DIXON John - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 61 - Wingate Grange Miner. Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust result of shot firing. 25 killed.

DIXON John - 1908 - 20/02/1908 – Age 42 - Washington Glebe Stoneman. Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of firedamp. 14 killed.

DIXON John T. - 1907 - 24/09/1907 – Age 42 - Llanbradach Collier. Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 18 inches by 13 inches by 5 inches thick, fell on deceased as he was sitting down resting. It fell between two props 4 feet apart. Four-feet seam.

DIXON Joseph - 1902 - 19/03/1902 – Age 62 - Lindsay Dataller. Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged throwing dirt from the race to the pack wall when a stone fell upon him from a slip in the roof capping two props and fatally injuring him.

DIXON Joseph - 1903 - 03/12/1903 – Age 22 - Poneil No.1 Miner. United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of top coal and clay which were not supported as required by the regulations.

DIXON Joseph - 1903 - 18/02/1903 – Age 27 - Ty Trist Labourer. Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When assisting to repair, where a fall had occurred on a main road, a further fall occurred and killed him. He was working under an experienced timberman and was preparing a foot hold for a prop at the time.

DIXON Joseph – 1904 – 04/11/1904 – Age 39 – Ravenhead Drawer. St Helens Collieries Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. When two tubs were being hauled up a steep brow they got fast against the timber and the chain connecting the rope to the tubs gave way and deceased, when going to see what was wrong, got fatally crushed by the tubs. The road was only 3 feet 2 inches in height in places and should have been kept a larger size for haulage purposes.

DIXON Joseph – 1905 – 03/08/1905 – Age 47 – Silver Hill Stallman, Stanton Ironworks Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof at the gate end. After a shot had been fired the deputy called the men’s attention to the bad state of the roof and an hour later a fall occurred killing the deceased and injuring another man.

DIXON Joseph Daniel – 1903 – 14/02/1903 – Age 22 – Clifton Hewer. Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Died September 10. Fall of back at which forms the roof of the Metal Band. Deceased was engaged on the extraction of a pillar of coal, as it is termed in Cumberland. Robbery working. The place was examined by officials in accordance with the Act and there was timber near but there appeared to be some delay in making use of it.

DIXON Joseph H. – 1907 – 15/02/1907 – Age 20 – Kimblesworth Mason. Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. When about to start to build a wall in a waggonway, a piece of post stone fell off the side and killed him. The place was close to a hitch, which may account for the stone falling.

DIXON Matthew – 1909 – 23/07/1909 – Age 14 – Cramlington Driver. Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Crushed between limbers and prop.

DIXON Richard – 1903 – 09/01/1903 – Age 16 – Bourn Moor Water leader. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Two shifters were engaged taking down stone, on a road, and at the time of the accident had gone back a distance of 30 yards to get a meal, deceased who was employed leading water on the inbye side went to join them and in passing under where some timber had been drawn a stone fell and killed him.

DIXON Richard – 1905 – 17/04/1905 – Age 57 – Bold No.3 Collier. Collins Green Colliery Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. He injured his body by falling against a tub which he was pushing underground. He succumbed to internal injuries received on April 20, 1905.

DIXON Thomas – 1902 – 22/11/1902 – Age 27 – Bourn Moor Labourer. Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was fastening waterproof sheets to some trucks when, probably owing the greasy state of the rails, some other trucks slowly moved away behind and crushed him causing fatal injuries.

DIXON Thomas – 1907 – 18/06/1907 – Age 16 – West Wylam Landing lad. Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A drift dipping out-bye, 6 inches per yard, extends from the surface to the Towneley seam in which there is a level landing. The tubs are drawn out in sets of 20 by a main rope worked by an engine on the surface and a cow is fastened to the last tub in case of a break away. A set consisting of the first 4 tubs loaded with coal, and the last 26 loaded with sagre clay, was signalled away and as it started the centre bar of the fourth tub broke at a bolt hole where there appeared to be an old fracture. The set was stopped and the waggonwayman coupled the fourth and fifth tubs by means of a loose coupling attached by shackles and pins to the yoke holes and signalled away again. When the set had gone a few yards and had got partly on to the heavy rise the waggonwayman saw that the last 10 tubs were loaded with sagre clay and consequently rather heavier that if loaded with coal and he became doubtful of the extempore coupling and he stopped the set. When the set stopped it gave back a little on to the cow the last ten tubs resting on it. The consequence was that the last tub was lifted up with the cow underneath. The waggonwayman then declined to take off the tubs loaded with coal and to do this it was necessary for the set to come back into the landing. Before this could be done the cow required to be taken off. He sent deceased forward to free it after he had the set pulled forward a little. He signalled, the engineman drew away rather sharply and the hoop of the fifth tub, made of 1/2 inch iron, broke on each side of the yoke holes and the last 16 tubs ran back and crushed deceased. The jury, while bringing in a verdict of accidental death, expressed the opinion that greater care should be taken in coupling tubs after a breakage. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘In our opinion found it to be a pure accident with the exception that the tub should have been last on the set.’ The waggonways man should not have sent deceased to perform the work he intended him to perform.

DIXON Thomas Holliday – 1906 – 05/05/1906 – Age 32 – Whitehaven Hewer. Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Died May 15. On May 5 deceased was working in the Main band, William pit, and he said something to another miner about having slipped on the flat sheets at the entrance to his place. As he went home, after finishing his shift, he saw a doctor, who examined him in the open air and told him he had influenza and was unfit for work. He laid up until May 15, when he went back to work, but had just taken his coat off when he complained of feeling very unwell, and shortly afterwards fainted and died. An inquest was opened and adjourned for a post-mortem examination, which showed that death was due to heart disease following pneumonia.

