CORNISH W.M. – 1903 – 26/09/1903 – Age 47 – Wharncliffe Silkstone Fitter. Wharncliffe Silkstone Coal Co., Yorkshire. He was trying to jump on a train of full tubs to ride outbye when he slipped and was crushed between the side and the train.

CORNISH William – 1900 – 14/07/1900 – Age 17 – Cadzow Bogieman. Cadzow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was discovered by another bogieman, who was proceeding inbye with an empty rake under the tub of his own rake. It is supposed the deceased, who had lifted a part of his loaded rake from a bench a short distance inbye from place of accident had failed to grip his rope and the rake descending a slight dip ran too hard and he attempted to jump off a manhole but striking the stoop side he was thrown back among the moving tubs.

CORNISH William – 1900 – 19/11/1900 – Age 55 – Trimdon Water leader. Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. Driving a pony set, sitting on limbers, when the bolt of the limmers came out and he fell in front of the set of five full tubs and was so severely crushed that he died the same day.

CORNOCK Osborne – 1906 – 16/03/1906 – Age 26 – South Wales Collier. Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. Died on the 15th March from peritonitis supervening upon a ruptured bladder. When at work at South Wales Colliery, on the 9th, his foot slipped on a rail and he fell on his knees, but worked to the end of the shift. It was attempted to prove that death was due to the fall on the 9th, but it was shown that he had been drinking heavily between that date and the subsequent fall when he was also not sober.

CORNWALL Albert – 1904 – 15/04/1904 – Age 40 – Hem Heath Collier. Hem Heath Mining Co., Staffordshire. Fall of side (ironstone) at face of a breasting in Red Mine. The fall occurred from a rusty back when a goth went. It was probably not efficiently spragged. Died 22nd May.

CORNWALL Joseph – 1905 – 10/02/1905 – Age 34 – Brandon No.3 Pikeman. T and J Marsh, Worcestershire. Irruption of mud and water through the breakdown of the roof to surface. 2 killed.

CORNWELL Edward – 1901 – 08/01/1901 – Age 53 – New Brancepeth Labourer. Cochrane and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was pushing at the buffer of a truck loaded with coke when another man, not knowing that he was doing so, lowered down an empty truck and he was fatally injured between the buffers.

CORRIE Richard – 1903 – 06/05/1903 – Age 29 – Common No.16 Miner. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. While firing a shot of fracturite it went off in some unexplained manner. Apparently he thought it had missed fire and he returned to it.

CORRIGAN Hugh – 1900 – 25/05/1900 – Age 14 – Ryhope Driver. Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When driving he slipped his foot under the buffer of the tub and in trying to retain his balance fell in front of the tubs and was crushed so severely that he died the following day.

CORRIGAN Hugh – 1906 – 27/03/1906 – Age 42 – Auchincruive, Mossblown No.2 Miner. Auchincruive Coal Co., Ayrshire. Fall of roof in working place.

CORSER Samuel – 1905 – 15/07/1905 – Age 21 – Wood Farm Trammer. Wood Farm Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Irruption of water from a canal feeder through a breakdown of the strata to the surface. 3 killed.

CORSI Basilio – 1908 – 27/05/1908 – Age 17 – Rampgill, Lead Miner. Vieille Montagne Zinc Co., Cumberland. Overwound at an internal shaft.

COSLIFFE H. * – 1906 – 14/10/1906. Wingate Grange, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery, Co.Durham.

COSTELLO Arthur – 1903 – 07/01/1903 – Age 15 – Arley Drawer. John Scowcroft and Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were just commencing to jig 22 boxes of coal down the jig when one of the links broke and 19 full tubs ran towards the bottom of the jig and banged into the empty set and the three full boxes left the top of the jig and were dragged by the jig rope towards the brake pulley and eventually got off the rails and crushed deceased who was sitting at the entrance to the level top of jig.

COSTELLO Daniel – 1906 – 06/06/1906 – Age 15 – Mossbeath Filler. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased’s duties were to fill the tubs with coal and otherwise assist at the face where he had filled his tub, he left it at the face and sat down, a short distance away, to wait on the drawer coming inbye with an empty tub. While waiting a burst of coal took place off the face which struck the loaded tub, causing it to move away and the boy thinking apparently to get out of harm's way from the falling coal darted to the opposite side of the roadway and was struck by the tub as it passed. The road dipped 1 in 7 from the face and it was quite evident the tub was neither spragged nor fenced properly.

COSTELLO Edward – 1908 – 03/02/1908 – Age 40 – Hattonrigg No.3 Miner. Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While wedging the coal down the roof gave way. The fall was due to want of props which he failed to set as required by the regulations.

COSTIN Frederick - 1908 - 10/11/1908 – Age 43 – Pochin Repairer. Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Died from diabetic coma. He injured his hand slightly, about two and a half months previously, and owing to inattention it became poisoned, but healed in about six weeks, when he resumed work for a few days but became ill and was found to be suffering from acute diabetes. The doctor who made the post-mortem examination and who attended the deceased up to the time of his death could not say whether he had diabetes when the accident occurred or not if he had considered that the accident to the hand would intensify the effects and accelerate death. How far this should be considered a mining accident seems very doubtful.

