GEORGE Scattergood - 1900 - 12/06/1900 – Age 27 - Tunnel, Slate Coal Stallman, Sir Hickman Alfred, Warwick. Fall of roof coal. Deceased went into a waste to get the top coal down and neglected to set any timber. He struck the coal and it fell and killed him.

GEORGE Thomas - 1902 - 20/10/1902 – Age 25 - South Wales Haulier, Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. In attempting to stop a moving tram he fell under it. The gradient was 2 inches to the yard and there was only one sprag instead of two in the tram. A stop block has since been placed at the parting to prevent a recurrence.

GEORGE Thomas - 1909 - 24/04/1909 – Age 41 - Aberaman Rider, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was riding on the last of a journey of 18 empty trams, which was being hauled up a gradient of 3 inches per yard by a single rope, when a D link, connecting two portions of the rope broke, and the journey ran back over deceased, who had fallen off the tram with the jerk. The broken link showed a clean slightly crystalline fracture.

GEORGE William - 1906 - 20/10/1906 – Age 55 - Wynnstay Machinery attendant. Wynnstay Collieries Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He slipped off a baulk into the cog-wheels, when attempting to oil them, when in motion. These wheels where fenced on the sides, but might have been boxed over them, to have them safer.

GEORGE William Henry - 1900 - 26/10/1900 – Age 27 - Coed-y-Moeth Collier, Powells Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in his working place from unseen slips. The roof was generally good hence there were not so many props set, as would otherwise have been the case. Systematic timbering would have saved this man's life.

GERRISH Alfred - 1907 - 23/12/1907 – Age 59 - Phoenix Metalman, Phoenix Colliery Co., Flint. When engaged ripping the roof with a hammer and wedge in a roadway, he was killed by a stone falling upon him.

GERRISH Samuel - 1903 - 15/05/1903 – Age 74 - Speedwell Labourer, Bedminster Eston Kingswood & Parkfield Collieries Ltd., Gloucester. He was stowing rubbish in a stall and at the time of the accident was waiting for the collier. A piece of the roof, which fell higher up in the place, rolled down on him the seam being steep.

GERY Isiah - 1907 - 11/07/1907 – Age 63 - Kinlet Dataller, Highley Mining Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Deceased and another were redding a fall of soft dirt in a narrow air-course formed alongside a fault. While doing so some soft dirt fell from the side and fastened deceased’s legs. His mate tried to release him but fearing that some more of the soft roof was about to fall deceased laid hold of a post to haul himself out. Unfortunately the post had worked loose and he pulled it out, letting down a quantity of the roof dust upon himself. The fall extinguished their lights and his mate had to go for assistance in the dark. Deceased was extricated in about an hour but he had apparently been suffocated.

GETHIN Owen - 1907 - 10/11/1907 – Age 55 - Seven Sisters Shotman, Evans and Bevan, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp or coal dust. 5 killed.

GETTING James - 1906 - 01/09/1906 – Age 30 - Loftus ironstone Deputy, Pease and Partners Ltd., North Yorkshire. They were killed by the bearing girders of a crossing being let down by the stone on which they were placed giving way. The bearing girders falling allowed part of the crossing and the dirt above to fall on to them. 2 killed.

GHENT Peter - 1904 - 01/02/1904 – Age 23 - Leasingthorne Hewer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When kirving, in the bottom of the seam, a piece of coal fell from the front of the jud and crushed him about the abdomen. Died on 11th. February.

GHICHRIST Archibald - 1909 - 08/06/1909 – Age 49 - Chapel Brusher, Chapel Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was putting up the last prop on the line of breakers, preparatory to firing a shot in the brushing, when the roof suddenly fell upon him.

GIBB Charles - 1908 - 21/12/1908 – Age 42 - Ashton Moss Collier, New Moss Colliery Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal and overhanging clod from face, overhanging and drawn, ought to have been taken down.

GIBB James - 1904 - 03/08/1904 – Age 48 - Polton Screen attendant, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased had apparently been taking a near cut to reach the picking table and to do so had to cross a revolving shaft which caught his clothes and he became entangled in the machinery. There was no occasion for him to be near the place where he was found.

GIBB Richard - 1901 - 24/08/1901 – Age 45 - Cadder coal and ironstone Labourer, Carron Co., Lanarkshire. A train of wagons going down an incline was not spragged and ran into the lye where Gibb was working and killed him.

GIBB Thomas - 1905 - 19/01/1905 – Age 35 - Newton No.1 Brusher, James Dunlop and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road which he was brushing.

GIBB William - 1908 - 06/03/1908 – Age 26 - Belhaven Waggon trimmer, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased had charge of Ell coal and common dross screens and ran his own waggons to the screens. He had five empty waggons at common dross screen coupled together, one of which was loaded, he ran out and put a second after which he seems to have been passing behind when the three others moved slowly, three waggons down and he was crushed against the buffers of the second. The three waggons behind had not been trigged up.

GIBBIN Hugh - 1907 - 16/11/1907 – Age 22 - Blackhill No.9 Road repairer, Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While handling gelignite and a detonator, in some unexplained manner they exploded.

GIBBON Bernard - 1901 - 16/04/1901 – Age 30 - Whitehaven, Croft Sinker, Whitehaven Colliery Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Fall of side. 4 killed.

