DEAN James William - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 19. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 18 Henry Street, Stanley.

DEAN Thomas - 1907 - 13/12/1907 – Age 31 - Coppice Stallman. Coppice Colliery Co., Staffordshire. A skirting being taken off the side of some pillars at the edge of the gob to form a new air course. The fireman visited the place at 6.15 a.m. and found that the distance between the props and the edge of the goaf was greater than that allowed by the timbering rules. He instructed the stallman to set another prop at the place indicated. The stallman said he would but neglected to do so, his excuse being that it was near stooping time, that the only loose prop in the place was too long and before he could get another in he would be ‘loosed out.’ He told deceased about it and while the latter was clearing away the slack to set the prop a stone, 12.5 feet by 4.5 feet at extremes and 1 foot 6.5 inches thick suddenly fell on him and killed him instantly. The stone came away from a smooth slip on one side, previously unseen, and a keen top parting. If the props had been set in conformity with the rules as the coal was taken out, the accident would probably have been prevented.

DEAN Thomas Edgar - 1900 - 02/05/1900 – Age 21 - Crowhurst clay Labourer. London & Brighton Brick & Tile & Terra Cotts Co. Ltd., Surrey. Some clay, which had been undermined to the extent of 9 or 10 inches, fell and struck him so that he fell off the ledge on which he was at work. Killed on the spot.

DEANNEY Austin - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 28 - Maypole Contractor. Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

DEANS James - 1906 - 16/01/1906 – Age 15 - Seaham Shaft lad. Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was putting down the snecks of the cage, after having run in two full tubs, when three other tubs came on behind and crushed him against the first two. He was injured internally and died three days afterwards.

DEARDEN Henry - 1904 - 26/02/1904 – Age 41 - Thrybergh Hall Miner. J and J Charlesworth Ltd., Yorkshire. While at work a violent bump, caused by an outburst of gas, occurred by which he was hurled for several yards and received such injuries that he died on 1st Mar.

DEARDEN Henry - 1908 - 17/11/1908 – Age 45 - Golborne Daywageman. Richard Evans and Co., Golborne, Lancashire. When in the haulage shunt he appeared to have forgotten to take off the back rope from the full set, to the main and tail rope haulage, as they started backwards instead of the empty set, causing deceased to be crushed against a low bar.

DEARDEN John - 1902 - 24/04/1902 – Age 15 - Leyland Green Wagon labeller. Winstanley Collieries Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was engaged labelling waggons and just as he was passing waggons, and between two waggons, the waggon lowerer was bringing some full waggons down from the screen and deceased got crushed between the waggons, he expired about an hour after the accident.

DEARDEN John - 1904 - 17/09/1904 – Age 48 - Birchley Hall Sinker. William Hilton, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. They were winding water out of a sinking pit, 75 yards deep, and deceased was in the bottom for filling the water barrels when one, which had been stopped as usual five yards from the bottom, was lowered by deceased's order and somehow he got fatally struck by the barrel and was found with his skull fractured.

DEARDEN W - 1906 - 02/07/1906 – Age 41 - Pewfall Daywageman. Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made. He was engaged drawing a prop from under the roof, after having set a chock, when a stone fell and caught him. If he had used the gablock and chain, his life would most probably have been saved.

DEARDEN W. - 1906 - 18/06/1906 – Age 26 - Ashtons Green Shunt minder. Bromilow Foster and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was found under a journey of full tubs, coming up the brow; nobody witnessed the accident, but probably he was trying to put one of the tubs on the rails when in motion and got run over.

DEARDON Edward - 1900 - 30/11/1900 – Age 24 - Garswood Hall Brakesman. Garswood Hall Collieries Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was between railway wagons, coupling by hand instead of using the staff, when some other wagons were shunted against those he was between and the deceased was knocked down and received such injuries that he died from the effects the same day.

DEDRENSKI William - 1906 - 02/07/1906 – Age 23 - Dechmont No.2 Miner. Archibald Russell Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place.

DEE Amos Adam - 1906 - 29/03/1906 – Age 41 - Sandwell Park Pikeman. Sandwell Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was assisting to set a prop in a thick coal opening, 16 feet in height. Four or five hundredweight of top slipper coal suddenly fell, breaking the prop they were holding and covering him. He succumbed to his injuries five hours later.

DEER William - 1904 - 02/01/1904 – Age 26 - Burradon Hewer. Burradon & Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased and another hewer were working together in a long-wall face in the Low Main seam, 3 feet 10 inches thick, and at 3.30 p.m., or nearly at the end of their shift, while deceased was filling a tub, a mass of coal 13 feet long and 2 feet thick at the top tapering out at the bottom fell off the face nearly opposite the road head and struck him, rendering him unconscious, and he died the same evening. The coal overhung slightly but was not stayed. The parting at the top is slippery, and there was a slight appearance of a back at the point from which the coal fell. The deputy had visited the place at 1 p.m., and there was a good supply of timber. The Local Inspectors reported that in their opinion it was a pure accident

DEFTY William Surtees - 1902 - 13/08/1902 – Age 48 - Brancepeth Hewer. Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. A stone fell at a slippery parting in the roof near a roll and killed him. Buried: St. Stephen's Churchyard, Willington Cemetery

DEGG William - 1908 - 15/05/1908 – Age 43 - Wimblebury Stallman. Cannock and Rugeley Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was loosening the bottom of a prop in the cog at the face of the Six Feet Seam, preparatory to drawing it, when a large piece of rock fell from between two breaks in the roof and fractured his back and thigh. He died while being taken to the shaft bottom.