COTTERILL Albert – 1909 – 20/07/1909 – Age 25 – Silverwod Stoneman. Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was assisting to build a pack when a bump burst a large stone from the roof and he was fatally injured. The fall displaced two props.

COTTIER John – 1903 – 28/11/1903 – Age 61 – Outfields Shiftman. Outfields Colliery Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased and another shiftman were drawing wood out of a disused lift in robbery workings of the Ten Quarters band when a large stone fell from the roof upon him. He was engaged drawing a chock and was using a wedge to split the top nogs as he had settled down on the timber and made it difficult to get out. It would have been prudent if he had set a props to protect himself while drawing the chock.

COTTON Frederick – 1902 – 18/03/1902 – Age 29 – Gelli Steam Rider. Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was riding on an empty tram, down an engine plane dipping 1 in 3, when a tram escaped from the top of the brow ran down and overtook the empty tram and broke the rope. Both trams ran a short distance, jumped off the road and knocked out timbers thus causing a fall which buried deceased.

COTTON Joseph – 1903 – 29/05/1903 – Age 53 – Cleworth Hall Collier. Tyldesley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place from between a slip and a small fault, both ought to have been seen. The timbering rule requiring supports every 3 feet was not observed, space 4 feet. Fall 19 feet long 4 feet wide. (Average roof.)

COUGHLAN James – 1900 – 27/03/1900 – Age 55 – Daubhill (shale Quarry) Quarrier. Joseph Higson, Lancashire. Fall of baring clay over shale from crack. Should have been got down from top.

COULDLISKIE William – 1904 – 28/12/1904 – Age 26 – Craighead No.2 Miner. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at stoops. Another two men were injured. The roof was not propped in terms of the Special Rules.

COULON John – 1902 – 07/08/1902 – Age 39 – Binchester Hewer. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from injuries received when following his employment on May 24th. 1901.

COULSON Matthew – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 20. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 7 Kettledrum Street, Stanley.

COULSON Thomas – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 62. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 7 Kettledrum Street, Stanley.

COULSON Wilson – 1903 – 06/01/1903 – Age 52 – Willington Hewer. Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. Killed by cauldron shaped stone falling from the roof of his working place.

COULSTON J – 1900 – 22/03/1900 – Age 44 – Ackton Hall Byeworkman. Ackton Hall Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof. Died 27th Mar.

COULTHARD Samuel – 1906 – 07/02/1906 – Age 34 – Cambrian No.2 Collier. Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was filling rubbish into trams when five laden trams, farther out, put into motion by a tram being drawn against them by the rope, ran down and killed him. The riders in charge of the one train said that they signalled to the engineman to stop but to no purpose. The engineman denied having received a signal.

COUNCILL Allan – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 23. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 7 Henry Street, Stanley.

COUNCILL John – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 58. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 7 Henry Street, Stanley.

COUPE Henry Butterworth – 1906 – 20/11/1906 – Age 20 – Pleasley Screenman. Stanton Iron Works Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was crossing the railway sidings at night when he appears to have stumbled, and was crushed between a standing wagon and a moving wagon.

COURTNELL William – 1901 – 18/08/1901 – Age 20 – Hamstead Stallman. Hamstead Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp. Cause, naked lights and inadequate ventilation. 2 killed.

COUSIN John – 1900 – 20/04/1900 – Age 31 – Alston & Nentforce Sandstone Quarry Quarryman. Alston & Nentforce Quarry Co. Ltd., Northumberland. He was working on a ledge, 6 or 7 feet wide, when by some means he fell over the face to the Quarry floor a distant of 31 feet.

COUSINS Henry – 1908 – 04/01/1908 – Age 26 – Eastern Collier Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 7 feet by 4 feet by 27 inches thick, it fell from between smooth slips. Deceased and his partner had taken out two flats and three props, and a bed, 3 feet thick, had fallen. He tried the upper roof, thought it sounded safe and began to pull down some loose stones, when the fall occurred. Lower seam.

COUSINS John – 1909 – 17/12/1909 – Age 41 – Glapwell Deputy. Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Two shots had been fired by the deceased deputy in the ripping lip and he and the contractor were getting down the shaken stone. A. large piece of stone appeared to be insecure and both men tried for some time to get it down but had not succeed. They then decided to set a prop under it and were doing so, when the piece of stone fell, bringing others with it, and both men were killed instantly. 2 killed.

COUTLAND Thomas – 1904 – 19/10/1904 – Age 48 – Chopwell Stoneman. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was the leading man, of two stonemen engaged in driving a stone drift. Two short holes, one 14 inches and the other 8 inches deep, were drilled on either side of the drift. The 14 inch hole, on the right side, was charged with one cartridge of cheddite and fitted with a detonator and 2 feet of Bickford, Smith & Co.'s "Patent red fuse for use in wet ground." The 8 inch hole on the left side contained ½ lb. cartridge of cheddite with detonator and 15 inches of the same fuse. Deceased applied his lighted candle to the fuse of the 14 inch hole, while the other man lit the fuse of the 8 inch hole, which struck or lighted, and they both retired under the impression that the fuse of the other hole had not kindled. A shot exploded, when deceased immediately returned, and when close to the place a second shot exploded and killed him. On testing the fuse it was found that the covering would smoulder. The Local Inspectors reported "we think no one was to blame."

