CHAYTOR William - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 52 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. High Street. Body recovered March 1933.

CHEDZIE George - 1905 - 11/07/1905 - National No.2 Labourer. United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones. 12 Graig St., Pontygwaith. Buried at Llanwonno Cemetery on Saturday.

CHEEK E.J. - 1902 - 04/06/1902 – Age 24 - Fochriw No.2 Repairer. Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 8 killed.

CHEERS John - 1904 - 03/09/1904 – Age 36 - 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.

CHEETHAM G. - 1900 - 08/06/1900 – Age 40 - Roundwood Labourer. Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Three empty wagons, being lowered to screens, pushed others standing there against full wagons crushing him between them.

CHEETHAM Thomas - 1909 - 12/11/1909 – Age 16 - Glenburn Engine attendant. James Griffiths, Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Deceased appeared to have attempted to guide the coils straight on to the drum with his hand, and his hand got fast and he was drawn round the drum and fatally injured.

CHEETHAM William - 1902 - 24/03/1902 – Age 20 – Wet Earth Drawer. Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face whilst holing. No sprag set. Died 15th April, 1902.

CHENHALL or CHENALL William James – 1900 – 22/05/1900 – Age 30 – Cramlington, High Hewer. Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was kirving a jud, which was knocked on one side, when part of the coal fell away from a sooty back and canted out the sprags.

CHERESHEWSKI Joseph – 1900 – 01/06/1900 – Age 26 – Hamilton Place No.1 Miner. Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

CHERRY Benjamin James – 1906 – 24/09/1906 – Age 25 – Denton Collier. Denton Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. In a roadway, whilst taking out a prop with a short hammer, he ought to have used the gablock and chain. Pronounced slip and also a break visible. (Average roof.).

CHESHIRE William - 1908 - 04/03/1908 – Age 48 - Longacres Ironstone Miner. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He tried to bar down a piece of ironstone, but failing in his purpose, he began to cut the stone out beneath. The upper piece then fell suddenly upon him.

CHESNEY Hugh - 1908 - 02/04/1908 – Age 34 - Broxburn Oil Shale Miner. Broxburn Oil Coal Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was engaged stooping and while taking shale from the face a fall of roof took place, off the waste, throwing out several sets of timber and completely burying him.

CHESTER H. - 1903 - 25/05/1903 – Age 63 - South Kirkby Wagon Examiner. South Kirkby Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 5th June. When stooping to look under a train of empty wagons he thoughtlessly did not keep clear of an adjacent siding and was fatally injured by wagons which were being pushed in front of the locomotive.

CHESTER Thomas - 1908 - 13/02/1908 – Age 55 - Ferndale Coal Trimmer. D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was breaking up a lump of coal, which had fallen on the empty road leading to No.1 pit screens, when he was knocked down by a wagon which was being lowered towards the screens. Deceased had stood one side to allow two wagons to pass, but was not aware that others were to follow.

CHESWORTH John - 1909 - 01/04/1909 – Age 37 - Ravenhead Labourer. St Helens Collieries Co., St Helens, Lancashire. He attempted to lever the blade of a ventilating fan, which was worked by a single engine, and which had stopped on the centre; When pulling back the plank he was using (after it started) it injured his stomach so severely that he expired April 5, 1909. A barring arrangement will be put on the main shaft of the engine to start it in future.

CHEVERS William Thomas - 1900 - 13/11/1900 – Age 53 - Deepwater Pier Chalk Getter. Northfleet Coal and Ballast Co. Ltd., Kent. While walking down the working face he fell over a steep part and was killed. The chalk was slippery from recent rain.

CHEW Friday - 1902 - 17/09/1902 – Age 62 - Grave Clews, Sandstone Quarry Quarrier. Grane Brick and Stone Co. Ltd., Lancashire. A stone being raised fell out of a sling of chain and struck the deceased. As the bottom of the Quarry was only 6 yards by 4 yards in area the man ought to have ascended to the higher level, 12 feet above where there was room. Died 19th September.

CHICK Edward E. - 1906 - 01/11/1906 – Age 24 - Wyndham Hitcher. Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed against a beam at pit bottom by a cage which ascended, unexpectedly, through a misunderstanding in signalling. He was partly in the cage releasing a tram which had caught in a side iron sheet.

CHIDLEY E. - 1908 - 05/05/1908 – Age 52 - Cwmneol Labourer. Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was sent by the fireman to clear a small fall on an untimbered roadway in the Yard Seam. Whilst so engaged, a piece of roof and side, 10 feet long, fell and killed him. The fall consisted of coal, black shale, fireclay, and cliff. The ground was of a friable nature, and should have been timbered.

CHIDLEY George - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 18 - National No.2 Haulier. United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed.

CHILCOTT Joseph - 1907 - 20/08/1907 – Age 27 - Cymmer New Haulier. Insoles Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was taking an empty tram along a level, riding most probably on the front, when his horse was heard to start galloping. In passing over the pointers of a parting the tram jumped off the rails and crushed deceased to death against the side. The horse had not been known to bolt before, and had been well broken in to the work.

CHILDS Thomas - 1906 - 17/02/1906 – Age 49 - Whitworth No.1 Collier. Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When working out the butts of a piece of coal, a fall of roof occurred from two slants running to meet. The stone was 12 feet long, 4 feet 6 inches broad, and 3 feet thick, The overman stated that be had instructed deceased to put a prop under it but he did not do so.