DELANEY High - 1908 - 07/09/1908 – Age 50 - Dalbeath Labourer. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased brought a loaded waggon of driff from a siding to the firehole for boilers, and apparently left eight others behind and while he was about the waggon the others came slowly down upon him and he was first crushed between the waggons and the wall, thrown under and then run over. The waggons were insufficiently secured.

DELANEY Richard - 1905 - 12/01/1905 – Age 19 - Mount Argus Quarry Labourer. Dublin Brick and Tile Co. Ltd., Dublin, Ireland. Fall of ground within control, overhung 18 inches, in addition to which undermined 8 inches, 9 feet 6 inches in height, fell a length of 24 feet, two others narrowly escaped.

DELARGY John - 1909 - 04/10/1909 – Age 45 - Ballycastle, Limestone Quarry Co., Foreman. HM McGildowney, Antrim, Ireland. About 40 or 50 tons of chalk (limestone), fell from the top of the Quarry, 30 feet. The fall overhung and came from a pronounced back, which was known.

DELUCE William - 1901 - 24/12/1901 – Age 25 - Garswood Hall Drawer. Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inquiry made. When engaged filling a tub of coal, at the face, a stone fell from the roof injuring his leg. He succumbed to the injuries received, January 7th.

DEMPSEY Alexander - 1908 - 20/10/1908 – Age 16 - Greenland Quarry Assistant quarrier. Eglington Lime Co. Ltd., Antrim, Ireland. Fall of clay, within control, overhung 2 feet. Ought to have been bared back. He was knocked from a ledge, 4 feet wide, and fell 50 feet.

DEMPSEY Joseph - 1906 - 16/03/1906 – Age 53 - Rosehill No.7 Shaftsman. R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. While packing the stuffing box of a plunger, while in motion, the pump rods broke and the falling debris killed him.

DEMPSTER John - 1904 - 18/02/1904 – Age 55 - Lightshaw No.4 Miner. William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of head coal (roof). Props were not set as required by the regulations.

DEMPSTER Robert - 1906 - 13/08/1906 – Age 55 - Alva, Whinstone Quarry Foreman. T Lawrie, Clackmannan. Deceased was clearing away some loose material at the top of the Quarry, when the ground slipped away from under him and he fell with it to the Quarry bottom and was killed.

DENBY Walter - 1906 - 09/04/1906 – Age 34 - Silver Hill Train runner. Stanton Iron Works Co., Nottinghamshire. A train of eight full tubs was going up an incline when the last tub got derailed. This tub was put right, and when the rope started again a link in the coupling chain broke and the drag failing to act, the train ran over the deceased.

DENNIS Amos - 1907 - 19/11/1907 – Age 57 - Rawdon Roadman. Moira Colliery Co., Leicestershire. The engineman overwound a cage containing 16 men who were descending the mine shaft. Deceased died the same day.

DENNIS George Bird - 1904 - 15/02/1904 – Age 27 - Bestwood Stallman. Bestwood Coal and Iron Co., Nottinghamshire. He left work to go home, as he felt unwell, and was discovered dead on the main road underground. The coroner's jury found that he died from natural causes, syncope.

DENNIS John - 1900 - 28/04/1900 – Age 19 - Morriston Collier. Morriston Colliery Co., Glamorgan. Fall at face, bastard rock 8 feet x 4 feet x 44 inches thick, which was not propped. Six feet seam.

DENNIS John - 1908 - 08/04/1908 – Age 15 - Trimdon Grange Driver. Sir Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. This boy died from phthisis but it was considered that an accident he had received, six months previously when at work in the mine, had accelerated his death. The first tub of his set had got off the way and he was crushed between the end of the tub and the limbers.

DENNIS William - 1902 - 02/08/1902 – Age 66 - Reservoir Dataller. Moira Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Fall of roof coal. Deceased was building a pack across a waste when a quantity of the roof coal fell upon him.

DENNISON R.C. - 1906 - 04/01/1906 – Age 21 - Bents, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman. Wharfedale RUDC, Yorkshire. When wheeling an empty barrow over an 11 feet by 9 inches by 3 inches plank he slipped and fell to the bottom of the Quarry and was killed.

DENNY William - 1903 - 08/01/1903 – Age 22 - Stanley Horse driver. Mapperley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Crushed between full tubs in a passbye but there was no evidence to show how be got there. He died soon after being brought out of the mine.

DENNY Wilson - 1906 - 10/08/1906 – Age 21 - Wharncliffe Silkstone Trammer. Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was taking an empty corf along a road, to his working place, when a large fall of side took place and buried him, when extricated he was dead.

DENT George - 1901 - 13/02/1901 – Age 36 - Murton Hewer. South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died in pit while following his employment, from syncope. Ventilation was all right.

DENT John - 1902 - 11/06/1902 – Age 55 - Middleton Whinstone Quarry Quarryman. Ord and Maddison Ltd., Co.Durham. He was alleged to have died from blood poisoning, due to an injury received while at work on April 3rd but at the inquest the jury returned a verdict of 'Death from natural causes.'

DENT William - 1903 - 28/07/1903 – Age 33 - Thornley Hewer. Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from injuries received in the mine, 10th Jan 1900.

DENTIST Thomas - 1903 - 16/11/1903 – Age 28 - Hafod Collier. Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on face cliff, 7 feet by 3 feet by 21 inches thick, fell from between slips. One flat was crushed out. Four feet seam.

DENTUS Richard - 1908 - 29/04/1908 – Age 39 - Coedcae Repairer. Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road. Deceased was cutting away the side of a level when a stone from the roof fell. Deceased was cutting away the side of a level when a stone from the roof struck him on the head and fractured his skull. He resumed work on August 31 and continued to work until the day before he died. He died from compression of the brain on February 19th, 1909.