COVE Hubert – 1907 – 04/07/1907 – Age 14 – Fernhill No.2 Collier boy. George Watkinson and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan Fall of roof at face cliff, 6 feet  by 16 inches by 16 inches thick, fell on deceased who was carrying coal to the tram. The cliff was on top of and is worked with the coal. It was overhanging a little and should have been spragged. Six Feet Seam.

COVERRY Frank – 1904 – 30/01/1904 – Age 32 – Auchenheath, Sandstone Quarry Labourer. Clydesdale Quarries Co., Lanarkshire. In lifting a stone it broke and he fell backwards over the edge of the Quarry.

COWAN James – 1907 – 12/03/1907 – Age 56 – Allanton Reddsman. William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place while securing it.

COWAN Mark – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 66. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 2 Benton Terrace.

COWAN Robert – 1908 – 20/02/1908 – Age 44 – Washington Glebe Stoneman. Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of firedamp. 14 killed.

COWARD Edward – 1901 – 20/11/1901 – Age 29 – Pantyffin Labourer. William Francis, Glamorgan. Suffocated by carbonic acid gas on descending a shaft 14 yards deep. The shaft had recently been sunk to the coal but had not been worked in for some days as the men were otherwise engaged. On this day John Thomas, who wanted a shovel, was lowered to the bottom of the shaft in a sling. Not getting a reply from him the two men at the winder intended pulling him up when deceased jumped on to and slid down the rope. He also did not answer those on the top so they pulled Thomas up and be was saved by artificial respiration but deceased was not recovered for eight hours.

COWARD John – 1908 – 03/11/1908 – Age 19 – Prince of Wales Screener. John Rhodes, Yorkshire. He had been in a pump house, to get his breakfast, and on coming out passed between two full wagons standing three feet apart, to return to his work, and as he did so 14 full wagons, which were being pushed by the locomotive, bumped into one of the standing wagons with the result that he was crushed between the buffers and instantly killed.

COWCILL David – 1908 – 15/12/1908 – Age 44 – Ackton Hall Collier. Ackton Hall Colliery Co., Yorkshire. When pulling coal off at a loose end of the face he disturbed other coal, which had been holed, and it fell and knocked him against a rib of coal which had been left next to the goaf with such violence that his spine was seriously injured. Died on December 17th.

COWDEN James – 1900 – 16/08/1900 – Age 35 – Orbiston No.2 Bottomer. Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While putting a hutch on the cage he was struck on the head by an unknown substance which fell down the shaft.

COWELL Joseph - 1902 - 12/06/1902 – Age 58 - Ashington Hewer. Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. This accident occurred at the face opposite the gateway in the Yard seam where the coal is undercut by a coal cutting machine. Deceased shot the coal down and filled it into tube. A large stone bounded by slip, and fell away when the coal was taken out. No props appear to have been placed under the newly exposed roof.

COWEN John - 1902 - 06/03/1902 – Age 54 - Whitehaven, Croft Hewer. Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Deceased and two other hewers were walking outbye on an endless rope haulage road and immediately after passing a full set they met an empty set coming inbye. Instead of returning 8 yards back to a refuge hole deceased tried to stand between the side of the road and the empty set but was knocked down and dragged along by the tubs.

COWEN John Parker - 1906 - 26/09/1906 – Age 38 - Allhallows Joiner. Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Died September 28. A circular saw had been provided some years with a Taylor’s saw guard; a smaller saw was afterwards erected but no separate guard provided for it; there was not sufficient steam to work the saws together and it was thought one guard would do for both as it could be transferred from one saw to the other in less than five minutes. Neither saw had been used since the 22nd September, when the guard had been left on the larger one. On the 26th September deceased was using the smaller saw to cut a six inch leg into 1.5 inch planks for lofting. He had cut off two planks and was busy with the remaining three inches when, although no one saw the accident, it is probable one of the planks already cut had been caught by the saw and he had noticed this and leaned forward and stopped the saw, but not in time to prevent the plank being thrown against his face. He was found unconscious with the saw standing and the plank marked with blood near him. He was taken to Carlisle Infirmary and was operated on twice, but died from inflammation of the lungs following the wounds on the nose and throat. The jury recommended that a guard and fence be provided for both saws.

COWEN William - 1908 - 29/09/1907 – Age 32 - Oakenshaw Hewer. Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. This man was hewing in a broken jud in the B Seam. He was working alone, and was taking a lift up along the goaf edge, 5 yards wide. The roof was shale for 5 to 7 inches, with solid rock above. As he was hewing a piece of the shale about 3.5 feet by 1.5 feet fell out and struck his head on the left side and crushed it against the thill. His skull was broken. He walked so far outbye and then lost consciousness. The maximum distance apart of the timber allowed was 3 feet, and this rule had been complied with.

COWEN Willis * – 1908 – 22/04/1908 – Age 28. Trimdon Grange, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham.

