CARTER John - 1906 - 05/04/1906 – Age 54 - Glyn Taff, Sandstone Quarry Labourer. John Gibbons, Glamorgan. Deceased was removing overburden, and in working the stump of a tree loose he slipped and fell to a ledge about 12 feet below. The tree stump fell after him, and crushed him to death.

CARTER John - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 18. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas 168 killed. 3 Kettledrum Street, Stanley. Brother of Joseph.

CARTER John Henry - 1909 - 12/01/1909 – Age 28 - Brancepeth Stoneman. Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. He was shearing back the stone, at the side of a road, to form a bed for a brick arch, when a quantity of stone fell and killed him.

CARTER John T. - 1904 - 11/03/1904 – Age 19 - Roddymoor Putter. Pease and Partners, Co.Durham. Came home and complained of injuries to his head and neck and chest by pushing a tub with his head. He worked some time (five days) but died on April 1st.

CARTER Joseph - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 23. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 3 Kettledrum Street, Stanley. Brother of John.

CARTER Joseph jnr. - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 22. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 3 Kettledrum Street Stanley.

CARTER Leonard - 1900 - 13/01/1900 – Age 13 - Cambrian No.1 Asst. haulier. Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. While standing on the side for a tram to pass it caught his leg. Died 19th January.

CARTER Richard - 1904 - 29/01/1904 – Age 63 - King Barrow, Limestone Quarry Quarryman. Bath Stone Firms Ltd., Dorset. He was standing on a stone which spanned a gulley and was about to sling a chain around it for lifting with the crane when the stone slipped away from under him into the gulley and he followed it to a depth of 10 or 12 feet. Peritonitis supervening upon the effects of the shock which his system had received resulted in death on the 9th February.

CARTER Samuel - 1901 - 04/12/1901 – Age 29 - Warsop Main Onsetter. Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Nottinghamshire. Crushed by a descending cage. The deceased was the onsetter and appears to have been cleaning up loose coal from the sump boards or cage hole while the cages were running in the shaft. The descending cage came down upon him.

CARTER Taylor * 1907 - 06/04/1907. Wearmouth, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham.

CARTER Thomas - 1903 - 14/08/1903 – Age 51 - Rowley Hall Labourer. Titford Colliery Co., Stafford. Back injured while he was assisting to lift a boiler plate into a cart. Died on 23rd September from spinal meningitis due to the injury accelerated by disease of his heart and liver.

CARTER Thomas - 1903 - 20/11/1903 – Age 29 - Tillery Journey rider. Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co Ltd., Monmouth. When riding on the rope, in front of the journey, he fell off and was run over. The cause is unknown. This appears to be a dangerous way of riding but if a rider is required it is at least a convenient place in some instances.

CARTER William - 1907 - 15/05/1907 – Age 52 - Schoolfield Pikeman. J and S Hall, Staffordshire. Deceased and another were bringing back a pillar in the thick coal. This opening was 18 feet long and 12 feet wide and within this area 9 props had been set, each carrying a strong lid. The coal had been worked to a height of 7 feet 6 inches, excepting a small portion at one side where the height was 4 feet 6 inches. A shot had been fired in the lower portion, which brought down part of the coal and broke the remainder. Deceased was working this down with a lever when a quantity of the overlying coal came with it, thus giving the portion under which he stood a loose end. Part of it came away from a slip, reeled out two props and knocked him down. Before he could be extricated a second fall took place completely burying him. Deceased and his mate were reputed to be experienced and careful men. They set their own timber, and had a sufficient supply of spare props.

CARTER William - 1908 - 04/06/1908 - Age 59 - Aldwarke Main Wagon greaser. John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He had filled the grease boxes of a wagon standing clear of the screens and, while another was being lowered in the same road, he crossed the rails with the intention of filling the boxes of another standing on the adjoining road under the screens and close to three uprights. He did not notice the wagon coming down, and was caught and dragged past one of the uprights and injured about the hips. Died on the 22nd inst. He had received definite instructions from his foreman not to do the work when a wagon was under the screens, near a pillar, or close wall.

CARTER William Atkin - 1907 - 02/01/1907 – Age 30 - Barron Cliff, Chalk Quarry Quarryman. Robson’s Cement Co. Ltd., Lincoln. A piece of stone, which had previously been examined and thought to be safe fell from the face owing to a thaw following a keen frost and caught and killed him.

CARTIN Bernard - 1901 - 10/12/1901 – Age 44 - Holden Bank Sandstone Quarry, Quarrier. Brooks and Brooks, Lancashire. Fall of a small stone, 4 inches by 4 inches by 0.75 inches from loose debris, 24 feet high above the top stone being worked, which was 18 feet deep. Debris ought to have been set back.

CARTLIDGE Isaac - 1907 - 09/09/1907 – Age 28 - Jammage Collier. Reps of late John Wedgwood, Staffordshire. Deceased was at work in a heading, 8 feet wide, which was crossing two converging downthrow faults. He was shearing or nicking at the face, when presumably he heard the roof working and made to run back. A mass of bass 8 feet by 6 feet by 3 feet, fell from between the two faults, reeled out a prop and caught him as he passed underneath, he was severely crushed internally and died about two hours afterwards. The place had been examined by the fireman and the roof tapped about an hour before the accident and it appeared to him to be safe.

CARTLIDGE Ralph - 1907 - 22/02/1907 – Age 40 - Shelton, Rowhurst Collier. Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased and another were ripping down top coal in a jig, 7 feet 6 inches wide, and securing the roof with bars 4 feet 6 inches apart resting on props at each end. The top coal had been taken down for a distance of 5 feet in advance of the last bar and deceased was squaring out the sides to get another bar in when about 30 cwt. of hard fireclay fell from the roof, breaking his back. He succumbed on 27th March. The roof was full of slips and exceedingly treacherous. The bars were too wide apart, considering the nature of the ground, and the agent instructed the men to reduce the distance between to 3 feet.