DENWOOD Gladstone – 1903 – 12/01/1903 – Age 14 – Stargate Coupler. Stell Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While deceased was in the act of coupling tubs, at a flat in the Brockwell seam, a large stone fell from the roof right across the place upon him. The stone appeared to be supported by a baulk under its centre which was in turn resting on a prop at each end, one set on the floor and the other on a caunch. There appeared to be some likelihood that one of the props had been displaced, possibly by being struck by pony's limbers. The Local Inspectors reported that in their opinion the occurrence was purely accidental.

DEPLEDGE George – 1903 – 04/04/1903 – Age 46 – Calder Collier. J Waterhouse and Son., Yorkshire. Died 9th July. Explosion of powder caused by a miner carelessly handling the explosive and a candle.

DERBYSHIRE. Michael – 1900 – 01/06/1900 – Age 28 – Stopes Trencherbone Dataller. Thomas Fletcher and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in airway whilst repairing. A stone was known to be drawn and slips in it, recklessness. Died 2nd. June (Bad roof)

DERBYSHIRE James – 1906 – 16/08/1906 – Age 56 – Deaf Hill Hewer. Trimdon Coal, Co.Durham. He died on September 18, epilepsy, said to have been brought on by a shock to the nervous system due to an injury to his back caused by lifting a piece of coal into a tub.

DERRINGTON Thomas - 1902 - 18/11/1902 – Age 32 - Florence Platelayer. Florence Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed between the buffers of railway trucks during shunting operations in the colliery sidings.

DERRIS Andrew - 1908 - 23/01/1908 – Age 32 - Orbiston No.3 Miner. Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place while taking down coal. A crown and a prop supporting the part of the roof which fell were said to have been displaced by the fall.

DERRY Arthur - 1909 - 23/06/1909 – Age 25 - Conduit No.3 Horse driver. Conduit Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was taking an empty tub into a stall when the tub got derailed. He got in front, with his back to the tub, and was lifting while the horse was pulling, when a bar fell on the horse causing it to plunge a little, and deceased was crushed between the bar (which fell across the road) and the tub, receiving internal injuries from which he died four days later. The bar which fell had a prop at one end only but was considered quite secure. How it was displaced is not known, but probably the deceased had hold of the bar with one hand while with the other he held the tub and lifted.

DEVERAUX William Donkin - 1908 - 08/10/1908 – Age 40 - Cambois Hewer. Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Delayed explosion of gunpowder shot, fired by squib.

DEVEREAUX John - 1908 - 02/04/1908 – Age 26 - Ferndale No.2 Rider. D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased had held a door open for his journey of nine trains to pass through, and was in the act of jumping on the last shackle when he struck his head against the roof, and fell under the last tram. The drift was five feet high at this point and the speed of the journey did not exceed four miles per hour. He was the regular rider on this road.

DEVEREUX Philip - 1904 - 12/01/1904 – Age 28 - Dalquhandy No.3 Miner. Waddell and Son, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal and clay while taking it down.

DEVINE Benjamin - 1906 - 09/10/1906 – Age 25 - Chilton Hewer. H. Stobart & Co., Ltd., Co.Durham. He was crushed internally by a fall of stone which canted out several props. He died on the 2nd November.

DEVINE Hugh - 1908 - 25/06/1908 – Age 29 - Hamsterley Horse keeper. Hamsterley Colliery Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When walking inbye he was run over by a set which was being hauled outbye. He was well aware of the fact that the set was approaching him, but he failed to take refuge in one of the many manholes provided for the purpose. This accident should not have occurred.

DEVINE Michael - 1908 - 28/12/1908 – Age 36 - Bonnyside fireclay Sinker. J Dougal and Sons Ltd., Stirling. Deceased and other sinkers were opening out the pit bottom in a fireclay seam, on top of which is a thin seam of coal. A part of this coal was overhanging, and attempts were made to take it down, but failed; shortly after it fell upon deceased causing injuries to which he succumbed half an hour later. The coal came away from a "lype" and pot bottom which were unseen.

DEVINE Robert - 1907 - 29/03/1907 – Age 35 - Highhouse No.2 Brusher. William Baird and Co., Ayrshire. When redding through an old drift and preparing to secure the roof, which he knew to be unsafe, and the roof fell on him.

DEVINE William - 1903 - 24/02/1903 – Age 34 - Aldridge No.1 Timberer. Aldridge Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp by naked light. Gas brought down by a fall while repairing the intake air road in 4 feet seam. Died 27th February.

DEVLI John - 1907 - 09/04/1907 – Age 38 - Cobbinshaw oil shale Miner. Tarbrax Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. The fireman, in making his inspection for the back shift, found deceased lying dead about 12 feet from his working face. An examination of the place showed that a shot had been fired and all this appearances pointed to the deceased having gone back on a shot.

DEVLIN John - 1901 - 01/08/1901 – Age 19 - North Motherwell Miner. Merry and Cuninghame Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in a waste, close to the working face in Ell Coal stooping section. He ought not to have entered the waste where the props had been removed.

DEVONALD Thomas - 1901 - 19/12/1901 – Age 59 - New Duffryn Timberman. Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fatally injured on a dip engine plane, runaway trams containing 13 feet timbers. To couple the trams six shackles had been linked together and the detached, by jerking against the end rollers in going around a curve.

DEVONPORT Henry - 1908 - 02/01/1908 – Age 45 - Trimdon Hewer. Sir Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. When moving a stone he slipped on a rail. He died on the 18th July in hospital after an operation for strangulated hernia.