GIBBON James - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 48 - National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner- Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. Margaret St., Pontygwaith, buried at Treorky Cemetery on Saturday.

GIBBON John - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 25 - National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. Margaret St., Pontygwaith, buried at Treorky Cemetery on Saturday.

GIBBON Thomas - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 11 - National No.2 Boy, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. Margaret St., Pontygwaith, buried at Treorky Cemetery on Saturday.

GIBBON W.J. - 1904 - 04/02/1904 – Age 19 - Fochriw No.1 Shackler, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased fell off and was run over by a journey of 16 full trams on which he was illegally riding. He died the following day. He was caught riding a fortnight previously and was told that he would be punished the next time.

GIBBONS Isaac - 1909 - 27/10/1909 – Age 19 - Wath Main Driver, Wath Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was found dead under full tubs which he was bringing out-bye with a pony.

GIBBONS John - 1904 - 15/01/1904 – Age 36 - Newbottle, Margaret Filler, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Shoulder injured owing to a shot exploding which was holding the cable near the charge. Died on 20th.

GIBBONS John - 1907 - 28/10/1907 – Age 38 - Ashton Moss Collier, New Moss Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall in roadway on landing plate in front of crab, whilst about to wind up empty tub from between a slip and a weight break. A bar had been set diagonally across the landing, under one and a good prop, the other end rested on a piece of split prop, 11 inches long, and this half prop stood on the end piece of a portion of a chock. Thus the bar could readily swerve when weight came on it. This happened, the bar was found after the fall square across the landing, when the bar gave way, roof fell on the back of deceased whilst in a stooping position. It was a wretched piece of timbering and should have been seen by the examining officials during the fortnight it was up. (Average roof).

GIBBONS Peter - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 35 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 9 Back Busty Row, Stanley.

GIBBONS Richard - 1909 - 14/01/1909 – Age 29 - Dinnington Main Stallman, Dinnington Main Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in a working place. The fall disclosed an unsuspected slip.

GIBBS Arthur - 1909 - 18/01/1909 – Age 18 - Silverwood Labourer, Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Whilst walking along the siding he was run over by loaded wagons which were being pushed in front of a locomotive. The locomotive whistle was being blown at the time but the deceased evidently did not notice it.

GIBBS Bert - 1908 - 07/01/1908 – Age 28 - Cwm Cynon Collier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face, as deceased pulled a piece of coal down, it crushed out a sprag, which struck his abdomen and injured him so badly that he died on the following day. Six feet seam.

GIBBS George H. - 1907 - 05/12/1907 – Age 24 - Hindley Field Collier, Hindley Field Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When ripping top coal and dirt down in a brow a fall of roof from some stone fell upon the deceased, capping two bars.

GIBBS William - 1904 - 21/10/1904 – Age 24 - Loyton, Slate Quarry Quarryman, S Loney and Co., Devon. In moving some 2-inch wrought-iron pipes, in the Quarry by a steam crane, one of the pipes, at right angles to the main length, came away at a joint and falling down upon him fractured his skull.

GIBSON George - 1905 - 03/08/1905 – Age 36 - Cowpen Stoneman, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased and another stoneman were taking down top canch at the face of gateways in the Yard seam. They had fired at intervals three successful shots in the place where the accident happened. After the third shot they commenced to rid and pack and while deceased was getting stones just under the lip of the canch a stone 18 inches thick fell from the brow and killed him. The stone was liberated by a slip and a break and was probably loosened by the shots. There was no timber under it but the breaking off props were close to it. The chargeman, father of the stoneman who worked with deceased, had examined the place twice during the shift. The Local Inspectors did not examine the place until after the fall had been cleared away, which was done after Mr. Abbott had examined it and they made no report.

GIBSON George - 1905 - 19/08/1905 – Age 41 - Whitefield Collier, Chatterley Whitefield Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (shale) in waste at longwall face in the Holly Lane seam. It appeared probable that deceased was drawing a post in the waste by means of an axe. For this a ringer and chain should have been used and was at hand.

GIBSON Henry - 1909 - 16/09/1909 – Age 29 - Usworth Hewer, Johnasson Gordon and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of roof stone at longwall face.

GIBSON James - 1908 - 09/07/1908 – Age 22 Howmuir Miner, Auchinlea Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was holing his coal when the roof suddenly fell upon him. The part which fell came from between two unseen lypes.

GIBSON John - 1900 - 26/07/1900 – Age 27 - Great Fenton, Kembal Cogger, Stafford Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fell down shaft from mouthing. Had no business at the place and had to pass through two fences to get to the shaft. He may have gone there in the first fence for some unknown reason and have lost his light then in groping about, got hold of the fence at shaft and mistook it for the first fence he had come through.

GIBSON John - 1901 - 17/08/1901 – Age 14 - West Wylam Driver, Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. While deceased was driving a pony and set of tubs one of the latter became derailed and knocked out a prop causing a fall of roof.

GIBSON John Westgart - 1909 - 16/11/1909 – Age 44 - Wythemoor Drifter, Wythemoor Colliery Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Cage moved away while he was getting on top of at mid-workings.

GIBSON Joseph Edwin - 1907 - 06/08/1907 – Age 30 - Watnall Stallman, Barber Walker and Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of coal. Deceased was holing when a sprag gave way, and the coal fell and killed him.