CARTLIDGE Samuel - 1902 - 08/01/1902 – Age 22 - Hulme Hooker on. Hulme Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed between a tub and the side of the road. A journey of full tubs, drawn by a rope out of shunt, fouled the empty tubs and Cartlidge was crushed by one of the latter.

CARTMELL Daniel - 1909 - 08/04/1909 – Age 34 - Delves Hewer. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was killed by a cauldron bottom, 6.5 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 14 inches thick at its thickest part, falling upon him. The timbering distance was 5.5 feet. The accident was due to the timbering regulation having been neglected.

CARTWRIGHT Arthur - 1909 - 04/09/1909 – Age 19 - Amblecote No.2 Loader. John Hall and Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. This accident occurred in the New Mine Clay, in a heading 6 feet wide from the right side and roof of which small quantities of water percolated, causing the strata to be rather soft and loose. Deceased was scotching a tub near the face of the heading, preparatory to filling it, and the pikeman was standing at the other end of tile tub, when suddenly a fall from the right side reeled out one or more of the trees, and four settings with a quantity of the roof dirt followed. Deceased was partially buried, and before the pikeman, who was fastened by the legs and slightly injured, could release himself and get assistance a second fall covered the deceased who was dead when got out. After the fall a slip was exposed along the right side of the place, and this with the presence of the water accounted for the collapse.

CARTWRIGHT George - 1902 - 05/07/1902 – Age 38 - Priors Lee, Staffordshire. Pumping Shaft Engineman. Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. A wood bearer, 5 inches by 4.5 inches, supporting a scaffold in the pumping shaft on which two men were working broke causing Cartwright to fall to the bottom of shaft, a distance of 59 yards.

CARTWRIGHT H. - 1901 - 04/05/1901 – Age 28 - Berry Hill, Railway Hooker on. H Warrington and Son, Staffordshire. Crushed by the cage while he was pulling a tub into it.

CARTWRIGHT Harry - 1909 - 13/09/1909 – Age 27 - Grange Dataller. Robert Heath and Sons Ltd., Staffordshire. A carrying bar was being set under two cross bars at the top of a jig, with a view to the removal of the props under the ends of the cross bars, in order to permit a tub road being taken along the face. One of these props had been drawn, and deceased was passing under the carrying bar when a stone fell from the roof, struck and knocked out the prop which had just been set under the carrying bar, and let down the roof. A large stone fell upon deceased.

CARTWRIGHT J. - 1901 - 20/03/1901 – Age 20 - Aldwarke Main Driver. John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Found dead under a full set of tubs, he probably had been riding on the shafts.

CARTWRIGHT James - 1900 - 19/09/1900 – Age 25 - Parr No.5 Daywageman. Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Whilst assisting to remove a large fall in the haulage downbrow a small sharp stone struck the deceased on the head falling from the roof above, a distance of sixteen feet. The fall having come from between two breaks capping three bars. He succumbed to the injuries received the following day.

CARTY James - 1908 - 02/01/1908 – Age 53 - Monk Bretton Miner. Monk Bretton Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. On December 4th, 1907, he was drawing back timber and had capped a prop; he was knocking it out with a hammer when a fall of roof occurred and pinned him against a prop, fracturing his spine. If the dog and chain had been used the accident in all probability would have been prevented.

CARVER David - 1903 - 21/03/1903 – Age 24 - Glengraig Miner. Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was about to brake a loaded tub down a dipping road when the roof suddenly fell upon him.

CASEY Joseph - 1905 - 01/11/1905 – Age 35 - Bellside, Sandstone Quarry Labourer. Thomas King and Co., Lanarkshire. A crane was situated on a level, some distance down in the Quarry, to raise debris and stone to another level and while lowering an empty truck the back stay gave way and the crane fell to the bottom and struck the deceased who was working there.

CASEY Patrick - 1905 - 08/07/1905 – Age 19 - Shaws No.2 Miner. United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place in machine wall. The fall crushed out the props.

CASEY Patrick - 1906 - 18/07/1906 – Age 33 - Scart Labourer. ED and AF Stoner, Co. Cork, Ireland. Old timber forming scaffold in the shaft broke, causing the collapse of a portion upon which four men were working, two of these, including one of the owners were rescued. There were seven men on the scaffold, 90 feet from the top of the shaft. The deceased fell into water and were drowned. 2 killed.

CASEY William - 1908 - 29/12/1908 – Age 51 - Bannockburn Nos. 1&2 Labourer. Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. Crushed between waggon and wall of washery while pushing waggons forward to the screens.

CASH Arthur - 1908 - 01/08/1908 - Clock Face Labourer. Wigan Coal and Iron Co., St Helens, Lancashire. When engaged, with others, fixing girders to make a floor in an engine house, he appeared to have been reaching forward when he overbalanced himself, and fell 12 feet to the cellar floor below, fracturing his skull.

CASS Frank - 1907 - 26/02/1907 – Age 46 - Heckmondwike Collier. Heckmondwike Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He had just drawn two pack props and was preparing to drive a wedge into a piece of over hanging clod or stone when the stone fell and caught him on the head. Died March 2nd.

CASSELLS Gilbert - 1900 - 12/04/1900 – Age 19 - Holytown No.12 Miner. James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Firedamp apparently suddenly release by the breaking of the roof igniting at an open light. Other two men were injured. 2 killed.

CASSELLS Peter - 1900 - 12/04/1900 – Age 27 - Holytown No.12 Miner. James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Firedamp apparently suddenly release by the breaking of the roof igniting at an open light. Another two men were injured. 2 killed.