DEVONPORT Joseph - 1905 - 02/02/1905 – Age 20 - Netherton No.3 Haulier. George H Dunn, Worcester. Burnt by explosion of gunpowder ignited by his candle falling into a tin from which he was taking a cartridge. Died 5th Feb.

DEVONS James - 1900 - 28/02/1900 – Age 32 - Moss No.5 Gang rider. Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He apparently was pulling at the bottom tub, on a slight incline, to get the gang of tubs to run down which were attached to a single mile. It is supposed the tub he was pulling at became unhooked from the one in front and it overcame him and forced him down hill until he was crushed against a low bar.

DEWHIRST Frank - 1904 - 29/04/1904 – Age 70 - West Riding Engineman. Pope and Pearson Ltd., Yorkshire. Died from injury received on the 18th inst. for the purpose of tightening a gland underneath an engine, a floorplate had been taken up by the fitters, assisted by the deceased, and while it was up, when he was oiling part of the engine, he fell down the hole and was fatally injured.

DEWHURST Fred - 1908 - 12/02/1908 – Age 17 - Nook Haulage hand. Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Drawn in between the pulley wheel and frame, probably slipped, put out his hand on the rope to save from falling, and by the hold on the rope was drawn in.

DEWHURST Percy - 1907 - 18/05/1907 – Age 19 - Habergam Fire beater. Executives of Col. Hargreaves, Lancashire. Scalded by hot water whilst in a boiler underground, cleaning it, the blow off pipe being open to the pipe connected with an adjoining boiler. The attendant on this latter boiler consulted the firms boiler inspector who together with the insurance company's inspector were stood in front of the fatal boiler, then opened the tap to blow off his boiler, having 25 lbs. steam pressure therein, directly the steam and hot water rushed into the boiler deceased was within, he crawled through the mud door fearfully scalded. Died 23rd. A proper retaining valve would have prevented this, or a single hex key which could not be withdrawn until the blow-off tap was closed.

DEWSBURY George - 1903 - 20/05/1903 – Age 22 - Bamfurlong Waggon lowerer. Cross Tetley and Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made. Deceased was over the railway lines, in the course of his employment, when they were being lowered to the screens he got his foot fast in the crossing and it was severely crushed by a waggon knocking him over. He was removed to the Wigan Infirmary where his leg was amputated. Blood poisoning supervened and he expired June 13th 1903.

DEXTER Isaac - 1907 - 12/02/1907 – Age 18 - Southgate Loader. Shire Oaks Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Some men were engaged in building a gate end pack, where the shuts had broken in beyond the last pack, when a considerable quantity of roof fell and fatally injured the deceased. He died the next day.

DIAMOND William - 1901 - 12/12/1901 – Age 26 - Auchincruive, Mossblown No.1 Miner. Auchincruive Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof at working face. His working place was not propped as required by the new Special Rules.

DIBBINS Thomas - 1909 - 08/05/1909 – Age 49 - South Wales Collier. Lancaster Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of top coal at the face in the Old coal. He was working alone and the fall occurred when the man in the next stall was having food back in the road. Missing deceased’s light this man went to see and found him under the fall which he heard whilst he was taking his meal, but took no notice of. The place seemed to have been fairly well secured, and it is thought that deceased must have knocked out a sprag to get down sufficient coal to fill his tub which was nearly full.

DIBBLE John - 1908 - 07/10/1908 – Age 42 - Westleigh, Stone Quarry Quarryman. Westleigh Stone and Lime Co. Ltd., Devon. He and others were working at the bottom of a Quarry when a large fall of ground (2,000 tons) occurred suddenly and without warning. The others escaped, but deceased, having a stiff leg, was unable to get clear. I should like to see the system of working altered to a safer one, but it is alleged that they have been unable to arrive at any other method of a practicable kind which would enable them to work the Quarries in view of the competition which exists. The matter has been before the owners for some years, and has, I believe, been carefully considered. I still hope they will be able to arrive at some safer method.

DICK George - 1904 - 26/06/1904 – Age 68 - Auchinraith Labourer. Merry and Cuninghame Ltd., Lanarkshire. When unloading trees from a waggon he fell and the tree fell over on him.

DICK John - 1901 - 30/01/1901 – Age 17 - Candie Coal cleaner. Carmuir Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. Deceased was picking stones in a truck which was being loaded at a screen, the lower end of which was supported by a beam which crossed the road 5.5 inches above the lip of the truck, which in moving forward caught and crushed his head against the cross beam referred to, he succumbed eight days later.

DICK Peter - 1908 - 08/05/1908 – Age 43 - Oakbank Oil Shale Shaftsman. Oakbank Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. An old lodgement in the shaft, 22 fathoms up from the bottom, was being repaired and deceased pushed a loaded tub forward into the open shaft, evidently thinking the cage was there and both were precipitated to the bottom.

DICK William - 1901 - 15/04/1901 – Age 61 - Daldowie Miner. Glasgow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

DICKENS John - 1904 - 19/10/1904 – Age 45 - Wollaton Stallman. Wollaton Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased is said to have received a slight injury in the mine and the coroner's jury returned a verdict that he died from "chronic alcoholism, and not connected with the injury."

DICKENSON Frank - 1906 - 29/09/1906 – Age 28 - Nunnery Corporal. Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. An empty set had gone into a landing, the haulage was taken by main rope, and he took the rope off and attached it to the first tub of a full set and then shouted to a boy, close by, to signal to the engineman to take the set away. This was done there had been two yards of slack rope and when it tightened he was tripped up and fell with his thigh on the rail and it was fractured. Died 1st Oct.

