DOUGLAS Peter – 1908 – 14/02/1908 – Age 18 – Bothwell Castle No.4 Repairer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When assisting to re-timber a haulage road, a stone fell from the roof upon him.

DOUGLAS Samuel – 1906 – 05/11/1906 – Age 13 – Newburgh Driver, Broomhill Collieries Ltd., Northumberland. Died November 6. Deceased who had only worked a fortnight in the pit, brought out five loaded tubs with a quiet pony to the shaft on a roomy road, having an inclination of 1 inch per yard in favour of the load. When he arrived at the usual point he attempted to detach the limbers, the bolt of which was of the loose cock type, from the tubs but was unable to do so, he then attempted to drive the pony forward a little, but it crossed over and crushed him between the bow of the limbers and the tub. He was at once attended to. If he had a drag in one of the tub wheels he would have had less difficulty in lifting the limbers free.

DOUGLAS Thomas – 1901 – 23/09/1901 – Age 26 – Dawdon Sinker, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. The scaffold on which he was working broke and he fell into sump and was drowned.

DOUGLAS Thomas – 1909 – 08/10/1909 – Age 15 – Boldon Driver, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Crushed by tubs in engine landing.

DOUGLAS William – 1905 – 05/04/1905 – Age 44 – Cadder No.15 Ironstone Roadsman, Carron Co., Lanarkshire. When working on an endless rope dook he failed to keep clear of an upcoming full hutch and was run over by it. He died on 17th August.

DOUGRAY James – 1907 – 30/10/1907 – Age 45 – Cowdenbeath Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased worked on the back shift, in a level of a seam being opened out mid-way in the shaft. There were no gates to fence the opening but a bar was placed across during the fore shift, when no one was in the seam, and the bar was taken off when the back shift commenced and left on during the whole time the shift was at work. At stopping time deceased came from the face with a loaded tub, and evidently thinking the cage was there pushed it into the open shaft and he and it were precipitated to the bottom, a distance of 67 fathoms.

DOUSE Frank – 1906 – 04/01/1906 – Age 35 – Llwynypia Labourer, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and a repairer were collecting trams in which to send timber down the pits. Deceased saw one, partly full of coal at the screen where the coal for the colliers is tipped. He stood on the screen bars, pulled out the coal and it is thought that he was pushing the tram out of the tipping plate, when by so doing he must have raised the front end up. However it was done the tram got up over the ends of the upward curved rails and ran down the screen, taking deceased with it. He was found lying on the ground with one end of the tram on his hip. He died in a short time.

DOVE George – 1900 – 17/12/1900 – Age 18 – Wheatley Hill Labourer. Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While tipping a side tip waggon of stones, with other five men, the waggon suddenly and unexpectedly returned and upset on the reverse side and deceased was caught and killed.

DOVE George – 1907 – 07/11/1907 – Age 38 – Allerton Bywater Loco. Fireman, New Silkstone and Haigh Moor Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. In uncoupling two wagons he neglected to use his coupling pole and was crushed between the buffers and killed.

DOVE Thomas W. – 1907 – 23/07/1907 – Age 14 – Esh Driver, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. He was standing at the top of an incline, near some full tubs, when five other full tubs went amain and running into those already standing at the foot of the incline, the tubs at the top were violently jerked back against him.

DOVER Joseph William – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 17. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 13 Rifle Street, Stanley.

DOW James – 1901 – 25/10/1901 – Age 30 – Kelty Pithead worker, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased had finished his work and appears to have gone on to the hoist cage, probably with a view to being lowered to the ground level and fell off.

DOWARD Richard – 1908 – 31/08/1908 – Age 16 – Princess Royal Loader. Princess Royal Colliery Co. Ltd., Gloucester. Fall of roof stone at the place. It was given off at a smooth slant at one side, and feathered out to a thin edge at the other. It fell when they had just got to an old level which they were about to clear in order to continue their road up through the pillar above.

DOWD John – 1902 – 28/10/1902 – Age 16 – Maesteg Deep Collier boy, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face while working on the coal, about a cwt of top coal fell struck him on head fracturing his skull.

DOWDALL John – 1903 – 19/09/1903 – Age 30 – Ferndale No.5 Rider, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by a journey of five empty trams. An assistant rider knocked off the stop block at the top of a dip before the rider had time to attach the rope with the result that the journey ran down and killed deceased. The assistant said that he thought the rider had shouted to him to start the journey.

DOWELL Ernest – 1904 – 26/07/1904 – Age 19 – Turner’s Hill Quarry Labourer, Rowles Regis Granite Quarries Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of piece of stone weighing a few pounds from the face of the Quarry, probably from about 25 feet above where he was working.

DOWN Frank – 1906 – 24/07/1906 – Age 32 – Norton Hill Collier, Norton Hill Colliery Co., Somerset. Fall of roof in consequence of the place not having been properly secured, reflecting considerably upon the mismanagement with regard to supervision and the enforcing of the Special Rules.

DOWNHAM Robert - 1906 - 18/05/1906 – Age 44 - Orrell No.3 Dataller, Orrell Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged taking out old bars at the junction of two roadways, in order to get the road higher, when a fall of roof occurred upon him. If the gablock and chain had been used, this accident might have been prevented.

DOWNIE Charles - 1903 - 15/04/1903 – Age 44 - Lochwood No.3 Miner, Lochwood Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Two shots of compressed gunpowder were being fired. His neighbour lit the fuse of one and he attempted to light the other and thought that he failed to do so. The first lit shot went off and on returning to relight the other it went off killing Downie and injuring his neighbour.