GIBSON Richard H. - 1909 - 11/12/1909 – Age 40 - Ushaw Moor Deputy, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. He was drawing a prop when the stone between a hitch leader and a joint fell and killed him.

GIBSON Robert - 1902 - 08/02/1902 – Age 40 - Muirbeath Labourer, Henry Ness and Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased, and another, were engaged filling hot ashes from a heap laid down from boiler fires into waggons when a slip took place from the side and he was burned.

GIBSON Sam - 1904 - 08/01/1904 – Age 31 - Littletown Wagon rider, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was detaching a rope from a set of five empty trucks when he fell and two trucks passed over him. Died shortly afterwards.

GIBSON Thomas - 1907 - 04/11/1907 – Age 49 - Great Rocks Limestone Quarry Loader, Buxton Lime Firms Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was working at the bottom of a Quarry face, 79 feet deep, when a piece of stone fell out of the face and killed him.

GIBSON Thomas - 1909 - 30/12/1909 – Age 20 - Emley Moor Trammer, Stringer Jaggar Ltd., Yorkshire. He was loading timber in a roadway when a large stone fell from the side and fatally injured him. The fall disclosed a slip. The strata at this place was treacherous and stretchers should have been set.

GIBSON Vivian - 1902 - 17/06/1902 – Age 13 - Bolsover Horse driver, Bolsover Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was crushed between a full tub and a stop block, controlling the full tubs, owing to having accidentally stumbled over an iron bracket supporting the stop block.

GIBSON William - 1908 - 02/02/1908 – Age 16 - Lochore Drawer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Explosion of firedamp. 3 killed.

GIDMAN Daniel - 1904 - 23/08/1904 – Age 24 - Sneyd Collier, Sneyd Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust ignited by a broken safety lamp. Died 27th, 26th, and 28th August respectively. 3 killed.

GIDMAN James - 1904 - 23/08/1904 – Age 20 - Sneyd Loader, Sneyd Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust ignited by a broken safety lamp. Died 27th, 26th, and 28th August respectively. 3 killed.

GILBERT Francis - 1905 - 20/11/1905 – Age 23 - Arrail Griffin Collier, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A fall of about 500 tons of roof occurred while he and a comrade were working at the face. This is an instance which showed the unreasonableness of the maximum distances fixed for timbers under Special Rule 2, as it was shown at the inquest that timbers were rarely set at more than half the distance specified. Correspondence had taken place on the subject but remained unnoticed. The distances have since been reduced and made more reasonable.

GILBERT John - 1903 - 14/09/1903 – Age 38 - Loftus Ironstone Shifter, Pease and Partners Ltd., North Yorkshire. Died from injuries by fall of stone when following his employment. 7th June 1898.

GILBERT John - 1904 - 02/11/1904 – Age 18 - Dolcoath, Tin Miner, Dolcoath Mines Ltd., Cornwall. A piece of ground fell from the back of the lode, about 16 feet above where he was with three others, he was filling waggons and it struck him causing injuries from which he died before a doctor could see him.

GILBERT Joseph - 1900 - 13/07/1900 – Age 24 - Lumpsey Ironstone Filler, Bell Bros. Ltd., Yorkshire. N.R. Some dogger was resting on a baulk and canted it out; this and some other stone, one afterwards fell and caught and killed him.

GILBERT Thomas - 1902 - 02/04/1902 – Age 49 - Garswood Hall Sinker, Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Explosion of firedamp in the sinking shaft at the Ravine seam which probably was ignited by a short circuit of the electric light cable. 9 killed.

GILCHRIST James B. - 1905 - 08/12/1905 – Age 25 - Lumphinnans Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. A heading had come upon an upbrow hitch and the coal was won out for some distance inside. The roof took a sudden break, throwing out the timber and falling on deceased. At the time deceased was running tubs on the short brae and had apparently not heard the roof break and attempted to escape but was too late.

GILCHRIST Peter * 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 63 - Wingate Grange, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery, Co.Durham.

GILES George William - 1906 - 05/06/1906 – Age 36 - Cramlington Stoneman, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died July 6. Deceased and another stoneman were ridding a shot that had blown down a top caunch, 2 feet 8 inches thick, of blue metal, close to the coal face in a gateway in longwall workings in the yard seam, 2 feet thick, of the Ann pit. They had practically finished, when deceased noticing a piece of stone at the top left hand corner of the brow and used a pick to take it down when the newly formed roof of blue metal fell for a length of 6 feet, a width of 4 feet, and a thickness of 2 feet up to post stone above. He was covered up but his mate was able to get him clear in four minutes, and he asked to be taken straight to the Infirmary. He was taken home but died there two hours after the accident. The stone was relieved at slips at each side which did not appear to have been observed prior to the accident by jacks at each end and by a keen parting above. The chargeman had examined the place before the men started work and visited them while at work at 10.30 pm. when he jowled the roof and thought it safe. The Local Inspector reported ‘we are of opinion that it was accidental and no blame attached to anyone and we suggest that the 'blue' be taken down up to the 'post' where so near the troubles instead of timbering it up.

GILES Thomas - 1904 - 24/08/1904 – Age 20 - Marine Collier, Ebbw Vale Steel and Iron Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Whilst sounding a piece of coal it fell against his mandrill causing the end of the helve to strike him in the abdomen.

GILFILLAN Daniel - 1904 - 05/05/1904 – Age 25 - Lightshaw No.1 Miner, William, Baird and Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of coal.