CHILTON Nemiah - 1909 - 17/07/1909 – Age 16 - Shelton Deep No.1 Haulage tenter. Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. This accident occurred on an engine plane formed about nine years ago. The road was originally 12 to 13 feet wide but the sides having pushed in, both sides were being stripped to permit brick side walls to be built, the clear width between these walls being 10 feet 5 inches. The girders, which originally supported the roof, were removed three weeks prior to the accident, and the roof, which consisted of strong bind, was left entirely unsupported for a length of 18 feet. It was examined by the manager, undermanager, under-looker, and overman on the morning prior to the accident, the manager tapping it with his stick; and it appeared to them to be unbroken. Two firemen examined it again on the morning of the accident, but did not tap it as they had nothing handy with which to do so. They saw no breaks and ‘considered it perfectly safe.’ Some loaded tubs were standing on one road, and deceased, walking between the two road, was pushing an empty tub inbye, when a blade of the roof, 22 feet long, the whole width of road, 6 inches in thickness at one side and increasing to 15 inches at the other, suddenly came away from a rough parting. A portion of it drove his head down upon a loaded tub, killing him instantly. The place had been redd up, the brick side walls completed, and the girders replaced before my inspection on Monday 19th July but the general manager and other officials agreed that no fault or slip in the roof had been exposed. I am very strongly of opinion that this accident should not have happened. Notwithstanding the apparent soundness and hardness of the roof it was, in my opinion, exceedingly rash and ill-advised to expose so great an area, especially in an old road which was being stripped. There was plenty of room to set temporary supports although it might have caused some inconvenience.

CHILTON William - 1902 - 18/03/1902 – Age 51 - Bedlington Shifter. Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased sat down to rest, on his road inbye, when he fell from his seat and died from heart failure. Inquest held. Verdict 'Died from natural causes.'.

CHINEY B.W. - 1904 - 23/09/1904 – Age 21 - Mardy Tipper. Lockets Merthyr Collieries (1894) Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was illegally riding up to the rubbish-tip on a journey when he either fell off or was knocked off by a framing across the road. This framing carries a sheave to prevent the rope from swinging as there is an undulation in the road.

CHINNOCK James - 1905 - 11/05/1905 – Age 41 - Tymawr Repairer. Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road. Deceased was lagging two pairs of timber, which he had just stood, when the pair next to them broke down and caused the ground above the new timbers to fall and crush them out. He died on April 22nd 1906. Five-feet seam.

CHISAM William - 1908 - 02/04/1908 – Age 25 - Tinsley Park Ripper. Tinsley Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Two shots had been fired in the rock ripping of a road, by the shot-firer about half an hour before the accident occurred and the deceased returned to the place with the shot-firer to examine it. They then had a meal. On returning they began to pull down loose pieces, when a piece 3 feet by 4 feet 6 inches by 10 inches suddenly fell and killed Chisam. The rock was shot shaken but the two stonemen and the shot-firer, who were all experienced men, did not detect it.

CHISHOLM James - 1902 - 13/03/1902 – Age 34 - Nuneaton Hillman. Stanley Bros. Ltd., Warwick. A journey of empty tubs, starting down an incline plane, collided with other tubs which were standing at the top of the incline and caused them to run away down the hill They overtook the deceased and killed him.

CHISNALL James - 1902 - 12/03/1902 – Age 21 - Crawford No.2 Wagon lowerer. Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made. He was the regular waggon labourer and whilst lowering some waggons he slipped or fell off one of the brakes he was sitting on and fell under the wheels and was killed.

CHISNALL Thomas - 1906 - 05/11/1906 – Age 48 - Holland No.9 Collier. White Moss Coal Co., Lancashire. Inquiry made. While he was in the act of holing the coal, he got his hand cut by a small piece of dirt or coal falling; he kept on working and it was not considered serious at the time. He died November 15th, 1906, from erysipelas set up by the injury received.

CHIVEN Benjamin - 1901 - 10/06/1901. Millstone Edge gritstone Quarry, Henry White, Derbyshire. He died suddenly while at work and the coroner's jury returned a verdict that death was caused by 'heart disease.'.

CHIVERS Charles - 1908 - 20/02/1908 – Age 25 - Washington Glebe Shifter. Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of firedamp. 14 killed.

CHIVERS Edward or Edwin - 1902 - 25/08/1902 – Age 48 - Brancepeth Deputy. Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. Killed by a fall of stone while drawing timber out of a broken jud. Buried in Willington Chapel Cemetery.

CHIVERS Matthew - 1906 - 20/09/1906 – Age 66 - Blaina Henwain Collier. John Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. While he and his son were walking out to the shaft, along the engine plane, they were caught by the journey and dragged about 10 yards. He died from his injuries on October 4th.

CHOLLERTON James - 1904 - 11/10/1904 – Age 21 - Manners Dayman. Manners Colliery Co., Derbyshire. He left the mine feeling unwell on 5th September and died from natural causes, as certified by the coroner’s jury.

CHORLEY John - 1906 - 08/01/1906 – Age 38 - Newton (Wood) Brakesman. Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He had got down from the locomotive, and was passing in front of a train of waggons, in order to put the brakes down, when he appears to have caught his foot against the rail and fell, and his arm was run over. He expired on January 18th 1906, after having his arm amputated.