DOWNIE James - 1907 - 21/05/1907 – Age 32 - Newcraighall Drawer, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased worked in a heading where the tubs were hauled on the self-acting incline principle; the usual custom was for the drawer to follow up the ascending empty tub, and on meeting descending load tub to take hold of it and go down the heading. Deceased, as usual, met the loaded tub and followed behind it when it ran way and at the terminus it crashed into the side throwing out some timber causing the roof to fall and he was buried beneath it.

DOWNIE Robert - 1907 - 08/03/1907 – Age 23 - Bridgeness Miner, Bridgeness Coal Co., Linlithgow. Deceased took off some projecting coal and as soon as it came away a large stone fell from between two parallel lypes and killed him instantly. The fireman was close by at the time and had a narrow escape. The lypes were unseen prior to the accident.

DOWNING Arthur - 1909 - 22/01/1909 – Age 25 - Rookery Loader, Reps of late John Wedgwood, Staffordshire. Deceased was injured in some way unknown in taking a loaded tub down an incline of 1 in 14. The length of incline was only about 5 yards and the only person near at the time declared positively that deceased was behind the load. At the bottom of the incline there was a sharp turn on to a level and the load had become derailed at the turn. Deceased was found at the front end of the load suffering from injuries to the chest, from which he died before he could be removed from the place.

DOWNING Richard - 1907 - 16/11/1907 – Age 45 - Orgreave Deputy, Rothervale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He had examined the stall and was passing the gate end for the second time to go down the gate when a large piece of rock, from the roof, suddenly fell down and killed him. The gate ripping had been continued up to the face and there disclosed a slip and a well defined roof ran parallel to the face and the roof had slightly broken down on the face on one side of the gate. Under such circumstances the stone should have been taken down.

DOWNING W. - 1902 - 18/08/1902 – Age 35 - Wath Main Trammer, Wath Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When a train of full tubs was being hauled up an incline, a coupling link broke and the tubs ran back and killed Downing who was foolishly travelling up the road without a light.

DOWNING W. - 1904 - 23/02/1904 – Age 30 - Aldwarke Main Trammer, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When descending the shaft the winding rope broke. 7 killed.

DOWNING William - 1901 - 25/01/1901 – Age 68 - Saltwell Bricklayer, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Drowned in engine pool. On his way to work in the dark it is supposed he mistook the footpath leading to the pit and walked into the engine pond and was drowned.

DOWNS Benjamin - 1902 - 29/08/1902 – Age 36 - Pwllypant, Sandstone Quarry Chargeman, Topham Jones and Railton, Glamorgan. A hole had been bored 18 feet in sandstone. It had been shaken four times that afternoon and in an hour after the last shaking charge had been fired deceased ran 50 lb gunpowder into the hole and was pouring another 50 lb when an explosion occurred and injured him so severely that he died the next day. Smouldering fuse must have lodged on a ledge in the hole some distance up from the bottom.

DOWNS Mayo - 1904 - 11/08/1904 – Age 18 - Celynen Collier, Newport & Abercarne Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of clod and coal from an unseen back slip at the face which knocked out the sprag and crushed him.

DOWSON Edward - 1906 - 09/02/1906 – Age 25 - New Copley Hewer, Woodland Collieries Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was killed by a fall of stone following upon a fall of coal, which discharged the timber. He was fastened down by the fall of coal, and was killed by the fall of stone whilst he was being released from the fall of coal.

DOWSON J.H. - 1905 - 17/01/1905 – Age 62 - Rosedale East Ironstone Pump attendant, Carlton Iron Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was oiling a small electric engine when the ends of a muffler, he was wearing, got caught in some cogged wheels and drew him down until his head was injured. He died the following day. The engine was properly fenced and he had orders to stop the engine before oiling.

DOWSON Thomas - 1905 - 29/03/1905 – Age 26 - Cornsay Hewer, Ferens and Love, Co.Durham. Fall of roof in a working, 1 foot 4 inches in height. The stone was cut out at the round by vertical joints, and fell upon his neck causing strangulation.

DOWSON Thomas Oswald - 1908 - 21/11/1908 – Age 14 - Thornley Driver, Weardale Steel Coke and Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He attempted to got out of a cage at the bank after it had been rapped away. He was caught by the cage and had his thigh broken. He died on 29th September 1909 from tuberculosis the result of the accident.

DOWTHER James - 1908 - 13/01/1908 – Age 71 - Fortrigg Dirt picker, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. The table for nuts is driven by a belt off a pulley situated outside the pithead shed and while in operation the belt came off the pulley. In order to get the belt back on, deceased got a ladder, took off the box in which the pulley ran and proceeded to slip the belt on while the pulley was in motion, when the shaft end caught his clothing and he was taken round and left suspended in mid air. He was dead before released.

DOWTHWAITE Thomas - 1904 - 20/06/1904 – Age 32 - Malton Hewer, SA Sadler Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by fall of stone at slips close to face of working place.

DOXEY Aaron - 1904 - 28/06/1904 – Age 54 - Hopton Wood, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Killer Bros. Derbyshire. Deceased was shovelling dirt from the undercutting of a loose face of stone and clay when a portion of it fell upon him. He died the same day.

DOXEY George - 1900 - 19/11/1900 – Age 35 Hopton Wood, limestone Quarry Quarryman, Hopton Wood Stone Co., Derbyshire. Deceased and another man had charged the cracks in a limestone Quarry face with 400 lbs. of grain gunpowder, which was fired by gunpowder fuse ignited by a gelignite cartridge. When the fuse was lighted deceased threw the flaming gelignite down and falling down an open fissure in the stone it ignited the whole of the charge. Deceased fell with the stone broken away by the explosion.