DIXON William – 1901 – 21/12/1901 – Age 57 – Prince of Wales Miner. John Rhodes, Yorkshire. Died 29th Jan. Fall in working place. Cause a slip.

DIXON William – 1904 – 30/08/1904 – Age 21 – Hook Hill fireclay Miner. J Jameson and Sons Ltd., Northumberland. Died September 1st. Deceased brought into the mine some loose gunpowder, in a bag, and was in the act of transferring it to his tin bottle when a spark from his candle ignited it. The Jury at the inquest added the following rider to their verdict of accidental death ‘The Jury urge that powder should not be taken into the drift other than as provided by statute and that cartridges should only be made in a proper place outside the drift provided for the purpose.’

DOBBS Thomas 1900 06/04/1900 34 National Collier United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 4.5 feet x 3.5 feet x 6 inches thick, it was unsupported. Two feet nine seam.

DOBBS Walter – 1906 – 01/07/1906 – Age 20 – Langwith Loader. Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co., Notts. Fall of roof. Deceased was passing along a roadway in charge of a horse and empty tubs, when a fall of roof killed him.

DOBBS William Henry - 1906 - 01/09/1906 – Age 53 – Portland No.2 Dataller. Butterley Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was using a naked light and clearing away a fall of roof at the entrance of an airway in a working stall, when some firedamp was ignited at the naked light. He died 2nd October.

DOBEY George - 1906 - 06/12/1906 – Age 63 - Murton Labourer. South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He dropped the padlock as he opened the Colliery Yard gate, and when looking on the ground for it, the gate was blown to and hit him on the head. He died December 16th.

DOBINSON Edwin - 1906 - 09/06/1906 – Age 35 - East Hetton Hewer. Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He was killed by a fall of stone, which discharged the two props sent beneath it to support it.

DOBINSON Ralph William - 1902 - 22/09/1902 – Age 32 - South Durham. Gatewayman, South Durham Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was putting in a baulk in a gateway when a fall of stone occurred and displaced another baulk and he was caught by the stone and timber and killed.

DOBSON A. - 1904 - 11/10/1904 – Age 30 - Aldwarke Main Collier. John Bown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died from injuries received on June 8th last. He was holing at the face when a weight bump came over the place and a piece of stone dropped from the roof and seriously injured him. The fall disclosed an uneven slip at the face side and a good parting at the top.

DOBSON Frank - 1907 - 15/11/1907 - Chargeman – Age 40 - Barrow Hematite Steel Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Along with others the deceased men got on to the cage in the No.3 shaft, at the Parkgate seam, for the purpose of ascending to the surface at the end of their shifts. A horsekeeper was also in the cage to go to the Thorncliffe seam, 38 yards below. The cage was therefore lowered to that seam where he got off. At the Thorncliffe landing there is a staging or platform so that the men can get on or off the two decks of the cage without its being move. The signalling is done from the top part of this staging and the hanger on there is the chargeman; the one at the low part is an assistant and beyond opening and closing the gates protecting the entrance to the shaft, taking off and putting on the chains at the ends of the decks and putting over a flag or flat sheet to cover the space between the floor of the deck of the cage and that of the landing he has nothing to do. The flag or flat sheet is fitted with two spikes, each 3.5 inches long, which fit into holes in the floor of the cage decks and act as anchors to the cage. They are hinged to the floors of the landings and lifted and lowered by means of chains by the hangers-on. On the day in question the hanger-on, on the top part or landing of the staging, when the cage came, let the horsekeeper get off without dropping the flag or flat sheet, and at the same time shouted to the hanger-on at the bottom landing ‘Don't put the flag down’, and at the same moment signalled for the cage to be taken to the surface. Unfortunately the hanger-on at the bottom landing had lowered the flag and before he could get it up again the cage started and the result was that the cage was held and tilted for a moment or so and the flag flew back. Violent oscillation was thus set up and in ascending the top of the cage collided against the girder, under the floor of the Parkgate landing, with such force as to damage the cage and it became liberated and was taken further up the shaft where it collided with another girder. The engineman then noticed something was wrong and stopped the cage. Seven of the men at one or another of these places were thrown out of the cage and fell to the bottom of the shaft being killed instantly and six others were more or less seriously injured. 7 killed.

DOBSON George - 1900 - 11/07/1900 – Age 59 - Burnhope Hewer. UA Ritson and Sons Ltd., Co.Durham. While he was working off the lot stones, from a shot in the face of his place, a fall of stone from the roof caught and so severely injured him that he died shortly afterwards.

DOBSON James Oliver - 1904 - 15/01/1904 – Age 41 - Walker Sinker. Walker Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. The Jane Pit, 11 feet diameter, had been deepened from the Beaumont seam to a few feet below the Busty, a distance of 21 fathoms, and at the time of the accident the sinkers were working about 6 feet from the bottom on a cradle hung on chains, attached to steel girders at the Beaumont seam. The Low Main seam, 25 fathoms above the Beaumont, was used as a landing stage and here was a waiter-on and doors to cover the shaft. One kibble of ordinary construction and 1 feet deep was in use and when hanging in the shaft was about 2 feet clear of the side, but below the Beaumont this distance was reduced to 15 inches, owing to an air hot fixed against the side of the shaft. The rope used was a locked coil rope so as to obviate twisting. Deceased had left his work during the previous shift feeling unwell. He came to work at 3 p.m. on the day of the accident, and at 4.30 p.m. found it necessary to go up to the Low Main to relieve himself. The master sinker went up with him and then rode to the surface. Deceased returned to the shaft, at the Low Main, in a few minutes and got into the kibble with both legs and was lowered down the shaft. When so far down he was heard to shout and the kibble rattled and immediately after he fell on his head on the cradle. He appears to have clutched the rapper wire in his fall as it was broken 8 fathoms from the bottom. He was probably sitting on the edge of the kibble, and overbalanced himself and fell out.