COWEN Willis – 1909 – 22/04/1909 – Age 28 – Trimdon Grange Stoneman. Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He was killed by a cauldron bottom 8 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 3 feet thick, falling upon him. All over the upper area of the stone there was a coal pipe about 4 inches thick.

COWING George - 1905 - 10/05/1905 – Age 19 - Fallowfield, Barytes Putter. Walton and Cowper, Northumberland. Deceased, was ordinarily employed as a banker on the surface but occasionally acted as putter underground, was engaged on the latter employment on the day of the accident. Two cages ran in a vertical shaft having working levels at 60 fathoms, and 65 fathoms. The shaft at the 50 fathom level was fenced by two chains, one 2 feet and the other 3 feet 6 inches from the pavement, stretching across the road 4 feet away from the shaft. There were no fixed lights at the shaft in the working levels. The putters got from one level to another and attend the cages and signals. After bait which all the miners take on the surface deceased and others descended to resume work; deceased got off at the 60 and shortly afterwards returned to the shaft and shouted to a putter at the 65 that there was a full tub in the level; he rapped for the cage and got in and the putter at the 65 rapped him up to the 50 and then went away from the shaft and on his return, in half-an-hour, found deceased lying at the shaft bottom dead. Two wheels and axle from a tub were also found near, and an empty tub was found in the shaft about the 60. Two men who had got off the cage at the 50, after bait, and before the accident found the chains there unhooked and an empty tub lying on its side about 7 feet from the shaft in the short and nearly level crosscut to the vein. It is supposed that while deceased was putting this tub on the way he had in some way approached the shaft and fallen down. It appeared that the chains were not regularly used. The jury added to their verdict of accidental death a recommendation that gates should be used to fence the shaft instead of chains, and that light should be fixed at the various levels.

COWLEY John * 1903 - 02/02/1903 – Age 51 – Silksworth, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham.

COWLING Martin - 1907 - 08/02/1907 – Age 19 - Worvas Downs, Tin Assistant shaftsman. Worvas Downs Mining Co., Cornwall. While engaged with the pitman, taking out a bell line he fell away from the 40 to the 70-fathom level, but exactly how it occurred or what he was actually doing at the moment is not known. He was last seen before the accident at the ladder just below the sollar at the 40 fathom level.

COWPER Hugh - 1907 - 24/02/1907 – Age 54 - Littleburn Fitter. North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was going to clean away some sediment from the blow-off valves of a steam boiler. It broke a joint and he was crushed to death.

COX Albert Edward - 1906 - 23/10/1906 – Age 23 - Nuneaton Screenman. Stanley Bros., Warwick. Deceased was crushed between a railway wagon and a post supporting the stage of a picking belt.

COX Albert Ernest - 1907 - 29/08/1907. Bold Venture Limestone Quarry, United Alkali Co., Derbyshire. Deceased trapped his finger, while emptying a wagon of stone into a kiln, and although it was at once washed and dressed blood poisoning followed and proved fatal. He died 16th Sept.

COX Charles - 1904 - 01/07/1904 – Age 14 - Blaina, Henwain Door boy. J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was some sixty or seventy yards away from the door at which he was stationed, apparently assisting the hauliers, although this is denied, when in some unexplained manner he got under the first tram of the leading horse. Discipline must have been very slack for boys to leave their doors in this way.

COX Clifford - 1900 - 10/04/1900 – Age 26 - Pwllypant limestone Quarry Quarryman. Topham Jones and Railton Glamorgan. When clearing away loose stone blasting the ledge on which he was standing fell away. He clutch rope for support but other falling stones striking his hands caused to loosen his hold resulting in him falling 100 feet to the bottom of Quarry. His comrade was within a yard or two of him but fortunately on another ledge of stone.

COX Edwin - 1901 - 20/10/1901 – Age 52 - Apedale, Sladderhill Collier. Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of coal from a slip while holing in the Hams Coal. Died 13th June, 1902.

COX George - 1906 - 21/02/1906 – Age 68 - Bretby Labourer. Earl of Carnarvon, Derbyshire. He died shortly before he should have started work as a surface labourer, and the coroner’s jury found that death was due to ‘natural causes – fatty degeneration of the heart.'

COX James - 1904 - 03/02/1904 – Age 63 - Ross No.1 Miner. Thomas Barrs Trust, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face. He was working at a point which he was instructed not to touch and which was not propped in terms of the regulations.

COX James - 1905 - 31/10/1905 – Age 32 - Manvers Main Airway man. Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was taking down a stone and drawing timber in a return airway and had drawn three or four props and then attempted to bar down a piece of stone with a steel bar in one or two places without success, and then apparently he appears to have passed under the edge of the stones, to get a pick, when it fell and killed him.

COX John * - 1903 - 02/04/1903 – Age 16. Tudhoe, Weardale Steel Coal and Iron Co Ltd., Co.Durham.

COX John - 1905 - 23/03/1905 – Age 58 - Blantyre No.1 Oncostman. William Dixon Ltd., Lanarkshire. While ascending the shaft, in some unknown manner, he fell off the cage.

COX John - 1906 - 06/11/1906 – Age 22 - Loscoe Labourer. Butterley Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was passing between some full railway wagons on the siding when he was fatally crushed.