GILGRASS Abraham - 1901 - 11/01/1901 – Age 21 - Ferndale No.7 Collier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan, Fall of roof at face cliff, 45 feet by 9 feet by 13 inches thick, which had been entirely unsupported. Six feet seam. 2 killed.

GILHOLM John - 1908 - 07/04/1908 – Age 55 - Prudhoe Horsekeeper, Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Caught by engine set of tubs when getting out of empty tub near landing.

GILHOLME John * 1908 - Prudhoe - Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

GILL George - 1901 - 09/12/1901 – Age 64 - North Skelton Ironstone Back overman, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was pushing at a set to get it to land at an incline bottom when he slipped by the side of the tubs and got his arm jammed between the edge of a wheel and switch, and it was severely lacerated. Died on the 16th.

GILL George - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 16 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 2 Henry Street, Stanley.

GILL Henry - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 14 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas 168 killed. 2 Henry Street, Stanley. Brother of George.

GILL Herbert - 1900 - 29/01/1900 – Age 14 - Whitwick No.6 Plane boy, Whitwick Colliery Co., Leicestershire. One full train was standing on the engine plane when another train came up and the boy failed to disconnect the clip from the rope. The tubs went forward round a bend knocking the rollers out and this allowed the endless rope to swing over and kill the deceased. Another boy was injured.

GILL James A. - 1904 - 20/06/1904 – Age 71 - Naval Harbour Works labourer, Messrs. W. Hill and Company, Portland, Dorset. Died from heart disease while at work on the 20th June in the diving boat.

GILL Richard - 1905 - 25/08/1905 – Age 54 - Eston Ironstone Miner, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. Premature explosion of a shot probably lit the squib instead of the match.

GILL Robert - 1906 - 10/05/1906 – Age 15 - East Pool & Agar (metalliferous) Miner, East Pool & Agar United Mines Adventurers, Cornwall. Gill was striking a drill with a comrade on a temporary staging in the back of the 170 fathom level, and stepping on to the end of a loose plank he fell with it about 6 fathoms. The men should be more careful in erecting these temporary stages than they are as proved by repeated accidents resulting from them.

GILL Walter - 1904 - 30/12/1904 – Age 47 - Pilsley Labourer, Pilsley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. The two deceased were resting in a cabin on the dirt tip. The tip was on fire and there was a strong wind blowing from the end of the tip towards the cabin. The wind blew the smoke through the tip and the two men were found dead, having been killed by carbon-monoxide poisoning. 2 killed.

GILL William - 1907 - 19/10/1907 – Age 20 - Commercial Rider, Phillip Richard Esq., Glamorgan. While riding on a chain, attached to a hauling rope, having a train of six loaded trams connected to it, he slipped off and was run over and killed. Gradient 1 in 4.5.

GILLANS William - 1907 - 08/01/1907 – Age 40 - Eldon Hewer, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. He was driving a headways skirting when there was a fall of roof from between two slips. The place was well timbered.

GILLARD Thomas - 1900 - 29/06/1900 – Age 45 - Old Boston No.3 Sinker, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Ten men were engaged in sinking operations in No.3 Old Boston pit at a depth of 245 yards from the surface and when they were filling dirt into the hoppit an upheaval of the floor occurred and an outburst of firedamp gas igniting at the candles caused the ten men to be burnt more or less severely, eight of whom afterwards succumbed (at the Haydock Cottage Hospital) to the injuries received. At the inquiry it was recommended that in future sinking operations should be carried on by electric light. 8 killed.

GILLES George - 1906 - 28/02/1906 – Age 16 - Harelaw, Limestone Quarry Labourer, Charleston Lime Co. Ltd., Haddington. The tirring, composed of yellow boulder clay, was being removed off the top of the limestone and while deceased and others were engaged filling it into a bogie a mass fell away off the face and fatally crushed him. The fall came away from a ‘sand crack’ behind, which was unseen.

GILLESPIE James - 1907 - 24/01/1907 – Age 15 - Chopwell Driver, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A three-phase current with a voltage of 625 with 50 periods is carried in-bye to a pair of motors working conveyers on either side of a main road. These motors are about 8 yards apart and are moved forward about 4 feet each night. These three cables were carried forward as one cable to within 3 yards of this first motor, then they were carried forward in two sets of three separate cables, one set on the same side as this main cable to this nearest conveyor, this other set of three across the road and then along the opposite side to this furthest in conveyor. About 80 yards out-bye, from the point where this three cables crossed this road was a junction box with switch and fuses. This separate cable each contained 7 copper wires of No.20 S.W.G. and were rubber insulated jute protected and taped and braided over all. Where this set of three cables crossed this road it was 9 feet wide and 4 feet 7 inches high from the rails to this underside of a balk, 8 inches wide and 5 inches deep, supporting the roof and the three cables were suspended to this balk by 5 leather thongs fixed by nails to this balk. This road was damp at this point. A rather flighty pony, between 13 and 14 hands high, was employed drawing tubs from the conveyors usually in sets of 4, but at the time of the accident it was only drawing one loaded tub, out-bye. It was changing time, and there were a number of men in this vicinity all carrying lights, and it is supposed this pony had become excited and started toward suddenly and this crook connecting the upper ends of this hamesticks on its collar caught one of these cables and drew the whole three down breaking two of the leather supports and drawing the nails connecting the remaining three to this balk. The insulation was rubbed off at this point and the pony received the current and fell on deceased who was by its side and he also received the current and was killed. Several of the men in this vicinity received shocks. The current was cut off at this junction box and deceased was subjected to artificial respiration without it having any effect. The electrician had examined the cables the night before this accident and both he and the overman (who examined these on the day of the accident) stated at the inquest that they were not hanging below the balk at the point where they crossed the road. The Local Inspectors in their report, after giving the height of road and of the pony, remarked ‘We are of the opinion that there is not sufficient room for these ponies to travel with safety.’

