GOLDSBURY Edward - 1903 - 04/09/1903 – Age 14 - Ashington Driver, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was driving outbye on the limbers, with 11 loaded tubs, when he should only have had six. The road dipped outbye. He stopped at a point and took some drags out and then started again and appears to have come too fast, the pony was thrown or fell down and some of the tubs overturned and crushed deceased. The Local Inspectors reported the facts and said 'We found the way in good order and plenty of room also plenty of height.'

GOLDSWORTHY Alfred - 1902 - 12/11/1902 – Age 26 - Park, Iron Ore Miner, Barrow Haematite Steel Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Died 21st November. The roof consisted of old wood intermixed with stiff clay, a kind of working place where accidents from falls rarely happen. A headtree was being put up when a portion of the roof fell and struck Goldsworthy, inflicting internal injuries, to which he succumbed about a week afterwards.

GOLDSWORTHY William H - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 20 - National No.2 Haulier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. 23, Hillside Terrace, Wattstown, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Sunday.

GOLDTHORPE T. - 1903 - 26/09/1903 – Age 21 - North Gawber Trammer, Fountain and Burnley, Yorkshire. Died 28th September. Fall of roof in a travelling road. Cause converging slips.

GOLLEDGE W.F. - 1904 - 06/09/1904 – Age 13 - Eastern Door boy, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. At face cliff, 21 inches by 12 inches by 2 inches thick, fell as deceased was waiting for the haulier to bring some full trams to where he stood. The roof was unsupported. Lower seam.

GOMMERSALL George - 1909 - 08/04/1909 – Age 29 - Robin Hood Collier, J and J Charlesworth Ltd., Yorkshire. He cut his hand slightly when at work at the coal face. Blood poisoning supervened and he died on 17th April.

GONINON William Henry - 1908 - 16/01/1908 – Age 43 - Dolcoath, Tin Shaft boss, Dolcoath Mine Ltd., Cornwall. Fall of ground from the back of a stope in the 375-fathom level. The stone seems to have come from the roof, or hanging wall, some 30 feet above them. Examination by candle is impracticable, in such places thorough and careful examination can only be made from time to time with flare lights. There undoubtedly is a danger, but how to meet it practically is in unsolved difficulty.

GOOCH Ernest - 1904 - 30/05/1904 – Age 21 - Littleton Gripper, Littleton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed by tubs while lowering two full tubs to the haulage rope by going in front of them.

GOODALL Henry - 1908 - 22/10/1908 – Age 57 - Wood Farm Pit sinker, Wood Farm Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Killed by an explosion underground.

GOODALL W. - 1901 - 15/03/1901 – Age 49 - Garforth Byeworkman, Garforth Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Killed by fall of roof when drawing timber in a gate road. Cause, an unsuspected weight break. A dog and chain should have been used for drawing timber.

GOODBURN George T. - 1906 - 09/01/1906 – Age 27 - Liverton Ironstone Labourer, Cargo Fleet Iron Co. Ltd. North Yorkshire. When engaged moving a partially loaded truck with a lever, a second truck was run forward, and he was caught and crushed between the buffers of the two.

GOODCHILD Robert - 1904 - 03/08/1904 – Age 25 - Ryhope Stallman, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was improperly riding on the timber bogie, on a full set, although two other men had attempted to get off, he slipped and was run over by the set. Died same day.

GOODCHILD Walter Lewis - 1907 - 15/11/1907 – Age 36 - Hanger on, Barrow Hematite Steel Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Along with others the deceased men got on to the cage in the No.3 shaft at the Parkgate seam for the purpose of ascending to the surface at the end of their shifts. A horsekeeper was also in the cage to go to the Thorncliffe seam, 38 yards below. The cage was therefore, lowered to that seam where he got off. At the Thorncliffe landing there is a staging or platform so that the men can get on or off the two decks of the cage without its being moved. The signalling is done from the top part of this staging and the hanger on there is the chargeman; the one at the low part is an assistant and beyond opening and closing the gates, protecting the entrance to the shaft, taking off and putting on the chains at the ends of the decks and pitting over a flag or flat sheet to cover the space between the floor of the deck of the cage and that of the landing has nothing to do. The flag or flat sheet is fitted with two spikes each 3.5 inches long which fit into holes in the floor of the cage decks and act as anchors to the cage. They are hinged to the floors of the landings and lifted and lowered by means of chains by the hangers-on. On the day in question the hanger-on, on the top part or landing of the staging, when the cage came let the horsekeeper get off without dropping the flag or flat sheet, and at the same time shouted to the hanger-on at the bottom landing ‘Don't put the flag down’, and at the same moment signalled for the cage to be taken to the surface. Unfortunately the hanger-on at the bottom landing had lowered the flag and before he could get it up again the cage started and the result was that the cage was held and tilted for a moment or so and the flag flew back. Violent oscillation was thus set up and in ascending the top of the cage collided against the girder under the floor of the Parkgate landing with such force as to damage the cage with another girder. It became liberated and was taken further up the shaft where it collided with another girder. The engineman  noticed something was wrong and stopped the cage. Seven of the men at one or another of these places were thrown out of the cage and fell to the bottom of the shaft being killed instantly and six others were more or less seriously injured. 7 killed.

GOODFELLOW ? * - 1900 - 06/02/1900 – Usworth, Johnasson Gordon and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham.