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

DOBSON W. - 1901 - 12/03/1901 – Age 51 - Rothwell Haigh Mechanic. J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. Struck by crook of pulley blocks.

DOBSON W. - 1905 - 01/06/1905 – Age 48 - Nostell, Clay Quarry Labourer. Lord, St. Oswald, Yorkshire. When filling a tub, about 15 feet from the Quarry face, between four and five tons of clay and shale fell from the face and caught him. He was knocked down and so injured by the blow that he died about two hours afterwards. The fall extended along the face for a distance of 15 feet to a depth of 8 feet from the surface of the Quarry, which was 33 feet in depth and was 6 inches thick. It appears to have come away to a crack, developed by dry weather and subsequent rain during the night previous to the accident.

DOCHERTY Daniel - 1901 - 22/07/1901 – Age 28 - Dechmont No.2 Drawer, Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. While taking a hutch down a cuddie brae when the rope broke and the cuddie ran down upon him.

DOCHERTY Edward - 1900 - 27/09/1900 – Age 35 - Bothwell Park (sandstone Quarry) Quarryman, Bothwell Park Quarries and Brickwork Ltd., Lanarkshire. A stone, which was being lifted out of the Quarry by a crane, slipped from the chain and struck a ledge and rolled over on to him.

DOCHERTY Helen - 1908 - 25/12/1908 – Age 15 - Bedisholm Message girl, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. When attempting to pass between moving waggons, being weighed, she got caught and was run over. Female.

DOCHERTY James - 1903 - 16/07/1903 – Age 35 - Cadzow No.2 Miner, Cadzow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal owing to a sprag giving way.

DOCHERTY James - 1907 - 07/08/1907 – Age 46 - Carmuirs Miner, Carmuirs Colliery Co. Ltd., Stirling. Deceased had taken down some coal, and was measuring the height, for a prop, when the roof suddenly fell upon him.

DOCHERTY John - 1905 - 31/03/1905 – Age 25 - Prestonlinks Bricklayer, Forth Collieries (1903) Ltd., Haddington. Deceased attended on the bricklayers who were engaged in the erection of a washery. His duties were to carry the bricks from a scaffold, 25 feet from the ground, to the bricklayers. The bricks were raised in a box to this scaffold by means of a steam crane and in landing a load, the craneman handled the box so recklessly that the supports of the scaffold gave way and scaffold fell carrying him with it.

DOCHERTY Joseph - 1908 - 08/04/1908 – Age 35 - Blantyreferme No.2 Brusher, AG Moore and Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face while putting in a building. It was stated that three props were knocked out by the fall.

DOCHERTY Michael - 1901 - 04/03/1901 – Age 63 - Houghton Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. While in the act of kirving, the top coal fell upon him and crushed him to death. He had neglected to set sprags.

DOCHERTY Michael - 1901 - 29/05/1901 – Age 28 - Hallside Brusher, James Dunlop and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof while travelling along a working face not in use.

DOCHERTY Michael - 1907 - 13/02/1907 – Age 31 - Auchinlee Quarry Labourer, Thomas Gibb and Sons Ltd., Lanarkshire. While engaged picking a piece of clay thrown from the tirring face by shots, his pick struck some gelignite, supposed to have been due to a missed shot.

DOCHERTY Patrick - 1900 - 23/10/1900 – Age 27 - Snyed, Sinking Sinker, Snyed Collieries Brickworks Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Explosion of 4 shots, containing 13.5 lbs of gelignite, in sinking pit while a number of men were in the pit bottom, 5 others injured.

DOCHERTY Thomas - 1902 - 26/01/1902 – Age 35 - Holytown No. 8 Labourer, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He was tossed off a plank by a rope which was being lowered down the shaft.

DODD George - 1909 - 19/07/1909 – Age 65 - Glass Houghton Collier, Glass Houghton and Castleford Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. As the afternoon shift men were going to their work, along the engine plane, about 60 tons of rock fell from the roof. One man was killed and another had his back broken. The place was not timbered, as the roof, which had been in the same condition for nine months, was considered to be very sound.

DODD Henry - 1901 - 11/07/1901 – Age 46 - Maesteg Deep Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1899) Ltd., Glamorgan. Knocked down by incoming empty journey while passing out, having failed to enter a manhole, although warned twice that the journey was coming. It was his first day at this colliery.

DODD Henry - 1904 - 02/11/1904 – Age 63 - Seaton Burn Shifter, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. The furnace shaft is also used as a coal drawing shaft for the Low Main and is traversed by two doubled cages, holding one tub on each deck, and running in end slides which terminate about 5 feet from the landing. There is a separate winding shaft in the Yard seam, an upper seam, but no engineman attends during the night and the Yard seam shifters and stonemen make use of the Low Main shaft only, using the upper deck of the north side cage. A code of signals posted up at the top and bottom of the shaft, not strictly observed, and it appeared to have been understood that while the upper deck of the north side cage being used from the Yard seam no use should be made of the other cage, the lower deck of which stood level, the flat sheets at the Low Main, when men were getting out of the upper deck of the north side cage on its arrival at the surface from the Yard seam. About midnight men were both at the Yard seam and Low Main, to ride, and signals were made to the surface from both levels. The north side cage was set at the Yard seam and some men got in and were drawn to the surface but as more were to follow the engineman set the cage signals there again. While the first cage load of Yard seam men were getting out at the surface deceased and other men thought the top deck of the other cage was level with the plates at the Low Main, and a man and a boy got in and deceased was following them when the cage was drawn away and he was dragged up the shaft and his head was severed from his body and remained in the cage, his body falling back. The bottom of the shaft was well lighted by electric lamps. The Local Inspectors reported that they considered it a pure accident.

