger. Blood poisoning resulted, and he died on the 8th May.

CAMERON Thomas * – 1905. West Mickley, West Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

CAMERON William – 1908 – 20/05/1908 – Age 37 – Leadhills Lead Ore Bottomer. Leadhills Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. As the skip was descending the deceased put his head into the shaft at one of the levels and was caught.

CAMERON William Gill – 1904 – 27/08/1904 – Age 20 – Brayton Domain Blacksmith. Joseph Harris, Cumberland. Deceased was doing some work at a coal washer and had frequently had to pass over the sidings at the pit between it and the shops. He passed between 15 empty 3-ton wood-buffered wagons and 10 others of the same type separated by an interval of 4 feet. A locomotive owned by the Maryport & Carlisle Railway Co., came forward pushing 40 wagons, and in obedience to signals and after whistling the driver cloded up gently with the 10 wagons and they moved forward against the 15 and deceased was caught.

CAMERSON Neil – 1902 – 11/08/1902 – Age 15 – Bonawe, Granite Quarry Asst. mechanic. J and A Gardner and Co., Argyll. While working on a stage, close to unfenced machinery connected with the stone-breaking factory, his clothing got caught by a gland fixed to a revolving shaft and he was carried round and killed.

CAMPANION Patrick – 1904 – 03/08/1904 – Age 27 – Sherburn Hill Hewer. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was hewing in a headwaygate when a stone fell away, at some coal pipes, and displaced three props killing him instantly.

CAMPBELL Alexander – 1906 – 30/07/1906 – Age 15 – East Tanfield Pony driver. James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was driving some empty tubs inbye on the rolleyway of the South-West district, in the Brockwell seam. The road, nearly level was in good order and laid with rails weighing 28 lbs. to the yard, with fished joints. The accident occurred in a siding 29 yards long, 11 feet wide and 6 feet high, which was timbered by balks placed about 3 feet apart, 10.5 feet long and 10 inches broad supported by props at each end, the props were 19 inches from the rail at the bottom and were 11 inches clear of the tubs. Another driver going outbye was waiting in the siding for deceased to pass and he stated that deceased’s pony was going slowly, this driver left the siding as soon as deceased's set was clear of the crossing, and he knew nothing of the accident. The next driver coming outbye found the set standing the pony hung on and the first two tubs off the way to the left; deceased was in the first tub and a balk had fallen on his neck pinning it to the edge of the tub a stone from the roof, 4 feet by 3 feet and with a maximum thickness of 8 inches, lay on the balk, and a smaller stone, 20 inches square by 6 inches thick, lay in the tub. The tubs had been derailed either by the pony swerving or more probably something had fallen on the rails and, coming in contact with a prop had drawn it out, allowing the balk and stone above it to fall. The road was constantly travelled by the officials, who observed no defect. The Local Inspectors, after carefully giving all necessary details concluded their report thus. ‘The case, so far as we could see, was purely an accident.'

CAMPBELL Alexander P. – 1905 – 13/09/1905 – Age 14 – Muirbeath Coupler. Henry Ness and Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was about to take an empty tub across the plates, at the pit bottom, when a large stone fell from the roof and killed him instantaneously.

CAMPBELL Andrew - 1902 - 10/06/1902 – Age 34 - Kinnaird Miner. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Kinross. A dook was being driven 10 feet wide and owing to the soft nature of the roof timbers were placed close up to the coal face. Deceased was working at the face when the roof fell, his neighbour heard the fall and reaching the face saw deceased partly buried and he ran for assistance, while the rescuers were endeavouring to release the unfortunate man a very large fall took place completely burying him and causing the rescuers to beat a hasty retreat. The timbers were thrown for 12 feet outbye.

CAMPBELL Archibald - 1901 - 09/12/1901 – Age 27 - Cornsilloch No.3 Miner. Archbald Russell, Lanarkshire. On entering their working place, 2.25 hours after it had been inspected by the fireman, their naked lights ignited firedamp. Another miner was injured. 2 killed.