GILLESPIE William - 1905 - 09/01/1905 – Age 59 - Rigfoot Labourer, Lanemark Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. A waggon in which he was working at the scree was moved by the locomotive while shunting and he was crushed against the movable scree.

GILLIBRAND Henry - 1901 - 30/08/1901 – Age 18 - Mosley Common Drawer, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Fall of roof in engine brow while assisting to repair. Fall 30 yards long. Probably caused by gas bursting down. Intended to drain gas by bore holes. (Average roof).

GILLIES James - 1906 - 04/12/1906 – Age 36 - Glenalbion, Slate Quarry Quarryman, Edward McKenchie, Argyll. Fall of slate from face of Quarry.

GILLIGAN John - 1901 - 12/03/1901 – Age 28 – South Durham Along with coal cutter, South Durham Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was assisting to draw the coal cutter along the coal face. A prop was displaced to let the cutter past, when a stone fell and canted a pair of gears out and bruised his left arm. Died the following day.

GILLIGAN John - 1909 - 19/01/1909 – Age 45 - Hindley Green Bricksetter, John Scowcroft and Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When engaged building a brick stopping, across an old roadway, a layer of clod and coal fell off the side of the roadway upon him from a break.

GILLIMORE William - 1903 - 17/12/1903 – Age 43 - Talk o’th’ Hill Loader, Talk o’th’ Hill Colliery Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (bass) from between two slips at working face in 8 feet Banbury seam.

GILLINGS Rowland - 1908 - 16/05/1908 – Age 19 - Rothwell Haigh Miner, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. He was filling a tub, close to the face, when a wedge shaped piece of stone with slips on three sides of it fell upon and killed him.

GILLIVER Thomas - 1909 - 13/08/1909 – Age 60 - Church Gresley Stallman, Moira Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased had been assisting the loader and went to go on with the packing of the stall, at a fault side, when a fall of roof occurred, pushing out three props and killing deceased. If bars had been used with the props it is probable that the fall would have been prevented.

GILLON Charles - 1904 - 09/06/1904 – Age 33 - Broomhill Hewer, Broomhill Collieries Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased worked in a stenton in the Main seam which had, during the fore shift, been holed at the left side into crosscut and while deceased was completing the holing a slab of top coal, 4.5 feet by 4 feet and about a foot thick, fell upon him. The deputy had been in the place an hour before and set a pair of gears as near the face, the stenton, as the top coal would allow and also a pair of gears in the crossing and there was a good supply of loose timber close at hand. Deceased had fired either one or two shots in the coal below the top coal during his shift which may have shaken it. The Local Inspectors examined the place and stated at the inquest that they considered the occurrence a pure accident.

GILLON James - 1906 - 04/06/1906 – Age 51 - Tannochside No.3 Miner, Archibald Russell Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal while holing caused by failure to set sprags.

GILLOTT Isaac - 1902 - 26/08/1902 – Age 21 - Manners Dataller, Manners Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was building a pack in a stall and knocked a prop out, which was supporting the roof by using a hammer instead of a ringer and chain, contrary to rule, when a fall of roof occurred and killed him.

GILMAN George Morley - 1902 - 27/01/1902 – Age 29 - Kirkby Stallman, Butterley Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of side. Deceased was working coal from under an overhanging clod, which was insufficiently spragged. The clod fell and killed him.

GILMOUR Adam - 1902 - 13/03/1902 – Age 27 - Darngavil Miner, Darngavil Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was engaged wedging down coal when the roof suddenly fell upon him causing injury to the spine to which he succumbed on 25th January 1903. The stone fell away from a break and a dry the latter of which was seen but it was thought to be secured by the props close by.

GILMOUR James - 1908 - 03/01/1908 – Age 50 - Gauchalland No.2 Fireman, Gauchalland Coal Co., Ayrshire. While recklessly working with a pick, while standing on a loose plank which was not level, the plank slipped and he was precipitated down the shaft.

GILMOUR Robert James - 1904 - 14/11/1904 – Age 14 – Harrington, Not employed, James Bain and Co., Cumberland. Died November 15th. Deceased who had a brother employed on the screens at the colliery and was himself anxious to start work there and appears to have been in the habit hanging about the branch railway and while probably waiting for his brother’s company home he sat on the buffer of a loaded chaldron wagon. A truck ran into this wagon, owing to five empty wagons beyond it getting out of hand while they were being lowered.

GILMOUR William - 1905 - 12/01/1905 – Age 28 - Cadzow No.2 Miner, Cadzow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of arching and roof on haulage road while passing along it. Another man was injured.