GOODFELLOW Richard - 1903 - 30/07/1903 – Age 44 - Pegswood Deputy, Owners of Bentinck West Hartley Colliery, Northumberland. Died 13th June, 1904. On the 30th July, 1903 deceased, while pushing a timber tram, slipped and hurt himself, he worked the next two shifts and then was more or less confined to bed for four months and was under the doctor's care. A bone setter was also called in. He was eventually able to get up and move about on crutches. About a fortnight before his death he began to take fits. An inquest was held after a postmortem examination and medical evidence was given that although deceased suffered from hip disease of old standing the cause of death was inflammation of the kidneys unconnected with the hip disease. The Jury found death was due to disease of the kidneys aggravated by the accident.

GOODGROVE Henry - 1909 - 19/08/1909 – Age 51 - Maltby Main Sinker, Maltby Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The pump pipes were being withdrawn from a depth of about 280 yards from the surface, by means of a locomotive connected to the suspension ropes by pulley blocks. The clamps on the ropes slipped and Goodgrove was swept into the shaft.

GOODHALL Francis - 1906 - 14/09/1906 – Age 22 - Newstead Dayman, Newstead Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. A train conveying 80 workmen, travelling from the workings, was going towards the pit bottom when, owing to the haulage rope getting out of a pulley, the first one got off the roadway, deceased and others being thrown out. He died 18th Sept.

GOODHALL John - 1908 - 28/10/1908 – Age 13 - Pentrich Rope boy, WC Haslam and Son, Derbyshire. Run over by empty tubs on an endless rope roadway. Deceased was conveying a train of nine empty tubs and is supposed to have lost his light. In attempting to reach the signal wire or get out of the way, he got run over by the train.

GOODMAN Samuel - 1903 - 02/12/1903 – Age 25 - Creswell Stallman, Bolsover Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased and a workman were building a pack in the stall when a fall of roof killed the deceased and injured another man.

GOODRUN George - 1900 - 06/02/1900 – Age 31 - Usworth Stoneman, Johnasson Gordon and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. A top canch shot had been fired at the face of a gateway. Deceased was building a pack wall when a stone fell which they had previously tried to pinch down and under which his marrow was in the act of setting a prop.

GOODS Benjamin - 1901 - 09/10/1901 – Age 52 - Penrikyber Collier, Penrikyber Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fell into a hole 5.5 feet deep in a recess by the side of the engine plane in which the haulage tightening sheave worked having hurriedly entered the place to keep clear of passing journey. The rail which fenced the recess had been removed. There was a proper manhole 6 feet away. Died in 5 days.

GOODWILL George - 1904 - 26/07/1904 – Age 25 - Longhirst Hall Hewer, Longhirst Grange Colliery Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Two single decked cages (of which only one was used, the other merely as a counter balance) ran in the calling at the High Main seam at 31 fathoms and Grey seam at 47 fathoms. A rapper lever at the High Main worked hammers on the pit head and in the engine house and a rapper lever on the pit head signalled to the High Main. The foreshift men were riding from the High Main and the assistant onsetter was at the shaft, the onsetter, a brother of deceased, was taking some refreshment in a cabin close by. The assistant onsetter signalled three to the surface, which the banksman who was then at the surface level where the men usually left the cage stated he heard and which meant men to rise and he signalled one back which men can get into the cage. The engineman however said he only received one rap which meant raise the cage. The assistant onsetter removed a chain, fencing the shaft, and deceased had one foot on the cage when it was lifted and taken to the surface causing deceased to fall down the shaft to the Grey seam. It was given in evidence that if the rapper lever was worked too quickly the signal ‘three’ might appear as one. The Jury returned a verdict of accidental death, but added a rider that they considered the assistant onsetter not sufficiently competent for his duties.

GOODWIN Archibald - 1903 - 12/02/1903 – Age 29 - Dumbreck No.1 Brusher, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. Fall from side of road while enlarging it. 2 killed.

GOODWIN James - 1906 - 12/11/1906 – Age 16 - Birkrigg Labourer, Darngavil Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Struck by a piece of iron projected by a shot of gelignite used to break up an old spur wheel.

GOODWIN John - 1906 - 08/12/1906 – Age 30 - Thrybergh Hall Runrider, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. He was riding on a full train of tubs which were being brought to the shaft, and thinking one of three tubs, which were behind him, had got off the road he raised his head to see, and in doing so, it was caught by a ledge in the roof, and he was so seriously injured that he died on reaching Rotherham Hospital. The train was moving at a slow speed, not more than two miles an hour at the time. Pillars are being taken out by the side of the road, and the floor is continually lifting, and it is necessary therefore to keep making height checks. At the point where he was caught the height was 3 feet 9 inches which gives 9 inches space between the top of the tub and the roof.

GOODWIN John - 1908 - 26/11/1908 – Age 70 - South Wales Greaser, Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. A trimmer on a railway truck, not knowing that deceased was greasing the wheels, threw a piece of slag or stone down from the wagon and struck his head, from the effects of which he died on the 12th December.

GOODWIN John Harry - 1907 - 08/03/1907 – Age 51 - Rowley Station Loader, Rowley Station Colliery Co. Ltd., Worcester. Deceased had gone into a disused road, about 4 yards back from the face, to get his jacket which was hanging on a post, when a portion of the top coal fell from between two slips. There were four posts and 1 lids set in the road end and the men working at the face and nearby sat there while having their dinner. The roof was regularly examined, but the slips had not been seen.

GOODWIN Thomas - 1901 - 27/04/1901 – Age 49 - Lee, Sandstone Quarry Quarrier, William Hoyle and George Pearson, Lancashire. Fatally injured by stone being pulled from its position in Quarry bottom by crane. When free it swing and caught deceased. Died 28th.