CAMPBELL Charles - 1908 - 30/10/1908 – Age 31 - Abram Drawer. Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. He was tramming for a dataller, who was enlarging and repairing the travelling downbrow, when a piece of side came over upon him from a break at the slip. At the inquiry it was recommended, that the dataller’s assistant should be an older and more experienced person.

CAMPBELL David - 1901 - 26/08/1901 – Age 54 - Donibristle Fireman. Donibristle Colliery Co., Fife. Inflow of moss. 9 killed.

CAMPBELL David - 1906 - 25/05/1906 – Age 29 - Donibristle Miner. Donibristle Colliery Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased worked on a longwall face, where two ‘lypes’ ran parallel with the face; he was instructed to work from one end and to take a ‘cut’ coal with him and timber, as he went instead, however, he worked in front and when the coal was taken off, the ‘lypes’ were relieved and the roof fell upon him.

CAMPBELL Edward - 1908 - 14/04/1908 – Age 37 - Cousland Miner. Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Explosion of firedamp.

CAMPBELL George - 1906 - 20/02/1906 – Age 20 - Dunnikier Miner. Walter Herd and Cols Ltd., Fife. Deceased withdrew a sprag to allow the coal to fall, when it fell across the face, for a distance of 15 feet, throwing out two other sprags, and he was crushed beneath the mass.

CAMPBELL George - 1909 - 02/09/1909 – Age 22 - Parkneuk Miner. Glasgow Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased, who had not much experience, had gone into to the working place of the miner who employed him, and had just began to fill a tub when some overhanging coal fell on him and killed him instantaneously. He had been told by the fireman that the coal was not safe.

CAMPBELL Herbert - 1904 - 31/05/1904 – Age 18 - Freystrop Clerk. Freystrop Colliery Co. Ltd., Pembroke. While trying to jump on to the foot board of a locomotive his foot slipped and he was crushed by a wheel. Died 1st June.

CAMPBELL James - 1904 - 30/07/1904 – Age 31 - Law Brusher. Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was shovelling redd down along a longwall face to a neighbour, who was topping out a building, a stone suddenly fell upon him killing him instantly. It had probably been shaken by the brushing shot.

CAMPBELL James - 1905 - 23/03/1905 - Smilley Knowe Quarry Labourer. John Young, Haddington. The fireman lighted the fuse of a shot and carelessly threw the burning match into the open crack, exploding the gunpowder, the fuse of which ignited some gunpowder which deceased had in his hand in a canvas bag whereby he was badly burned and died from his injuries on 27th Dec. 1905. The Quarry was less than 20 feet deep.

CAMPBELL John - 1902 - 18/12/1902 – Age 40 - New Craighall Miner. Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased worked in a heading on which it was necessary to run the tub on the self-acting incline principle. At the top the gradient fell to 1 in 28 and the empty tub, ready to be filled, stood with the front wheels over the rail ends and slightly lower than the back ones. A shot was lighted at the coal face and deceased returned to the level road, 84 feet distant, as soon as the shot exploded he stepped into his own road to allow a tub, from the level face, to get out when his tub came down and crushed him against the side of the stoop. The shot was a blown out one and evidently the concussion had disturbed the tub and caused it to move toward the steep part of the road. There was no sprag or snibble in the tub.

CAMPBELL John - 1905 - 17/01/1905 – Age 43 - Gartcosh fireclay Engineman. Glenboig Union Fireclay Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While on a ladder, pouring naphtha on a frozen vertical feed pipe, the naphtha ignited at a fire on the ground and the flask containing the naphtha bursting he was burnt.

CAMPBELL John - 1906 - 13/06/1906 – Age 31 - Earnock, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman. Loundon and Inglis, Lanarkshire. The jib chain, of a hand crane, broke and the jib fell. Either the jib or the chain struck him.

CAMPBELL John - 1906 - 17/08/1906 – Age 42 - Gilbertfield No.1 Contractor. United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. While descending the shaft, in some unexplained manner, he got crushed by the cage.