DICKINSON A. - 1902 - 25/08/1902 – Age 18 - Ackton Hall Roadsman. Ackton Hall Colliery Co., Yorkshire. A chain lashing the tubs to an endless rope broke and the tubs ran back upon Dickinson and killed him.

DICKINSON Anthony - 1905 - 05/07/1905 – Age 53 - Orbiston Nos. 1 and 2 Miner. Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal while enlarging a road.

DICKINSON David - 1900 - 12/07/1900 – Age 51 - Wearmouth A Hewer. Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inquest attended. While engaged in hewing some stone fell off the coal head, at a slip causing injuries from which he died a month later. A deputy had timbered the place up to within two feet of the face and had only left the working a few minutes when the accident occurred.

DICKINSON Edward Dodd - 1903 - 26/10/1903 – Age 45 - Dinnington Hewer. Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was sitting on his cracket kirving in the Yard seam, in a longwall face, when a stone fell upon him and he was found dead by the putter. The kirving here is done next the roof in the top of the seam. The place had been properly inspected by officials before the accident. The Local Inspectors reported 'We are of opinion that it has then an accident that could not have been foreseen.'

DICKINSON G. - 1900 - 12/10/1900 – Age 50 - Micklefield Collier. Micklefield Coal and Lime Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

DICKINSON Jermiah - 1907 - 28/10/1907 – Age 28 - Duxbury Park Dataller. Duxbury Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. In roadway shunt whilst repairing with the fireman for two hours, he had been clipping the roof to allow tubs room to travel, the roof had settled several inches from previous day. Fireman left deceased to fill the chipped shale, whilst deceased was doing this the roof fell on him. On one side was a pronounced slip plainly to be seen. No timber under roof, had trusted to its being generally good. The slip and the settling should have warned them the place was dangerous. Fall 9 feet 7 inches long, 8 feet 9 inches wide, 14 inches thick. (Roof good.).

DICKINSON John - 1904 - 15/09/1904 – Age 30 - Shotton Bottom cutter. Horden Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Filling stone from bottom canch shot when a fall of roof occurred breaking down and displacing timber and killed him.

DICKINSON John - 1904 - 16/08/1904 – Age 67 - North Walbottle Fitter. North Walbottle Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, who had charge of the work, was engaged with others in fixing one of the ropes to the drum of a newly erected winding engine. Previous to starting he had slightly opened the valve admitting steam from the steam pipe as well as fixing a wedge in the throttle valve of the engine so that a little steam might enter and warm the pipes and cylinders in order that the engine could be used to wind on the rope. To bend the rope end round the drum shaft, to which it was to be secured, a pair of small blocks were used, the fired point being one of the uprights of the jam brake of the drum and the tension was maintained for more than an hour until the rope was partly secured to the shaft and no doubt pressed the brake against one side of the drum. Deceased ordered the blocks to be released, while he and another man were inside the drum, and it immediately started to revolve and made 6.5 revolutions before it could be stopped, no doubt steam had collected at some pressure inside the cylinders and became operative when the tension on the brake was relaxed. Deceased was rolled about inside the drum, eventually falling out on to a concrete floor 20 feet below. The other man seized hold of one of the arms of the drum and escaped injury.

DICKINSON Joseph Henry - 1906 - 19/03/1906 – Age 29 – Staffordshire, Rob Royd Collier. Stafford Collieries Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was cutting out a prop in the goaf with his pick, when a large stone fell from a slip in the roof and caused injuries of such a severe nature that he died the same day. It is probable that if the dog and chain had been used to draw the prop the accident would not have occurred.

DICKINSON Robert Frost - 1909 - 08/01/1909 – Age 32 - Whitburn Coal cutter. Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Caught by disc of coal-cutting machine.

DICKINSON Thomas - 1902 - 21/03/1902 – Age 42 - Nook Drawer. Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of side in haulage road from two joints which ought to have been seen. The stone overhung.

DICKINSON Thomas - 1907 - 26/06/1907 – Age 42 - Littleburn Stoneman. North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He returned to a shot thinking it had already exploded.

DICKINSON Walter - 1907 - 16/08/1907 – Age 29 - Chopwell Hewer. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The Three-Quarter seam was being opened out from the top of a drop staple, from the Brockwell seam, and longwall was to be started. Deceased was driving a heading, from which the longwall would commence, from the face of a wide bord in which another hewer worked close to him. The seam is 2 feet 4 inches thick and had a very treacherous roof. A top canch, 18 inches thick, had been taken down above the tram road, which ran along the left side of the herd, on which side the heading was turned away. From the brow of this canch and extending over the tram road, a mass of stone triangular in shape at its base and up to 2 feet 8 inches thick, fell and caught deceased by the head and barred in the other hewer who could not get past the tub and it was half an hour before he could attract notice to get help to release deceased. There’d been a slight fall on a tub about a minute before the large fall. The deputy was in the place about 4 hours before the accident, when it appeared safe and he set no timber. It was not certain whether the fall had canted out any timber, but there may have been one prop displaced. There should have been more props set of which there was a supply close at hand. The Local Inspectors reported, "We are of opinion that the fatality is the result of a pure accident.'

DICKINSON Warren - 1906 - 24/04/1906 – Age 38 - Orgreave Collier. Rother Vale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was in the act of chipping top coal down when the coal and an invisible pot hole suddenly fell upon and fatally injured him.

DICKINSON Wright - 1903 - 31/01/1903 – Age 41 - Stanley Drift Hewer. Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from syncope when going into the engine plane.