GOODWIN William - 1904 - 03/05/1904 – Age 42 - Prince of Wales Collier, John Rhodes, Yorkshire. Died from injuries received on November 13th, 1903. A shot had been fired in the ripping of a gateway, which had dislodged a large quantity of rock. He was removing the stone when a piece fell and broke his back. He had ventured under the shot-shaken roof without setting timber or getting down the dangerous rock.

GOODWIN William - 1908 - 15/04/1908 – Age 47 - Cadeby Main Dataller, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was repairing a travelling road, and in taking out a girder released some side stone which fell and partly buried him and before he could be freed a second fall occurred and killed him.

GOODYER John - 1907 - 11/06/1907 – Age 28 - Charity Stallman, Stanley Bros. Ltd., Warwick. Fall of roof coal. Deceased was holing at the top of the seam, when a bump occurred, and running out the timber allowed a large quantity of the roof coal to fall, which killed deceased.

GORDON Andrew - 1902 - 19/08/1902 – Age 47 - Leven Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was charging a shot hole in the coal in a longwall working when a large mass of coal came away suddenly and crushed him against a prop causing injuries which terminated fatally five hours afterwards.

GORDON David - 1909 - 22/09/1909 – Age 31 - Saltwells No.35 Pikeman, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Deceased was cleaning a place on the floor, to set up a sprag to seine overhanging coal on the side of a gateroad in the Thick Coal, which sprag the doggie had told him to set half an hour previously, when a piece of the coal fell upon his back as he stooped and fractured his spine, death resulting five days later. He had tried to pull the coal down with his pick a few minutes before, but having failed, he sat directly under the coal to prepare for a sprag. After he had tried to pull it down a shot was fired in the next stall which probably loosened the coal which afterwards fell upon him. The accident might have been prevented by more strict attention to instructions, and by the exercise of a little care by the deceased.

GORDON George - 1901 - 20/06/1901 – Age 45 - Blaydon Burn Deputy Overman, Owners of Priestman Collieries, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. While drawing chocks in a broken working, a fall occurred between two chocks which had been set for safety in drawing. The roof was of strong post and deceased had only a short time ago previously sounded the particular stone which afterwards fell.

GORDON Joseph - 1903 - 24/08/1903 – Age 57 - Bothwell Park Quarry Signalman, Bothwell Park Quarries and Brickworks Ltd., Lanarkshire. A gland at the top of one of the stays of a steam crane gave way and the crane fell upon him. Both the gland and three of the four bolts attaching it to the top of the stay were broken while a three ton stone was being lifted out of the Quarry.

GORDON Major - 1904 - 19/04/1904 – Age 25 - Old Wall Pikeman, Oldwall Colliery Co., Worcester. Fall of roof (coal) in an opening in Thick Coal. The coal fell while Gordon was repairing to set a post under it.

GORDON Samuel - 1904 - 09/06/1904 – Age 27 - Moorfields Banksman, Altham Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by upper deck of cage. Deceased had changed the tubs in the lower deck. As the cage descended he must have slipped on the iron plates so that he came in contact with the cage, which bore him down against the edge of the opening when the cage was stopped. Probably stood too near.

GORE Charles - 1906 - 02/01/1906 – Age 41 - Maindy Asst. repairer, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at road cliff, 5 feet by 14 inches by 14 inches thick, fell as deceased and a repairer were removing an old door frame, The roof was unsupported. Two-feet-nine seam.

GORE Robert - 1904 - 25/02/1904 – Age 25 - Douglas Bank Hooker on, Rosebridge & Douglas Bank Collieries Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made. Deceased was a hooker-on at the Orrell five feet mouthing when the plank floor upon which he stood gave way, just at his feet, and he was fatally injured by falling into the dib hole down by the side of the cage hole, a distance of twenty yards. The plank had not been fastened properly after putting dirt down the shaft and the persons responsible were severely censured at the inquiry for their carelessness.

GORIAN John - 1902 - 10/10/1902 – Age 18 - Neilston No.3 Drawer, James Wood Ltd., Stirling. While being lowered down a dook to their work, in bogies when the engine got out of gear, the break failed to act and the bogies ran away. Other three men were injured. 2 killed.

GORING Sidney - 1909 - 17/12/1909 – Age 14 - Rainford Haulage hand, Bromilow Foster and Co., Rainford, Lancashire. Deceased was stationed near two haulage pulleys, around which the tubs were being drawn, when he appeared to have been drawn in by the haulage rope, and was fatally crushed.

GORLEY James - 1906 - 15/05/1906 – Age 50 - St. Helens Hewer, St. Helens Colliery and Brickworks Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased, when he had finished his shift at 1.30 pm reported to the deputy that he felt unwell. He rested in the Colliery office, and had some brandy, and then left for home but collapsed before he arrived there and on being taken home died suddenly about 9.30 pm he was somewhat addicted to liquor and had been warned by the doctor against it as he had a weak heart. No inquest was held.

GORMAN Edward - 1907 - 21/01/1907 – Age 23 - South Wales, Cwmtillery Collier, Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof, in the Big Vein, at a double parting in Price’s level where repairs and alterations where being effected. Some double, timbers, but not enough, were set to replace road posts. No timbers were knocked out; the fall occurred from a top smooth and a slip on slant at one side. More double timbers might have been set with advantage but the examiner and men working there considered it safe.

GORMAN Francis - 1900 - 16/01/1900 – Age 13 - Herrington Driver, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by slipping when jumping off full set. The first tub passed over him.

GORMAN John - 1904 - 07/10/1904 – Age 28 - Cowdenbeath No.10 Drawer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. As soon as the loaded tub had been pushed over the top of a short brae the chain broke and the tub ran down and struck the empty tub driving it against the side wall and crushed deceased who died from his injuries 16 days afterwards.