DOXEY Isaac - 1907 - 12/03/1907 – Age 30 - Hopton Wood, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Hopton Wood Stone Firm, Derbyshire. Fall of stone from a deep Quarry face. The night had been very frosty, and a sunny day following, set the stone at liberty.

DOY Patsey - 1900 - 24/03/1900 – Age 21 - Merthyr Vale No.2 Assistant repairer, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While passing out from their work they were struck by runaway trams owing to the breaking of a shackle. 2 killed.

DOYLE Dennis - 1904 - 24/08/1904 – Age 28 - Pendlebury Dataller. Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Deceased, along with a Pole, were repairing horse road, setting bars, he was pushing a tub past the parts being repaired when coal and dirt came from the side causing the roof across the road to fall. The coal came away from a pronounced slip. He ought to have taken the tub behind by the secured portion. (Good roof.)

DOYLE Edward - 1904 - 23/06/1904 – Age 14 - Woodmuir Greaser, United Collieries Ltd., Edinburgh. Two loaded trucks were being taken forward from the screens to the weighing table. Deceased was observed passing in the opposite direction but immediately afterwards the shunter was about to insert a snibble in the wheel of the leading truck, he observed the trucks slowing down and on looking saw deceased lying between the wheels of the rear truck. The shunter tried to stop them but failed and the rear wheel passed over deceased's thighs causing injuries which resulted fatally, four hours after. A number of pit props lying about as well as some pointed snibbles but although several of the officials were on the spot within few minutes no effort appears to have been made to ascertain what deceased had been doing or to preserve the props and snibbles for inspection.

DOYLE Hugh - 1905 - 27/12/1905 – Age 60 - Ballymurtagh (Metalliferous) Miner, Irish Bayrites and Unber Co. Ltd., Wicklow, Ireland. Fall of overhanging rock from south wall of vein, being worked down from surface. The rock, being undermined and overhanging, ought to have been taken done.

DOYLE Joseph - 1902 - 19/11/1902 – Age 30 - Cefn Slip Collier. Bryndu & Port Talbot Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, a stone 18 feet long x 6.5 feet wide from between two slips meeting at apex fell from the rock, roof discharging three props and a sprag. Cribbur seam.

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

DOYLE Michael - 1902 - 06/10/1902 – Age 15 - Bardykes No.1 Miner. Merry and Cuninghame Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

DOYLE Thomas - 1900 - 07/05/1900 – Age 14 - Werfa Corn crusher, James Evens and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. His clothing was caught by a revolving shaft and he was dashed to death against the wall.

DOYLE William - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 16 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas 168 killed. 17 Lucy Street, Stanley.

DRABBLE Peter - 1908 - 06/08/1908 – Age 33 - Dinnington Main Corporal, Dinnington Main Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. They and two other men were getting a tub on to the road when, without warning, about 25 tons of rock fell from the roof killing Drabble on the spot and fatally injuring Fletcher, who died at Rotherham Hospital on August 30th. The other two men were seriously injured but ultimately recovered. The roof was strong sandstone-shale but it contained treacherous partings. A fault ran parallel with the road and it is probable that the strata suddenly settled from this. Three bars, which were slotted into the rock at one end which had props under the other were displaced. 2 killed.

DRAIN Robert - 1904 - 08/04/1904 – Age 24 - Dalquhandy No.3 Miner, Waddell and Sons, Lanarkshire. Fall of head coal (roof).

DRAKE James - 1900 - 09/04/1900 – Age 50 - Green Lane, Iron Ore Labourer, Harrison Ainslie and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased and others were engaged in moving a large boiler and as it was being raised by a hydraulic jack it rolled over and crushed him.

DRANSFIELD Frederick - 1906 - 25/01/1906 – Age 47 - Tankersley Collier, Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. In removing old sleepers, on December 22nd, he scratched his hand with a rusty nail. Blood poisoning set in, and he died today in Sheffield Infirmary.

DRAPER Albert - 1901 - 15/05/1901 – Age 25 - New London Stallman, Digby Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was loading coal when a fall of roof occurred owing to a slip in the roof. Deceased died a few hours after being injured.

DRAPER Albert - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 24 - Maypole Haulage hand, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust, 75 killed.

DRAPER George - 1901 - 24/04/1901 – Age 40 - Hollins Stallman, S Yarnald, Worcester. Fall of roof in a stall between timber and the face. Only 2 feet 6 inches wide. Cause converging slips. Died 28th May, 1901.

DRAPER George - 1904 - 15/08/1904 - Chalk Quarry Labourer, Stone Court, Chalk Land and Pier Company Ltd. He was working on a haystack when a gust of wind blew him into the Chalk Quarry, worked for the Stone Court Chalk Land and Pier Company Ltd.

DRAPER Henry - 1902 - 09/12/1902 – Age 45 - Orrell No.6 Collier, Orrell Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Explosion of firedamp when attempting to remove an accumulation from the face of one of the working places in the Cannel Mine. 2 killed.

DRAPER John - 1900 - 02/05/1900 – Age 15 - Moss No.6 Greaser, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. He appears to have given up his work on the pit bank and went down to the steam boilers and was waiting about for the surface manager and when crossing the railway from the boilers he was knocked down by an empty railway wagon which was being lowered towards the screens just at the time.

DRAUSFIELD M. - 1903 - 22/04/1903 – Age 33 - Morley Main Collier, WA Ackroyd and Bros. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 27th April. Fall of roof in a working place. Cause converging slips.

