CONNELLY William - 1902 - 02/07/1902 – Age 60 - Little Raith Waggon graser. Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was underneath some trucks, standing in a siding, either examining them or passing from one side to the other when a train of fourteen loaded trucks was pushed into the siding and buffered against the standing trucks as he was in the act of crawling out. The impact caused the standing trucks to move a short distance and one of the wheels passed over his legs causing injuries to which he succumbed two hour afterwards.

CONNLEY Michael - 1905 - 16/12/1905 – Age 14 Herbertshire No.2 Engineman. R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Stirling. Caught by bevel wheels of machinery close to which he was working.

CONNOL James - 1900 - 22/08/1900 – Age 36 - Croxdale Hewer. Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Two shots had been fired in his place and he was commencing to drill a third hole when a piece of coal fell upon and killed him.

CONNOLLY Charles - 1907 - 19/12/1907 – Age 22 - Blackhill No.9 Ironstone Drawer. Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When opening a canister containing gunpowder, a spark from his lamp, which contrary to the regulations, he had on his cap, ignited the contents.

CONNOLLY John - 1900 - 15/08/1900 – Age 64 - Nethercroy No.1 Pump attendant. Carron Co., Dumbarton. Run over by a race of hutches on a dook. He stepped in front of it instead of to the side.

CONNOLLY Langhlan - 1903 - 02/02/1903 – Age 46 - Busbiehead No.2 Miner. J and R Howie, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at roadhead. Due to want of timbering.

CONNOLLY Thomas - 1906 - 23/02/1906 – Age 23 - Maypole Drawer. Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made. A full tub, in going up the brow, rising 1 in 4.5, got unlashed, the chain attaching it to the endless rope getting loose, and the deceased got fatally crushed by the tub running back downbrow, before he reached the manhole.

CONNOLLY Thomas - 1907 - 26/02/1907 – Age 22 - Maypole Drawer. Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When pushing his tub from the shunt he appeared to have had his foot against a prop, pushing at it, when the prop gave way, and a stone fell from the roof upon him. The roof to be barred in future.

CONNOLY John - 1907 - 19/03/1907 – Age 16 - Benwell Timber leader. W Cochrane Carr Ltd., Northumberland. Explosion of firedamp. 4 killed.

CONNOLY Peter - 1904 - 25/01/1904 – Age 17 - Whitrigg Drawer. R Forrester and Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was being raised, after his shift was over, and when near the top scaffold he put his head outside the cage and was crushed against a beam.

CONNOR Frank - 1908 - 25/12/1908 – Age 30 - Lochore Miner. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was taking down head coal when the roof fell upon him, injuring his spine. He died 7 months after the accident.

CONNOR James - 1900 - 27/11/1900 – Age 19 - Hattonrigg No.2 Sinker. Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Stirling. Having raised a kettle of debris to the surface and stopped it at the scaffold, the engineman without reversing the lever put on steam suddenly. The kettle was carried up to the pulley and a coupling link giving way it fell down the shaft. in the bottom of which five men were working and killed the deceased. This was the engineman's first shift at the pit. The engineman on duty the previous shift was beside him to see that he could work the engine properly.

CONNOR Michael - 1905 - 11/09/1905 – Age 25 - Howley Park, Sandstone Quarry Labourer. Howley Park and Great Finsdale (Morley) Co., Yorkshire. A large block of stone was being lifted by a steam crane out of the Quarry when he foolishly got under it and a piece of stone, about six inches square and half an inch in thick, fell from the the ascending stone and hit him on the head. Died the following day.

CONNOR William Smith - 1901 - 26/07/1901 – Age 21 - Usworth Helper up. Johnasson Gordon and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. 17th September, 1906. On 25th July, 1901, while deceased was pushing a tub, a piece of stone fell from the roof and crushed his hand against it, and two of his fingers were afterwards amputated. He returned to work and was employed as a helper-up, then at shift work, then at stone work, and lastly started to hew. In March, 1905, he was suspended from work owing to some mental derangement. He emigrated to Canada in April, 1905. In February, 1906, his parents learned that he had returned to England and was in Liverpool. From there he was removed to Sedgefield Asylum in Durham, where he died from phthisis. An inquest was held, at which the medical officer of the Asylum stated that death was due to phthisis hut that mental derangement made this a more dangerous disease than in the case of sane persons, and that the accident might have been the cause of the lunacy. The Jury found that death was due to phthisis and that the accident had caused the mental derangement.

CONOLLY Joseph - 1909 - 09/09/1909 – Age 46 - Gartshore No.2 Reddsman. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Dumbarton. While working on the dook he was caught by three empty hutches which somehow got uncoupled from the race.

CONROY Thomas - 1908 - 08/01/1908 – Age 29 - North Walbottle Stoneman. North Walbottle Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of stone at canch in longwall gateway.

CONSOLL Horace - 1904 - 09/01/1904 – Age 21 - Kirkby Loader. Butterley Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of overhanging clunch, which lay above the bed of coal and between the top of the coal seam and the coal forming the roof of the working place.

CONSTANCE George - 1901 - 10/09/1901 – Age 35 - Llanbradradach No.2 Fireman. Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion formed the subject of a special report by Mr. J. S. Martin. Cd885. 8 killed. some injured.

CONVERY James - 1905 - 08/11/1905 – Age 28 - Graighead Quarry Boiler fireman. John Baillie, Lanarkshire. Deceased was in Airdrie and lost the train, he started to walk to his home at Whitburn, 9 miles away and near the Quarry on the Edinburgh and Glasgow road, he sat down and fell asleep; when he awoke he took the wrong road and wandered to the Quarry and crossing the fence he fell into the Quarry and was killed. He was the worse for drink.