GORMAN Patrick - 1907 - 21/06/1907 – Age 46 - Wheatley Hill Shifter, Weardale Steel Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He strained his side by lifting a stone. Pleurisy, and then tuberculosis set in, and he died 15th December.

GORMAN William - 1906 - 22/06/1906 – Age 44 - Parr No.4 Dataller, Richard Evans and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged packing when a stone fell from the roof, between the props injuring him. He expired the following day, after undergoing an operation.

GORMLEY James - 1900 - 20/12/1900 – Age 27 - Crop & Deep Metalman, St. Helens Collieries Co. Ltd., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was a contractor repairing an airway and he was trying to pull down some loose roof with an iron bar when more came than he expected crushing him.

GORSTREY Henry - 1906 - 23/04/1906 – Age 36 - Engine Dataller, J Scowcroft and Co., Lancashire. Inspection made When they were engaged clearing a fall in the main road, another fall occurred fatally injuring the deceased. That portion of the road was not timbered, but from the nature of the strata, it ought to have been timbered. Cause, want of rails and props, for supports.

GORTON James - 1901 - 21/03/1901 – Age 26 - Ashtonfield Collier, Bridgewater Trustees,  Lancashire. Fall of roof in roadway of working place and near to the face. A fall from two pronounced slips. Had several warnings of impending danger and talked for an hour as to putting up a prop. (Average roof). 2 killed.

GORTON Thomas - 1907 - 14/08/1907 – Age 14 - Deaf Hill Driver, Trimdon Coal Co., Co.Durham. His head was crushed by an empty tub against the wall side when driving.

GOTHARD John - 1904 - 24/06/1904 – Age 64 - Manvers Main Collier, Manvers Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. A fall of stone took place from between three slips, two of which could not be seen before the accident occurred and killed him.

GOTHARD Septimus Jarvis - 1904 - 13/07/1904 – Age 39 - Manvers Main Collier, Manvers Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. A piece of stone fell from the roof and displaced a bar and two props. He was caught and so severely injured that he died on the 22nd inst.

GOTT Percy - 1907 - 01/11/1908 – Age 16 - Backworth Pony driver, Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. Died November 3. A locomotive engine, with two old railway carriages, leaves Percy Main at 6.20 am. and runs on the Backworth Colliery private railway with lads for the various pits; the first alighting place is the Allotment, for this Algernon pit. By getting off while the train was in motion a little short of this point, where a footpath crosses this line, a short distance is saved, and the Algernon pit lads appear to have been in this habit of doing this as well as riding on this footboard instead of inside the carriages. Deceased and some other lads were so riding and as the train passed this footpath, deceased on this footboard of the first carriage and another lad on this footboard of this second carriage jumped off together, and coming into collision were thrown down and the wheel of the last carriage passed over deceased’s leg. He was taken to Newcastle Infirmary where he died from shock and loss of blood.

GOUDIE James - 1903 - 31/08/1903 – Age 24 - Gilbertfield No.2 Miner, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal. Caused by failure to set sprags in terms of the regulations.

GOUGAP William - 1900 - 25/02/1900 – Werfa, Glamorgan. Entangled in rope on drum.

GOUGH Edgar - 1902 - 23/04/1902 – Age 28 - Fleur-de-Lys Collier, Fleur-de-Lys Colliery Co., Monmouth. He died on the 1st June from blood poisoning alleged to have supervened upon a scratch on the middle finger of his right hand. The wound was only assumed (and was not proved) to have occurred while at work in the colliery. He also very slightly injured or knocked his arm (probably at the same time) in lifting a tram on to the rails but this was not alleged to have been the cause of or to have contributed to his death. This case would probably not have come under my notice were it not for the Compensation Act.

GOUGH George 1907 - 10/08/1907 – Age 44 - Hetty Collier, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, coal, 11 feet by 2 feet by 10 inches thick, fell off a face slip. It was said to have been supported by four sprags, which must have either been badly set, or he must have disturbed them. Two Feet Nine seam.

GOUGH John - 1907 - 10/07/1907 – Age 42 - Castle Lamp relighter, Crawshay Bros., Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was making his way up an engine plane to go home when a journey of 13 trams ran back and killed him. The drawbar of the first tram, which was made of Bessemer steel, was found to have broken at a rivet hole near the end. The road had an inclination of 1 in 6. The fracture was a good clear fracture. Deceased was found near a manhole.

GOUGH Joseph - 1904 - 12/12/1904 – Age 40 - Hickleton Collier, Hickleton Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was pulling coal from the face with an iron bar when the bar slipped and hit him on the side of his body. He complained of pain after which he collapsed and in a few minutes died from acute heart failure due to the blow.

GOUGH William - 1900 - 16/02/1900 – Age 15 - Werfa Rope coiler, James Evens and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. When guiding, with a pole, a rope being wound on to a hauling engine drum to ensure proper coiling the pole broke and he fell on to the rope and was carried on to the drum.

GOUGH William - 1905 - 28/10/1905 – Age 41 - Blaensychan Asst. pitman, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. While engaged on top of the cage, with the pitman, examining the shaft they stopped at a small pump, situated at the side of the pit, about 150 yards from the top and without any apparent cause, he fell down the shaft to the bottom, about 200 yards. The pitman first missed him upon asking for a spanner with which he wanted to screw up a bolt of the engine. The cage is a small one but he seems to have had experience upon it in this work.

GOULD James - 1905 - 04/07/1905 – Age 55 - Norton Hill Collier, Norton Hill Colliery Co., Somerset. Fall of roof near the face, where he was allowed to work clearing up after a shot. The examiner had apparently not fulfilled his duties in the way of examination of the working place as required by the general rule.