DRAYTON Enoch Girdham - 1906 - 12/11/1906 – Age 48 - Melton Ross, Chalk Quarry Quarryman, W Singleton Birch and Sons Ltd., Lincoln. Two men got into a Great Central Railway wagon for the purpose of moving the bar running lengthwise from side of the wagon to the other while the deceased placed a trestle in position upon which to lower the side, door and to place a plank to wheel a harrow on in order to fill the wagon with chalk stone. One of the men in getting into the wagon took one of the pins, by which the side door is fastened up, out without seeing that the other was in. It was not, and when the bar was pulled over, the jar of its falling on to the side caused the door to fall and strike the deceased, who was underneath, on his head and the back of his neck. The spinal cord was lacerated and he died on the 14th. This accident was solely due to want of care on the part of the man who took the pin out, which secured the side door as he got into the wagon, In not seeing that the other was in position.

DREW Frank - 1900 - 30/08/1900 – Age 36 - Burlescombe Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Westleigh Lime and Stone Co. Ltd., Somerset. Fall of overhanging clay and rubble at the face knocked him off a plank on which he was standing and caused him to fall about 12 feet. He died the following day from the injury.

DREW James - 1904 - 02/09/1904 – Age 36 - Ham Wood, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, John Wainwright and Co. Ltd., Somerset. He was struck on the head by a stone from a shot which caused his death 12 hours afterwards. He was 85 yards away from the shot and sheltering behind a large tree. The Special Rules were not satisfactorily carried out at this Quarry as the men should either have gone further away or gone into shelters in the Quarry but like the ostrich they hid their heads and thought their bodies were consequently protected.

DREWITT James - 1909 - 01/01/1909 – Age 50 - Writhlington Examiner, Writhlington Colliery Co. Ltd., Somerset. Knocked down by and crushed under full tubs of rubbish in No. 2 South Rock Vein, Self-acting incline, while on his way to examine another part of his district before the day shift. He omitted to get into a manhole which the boy accompanying him did. Manholes were provided at less than 10 yards apart. They were in good order and well whitewashed under his own supervision. He must in some way have misjudged the position of the journey although his sight and hearing appear to have been all right.

DRIFFIELD William Wright - 1902 - 18/12/1902 - Age 21 - Southgate Loader, Shire Oaks Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was assisting to remove the debris from a shot fired at the gate end lip when a further fall occurred killing the deceased and injuring another loader.

DRING Joseph - 1903 - 08/12/1903 – Age 27 - Silver Hill Banksman, Stanton Iron Works, Nottinghamshire. Deceased had given a signal to the engineman which was not at once obeyed and he started taking tubs out of the cage again, when the cage was moved and deceased fell to bottom of the shaft.

DRINKWATER David - 1904 - 29/01/1904 – Age 66 - Slater’s Bank, Sandstone Quarry Owner, Chester, Cheshire. While he was engaged on a ledge a quantity of sand from the overburden fell and struck him, he fell off the ledge and was killed instantaneously.

DRIVER Edward - 1909 - 13/09/1909 – Age 47 - Warren Park, Sandstone Stone miner, John Sagar Sons and Co., Yorkshire. He and another miner were engaged in drawing the timber from a disused road, in a sandstone mine. They pulled down a large baulk of timber, set as a bar, and a stone which it was supporting fell from the roof and sliding down the bar fatally injured Driver. A prop should have been set to support the stone whilst the bar was being removed.

DRIVER T. - 1908 - 04/05/1908 – Age 44 - Watson, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, J Thompson and Sons, Yorkshire. Driver was on a ledge 17 feet wide. He knew that earth was about to fall from the free but thinking only a small quantity would fall he and his mates merely stepped backwards towards the edge of the ledge. However, about two tons fell and some of it striking Driver hurled him to the bottom of the Quarry.

DRIVER William - 1902 - 21/04/1902 – Age 49 - Habergam, Sandstone Quarry Quarrier, Smith Stanworth, Lancashire. Whilst using a bar to prise a stone loose, in some way the deceased was injured about the ribs either by twisting himself to avoid falling or by a blow from the bar. Pleurisy set in. From the medical evidence at the inquest after post-mortem examination it was shown that death was due to the accident. Died 9th May.

DRUGAN Bernard - 1905 - 07/12/1905 – Age 23 - Sharlston West Byeworker, New Sharlston Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He and another man were engaged widening one of the main roads when a large stone broke over and reeled a prop out and fell on to the deceased. A slip was the cause of the stone falling; it could not be seen before the fall took place. The work of widening this road has been in progress a long time and both men had been employed at it and were looked upon as very careful and capable workmen.

DRUMMOND Andrew - 1903 - 16/01/1903 – Age 46 - Devon Miner, Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Clackmannan. Deceased and his three sons were taking a 13 feet cut out of a stoop in a 5 feet 6 inches seam holed near the centre. The cut had been holed to a depth of from 2 to 3 feet across the whole width and deceased was completing the holing at the nose while his son was drilling a shot hole near the far side when a piece of coal, 6 feet by 1 foot 6 inches by 2 feet, suddenly burst off and fell onto deceased killing him almost instantly. No rances or holing props appeared to have been set.

DRUMMOND William - 1905 - 21/05/1905 – Age 51 - Lochgelly Pitwright, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was assisting to take down a range of steam pipes and in doing so stood on a scaffold, 12 feet from the ground. When the bolts had been taken from a level joint the pipes swung and the bend fell away and he was carried with it.

DRURY Albert - 1908 - 13/03/1908 – Age 22 - Brynkinallt Filler, WY Craig and Sons, Denbighshire. When filling a tub of coal at the face, a piece of coal fell off the face capping a sprag, and fatally injuring deceased.