CONWAY James - 1904 - 11/01/1904 – Age 58 - Rockingham Labourer. Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was drawing timber from the waste when the roof fell from a fault slip unexpectedly and he was killed on the spot. He had a dog and chain.

CONWAY James - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 17 - Maypole Haulage hand. Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

CONWAY Thomas - 1903 - 06/06/1903 – Age 32 - Kingsbury Fan engineman. Hockley Hall Colliery Co., Warwick. He hanged himself between the doors of the entrance to the fan-drift.

COODALL Samuel - 1906 - 17/12/1906 – Age 33 - Allerton Main Collier. T and RW Bower Ltd., Yorkshire. When getting coal he disclosed a slip and there being another parallel to it, a large stone from the roof fell out of them and killed him.

COOGANS James - 1908 - 27/10/1908 – Age 30 - Carbarns Miner. W Hudspith and Co., Lanarkshire. After deceased had made lip and charged a shot he went back to his can to look for a knife, when a spark from his lamp, which was on his cap, fell into the can and ignited the gunpowder. He died two days later. Special Rule was contravened.

COOK Alexander - 1909 - 24/12/1909 – Age 26 - Drum fireclay Drawer. Bonnybridge Silica and Fireclay Co. Ltd., Stirling. While engaged breaking up ganister to fill into a tub, a large stone fell off the face and killed him instantaneously.

COOK Arthur - 1901 - 08/05/1901 – Age 34 - Mosley Common Dataller. Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Crushed by tub, probably riding unauthorised. Died 19th June.

COOK Arthur - 1907 - 23/11/1907 – Age 32 - Hoyland Silkstone Contractor. 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.

COOK Arthur - 1907 - 24/01/1907 – Age 28 - Woodside Corporal. Shipley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. A steel girder, carrying other smaller girders at a junction of the roadway, suddenly broke and allowed the roof to fall as deceased was pushing a full tub under the girders.

COOK Enoch - 1905 - 20/02/1905 – Age 66 - Snydale, Sandstone Quarry Stone getter. Henry Seal and Co., Yorkshire. Five cartridges had been put into a hole, and while the foreman, who was the only person authorised to charge and fire holes, was preparing to charge a second hole with powder the deceased appears to have been putting in the primer and pressing it down with a wooden stemmer when the charge exploded and killed him. No one actually saw him do this, but the stemmer could not be found and there were wounds on his hands and body which pointed to his having been hit by the end of it.

COOK Frederick - 1901 - 26/01/1901 – Age 16 - Cwmbran Ostler. Guest Keen and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Kicked by a horse, which he was cleaning in the stable. The animal is said to be generally good tempered. The lad was stated to have been accustomed to stable work for years before going to work in the collieries.

COOK Gavin - 1903 - 27/08/1903 – Age 20 - Craighead No.1 Repairer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While knocking out a prop, to allow a brick wall to be built, the roof and side gave way.

COOK George - 1901 - 15/10/1901 – Age 56 - Hem Heath Miner. Hem Heath Mining Co., Staffordshire. Fall of roof in the Bassey Mine, while he was pulling some loose stone down. Died on the 28th October.

COOK George - 1905 - 26/05/1905 – Age 55 - Springwell Hewer. John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased, who was a hard worker and considered a healthy man, was somewhat eccentric. He had complained of heartburn for a day or two before his death. He was working in a longwall place with his marrow and had prepared two shots, which the deputy refused to fire saying the place was not ready; deceased worked himself up into a violent temper at the deputy's refusal and shortly after fell forward and died in a few minutes. A doctor examined the body and certified that death was due to heart failure, and no inquest was held.

COOK George - 1908 - 21/05/1908 – Age 40 - McLaren Collier. Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of clod after drawing down coal at the face caused injuries to his face, wrist, and leg, which appeared light at first, he being able to walk home. The leg became inflamed, and he died on the 9th of June from Cerebral Meningitis, the result of the injury to his leg.

COOK H. - 1902 - 26/11/1902 – Age 30 - Wortley Wood Collier. Leeds Fireclay Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Explosion of a gunpowder shot, which had previously misfired.

COOK Harry - 1902 - 30/09/1902 – Age 28 - Llanhilleth Haulier. Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was bringing a full tram out, on a heading about 40 yards behind another haulier, when by some means he fell under the tram. The gradient was from 1.5 inches to 2 inches to the yard, the heading was 5 feet 6 inches high and to 6 feet to 9 feet wide. The other haulier did not hear anything and could not account for it.

COOK James - 1901 - 13/02/1901 – Age 50 - Butterknowle, Diamond Hewer. Butterknowle Colliery Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was walking inbye to his work when he died from heart disease. Ventilation satisfactory.

COOK James - 1905 - 16/07/1905 – Age 36 - New Boston Daywageman. Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were engaged repairing the main brow, on a Sunday, in the Ravenhead Higher Delf Mine. The road, which was about fifteen feet wide in that part, had been falling and under repairs for about a week and when they were engaged putting a large balk of timber up, across the road to complete the timbering, another fall occurred knocking out six bars and burying five men and causing injuries to two other persons. 5 killed.

COOK Jessie - 1900 - 06/06/1900 – Age 21 - Eston Ironstone Driver. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. J.C. Leading his horse, which was pulling tubs, when he stumbled and fell infront of the first tub which ran and killed him.

COOK John - 1900 - 29/12/1900 – Age 33 - Glyncorrwg New Carpenter. Glyncorrwg Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While unloading iron plates, from a waggon by means of a crane, the load slipped on the bolt holding the plate and it fell to the ground injuring him as it heeled over. Died in 7 days.