CASSIDY James - 1902 - 13/1905/1902 – Age 30 - Moss No.6 Prop drawer. Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was attempting to take out a chock from the waste and appears to have loosened the top of the chock and taken the top piece out when the roof gave way killing him instantly.

CASSIDY John - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 19 - Maypole Contractor. Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

CASSON John - 1901 - 27/11/1901 – Age 35 - Hodge Close, Slate Quarry Quarryman. James Stephenson and Co., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was turning off a new working when a large mass of rock fell from the side and buried him. No one suspected any danger from the Quarry side as it had been in the same condition for quite a dozen years. Several other men had narrow escapes but fortunately no one else was seriously injured.

CASTLE Lilian - 1904 - 02/07/1904 – Age 5 – Girl. Ramsgate, Kent. Fell into a pit near Hereson Road and was killed. Female.

CASTLEDINE James Henry - 1906 - 23/07/1906 – Age 49 - Radford Stallman. Wollaton Colliery Co., Nottingham. Fall of coal. Deceased was taking sprags out for the purpose of falling some coal, when the coal rolled over and crushed his head against a prop.

CATE or GATE Richard - 1905 - 11/02/1905 – Age 35 - East Howle Hewer. Carlton Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of stone in the face while washing; the place was well timbered but the stone fell without any warning and canted out some props.

CATHERALL Edward J. - 1907 - 21/01/1907 – Age 20 - Elm No.3 Daywageman. G Watkinson and Sons, Flint. The deceased and another person were winching a tub of dirt up a steep roadway, when one lap of the rope slipped, which caused them to let go the handles and deceased was fatally injured by being struck by one of the handles through there not being a safety-catch on the winch.

CATHERALL Ralf - 1900 - 20/12/1900 – Age 30 - Main Coal Collier. Main Coal Colliery Co., Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was getting a jig chain loose, from under a fall in a road that had been stopped, when another fall occurred upon the deceased. The fireman was censured for sending the deceased alone, as the undermanager had sent orders that two men were to make the place right and chain from there.

CATHERALL Samuel - 1909 - 21/09/1909 – Age 23 - Garswood Hall No.5 Collier. Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Deceased stated he injured his thumb with a pick in the mine. He expired on September 30th, 1909, from the effects of blood poisoning.

CATLING Rowland - 1908 - 17/03/1908 – Age 16 - Wath Main Pony driver. Wath Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. On the road on which he was driving it was necessary to use a double locker in the last wheels of two tubs, but on this occasion the pony kept moving and he could not get them in. He then attempted to stop the tubs by getting in front of them in order to prevent them running into and injuring some men employed on the top of a self-acting incline a short distance away. In doing so he was crushed against the fencing of the incline wheel and killed instantly.

CATON Edward - 1905 - 04/03/1905 – Age 47 - Grange Chargeman. R Heath and Sons Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (clod) at working face in Red Shagg Ironstone, shortly after the firing of a shot.

CATON Joseph - 1901 - 31/12/1901 - Prestongrange Labourer. Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Haddington. While leaving his work he was run over by a train of wagons pushed by a loco engine.

CATON Thomas - 1902 - 03/12/1902 – Age 54 - Linton Shifter. Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A longwall face, in the Yard seam, had been laid off the previous day, by the deputy, on account of bad stone. Repairers went in at night, took down the stone and the place was timbered ready for the hewers. The stone taken down was built at the sides and some of this fell away and the deputy making his examination next morning, before the entry of the hewers, observed and reported this and deceased, with the chargeman, returned to the place to make it secure but while so doing a large fall of roof took place and killed him.

CATRON Matthew - 1903 - 01/06/1903 – Age 66 - Ellistown No.2 Undermanager. Ellistown Colliery Co., Leicester. An accident is said to have occurred to deceased on 29th April, but the doctor who made a post-mortem examination could find no trace of injury and in accordance with the doctor's evidence the coroner's jury returned a verdict that he died of meningitis following influenza.

CATTERALL Thomas - 1909 - 28/06/1909 – Age 62 - Low Hall No.5 Dataller. Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. After setting a new bar in a level, they were placing some covering timber over the bars, when a fall of roof came upon him, capping the bar.

CAULEY Pat - 1903 - 17/12/1903 – Age 24 - Garswood Hall Contractor. Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were engaged blowing the side with shots in a roadway and the last shot appeared to have loosened a rock stone, the fireman gave instructions for them to replace a prop, which had been knocked out by the shot, and it was stated they were starting to set the prop when the stone fell upon the deceased.

CAULFIELD John - 1908 - 07/09/1908 – Age 46 - South Tanfield Hewer. James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Supposed to have received injury to head by coming in contact with timber.

CAULFIELD Peter - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 25 - Maypole Contractor. Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

CAULTON George - 1908 - 10/04/1908 – Age 33 - Langton Dataller. Pinxton Collieries Ltd., Nottinghamshire. Bursting of an air receiver at a time when the deceased and others stood near to it waiting to descend the shaft. Another man was injured. 2 killed.

CAULTON James - 1908 - 27/07/1908 – Age 49 - Waingroves Stallman. Butterley Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. A fall of coal pushed out a prop supporting the roof. The prop struck the deceased’s leg breaking it and he died on 1st August from Syncope accelerated by the injuries, accidentally received in the mine.

CAUSER John - 1904 - 02/01/1904 – Age 50 - Church Gresley Stallman. Moira Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was examining the roof at the gate end of his working place, preparatory to commencing work, when a large stone fell and killed him.