CAMPBELL John - 1907 - 16/02/1907 – Age 66 - Greasbro’ Byeworkman. Greasbro’ Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was building a pack in a road, about 50 yards from the face, when a fall of stone occurred at a break which could not be seen before and killed him.

CAMPBELL Joseph - 1901 - 24/08/1901 – Age 4 - Peases West Child. Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from the effects of falling into a pond into which the residual products from coke ovens was run.

CAMPBELL Philip - 1908 - 14/07/1908 – Age 40 - Hamsterley Hewer. Hamsterley Colliery Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He hewed the back-end off, and in so doing removed the coal from beneath a cauldron-bottom, 3 feet in diameter by 10 inches thick. The deputy had been in the place about two hours previous to the accident but had not seen any sign of the cauldron-bottom then. The timber was set well up to the face. The seam is thin and water runs down from the roof. These circumstances would render the detection of the cauldron-bottom more difficult than usual.

CAMPBELL Reginald - 1903 - 08/04/1903 – Age 44 - Linton Pumpman. Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Decease, who had lost the sight of his right eye, was the pumping engine man and attended to a telephone in his engine house. He had received a message, which in taking to a locomotive driver caused him to cross three lines of rails leading from the screens on one of which a 32-ton truck loaded with small coal which was gravitating forward, he was without an attendant and he was run over by it and both his legs nearly severed.

CAMPBELL Roy - 1906 - 27/08/1906 – Age 17 - Court Sart Hitcher. Court Sart Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. An empty tram, which was thought to have been attached to a hauling rope on the surface, was pushed over the brow of an inclined plane, it ran wild and struck the men who were working at the face 128 yards away. 2 killed.

CAMPBELL Thomas - 1903 - 30/10/1903 – Age 35 - Dashwood, Sand Quarry Labourer. John D Maxwell, Stirling. The deceased were digging a hole in the floor of a sand Quarry in which they purposed burying a large tree root. A mass of sand suddenly slipped in upon and buried them. Both men were dead before they could be extricated. 2 killed.

CAMPBELL William - 1901 - 26/12/1901 – Age 36 - Ouston E Stoneman. Charles Perkins and Partners, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased and two others were building a pack wall at a longwall face and in order to make room for the wall the deceased knocked out a prop. Sometime afterwards the stone which had been supported by the prop fell and caught him.

CAMPBELL William - 1901 - 27/12/1901 – Age 33 - Lightshaw No.4 Miner. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of coal.

CAMPBELL William - 1902 - 03/05/1902 – Age 19 - Houldsworth Labourer. Dalmellington Iron Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Crushed between pithead scaffold and waggon which he was riding.

CAMPION John H. - 1906 - 26/07/1906 – Age 19 - Stormsdown & Owlacombe (metalliferous) Labourer. EH Bayldon, Devon. Apparently this accident occurred owing to a steel drill coming in contact with an unexploded portion of a gelignite charge. The drill was needed for moling out or getting up the ground shattered by six holes which had been blasted in the bottom of a sinking shaft. The non-explosion of the gelignite may be due either to an excessive charge for the work it had to do or from an unsuitable (too weak) cap having been used.

CANAVAN James - 1900 - 03/12/1900 – Age 35 - Oatlands Stoneman. Moresby Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Explosion of firedamp.

CANAVAN Patrick - 1909 - 03/08/1909 – Age 17 - Lassodie Drawer. Thomas Stewart and Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased knew his roof required more props and had just taken measurement to get one to set up when a large stone fell and killed him instantly.

CANAWAY James - 1904 - 09/11/1904 – Age 45 - Cadzow No.2 Miner. Cadzow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

CANE John - 1900 - 19/03/1900 – Age 40 - Lower Varteg Labourer. Lower Varteg Colliery Co., Monmouth. Died from ‘natural causes.’ Deceased was an ex-army man and had lived for many years in India. Not comprised.

CANINGTON Arthur - 1904 - 28/11/1904 – Age 19 - Pinxton No.1 Labourer. Pinxton Coal Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was lifting up the door of an empty railway wagon when he slipped and the door fell back and struck him on the neck and shoulders. He died 1st December.