COOK John - 1901 - 23/11/1901 – Age 42 - Woodshaw Dataller. Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were engaged making the side of a roadway, with dirt, when the roof gave way from a slip, running alongside the side, capping four or five props and crushing the two men. 2 killed.

COOK John - 1904 - 15/03/1904 – Age 60 - Foredale, Limestone Quarry Joiner. Ribblesdale Lime and Flag Quarry, Yorkshire. He was walking down the sidings during shunting operations, the locomotive was pushing three waggons towards him and there were three waggons standing on the same line and in passing between these and the three the locomotive was shunting he was caught and killed.

COOK John - 1904 - 24/06/1904 – Age 18 - Hamilton Palace Miner. Bent Colliery Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

COOK John - 1908 - 12/01/1908 – Age 47 - Stanley Bricklayer. Mapperley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Collapse of a brick arch at the pit bottom, caused by the fracture of an iron centre supporting it. The arch was being built and preparations were being made for keying it up.

COOK Joseph - John - 1906 - 09/05/1906 - Seaton Delaval Hewer. Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died February 10, 1908. (MIR) (1907?) Deceased worked in broken workings in the West side district of the Yard seam in the Hastings pit. The seam is 2 feet 8 inches thick and he was engaged on a stock where only a few tubs of coal remained. He was kyrving in the top of the seam when a stone, about 6 feet long parallel to the face, 1 foot 3 inches wide at the bottom, tapering out to a point at the top, and 2 feet 4 inches deep, relieved by a lack parallel to the face, fell from the roof, close to the coal, upon him and fractured his spine. The deputy had been in the place about an hour before the accident. There was a sufficient supply of loose timber. The Local Inspectors examined the place on the day of the accident and reported, ‘Found it a pure accident without any negligence on the part of anyone.’

COOK Oliver - 1905 - 23/10/1905 – Age 14 - Tynawr Lamp cleaner. Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed between the floor and landing beam of a hydraulic lift, with which he was playing, when absent without permission from the lamproom.

COOK Samuel - 1905 - 16/07/1905 – Age 34 - New Boston Undermanager. Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were engaged repairing the main brow, on a Sunday, in the Ravenhead Higher Delf Mine. The road, which was about fifteen feet wide in that part had been falling and under repairs for about a week and when they were engaged putting a large balk of timber up across the road to complete the timbering, another fall occurred knocking out six bars and burying five men and causing injuries to two other persons. 5 killed.

COOK Thomas - 1901 - 18/11/1901 – Age 13 - Lea Green Pony driver. Sutton Heath & Lea Green Collieries Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. When the jigger was lowering a full tub, from a break to the top of the jig he failed to place a wooden sprag in front of tub and the full tub rushed down the jig crushing the deceased when passing, at the time, the bottom of jig. It was recommended at the inquiry that a stop block be placed at the top of the jig.

COOK Thomas S.M. - 1906 - 17/10/1906 – Age 28 - Caerau Hoistman. Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Whilst adjusting a valve of a surface hoist, the false bottom tilted out violently and struck him on the head.

COOK W. - 1901 - 11/11/1901 – Age 35 - Thorncliffe Collier. Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Knocked his head so violently against the roof that he died.

COOK W. - 1902 - 17/09/1902 – Age 22 - Silverwood Pump attendant. Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was stationed on a small platform, 240 yards above the bottom of the sinking shaft to attend to a pump. He was provided with a safety belt but neglected to use it and either the ascending bowk caught the platform and knocked him off or he fell from the bowk and caused it to oscillate against the platform.

COOK William - 1900 - 31/05/1900 – Age 30 - Garswood Hall No.5 Collier. Garswood Hall Collieries Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. A fall of clunch from the roof fell upon the deceased, from between props which at this point were further apart than usual. Systematic timbering was said to be the rule, compliance with this would have prevented the fall. He succumbed to the injuries June 6th. 1900.

COOKE Arthur - 1909 - 13/05/1909 – Age 38 - Wath Main Deputy. Wath Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When travelling on a self-acting incline he was run over by a train of tubs and fatally injured. The accident happened at the meeting in the middle of the incline, and the refuge holes would be blocked by the train of empty tubs, 40 in number and 60 yards long. At meetings it is advisable to have refuge holes at each side of the road.

COOKE George - 1905 - 07/12/1905 – Age 29 - Pinxton No.2 Dataller. Pinxton Coal Co., Derbyshire. He fell out of the cage while ascending the shaft after his days work.

COOKE Joseph - 1901 - 04/03/1901 – Age 42 - Monckton Main Collier. Monckton Main Colliery Co., Yorkshire. A piece of rock, which he was pulling from the roof of his working place, fell upon him and killed him on the spot.

COOKE Jasper - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 41 - Sherwood Dayman. Sherwood Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. A fall of coal knocked a prop out, which struck deceased and fractured his skull.

COOKE William - 1904 - 26/09/1904 – Age 15 - Ryhill Main Pony driver. Henry Lodge Ltd., Yorkshire. When following his employment a fall of stone occurred on a road and killed him. Cause, a sudden weight owing to pillars being worked out.

COOKE William - 1908 - 13/08/1908 – Age 46 - Ellesmere Collier. Earl of Ellesmere, Lancashire. In roadway, while repairing from pronounced slips, plainly to be seen, he was preparing to set a bar. He ought to have had three temporary props set in the middle of the road. (Good roof, locally bad)

COOKE William - 1909 - 29/03/1909 – Age 20 - Duffryn Llantwit Engineman. T and J Edmunds, Glamorgan. Deceased was signalling to be brought to the surface when the knocker became detached, it fell down the pit and struck him on the head. He sustained a fractured skull and died from the effects of his injuries on May 29th.