CAVACINTE Guipseppe - 1901 - 27/12/1901 – Age 18 - South Wales Labourer. Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. His leg was run over by a waggon which he was about to unload at the boilers. There was nothing to account for his falling which he evidently did. No one saw the accident, the only suggestion was that he was moving the truck with a piece of timber as a lever under the wheel and that it slipped causing him to fall across the rail with his leg close in front of the wheel which although only just moving may have caught his trousers and prevented his getting clear. He died in the Newport Infirmary on the 1st January, 1902 the leg having been amputated.

CAVANAGH James - 1900 - 11/10/1900 – Age 25 - Bedlington A Hewer. Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inquest attended. He was getting his lunch, by the side in a gateway, yards from the face, when a stone which had been supported by a prop fell away from a slip.

CAVANAGH James - 1901 - 02/12/1901 – Age 30 - Lea Green Daywageman. Sutton Heath and Lea Green Collieries Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A stone fell upon him from the corner upper side of the level, from between two stretchers, when he was in the act of lifting a tub onto the rails.

CAVANAGH Patrick - 1904 - 17/10/1904 – Age 33 - Derry Gennard, Whinstone Quarry Owner. Patrick Cavanagh, Londonderry, Ireland. Fall of ground within control, undermined and overhanging.

CAVANNAH John - 1907 - 25/01/1907 – Age 39 - Asby Hewer. Asby Colliery Co., Cumberland. Deceased was showing in a place, 8 feet wide, in the Yard Band when a stone like a kettle bottom about 2 feet in diameter at the base and with a maximum thickness of 1 foot fell from the roof close to the coal face on to him and he was dead when got clear. The colliery was a small one and the investigation into the accident revealed several breaches of the Mines Act which were the subject of 3 prosecutions. The breaches having a bearing on the accident were failing to fix a station beyond which the workmen were not to pass until the mine had been examined and failing to make such examination. It appeared that on the day of the accident water had risen off the flat sheets at the pit bottom and the colliers could not get to their places until 11am., and that when they were able to do so, no examination of their working places by the deputy had been made. The son of one of the owners did examine deceased's place before the accident and while deceased was working in it. A want of loose timber was not apparent. After the accident water had again risen and no inspection could be made of the place and the inquest was adjourned. Before the adjourned inquest was held another visit was made to inspect the place but the water was still up. The jury at the adjournment returned a verdict of accidental death.

CAVE Lewis - 1900 - 23/05/1900 – Age 17 - Tynewydd Collier. Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Thrown up against the roof by a heavy pounce or bump. The bodies were badly mangled. They were working back a pillar in No.3 Rhondda seam. 2 killed.

CAVEY John - 1909 - 27/03/1909 – Age 52 - Rockingham Lime washer. Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He injured himself by falling on the edge of a creeper. He worked intermittently afterwards, but a stricture developed from the injury, and he died on 28th September.

CAWSON Armstrong - 1906 - 15/08/1906 – Age 15 - Bewick Main Token boy. Charles Perkins and Partners, Co.Durham. The loaded tubs of coal, from the Riding drift, are brought by endless rope to Bewick Main pit to be screened and loaded into 15 waggons. After leaving the endless rope they pass over a weighing table and then over a short curved length of rails, having at first an inclination of 2 inch per yard in favour of the load increasing to 1 inch per yard and terminating at a tippler. Often the tubs will not run round the curve and require to be pushed forward, but if the rails are wet, as was the case when the accident happened, owing to a water tub having passed over them shortly before, they run more freely. Deceased, who acted as token boy and assisted generally, was examining a tub of coal in the tippler, when a loaded tub ran forward and crushed him against it. He was not thought to be seriously injured but was told to go home. He left the pit but was not able to reach home without assistance, and died the same day from a ruptured bladder. The Jury added a recommendation to their verdict that chocks should be provided to prevent tubs running forward unexpectedly, and the manager promised to give effect to it. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘Found it to have been a pure accident.’

CAYGILL John - 1904 - 26/07/1904 – Age 14 - West Durham, Wallsend Rapper. West Durham, Wallsend Coal Co. Co.Durham. He had come out of his telephone hole, by the side of the engine plane without a light, and fell over the haulage rope and was carried and fatally crushed against a sheave stand. His lamp was in the lamp in the cabin.

CAYHILL John - 1907 - 19/11/1907 – Age 35 - Dean & Chapter Stoneman. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When drilling a hole in a top caunch, the back end of the caunch left on the left side of the road, discharged the timber and falling upon him broke his spine. He died on 2nd December.

CAZALE Carlo - 1906 - 11/09/1906 – Age 25 - South Wales Cwmtillery Shunter. Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. He was riding up the surface incline, on one of the front buffers of a train of four trucks when, owing to the rope catching in the stand of a displaced roller, the truck became derailed. He was crushed between the truck and an old boiler which had been placed near, and parallel to the railway.

CECIL Arthur - 1902 - 07/05/1902 – Age 21 - Littleton Sinking Sinker. Littleton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of eleven iron rings and backing deals supporting sides of sinking shaft.

CESSFORD John David - 1904 - 18/04/1904 – Age 44 - South Skelton Pumpman. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When walking inbye at 7 a.m. he took ill. He was removed to the manager's house but died at 11 a.m. the same day from cerebral haemorrhage.

CHADBOURNE Ernest - 1904 - 19/02/1904 – Age 26 - Langwith Stallman. Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Notts. Fall of roof. Deceased was standing in a waste building, a pack in the stall, when the roof fell and killed him.

CHADBUND Henry - 1906 - 28/03/1906 – Age 56 - Treeton Miner. Rother Vale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was removing some holing dirt when a slab of coal and clod fell from the face and pinned him against a prop. He was so seriously injured that he died within a few minutes.

CHADWICK John - 1903 - 26/01/1903 – Age 30 - Woolley Collier. Fountain and Burnley Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in a longwall face cause four slips.