COX Joseph - 1906 - 02/01/1906 - Age 20 - Himley No.4 Driver. Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Deceased had rapped away a set of two empty tubs from the foot of a jig, 40 yards in length and having a gradient of 1 in 8. The rope broke when the full tubs were half way down and deceased was struck by them. There was a manhole at the signal lever in which he could have remained with safety. The rope was steel 1/4 inch diameter and had been in for 6 months. The night overman and jigger had both examined it at the beginning of the shift and found no broken wires.

COX Joseph - 1909 - 29/03/1909 – Age 24 - Newdigate Browman. Newdigate Colliery Co. Ltd., Warwickshire. Deceased was assisting to get a train of tubs on the rails and, when the haulage motor was re-started, some current passed into the haulage rope and deceased was killed.

COX Michael - 1902 - 10/04/1902 – Age 21 - Parr No.5 Contractor’s man. Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased, with other persons, got out of the cage at the nine feet mouthing but he turned back and went under the fence, about four feet high, probably thinking the cage was there to cross the pit and fell to the pit bottom a distance or 236 yards. There was a passbye at the side of the shaft provided for persons to return the other side of shaft if required.

COX Peter - 1907 - 24/07/1907 – Age 27 - New Brancepeth Shifter. Cochrane and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When riding outbye on the set, contrary to Special Rules, he was crushed and killed.

COX Richard - 1907 - 29/03/1907 – Age 25 - Waun Llwyd Collier. Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof at his working face in the Elled Seam. The stone (Clift) was about 6 feet by 4 feet by 15 inches thick on one side and only a few inches on the other. It appears to have broken off on the thick side at some timber, from want of support or adhesion on the other. The usual distance between supports in this part of the workings was 5 feet, whereas the maximum distance specified under Special Rule 2 which requires the distances named to be reasonable - is 11 feet. This shows a want of appreciation of the object of the Special Rules on the part of those who have the fixing of such distances whether owners, agent or manager, or jointly.

COX Thomas - 1902 - 29/09/1902 – Age 60 - Rosehall No.7 Labourer. R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Whilst crossing the rails he was run over by empty waggons.

COX William - 1902 - 14/07/1902 – Age 37 - Douglas Bank Collier. Rosebridge & Douglas Bank Collieries Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He had two sprags set against the clod between the top and the bottom coal when a fall of clod and coal came away off the face capping one of the sprags and fatally injuring deceased.

COX William - 1909 - 11/08/1909 – Age 17 - Collins Green Haulage hand. Collins Green Colliery Co., St Helens, Lancashire. When engaged at the bottom of a self-acting endless rope motion jig, the deceased got fatally crushed by two full tubs, through the lashing chain getting loose.

COXFORD William - 1909 - 24/09/1909 – Age 15 - Wallsend Waler. Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Bottom board of wagon he was riding on gave way.

COXHEAD George - 1905 - 23/11/1905 – Age 48 - Tydraw Asst. repairer. Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and another man were standing on the empty road of a parting waiting for a haulier to take a full tram into the other road. In passing the pointers a stone fell and startled the horse. It pulled the tram into the wrong road and crushed the man against the side. It was thought that in starting forward the horse kicked the pointer and so provided a way into the wrong road.

COXON ? * - 1901 - 01/02/1901. Wearmouth, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham.

COXON Forrester - 1901 - 20/03/1901 – Age 26 - Netherseal Dayman. Netherseal Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Fall of roof. Deceased was taking out a prop in front of a coal-cutting machine worked by compressed air but not working. When the prop was knocked out a quantity of the roof fell and killed deceased. The prop had been used for guiding the crab-rope of the holing machine.

COXON Matthew Robson - 1909 - 16/02/1909. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed.

COXON Thomas - 1906 - 15/02/1906 – Age 57 - South Hetton Hewer. South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When walking inbye he bumped his head against the side of the road, and by doing so dislocated his spine. It was at first thought he had died from natural causes.

COYLE Archibold - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 31. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 44 West Terrace, New Kyo.

COYLE John - 1906 - 13/12/1906 – Age 22 - East Plean No.4 Labourer. Plean Colliery Co. Ltd., Stirling. While jointing water pipes, on a track crossing the siding, he was run over by eight full waggons propelled past the screens by a Caledonian Railway Company’s locomotive.

COYLE Peter - 1908 - 21/10/1908 – Age 50 - Gilbertfield No.2 Miner. United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal and overlying fireclay. It is doubtful if the face was properly spragged.

COYLE Richard - 1901 - 18/01/1901 – Age 16 - Kimblesworth Driver. Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by a fall of side stone from a road along which he was driving.

COYLE William - 1903 - 23/05/1903 – Age 44 - Gilbertfield No.2 Miner. United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

COYLE William - 1904 - 23/05/1904 – Age 20 - Quarter Drawer. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. When taking an empty hutch down a dock another hutch, let away by two drawers, ran down on him.

COYND Joseph - 1908 - 17/10/1908 – Age 27 - Hetty Collier. Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face coal and shale, 9 feet by 3 feet by 4 feet thick, fell from between two smooth slips. Deceased had set a sprag against it, and was holing under the coal, when it crushed the sprag out, and injured deceased so badly that be died soon after. Two feet nine seam.