CANLIN Amos - 1900 - 22/12/1900 – Age 41 - Plumptre Stallman. Butterley Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was getting coal down and when the coal fell a portion of the roof fell with it and killed him.

CANNAVON David - 1907 - 18/01/1907 – Age 15 - Auldton Pony driver. Brand and Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road while taking in a race of hutches to the workings.

CANNER or GANNER Samuel - 1900 - 07/03/1900 – Age 15 - East Howle Helper up. Carlton Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Sitting on a canch when a piece of stone fell from the roof at a slip and killed him.

CANNON James - 1908 - 27/01/1908 – Age 40 - Lochgelly Repairer. Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Repairs were being made on a steep dook; deceased and another repairer were preparing the dook bottom, they were preparing places for timber, when some coal fell off the stoop side, and striking him he was knocked off his balance and fell to the dook bottom.

CANNON John - 1907 - 25/10/1907 – Age 46 - Hoyland Silkstone Collier. Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He had finished his work and was travelling to the shaft when he was knocked down by a set of empty tubs and killed. The refuge holes were at the required distance. He had been warned to get into one of them and apparently, as his lamp was found lying opposite one, he had been attempting to do so when he was caught by the tubs.

CANNON John - 1909 - 11/05/1909 – Age 45 - Great Western No.2 Hitcher. Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, when lifting a nine foot post from the cage, fell with it on top of him, and struck his breast against a scotch lever. He died from heart failure, said to be a consequence of heart strain due to the accident, on August 22nd.

CANT George - 1900 - 07/05/1900 – Age 40 - Delves Sinker. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While descending the shaft, in a kibble, a small piece of stone fell off the side and hit him on the head causing severe scalp wound and concussion of brain. Died on 9th.

CANTRELL Benjamin - 1902 - 07/03/1902 – Age 26 - Warsop Header. Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Nottinghamshire. The two men were suffocated by a fall of coal suddenly thrown out from the face of a heading and due to gas, under great pressure, bursting out the coal from a fault towards which the heading was approaching. 2 killed.

CANTRILL Thomas - 1904 - 01/03/1904 – Age 58 - Stanton Weigh clerk. J and N Nadin and Co., Derbyshire. He was run over by a railway wagon, while attempting to turn the points. The wagon was running away as the brakes failed to act and the deceased was attempting to turn the runaway wagon into the stop-blocks.

CANTWELL Frank - 1906 - 05/01/1906 – Age 19 - Cadeby Main Painter. Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was getting off a girder, in connection with the ironwork under the incline from the pit lull to the ground level, on to a travelling road alongside it, when he evidently slipped and clutched a bare live electric cable with his right hand, and was killed. He had been specially warned of the danger of touching the cable, and had paint and ironwork in its vicinity when the current was switched off. There is no danger to the persons ordinarily employed, as the cables are 9 feet above, about 6 feet to the side of where they travel to and from the shafts.

CANTWELL Lawrence - 1907 - 13/02/1907 – Age 35 - Jarrow No.6 (sinking) Sinker. RH Prior Wandesforde Co., Kilkenny, Ireland. Whilst ascending the shaft in a small bucket, with two other men carrying canister containing gelignite cartridges and two open petroleum torch lamps, the latter in close contact with the canister, the heat from the lights caused the gelignite to ignite. Deceased fell to the bottom of the shaft, 15 yards, the other two men were injured from burns.

CAPEWELL John - 1900 - 30/04/1900 – Age 49 - Dudley Wood No.2 Pikeman. N Hingley and Sons Ltd., Worcester. Injured by a fall of coal on 30th April, 1900. He was attended by a doctor for some months and recovered so as to be able to walk but was lame and unable to work. Two months before death he became very ill and died on the 12th March, 1901. The cause of death was cancer of the stomach and it appeared doubtful whether this was caused by the accident but at the inquest the jury returned a verdict to the effect that he died from cancer which was the result of an accident in the pit on the 30th April, 1900.