GILROY Thomas - 1907 - 30/04/1907 – Age 14 - Wallyford Dirt picker, Edinburgh Collieries Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased, unknown to anyone, left his work at the picking table and crossed the lines of rails, and on coming back he crossed under the waggons at this screens just as the trimmer was moving his waggons, and his was crushed.

GILSON Adam - 1903 - 29/01/1903 - Age 34 - Newbury Collier, Westbury Iron Co. Ltd., Somerset. A large stone fell from unseen slips. The place appears to have been fairly propped, two found under the stone after the accident were shoved over through its having weighted unevenly.

GILYARD William - 1909 - 09/08/1909 – Age 41 - Criggleston Night deputy, Criggleston Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was found dead near a fall of roof in an airway which had caused an accumulation of firedamp. He was suffocated by the gas.

GINDERS Samuel - 1909 - 17/04/1909 – Age 47 - Stafford, Sutherland Timberer, Staffordshire Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased and another were shifting back some props, to widen a haulage road made many years previously and which it was stated had not required repairs during the last sixteen years. A foreset was driven up under one of the bars the foot of the original prop driven back, and the forset taken out and the two men were filling a tub with dirt when the roof suddenly came down without warning, reeling out the timber. A stone weighing about 10 cwt fell upon deceased killing him instantly. He was an expert timberer and the fireman was looking on when the accident took place. It is probable that the widening of the road had exposed a break formed since the road was originally driven and that the alteration of the timber had disturbed the broken roof and that the driving up and withdrawing the foreset and shifting back the foot of the original prop had unkeyed it and let it down.

GITTENS ? - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 30 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 7 Hilda Terrace, Stanley.

GITTENS George - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 30 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 7 Hilda Terrace, Stanley.

GITTENS William - 1903 - 26/11/1903 – Age 51 - Eldon Hewer, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of band which broke the timber at the face and injured him. Died 12 Dec.

GITTINS David - 1908 - 26/11/1908 – Age 39 - Park Repairer, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, coal, 7 feet by 6 feet by 2 feet thick, fell on deceased as he was measuring the height of arm required. He had been sent to double timber the road, and had only had time to put one arm in before the fall occurred. He died in five days. Upper seam.

GLADSTONE Thomas - 1906 - 01/10/1906 – Age 31 - North Seaton Hewer, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was working during the back shift, with another hewer who was in the gateway helping the putter at the time of the accident, in longwall workings in the Staple district of the Yard seam and was filling coal at the roadhead when a blue metal stone, 10 feet long parallel to the face, 6 feet wide, and with a maximum thickness or 15 inches, fell from the roof upon him, relieved by two jacks at right angles and thinning out to the face where it broke off close to the coal, some props were canted out by its fall. The gateway was not far advanced and had not been regularly worked, no canch shots having been fired in it for two weeks. The deputy examined the roof at 12 noon when it appeared safe and he was in again firing a bottom shot for them in the coal at 2.15 pm on neither occasion did he observe the backs although the hewers had seen them and put in more props in consequence. There was a sufficient supply of loose timber. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘There appeared to have been plenty of timber set, but in our opinion the steno must have canted the timber and then dropped right down. As far as we can see it has been an unforeseen accident.'

GLADWYN George - 1909 - 28/04/1909 – Age 34 - Warsop Main Stallman, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was taking a full tub along the stall face to the gate end and was in front of it, although the gradient was 1 in 36 in favour of the load. Another full tub, which deceased had neglected to leave secure, followed and bumped into the other and deceased’s back was broken. Died 26th November.

GLAISTER J.H. - 1901 - 05/11/1901 – Age 19 - Apedale, Watermills Jigger, Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof at top of slant jig in 5-feet seam. The fall was caused by the breakage of the jig frame while two loads of dirt were being jigged.

GLANVILLE Thomas - 1903 - 28/04/1903 – Age 14 - Hylton Trapper, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased during his third shift in the pit was being taught by a driver how to drive. He was put on the limbers of a pony attached to a tub laden with timber by the wagonwayman who had been instructed by the under manager to teach the lad to drive and told how to sit and to keep his head down as the road was somewhat low. He had only been on the limbers while the pony led by the driver had travelled about 40 yards when he seems to have caught a prop and fallen on a sharp stone by the side of the way and fractured his skull. The Local Inspectors in their report simply recited the principal facts connected with the accident.

GLASGOW Thomas - 1906 - 01/10/1906 – Age 41 - Burnhope Stoneman, UA Ritson and Sons Ltd., Co.Durham. He had four holes lighted up at one time in a place going through a hitch. Three exploded, and he then went in towards the face of the place. The fourth exploded as he approached and killed him.

GLASSON Thomas - 1901 - 15/04/1901 – Age 21 - Great Work, Tin Miner, Great Work Tin Mining and Development Syndicate Ltd., Cornwall. He was working on a ladder, in an old gunniss, releasing a stone which jammed and prevented the loose stuff on the stull running down. The stone being release, caused a rush of stuff which carried away the ladder.

GLASSON Thomas - 1905 - 08/09/1905 – Age 48 - Bram Crag, Granite Quarry Quarryman, Threkeld Granite Co. Ltd., Cumberland. About a fortnight before the accident a heavy blast had dislodged a quantity of granite on to the floor of the Quarry the greater part of which had been removed. One of the larger stones left had been split by a shot about 26 hours before the accident into three pieces, and while deceased was drilling a hand hole in one of these, another weighing about six tons rolled over, and pinned him against the block he was working on. The block that rolled over rested on a narrow base about 7 feet long on loose debris and was top heavy: it appeared to be resting against the Quarry face. Water running down the Quarry may have loosened the debris on which it rested and disturbed its equilibrium. A machine drill working 7 or 8 yards off may have prevented deceased hearing the preliminary movement of the stone.