DICKSON Arthur - 1909 - 31/03/1909 – Age 32 - Hamilton Palace No.1 Roadsman. Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When travelling out on a haulage road, he was caught by a runaway hutch.

DICKSON George - 1904 - 19/07/1904 – Age 30 - Bispham Hall Mach. Inspector. Bispham Hall Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. When a water pipe was being handled at the bottom surface landing, in order to be sent down the shaft, the descending cage struck it causing it to fall down the pit, fatally injuring deceased who had taken one of the iron pipes down in the previous descending cage.

DICKSON James - 1900 - 12/02/1900 – Age 27 - Carbarns Fireman. William Hudspith and Co., Lanarkshire. A section of Eli Coal had been reached by a stone mine driven upwards from the Main Coal and a place had been driven in the Eli Coal to a small blind pit put up from the Main Coal, on the vees of a trouble so as to provide two airways. While driving the stone mine and the place in the Ell Coal, a current of air was carried forward by brattice but the current was so feeble that when driving in the Eli Coal it had to be assisted by means of a hand fan and wood Coal. The connection with the blind pit had been completed before the accident but notwithstanding this on the day of the accident gas was found in the Eli coal and no miners were allowed to work in it. The three deceased and another man who was injured were engaged trying to remove the gas. The injured man was working the band fan and the fireman had gone forward with a Davy safety lamp to see if the connection with the blind pit was open and the manager and oversman were near the foot of the stone mine, when a somewhat violent explosion occurred coming from where the fireman was. The fireman's body was found near the blind pit and the bottom of his safety lamp was found some yards further out. The gauze was not found. The place in the Eli Coal was dry and rather dusty. 3 killed.

DICKSON James - 1901 - 12/06/1901 – Age 18 - Douglas Park No.1 Miner. Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

DICKSON James - 1907 - 15/03/1907 – Age 42 - Aitken Labourer. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. In order to take away this debris to this redd bing with the least possible delay as it is raised from this shaft, an aerial ropeway was erected and close by the pit was a large hopper with a capacity to hold 90 tons of debris. By means of shoots, the debris was filled into buckets, and the buckets were carried by a rope to the redd bing. While this work of filling the buckets was in progress this structure collapsed, and deceased was buried among this debris. The cause of this collapse was due to a cross-beam of wood breaking at a part which was defective but which could not be observed.

DICKSON John - 1908 - 27/05/1908 – Age 39 - Wallyford Miner. Edinburgh. Irruption of water. 2 killed.

DICKSON Mangus - 1901 - 16/04/1901 – Age 24 - Philpstoun oil shale Miner. James Ross and Co., Linlithgow. The mine dipped from the surface, with an inclination averaging 1 in 3.75. An empty tub had been placed on the level scaffold at the mine mouth, close to a block set to guard the incline. The block was 2 inches thick and crossed one rail only. Three other empties were pushed forward and buffered against the one referred to driving it over the block and sending it down the incline. Deceased was at the moment travelling up the incline and was struck by the runaway tub while he was endeavouring to reach a manhole receiving injuries which terminated fatally fifteen minutes afterwards.

DICKSON Thomas - 1909 - 01/03/1909 – Age 39 - Batonrigg Machineman. Baton Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was driving an electric coal cutter along a machine wall which had a very bad roof. He and the fireman had superintended the timbering and were both satisfied with it. While the machine was cutting the whole roof collapsed breaking the timber and a large stone fell on deceased and dislocated his neck. The colliery had been working irregularly and the "weight" which should have been back in the waste had got forward on the face of the coal.

DICKSON William - 1904 - 17/12/1904 – Age 30 - Dinnikier Drawer. Walter Herd and Son Ltd., Fife. Deceased was assisting another to run a rake of three loaded tubs on a brae dipping 1 in 8. As he ran back to the wheel brake, and in passing his trousers caught and he was drawn in and legs fractured. He died on 20th January, 1905.

DICKSON William - 1909 - 20/07/1909 – Age 31 - Cramlington Assistant fitter. Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Shaft accident. 4 killed.

DIEGAN Andrew - 1901 - 24/05/1901 - Universal Waller. Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway Cd 947. 81 killed.

DIERY Edward - 1906 - 27/10/1906 – Age 38 - Cramlington Labourer. Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Edward Diery died October 1906. About 6 miles from the Cramlington Collieries on the private railway leading to the Tyne, and where it runs parallel to a mineral railway owned by the North Eastern Railway Company, both lines are crossed by a bridge carrying the private railway for Backworth Collieries. This bridge is kept good by the Cramlington Coal Company, and on Friday night, on the 26th October, a staff of their men were sent to renew the girders of the bridge. A hand crane running on rails, capable of lifting 8 tons, was borrowed from the Tyne Commissioners, and by its means two old girders had been replaced by two new compound girders, 33 feet long, each weighing 5 tons, which were lifted and carried by the crane for 30 yards. About 6 a.m., on 27th October, one of the old girders was being lifted to place in position parallel to the new girders to carry the footway by the side of the rails when the crane and girder fell over the side of the bridge down an embankment on to the North Eastern Railway, 16 feet below, carrying with them the two deceased men and another man who was seriously injured. The crane was provided with three interchangeable clips, but only one had been used and that on the rail next the load. The work was in charge of the wagonwright of the Cramlington Collieries, and he was present. The inquest on P. H. Diery, who was killed on the spot, was held by the County Coroner, and his jury in their verdict said "sufficient care had not been taken in clipping or fastening to the rails of the said bridge upon which the crane was resting." The inquest on E. Diery, who was taken to Newcastle Infirmary where he died, was held by the City Coroner, and his jury added to their verdict "the Jury are of opinion the crane was not sufficiently clipped and that guy ropes should have been used to prevent the girder from swinging."