CHADWICK Richard - 1909 - 05/08/1909 – Age 69 - Chanters Daywageman. Burrows and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Ascending the engine brow, oiling the pulleys, when 30 yards from the top he was caught by two empty tubs which ran amain; the split cotter came out of the Smallman clip by which the tubs were attached to the endless rope.

CHALKER Joseph - 1905 - 10/03/1905 – Age 38 - Cambrian No.1 Ostler. Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was the subject of a Special Report by FA Gray. 33 killed.

CHALLANGER Eli - 1902 - 10/01/1902 – Age 50 - Arrail Griffin Collier. J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A piece of overhanging coal, at the face, fell and fractured his skull. A sprag which was set being too short was useless. Apparently the result of his own carelessness.

CHALLINER John - 1900 - 02/06/1900 – Age 30 - Edith and Mable Labourer. Crompton and Shawcross Ltd., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The man in charge of the erecting of the hauling engine fixed the two legged derrick with a rope fastened to the railway metals and another rope around the chimney of the smithy when the wheel, about a ton weight, was being lifted the chimney gave way and the wheel came over crushing the deceased. He succumbed to the injuries received at the infirmary. the same night.

CHALLONER Frank - 1901 - 12/06/1901 – Age 21 - Sutton Roadsman. Blackwell Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. A number of steel girders fell out on the main road and liberated the roof which fell on deceased. Another man was injured.

CHALMERS Ernest - 1904 - 09/01/1904 – Age 18 - Whitehaven Driver. Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Deceased and others, under the charge of a deputy, were engaged on a Saturday evening clearing away debris off the Delaval endless rope haulage road in the Main Band. The road is 11 feet wide and 9 feet 8 inches high; the sides consisted of 7 feet 6 inches of coal overlaid by 2 feet 2 inches of metal or shale. The roof was hard sandstone. There were no props set to support the roof but one or two were set to keep back some loose rubbish. A current of warm air meeting a colder current near the place caused moisture to be deposited. While deceased and another lad were filling a tub the metal and some coal fell from one side for a length of 11 yards and a maximum thickness of about 2 feet, and killed him instantly. The metal overhung slightly at the point and appears to have come away from a recent fracture, the moisture present in the air probably assisting in extending. The road had been in use for 11 years. The deputy had examined the place by looking at it, and was about 40 yards inbye at the time of the accident stowing the debris. It is probable a more minute examination on the part of the deputy might have disclosed the insecurity of the side that fell.

CHALMERS John - 1901 - 12/01/1901 – Age 33 - Bowhill Engineman. Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. After putting a driving belt upon a pulley, deceased was returning along a gangway underneath the pithead scaffold. At a point where the clear height was 4 feet 2 inches his head apparently came against an overhead beam, he overbalanced and fell to the ground, a distance of 16 feet striking the end of a truck as he fell. He sustained injuries which resulted fatally 10 hours after.

CHALMERS John - 1902 - 22/08/1902 – Age 17 - Bellfield No.3 Miner. William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. Whilst putting a hutch on the rails he sprained his leg. He died on 6th September but it is doubtful if the accident was the cause of his death.

CHALMERS Johnstone - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 52 - Lochhead Miner. Wemyss Coal Co., Fife. Deceased was engaged taking out some old stoops and as he passed round the stoop side to take off some loose coal a mass of coal fell upon him.

CHALONER William - 1908 - 17/02/1908 – Age 58 - Douglas Bank Labourer. Rose Bridge and Douglas Bank Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When lowering waggons in the siding, in the night shift, he got fatally crushed against another waggon which was standing foul of his waggon unknown to him.

CHAMBERLAIN William - 1901 - 09/01/1901 – Age 28 - Foxesbridge Stallman. Foxesbridge Colliery Co. Ltd., Gloucester. Clod, which he was pulling down in his working place, fell over a larger area than he expected.

CHAMBERS Ernest Frederick - 1902 - 03/04/1902 – Age 25 - Holmeswood Stallman. Hardwick Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was easing a lid above a prop set, to support the roof in a waste, and preparatory to withdrawing it when the roof fell and killed him.

CHAMBERS John Kitchen - 1903 - 01/10/1903 – Age 61 - Ellistown Banksman. Ellistown Colliery Co., Leicester. A number of men were raising a large wooden frame from the ground when one end slipped causing the frame to fall and kill the deceased.

CHAMBERS Robert - 1904 - 20/01/1904 – Age 31 - Hebburn Hewer. Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased worked in a bord or whole place, 10 feet wide, in the Bensham seam. The last pair of gears was 4½ feet from the face. A stone 7½ feet long (across the place), 5 feet wide, and 10 inches thick at extremes, fell from the roof between the timber and the face, projecting slightly over the coal and the plank. Its upper surface was concave and polished, and in its centre was a caldron arse and coal pipes. It was certain to fall so soon as the coal was worked from under it. An inch or two of brat above the coal prevents fissures in the roof being readily detected. The deputy had been twice in the place that day before the accident. The Local Inspectors reported that in their opinion the occurrence was purely accidental.

CHAMBERS Robert - 1908 - 30/07/1908 – Age 13 - Kirkby Horse driver. Butterley Co. Ltd., Nottinghamshire. A full tub was left standing on a roadway, and afterwards ran away and fatally injured deceased. Another man was injured.

CHAMBERS Samuel - 1909 - 30/01/1909 – Age 37 - Merthyr Vale No.2 Repairer. Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased fell from some timbers, above which he was erecting a cog, and sustained cerebral and spinal injuries from which he died in two days.