CHORLTON Joseph - 1908 - 28/10/1908 – Age 42 - Peel Hall Collier. James Roscoe and Sons, Lancashire. At working face from a slip which ought to have been seen. He had pulled coal to it. Narrow escape of two men. (Died 12th November.) (Average roof.)

CHRISTE William - 1909 - 22/03/1909 – Age 20 - Devon Hanger on. Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Clackmannan. Deceased, who worked in the bottom of a two tub incline, was found dead near two empty tubs about 30 yards up. His face and shoulders showed that he had been caught, but it is not known how. The roof is very low and he seems to have been doing something to the tubs when the accident occurred.

CHRISTIE Alexander - 1901 - 16/02/1901 – Age 64 - Wemyss Miner. Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was building a pillar in a longwall level in a seam 7 feet in thickness when about 15 cwt's of coal and stone fell from between two parallel lypes and killed him instantly. There were no gibs under the coal and the nearest rance was 12 feet distant.

CHRISTIE George - 1905 - 16/08/1905 – Age 39 - Minto Coal cutter. Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased stepped across the bar of a coal cutting machine, while it revolved, and his legs were caught by the picks. The bar had only cut a few inches under the coal, and was working quite satisfactorily and no reason can be assigned why deceased stepped across.

CHRISTIE James - 1902 - 18/06/1902 – Age 45 - Linton Onsetter. Ashtington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A single decked cage holding two tubs was raised from the bottom while deceased was pushing empty tubs out of it and he was caught between the end of the cage and the first guide bunton. Electric signals were in use. At the inquest two onsetters stated no signal was given to raise the cage but a banksman, the engineman and the enginewright, who happened to be in the engine house at the time all stated a signal was given.

CHRISTIE James - 1907 - 15/08/1907 – Age 20 - Lochhead Miner. Weymss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. A tub of a rake running on an inclined plane left the rails and striking some timber caused the roof to fall, opposite a place of refuge where deceased was and he was crushed beneath the debris.

CHRISTISON Charles - 1900 - 26/07/1900 – Age 43 - East Hetton Onsetter. Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. Shaft lad was lowering down tubs but did not get plenty sprags in and he was crushed between the tubs and the shaft timber and his thigh was fractured. Died August 24th.

CHRISTON Ralph - 1906 - 27/02/1906 – Age 45 – Skelton Park Ironstone Filler. Bell Bros. Ltd., North Yorkshire. When working in the brokens, a piece of stone fell off the side and broke both bones of his left leg. He died 10 days afterwards from shock.

CHRISTOPHER William – 1908 – 09/11/1908 – Age 38 – South Cambria Rider. Montgomerie and Workman, Glamorgan. Deceased was riding on the rope attached to a tram filled with rubbish, when he slipped off, and was run over. His spine was fractured, and he died in a few minutes. The dip was in good condition, being 8.5 feet high and 8 feet wide, and the road was well laid.

CHRISTYNICK Stanley – 1902 – 12/02/1902 – Age 18 – Newbattle Sinker. Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased, a Pole, and three other workmen were engaged enlarging a shaft and for that purpose were standing on a scaffold with a kettle beside them when a stone fell from the side and jammed him against the kettle.

CHRYSTAL Alexander – 1908 – 14/10/1908 – Age 36 – Dysart Miner. Earl of Rosslyns Collieries Ltd., Fife. Deceased was shearing his coal on one side, when without warning, the whole area of cut coal fell upon him killing him instantly.

CHURCH Absolom – 1909 – 22/01/1909 – Age 67 – Whitworth Shackler. Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. The breakage of the haulage rope, on the No.1 slope, caused the journey to run wild and knock out timber, which resulted in a fall of roof in the slope, extending over the manhole in which he had taken refuge. No explanation of the breakage was obtainable at the Inquest; the rope was said to have been working 6 or 7 months, and as it worked in wet on the roads presumably the wires had rusted and the rope was unable to bear the working strain any longer. This might perhaps have been classed under Haulage Accidents with justification.

CHURCH Frank – 1908 – 08/12/1908 – Age 32 – Oxcroft Loader. Oxcroft Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Struck by a piece of coal from a shot of Monobel powder, fired 47 yards away. Deceased had taken shelter behind a pit tub and was hit on the ankle. He died on 15th December from septicaemia arising from the wound.

CHURCH G.E. – 1903 – 12/06/1903 – Age 17 – Monckton Main Driver. New Monckton Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 14th June. Kicked by a horse.

CHURCHILL F.H. – 1903 – 28/09/1903 – Age 16 – Naval Harbour Quarry Loco. Fireman. W Hill and Co., Dorset. He was crushed between the buffers of the locomotive and a waggon but whether he was in the act of uncoupling the waggon or in getting off the engine and swung himself in between the buffers is not known.

CHURCHILL Joseph – 1908 – 27/07/1908 – Age 53 – East Cannock Stallman. East Cannock Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Deceased was working in a longwall face, in a seam 6 feet thick with a dirt parting 9 inches thick in the centre. He was holing in this dirt and was partially under a portion of overhanging top coal, which was well spragged, when a bump brought down the holed coal and a portion of the unholed coal where deceased was. He received a compound fracture of the thigh and was taken to the Accident Home where he died on the morning of August 11th.

CHURCHILL Mark - 1907 - 07/02/1907 – Age 55 - Little Raith Labourer. Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased, with some other workmen, was engaged moving forward some empty waggons and was pushing at the buffer of the rear waggon when some loaded waggons, moving behind, came slowly down and the front one crushed him between its buffer and the buffer of the empty waggon.