DODD J.T. - 1901 - 09/10/1901 – Age 20 - Great Fenton, Bourne Wagoner, Stafford Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fell down shaft from mid-shaft hooking place at Peacock Seam.

DODD Walter Henry - 1909 - 12/10/1909 – Age 22 - Chopwell Hewer. Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of roof stone at face of long wall.

DODDS David - 1908 - 29/07/1908 – Age 45 - Willington Labourer, Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. He had just finished his work in the coke ovens, and was pulling a tub back, when he slipped and the tub caught his knee. He did not complain at the time, nor report the injury, but he told the doctor three days later that he had hurt himself; he also told a fellow workman, though he did not tell his wife. He died on 16th August from erysipelas followed by gangrene, due no doubt to the accident he had received when at work.

DODDS Henry - 1900 - 04/07/1900 – Age 24 - Bedlington, Doctor Hewer, Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inquest attended. The deceased was throwing back a large stone which hit a prop and knocked it out. The prop struck deceased in the lower part of the body causing injuries from which he died on the following day.

DODDS Henry - 1907 - 23/12/1907 – Age 21 - Bebside Coal cutter, Bebside Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A Pickquick coal cutter, actuated by electricity, works along a longwall face in the Bensham seam, 3 feet 3 inches thick, and cuts about this centre of this seam. After 19 yards had been cut, this picks or cutters on the revolving bar required renewal and deceased went to the rear and bar end of this machine and standing in a confined space, between this machine and a pack wall, worked a ratchet to draw the bur out of this cut and while this was being done it was necessary to keep this bar revolving otherwise it was apt to jam. When this bar was about clear of this cut deceased’s waistcoat was caught by it and his appears to have been tossed over next this coal face and sustained injuries which resulted fatally a few minutes after he was brought to this surface. Deceased had some months experience with this machine. It was arranged in future to stop the machine opposite a gateway so that this ratchet could be worked where there would be more room. This Local Inspectors reported that they considered the occurrence ‘To have been a pure accident and no blame attached to any person.

DODDS John - 1908 - 06/06/1908 – Age 32 - Swalwell Hewer, Dunston Garsefield Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Ignition of a small quantity of firedamp by the flame of a safety lamp. There appeared some probability that the lamp had been opened.

DODDS Parkinson - 1905 - 31/07/1905 – Age 47 - Wearmouth Labourer, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died August 7th. This accident occurred at the staiths on the River Weir, about 500 yards from the Colliery, where alterations had been in progress for some months. A balk of timber, 30 feet long by 12 inches by 6 inches and which would weigh about 7 cwt was being raised out of the river by a steam crane. Previously, similar balks had been lifted by an 11/16 inch chain but deceased thought this too heavy and improperly, and on his own responsibility, substituted a 5/16 inch chain, although advised against it by two fellow workmen. The balk was lifted a few feet and became jammed, and while deceased was feeding it, standing on some fixed timber, one of the large links at the end of the chain broke, and it fell and broke deceased’s left leg, causing a compound fracture. He was taken to the Infirmary and the leg set, but pneumonia supervened on August 3, and he died on August 7th. There did not appear to be any flaw in the link that broke.

DODDS Thomas - 1909 - 21/04/1909 – Age 35 - South Moor Deputy, South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Some twelve months previous to the accident, several places had been driven in the stenton coal from the intake side in order to make room for stowing rubbish, but they were not all used. It was then decided to build stoppings in these places and to hole them from the return side. He was hewing on the return side when a piece of stone, 7 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 18 inches thick came off at a breaker and killed him.

DODDS William - 1905 - 22/08/1905 – Age 25 - Monckton Main Labourer, Monckton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. In getting off the hopper house, on to the travelling ram hopper at the bye-product ovens, his sleeve got caught in a set screws in a collar in a shaft and he was pulled on to the shaft and whirled round twice and in coming against some projecting timber his spine was fractured. Died in Hospital September 24th.

DODGE William - 1906 - 04/10/1906 – Age 27 - Fforchwan Labourer, Cwmaman Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, cliff, 6 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 2 inches by 8 inches thick, fell on him as he was clearing a small fall on an untimbered roadway. The roof had been tested, in his presence by the fireman, and pronounced safe 1¾ hours before. Seven feet seam.

DODSON George - 1907 - 20/11/1907 – Age 57 - Low Stubbin Miner, Earl Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire. The colliers in the previous shift had holed the coal in the working face up to a slip, for a length of five yards, and drawing the sprags the coal fell and displaced some props. Although there was another slip, parallel to and 5 feet back from the one at the face, nothing was done beyond setting a short prop at the far end of the fall of coal, to support the roof between the two slips. The deceased followed in and took no precautions and the consequence was that a large fall occurred and killed him. The deputy visited the place two hours before the accident occurred and made a mark, with chalk, on the roof where a prop was to be set on top of the fallen coal, he should however, considering the dangerous nature of the roof owing to the position of the slips, have stopped and seen that sufficient timber was set.

DODSON T. - 1909 - 23/11/1909 – Age 37 - Thrybergh Hall Collier, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. He was setting a prop when a sharp bump caused a fall of roof and he was killed.