COYNE Martin - 1908 - 03/08/1908 – Age 60 - Denaby Main Dataller. Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He had finished his work and was walking between two roads on an endless haulage plane to the shaft, when six empty tubs became detached from the rope and running back caught and killed him. Screw clips are used on this plane and the man at the top had not screwed one sufficiently tight in this instance.

COYNE Thomas - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 28. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 2 Laxey Street, Stanley.

CRABBE George Coles - 1908 - 03/07/1908 – Age 23 - Rheola Haulier. Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased died from paralysis of the intestines following strangulated hernia due to an attempt to lift a tank which had been derailed.

CRABTREE J. - 1901 - 15/07/1901 – Age 46 - Monk Bretton Collier. Monk Bretton Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Buried by a fall of roof when repairing a roadway.

CRABTREE John E. - 1908 - 20/08/1908 – Age 33 - Cannock & Leacroft Hanger on. Cannock & Leacroft Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was employed at the shaft bottom, at a depth of 390 yds. from the surface, in taking out empty tubs from the cage, the full ones being put in from the opposite side of the shaft.  The cages were double decked. The top deck had been loaded, and the bottom deck was almost loaded when a piece of hard splint coal, about 4 inches square, fell down the shaft, apparently from the full cage at the surface, and struck deceased on the head, fracturing his skull. He was taken to the hospital where he died the next day at 7.45 am. The inset was very high, and further protection has since been provided for the cagers.

CRADDOCK John - 1900 - 20/09/1900 – Age 39 - Dowlais Cardiff Ripper. Dowlais Iron Co Ltd., Glamorgan. He stood between two trams on a parting to let a horse and three trams pass on the other road. The middle tram got off the road blocked the two trams together and injured him so that he died in six days.

CRADDOCK Teal - 1909 - 10/05/1909 – Age 29 - Grimethorpe Collier. Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When crossing a haulage road, on his way to the pit bottom, he was run over by a train of tubs which were being lowered by their own gravity.

CRAGGS Roger - 1900 - 03/07/1900 – Age 16 - Eppleton Stone putter. Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When putting stones he caught timber, and was so severely injured that he died within half an hour.

CRAGGS William * - 1907. Montagu, Walter Scott Ltd., Northumberland.

CRAGS John - 1908 - 01/02/1908 – Age 63 - Calder, Sinking Bricklayer. George Hargreaves and Co., Lancashire. In descending the shaft, in a small tub attached to the rope by two chains only. The engineman in lowering went farther than he ought to have done before retarding, applied the break so as to set up oscillation, the tub being attached by only two hooks tilted. The tub collided with a beam with such force as to leave the deep cut impression on a wood beam, and all the men were thrown out. 4 killed.

CRAIG Edward - 1903 - 18/03/1903 – Age 26 - Easter Jaw Engine keeper. Carron Co., Stirling. Deceased was apparently about to proceed to the pithead scaffold, by means of a steam hoist and put on the steam just as he stepped on to the cage when the cage was raised suddenly and he was caught between it and the frame and fatally crushed.

CRAIG Joseph - 1902 - 27/11/1902 – Age 48 - Francis Hewer. Hall Finley and Co., Co.Durham. Killed by fall of top coal and stone shape of a cauldron. He was getting top coal down when the stone fell and caught him.

CRAIG Robert - 1901 - 30/01/1901 – Age 72 - Stanley Blacksmith Pease and Partners, Co.Durham. Died from the effects of blood-poisoning owing to his having received a slight scratch, presumably at his work, but when it is not known.

CRAIG William - 1901 - 19/08/1901 – Age 14 - Linridge Miner. John Horn and Co., Lanarkshire. Deceased and his father were ascending an upcast shaft, 34 fathoms in depth, on a single decked cage worked by a single cylindered horizontal engine. As they approached the surface deceased remarked that they were going too fast. The cage was raised a considerable distance above the upper scaffold and fearing that it was to be overwound the father leaped off, fell upon the roof of the pithead house and rolled down upon the scaffold. Deceased jumped or fell from the cage and landed upon the pavilion end of the pithead house rolled off and fell down the shaft and was killed instantly.

CRAIG William - 1905 - 24/02/1905 – Age 20 - Prestongrange Sinker. Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd., Haddington. The shaft was enlarged for the purpose of pumping and winding coal from a seam, 35 fathoms from the bottom, the permanent set of pumps was practically completed, to the top lift 50 fathoms from surface, and the scaffold at the place was removed on the morning of the accident by deceased and two other sinkers. On descending in the cage, two hours later, deceased signalled to stop at the top lift and jumped to alight on the scaffold forgetting for the moment that it had been removed and was precipitated down the shaft.

CRAIG William - 1909 - 07/04/1909 – Age 38 - Newlandside, Limestone Quarry Quarryman. Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Knocked over the edge of the panel on which the was working by a stone falling from a slip.

CRAIGHILL John - 1902 - 18/09/1902 – Age 56 - Buckhill Shiftman. Allerdale Coal Co Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased and several others were sitting together in the mine when he dropped his lamp and falling forward expired. No inquest held. Deceased was known to suffer from heart disease.