CHURN Elias - 1902 - 19/12/1902 – Age 27 - Rock Collier. Thomas Jones, Shropshire. The winding rope broke while they were ascending the shaft and they fell to the bottom, a distance of about 20 yards. 3 killed.

CHURN Samuel - 1902 - 19/12/1902 – Age 31 - Rock Collier. Thomas Jones, Shropshire. The winding rope broke while they were ascending the shaft and they fell to the bottom, a distance of about 20 yards. 3 killed.

CLAMP James - 1905 - 17/03/1905 – Age 50 - Baddesley Stallman. Baddesley Colliery Trustees, Warwick. Died from blood poisoning, the result of a pinched thumb caused by the falling of an iron boring machine in the mine.

CLAMP Samuel - 1907 - 09/12/1907 – Age 36 - Bestwood Dayman. Bestwood Coal and Iron Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was using a ringer to get the coal down, and when the coal fell deceased was struck by it and by and by a falling prop which the coal knocked out.

CLANCEY Charles - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 18 - National No.2 Collier. United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. Auebor Terrace, Taff’s Wells.

CLANCEY John - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 38 - National No.2 Collier. United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. Auebor Terrace, Taff’s Wells. Married., father of Charles.

CLANCY C. - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 17 - National No.2 Collier. United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed.

CLAPTON E. - 1903 - 27/06/1903 – Age 33 - Orgreave Shunter. Rothervale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. The driver of the train conveying workmen along the colliery sidings from the public railway forgot he had previously blocked the loco wagons. He had very imprudently allowed Tinkler to ride on the locomotive with the shunters and he evidently failed to keep a good look out. The train collided with the waggons. The driver was seriously injured and Clapton and Tinkler died injuries the same day. 2 killed.

CLARE Thomas William - 1906 - 08/12/1906 – Age 37 - Walkmill Set rider. Moresby Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased and another set rider were riding on a bogie, which was attached by a screw clutch to an endless rope travelling at a speed of 4 to 5 miles pet hour, to the bogie which was attached to two full tubs by a chain a few feet long. At the place of the accident a loose length of wire rope lay on the rails on which they were moving, and was used to draw loaded tubs out of a dip road at right angles to the plane, being connected to the endless rope when in use. The clutch of the bogie caught the rope and it became entangled with the endless rope and was being dragged along. Deceased jumped off, between the two pairs of rails, either to signal for the rope to stop or to attempt to liberate the loose rope. He was seen to strike the rope on the empty side, which was vibrating at the time, and he fell back between the bogie and loaded tubs and was caught by them and crushed across the chest and dragged several yards before the rope was stopped.

CLAREBOROUGH G.C. – 1907 – 20/08/1907 – Age 29 – Thrybergh Hall Dataller. J and J Charlesworth Ltd., Yorkshire. A canch of ripping, 4 yards long and about 4 yards wide, had to be taken down to make height in a jinney. A man was wedging at a stone on the rise side on the left side of the road expecting to get a portion down at that side. Deceased was standing at his right hand side, slightly behind him holding a light. While in the cat of wedging, much to their surprise, the whole caunch came away up to a parting. It knocked deceased’s mate back out of the way but the deceased was caught and killed by it.

CLARK Alexander – 1908 – 10/03/1908 – Age 50 – Lethans Miner. Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. A stone miner was working in a very hard stone, two shot holes were bored in the bottom, and while deceased was pushing home the explosive, which was gelignite, with a wooden rammer, it exploded. The explosive apparently was not in proper condition.

CLARK Alexander – 1909 – 10/12/1909 – Age 16 – Caprington No.41 Drawer. Caprington and Auchlochan Collieries, Ayrshire. Inflow of surface water into workings near the surface, during the night. 10 killed.

CLARK Andrew – 1906 – 16/11/1906 – Age 36 – Lumphinnans Sinker. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The shaft was being enlarged and deceased was on a suspended platform, 10 fathoms up, helping to fix a bunton when it overbalanced and he fell to the bottom.

CLARK Arthur Charles – 1907 – 17/04/1907 – Age 14 – Garw Collier’s boy. Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face. A sudden crush caused the collapse of two pairs of timbers and a fall of roof measuring 12 feet by 8 feet by 17 inches resulted. The roof was a slanty shale. Six feet seam. Safety lamps.

CLARK James – 1909 – 08/11/1909 – Age 38 – Polquhairn Miner. Polquhairn Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fireman allowed him and others to enter a place before he first cleared out gas which was ignited by a naked light.

CLARK Edmund – 1908 – 02/09/1908 – Age 25 – Trafford Drawer. Crompton and Shawcross, Wigan, Lancashire. He was fatally crushed by runaway tubs which ran back downbrow, owing to the clutch of the hauling engine getting out of gear.

CLARK Eli – 1907 – 06/06/1907 – Age 26 – Roundwood Trammer. Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. When bringing out two full tubs, from the face, a fall of roof occurred owing to a weight bump and killed him.