DODSWORTH George - 1902 - 07/06/1902 – Age 35 - Whitburn Onsetter, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was crushed between two run away tubs and the shaft timber. The road near the shaft, on which the empty set of 30 tubs is made up, inclines inbye for its first portion and then rises and in order to get the first part of the set sufficiently far forward. A boy draws inbye the first 15 tubs of the set, by means of a winch, these tubs pass over a monkey (an arrangement placed between the rails preventing the tubs running back) and rest against it then 17 empty tubs come forward and are coupled on. In order to take back the winch rope the boy uncouples the last three tubs as they are drawn away by the haulage rope and after they have passed the monkey, against which they rest, he then attaches the winch rope to these tubs, he then depresses the monkey and the rope is taken back by them. It appears that at the time of the accident he attempted to uncouple the three last tubs of the empty set as it moved away but had some difficulty, he then first uncoupled the two last and was then able to uncouple the third last and all three ran back and rested against the monkey. He attached the winch rope to the third last tub but forgot that the two last were not coupled to it and on depressing the monkey these tubs ran away to the shaft and caused the accident as deceased, who was in a cabin and knowing the cage at the bottom was being loaded with the ascending foreshift hewers rushed out and attempted to stop them. The boy, when he saw the tubs run amain, ran after them and attempted to put in a drug but was unable to do so. The workmen's inspectors recommended in their report that a second monkey should be placed 15 or 16 yards from the shaft.

DOE William - 1902 - 03/11/1902 – Age 45 - Brynn Hall Brakesman, Brynn Hall Colliery Co., Ashton-in-Makefield, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. They were lowering some waggons, with the locomotive, and in jumping off a brake, of one of the waggons, on some small coal which lay alongside the railway, he slipped back and was run over and killed. These lines should have been kept clear to allow the men to work in safety.

DOEL George - 1908 - 24/06/1908 – Age 29 - Arrail Griffin Haulier, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Crushed between a loaded tram and a post by the side of the road, which was 10 inches clear of the rails. Apparently he was stooping to put a sprag in the front wheels when his horse moved forward. Had he been on the other side there was very ample room. (Horse haulage.).

DOGHERTY John - 1908 - 13/10/1908 – Age 46 - Douglas Bank Metalman, Rosebridge and Douglas Bank Collieries Co., Wigan, Lancashire. He was sitting down at the junction of two roadways against a chock, when a piece of stone fell off the side upon him.

DOHERTY Charles - 1903 - 20/01/1903 – Age 26 - Bold No.3 Collier, Collins Green Colliery Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was working at the face, when a piece of coal came off the face from a slip and crushed him against the pack wall. He expired after reaching the hospital. There appeared to have been no holing done at the face.

DOHERTY Ross - 1907 - 30/11/1907 – Age 47 - Castle Labourer, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was stepping over a rope attached to a horse, when it suddenly was raised owing to the horse moving forward, and he was struck on the leg. He worked for a week, and when examined by a Doctor on December 13th, a small septic wound was found between the knee and ankle. An abscess formed and was opened, but he died from exhaustion due to blood poisoning on 19th April, 1908.

DOIDGE Malachi - 1900 - 19/03/1900 – Age 20 - East Pool & Agar (tin) Shaftman, East Pool & Agar United Mines Adventurers, Cornwall. While engaged examining and repairing in Agar Shaft he fell away from the ladders at about the 120 fathom level and while he was picked up dead at the 150 fathom level.

DOLAN Michael - 1908 - 29/09/1908 – Age 43 - Glass Houghton Byeworker, Glass Houghton and Castleford Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased was engaged cleaning a road when a large fill of stone, from the roof occurred and killed him. The fall disclosed a slip which could not be seen previously. The road was well timbered but there were seven props and a bar displaced by the fall.

DOLMAN William - 1908 - 19/12/1908 – Age 17 - Cannock Lodge Driver, Norton Cannock Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased had finished his work for the day and in order to reach the winding-shaft, was descending a staple pit 15 yards in depth, by means of a nearly vertical iron ladder. He wore clogs, the iron tip or rim originally on the sole, one of which was the wooden sole, worn smooth and curved upwards at the toe. He had got some distance down the ladder, when apparently his foot slipped off the round iron rung, and he fell to the bottom of the staple, landing upon the top frame of the drop cage and sustaining injuries to which he succumbed on the following morning. The ladder was the only means of access to the upper seam, and deceased had travelled by it daily for two months.

DOLPHIN Richard - 1903 - 17/12/1903 – Age 49 - Grange Dataller, Crompton and Shawcross, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. This accident occurred in a double road, where a shot had been fired on each side, to bring the roofing down and while they were engaged clearing the debris from the shots a portion of the face of the kench came away from a slip severely injuring deceased. He succumbed to the injuries received December 4th at the Wigan Infirmary.

DONALD James - 1908 - 19/11/1908 – Age 19 - Backworth Putter, Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. Fall of roof stone on roadway.

DONALD John - 1903 - 09/07/1903 – Age 25 - Cambois Hewer, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, and another hewer, after filling loose coals at the face of a lift in the broken workings in the Low Main Seam in the undersea workings were in the act of setting a prop when a thickness of 3 feet of the roof suddenly fell. The place had been properly inspected. The Local Inspectors reported that they thought the accident to be quite accidental and quite unforeseen, to be one purely accidental.

DONALDSON David - 1907 - 28/09/1907 – Age 44 - Nellie Assistant bottomer, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. While loading the cage, the tub guard fell, preventing the loaded tubs getting into proper position, and deceased went on to the cage to put matters right, and just then the cage was raised, and he was crushed at the door-heads. The engineman appeared to be at fault in raising the cage before the signal was given.