GOULD Thomas - 1901 - 06/03/1901 – Age 27 - Ffaldau Fforchwen Level Collier, Ffaldu Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While holing under the coal a piece about 4 cwts. fell upon him causing injuries from which he died in half an hour. No.3 Rhondda Seam.

GOULD William - 1907 - 11/01/1907 – Age 59 - International Collier, International Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at road end while clearing a small fall of stone which had dropped from the side during the night. He was caught by a further fall which discharged six props set under the roof and against the side. The roof is usually good and strong but the slants visible after the accident and a disturbance called a ‘roll’ had considerably weakened the strata. The fall measured 12 feet in length and 3 feet 6 inches in thickness. Caedavid Seam. Naked lights.

GOULDING Henry - 1906 - 19/08/1906 – Age 34 - Silverwood Labourer, Dalton Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He went on to the top of the small coal in a hopper to level it, when it slipped away, owing probably to the coal hanging when some was drawn at the bottom of the hopper, and was suffocated.

GOULDING Horace - 1908 - 07/01/1908 – Age 18 - Wharncliffe Silkstone Asst. onsetter, Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. While coal was being drawn one of the wire rope guides broke at the top and fell down the shaft. This caused a quantity of dust to fall and made a loud noise in the shaft. The hanger-on, hearing the noise signalled to the engineman to stop, and he did so. On the dust clearing away it was found the deceased had been knocked, either by the falling guide or something in the shaft displaced by it, into the sump and killed.

GOULDING James - 1903 - 08/10/1903 – Age 25 - Park Lane Brakesman, Garswood Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He appears to have gone between two railway waggons to uncouple, then instead of using his coupling pole, when he got fatally crushed between the waggons. He succumbed to injuries received the following day.

GOULDING John - 1901 - 22/01/1901 – Age 47 - Ashtons Green Daywageman, Bromilow Foster and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. There had been a large fall on the main road and the deceased and another person were engaged clearing it and barring. They worked ahead of the front bar under a bad roof and eventually a stone fell killing him. Cause, working under unsupported roof.

GOULDON John - 1905 - 04/04/1905 – Age 10 - Usworth Schoolboy, Johnasson Gordon and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased had played truant from school and was amusing himself, with two other boys, on the sidings behind the pit in to which the empty trucks were placed. A North-Eastern Railway loco motive pushed 29 trucks into the siding, 418 yards west of the pit. The engine left and the trucks were being slowly lowered by gravity to the pits when deceased, who was seen to be riding on the buffer or brake of the first, fell before it and sustained injuries causing his death an hour later. The sidings are fenced and there is no right of way where the accident happened.

GOURLAY John * - 1902 - Seaton Burn, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

GOURLAY Robert - 1907 - 20/03/1907 – Age 38 - Bent Wagon shifter, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He held on to a 6-feet prop, to prevent two moving waggons from buffer locking another two. The prop was knocked aside and he was crushed between the waggons.

GOURLEY John - 1901 - 08/11/1901 – Age 25 - Seaton Burn Loco. Guard, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made. The workmen’s’ carriages were being shunted by a loco attached by a chain on another line of rails. Deceased was sitting on the buffer and owing to the slippery nature of the rails the carriage ran too far and he was unable to disconnect the chain which crushed him round abdomen.

GOURLEY Slater - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 17 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 2 Rifle Street.

GOVER John - 1901 - 03/07/1901 – Age 38 - National No.1 Fireman, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. He entered a place containing firedamp, without his safety lamp, and being missed was found suffocated.

GOVER John - 1903 - 06/02/1903 – Age 15 - Llanbradach Collier boy, Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face coal, 6 feet 2 inches by 1 foot 4 inches by 2 feet thick, fell from a face slip which was not supported by sprags. Four feet seam.

GOW John - 1907 - 06/11/1907 – Age 50 - Hopetoun Oil Shale Miner, Youngs Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. The rope, of a short cuddie brae dipping 1 in 1.5 inches use for deceased’s working place broke and deceased instead of waiting until a rope was supplied attempted to lower a loaded tub to the level by hand, his going in front and his drawer holding on behind; as might have been expected this toll overpowered them, and ran forward on deceased injuring him so severely that he died three days later. In going in front of the tub deceased contravened one of the Additional Special Rules.

GOWENS Robert - 1907 - 07/11/1907 -  Age 52 - Dinnington Screener, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. At 4 pm, after work at the screens had finished, a locomotive fireman missed coupling a set of 12 loaded trucks to which the engine was attached. A few feet behind this 12th truck stood a truck loaded with workmen’s fire coal and which was not to be coupled. Deceased hurried from the screens and stood between this 12th and 13th trucks evidently intending to ride home. A loaded truck was allowed to gravitate from the screens and bumped into this 13th and deceased was crushed about the chest between this buffers of this 12th and 13th trucks. The fireman saw him fall out, on this slight rebound of the trucks, and he lay on his back with his leg over this rails. He died almost at once. A workmen’s train leaves this colliery at 4.35 pm which deceased should have used. Notice boards are put up prohibiting riding but it seems to have little effect. A Local Inspector inspected the place of the accident and reported ‘Could not see anything to suggest the cause of the accident.'

GOWER Sydney - 1907 - 07/12/1907 – Age 24 - Cwm Capel Collier, John Rowlands and Co., Carmarthen. A barrier of coal, not more than six inches in thickness at the holing under the seam gave way, and a quantity of water lodged in old workings, to the rise of the present colliery workings, rushed into the ‘tophole’. Oliver Jones was struck down and was carried away by the water. His death was due to concussion of the brain sustained by his head striking against the sides of the roadway. Sydney Gower received such injuries in getting away that he also died on 18th December. 2 killed.