CAPSTAFF George - 1901 - 07/12/1901 – Age 13 - East Hollywell Driver. East Hollywell Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inquest attended. Deceased jumped from a workmen’s carriage when in motion and in running forward caught his foot against a sleeper and fell in front of the first wheel on the second carriage.

CARASS Thomas - 1907 - 24/08/1907 – Age 40 - Linton Horse keeper. Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died August 29th. Deceased, about 2 pm. on a Saturday, left Linton Colliery to walk along this private railway to Ashington, about 2.5 miles distant, rather than wait for this locomotive and workmen’s carriage. When he had proceeded about 1 mile he met the locomotive, going tender first and drawing a workmen’s carriage at a speed of about 12 miles per hour. At this point is a level crossing and on this east side of the line are four stacks of rails, 45 feet long, built up to a height of 4 feet and within 12 inches of this rails at their base. There is a space between each stack. Deceased was aware of this locomotive and was seen to get on to one of this stacks of rails and to continue walking on it. The driver heard a noise after the locomotive had passed deceased, and looking round saw the last wheel of this workmen’s carriage go over him. He had either slipped and fallen off the rails or he had been caught by this step on the carriage. He was taken to Newcastle Infirmary where he died 5 days later.

CARBERRY William - 1907 - 28/08/1907 – Age 31 - North Motherwell Roadsman. Merry and Cunninghame Ltd., Lanarkshire. Repairs were being made on an inclined plane and for the purpose of clearing away this debris empty tubs were left at various parts of the roadway secured by sprags; when the tubs were filled, each was lowered by the rope, beginning with this top one on to the next and coupled. Deceased had apparently forgotten to couple this last tub and got in front and took out this sprag, and as soon as he did so the tub ran away pushing him in front and finally running over him.

CARELESS Herbert - 1909 - 10/06/1909 – Age 14 - Aldwarke Main Pit Hill lad. John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The elevator engine was stopped with full tubs on the elevator. It is supposed Careless turned on the steam engine, when it was on the centre and without turning the steam off, he got inside the fence to ease the engine when it started quickly and he fell into the fly-wheel and was killed.

CAREY William - 1905 - 30/09/1905 – Age 30 - Bryncethin Repairer. Bryncethin Syndicate Ltd., Glamorgan. By explosion of gas.

CARLEY William * - 1900. Bedlington A Pit, Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

CARLIN Hugh - 1905 - 29/12/1905 – Age 34 - Earnock No.1 Reddsman. John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. While taking out props at a stoop the roof gave way and he was caught.

CARLISLE John - 1908 - 17/12/1908 – Age 45 - Grassmoor No.5 Stallman. Grassmoor Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. He was using a ringer to get down coals when the ringer slipped and he received a bruise. Blood poisoning supervened and from this he died.

CARMICHAEL Alexander - 1908 - 04/04/1908 – Age 50 - Gavieside oil shale Miner. Youngs Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased and his neighbour returned to the face, after firing a shot, to make the side secure, and when taking off the shale more came down than was expected and part struck him, causing injuries to which he succumbed 6 months after.

CARMICHAEL Daniel - 1906 - 26/01/1906 – Age 40 - Ballyboylan Whinstone Quarry Quarrier. Midland (Northern Counties) Railway Co., Co. Antrim, Ireland. Premature explosion of 9 lbs. of gelignite whilst charging a breast hole 12 feet deep, using a wood stemmer 9 lbs weight, in all probability a frozen cartridge was inadvertently placed in the hole. 2 killed.

CARNNETY George - 1901 - 02/09/1901 – Age 48 - Rockingham Collier. Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in travelling road. 2 killed.

CAROLL Martin - 1904 - 01/07/1904 – Age 47 - Abram Dataller. Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged packing a road and went to an old roadway for old timber, to build a chock, when a fall of roof occurred from a slip capping two props and burying the deceased.