COOKES A. - 1901 - 11/09/1901 – Age 18 - New Hemsworth Driver. New Hemsworth, Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in level.

COOMBE Arthur - 1907 - 09/03/1907 – Age 25 - Condurrow, Tin Mason. Condurrow United Mines Ltd., Cornwall. A channel was being cut through old sand heaps, accumulated from past working, to carry water-pipes to the engine when one of the heaps collapsed and buried him.

COOMBE Robert - 1901 - 23/10/1901 – Age 16 - Hebburn Driver. Wallsend & Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died 27th September 1904. Deceased was coming outbye with a full tub and was found fastened between the limbers of his pony and the tub which he had opened. He never was able to work after the accident and was seven months in the infirmary at Hebburn. An inquest was held.

COOMBER Thomas - 1905 - 23/10/1905 – Age 19 - Wouldham Hall Chalk Quarry Pointsman. Peters Bros., Kent. When riding on the front buffer of the locomotive and jumping off backwards he reeled round in front and was run over.

COOMBES Ernest - 1905 - 25/11/1905 – Age 22 - Fforchaman Haulier. Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While deceased was walking between a full tram and his horse, which was equipped with a chain harness, he lost his light. At the same moment the horse started trotting as there was an alteration in the gradient. The road being of very small dimensions deceased could not spring to the side but was crushed to death between the tram and the side.

COOMBES James - 1906 - 11/04/1906 – Age 37 - Crockham Hill Graite Quarry Labourer. Teign Valley Granite Co., Devon. Crushed between buffers of waggons on railway siding while bringing out two full trucks to complete the train for the railway engine. He evidently mistook the distance the trucks were apart, when he tried to go in between them to uncouple the towing rope, with which the steam travelling crane had drawn them from the loading stage.

COOMBES James - 1909 - 15/12/1909 – Age 30 - Windsor Haulier. Windsor Steam Coal Co. (1901) Ltd., Glamorgan. Owing to the breakage of the shackle pin, nine trains, laden with stones and mortar, ran down an inclined road and overtook the deceased, who could easily have escaped had he not tried to get his horse out of danger. The shackle was made of 1.5 inch iron and had been recently annealed.

COOMBES M. - 1909 - 29/10/1909 – Age 46 - Darran Repairer. Rhymney Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident has been the subject of a Special Report. 27 men lost their lives and 4 were injured.

COOMBES Thomas - 1901 - 24/05/1901 - Universal Assistant timberman. Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway. Cd 947. 81 killed.

COOMBS Lot - 1901 - 06/07/1901 – Age 16 - Primrose, Iron Ore Billy carrier. John Shingles, Gloucester. He is supposed, contrary to Rules and practice, to have been hanging on to a cart which was being drawn up to the surface and to have lost his hold falling away to the bottom of the shaft which is only a shallow one.

COOP Joseph - 1901 - 23/04/1901 – Age 27 - Abram Collier. Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged getting coal from the face when a fall of roof occurred at the face between two slips running parallel with the face capping four props and crushing him.

COOP Thomas - 1901 - 22/08/1901 – Age 62 - Jubilee Hooker on. Platt Bros. and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fell from the cage while ascending. Deceased had been accustomed, for many years, to occasionally clear out dirt from water rings in the shaft, usually alone. On this occasion it is believed he was going up the shaft in the cage for that purpose and fell out. There was absolutely no clue as to how he fell out or where he fell out. The cage was being raised very slowly and was drawn to the top and had not stopped in the shaft.

COOPE John - 1903 - 02/04/1903 – Age 47 - Clay Cross No.2 Stone header. Clay Cross Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Three shots had been fired in a stone heading and deceased was examining the place when the roof fell from a slip running across the heading. He died the same day.

COOPER Albert Thomas - 1904 - 15/09/1904 – Age 35 - Rotherham Main Collier. John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. A fall of roof occurred which displaced a prop and killed him.

COOPER Andrew - 1907 - 07/07/1907 – Age 34 - Glengarnock No.6 Blacksmith. Glengarnock Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Owing to suspended pipes, slipping through a gland, the planks supporting them and on which he was standing broke, and he was precipitated down the shaft.

COOPER Arthur - 1903 - 16/05/1903 – Age 24 - Florence Shaft signaller. Florence Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. The cage in which he was ascending the shaft got out of the wood guides and collided with the descending cage. The tacklers or cage chains of the ascending cage broke and it fell with the men to the bottom of the shaft. 2 killed.

COOPER Arthur Edward - 1909 - 05/02/1909 – Age 50 - Thorncliffe Hanger on. Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The man had occasion to cross from one side of the pit-bottom to the other, and in doing so he went underneath the descending cage instead of going the proper way provided for the purpose. He was caught by the cage and killed.

COOPER Benjamin - 1901 - 01/08/1901 – Age 44 - Bannerside, Slate Quarry Quarryman. Coniston Slate Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was working on a ledge in the Quarry with a rope round him. He came to the top to speak to the foreman, they talked together for several minutes and the foreman turned away when deceased in returning to his place on the ledge fell to the Quarry bottom, a distance of 30 feet.

COOPER Charles Thomas - 1904 - 10/03/1904 - Age 18 - Ibstock No.1 Horse driver. Ibstock Colliery Co., Leicester. Fall of roof. Deceased was passing along a roadway, behind a horse taking two full tubs from a stall, when a fall of roof occurred and killed him.

COOPER David - 1901 - 18/09/1901 – Age 25 - South Leicester Shunter. South Leicester Colliery Co., Leicester. Deceased expired near the colliery screens while working there and after a post mortem examination the coroners jury returned a verdict 'that he died from natural causes.'.