GOWER Walter - 1907 - 20/12/1907 – Age 57 - Pelton Tub mender, Owners of Pelton Colliery, Co.Durham. He was found at the foot of a ladder leading on to the pit heap. Presumably he had fallen down the ladder. It had two hand rails.

GOWER William Henry - 1909 - 10/12/1909 – Age 33 - McLaren Collier, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof at a Barry working face, due to some clod and coal slipping and knocking out a post until a second flat was knocked out by the post.

GOWLAND Fred Gibson - 1901 - 18/12/1901 – Age 20 - Tursdale Loco. Fireman, Bell Bros. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was riding on the buffer, on the first of five trucks which were being pushed by a locomotive into a siding. The truck got off the way and he fell and received such severe injuries that he died the following day.

GOWLAND Thomas Albert - 1902 - 09/10/1892 – Age 19 - Parson Byers Limestone Quarry Brakesman, Bell Bros. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was injured on January 11th last. The doctor however gave a certificate that he died from pulmonary tuberculosis and that the accident had nothing to do with his death.

GOY John - 1903 - 30/03/1903 – Age 17 - Tudhoe Helper up, Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was helping a putter to get out on to the way when another tub came away from the face and fatally crushed him.

GOYNSTON George – 1909 – 28/02/1909 – Age 30 – Silverwood Dataller, Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Large fall of roof whilst a main haulage road was being enlarged. 3 killed.

GRABBHAM William – 1901 – 03/05/1901 – Age 22 – Trefor Labourer, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, loose debris on timbers and stone from sides as he was passing with a tram which had left the rails and knocked out an arm. Died 8th. Five feet seam.

GRADY J. – 1903 – 04/07/1903 – Age 27 – Rotherham Main Labourer, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was working at the front of a patent coke oven and stood on a pipe, to let the travelling tram pass instead of coming down. There was room for him to stand in safety but he probably slipped as the tram was passing and was crushed between it and a vertical gas pipe.

GRAFTON Joseph – 1906 – 14/10/1906 – Age 66 – Wingate Miner, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust as a result of shot firing. 25 killed.

GRAGGS William – 1907 – 29/05/1907 – Age 27 – Montagu Main Waggon driver, W Benson and Son, Northumberland. The colliery is close to the river Tyne, where there is a staithe for loading coal into keels. Coal is brought from the colliery on to the staithe platform, which is 18 feet above the ground level, in waggons weighing about 19 cwt. and carrying 34 cwt. and running on rails laid to a 3 feet gauge. Ponies draw this waggons usually in pairs. Deceased was bringing two empty waggons from the staithe and his was standing on the buffer of the leading waggon. The pony was trotting' and when only a few yards of this journey had been made and while still on the platform, his waggons appear to have left the rails at a crossing and come against this wood fence at this side of the platform, they broke it down and the waggon, pony and deceased all went over. He was found dead under one of the waggons when extricated. The staiths manager said this was the first occurrence of the kind during the 30 years the staithe had been in use.

GRAHAM Andrew – 1900 – 26/12/1900 – Age 30 – Lumphinnans Shaftsman, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. By a mistake on the part of the bottomer signalling before the tubs were properly fixed, the cage was raised and firmly held at the door heads, 12 feet up. Deceased and two other workmen were sent to release it, a slide was cut and the guides of the cage were loosened and he and one of the other went under the cage to ease it when it slipped away suddenly on to cage seat and he was fatally crushed beneath it, the other man escaped injury. The rope did not appear to be taut. Only one cage was in use. The engineman stated the brake was not sufficiently powerful to keep the loaded cage in position when near the pit bottoms.

GRAHAM Christoper – 1904 – 25/07/1904 – Age 67 – North Seaton Joiner, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. While working at his bench deceased suddenly died from heart disease. No inquest was held.

GRAHAM Edward – 1907 – 27/06/1907 – Age 13 – Washington Driver, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He had worked underground about 10 weeks, driving part of the time, but it was only his second shift on the road where he was killed. He was driving out-bye with one loaded tub on a road nearly level, 8 feet wide and nearly 6 feet high, and was probably sitting on the left sub of the limbers. He had passed through a wooden door, which the ponies push open with their heads, going outbye, as there is no trapper. About 11 yards past the door was a prop on the left side, barely clear of the tubs, and which a driver stated at the inquest the tubs often caught. The way was well laid. A driver going out-bye, 20 yards in advance of deceased and saw him come through the door, but could not say if he was then on the limbers. This driver looked back again, and seeing no light called to deceased, and got no answer, he stopped his pony and ran out to the landing and asked another driver to come back with him, they went back and found deceased lying between the rails with his face downwards, and his head in-bye, and the pony and tub, which was on the rails about 4 yards in front. The body was just out-bye of the prop that was so near the rails, which, however, had no mark on it indicating that deceased had caught it. The pony deceased was driving was rather wild, and four days before he had to discontinue driving it on this account. The deputy who was called to the spot immediately after the accident, stated at the inquest that he thought the boy had fallen off the limbers, and that the tub had gone over him. It is more probable that he had been looking back when on the limbers, and his head had caught the prop referred to. The Local Inspectors reported ‘The only thing in the way was a prop which, on inspection, bore marks of having been bumped by tubs, and in our opinion the boy’s head had been caught between the said prop and tub and thrown from his limbers.’