CARPENTER Acquilla - 1907 - 03/07/1907 – Age 44 - Radstock Collier. Earl of Waldegrave, Somerset. It is alleged he was working at the face of his working place and that kneeling on some small coal caused an abrasion on the skin of the knee. Erysipelas set in on the 7th or 8th July and he died on the 10th. The management deny that he received the alleged injury but I have not seen any proof to that effect to lead me to consider that the evidence given at the inquest was untrue. The case also would never have come under notice but for the Compensation Act.

CARPENTER W.H. - 1902 - 06/11/1902 – Age 18 - Newmarket Silkstone Screenman. J and J Charlesworth Ltd., Yorkshire. Run over by a train of empty wagons which was being pushed past the screens by the locomotive.

CARR Alexander - 1901 - 15/02/1901 – Age 43 - Hill of Beath Oncostman. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Suffocated by gases from an underground fire. 7 killed.

CARR Frank Robert - 1909 - 16/03/1909 – Age 15 - Elswick North Shaft boy. Elswick Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fell from cage while ascending shaft.

CARR George - 1909 - 01/1905/1909 – Age 54 - Choppington Labourer. Bebside Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Brick wall fell over and caught him.

CARR George - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 37 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas 168 killed. 111 Peel St.

CARR H. - 1903 - 31/12/1903 – Age 18 - Dodworth Pumpman. Old Silkstone Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. The lashing chain of a set of tuns in the endless rope broke. Carr heard the tubs running amain and was running across the rope when it sprang and threw him against the roof and killed him.

CARR Henry - 1908 - 18/10/1908 – Age 36 - East Hetton Stoneman. Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He was injured by a cauldron bottom, 6 feet in diameter and 15 inches thick, falling upon him. He died on 26th August, 1909, his back having been broken.

CARR James - 1908 - 12/11/1908 – Age 33 - Walker Hewer. Walker Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Ignition of fire-damp by the flame of a safety lamp, the glass of which had been broken by a fall of stone.

CARR John - 1902 - 20/10/1902 – Age 16 - Nunnery Pony driver. Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Found dead under the tubs road. Had probably stumbled.

CARR John - 1903 - 09/06/1903 – Age 62 - Handen Hold Hewer. James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died 10th February, 1904. Deceased was injured by a fall of stone from the roof of a broken working in the Five Quarter seam on 9th June 1903, but was able to walk home. The accident was not considered serious and was not reported to me. He was off work until 8th July and then resumed and continued at work with an occasional day off, until 26th December after which he worked no more. He died from exhaustion resulting from cancerous disease of the stomach and liver. An inquest was held after a post-mortem examination and although the Jury in their verdict considered the disease was accelerated by the injury received medical evidence did not bear this out.

CARR John - 1904 - 01/03/1904 – Age 50 - Douglas Park Waggon shifter. Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When leaning on the buffer of a waggon another waggon came down and crushed him.

CARR John - 1906 - 18/01/1906 – Age 68 - East Hetton Stoneman. Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. When clearing a space to put in a packwall, a large stone fell away from a smooth parting. It struck him and severely injured him. He died five days afterwards.

CARR John - 1907 - 24/07/1907 – Age 18 - Silksworth Incline lad. Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He slipped when getting into a refuge hole and was caught by the full set which dragged him 70 yards. He died three days afterwards.

CARR John Robert - 1903 - 23/01/1903 – Age 33 - North Seaton Hewer. Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died 28th January. Deceased appears to have been struck by a small fall of stone on the 23rd January but attached little importance to it and saw no doctor and it did not interfere with his work. On the 28th January be took ill in the pit and was carried out on a stretcher but was dead when the doctor saw him, who stated at the inquest that death was probably due to cardiac failure and had no connection with any accident and the jury found that death was due to natural causes.

CARR Thomas * - 1902. Cramlington, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

CARR Thomas - 1902 - 28/01/1902 – Age 30 - Tunnel Dayman. Sir Alfred Hickman MP, Warwick. Fall of roof. Deceased was killed by a fall of roof from a fault slip up to which some timber had been set. The timber was pushed out by the fall.

CARR Thomas - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 23 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 16 Council Street, Stanley.