COOPER Frederick - 1909 - 08/12/1909 – Age 44 - Turnoak Enginewright. Turnoak Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. An overwind had occurred causing one of the fence gates to fall down the shaft. Deceased was going down the shaft, to get the gate, when the cage got stuck at the bottom end of the spear rods. He appears to have jumped out and attempted to reach the inset at surface level and failing, he fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 42 yards.

COOPER G. - 1900 - 05/12/1900 – Age 38 - West End Byeworker. J Critchley and Sons, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

COOPER George - 1904 - 07/04/1904 – Age 25 - Sneyd Loader. Sneyd Collieries Co., Stafford. Received a blow on the head by a piece of coal which caused a slight wound. A post-mortem examination was made and the medical evidence was to the effect that death was due to a haemorrhageic cyst, not attributable to the injury, and a verdict of death from natural causes was returned.

COOPER George - 1904 - 07/10/1904 – Age 56 - Sand Pit Quarry, Quarryman. Jesse Clack, Surrey. He was killed by a fall of sand from the face of the Quarry due to very heavy rains.

COOPER George - 1908 - 12/09/1908 – Age 64 - Seaton Delaval Hewer. Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of roof stone at working face.

COOPER George - 1909 - 30/11/1909 – Age 55 - Tillery Timberman. Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in a heading, where he was engaged repairing and enlarging the road. Having set a pair of timbers to secure the roof, he was engaged cutting out an old one when it gave way and caused a stone to fall which brought further rubbish with it and covered him completely, breaking his back and neck. It is a case of error of judgement on his part, but it is desirable that repairers should use the "gablock and chain " or other machines of the kind for drawing out these old props (see special Rule, No.84). This is at least the second case this year in which the block and chain (Sylvester's Prop Drawer) would have saved life had it been used.

COOPER George Buxton - 1906 - 10/01/1906 – Age 15 - No.2 Rope boy. Hucknall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was crushed between tubs on a haulage road worked by an endless chain. There was no clear evidence to show how the accident occurred.

COOPER George Henry - 1908 - 01/09/1908 – Age 41 - Cook House Quarry Quarrier. Frank Penwarden, Lancashire. Fall of shale within control. Ought to have been bared back.

COOPER George snr. - 1905 - 22/04/1905 – Age 40 - Lassodie Mill Miner. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. A blind shaft, 10 fathoms deep and fitted with ladders, is situated on the direct road for communication between the Dunfermline Splint Coal workings and the outlet shaft. This road, being shorter and easier to travel than the haulage road from the winding shaft, was used by the men of a section to travel to and from the faces. Work was finished for the day and deceased, with his son and nephew, were proceeding homewards and while ascending the ladders the roof at the top of the blind shaft fell and part came down the shaft, extinguishing their lights. As they were the last men to leave the section they were left in a helpless condition and it was only when their relatives becoming anxious at their prolonged absence was it discovered that they were still in the mine and on a search being made they were found in the shaft, deceased was found firmly pinned against the side by a large stone and died shortly after he was released.

COOPER James - 1901 - 01/04/1901 – Age 37 - Blair No.9 Drawer. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. While drawing in front of seven empty hutches, which he was attempting to take down a road, he was overpowered and crushed against the end of the road.

COOPER James - 1904 - 04/02/1904 – Age 23 - Holly Bank Stallman. Holly Bank Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (coal) at longwall face in 8 feet seam. Deceased was shovelling dirt out of a waste for building a pack, working under a piece of over hanging top coal 20 inches thick. This coal should have been taken down or timbered it was not safe to work under.

COOPER John - 1904 - 01/07/1904 – Age 26 - Nuneaton Stallman. Stanley Bros., Warwickshire. Deceased was using a squib for the purpose of lighting a gunpowder shot when the shot prematurely exploded.

COOPER John - 1906 - 29/05/1906 – Age 45 - Leabrook Pikeman. S and T Corfield, Staffordshire. This accident occurred in an opening in thick coal pickings, where the strata are much crushed and broken. Four posts had been drawn in the bolt hole in order to drop some slipper coal, but as it did not come down a hole was drilled for a shot. Preparatory to firing it, deceased was drawing another post, and with a view to this, was relieving the lid with a pick. A large fall of coal suddenly took place and killed him. The place was well timbered but if the props had been drawn by a ringer and chain deceased might have been in a safer place.

COOPER John - 1907 - 15/08/1907 – Age 59 - Annesley Dataller. Annesley Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. The deceased and several other men were proceeding to their work underground, when a runaway train of full tubs, which had been detached from an endless rope ran into them. Both men died the next day. 2 killed.

COOPER John - 1909 - 22/03/1909 – Age 43 - Ashtons Green Painter. Bromilow Foster and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. When engaged painting the head gear he appeared to have accidentally fallen on to the pit brow. He succumbed to the injuries received the same day.

COOPER Joseph - 1906 - 03/02/1906 – Age 28 - Ferndale No.7 Haulier. D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 3 feet 9 inches by 21 feet by 20 inches thick, fell while deceased and others were cutting bottom on a double parting. It was unsupported. Six feet seam.

COOPER Joun - 1905 - 09/11/1905 – Age 52 - Hazelrigg Shifter. Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, had been suffering for some months from heart disease and shortness of breath, and had lost work in consequence and been under the doctor's care, was ridding stones in the High Main seam. He had complained to his marrow during the course of the shift of a severe pain in his chest, and was shortly afterwards found, by him, lying on the pavement moaning and soon expired. The doctor who had attended him gave evidence at the inquest, and stated he had examined the body externally and found no marks on it, and that knowing the previous history of deceased he was not surprised at the manner of his death. One of the Local Inspectors reported he had examined the place and found it all right. There was no suggestion of any accident.