CLARK Ernest – 1906 – 01/08/1906 – Age 22 – Cramlington Engineman. Cramlington Coal Co., Northumberland. Deceased had taken the place for two or three weeks of the regular screen engineman who was ill. He had oiled the machinery in connection with the screens and belts before work started, and on the day of the accident he was directed, as usual, to attend to this by the enginewright at 5.45am., and he was seen oiling some tellers about 6.30am. About 6 50am, when the screen engine had been running about 20 minutes, it stepped, and on an examination being made, it was found that deceased had been caught by bevel wheels placed above the floor line and below the level of the belts, and his body had stopped the engine. An oil can was found on the top of a journal in which one of the bevel wheels worked. The wheels were well fenced and oiling machinery in motion is forbidden. He may have left the oil can where it was found and gone back for it when he was caught. The Local Inspectors made no report on the case.

CLARK G. – 1901 – 02/05/1901 – Age 19 – Treeton Filler. Rothervale Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Fall in a working place. Cause a slip.

CLARK Gavin – 1909 – 14/012/1909 – Age 21 – Littlemill Chainrunner. Coylton Coal Co., Ayrshire. Jammed against timber by runaway hutch in engine dook.

CLARK George – 1902 – 18/10/1902 – Age 44 – Barlborough Dayman. Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was engaged, with another man, in getting down the roof of a roadway when a large fall occurred and killed him.

CLARK George – 1905 – 15/10/1905 – Age 27 – Conduit Loader. Conduit Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp, ignited by naked light. Died 11th October.

CLARK Henry – 1900 – 18/01/1900 – Age 43 – Corsham Down (stone) Loader. Bath Stone Firms Ltd., Wiltshire. A crane, which he was assisting to erect underground, fell on him and fractured his skull.

CLARK Henry – 1906 – 03/10/1906 – Age 34 – Pandy Hitcher. Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. The covering over the sump, under the north cage, had been raised to allow a pumpman to go down to a pump 18 yards below. Deceased, who had occasion to go down to the sump planks, 7 foot under the south cage, did so, and in climbing again to the landing, fell down the opening under the north cage. He was aware that the covering had been removed.

CLARK Hugh – 1908 – 11/11/1908 – Age 68 – Grasshill No.1 Roadsman. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof in working place while redding across an old road. He had been working beyond where the roof was supported by props.

CLARK James – 1900 – 05/08/1900 – Age 46 – Aberaman Contractor. Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While putting harness on his horse a runaway tram struck him so severely that he died in three days.

CLARK James W. – 1907 – 27/02/1907 – Age 26 – Cove Quarry Labourer. John McAdam and Sons, Kincardine. While the blondin was pulling a large stone in the Quarry bottom, this guy rope splicing gave out and main mast fell on the deceased as he tried to escape.

CLARK Jefferson – 1904 – 29/07/1904 – Age 16 – Springwell Driver. John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased went outbye on a road, dipping 2 inches per yard, sitting on his horse's limbers, with four full tubs attached and a drag in the wheels of three of the tubs. He was found 130 yards from where he started lying under the first tub, which as well as the second and third was derailed. The horse disconnected from the tubs was standing 6 yards in front of them and a Cotterill used to put through an eye in the bolt of the limbers after it had been put into the yoke hole on the tub was found lying 1 yard behind the last tub. The Cotterill was in good order with plenty of spring. It was surmised that only one of its prongs had been inserted in the eye of the limber bolt and that it had been shaken out, the limbers became disconnected and deceased had fallen before the tubs. The Local Inspectors reported ‘we consider it a pure accident."

CLARK John * 1909 – 07/10/1909. Silksworth, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham.

CLARK John – 1908 – 22/07/1908 – Age 35 – Whitwick No.6 Stallman. Whitwick Colliery Co., Leicester. Fall of coal. Deceased was taking sprags out for the purpose of falling the coal, when the coal fell on him. He died 30th July.

CLARK Jonah - 1900 - 10/11/1900 – Age 43 - Wednesbury Oak Pikeman. Phillip Williams and Sons, Staffordshire. Fall of stone in new mine coal working face. 3 killed.

CLARK Joseph - 1900 - 17/11/1900 – Age 74 - Selston Labourer. Barber Walker and Co., Nottinghamshire. A new winding rope had been lowered down the shaft and was being adjusted on the drum of the winding engines when the grapplers, at the pit top, allowed the rope to slip through and drop down the shaft. The rope struck the deceased and cut his right leg off. He died on the 2nd December.

CLARK Joseph - 1903 - 15/12/1903 – Age 36 - Fochriw No.1 Haulier. Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was attempting to detach the tail rope from a journey of empty trams, which was being drawn in, he failed to do so, with the result that the three front trams got derailed and crushed him against the side. He died in eight days.

CLARK Joseph - 1903 - 28/04/1903 – Age 20 - Higher Treanmerem Quarry Quarryman. R Davis and Co., Chester, Cheshire. He and another man were, with a lever, prizing a stone on a wide ledge. The lever slipped and he rolled over the edge. He fell several yards and died the same day.

CLARK Joseph - 1905 - 05/10/1905 – Age 22 - Grizedale Slate Rock Quarry Carter. Arthur Jackson, Lancashire. Died on October 24. Deceased, who was in the employment of the occupier of the Quarry, was assisted by one of the Quarryman placing a stone in a cart at the Quarry when the little finger of his left hand was crushed. He continued working but at night he visited a doctor who dressed the finger, and advised him to lay it up for a while. He, however, continued to work until the 21st October, and on the following day he complained of pains in his jaw and breast, and eventually lockjaw supervened from which he died.