DONALDSON George - 1906 - 07/08/1907 – Age 44 - Eston ironstone Miner, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He and his mate tried to bar a piece of stone down after having he fired a shot; they failed however to get the stone down and then considering it safe started to fill a tub. Whilst filling the tub the stone suddenly fell and injured him severely about the lower part of the body, and broke one of his legs. He died the same day.

DONALDSON Hercules - 1901 - 17/06/1901 – Age 20 - Moss No.5 Drawer. Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. When the journey of nineteen full tubs had started, about twenty yards from bottom of downbrow, two tubs got off the rails and the haulage rope broke away from the capping and the tubs ran back crushing the deceased who was in the act of signalling for the gang to stop. The drag had not been attached at the starting place but was to be attached at the gateway end where the accident occurred. It was recommended that the drag should be attached previous to the journey starting from bottom of downbrow.

DONALDSON John - 1901 - 02/03/1901 – Age 39 – Oxenford Miner, A White and Co., Edinburgh. Deceased was engaged, with another workman, withdrawing props after the coal stoop had been extracted when a fall took place and he was partly buried, attempts were made to rescue him but other falls occurring he was completely buried.

DONALDSON John – 1905 – 16/11/1905 – Age 42– Dalquhandy No.1 Miner. Waddell and Son, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place while redding. The roof was not propped as required by the regulations.

DONALDSON John – 1906 – 01/03/1906 – Age 41 – Cults, Limestone Miner. Trustees of late James Martin, Fife. The seam is 12 feet thick, and at the place of accident the bottom 4 feet had been taken out right across the opening, which was 19 feet wide. The remaining 8 feet, in two beds, was cut out on one side and a shot was fired on the other side to relieve it but the rock failed to come down. Deceased and his neighbour went under it with bars to lever it down, when the whole mass fell pinning him to the ground causing injuries to which he succumbed.

DONAVON John – 1904 – 11/02/1904 – Age 30 – Greenfoot, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, John Baird and Sons, Lanarkshire. A perpendicular hole was bored in the rock, to a depth of 2 feet 6 inches, charged with 1.5 lb. of gunpowder. Deceased lighted the fuse but it missed fire and after waiting about 30 minutes he returned with another workman and they began to unram the shot with a steel drill when the charge exploded.

DONELLY James – 1909 – 29/06/1909 – Age 32 – Annandale No.11 Engineman, Capprington and Annandale Collieries, Ayrshire. While working close to an unfenced revolving shaft he got caught by it.

DONEY or DORRY Daniel G. – 1905 – 12/05/1905 – Age 58 – Eppleton Hewer, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He allowed the full set to pass him and then stepped into the road, unfortunately not noticing that a further full set of loaded tubs were being hauled up behind. He was caught and dragged some distance and died two hours later. Buried in Hetton-le-Hole Cemetery.

DONEY William Thomas – 1906 – 19/03/1906 – Age 33 – Cramlington Hewer, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased had just started work during the back shift in a bord in the Plessey seam of the Hartford pit when his brother, who was in the next bord, heard him make a peculiar noise, and going to him found him lying unconscious. He was taken home but never rallied, and died the same night. There was no suggestion of any accident. An inquest was held after a post-mortem examination, when medical evidence was given that death was due to congestion of the brain accelerated by his diabetic condition, and so the Jury found.

DONKIN James – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 14 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 5 Kettledrum Street, Stanley.

DONLAN John – 1908 – 18/08/1908 – Age 31 – Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust, 75 killed.

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

DONNELLY Francis Jnr – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 18 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 7 Peel Street, Stanley.

DONNELLY James – 1907 – 12/01/1907 – Age 22 – Philipstoun oil shale Miner, James Ross and Co., Linlithgow. Explosion of firedamp. 3 killed.

DONNELLY John – 1901 – 16/12/1901 – Age 30 – Swinhill No.6 Miner. Darngavil Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When about to descend the shaft, from the pithead, the engineman started the engine the wrong way and overwound the cage out of which they fell down the shaft. Another man in the cage escaped. 2 killed.

DONNELLY John – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 34 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. Beamish St.

DONNELLY Samuel – 1906 – 02/11/1906 – Age 22 – Kibblesworth Screener, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. A steam hoist, consisting of a vertical cylinder, an old pump pipe 15 inches diameter and 9 feet long, fitted with a piston and a 3 way cock at the top of the cylinder and with a rope attached to a fixed point, and then passing round a pulley at the top of the piston rod and round a pulley above the cage, to which its other end was attached, was used to raise loaded tubs from the surface level to the pit head level. Steam was admitted to the top of the piston by pulling a chain at the bottom of the hoist attached to the 3-way cock, but steam could only be cut off at the top of the hoist, on the pit head level, where there was also an indicator to show if steam was on. At the end of a stormy day deceased first lowered five empty tubs and then he brought forward, to the bottom of the hoist, five tubs laden with stones from the screens, to raise them to the pit head level, so that they could be emptied over the refuse heap. He appears to have pushed one tub through the cage to the far side and then put another on the cage and turned the steam on, but the cage did not move, either because there was not sufficient steam pressure to raise the tub, which would contain from 17 cwt. to a 10 of stones or owing to water in the pipes. He spoke to the keeper on the pit head, who shut steam off and then went to his cabin. Deceased is supposed to have made another unsuccessful attempt to raise the tub, and shortly after the keeper came from his cabin and told him to push the tub through the cage and leave it, as owing to the stormy day all the hands had gone home and he had no means of dealing with any tubs. The keeper did not then notice that the indicator showed that steam was half on. Deceased took hold of the top bar of the cage and pushed the tub out with his feet, and when it was half out the cage moved upwards, upended the tub, and crushed him against a fixed cross beam. He was released at once but died in about half an hour. The manager arranged to make certain alterations in the structure and mode of working the apparatus to prevent a similar accident in future. The Local Inspectors reported. ‘We have come to the conclusion it was a pure accident.'