COOPER L. - 1904 - 25/06/1904 – Age 27 - Carlton Main Sinker. Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When getting out of a hoppit he miscalculated the distance to the lauding stage and fell into the sump and was drowned.

COOPER Moses - 1904 - 03/01/1904 – Age 11 - Wheal Harmony Gypsey boy, Cornwall. He fell into an old shaft on Wheal Harmony in Cornwall and was killed on the 3rd January.

COOPER Richard - 1903 - 21/10/1903 – Age 23 - Hindley Field Coal cutter. Hindley Field, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was going around a coal cutting machine, which was holing the coal, when a fall of roof occurred between two slips capping some props and crushing the deceased.

COOPER Samuel - 1903 - 22/05/1903 – Age 27 - International Collier. International Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face, the stall had fallen in, three weeks before the fall had been cleared and double-timbers stood on the road right up to the face, on the second day, after the coal work was resumed, while cutting in the narrow in front of the road, another fall occurred knocking out the inside pair of timbers and laggings and burying the two colliers. Six feet seam. 2 killed.

COOPER Samuel - 1906 - 28/02/1906 – Age 57 - Walkmill Hewer. Moresby Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Died March 3. Deceased and his son, a lad of 16, were working together in robbing or broken workings in No.3, a district the Main Band which is 4.5 feet thick and is overlaid by 20 inches of ‘cash’ or soft shale mixed with coal and full of slips. They were preparing to start the 3rd lift in a pillar of coil. The roadway skirting the pillar was timbered by pairs of gears with squared crowns, set 2 feet to 2.5 feet apart, and in order to obtain access to the coal a crosshead or running balk was to replace some of the props next the coal. Deceased had been instructed by the deputy, who had examined the place before work started, to middle prop the crowns before taking out the props next the coil and putting in the running balk. While so engaged, he is supposed to have caused a crown to cant and the cash and some of the stone above it fell for a length of about 10 feet relieved by a slip at the outbye end, displacing four pairs of gears in its fall. Deceased had his lighted safety lamp hung on his belt and when he was knocked down and covered up he fell on the lamp which was not extinguished and pressed against his chest in the region of the heart. He was released in about 10 minutes but was unconscious and remained so until his death, which, according to medical evidence given at the inquest was due to shock and heart failure.

COOPER Stephen - 1907 - 31/05/1907 – Age 26 - Aldridge Loader. Aldridge Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was loading a tub of coal at longwall face while the stallman was wedging down some underholed coal only about 2 yards away from the tub. The coal in falling over crushed deceased against a prop, fracturing his skull. This accident should never have happened. The stallman should not have allowed deceased to work near the coal he was trying to get down.

COOPER T. - 1900 - 06/02/1900 – Age 51 - Laister Dyke Quarry Quarryman. Joseph Cliff and Sons, Yorkshire. Fall of ground from a place beyond his control.

COOPER Thomas - 1903 - 06/06/1903 – Age 35 - Battery, Whinstone Quarry Quarryman. Alexander Brunton and Sons, Fife. The Quarry has been worked in two lift floors each having a face about ? feet in height. Twelve months to the accident a quantity of tirr and rotten rock fell from the brow and formed a slope at the foot of the upper face. The lower face had reached the tail of this slope and while deceased and another were lifting some rock from the lower floor a stone fell from the slope referred to and struck deceased causing injuries which resulted fatally nineteen days afterwards.

COOPER Thomas - 1906 - 26/03/1906 – Age 48 - Haunchwood Loader. Sir Alfred Hickman, Warwickshire. Deceased received a slight injury in the mine on 27th February. The Coroner’s jury found that he died of ‘pneumonia,’ probably brought on by his enforced idleness. Two doctors gave evidence that the death had no connection with the accident.

COOPER Thomas - 1909 - 09/12/1909 – Age 28 - Merthyr Vale No.1 Labourer. Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and a repairer, having lost their lights while repairing on a main intake haulage road, had got into a manhole and sent their lamps to be re-lit. When the lamps returned, deceased, against the advice of the repairer, attempted to get to a more comfortable manhole but was caught by an outgoing journey as he was fumbling for it in the dark.

COOPER W. - 1900 - 07/12/1900 – Age 16 - Woolley Moor Hurrier. Woolley Moor Coal Co., Yorkshire. Death alleged to have resulted from injury received by falling down. Died 18th December.

COOPER W. - 1904 - 24/11/1904 – Age 37 - Whitwood Silkstone Byeworkman. Henry Briggs Sons and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Deceased and another man were taking off from the side, to widen a gateway for a passbye when a large stone, which appeared to be solid, fell from a concealed weight break and slip and caught and fatally injured him.

COOPER William - 1900 - 22/06/1900 – Age 28 - South Wales Haulier. Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. A small stone fell down the shaft, from a tram which was being banked, rebounding from something in its descent and struck his neck. He lay idle until the 10th July when he resumed work and continued until the 3rd. November. Paralysis of the throat developed and he died on the 18th November. The doctor attributed death to the effects of the accident.

COOPER William - 1902 - 10/04/1902 – Age 40 - Swell Tor, Granite Quarry Foreman. Pethick Bros., Devon. When he was charging a hole with gunpowder it, from some unascertainable and unexplained cause, exploded killing him on the spot and causing severe injuries to another man who was assisting.

COOPER William - 1905 - 02/06/1905 – Age 30 - Britannia Quarry Quarrier. Messrs Brooks and Brooks, Backup, Lancashire. Fell into the Quarry from the edge of the top while reaching for the end of the crane rope, he overbalanced and fell 56 feet; he ought to have waited until the crane swung round to the bank, he relied upon a fence which proved insufficient.