CLARK Joseph - 1907 - 10/09/1907 – Age 32 - Roundwood Trammer. Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. A slab of coal burst off the face owing to a weight bump, and displaced a prop, which hit him on the head. He, at the time, did not appear to he seriously injured, but died the same day.

CLARK Matthew - 1903 - 10/03/1903 – Age 28 - Kenmuirhill No.2 Waggon shifter. Glasgow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He stood in front of a full waggon, holding a prop against it, to let other waggons move it but the prop was knocked out and he was crushed between the waggons.

CLARK Peter - 1905 - 13/12/1905 – Age 21 - Black Boy Sinker. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Whilst a large stone was being split, with a wedge, a chip flew from it and caught his right wrist. Blood-poisoning set in and he died on 23rd.

CLARK Robert - 1903 - 26/02/1903 – Age 26 - Wearmouth Hewer. Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was working at the coal face, a few yards to the right of the gateway in the longwall workings in the Hutton seam, the roof of which is short grey metal or shaly sandstone. A fall took place from the roof about 10pm. between him and the gateway and barred him. Every effort was made to get him out, he frequently spoke to rescuers and liquid refreshment was handed to him. Other falls came away and delayed progress and his body was not recovered till 7.30pm. on the 28th. The place had been properly inspected by officials and there were good supplies of timber. The Local Inspector ported 'We are of the opinion it was a pure accident and that everything had been done possible to get the man out.'.

CLARK Thomas - 1902 - 29/09/1902 – Age 60 - South Hetton Hewer. South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was alleged to have died from an injury received while working in the mine, by a fall of stone, but post-mortem examination proved that this was not so and that he died from an injury received by falling over some disused coal depots by a roadside.

CLARK Thomas - 1908 - 04/06/1908 – Age 62 - Albion Repairer. Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and his son were clearing rubbish off some timbers as they were getting low, so as to remove them and put in higher ones. None of the collars were said to have been broken when the fireman visited the place at noon, the deceased appears to have found that the inner pair of the low timbers had commenced to break. He set a prop under it, in the presence of the assistant fireman, but because it was a little out of perpendicular, he knocked it out again, when the low piece of timbering gave way and 20 to 25 trams of cliff fell on him and killed him. The assistant fireman was partly buried, and had a very narrow escape. He was, however, quite uninjured.

CLARK Thomas - 1909 - 02/08/1909 – Age 29 - Craigmuschat, Whinstone Quarry Labourer. Alexander AR Lang, Renfrew. Got struck on his head by a bar which he was using to take belt off a pulley in motion.

CLARK Walter - 1907 - 19/12/1907 – Age 20 - Middleton Collier. Middleton Estate and Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The seam in which this accident occurred is about 3 feet 1 inch in thickness and is made up of top to make it safe to work coal, a thick middle dirt and bottom coal. It is worked by first taking the top coal off for a distance of about 18 inches, then taking up the dirt, which is put to the goaf and finally getting up the bottom coal. At the time of the accident the two deceased men were taking up and rolling the dirt into the goaf and it is probable in doing so they displaced a prop, set under the middle of a steel rail bar and thus allowed the roof to fall in two slips, one of which was visible before the fall occurred. The dirt, when being taken up, comes off in long pieces and in order to get them rolled into the goaf the prop, at the end of the bar next to the goaf, had been taken out without one being set at the face end of bar in addition to the middle prop. This was an error of judgement. The deputy was in the place a quarter of an hour before the accident occurred and the bar, with only the prop in the middle of it and also the slip which was visible but said nothing about setting props at the ends of it. It is unfortunate he did not give instructions for additional props to be set, for if he had done so, the probability is that the accident would not have occurred. He has since been removed from deputy’s work.

CLARK Wiliam Henry - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 24. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 5 Peel St., Stanley.

CLARK William - 1901 - 10/11/1901 – Age 31 - Houldsworth Winding man. Dalmellington Iron Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. When assisting to put rails on the cage, at the pit month, his foot slipped down between the cage and the shaft. He fell on the hutch guard and was fatally injured.

CLARK William - 1904 - 25/04/1904 – Age 45 - Addison Deputy. Stella Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased, who during the course of his shift had complained of feeling unwell, he was engaged with another man pulling up short rails and laying down longer ones when he suddenly sat down and expired. No inquest was held.

CLARK William - 1905 - 24/11/1905 – Age 67 - Hickleton Collier. Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When in the act of taking out a sprag the coal fell suddenly, caught and injured him against a tub, so severe that he died shortly after being taken to his home. There was a well defined slip behind the coal of the existence which he knew, and it was an error of judgement, under the circumstances, to have had the tub where it would prevent him getting clear when I was drawing the sprag.

CLARK William - 1908 - 08/07/1908 – Age 43 - Thornthwaite, Lead and Zinc Miner. Thornthwaite Mines Ltd., Cumberland. Died 3rd March, 1909. Fell from ladders in shaft.

CLARKE Anthony - 1909 - 20/07/1909 – Age 44 - Cramlington Asst. fitter. Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Shaft accident. 4 killed.

CLARKE Burton - 1905 - 26/04/1905 – Age 33 - New Tredegar Sinker. Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. In consequence of an error of the engineman a bowk full of bricks, which was being lowered into the sinking shaft, struck the runner, and tilted some of the bricks down the shaft, 19 feet in diameter, where deceased and 12 others were engaged walling at a depth of 330 yards.