GLEASON Ralph - 1906 - 05/01/1906 – Age 37 - Bourn Moor Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham, As he was stepping into the cage, to ride, it was drawn away, and he was caught and thrown down the shaft.

GLEAVE Ernest - 1903 - 16/02/1903 – Age 21 - Tyldesley Drawer, Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in balance brow, whilst passing along with a tub a bar was displaced, impossible to say whether the bar was displaced by the tub or by the roof. (Bad roof.)

GLEAVE or GLEASE Robert - 1906 - 19/04/1906 – Age 25 - Horden Hewer, Horden Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. When hewing in the face he was killed by a fall of stone which discharged the timber. The stone started at a feather edge and thickened to 12 inches at the face.

GLEESON Fred - 1903 - 04/02/1903 – Age 34 - Dean & Chapter Riveter, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He fell off the top of the headtree which was being erected to the ground, a distance of 90 feet, and was killed.

GLEGG Samuel - 1905 - 28/02/1905 – Age 53 - Emily Moor Collier, Stringer and Jaggar Ltd., Yorkshire. When working at the coal face, getting down top coal, some roof fell on him and fractured his spine. The fall disclosed a slip between the timber and the fall which could not have been found. Died 11th December.

GLEN George - 1904 - 13/12/1904 – Age 36 - Greenfield Roadsman, Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. When crossing a siding he was run over by two waggons which the waggoner was shunting.

GLEN James - 1903 - 19/10/1903 – Age 30 - Balbardie Miner, Balbardie Colliery Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased and his brother were firing two holing shots at the face of a stone mine. Cotta percha covered fuse was used. Deceased's fuse did not burn properly so they decided to extinguish it by rubbing it with their fingers. When the other shot exploded deceased returned almost immediately to relight this one but while he was still 20 yards from the face the shot exploded and a fragment of rock struck him on the head causing injuries which terminated fatally an hour afterwards.

GLEN William - 1906 - 23/10/1906 – Age 45 - Gilbertfield No.2 Miner, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place.

GLENDENIN John - 1909 - 16/02/1909 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed.

GLENDENNING James - 1903 - 29/07/1903 – Age 38 - Afton Miner, Lanemark Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof in working place. It is doubtful that the propping regulations were observed. 2 killed. Another man injured.

GLENDENNING or GLENDINNING William Edward - 1908 - 20/02/1908 – Age 32 - Washington Glebe Stoneman, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of firedamp. 14 killed.

GLENDINNING John - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 16 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. Son of John. 2 Kettledrum Cottages.

GLENDINNING John - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 44 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 2 Kettledrum Cottages Stanley. Father of John.

GLENNON Joseph - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 19 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 11 Rifle Street, Stanley.

GLENNON Patrick - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 35 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 11 Rifle Street, Stanley.

GLENNY Thomas - 1900 - 01/05/1900 – Age 14 – Cowdenbeath, Fife. Fall of roof.

GLINN Patrick - 1903 - 11/03/1903 – Age 27 - Collins Green No.2 Haulage hand, Collins Green Colliery Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They had gone to assist the fireman, and others, to place some boxes on the rails that had got off on a self-acting motion jig and when the rope started again one of the links of a chain, on the upper side of them, broke and the set of five full tubs came rushing down upon them before they reached the refuge hole. 2 killed.

GLITHRO Thomas W. - 1907 - 11/09/1907 – Age 25 - Dawdon Sinker, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. They were thrown from a cradle, on which they were standing, to the bottom of the pit and killed. 3 killed.

GLOAG James - 1901 - 29/03/1901 – Age 42 - Dalquhandy Miner, Waddell and Son, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

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

GLOVER Edward - 1909 - 18/01/1909 – Age 41 - Pendlebury Collier, A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Large fall of roof coal in working place from between two slips, two props were under the coal, a chock would have prevented the fall and should have been set. Died 6th February. (Roof bad.)

GLOVER George - 1909 - 31/10/1909 – Age 35 - United Westminster Sinker, United Westminster and Wrexham Colliery Co., Denbigh. When working on a scaffold, in the sinking shaft, he slipped and fell through the hole left for the air-pipes to pass through, and was killed, having fallen to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 80 feet.

GLOVER Henry - 1901 - 23/12/1901 – Age 44 - Snibston No.2 Dataller, South Leicestershire Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Deceased was descending the shaft, with 11 other men, when he fell out of the cage, probably owing to sudden illness. He died 12 hours later.

GLOVER John Thompson - 1906 - 16/08/1906 – Age 29 - South Kirkby Dataller, South Kirkby Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The two deceased men and chargeman of considerable experience, were taking girders out on a horse road in the Haigh Moor seam in order to make height. A deputy went to the place and found two girders had been taken out, and he stayed till another was got down and set three temporary props, set under the stone and thinking all was safe he left the men. Within ten minutes of his doing so a bump occurred and displaced the props and a stone measuring 10 feet 8 inches long by 7 feet 7 inches wide by 10 inches thick at one end and running to nothing at the other, fell and caught and killed these two men and injured the third. 2 killed.