CARR Walter - 1902 - 18/09/1902 – Age 30 - Soothill, Sandstone Quarry Engineman. H Parry and Sons Ltd., Yorkshire. Ackroyd died 20th Sept. others were killed on the spot by collapse of crane. 4 killed.

CARRICK John - 1904 - 14/03/1904 – Age 36 - Downhill limestone Quarry Farmer. Messrs Ward, Londonderry, Ireland. Explosion of gelignite placed upon a hot stove to soften. 9 cartridges 9/10th lb. no warming pan.

CARRICK William * - 1904. West Wylam, Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

CARRICK William - 1903 - 21/10/1903 – Age 26 - West Wylam Hewer. Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased sometimes worked as a putter and sometimes as a hewer. On the day of the accident he acted in both capacities. Not having sufficient work as a putter the deputy allowed him to hew part of his shift and directed him to work at the side of a pillar in the Yard seam. Deceased worked at the point for some time and then went to the other side of the road and while hewing there a stone fell from the side upon him. The foreshift deputy had not visited deceased after he started to hew. The Local Inspectors reported that it was a pure accident and seemed to our judgement quite unforeseen.

CARRIGAN John - 1908 - 25/12/1908 – Age 30 - Foxley Waggon shifter. J Dunn and Stephenson Ltd., Lanarkshire. When moving waggons, by means of a clip clamped to the haulage rope, in some unexplained manner he fell and got caught by a waggon wheel.

CARROLL Dennis - 1905 - 10/03/1905 – Age 31 - Llanhilleth Haulier. Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Knocked about and fatally injured by an airblast, or rush of wind, caused by a fall of stone in a large cavity from which a heavy fall had previously occurred, which blocked the engine plane which was being repaired. It was at first thought to be an explosion of gas, but subsequent investigation proved conclusively it was not so. Six others were injured more or less seriously.

CARROLL Edward - 1901 - 29/08/1901 – Age 36 - Aldridge Timberman. Aldridge Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof. Collapse of newly set timber in a main road. Cause by a heavy fall of rock from a cavity above the timber.

CARROLL John - 1909 - 15/01/1909 – Age 15 - Whitfield Taker off. Chatterley Whitfield Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased, with other boys, was proceeding down a 200 yard length of a dip (1 in 4) worked by an endless rope, when owing to a coupling becoming detached at a landing, two wagons and a trolley of timber ran amain and overtook them. There was a good and entirely separate travelling dip, but the boys had gone down the haulage dip in the temporary absence of the man at the landing, and against the rule prohibiting travelling while the rope is in motion. From the evidence it appeared that the boys were riding down the dip on an empty wagon.

CARROLL Patrick - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 33 - Maypole Contractor. Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

CARROLL Peter - 1906 - 08/01/1906 – Age 32 - Tyldesley St. George’s Collier. Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Tyldesley, Lancashire. Fall of coal from the face. Whilst his mate was taking out a sprag, by throwing a prop at it, deceased stood only 5 feet from the sprag and was caught by the falling coal. Three sprags had been taken out, the fatal one being the fourth, the whole mass 11 feet in length, being held by this last sprag.

CARRUTHERS George - 1904 - 15/01/1904 – Age 39 - Moat, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman. Herbertsons Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased and two others had a contract for the removal of overburden and had worked forward on an upper step 10 feet high for a distance of 11 feet. The overburden consisted of soil then a sandy bed and then clay and stones. The system of working was to undercut the clay to a depth of from 6 inches to a foot and then wedge it down from the top. Deceased and one of his partners were on the ledge undercutting the clay, deceased being next to the Quarry hole, the bottom of which was 25 feet below. A mass of clay, about 7 feet high and 6 feet long, suddenly fell off the face below the sand bed next the Quarry hole and knocked both of them off the ledge. Deceased fell to the bottom of the Quarry receiving injuries which resulted in his death a few hours later. His partner was knocked into a clay wagon standing on rails 10 feet below and escaped with little injury. The weather had been very wet and may have loosened the clay. As a similar accident at the Quarry had caused the death of a man on October 12, 1903 the Jury added the rider to their verdict recommended that the lessees of the Quarry "seriously consider whether some precautions could not be taken to prevent such occurrences in the future."