CLARKE Charles - 1901 - 15/06/1901 – Age 27 - Hafod Asst. repairer. Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road while attempting to draw a pair of timbers with Silvester's patent drawer, the pair of timbers to which it was attached discharged instead of the pair which was being drawn and Clarke and his partner were buried among the rubbish. His partner was rescued alive but Clarke was smothered. Four feet seam.

CLARKE Charles - 1908 - 01/09/1908 – Age 53 - Rosedale Ironstone Shotfirer. Carlton Iron Co. Ltd., N. Yorkshire. A shot in the face had spent itself in a back and had not done its work. The stone was left on and overhanging. He was putting a pricker into another hole on the right hand side when the piece of stone fell on the face and fatally injured him. The man was reckless in standing where he did.

CLARKE Edward Victor - 1904 - 21/04/1904 – Age 26 - Grimethorpe Corporal. Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was standing on a full road, pushing over at some empty tubs which a driver was taking round a curve, whilst a set of full tubs was being lowered by gravity to another stop. Evidently he did not see the set coming and was fatally crushed.

CLARKE Frank - 1907 - 12/04/1907 – Age 48 - Wollaton Deputy. Wollaton Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. A charge of 8 ounces of Rippite was fired by deceased at a gate-end lip, and he was struck by a stone from the shot as he had not taken sufficient cover.

CLARKE Fred (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.

CLARKE George - 1900 - 02/08/1900 – Age 49 - Tibshelf No.2 Holer. Babbington Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased had been holing and was clearing tip the dirt and throwing it into the goaf when the roof above gave way and fatally crushed him. He died on the 4th instant.

CLARKE Henry - 1906 - 05/01/1906 – Age 38 - Portland No.2 Labourer. James Oakes and Co., Nottinghamshire. He was clearing up slack from the sidings and was run over by some empty railway wagons and killed.

CLARKE J. - 1901 - 29/03/1901 – Age 56 - Carlton Main Labourer. Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Run over by wagons during shunting operations.

CLARKE Jack - 1909 - 22/09/1909 – Age 17 - Bolsover Horse driver. Bolsover Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Killed by a fall of roof on a road, when assisting another driver with some full tubs which had got off the rails. A bar and prop were displaced by a passing tram, in close proximity to the road, and allowed the stone resting on the bar to fall.

CLARKE James - 1909 - 16/02/1909. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed.

CLARKE John - 1909 - 16/02/1909 - Age 19. West Stanley Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 5 Peel St.

CLARKE John Thomas - 1907 - 25/02/1907 – Age 17 - Himley No.4 Horse driver. Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Deceased complained to some fellow workmen that something ‘had come to his shoulder’ which interfered with his working, although he actually worked for two days. On March 1st he told his doctor that when lifting a tub, five days previously, he had strained his shoulder. He died nine days afterwards from pneumonia ‘which was in all probability secondary to the septic shoulder condition.'

CLARKE John Thomas - 1908 - 20/02/1908 – Age 29 - Washington Glebe Hewer. Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of firedamp. 14 killed.

CLARKE John W. - 1907 - 07/10/1907 – Age 32 - Grinkle Ironstone Backbyeman. Grinkle Park Mining Co. Ltd., N. Yorkshire. He was assisting to put up a baulk under some hard roof in a main road. When cutting a prop to the right length to put up temporarily under the centre of the baulk, some large pieces of roof came down almost burying him.

CLARKE Joshua - 1908 - 13/08/1908 – Age 28 - Griff Clara Stallman. Griff Colliery Co., Warwick. Fall of side at the entrance to the working place. Deceased had re-laid a rail and was getting up the floor when the side of the road fell and fatally injured him. Died 19th August.

CLARKE Thomas - 1907 - 28/01/1907 – Age 18 - Parr No.5 Haulage hand. Richard Evans and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. The deceased, in getting out of the cage in a hurry, appeared to have slipped under the fence bar, 2 feet 9 inches high, and fell down the shaft a distance of 250 yards and was killed.

CLARKE Tom - 1908 - 08/05/1908 – Age 15 - Elliot Colliers boy. Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of coal from the face. It came from an unusual back rider slip, whether in consequence of a squeeze or not is somewhat doubtful. The Collier (deceased’s father) seems not to have known of, or expected the slip and the coal was not overhanging at the time.

CLARKE William H. - 1904 - 27/03/1904 – Age 26 - Grammar Fanman. John Scowcroft and Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was pushing a waggon when two other waggons, adjoining the one they had taken away, came along unawares, crushing the deceased between the buffers. They had placed a piece of wood in front of the two waggons against the front wheel, and the brakes were said to have been down but were not in proper order.

CLARKSON Edward - 1900 - 03/04/1900 – Age 18 - Grange Labourer. Crompton and Shawcross, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Four men were set to stop 10 railway waggons, three went to apply the brakes and deceased tried to sprag a wheel with a five foot prop. He did not get it in the wheel properly and it sprung round and knocked the deceased under the waggon and he was run over and fatally injured. Died the same day.

CLARKSON J.F. - 1907 - 14/06/1907 – Age 47 - Cefn Cribbwr Brickworks Quarry Owner. JF Clarkson, Porthcawl, Carmarthen. While standing on a ledge of shale, inspecting the Quarry, a quantity of shale from a working face above him fell and carried him over the edge, injuring him so severely that he died a few days afterwards.