GODDARD Albert - 1909 - 03/07/1909 – Age 40 - Waun Llwyd Ostler, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Hand slightly injured by a horse which he was cleaning in the stable underground kicking it. He died on the 18th July from septic poisoning, the result of the kick.

GODDARD Tom - 1907 - 29/04/1907 – Age 45 - Wharncliffe Silkstone Collier, Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased was working out some pillars of coal and in the ordinary course of his work left his place to go towards his clothes in the pass-bye. He had only gone a few yards along the full road when some roof coal and dirt fell and killed him. The roof and side had been ripped three days previously, stretchers being taken out for the purpose, and they were not replaced by bars as they should have been, there was a space of 17 feet between the last bar and the nearest stretcher. Everyone concerned considered the roof was quite safe but, as coal was being removed within a short distance, it should have been supported.

GODDARD William - 1903 - 06/03/1903 – Age 16 - Alma No. 2 Horse driver, Alma Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was riding on the crank attachment, between the horse and the tubs, when the cottar holding the crank in position appears to have fallen out allowing deceased to fall in front of the moving train, he was run over and killed.

GODDARD William - 1904 - 18/09/1904 – Age 48 - Ebbw Vale Waun Llawyd Ostler, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A horse which he was feeding rubbed against his leg, slightly scratching it. blood poisoning set in, and he died on the 3rd of March 1905.

GODFREY Abraham - 1906 - 27/03/1906 – Age 55 - Blaenavon Big Collier, Blaenavon Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He went to help his son to rip some top in the face of a X heading. They had ripped most of it and had set a spanner across, when a piece of side fell out from a hidden slant. It injured his chest, arm, and face, from which he died.

GODFREY Henry - 1902 - 24/02/1902 – Age 36 - Glapwell Stallman, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was working coal, from under a roll or false bedding of the roof, when the roll broke across the centre pushing the coal from the face knocking out a prop set to support it and killing the deceased.

GODFREY Walter - 1902 - 17/04/1902 – Age 29 - Denby Main Labourer, Denaby & Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. A boiler was being removed and was resting on the lifting jacks. Godfrey went under the boiler to make room for supporting timber when it canted over the jacks and he was killed.

GODLEY A.E. - 1909 - 03/09/1909 – Age 40 - Frickley Corporal, Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was lifting a full tub on to the rails when the pulley holding the full rope broke, allowing the rope to fall. It caught on the hook of a timber tram pulling some full tubs forward. Godley was crushed between the tub and the side, and so seriously injured that he died on 15th September.

GODSELL George - 1905 - 14/06/1905 – Age 44 - Tynte, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, Gibbey and Cleak, Glamorgan. Deceased had been boring a hole near the top of the Quarry on a level bench, 3.5 feet wide. For some purpose he required to go up on to the grass and when he attempted to get up on to the overburden the edge of it gave way and he rolled backwards into the Quarry, which was 35 feet deep. He died the day following.

GODWIN George - 1901 - 19/11/1901 – Age 45 - Deep Duffryn Banksman, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. He was standing on the top of the cage, replacing the cover which had been taken off to let timbers down, when he slipped and fell down the pit.

GOFTON John Kay - 1904 - 24/02/1904 – Age 20 - Heworth Hewer, Heworth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The Ada pit is the upcast shaft and is surmounted by a fan. Two cages, each holding two tubs on each of the two decks run in rail guides at the sides between the surface and the Bensham seam, a distance of 115 fathoms calling when required at the Yard seam when men or boys are ascending or descending. Deceased at the end of his shift got into the top deck of one of the cages, at the Yard seam, along with persons including the onsetter from the Bensham who had come up to attend the men and boys riding. The cage was then lowered to the Bensham where more persons got in and it was signalled to the surface. Deceased was standing at one end of the cage, he carried his safety lamp and had hold of the bar extending along the cage. The shaft is circular in section and there is room for a person to fall at the ends of the cages. Deceased was observed to fall and one leg was out of the cage but he held on to the bar for some time eventually falling to the Bensham seam where his body was found. The Local Inspectors reported ‘in our opinion it was a pure accident.'

GOGGER Terrance - 1907 - 19/11/1907 – Age 30 - Auchingeich No.2 Sinker, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. A bolt, suspending to a rope a scaffold on which he was perched, broke leaving him suspended to the rope. Being unable to hold on he dropped down the shaft.

GOLDEN Martin - 1901 - 19/03/1901 – Age 13 - Charlaw Landing lad, Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He went inbye from the landing to the drivers siding and met the driver there, he then got illegally into the drivers set, the tub on which he was riding upended and he was thrown off and jammed between the tub and side sustaining fatal injuries.

GOLDIE Alexander - 1900 - 18/07/1900 – Age 40 - Skerrington No. 20 Miner, J and R Howie, Ayrshire. He was firing a gunpowder shot and either prematurely lit the gunpowder in the squib or was returning to relight the squib thinking that it had gone out when the shot went off.

GOLDING Arthur T. - 1902 - 05/02/1902 – Age 20 - Yew Tree Pikeman, Cochrane and Co., Staffordshire. Fall of shale from the face of the heading while he was holing in coal, under the shale above which was old thick coal gob. He had been told by a fireman and overman to set a sprag but neither of them saw that he set it.