DONNELLY Thomas – 1902 – 26/02/1902 – Age 14 – Ryhope Driver, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Hearing the stone forming the roof of the road, which he was driving, moving and thinking it was likely to fall he jumped off the limbers when his pony was going and there not being room for him to pass between the tub and limber he was fatally crushed.

DONNELLY Thomas – 1907 – 12/04/1907 – Age 40 – Doonagore Quarry Quarrier, George Watson and Co. Ltd., Co. Clare, Ireland. Premature explosion of 4 lbs. gelignite whilst charging using a heavy wood stemmer, the gelignite was not thawed, it was quite hard. Warming pans were provided but seldom used.

DONNELLY William – 1908 – 08/12/1908 – Age 27 – Crawford No.2 Dataller, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. He was engaged packing the side of a roadway, when a fall of roof occurred from a slip, capping four props and fatally injuring deceased.

DONNINSON Richard – 1902 – 15/10/1902 – Age 46 – Murton Timber drawer, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was replacing broken props and strengthening a place preparatory to drawing all the timber out and when putting in a new prop a large stone fell without any warning and severely injured his back. Died November 29th.

DONNON R. – 1904 – 10/11/1904 – Age 34 – Hoyland Silkstone Trammer, Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was travelling inbye to work with other men and when they got to the engine plane they saw a set of tubs coming outbye. All except deceased got into refuge holes, he went forward and was caught and so severely injured that he died the following day. He afterwards told a trammer that he was hurrying to get one of four empty tubs left in the pass-bye.

DONOHOE Patrick – 1900 – 21/06/1900 – Age 45 – Drinagh (limestone Quarry) Quarrier, Messrs Cooper and Co., Co. Wexford, Ireland. Fall of stone from face of Quarry.

DONOHUE William – 1907 – 01/11/1907 – Age 17 – Wearmouth Pony driver, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was driving five loaded tubs out-bye, to the top on an incline in the B pit, and was last seen alive sitting on the limbers. When near the out-bye end of a siding, in which he was not going to stop, the pony appears to have stumbled on the point of one of the wooden shafts of the limbers and caught a prop; about a foot of the shaft was broken off, the bow of the limbers bent and the first tub overturned sideways and its contents scattered, the second tub was derailed. Deceased was found dead under the first tub. The gradient outbye was in favour of the load although not sufficient to make drags necessary, up to within a few yards of where the accident happened when it was against the load. The pony, deceased was driving, was described as not good at ‘holding on’ or checking the speed of the tubs, and probably it had come rather it and stumbled in consequence. The prop caught was marked by the blow it was about 7.5 inches from the rail and the points of the limbers were well within the rails when in a normal position. The Local Inspectors, after describing the cause of the accident in the report, said ‘We find that it is a pure accident.’

DONOVAN Dan. Joe – 1906 – 18/07/1906 – Age 21 – Scart Labourer, ED and AF Stoner, Co. Cork, Ireland. Old timber, forming scaffold in the shaft, broke causing collapse of portion upon which four men were working, two of these, including one of the owners were rescued. There were seven men on the scaffold, 90 feet from the top of the shaft. Deceased fell into water and were drowned. 2 killed.

DONOVAN Mike – 1904 – 03/12/1904 – Age 40 – South Duffryn No.1 Repairer, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. On road coal and fireclay 12 feet by 5 to 6 feet by 5 feet thick. Deceased and a collier were preparing to set a prop under the collar of a framing when the latter broke and allowed three bars and the overlying rubbish to fall. A squeeze had come on that morning, and the fireman having observed a slight crack in the framing sent the two men to prop it and some of the other timbers in the neighbourhood. Nine feet seam.

DONOVAN Patrick – 1905 – 12/05/1905 – Age 29 – Rhymney Merthyr No.2 Collier, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. At face shale, 5.5 feet by 2.5 feet by 10 inches thick, fell from between two slants at the road end. A pair of timbers stood 4 foot from the face and the fall occurred between it and the face. Ras Las seam. He died 12 days after.

DOOHAN Hugh – 1904 – 24/02/1904 – Age 51 – Blairhill Miner. Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Fife. While separating inferior stone from ironstone a spark flew into the eye of deceased. He died on 17th June, 1914. A post-mortem examination was made and the medical men reported that death was directly due to the injury to the eye.

DOOLEY Benjamin – 1905 – 21/09/1905 – Age 23 – Manners Coal cutter attendant, Manners Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Explosion of firedamp. Died 4th October. 3 killed.

DOORY William - 1905 - 02/05/1905 – Age 33 - Charley, South Hewer, South Moor Colliery Co Ltd., Co.Durham. Abdominal strain while lifting coal into tub. Developed brain disease and died on August 3rd.

DORAN John - 1904 - 17/06/1904 – Age 21 - Burnopfield Hewer, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. A lift in the broken workings of Main Coal seam had holed into the old bord. Preparatory to holing a prop and plank had been set by deceased’s marrow, close to the coalface, and pair of gears was set 5.5 feet further out than the plank end. Shortly after the deceased started work in the back shift a mass of stone weighing from 1.5 to 2 tons fell on him from between the prop and plank and a pair of gears and he was found by the back overman covered up and quite dead. The stone fell from between two jacks and two slips and had a keen parting above. A thin skin of coal adhering to the roof stone made it difficult to observe jacks slips. The deputy was in the place during the previous shift and about 2 hours before the accident, when loose coal prevented him putting up a pair of gears near the face which was then only 3 feet in advance of the pair already set. There was no lack of loose timber. The Local Inspectors reported ‘we believe that there is not any blame attached to anyone for the accident.’