CHAMBERS Thomas - 1900 - 19/03/1900 – Age 61 - Seaham Shifter. Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Seaham, Co.Durham. Died in the pit from natural causes. (Not comprised)

CHAMPION John - 1905 - 24/03/1905 – Age 51 - Princess Daywageman. Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made. He was repairing the main brow, and after taking out a bar he was commencing to loosen the next, without any fresh support, when the roof gave way, and he was fatally injured.

CHAMPLEY John - 1907 - 10/06/1907 – Age 21 - Thornley Putter. Weardale Steel Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He had just gone down the pit, and, probably not being able to see, fell into the sump.

CHANDLER Albert - 1901 - 28/03/1901 – Age 16 - Hetton Putter. Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by head being crushed between a tub and prop while bringing a tub from the face to the landing.

CHANDLER Henry - 1903 - 16/11/1903 – Age 52 - Griff, Clara Holer. Griff Colliery Co., Warwick. Fall of coal while holing. The deceased was holing, within four feet of the buttock end, from which coal had been taken only a short time before, which had been holed and was being loaded up. He died 23rd November.

CHANDLER Leonard - 1907 - 23/11/1907 – Age 20 - Hoyland Silkstone Trammer. Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. These men, and another along with a deputy, were removing a portion of an old side wall and arching in an underground boiler house, with a view of replacing it, when a girder collapsed and a large quantity of stone fell and caused the death of Ogden instantly and the others subsequently died from their injuries in the Beckett Hospital at Barnsley. The deputy and the other man were also seriously injured. 4 killed.

CHANTLER John - 1903 - 25/08/1903 – Age 23 - Long Lane Weighman. Garswood Coal and Iron Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inquiry made. He was assisting, to cut a winding rope and was holding a chisel hammer on the rope when another person was striking it with another hammer, the handle of the hammer, deceased was holding, broke causing the end of the hammer to fly up and it struck deceased on the forehead so violently that he succumbed to the effects of the injuries received September 6th. 1903.

CHANTRILL George - 1906 - 18/10/1906 – Age 38 - Whitwick Granite Quarry Quarryman. Whitwick Granite Co., Leicester. Deceased was chargeman of the Quarry and was charging a cavity with gunpowder, when a stone fell from above him and knocked him off the ledge upon which he was standing. He died 20th October.

CHAPLAIN Ernest - 1905 - 03/08/1905 – Age 14 - Shildon Lodge Incline boy. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Although told not to do so he got on to an empty tram, which was being run down an incline. Sprags were in the wheels but one broke and the tram ran amain and threw him off, breaking his neck.

CHAPMAN Frederick - 1906 - 02/05/1906 – Age 19 - Rochester Chalk Quarry Labourer. Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers (1900) Ltd., Kent. While working in front of overburden, 7 to 8 feet in height, a fall occurred which crushed him against his wheel barrow and caused internal injuries from which he died.

CHAPMAN Gideon - 1909 - 27/09/1909 – Age 28 - Ely Haulier. Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. Twenty eight men were descending. The reversing gear of the winding engine failed to act. The descending cage sped to the bottom and the ascending cage went upwards into the sheaves (which it broke) and then fell back down the pit onto the full cage. Five men in the upper deck were killed instantaneously. Those in the lower cage escaped with horrific injuries. Two died later in hospital. Of Edmondstown. 7 killed 14 injured.

CHAPMAN Harry - 1907 - 17/04/1907 – Age 30 - Myers Lane Miner. Charles Bramall, Yorkshire. He was getting ganister in a seam, where the coal had been worked many years previously, and the roof, in consequence, was broken and uncertain. Bars were set every 3 feet and close timbering over them in the form of piles were driven up to the face. He and his mate had fired a shot in the ganister and went to see what the result was. His mate noticed a prop had been displaced from under a bar and saw the place was weighting and told the deceased so and advised him to keep away until he went for another man. While he was away the deceased went in and attempted to reset the prop and while doing so the roof, for a length of about 10 feet, fell upon and killed him.

CHAPMAN Henry or William - 1900 - 14/05/1900 – Age 18 - Cwmbran Collier’s boy. Patent Nut and Bolt Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in his working place when the cogs were set about 5 feet apart. The stone which fell was about 25 tons in weight and came away from three greasy slants.

CHAPMAN Herbert - 1906 - 16/02/1906 – Age 29 - Pinxton Dayman. Pinxton Collieries Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was cleaning dirt away, behind a mechanical coal-cutter, when the roof fell on to him. He died the same day.

CHAPMAN Joel - 1900 - 14/02/1900 – Age 16 - Ruddle China Clay Quarry Labourer. China Clay Co., Cornwall. Fell a distance of 25 fathoms from a ladder in a new shaft which was being sunk for ventilating a wan audit or tunnel, which was being driven to connect with the bottom of the Quarry.

CHAPMAN John - 1906 - 19/06/1906 – Age 47 - Dunston Stoneman. Dunston Garesfield Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Died 29th June. Deceased was engaged shooting up a bottom canch, consisting of 6 inches of sagre underlaid by 6 inches of coal and building the stones by the side of the road. After a shot had been fired he stated he was building the stones when one broke in his hands causing a wrench, and he felt so unwell that he left for home before the end of the shift. He worked no more and was under medical attendance up to his death. An inquest was held after a post-mortem examination. Medical evidence showed that death was due to acute pleuro-pneumonia and while two doctors stated they did not think it was caused or accelerated by any accident or injury but a third doctor considered it would have hastened his death. The jury found that death was due to pneumonia accelerated by the injury he received in the mine causing an overstrain.

CHAPMAN Martin - 1901 - 12/11/1901 – Age 36 - Edmonsley Horse keeper. Edmonsley Coal Co., Co.Durham. On going into the stables, in the Hutton seam with a naked light, some gas exploded at it and deceased was severely burnt about the head and he died two days after. Another man was also injured but he recovered.