CRAIGIE Thomas - 1906 - 02/04/1906 – Age 75 - Ellismuir Waggon greaser. United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. While oiling the siding points he was run over by two wagons and a Caledonian Railway Co. locomotive while shunting. Apparently the whistle was not sounded before the locomotive was started.

CRAMM John - 1902 - 05/09/1902 – Age 51 - West End brickmaker. James Critchley and Sons, Yorkshire. Died 19th September. Fell from brick kiln.

CRANE J. - 1900 - 25/11/1899 – Age 29 - Rotherham Main. Labourer John Brown and Co., Yorkshire. He was descending in the cage, with 5 other men, to repair the conductors when he stumbled and fell to the bottom of the shaft.

CRANE John - 1906 - 16/01/1906 – Age 41 - Springhill No.2 Miner. Archibald Finnie and Co., Ayrshire. Fall of roof at working face. Apparently the propping regulations were not observed.

CRANGLE John Thomas - 1904 - 19/04/1904 – Age 33 - South Hetton Deputy. South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Whilst drawing the innermost of the last three props in a jud a large fall of stone occurred and killed him.

CRASE William George - 1901 - 15/07/1901 – Age 25 - Levant, Tin Miner. Levant Mining Co., Cornwall. When assisting to repair the Whim Shaft he fell from about the 220 fathom level to the 278 fathom level.

CRAWFORD Edmund - 1905 - 14/01/1905 – Age 41 - North Elswick Master shifter. Elswick Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. In the longwall, in the Brockwell seam where the roof has posts, a bottom caunch is usually shot in and the roof not disturbed. A fall of roof had taken place near the face in a gateway and men were sent to clear it away and after doing so fired a saxonite shot, the roof within 8 feet of the face. Deceased was present before the shot was fired and retired with the other while it was being fired and returned first to see its effect. As he approached the face some stone fell partly from the roof and partly from the left side and he was fastened. He was nearly got out when a second fall took place and he was not liberated until 1.5 hours later when he was dead. There were appearances of false bedding in the stone. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘we are satisfied it was a pure accident - no blame on the part of anyone.'

CRAWFORD John - 1903 - 18/08/1903 – Age 49 - Banknock, Broomrigg Miner. Banknock Colliery Co. Ltd., Stirling. Fall of roof at working face.

CRAWFORD John - 1905 - 15/01/1905 – Age 33 - Carnock No.1 Sinker. Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. In descending in the kettle, with four other men, he fell out when his neighbour stepped off the kettle to secure an air pipe, 9.5 fathoms from the bottom of the shaft.  Only men should have been on the kettle at one time.

CRAWFORD John - 1907 - 26/11/1907 – Age 35 - Barksimming, Sandstone Quarry Bogie attendant. Baird and Stevenson, Ayrshire. When about to uncouple from the haulage rope a moving tipping waggon, a stone fell off it and tripped him, and he was run over by the wheels.

CRAWFORD John - 1908 - 31/01/1908 – Age 33 - Cramlington Master shifter. Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of roof stone near the face of a stone drift.

CRAWFORD Joseph - 1906 - 09/02/1906 – Age 16 - Chilton Truck cleaner. H. Stobart & Co., Ltd., Co.Durham. He was struck by a cross-beam as he was trying to get out of a truck, which was being shunted under the coal-washer. No one knew he was in the truck and he gave no warning that he was there.

CRAY William - 1902 - 05/06/1902 – Age 23 - South Duffryn No.2 Collier. Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face coal and clod, 8.25 feet by 3 feet  21 inches thick from a face slip. Two sprags were said to have been crushed out. Died the next day. Seven feet seam.

CRAZE Edward - 1908 - 14/11/1908 – Age 47 - East Pool & Agar, Tin Miner. East Pool & Agar United Mines Adventurers, Cornwall. Fall of ground from the face of a stope in the back of the 190-fathom level. The stone or rock had been loosened or shaken the day before by a shot. Deceased and his comrade saw that it was so and tried to get it down with a bar but failed and left it, considering it safe which afterwards proved to have been a mistake. The "shift boss" examined the place generally the day before with a "flare" or "platinum wire light” but on the day of the accident he only asked the men if all was right, and receiving a reply in the affirmative, he then went on to the next place.

CREA Thomas - 1900 - 15/02/1900 – Age 15 - Knockterra Miner. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. While drawing a hutch along a road a stone from the roof fell on him.

CREABY Thomas - 1907 - 11/12/1907 – Age 29 - Long Lane Metalman. Garswood Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. When engaged packing side of roadway, after a shot had been fired, a stone fell from a slip capping three props and fatally injuring deceased.

CREBO Richard - 1900 - 19/09/1900 – Age 49 - Linton Hewer. Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. A slab of stone fell from between the planks and caught him on the back when in a stooping position. The place was well timbered. He died 13th, Jan. 1901.