COOPER William - 1907 - 15/02/1907 – Age 68 - Monk Bretton Byeworker. Monk Bretton Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was engaged enlarging refuge holes on all the engine planes, and in one there was a slab of stone in the goaf which he had attempted to get down, by wedging and his pick, several times without success. He then told the driver to bring him a bar from a landing about 700 yards away. Before the driver returned he was found under the stone which had fallen, quite dead. His hammer was also lying under the stone in such a position as to suggest that he had been hitting the stone at the back of the hole in order to break it. There was a slip at one side which he would see before the stone fell. He was evidently tempted while waiting for the bar to use the hammer and was deceived by the stone falling sooner than he expected.

COOPER William - 1907 - 20/04/1907 – Age 31 - Sandwell, Sinking Sinker. Sandwell Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Something falling from part way down the shaft. 3 killed.

COOPER William - 1909 - 23/12/1909 - Bond’s Main Asst. onsetter. Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was pushing full tubs into the cage, when three other full tubs ran through the blocks, ten yards away, and crushed deceased into those in the cage. The person in charge of the blocks neglected his duty. Died same day.

COPE Arthur - 1908 - 17/03/1908 – Age 35 - Walsall Wood Stallman. Walsall Wood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was passing up along his longwall working place in the Shallow Seam when a stone, 10 feet in length, 2 feet 6 inches in width, and 17 inches in thickness, fell upon him from between two unseen slips parallel to the coal face and converging upwards. He was extricated at once but died in about half an hour. The place was timbered with props and lids set 4 feet apart in rows 5 feet apart. The face props were 1 foot from the coal face and the stone fell from between this and the next row.

COPE George - 1904 - 03/02/1904 – Age 44 - Bailey Brook Dataller. Butterley Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was descending the shaft in a cage when it stopped at an intermediate landing and deceased, probably thinking he was at the shaft bottom, stepped out of the cage and fell down the shaft.

COPE John Arthur - 1904 - 29/03/1904 – Age 45 - Swanwick Old Roadman. CRP Morewood, Derbyshire. Six men were descending the shaft when the cage got fast in the wooden conductors. Three men fell out and were killed by falling to the bottom of the shaft. 3 killed.

COPELAND Thomas - 1905 - 01/08/1905 – Age 25 - Byers Green Labourer. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Crushed between truck and Hempstead pillar. Died on following day.

COPELAND Thomas - 1906 - 15/05/1906 – Age 69 - Annesley Dataller. Annesley Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. He was injured in the mine on 14th March and recovered from the accident. He died suddenly on 15th May, and the coroner’s jury returned a verdict that he died of ‘syncope.'

COPELAND William Mawson - 1908 - 27/02/1908 – Age 39 - Newfield Hewer. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Whilst he was hewing in the Harvey Seam a piece of stone, about 3 feet by 2 feet with a feather edge on one side and a breaker on the other, fell upon his shoulder and neck and killed him.

COPLEY Amos - 1908 - 31/07/1908 – Age 28 - Hoyland Silkstone Collier. Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The shaft at which this accident occurred is 20 feet diameter and fitted with cages carrying eight tubs on two decks. The drums on the winding engine are of different diameters, mid one cage runs to the old Silkstone Seam level, a depth of 509 yards, and the other to the Fenton Seam mouthing, a distance of 38.3 yards from the surface. At the latter level baulks are put across half the shaft for the cage to rest on, and fallers are also fitted. The spaces between the baulks were 2 feet 9 inches and 2 feet 5 inches. The day of the accident was the first the deceased had worked at this Colliery, he had completed his shift and returned to the shaft but instead of going to the empty tub side of it, as he should have done, he went through an opening in a wall, the full tub side and walked into the shaft which at the time was unprotected, and fell through the baulks to the Old Silkstone hanging-on, a distance of 126 yards, and was killed.

COPLEY Henry - 1909 - 30/04/1909 – Age 32 - Renishaw Park No.2 Dataller. J and G Wells, Derbyshire. Killed by a fall of roof while repairing a main roadway.

COPLEY Joseph - 1902 - 23/04/1902 – Age 23 - Glass Houghton Labourer. WM Wood, Yorkshire. He was pushing against the buffer of a wagon when another wagon was unexpectedly bumped against it and he was killed.

COPLEY William Henry - 1908 - 25/02/1908 – Age 40 Lady Park, Slate Quarry Quarryman. WJ Crosley, Lancashire. He was standing on a ledge, barring out a piece of rock, which came away suddenly and knocked him over the Quarry face.

COPPER John - 1901 - 04/02/1901 – Age 29 - Bond’s Main Stallman. Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was attempting to withdraw a prop from the goaf, without the use of a ringer and chain, and before he could get it out the roof fell and killed him.

COPSON Matthew - 1907 - 20/04/1907 – Age 36 - Sandwell, Sinking Sinker. Sandwell Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Something falling part way down the shaft. 3 killed.

CORBETT Andrew - 1909 - 29/06/1909 – Age 30 - Blaydon Main Hewer. Priestman Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Crushed by loaded tub which ran amain.

CORBETT P. - 1900 - 27/06/1900 – Age 57 - Oaks Labourer. C Cammell and Co., Yorkshire. Died 21st June. Fell over gears of a horse.

CORBETT Simeon - 1901 - 22/07/1901 – Age 23 - Bromley Lane Horse driver. Roberts and Co., Staffordshire. When crossing the bottom of the shaft was fatally injured by the descending cage. Died 10th September, 1901.