DRURY J. - 1909 - 31/08/1909 – Age 37 - Tuck Royd, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Joseph Brook and Sons, Yorkshire. Drury, with others, was watching a large stone being dragged along the bottom of the Quarry with a chain from a steam crane. The stone struck a box which had been left in its path. This caused it to swerve against Drury who was fatally injured. He died on 23rd September.

DRURY Joseph - 1900 - 09/04/1900 – Age 47 - Framwell Gate Lampman, Framwell Gate Coal & Coke Ltd., Framwell Gate, Co.Durham. Died today from exhaustion following cerebral haemorrhage alleged to have been caused by a strain, but post mortem and evidence showed no injury. (Not comprised)

DRYDEN Michael - 1905 - 03/10/1905 – Age 15 - Wearmouth Driver, Wearmouth, Co.Durham. Died October 11th. A full tub is always placed at the fore end of the empty set, to steady it while returning inbye on a main and tall rope engine plane, from the landing of which deceased drove tubs. The driver who had taken the first tub from a set takes this full tub to the inbye end of the landing and places it on the full road. Deceased, who had been employed about a year underground, had hung his pony on to this tub and the three empty tubs behind it, and the pony appears to have started and he was attempting to get on to the limbers when he slipped and the front wheel of the full tub passed over his left leg. He was released at once. The pony was quiet and the road was in good order. Deceased told a hewer on the day of the accident that he had missed the limbers in attempting to get on, but his mother stated at the inquest that he told her that the pony had ‘clashed’ him underneath the tub and that it was a bad little thing.

DRYLIE Adam - 1900 - 07/07/1900 – Age 44 - Lumphinnans Brusher, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased had fired a shot in the brushing which had not cleared away the stone at one side and he was examining the stone preparatory to boring a hole to blast it down when it fell on him.

DUCAN Peter - 1900 - 12/09/1900 – Age 62 - East Parkland No.1 Miner, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While descending the shaft the engineman lost control of his engine and the cage forcibly landed at the bottom. Injured on 12th September, 1899, and died on 20th April, 1900. Other seven men were injured.

DUCAN Robert Alexander - 1906 - 28/08/1906 – Age 14 - Beamish Driver, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was a driver in Ouston, a pit the property of Messrs, Chas, Perkins & Partners. He had come up the pit at the end of his shift and when about 10 yards from the pit attempted to get on a truck, of a set of five, which drawn by a rope, was passing at a speed of 10 or 11 miles per hour on the Beamish Colliery railway. He was run over and only lived a few minutes. Even had he succeeded in getting on to the truck he would only have ridden about 50 yards and then got off while the set was still in motion. Notice boards prohibiting trespassing are placed on the line.

DUCKER Joseph - 1909 - 03/04/1909 – Age 44 - Whiston, Clay Quarry Shale getter, Tushingham Bros., St. Helens, Lancashire. A fall of clay from the working face fell on to him.

DUCKWORTH Arthur - 1905 - 20/12/1905 – Age 28 - Newchapel Collier, R Heath and Sons Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (shale) at face of a drift in Burnwood stone. Soon after a shot had been fired a large fall of roof occurred, reeling out nine posts coming off from an overhanging slip at the face.

DUCKWORTH Robert - 1905 - 08/06/1905 – Age 55 - Hyde Lane Collier, Hyde Lane Colliery Co., Cheshire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged at the face when a fall of roof occurred from a slip capping three props and fatally injuring deceased.

DUDDERIDGE Charles Henry - 1905 - 01/03/1905 – Age 15 - Backworth Driver, Owners of Backworth Colliery, Northumberland. Died 2nd March. He was driving 4 full tubs into a landing sitting on the coals on the first tub, when he got into the landing he leaned forward to take the cotterill out of the bolt of the limbers and succeeded in doing so and the pony walked away but he overbalanced himself and fell before the tubs and was crushed by the axles of the first tub which was thrown off the rails. The road was level and in good order with plenty of height. The Local Inspectors made no written report but were examined at the Inquest when they suggested that ponies should be stopped before the limbers were released.

DUDLEY John - 1903 - 22/05/1903 – Age 62 - Tibshelf No.2 Banksman, Babbington Coal Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was attempting to go between the buffers of two empty railway waggons, which were being moved down the sidings, when he was crushed between the two wagons and killed.

DUDLEY John Charles - 1909 - 08/10/1909 – Age 18 - Sutton No.3 Horse driver, Blackwell Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was taking three full tubs from a stall when a bar broke in the gate road and a fall of roof killed him. The fall broke a newly set bar set between two girders and an attempt had been made to get this stone down the previous night but failed.

DUDLEY William - 1905 - 05/05/1905 – Age 39 - Highley Loader, Highley Mining Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Fall of side (clod) at working face. Another man was injured by this fall. Dudley died on the 14th August.

DUDLEY William - 1906 - 11/10/1906 – Age 33 - Williamthorpe Stallman, Hardwick Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased and others had started to work a web of coal at the far-end of the stall, contrary to orders, when a fall of roof killed him. Another man was injured.

DUFF George - 1907 - 25/01/1907 – Age 30 - Lumphinnans Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased apparently was at work at the coal face, when a part of the roof fell upon him and caused his death.