CREHEN James - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 26 - Maypole Contractor. Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

CRELLIN Edward - 1903 - 30/10/1903 – Age 51 - Lonsdale, Iron Ore Miner. Lonsdale Mining Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Died 25th June, 1905. An old ladder about 16 feet long had been placed temporarily in a travelling way through a holing, which had just been completed, into an adjoining working, and while deceased was descending it, for the first time, he slipped and fell, probably from a point where a rung was missing, and was injured. He never resumed work and received full compensation up to the time of his death, although a medical certificate had been obtained that he was fit for light work. He was able to attend to a public house he kept and was twice in the Isle of Man on business after the accident. No inquest was held, the doctor having certified that death was due to natural causes.

CRELLIN William Matthew - 1905 - 05/01/1905 – Age 39 - Hodbarrow, Iron Ore Miner. Hodbarrow Mining Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased and two other miners were ‘slipping,’ or taking a slice off a pillar of ore; the working was 8 feet high and 9 feet wide; one side was open to old workings and the other was solid ore, while above was the old wood and debris from 5 heights previously worked. The day before the accident a holing had been made into another working, which was taking a slice off the pillar on the same level from another direction, and the two workings had been connected by timbering with the exception that a leg or fork was required next the solid ore under the last headtree; this headtree in the meantime rested on a leg next the open side and on a hitch with a base of 6 inches in the ore on the solid side. The hitch was in, apparently sound ore, but the ore here is somewhat friable and weakens on exposure to air. They fired 3 shots, in the bottom below the hitch, about 20 minutes before the accident, to make room for a leg, and these shots may have weakened the hitch although an examination after firing the shots did not disclose any defect. While lifting up the leg the hitch gave way and about 2.5 tons of ore fell from the side, without giving any warning, as well as the headtree and been visited by one of the sub-captains and a timberman during the shift, and they observed nothing amiss.

CRENNELL or CONNELL Thomas - 1903 - 04/06/1903 – Age 15 - Silksworth Driver. Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was caught between a tub and a prop. No one was near at the time but it is probable he was looking back to see the driver who was following him.

CRESSWELL Frederick - 1901 - 21/12/1901 – Age 16 - Renishaw Park No.2 Horse driver. J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. The stallman was clearing some dirt from the floor of the gate road, over which the gas coal was being worked, and was assisted by the deceased and another boy when the roof fell killing deceased and injuring the other two.

CRESSWELL Isaac - 1907 - 29/10/1907 – Age 28 - Cadeby Main Collier. Denaby and Cadeby Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was building a pack when without any warning a large fall of roof occurred, displacing five props, and killed him.

CRESWELL Ernest - 1906 - 09/07/1906 – Age 29 - Tibshelf No.3 Asst. onsetter. Babbington Coal Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was taking empty tubs from the lower deck of a two-deck cage when the onsetter on the upper deck thought he heard a signal from the deceased, and rang the cage away. The cage ascended and crushed deceased between the lower part of the cage and the beam of the floor of the upper deck.

CRESWELL John - 1908 - 14/05/1908 – Age 40 - Birchenwood Overchargeman. Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Killed at the pit.

CREW Aaron - 1904 - 05/02/1904 - Age 53 - Parkfield Collier. Bedminster, Easton Kingswood & Parkfield Collieries Co. Ltd., Gloucester. A small stone weighing about 12 lbs. fell from between two slants in the roof and cut his foot. Lockjaw supervened and he died on the 16th.

CREWE Sam - 1900 - 13/11/1900 – Age 17 - Saltwell Engineman. Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Overwound with another man who was injured.

CREWE William Henry - 1901 - 31/01/1901 – Age 14 - Wearmouth A Driver. Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inquest attended. The deceased was riding on an empty tub, contrary to rules, and on getting off to talk to the driver was crushed between the tub and a prop.

CRIBB John - 1901 - 09/03/1901 – Age 25 - Deep Duffryn Banker. Nixons Navigation Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Slipped and fell under the cage and was crushed against the collar boards.

CRICHTON James - 1902 - 03/04/1902 – Age 33 - Glencraig Miner. Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Explosion of firedamp. 4 killed.

CRIDDLE Henry - 1905 - 27/09/1905 – Age 37 - Llandavel Rider. James and Emanuel, Monmouth. In consequence of the swivel of haulage rope breaking, the journey of full trams ran back and crushed him.

CRIGHTON James - 1901 - 16/05/1900 – Age 58 - Gilmilnscroft No.3 Fireman. Gauchalland Coal Co., Ayrshire. While waffing gas along, with two roadsmen and a miner from a working place in which he had found an accumulation when making his inspection, an explosion happened. It was said that another man came in with a naked light and ignited the gas but this seems uncertain. Other three men were injured.

CRIPPS Edward - 1907 - 28/03/1907 – Age 31 - Dowlais Cardiff Haulier. Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, fall 9 feet by 5 feet by 2 feet thick fell on deceased. He had taken an empty tram up a heading and had unhitched his horse at the mouth of a newly turned stall. The horse in turning, lurched against an arm and caused a fall which discharged three pairs of timber. Six feet seam.

CRISP William - 1904 - 31/08/1904 – Age 52 - Renishaw Park No.1 Deputy. J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. He received a slight injury on 22nd December, 1903 and he died from natural causes, pneumonia and vascular disease of the heart. The coroner's jury added that the accident did not contribute to his death.