CHAPMAN Robert - 1902 - 10/10/1902 – Age 53 - Morlais Collier. Williams and Sons, Carmarthen. Fall of roof at face while stamping a hole in the floor to stand a prop. A stone (clift) 6 feet x 4 feet x 16 inches thick fell from between the face and nearest line of props. Six feet seam.

CHAPMAN Walter James - 1900 - 23/04/1900 – Age 19 - Thingdon Iron Ore Limestone Quarry Labourer. Walter Neilson jnr., Northampton. Deceased fell from a high trestle while removing a plank placed from the quarry face to the trestle. The plank also fell on the deceased and inflicted fatal injuries. He died the same day.

CHAPMAN Wat (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.

CHAPMAN William - 1906 - 02/12/1906 – Age 19 - Rosedale, East (Ironstone) Backbye deputy. Carlton Iron Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. When cutting a hole for a baulk, a piece of shale from the roof above fell on to his head and killed him.

CHAPMAN William - 1907 - 01/11/1907 – Age 66 - Westerton Foreman. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. As he stepped on to some coal, in the hopper, the slide at the bottom was with-drawn. He consequently went through the hopper with the coal and was suffocated.

CHAPMAN William J. * - 1909 - North Walbottle. North Walbottle Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

CHAPPEL George - 1904 - 20/09/1904 – Age 25 - Shaw Cross Sinker. Crawshaw and Warburton Ltd., Yorkshire. When he was filling a kibble in the bottom of a sinking shaft a piece of stone 10 feet by 6 feet by 2 feet fell away from the side and killed him instantly. The piece of stone was timbered with sprags but it came away over them, it was considered to be so sound that two shot holes were being put into it for the purpose of blasting it down.

CHAPPELLOW John - 1907 - 28/01/1907 – Age 54 - Wallsend Overman. Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A stone drift rising 1 in 7 starting at the Low Main Seam about 1.5 miles north of Wallsend Colliery had cut the Bensham seam 23 fathoms above, a limited extent of driving had been done in the Bensham seam and old workings had been holed into with bore rods and water run off which was followed by firedamp in such volume as to prevent access to the old workings. The main drift, which was the intake for air, was supplemented by a road which acted as the return air way consisting of two shorter lengths of steep stone drift, a staple and about 200 yards of level road. A new pit was being sunk from the surface to the Bensham seam beyond where the drifts had reached if and it was desired to drive under where the pit would come down and as this could not be done in the Bensham a second pair of drifts rising 1 in 1.5 were put up from the Bensham to the Yard seam, 9 fathoms above, in which seam there were no old workings. At the time of the accident two places, 8 feet wide, had been driven, one 40 yards and the other 13 yards, in the Yard seam with one stenton 11 yards long connecting them. Both places were bratticed close up to the face. The barometer fell considerably from Saturday mid-day to Monday evening when the accident happened. It was usual at the week-end to open cocks in pipes communicating with the old workings, in the Bensham seam, to allow the gas to reach places in the Yard seam which were found to be foul and they were not occupied by hewers on the Monday morning but on the evening of that day the overman and back overman accompanied by the two night shift hewers went to the place to remove the gas. A regulator was closed to force more air into the Bensham and Chappellow’s the idea seems to have been to remove the canvas opposite the stenton, in the Yard seam, so as to allow the air a freer play. One hewer was left at the bottom of the intake drift to the Yard seam with both the hewers’ lamps and Chapellow’s lamp, the other hewer was stationed about half-way up the intake drift with Fawcett’s lamp, and Chappellow and Fawcett went forward in the dark and attempted to remove the brattice, they partially succeeded but the gas immediately backed and showed on the lamp with the hewer half way up the drift and both men were overcome. A deputy was called and he went up the drift and was overcome but fortunately rolled back into purer air. A borer then went up and managed to draw Chappellow out, on whom artificial respiration was tried without effect. The manager and others were soon on the scene and Fawcett’s body was recovered just in the stenton. The Local Inspectors reported ‘The accident its our opinion is an unforeseen accident.’ 2 killed.

CHAPPLE G.W. - 1905 - 18/04/1905 – Age 23 - Albion Collier. Albion Steam Coal Co Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased stood at the outer end of a tram, that had been tumbled on its side to allow the full tram to pass out. The empty tram had not been tumbled clear of the road, so the full tram struck it, pushed it outwards, and crushed deceased against a pest. He was injured so seriously that he died on the follow day.

CHARLES Richard - 1907 - 08/11/1907 – Age 33 - Ely Roadsman. Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was putting a rail on a tram when the horse moved on and the rail slipped and it was said struck the deceased in the stomach. He worked an extra shift that day and the whole of the next week in which he did a good deal of overtime. He was afterwards taken ill with vomiting blood and died of a fit Dec. 10th.

CHARLES Robert - 1904 - 03/09/1904 – Age 26 - Plaspower Collier. Broughton & Plaspower Coal Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were engaged working the coal with a downthrow fault when a large fall of roof occurred between slips capping five props and crushing the deceased. It was advised at the inquiry, that the roof should be packed near the fault to make it more secure. 2 killed.

CHARLESWORTH Ernest - 1907 - 11/06/1907 – Age 39 - South Kirkby Blacksmith. South Kirkby Featherstone and Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Along with another man he had been working near the upcast shaft and at breakfast time instead of going the proper way, he attempted to pass between two empty wagons, which were 4 feet apart when they suddenly closed, owing to some thing behind them being lowered and he was caught between them and fatally injured. The wagonlowerer said as soon as he saw the deceased go between the wagons he shouted to him to keep clear but the wagons closed before he could stop them.