DIERY Philip Henry - 1906 - 27/10/1906 – Age 36 - Cramlington Labourer. Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Edward Diery died October 1906. About 6 miles from the Cramlington Collieries on the private railway leading to the Tyne, and where it runs parallel to a mineral railway owned by the North Eastern Railway Company, both lines are crossed by a bridge carrying the private railway for Backworth Collieries. This bridge is kept good by the Cramlington Coal Company, and on Friday night, on the 26th October, a staff of their men were sent to renew the girders of the bridge. A hand crane running on rails, capable of lifting 8 tons, was borrowed from the Tyne Commissioners, and by its means two old girders had been replaced by two new compound girders, 33 feet long, each weighing 5 tons, which were lifted and carried by the crane for 30 yards. About 6 a.m., on 27th October, one of the old girders was being lifted to place in position parallel to the new girders to carry the footway by the side of the rails when the crane and girder fell over the side of the bridge down an embankment on to the North Eastern Railway, 16 feet below, carrying with them the two deceased men and another man who was seriously injured. The crane was provided with three interchangeable clips, but only one had been used and that on the rail next the load. The work was in charge of the wagonwright of the Cramlington Collieries, and he was present. The inquest on P. H. Diery, who was killed on the spot, was held by the County Coroner, and his jury in their verdict said "sufficient care had not been taken in clipping or fastening to the rails of the said bridge upon which the crane was resting." The inquest on P. H. Diery, who was killed on the spot, was held by the County Coroner, and his jury in their verdict said "sufficient care had not been taken in clipping or fastening to the rails of the said bridge upon which the crane was resting.’ The inquest on E. Diery, who was taken to Newcastle Infirmary where he died, was held by the City Coroner, and his jury added to their verdict the Jury are of opinion the crane was not sufficiently clipped and that guy ropes should have been used to prevent the girder from swinging.’ 2 killed.

DIFFEY Robert - 1900 - 01/08/1900 – Age 46 - Norden Works (clay) Clay miner. B Fayyle and Co., Dorset. A lump of clay suddenly fell out of the side of the lane or stall in which he was working and knocked him down causing injury to the spine from which he died on the 3rd Aug. The place appears to have been timbered up to the face.

DIGNAN Patrick - 1906 - 08/01/1906 – Age 26 - Lumphinnans Brusher. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased and his neighbour were brushing a road to the rise off a level and in withdrawing the timber he was partly under the roof and when it fell he was crushed beneath it.

DILLON Henry - 1909 - 18/05/1909 – Age 54 - Glass Houghton Byeworkman. Glass Houghton and Castleford Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was enlarging a roadway and was getting off side when the roof fell and killed him. The fall was caused by a weight break and a parting. Temporary timber should have been set.

DILLON Lewis - 1906 - 22/08/1906 – Age 26 - Milnwood Pony driver. Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When walking between his pony and the front hutch of a race a crown fell from the roof and he was crushed between it and the hutch.

DILLON Patrick - 1906 - 29/08/1906 – Age 55 - Pollington Tramp. Oakes and Co., Nottinghamshire. He went to sleep on the dirt tip, and was suffocated by the fumes of the slowly-burning tip. He had no fixed place of abode.

DILLON Thomas - 1903 - 05/12/1903 – Age 50 - Bath Lodge Collier. North Antrim Mining Co., Co. Antrim, Ireland. Fall of roof at face of working place from slip and overhanging ought to have been pulled down.

DILTON Johannes * - 1907 - 16/10/1907. Wearmouth, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham.

DIMELOW James - 1903 - 07/05/1903 – Age 41 - Norton Haulage gear man. R Heath and Sons Ltd., Staffordshire. Run over by tubs in engine dip, through the breakage of a coupling chain allowing nine tubs to run back. He had been repairing a rope in the dip and the journey was started before he was out of the dip. The coupler which broke was of a type which had been discarded for use in the engine dip but continued for use on the levels. By some mistake or carelessness it was used in the dip on this occasion. It was recommended that all the old weak couplers be brought out of the pit.

DINEEN Patrick - 1900 - 09/05/1900 – Age 24 - Navigation Repairer. Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, while he was about to prop it after it was seen to be ‘on the move’ fall 14 feet x 10 feet x 4 to 5.5 feet thick. Six feet seam. 2 killed.

DINLAVEY or DUNLAVEY Patrick - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 62 - Wingate Sinker. Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust result of shot firing. 25 killed.

DINNING Joseph - 1907 - 19/06/1907 – Age 52 - West Wylam Stoneman. Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, who was rather near sighted, had broken up into the roof of a coal seam 3 feet 3 inches thick, so as to make a road above the coal into an adjacent shaft. During the previous shift he had fired a hole, inclining upwards at an angle of 45 degrees, and he continued what was left of this hole, charged it with probably about 14 inches of compressed gunpowder and stemmed it with pigged sagre clay, brought from the surface, using a pricker, as although he had a fuse with him he preferred using a squib. A putter had left him when he was nearly ready to fire and was only 7 yards away when the shot exploded and killed deceased on the spot, but the putter could not say what deceased was actually doing at the time. Possibly in drawing the pricker some grains of powder had trickled forward and caused the premature ignition on deceased holding the candle to the squib or more probably owing to the inclined position of the squib, he had ignited the powder in it when intending only to light the sulphur end. It would have been safer to use the fuse under the circumstances. The Local Inspectors reported ‘In our opinion we found it to be a pure accident.