DUFF John Archbold - 1904 - 30/08/1904 – Age 17 - Linton Driver - Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was driving inbye, sitting on the limbers of a pony drawing three empty tubs, when he was met on the same line of rails by five full tubs which ran amain from the fiat 50 yards further in. The flat itself dipped outbye 2.5 to 3 inches per yard and beyond the dip increased to 6 inches per yard, flattening to 2 inches per yard at the place of the accident. Deceased jumped off the limbers but was unable to escape. Both the full and empty ways at the flat are provided with wooden chocks, each consisting of two short blocks of wood working on iron pins fastened to iron fixed on the pavement. The chock itself crosses one of the rails and is 3.75 inches high and is held in position by a stay chock. Each driver, as he leaves the flat, puts the chock in position as was done in this case and one tub was then standing five yards from it with both wheels dragged. Two full tubs were brought into the flat and lowered against it with their wheels also dragged. Two more full tubs with wheels dragged were next brought forward when the whole five moved away and coming against the chock bent the pin on which the stay worked and forced the stay off and it was found three yards outbye. When examined after the accident the two first and two last of the runaway tubs had each two drags in the wheels and the middle tub one. An improved form of chock with an iron washer under the head of the bolt of the stay, was put in after the accident. The Local Inspectors reported state this ‘to be the result of accident.’

DUFF Robert - 1907 - 16/12/1907 – Age 62 - Lochhead Miner, Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. While deceased was holing, a piece of coal fell away between two sprags and striking him on the chest, caused internal injuries from which he died five days afterwards.

DUFFEY Martin - 1903 - 12/11/1903 – Age 35 - Gidlow Prop drawer, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended Deceased was engaged drawing out props from under the roof with a gablock and chain when the prop, to which he had attached his gablock, came out and struck the deceased on the back of the head. He succumbed to the injuries received on the 20th instant.

DUFFEY Patrick – 1908 – 18/08/1908 – Age 27 – Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

DUFFEY Thomas James – 1903 – 01/12/1903 – Age 15 – Wearmouth Driver, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died 24th December. Inquest held. Statements were made that deceased had received an injury in the pit that had led to his death. On enquiry no confirmation of this was forthcoming and the coroner (who neglected to send me notice of the inquest) informed me that the evidence showed death resulted from pneumonia and so the jury found.

DUFFIN Edgar – 1903 – 13/01/1903 – Age 34 – Old Birchwood Stallman, Butterley Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was preparing to set a prop at the coal-face when the roof fell and killed him.

DUFFIN Michael – 1903 – 27/03/1903 – Age 25 – Auchenharvie No.5 Shotfirer, Glengarnock Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. He failed to take proper shelter while firing a shot of saxonite and carbonate by electricity and was struck by a projected stone.

DUFFY James – 1902 – 07/01/1902 – Age 23 – West Stanley Shifter, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Deceased was working with another man taking stone down from the roof and in moving some timber, he liberated a piece of stone from the side which caught and killed him.

DUFFY John – 1909 – 20/12/1909 – Age 48 – Auchenbegg Miner, Waddell and Son, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal at coal face, in a close place in stoop and room working.

DUFFY Thomas – 1900 – 24/09/1900 – Age 24 – New Lester Trencherbone Taker off, J Roscoe and Sons, Lancashire. Crushed by tub that ran down the jig. Jigger omitted to place stop block. Died 25th September.

DUFTON Arthur – 1901 – 25/11/1901 – Age 15 – Etherley George Driver, Henry Stobart and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Driving a pony outbye, with two tubs, when pony stopped and as he was passing from back of tubs the pony moved away again and he slipped and fell between tubs and was killed.

DUGGAN Humphrey – 1906 – 11/12/1906 – Age 32 – Fforchwen Repairer, Cwmaman Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side on road, fireclay, 27 feet by 7 feet by 2 feet. Deceased was widening a heading, the sides of which were supported by spangers and short sprags. He had removed two spangers with a prop withdrawing machine, and was straining at the third, when the above large fall of side took place. He should have proceeded from one end, securing the ground as he went along.

DUKE John – 1902 – 28/01/1902 – Age 25 – Hattonrigg No.3 Engineman, Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Knocked down the shaft from midworking by the winding rope, the sinking kettle having fallen away from the rider in which it had stuck.

DUKE Luke Hall – 1907 – 25/03/1907 – Age 25 – Dinnington Stoneman, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. The accident happened during the night, when stonemen were shooting up bottom canches in the longwall workings in the Beaumont seam. The chargeman, of the set of four men of which deceased formed one, was off work and it was arranged that another chargeman should fire their shots. Between where deceased worked and this chargeman were two other stonemen, one of whom was licensed to fire shots, and these men had a shot charged with 15 ozs. of monobel powder in one of their canches ready to fire at the same time as deceased’s party who had also a shot ready. The two stonemen at the intermediate point shouted ‘fire’ at the face and then retired to the battery, down the gateway and into a cross gateway where they turned on the current and fired the shot. Deceased was at the time travelling along the face to seek the chargeman further out and arrived at the shot just as it exploded and was killed on the spot. The Jury recommended that the men firing a shot should, as far as possible, guard all the approaches, and the Local Inspectors reported ‘He must have reached the front of the gateway canch just at shot went off. It appears to us that if he had kept the crossgate course instead of travelling along the face no accident would have occurred.’

DUMBLETON J. – 1901 – 25/09/1901 – Age 30 – Stanley Main Shunter, Pope and Pearson, Yorkshire. Became entangled in the rope of the capstan when pulling up waggons.

DUMPRESS Albert – 1907 – 04/07/1907 – Age 21 – Cilwern Labourer, Cilwern Collieries Ltd., Carmarthen. He was crushed between a tram and a arm of a pair of timbers. It appears an empty tram had been tipped up on its side, on a wide part of the roadway called a ‘tumbling place’. He had been assisting the colliers to tip up the tram. A loaded tram was pushed down and in passing knocked against the wheels of the tipped up tram. Dumpress was standing by the side of the empty tram and was crushed against the arm of a pair of timbers. He had only worked one month underground and it would not have stood in that position if he had had any experience of the work. The colliers should have warned him of his danger.