CARRUTHERS John - 1901 - 11/04/1901 – Age 15 - Cultrigg Drawer. Barr and Thornton, Linlithgow. Deceased had just descended a shaft, 36 fathoms in depth, where no bottomer was employed. He signalled the cage clear and a moment later, as it had not been raised, he attempted to cross upon it to the other side of the shaft. As he was entering it the cage was raised, he was caught between it and the side of the shaft and was dragged up for some distance and fell back into the bottom being killed instantly.

CARRUTHERS Thomas - 1907 - 11/03/1907 – Age 51 - Polmaise Nos 1 & 2 Labourer. Archibald Russell Ltd., Stirling. He appears to have been mounting one of four waggons to unload props when a Caledonian Railway loco moved them, and he was crushed between the buffers.

CARSE Thomas * 1907 – Linton. Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

CARSLEY James - 1903 - 12/10/1903 - Glyn Colliery stables, Monmouth. Killed after delivering hay to the stables.

CARSLEY W. - 1906 - 15/02/1906 – Age 19 - Brynkinalt Jigger. WY Craig and Sons, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. After lifting the lever of the jig brake, and finding the journey did not start, he left his lever and went to push at the tubs, and failed to get back in time, it was a short jig, and he got crushed by the empty set of tubs. The jigger’s assistant was absent a short time when the accident occurred.

CARTER Charles - 1908 - 21/10/1908 – Age 27 - Talk o’th Hill Collier. Talk o’th Hill Colliery Ltd., Staffordshire. The two deceased and another collier were all at work at the face of a breasting in the Ten Feet Seam. The level behind the face was timbered with 8 feet bars (on legs) at intervals of 2 feet 6 inches, the sides of the road were formed by continuous chocking 6 feet wide. At 9am. without the slightest warning about 8 yards of the roof collapsed and fell to a height of 6 feet above the ordinary roof level. The fall reached right up to the face and came from three slips, one parallel to the face and one running along either side of the level along the edges of the chocks. Carter was released and taken from the pit about 4pm., but it was 2am. on the 22nd before it was possible to release the remaining two. None of the three appeared to have been seriously injured except Carter who was suffering from a fractured thigh. The two deceased died from shock and exhaustion early on the following day. The work of rescue was most tedious and attended with considerable danger for a road had to be made over the top of the fall and the debris removed from against the face and carried back to make a passage to the imprisoned men. 2 killed.

CARTER Dai (escaped) - 1909 - 29/10/1909 - Darran Rhymney Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident has been the subject of a Special Report. 27 men lost their lives and 4 were injured.

CARTER George - 1902 - 12/11/1902 – Age 61 - Conduit Pikeman. Conduit Colliery Co., Stafford. Fall of coal at working face in Bass seam. Deceased was holing in middle of the seam and had holed to a slip. A bump displaced a short sprag he had set and the top coal settled down on his head. The sprag had not sufficient hold of the top coal.

CARTER George - 1906 - 26/10/1906 – Age 47 - Brownhills No.3 Loader. William Harrison Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased and another were taking a loaded tub down a longwall face, from the buttock to the gateroad, a distance of about 10 yards dipping 1.5 inches per yard. A worn wooden locker in the rear wheel was broken halfway down, and deceased who was in front was crushed against a prop, his thigh and pelvis being fractured. He succumbed on 11th November.

CARTER H. - 1904 - 05/07/1904 – Age 49 - Bear Park, Brancepeth Hewer. Bear Park Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. On 6th Oct. 1903 he received a slight injury to his hand from a fall of coal. He afterwards went raging mad and attempted to cut his throat and was removed to Sedgefield Asylum where he died. Jury at inquest returned a verdict that injury caused insanity and therefore death but Dr Plummer, the Medical Referee under the Compensation Act, says it was nothing to do with his death.