GRAHAM Henry - 1902 - 16/07/1902 – Age 54 - Neilsland Waggon trimmer, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Whilst on a waggon, trimming at a shunter, he let two empty waggons run forward. He was knocked off and got run over.

GRAHAM Henry - 1909 - 10/12/1909 – Age 22 - Caprington No. 41 Miner, Caprington and Auchlochan Collieries, Ayrshire. Inflow of surface water into workings near the surface, during the night. 10 killed.

GRAHAM Henry Ernest - 1908 - 01/06/1908 – Age 14 - Broomhill Trapper, Broomhill Collieries Ltd., Northumberland. Caught by set on self-acting incline.

GRAHAM James - 1906 - 27/08/1906 – Age 54 - Douglas Park No.1 Miner, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place.

GRAHAM James - 1909 - 21/05/1909 – Age 53 - West Thornley Shifter, Weardale Steel Coke and Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He and his marrow were engaged enlarging a road to make room for a tank, when a flat rectangular stone fell from a slip on to him.

GRAHAM John * - 1905 - Cowpen - Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

GRAHAM John * - 1909 - East Holywell, East Holywell Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

GRAHAM John - 1903 - 14/12/1903 – Age 77 - Hazelrigg Crossing keeper, Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died February 18th. Deceased, who watched a level crossing on the private railway from the colliery had come from his post with a workman's train to the road leading to his home. At this point are brickworks owned by the colliery company and on one of the line of rails leading to them stood a tank locomotive. The night was dark and foggy and the road near the railway was very muddy and after leaving the workman's train deceased appeared to have lost his direction and was retracing his steps and was knocked down by the tank locomotive, which moved forward in response to a signal from the fireman who was on foot ahead of it. The locomotive appears to have passed over deceased and his head was cut and one foot crushed. The tank locomotive had no side light on the side from which deceased retraced his steps.

GRAHAM John - 1909 - 22/03/1909 – Age 49 - East Holywell Coal cutter, East Holywell Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of roof stone at longwall face.

GRAHAM John William - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 40 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. Mona Street, Stanley.

GRAHAM Joseph * - 1900 - North Walbottle, North Walbottle Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

GRAHAM Joseph - 1907 - 11/04/1907 – Age 18 - Allhallows Packer, Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased was engaged in building packs in longwall workings in the Clutch Brow District of No.3 Dip, in the Yard band, at a point where the face was advancing at right angles to the old longwall face. A stone, 5 foot by 1 foot 3 inches and 2 feet thick, fell upon him from above the coal, and extending to the face, killing him instantly. The stone had a free side next the old goaf, and this, with a slip and a breaker, made it practically free all round. A prop and head was canted out. There was loose timber at hand to set. The deputy had been in the place an hour before the accident and all appeared safe.

GRAHAM Joseph - 1909 - 18/03/1909 – Age 54 - Rampgill, Lead Blacksmith, Vieille Montague Zinc Co., Cumberland. He injured his finger while repairing a mine waggon and blood poisoning supervened.

GRAHAM Samuel - 1903 - 21/08/1903 – Age 33 - Garriongill Bottomer, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was crossing the cage seat while the cage was running in the shaft when it came down and crushed him.

GRAHAM Thomas - 1909 - 06/07/1909 – Age 42 - South Pelaw Night banksman, Owners of South Pelaw Colliery, Co.Durham. The Master Shifter shouted up the shaft to tell him to go and call the horsekeeper whom he thought had overslept himself. He answered and then fell down the shaft. He was at the horse hole and had opened the gates to speak to the Master Shifter. There was no need for him to have opened the gates, as he could easily talk to the Master Shifter, who was at the Main Coal level, without doing so. He had been previously warned about opening the gates.

GRAHAM William - 1906 - 22/11/1906 – Age 14 - Eppleton Driver, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When riding on the limbers, bringing out a set of full tubs, his pony stumbled and fell. His knee was caught between the bow of the limbers and the tub end and his ankle hurt by the first tub. Tetanus set in and be died eight days afterwards.

GRAHAM William - 1907 - 25/04/1907 – Age 14 - Greenhill Dirt picker, Greenhill Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased’s work was to pick this dirt from the coal, and for the purpose he had to go under the waggon; the boy was leaning over the end of the waggon in which he was picking this dirt, when it was moved forward, and his head was crushed against the supporting rail of a shelter structure above.

GRAHAM William - 1908 - 08/06/1908 – Age 28 - Lumphinnans Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was taking down coal at a longwall face when it suddenly fell and crushed him against a prop.

GRAINGER George - 1902 - 03/09/1902 – Age 32 - McLaren Labourer, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp in the Yard Vein seam. Caused by working near to or in a large accumulation of gas. 16 killed.

GRAINGER J.W. - 1903 - 12/06/1903 – Age 21 - Grimethorpe Labourer, Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Leaned upon a plank which was temporally fixed as a fence during alterations to the screens. The plank gave and he fell 19 feet and was killed.

GRAINGER John - 1905 - 20/03/1905 – Age 27 - Eldon Coal cutter, Pease and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. He was chocking up after a coal-cutter, when a stone, twisting out two props and a plank dropped from between two breakers. The noise of the coal-cutter no doubt prevented him hearing any signs of the fall.

GRAINGER Joseph - 1901 - 04/07/1901 – Age 50 - Woodside Pikeman, Cochrane and Co., Worcester. Fall of roof. Collapse of working place in thick coal. This accident was caused by the sudden collapse of a stall in the thick coal, where it had been worked three times previously. The place appeared to have been well timbered but the ground was much broken and disturbed by the previous workings and there was goaf all round it. It took four days' continuous work to recover the body.