DUNBABIN Robert – 1906 – 20/07/1906 – Age 49 – Newton Collier, Clifton and Kerlsey Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Lifting a piece of fireclay to put on pack, it broke and a piece scarred his right leg slightly. Died on July 22nd from blood poisoning.

DUNBAR Cuthbert – 1902 – 04/07/1902 – Age 58 – South Kirkby Assistant deputy, South Kirkby Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 5th July. He had finished examining the place and was foolishly sitting behind the goaf timber when 40 tons of rock fell upon him. Cause a sudden weight.

DUNBAR John – 1905 – 24/01/1905 – Age 46 – North Elswick Hewer, Elswick Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was hewing alone, in a stenton 6 yards wide in the Brockwell seam; when his marrow came to take his place at 9.30 a.m. he found a large stone had fallen from the roof, close to the face, upon deceased. The stone was 12 feet long across the face and 5.5 feet wide and 1 foot thick and in its fall had displaced five props. It was released by a slip next the face and by a keen parting above. The deputy had been in the place at 6.20 am. and had set two props and left the place in his judgement safe. There was a good supply of loose timber. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘it is our opinion it was unforeseen and accidental.’

DUNCAN Alexander – 1900 – 29/03/1900 – Age 19 – Dancing Cairns (granite Quarry) Driller, A and F Manuelle, Aberdeen. Deceased was at work at the bottom Quarry about 110 feet in depth within a few feet of a practically vertical face when about ‘a barrow load’ of small stones fell from the tirr or the rotten rock immediately underneath it. One of the stones struck him on the top of the head fracturing his skull and killing him almost instantly. Apart from the labour of dragging the stones out there appeared to be no reason why the drillers should work so close to the Quarry face.

DUNCAN Hugh – 1900 – 13/04/1900 – Age 41 – Bannockburn No.2 Miner, Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. When he stepped off the cage, at a midworking, he fell into the cage seat of the other cage and through the defective scaffolding to the bottom of the shaft.

DUNCAN James – 1902 – 11/12/1902 – Age 23 – Highhouse No.1 Assistant bottomer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Whilst drawing an empty hutch off the cage he was either struck by something falling down the shaft or he fell backwards and fractured his skull on the flange of the point plate.

DUNCAN Robert – 1901 – 20/12/1901 – Age 31 – Blackhill Granite Quarry Labourer, Great North of Scotland, Aberdeen. Deceased and another workman were pushing a bogie, on which rested a large irregular shaped stone, towards the debris tip when the stone came off causing the bogie to upend and the tram at the back end in being depressed caught him crushing him fatally.

DUNCAN William – 1901 – 15/03/1901 – Age 72 – Fordell Labourer, Fordell Trustees, Fife. While moving an empty wagon he allowed it to move too quickly down an incline and after following it for a considerable distance, attempting to put on the brake, he became exhausted and fell. Died on 4th August, never having resumed work.

DUNCAN William – 1909 – 17/08/1909 – Age 25 – Giffnock, Sandstone Engineman, Renfrew. Caught by shafting or pulley of crushing machinery when inside the fence.

DUNCOMBE John – 1906 – 10/10/1906 – Age 16 – Warsop Main Rope boy, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was in charge of a train of 12 loaded tubs, and in trying to get in front of them, while the train was in motion, he appears to have stumbled and losing his light. He was crushed between the tubs and the side of the roadway. He died 25th October.

DUNKERLEY John – 1902 – 11/03/1902 – Age 63 – Bower Pump engineman, W and R Marland, Lancashire. Crushed by fly wheel of the engine. He had opened the valve of the engine, to admit steam, then foolishly put his leg through the fence to turn the wheel. Single engine, the crank in the centre. Died 13th October.

DUNLAKE Ernest – 1900 – 03/01/1900 – Age 22 – Bullock’s Chalk Labourer, Alfred Bullock, Surrey. While he was at work, on the face of the Quarry, crowbar in hand, some chalk fell from just above him and knocked him over causing injuries from which he died on the 15th.

DUNLAVEY or DINLAVEY 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.

DUNLAVEY or DUNLOSEY John – 1902 – 18/07/1902 – Age 14 – Whitburn Trapper, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. As the deputy was leaving a hewers place, after timbering it up, he was asked by the hewer to provide a plank. He gave a plank to deceased who was stationed at a door some distance outbye and who had only worked eight days in the pit and told him to follow a putter, who was going inbye to the hewers place with two empty tubs drawn by a pony, and asked the putter to look after him. The boy followed the putter and when near the face he stood to one side, at a somewhat narrow part of the road, to allow the full tub to be drawn out, when he was caught and crushed. It was no part of deceased's duty to carry timber to the face and the deputy was wrong in sending him.

DUNLOP John – 1908 – 16/06/1908 – Age 19 – Auchincruvie No.2 Repairer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. When clearing away a heavy fall he went up on the top of the timbering, with his naked light, and ignited gas which had accumulated in the cavity. The regulations required safety lamps alone to be used under such circumstances.

DUNLOP Robert – 1903 – 20/02/1903 – Age 25 – Dalzell & Broomside Miner, Wishaw Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased and another were taking off a narrow cut off the stone and had bared an upthrow, 2 feet 6 inches. It was not intended to continue the cut across the hitch and the men were allowed to work for the day until another place was prepared for them. Deceased was holing on the bench for hitch when a stone 7 feet 6 inches at by 5 feet 6 inches at extremes and 3 feet in thickness suddenly fell from the roof causing injuries from which he succumbed five hours afterwards. The special distance for propping, under Special Rule 6, did not appear to have been adhered to.