CORBRICK George - 1902 - 10/04/1902 – Age 32 - Heworth Shifter. Heworth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died 19th April. To increase the height of a rolleyway, in the Beaumont Seam, a balk had been withdrawn, some stone fell and then a small shot fired and while deceased was removing the fallen stones, to put in timber, another fall took place.

CORBY Joseph - 1905 - 08/07/1905 – Age 53 - Dinnington Enginewright. Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A pit, 15.5 feet diameter, was being refitted both as regards surface arrangements and guides in the pit. While these operations were going on there was a temporary fence round it and beams were also laid across. On the day of the accident deceased gave instructions to put in the box cradle, measuring 7.5 feet by 3.25 feet so that the shaftmen could descend to tighten up two joints in a range of steam pipes in the pit which were leaking and also caused the steam to be admitted to the pipes so that the leaking joints could be located. Three beams were removed and the shaftmen were busy connecting the cradle with the jack engine rope when deceased walked forward and fell into the shaft near where a guide bunton crossed it, he attempted to save himself by clutching a man's legs, who was standing with one foot on the bunton and the other on one of the cross-beams. Some steam, due to the leaking joints, was coming up the shaft and may have obscured his view. He fell 36 fathoms on to a "picture" or planking placed in the shaft to protect the onsetter from shaft water, where he was found not dead but almost unconscious. He died in a few minutes after being brought to the surface.

CORDEY or CORDY William - 1900 - 26/09/1900 – Age 36 - Deep Repairer. Kingswood and Parkfield Collieries Co. Gloucestershire. Fall of roof at a parting where he was repairing. The deceased had been a miner for two years, employed by Kingswood and Parkfield Co., Archibald Tanner was his partner. At 2 p.m. they were repairing a railway at Dig Vein Seam and widening the road. They were knocking out old posts and putting in new ones. The side "began to run a bit" and Tanner called out "Hold on Dill" but Cordy did not hear him and continued hammering. He was buried under the fall. Tanner said they usually cut the posts off with a saw but used the hammer if it seemed reasonably safe to do so. He said Cordy was one of the best men he ever worked with. He loved him like a brother. Asked if he thought there had been danger he said "Where is the man that works in the mine that isn't in danger?" A voice from the body of the court shouted "Hear, hear''.

CORDINER Frank - 1904 - 29/06/1904 – Age 42 - Castlecary Miner. Stein John G and Co., Linlithgow. Deceased had prepared a shot and just as he was about to light the fuse a piece of clay fell off the face above and fatally injured him.

CORFIELD William - 1902 - 11/02/1902 – Age 27 - Haunchwood Slate Coal Dayman. Sir Alfred Hickman MP, Warwickshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was pulling coal from the face and was using a bar when the coal behind him fell and fatally injured him. He died the next day.

CORLESS James - 1909 - 11/06/1909 – Age 52 - Douglas Bank Collier. Rose Bridge and Douglas Bank Collieries Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When engaged getting coal at the face, a fall of dirt and top coal fell off the face upon him capping two sprags, set four feet apart.

CORNELL Charles - 1909 - 01/11/1909 – Age 57 - Sacriston Hewer. Sacriston Collieries Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. This case was purely accidental. He was hewing in a bord, where the face had been nicked on the left side, when a piece of coal, weighing from one to two tons, came away from a back and fastened him against a prop. The place was properly timbered and, but for the back, which prior to the occurrence was invisible, the accident would not have happened.

CORNELL Joseph - 1904 - 23/03/1904 – Age 45 - Harraton Hewer. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Complained of having sprained his neck while hewing. He continued work and walked home but died the following morning. The doctor, however gave a certificate that death was entirely due to natural causes. No inquest was held.

CORNER David – 1904 – 08/06/1904 – Age 18 – Howden, Whinstone (metalliferous) Putter and Filler. Puitter Rural District Council of Auckland, Co.Durham. When filling whinstone into a hopper a piece of stone 6 feet long by 2 feet 4 inches by 1 foot by 3 inches suddenly fell from the roof of a slip and killed him.

CORNER Ernest – 1904 – 15/06/1904 – Age 17 – Hulton, Atherton No.3 Drawer. Hulton Colliery Co. Ltd., Atherton, Lancashire. Right knee slightly cut. Whilst bringing out a full tub he slipped on a landing plate, so he stated, not reported at the time. Owing to the wound not being cleansed, blood poisoning ensued. Died 21st June.

CORNER Robert – 1902 – 13/02/1902 – Age 65 – Forcett Limestone Quarry Quarryman. Forcett Limestone Co., North Yorkshire. When going down, from the top of the Quarry to get to his panel, he, on account of frost and slippery nature of rock lost his foothold and fell a distance of about 14 feet causing injury to his hip and shoulder and severe shaking. Died the same day.

CORNER Thomas – 1907 – 30/10/1907 – Age 45 – Grinkle Ironstone Miner. Grinkle Park Mining Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was struck by a stone from a shot which blew through into his, from another, place.

CORNFOOT Robert S. – 1902 – 10/06/1902 – Age 29 – Backworth Waggonman. Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. No one seems to have seen the accident happen but it seemed probable that deceased was attempting to couple two waggons while they were in motion and was run over.

CORNICK Albert – 1908 – 26/09/1908 – Age 42 – Norton Hill Collier. Norton Hill Colliery Co., Somerset. When walking up the Slyving Vein Incline, on his way to his work, he fell on a glass bottle in which he had his tea, and cut the fleshy part of his left hand. When afterwards in the cage, ascending the shaft, he appears to have become violent and was held on the cage with difficulty by a man who was accompanying him. The man stated that his head was outside the cage as they approached the surface and that it was crushed against the framing, causing death.