CHARLESWORTH JA - 1902 - 22/08/1902 – Age 14 - Cortonwood Driver. Cortonwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was holing the coal in a working face, unknown to the collier in charge, when a large flake of coal fell and killed him. Cause coal not spragged.

CHARLESWORTH William - 1906 - 11/08/1906 – Age 22 - Norton Cannock Horse driver. Norton Cannock Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was walking inbye between his horse and a set of two tubs, which contained some props. At a point, 25 yards from the face, a fall of roof took place, some props having been knocked out either by the projecting end of a prop, which overhung the right front corner of the first tub, or by a slip off the side, more probably the latter. He was buried by the fall and died before he could be extricated. Had he been walking behind the tubs he would have escaped injury.

CHARLSON James - 1902 - 18/02/1902 – Age 58 - Gibfield Labourer. Fletcher Burrows and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by waggons whilst passing in front.

CHARLTON A.M. - 1905 - 07/12/1905 – Age 16 - Westwood Driver. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Trespassing in coke yard he fell from steps from a bench and fractured his leg.

CHARLTON Charles - 1909 - 24/11/1909 – Age 15 - Garesfield Driver. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fell before tubs he was driving.

CHARLTON Edward - 1903 - 24/02/1903 – Age 47 - Backworth Wasteman. Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. Deceased had suffered from heart disease for some years. On the day of the accident he was filling stones into a kibble, which a lad took from him to a stow hoard. He lifted a large stone into the kibble which he himself described to the lad as being like a shark. Shortly afterwards he fell down and died. I saw the stone and could barely lift it and no doubt deceased had strained his heart while lifting it. The jury found: 'Died from heart disease accelerated by over exertion while at work.'.

CHARLTON George - 1905 - 02/03/1905 – Age 17 - Littleburn Shaft hand. North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was caught by a full set coming to the kip and ran over. He had no business to be where he was.

CHARLTON George - 1906 - 25/04/1906 – Age 22 - Ashington Stoneman. Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased and others were levelling out a 2 feet 7 inches dip hitch, which crossed the face diagonally, of longwall workings in the Yard seam, 3 feet 1 inch thick in the 5th South district of the Bothal pit. A coal cutter and conveyor is used along the face and after each cut the hitch had to be crossed at a new point. Deceased had assisted to adjust the road at several of the points previously crossed. At the time of the accident the bottom stone had been removed on the rise side and top stone taken down on the dip side of the hitch and deceased was at the latter point cutting a hole in the face to receive the end of a plank, when a stone 6 feet 9 inches long along the hitch, and 3 feet 3 inches along the face and 2 feet 9 inches thick suddenly fell and crushed his head. The stone was relieved by the hitch leader and by a greasy jack parallel to it and by a jack over the coal. The assistant master shifter had jowled the stone 20 minutes before it fell and thought it safe. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘We consider that it was properly timbered and no blame attached to anyone.'

CHARLTON Henry - 1901 - 26/09/1901 – Age 14 - Felling Driver. John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Another boy and the deceased were walking outbye down a selfacting incline. They got into a manhole and allowed the empty set to pass but forgetting about the descending full set they were knocked down by it on leaving their place of refuge.

CHARLTON James - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 15 - West Stanley Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 3 Manx Street, Stanley.

CHARLTON Joseph * - 1909 – Walker, Walker Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

CHARLTON Joseph - 1904 - 10/09/1904 – Kimblesworth, Charlow and Sacriston Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Alleged to have died from strain when lifting and fixing heavy girders but post-mortem showed death was due to the rupture of an aneurysm on the lung after he had gone home.

CHARLTON Michael - 1900 - 17/02/1900 – Age 20 - Hazelerigg Putter. Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was passing up an incline when he was crushed between props and a set of tubs which had got amain in consequence of the improper removal of the chock at the bank head.

CHARLTON Robert - 1906 - 08/01/1906 – Age 59 - Wheatley Hill Shifter. Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When repairing in a wagonway he put up a prop, but it was not to his liking so he pulled it out again; a large stone followed and so injured him as to cause his death two days afterwards.

CHARLTON Thomas Nelson - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 33. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 3 Manx Street, Stanley.

CHARLTON William - 1909 - 03/05/1909 – Age 57 - Fallowfield, Byrites Labourer. Walton and Cowper, Northumberland. While filling mineral from a heap a portion fell away and caught the deceased.

CHARLTON William - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 33. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 3 Manx Street, Stanley.

CHARNOCK Peter – 1908 – 18/08/1908 – Age 34 – Maypole Contractor. Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

CHATER John – 1909 – 20/09/1909 – Age 36 – Hickleton Main Collier. Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He cut top coal in the gate end and knocked out a prop, preparatory to getting the coal down. He foolishly went under the unsupported coal and was killed by the fall.

CHATT John T. – 1905 – 25/09/1905 – Age 31 – Thrislington Hewer. Thrislington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was injured by a fall of coal and ramble on 25th September, 1905, and died on 14th January, 1906, from consumption, death being accelerated by the injury he had received whilst at work in the pit.

CHATT Joseph – 1900 – 22/05/1900 – Age 52 – Medmosley Hewer. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While setting some timber under a stone it fell away at a slippery parting and caught and killed him. Stone measured 5 feet 6 inches by 7 feet 11 inches by 8.5 inches thick.

CHATT Joseph – 1906 – 26/06/1906 – Age 52 – Thrislington Hewer. Thrislington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Said to have suffered from effects of powder smoke when at work in the mine. Coroner's jury gave a verdict that death was due to apoplexy, but accelerated by breathing noxious fumes whilst at work.

CHAVE Henry – 1900 – 23/05/1900 – Age 29 – Tynewydd Collier. Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Thrown up against the roof by a heavy pounce or bump. The bodies were badly mangled. They were working back a pillar in No.3 Rhondda seam. 2 killed.