DUNN Albert – 1909 – 16/02/1909. West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed.

DUNN Allan – 1905 – 08/12/1905 – Age 33 – Viewpark No.1 Miner, R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face. It is doubtful if the propping regulations were observed.

DUNN Andrew – 1906 – 31/12/1906 – Age 48 – Garesfield Gateman, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died 2nd January, 1907. Between 9 and 1 p.m. a locomotive, going funnel first, was pulling 20 empty trucks from the top of a self-acting incline to Chopwell Colliery, on a private railway, which crosses a road leading from Rowlands Gill to Chopwell by means of a level crossing close to Garesfield Colliery. There were two gates worked by hand, which alternately closed the railway and the road, and on the gate nearest the direction in which the locomotive was coming was a lighted red lamp which could ordinarily be seen from the locomotive when the gates blocked the railway. Just beyond the gates is a curve with an ascent, and it was usual to run over the crossing at a considerable speed so as to ascend the rise. Deceased who had a deformed foot, and had had a paralytic stroke some time ago, attended to the gates, and was provided with a cabin within a few yards of them. The engineman gave the usual signal by whistling that he was approaching when 800 yards away, and then came forward at the usual speed. He was in the cab, and could not see the gates, but his fireman stood outside and, as he stated at the inquest, his view was so obscured by steam that he did not observe the gates were closed until nearly on then, when he called to the driver who stopped the train when the locomotive and 4 of the trucks had passed the crossing. Both gates were carried away, and deceased, who appears to have been in the act of opening the first gate when the locomotive struck it, was dashed against one of the posts of the other gate and suffered concussion of the brain. He never recovered consciousness.

DUNN Frank – 1900 – 16/11/1900 – Age 36 – Preston Sinker, Preston Coal Co., Northumberland. Explosion of firedamp. 4 killed.

DUNN Henry S. – 1907 – 06/09/1907 – Age 27 – Dawdon Sinker, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. The cable of an electric lamp broke and fell on to them, and others, as they were descending the pit in a kibble. 2 killed.

DUNN Isaac – 1905 – 13/07/1905 – Age 46 – Haden Hill Stallman, W Bassano and Co., Staffordshire. Fall of roof and side (old gob) at the face of a gate road in the Thick coal. A lot of timber was suddenly reeled out and the men buried under a mass of small coal and debris. 2 killed.

DUNN James – 1903 – 10/02/1903 – Age 34 – Trimdon Grange Hewer, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. A piece of coal, which he was getting down, suddenly fell away and inflicted such injuries that he died the following day.

DUNN James – 1906 – 30/11/1906 – Age 16 – Moss No.1 Lasher on, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. When attempting to unlash a full tub, from the endless-rope haulage, he got fatally crushed against the iron upright shaft supporting a curve pulley. It was advised that the roadway should be made larger.

DUNN John - 1906 - 20/09/1906 – Age 66 - Main Labourer, Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A Locomotive, while returning to the colliery, ran into a trolley having ten men of the platelayers gang on board. The collision occurred at a sharp bend in the roadway, and was of such violence as to cause the death of three men and slight injuries to four others. This accident happened on a private railway two miles in length. 3 killed.

DUNN John - 1909 - 27/07/1909 – Age 26 - Holly Bank No.15 Loader, Holly Bank Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. A place, 13 feet wide by 10 feet in height, formed about five months prior to the accident was being stripped to a width of 21.5 feet and a height of 11 feet to form the bank or inset at the top of a staple. Two heavy shots of Albonite were fired electrically and simultaneously two hours prior to the accident. The place was examined half an hour afterwards by the chargeman who pulled down a loose stone, and reset four props which had been blown out. He examined it again shortly before the accident took place, and considered it to be quite safe. Deceased was loading the debris from the shots, when a block of sandstone measuring 13 feet by 9 feet at extremes, and about 3 feet thick at its centre suddenly fell from the roof without giving any warning and braking one prop and reeling out another. A sharp edge caught deceased and killed him instantly. The rock appeared to be sound and free from slips, and showed very little bedding or jointing. It was probably fractured by the shot but knocked hard owing to the size of the stone.

DUNN Joseph - 1902 - 10/06/1902 – Age 18 - Albion Collier, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 15 feet by 21 inches by 11 inches thick. Deceased was pulling it down to make height on the road when three props discharged and more fell than he expected. Died in eleven days. Six feet seam.

DUNN Patsy - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 23 - Caerau Assistant repairer, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. While riding in an empty tram, which was attached to another containing 9 feet timber, one of the pieces slipped and came in contact with an arm of a pair of timbers fixed in the roadway. As the journey advanced, the piece of timber was driven backwards with great force against Dunn, killing him instantaneously.

DUNN Robert - 1906 - 03/12/1906 – Age 24 - Caerau Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. While walking out, along an engine plane at the end of his shift, he was severely injured in a manhole which he had entered to take refuge from a train of nine trams running wild in consequence of the breaking of a haulage rope. The trams tumbled at the manhole. He died next day.

DUNN Sylvanus - 1906 - 19/04/1906 – Age 57 - Ireland Dataller, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was withdrawing timber from an abandoned stall by using a ringer and chain and when a large fall occurred he ran into a steel prop and broke his neck.

DUNN Terance - 1908 - 29/07/1908 – Age 48 - Clintz No.2, Iron Ore Miner, Lord Leconfield, Cumberland. He was struck in the eye by a piece of dirt from his pick. Inflammation set in and he died on August 18.