CLARKSON James - 1907 – Age 71 - Postelthwaites Moor Row Iron Ore Labourer. Executors of Miles Postelthwaite, Cumberland. Died November 8. Accident in August. Clarkson was engaged in light work on the surface. For the past year he had been working very irregularly. In the early part of August, whilst clearing weeds from the tramway, the pick that he was using struck a stone and glanced on to his foot. The injury was not mentioned to any official and he continued working for several weeks, walking to and from his work, a couple of miles each way. He ceased working on August 25, and was subsequently admitted to the Whitehaven Workhouse Infirmary, where he died on November 8. An inquest was held at which the Medical Officer for the workhouse said that Clarkson, when admitted, was suffering from gangrene of the foot and this caused his death. He had a weak heart, and on account of that and his advanced age, it was not considered expedient to amputate the foot. The Jury returned a verdict that the ‘cause of death was gangrene of the left foot from injury by a pick.’ No notification of the inquest was sent by the Coroner on the ground that this was not an accident reportable under the Mines Act.

CLARKSON Oswald - 1900 - 18/06/1900 – Age 14 - Burnhope Driver. UA Ritson and Sons Ltd., Co.Durham. He was driving his first set in from the landing when the pony kicked the front tub off the way and dragged it for nine yards which displaced some timber and this caused some stone to fall and kill him.

CLARKSON Robert - 1909 - 15/06/1909 – Age 41 - Wheatley Hill Filler. Weardale Steel Coke and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. There being no coal cut by the coal cutting machine he was sent into a longwall gateway to hew with another man. The overman and deputy had examined the gateway, some twenty minutes prior to the man going in to hew. He was casting coal when a stone 17 feet long, 4.5 feet wide, and 22 inches thick, fell from a damp slippery parting and struck him on the head, fracturing his skull.

CLARKSON T. - 1902 - 29/10/1902 – Age 33 - Hoyland Silkstone Collier. Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Killed by a fall of coal, when standing to rest in front of a face which he had been holing. Cause, slip and neglect to set sprags.

CLARKSON Thomas - 1903 - 01/05/1903 – Age 32 - Hunwick Stoneman. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was repairing timber on the road when the roof, which was short, worked down upon him and caused a wound on the top of his head. Blood poisoning set in. Died 13th.

CLARKSON William - 1907 - 19/11/1907 – Age 52 - Car House Dataller. John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was pulling stone down, a large piece followed it and before he could get out of the way caught and bruised his back, chest and foot. Died December 10th.

CLARY John - 1909 - 16/02/1909. West Stanley Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed.

CLAY Frederick - 1908 - 16/03/1908 – Age 33 - Woodside Stallman. Shipley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was withdrawing a prop from the goaf and was cutting the lid loose when a large fall of stone killed him.

CLAYDON A.T - 1901 - 03/12/1901 – Age 17 - Manvers Main Trammer. Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Killed by huge fall of bind in gateroad. Cause, a sudden weight.

CLAYTON Harold - 1906 - 12/09/1906 – Age 25 - Ryhope Rollerman. Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was run over by an empty set. Presumably he had been having his bait in a refuge hole and had walked out, not noticing the approach of the set.

CLAYTON James - 1902 - 13/10/1902 – Age 31 - Old Park, Lawn Filler. Haybridge Iron Co., Shropshire. Fall of roof on a road (stone drift) where a hauling engine had been placed. Deceased, and another man, had been filling loose dirt into a tub in order to get the rope off the drum of the engine, which was not in use when the fall occurred. The place was wide and wet and the timber appeared to have slipped or reeled out. The other man was injured.

CLAYTON Thomas J. - 1909 - 09/08/1909 – Age 30 - Bedwellty Collier. Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof at the face when he was knocking out a post to let down some rippings. The stone which fell was about 6 feet long by 3 feet wide at the widest part, 1.5 inches thick at one side, and 3 inches thick at the other. It fell from a smooth face or bed.

CLEAR Charles - 1909 - 19/02/1909 – Age 24 - Dean & Chapter Labourer. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was leaning over the fencing of a gangway vomiting, when he overbalanced and fell 13 feet to the ground and broke his skull.

CLEASBY William - 1902 - 29/01/1902 – Age 21 - Auckland Park Putter. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While he was spreading the coals in a tub a hewer was filling a stone fell without warning from the roof at two slips and killed him.

CLEAVEY Edward - 1909 - 29/10/1909 – Age 33 - Darran Collier. Rhymney Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident has been the subject of a Special Report. 27 men lost their lives and 4 were injured.

CLEETON Thomas - 1908 - 28/08/1908 – Age 67 - Clee Hill, Basalt Quarry Labourer. Clee Hill Granite Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Deceased, and some others, were filling a waggon on the lower floor of the Quarry, where the face was 16 ft. in height, and slightly overhanging. Ten days previously a large quantity of rock had been blasted down and lay banked up against the face, forming an irregular Slope and thus supporting it. Nearly the whole of this loose rock had been filled away when the men heard a crack, and on looking up observed the face falling forward towards them. The others escaped but the deceased was knocked down and a large block weighing about 27 cwt. rolled upon and killed him instantly. The mass of rock which fell was cut out by joints, and appeared to have been held in position only by a piece 3 feet broad and 15 inches deep near the top. The foreman had examined the top on the morning of the accident, and did not observe any cracks or other indications of danger.