DORAN Michael - 1907 - 20/11/1907 – Age 50 - Ackton Hall Collier. Ackton Hall Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Immediately above the seam there is some top coal, about 16 inches in thickness, which is got down and filled into tubs as the gates are ripped. The deceased was getting this coal down and his mate was building one of the packs, a tub had been filled and his mate asked him to pass some stones to build the back wall of the pack, and to do this he stepped under a piece of the top coal, which he had been cutting, when it fell and seriously injured him. The accident was solely due to the deceased neglecting to pull the coal down, which he could easily have done.

DORAN Patrick - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 41 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 14 Ramsey Street, Stanley.

DORANS Peter - 1909 - 10/12/1909 – Age 36 - Caprington No.41 Waterman, Caprington and Auchlochan Collieries, Ayrshire. Inflow of surface water into workings near the surface, during the night. 10 killed.

DORNAS Francis - 1902 - 17/12/1902 – Age 15 - Blackhill No.9 ironstone Labourer, Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Whilst taking a hutch down an incline, to ironstone bing, he was overtaken and run over by another which he had not snibbled and which was in motion by a third hutch striking it. He had been forbidden to take hutches down the incline.

DORRY or DONEY Daniel G. - 1905 - 12/05/1905 – Age 58 - Eppleton Hewer, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He allowed the full set to pass him and then stepped into the road, unfortunately not noticing that a further full set of loaded tubs were being hauled up behind. He was caught and dragged some distance and died two hours later. buried in Hetton-le-Hole Cemetery.

DOTCHIN Percival Hetherington - 1906 - 20/01/1906 – Age 14 – Netherton Screener, Netherton Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, son of the enginewright of the colliery, was employed picking stones from the coal as it was carried past him on a travelling belt. One of the belts was standing, and he was asked by the screen engineman to start it. He did so, after passing a fence, by means of a clutch, and then appears to have stepped on to the belt to ride back to his work, but was caught by a jigger screen, which projected nearly right over the belt, and he was jammed between them. The steam was cut off at the engine immediately, but it took some time to liberate him. The belt, 4.5 feet wide, travelled at a speed of about 50 feet per minute; it was fitted with angle irons placed 2 feet apart, projecting 1.5 inches. There was only 5 feet between the end of the belt, where deceased operated the clutch and the jigger screen, which was 5 feet wide, but was cut away to a point at its termination, and deceased, after climbing on to the belt, probably proposed stepping over this pointed end. Between the jigger screen and the belt there was only a few inches. The screen engineman was prosecuted and fined for deputing his duties to another person without authority.

DOUBLE John H. – 1906 – 08/03/1906 – Age 27 – Basset (metalliferous) Stoker, Basset Mines Ltd., Cornwall. Killed by the collapse of a Lancashire boiler tube over the furnace. The plate was badly pitted, and had in places wasted to 1/6 to 1/8 inch thick, so that it was not capable of sustaining the working pressure. The plates were only about three years in use but although not found to be so upon analysis, the water was bad.

DOUBT John Clary – 1909 – 16/02/1909. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed.

DOUGHTY Joseph – 1905 – 02/07/1905 – Age 45 – Hoyland Silkstone Collier, Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When travelling on an engine plane, at the end of his shift, a fall occurred and caught and killed him. Coal was being worked at each side of the engine plane and this caused the stone to fall.

DOUGHTY William – 1908 – 09/04/1908 – Age 20 – Norton Hill Collier, Norton Hill Colliery Co., Somerset. Explosion of firedamp or coaldust. 10 killed.

DOUGLAS Donald – 1901 – 06/02/1901 – Age 28 – Minera Lead and Zinc Miner, United Minera Mining Co. Ltd., Denbigh. While they were descending one of the main shafts, in a cage, the bar by which it was suspended from the rope broke, they were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft and killed instantaneously. 4 killed.

DOUGLAS James – 1902 – 04/07/1902 – Age 27 – Woodhorn Shifter, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Explosion of firedamp or coal dust. 3 killed.

DOUGLAS James – 1904 – 17/06/1904 – Age 62 – Soothill Wood Miner, Soothill Wood Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was sitting holing at the coal face when a fall of roof occurred and fatally injured him. The stone fell at a fault and a slip over the pack.

DOUGLAS James – 1909 – 31/03/1909 – Age 25 – West Wylam Hand putter, Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Crushed while lifting tub on to rails.

DOUGLAS John – 1907 – 30/01/1907 – Age 34 – Ashington Timberer, Ashington Coal Co., Northumberland. This accident occurred in longwall workings in the 5th South District of the Yard seam, Bothal Pit. The seam is 2 feet 9 inches thick and is holed by a coal cutter and the coal is carried along the face by a conveyor. The conveyor was 5 feet from the face and was protected by planks set at right angles to it, with two props under the ends next the goaf and one prop under the other end and between the conveyor and the face. Deceased was setting another series of planks in front of the coal cutter, stamping one end into the coal and propping the other end next the conveyor. About 10 yards in front of this point the coal cutter had reached was an iron jockey prop set close to the face and to which was attached a sheave round which a rope passed for pulling the coal cutter forward. This jockey prop had worked loose and deceased knocked it out with a view of resetting it when a mass of stone fell along the face off by the coal and killed him. The fall was 7 yards long by 4 feet wide and varied in thickness from 8 to 12 inches. It was relieved by two jacks and in its fall canted out five of the series of planks deceased had first set, not interfering with the series protecting the conveyor. The Local Inspectors reported ‘Our belief is it is a pure accident.’