GRAND Henry - 1905 - 16/07/1905 – Age 31 - Bebside Deputy, Bebside Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. An extension of a main and tail rope engine plane had been completed in the Bensham seam and a trail set of empty tubs was being taken inbye but had not reached the new road when the tail rope, instead of running on one of the new hanging sheaves on the extension was running between the sheave and one of the iron hangers and a socket on the rope, unable to pass, caused extra strain which displaced a tail rope sheave at the beginning of the extension and the sheave and framework pulled forward and drew props under the iron girders supporting the roof, and a heavy fall of stone took place and caught deceased men who had stepped aside near the sheave while the trial set was run. The two hangers of the tail rope sheave, where the socket caught was bent outbye. The tail rope either, at the time of the fall or immediately afterwards, drew at another socket further outbye. The displaced sheave was 4 feet diameter and was placed with its axis vertical between a wood framework next the floor, the framework consisted of two pieces of timber, 7 feet 8 by 5.5 inches high and 11 inches deep, fixed 18 inches apart. One end of this framework was let into a pack wall and a prop was driven up between it next the pack the other framework was bolted to a stay set about 1 foot square in front of it and let a few inches into the roof and floor. The tail rope sheave, where the socket caught, was 4.25 inches wide and the space between was 4.75 inches. The two deputies were killed on the spot the fitter was taken out alive but he died the same day. The Local Inspectors were at the inquest. One of them being a relative of the deceased Henry Grand, his evidence was not taken, the other stand, he had examined the place and came to the conclusion that it had been a pure accident. It appeared that the Local Inspectors had examined the mine on the Thursday before the accident, and had passed the new sheave but had not noticed it particularly. 3 killed.

GRANGE William - 1902 - 13/09/1902 – Age 62 - Eston ironstone Miner, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was filling a tub when a piece of ironstone fell off the face and caught and killed him.

GRANT Bernard - 1908 - 10/01/1908 – Age 32 - Birley East Labourer, Sheffield Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was employed on the top of the tip heap, and in the evening was left finishing his work and to all appearances as well as usual. The next morning he was found on the tip heap about three yards from where he was left working the previous day in a state of coma and badly burnt on the back. He was removed to the infirmary at Sheffield where he died on the 31st. A postmortem examination showed that the actual cause of death was an abscess on the right lung and the medical evidence given at the inquest was to the effect that exposure and burns might assist in the development of the abscess and the gases from the tip might also affect him. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, and added that in their opinion death was accelerated by the inhalation of gas from the pit heap.

GRANT George - 1909 - 01/09/1909 – Age 53 - Kinneil Miner, Kinneil Cannel and Coking Coal Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was engaged in brushing a roadway when a stone fell and killed him instantly.

GRANT John - 1901 - 30/07/1901 – Age 40 - Fallahill Brusher, United Collieries Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased worked alone and was engaged brushing a road and on the fireman making his round of inspection he was discovered under a stone quite dead. From the position it was thought deceased had been taking out props when the roof fell on him.

GRANT John - 1906 - 05/06/1906 – Age 42 - Black Prince Labourer, Weardale Steel, Coal, Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was caught and became entangled in the gearing driving the spreaders. He was found there dead.

GRANT John - 1909 - 15/02/1908 – Age 52 - Kinniel Miner, Kinniel Cannel and Coking Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased and two other miners had just got on to the cage, to be raised to the surface, when a stone fell upon the cage and they were crushed. The stone fell away from the front of an old mid working, 123 fathoms up. 2 killed.

GRANT Peter - 1905 - 30/12/1905 – Age 24 - Bonawe, Granite Quarry Crane driver, J and A Gardner and Co., Argyll. When lifting a heavy stone the locomotive crane capsized and fell on him. He omitted to comply with the instructions requiring him to widen the base of the crane before lifting the heavy stone.

GRANT Thomas - 1903 - 10/06/1903 – Age 24 - Biggarford Miner, United Collieries Ltd., North Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

GRANT Walter - 1901 - 21/06/1901 – Age 18 - Bothwell Park No.1 Roadsman, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When holding up a haulage rope, while another man cut a notch in a crown, the haulage engine was started and his arm was drawn in round a pulley.

GRANVILLE John Peel - 1908 - 08/01/1908 – Age 39 - Hamsteels Loco. Fireman, Owners of Hamsteels Colliery, Co.Durham. Two 20 ton N.E.R. trucks were being filled with coal. They were standing on a road, which dips about three-quarters of an inch per yard. They were brought down to the filling point by using the brakes of the second one; they were coupled together. At the filling point the truckman put down the two brakes of the first truck and put a chock under the wheels and then uncoupled the two trucks. The first truck having been about three parts filled, the truckman wished to lower it down a little, so he took out the chock; the truck then moved forward, and continued to move forward, in spite of the fact that both brakes were on. The truckman then put the chock in front of the wheels again, but it was knocked out; he put a sprag in a wheel, but it was broken. He then sat on one brake and a platelayer sat on the other but they could not stop the truck. The gradient averaged half-an-inch per yard only. The locomotive was pushing up a train of empty trucks from Flass Junction, and Granville was standing on the buffers between the first and second trucks, when the runaway truck came into collision with the train, and he was injured about the head. The runaway points were closed to allow for the empty train of trucks being pushed up from Flass Junction. The accident appears to have been due to the brakes on the N.E.R. truck being defective.

GRATION Charles - 1905 - 09/08/1905 – Age 60 - South Wingfield Banksman, South Wingfield Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was going to his work, at a sinking-shaft winding-engine. He crossed the railway sidings in front of moving full wagons, when he was crushed between a waggon and the retaining wall of the pit bank.