DINNING Samuel - 1902 - 24/12/1902 – Age 29 - Brownhouse Miner. Haughhead Coal Co., Lanarkshire. While charging a shothole with compressed gunpowder it went off. Another man was injured. It was suspected that he was forcing the cartridge in.

DISTON George - 1906 - 12/10/1906 – Age 50 - Cramlington Shifter. Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died October 17. Deceased was making a road into a stook, or small pillar of coal, 5 yards by 5 yards, in broken workings, in No.2 West District of the High Main Seam of the Scott Pit. The chargeman left him at the place at 7.30 pm., after spending 15 minutes with him, examining the place and giving the necessary directions, and would probably have visited him again had he not been called to a pump that was out of order. No one worked with deceased, and the nearest man was 250 yards away. The fore shift deputy, making his examination at 1 am. on the following day of the workings before the hewers came in found deceased under a fall with only his head and shoulders free, he tried to release him but was not able to do so, and had to go for help, and deceased was got clear about 2 am. The stone was post and was about 3 feet square by 18 inches thick and was relieved by natural joints in the stone, coated with clay. It broke off at the ends of three planks deceased had set, and he had set a running plank under the ends of these planks, nearest the stook, and two props found under the stone were either canted out or he had knocked them out after putting up the running plank. Judging from the work he had done the accident probably happened about 10 pm., and he had lain 3 hours under the stone before he was found by the deputy. It is quite probable that the accident might still have happened if he had a mate with him, but he would have been sooner released and although there is no specific regulation probability men working alone and it is quite common in the ease of hewers who are, however, usually visited pretty often by the putters yet it is very undesirable in the case of shifters and stoneman, who if fastened by a fall may remain so for hours. The Local Inspectors while saying in their report ‘and certify the same to be a pure accident,’ added ‘we would recommend there be two men in future where timbering broken juds.’ and the Jury added a similar recommendation to their verdict.

DITCHBURN James . jnr. - 1902 - 31/12/1902 – Age 31 - Dalbeath Miner. Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The bottomer had ascended to the surface for a bag of corn. While he was instructing the engineman to raise the cage, from the surface to the upper scaffold, deceased and his father came outbye to the pit bottom at the close of their shift. Finding neither bottomer nor cage there they signalled for a cage and immediately afterwards the dip cage was lowered owing to the rise cage being raised to the upper scaffold. The engineman raised the latter cage a few inches too far and then set it back and deceased assuming that the return signal bell was out of order and that the shaking of the dip cage was intended as a return signal, he placed his father on it, pulled the signal lever and was in the act of following when the cage was raised crushing him against the door heads and dragging him some distance up the shaft. He fell back to the pit bottom and was killed instantly.

DIX Richard - 1902 - 17/07/1902 – Age 44 - Garswood Hall Prop drawer. Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was attempting to draw out a chock with the gablock and chain when the prop, which they had secured with the gablock gave way, which liberated a rock stone from the roof which fell upon deceased fatally injuring him.

DIXON Alexander - 1905 - 08/07/1905 – Age 24 - Parkhead Fireman. Glasgow Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was engaged with others in "taking up" the winding rope of one side of the shaft, and for that purpose the rope was held in the shaft by glands fixed on two beams laid on loose planks across the shaft mouth at the low scaffold. After the work was completed the beams were being removed and deceased was at one side pulling with the beam between his legs and when the beam was moved, the plank moved also, and the opposite end falling into the shaft, the end at which deceased was caught as it descended, he was thrown forward and precipitated to the bottom. The planks should have been secured.

DIXON Edward * - 1908. Cramlington, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

DIXON Emmerson - 1902 - 01/10/1902 – Age 70 - Barrasford, Whinstone Quarry Stone breaker. Northumberland, Whinstone Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A springing shot of about 0.5 lbs gunpowder was fired. No hole was drilled but a crack was cleared of material, the powder inserted and loosely covered. Proper warning was given. Deceased was 55 yards in a direct line from the shot and did not leave his place and was struck by a piece of whinstone weighing about 5 lb.

DIXON Frank - 1903 - 17/11/1903 – Age 16 - Herrington Driver. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Died form injuries received in 1902 when lifting a tub.

DIXON Fred - 1902 - 08/04/1902 – Age 24 - High Moor Lane Collier. Low Moor Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in working place. Cause three slips.

DIXON Frederick - 1905 - 22/09/1906 – Age 20 - Howden Hewer. North Bitchburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was hewing in a broken lift when a bell fell from the roof and broke his back. He died on 27th January, 1906.

DIXON George * - 1909 - 04/06/1909 – Age 54. Dean Bank, Co.Durham.

DIXON George - 1900 - 17/01/1900 – Age 32 - Margaret, Iron Ore Miner. Cleator Iron Ore Co., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. An exceedingly simple accident. Sprained himself whilst lifting an empty bogie, he sustained internal injury and died a week afterwards.

DIXON George - 1903 - 21/08/1903 – Age 36 - Chanters Collier. Fletcher Burrows and Co Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from working face, no sprag set at loose corner, as required by Special Rule, the fall was from the loose corner.

DIXON James - 1909 - 14/07/1909 – Age 40 - Burnhope Shifter. UA Ritson and Sons Ltd., Co.Durham. A stone fell off a kibble and crushed the end of his finger. He died 17th October, 1909, from diabetes.

DIXON John - 1902 - 10/03/1902 – Age 57 - Hylton Onsetter. Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While attending to the unloading and loading of the cage, at the shaft bottom, his hand was caught and injured and blood poisoning ensued and he died on 24th March.