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

LOWERY Christopher D. - 1909 - 29/03/1909 – Age 44 - Pelton Deputy, Owners of Pelton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was drawing a prop near the goaf edge, beyond the barrow way timber, when a heavy fall took place and killed him.

LOWERY George - 1901 - 16/01/1901 – Age 56 - Lumley Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was driving a lift in a pillar of coal and the old bord next to it had not fallen. He was sitting kirving at the loose end when a fall of roof took place, in the old bord, and fatally injured him.

LOWERY John George - 1908 - 11/09/1908 – Age 37 - South Moor, Morrison Hewer, South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was hewing in a split wall in the main coal seam, which is worked under the goaf of the five quarter seam and separated from it by a band of only 9 inches thick. Apparently, as he was working the place began to weight and he, in trying to save his gear, stayed in it too long, the roof fell in and he was smothered beneath. The timber was set quite close.

LOWES John – 1904 – 30/05/1904 – Age 54 - Earsdon Chargeman, Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. A headways gateway, in the longwall workings in the Yard seam, had become too low for the tub to pass, at a point 6 yards from the face. Deceased and two other men were making it higher. They had taken some stone down from the outbye side. Deceased went forward to draw a prop, using a mall with a shaft 2.5 feet long, when he knocked out the prop, a stone 4 feet by 5 feet and 7 inches thick, relieved by jacks at the sides and by a parting above fell upon him and fastened him against another stone already taken down. One of the new timbering Rules enacts, ‘Wherever timber has to be withdrawn from the waste or other disused parts of the mine the prop drawer shall have with him an appliance ready for use suitable for drawing timber without undue risk.’ In this case it was contended by the management that the place did not come within the scope of the rule. The Local Inspectors in their report appeared to have some doubt as to the wisdom of deceased acting as he did but at the inquest they gave evidence and said they thought its occurrence was purely accidental.

LOWES Matthew - 1907 - 29/11/1907 – Age 46 - Murton Hewer, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When lifting a tub he strained his back. He did not resume work and died on January, 1908.

LOWNE William - 1901 - 28/04/1901 – Age 25 - Tursdale Hewer, Bell Bros. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was sitting kirving when the top coal fell away at a hitch and broke off at a sprag prop and fell upon him severely injuring his back. Died 3rd May.

LOWSON William - 1900 - 16/07/1900 – Age 43 - South Tanfield Hewer, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was hewing in a broken jud, six yards wide, when a fall took place from slips and canted out two props. The place was considered to be well timbered and the deputy had just left it.

LOWTHER Frank - 1906 - 09/06/1906 – Age 39 - Manvers Main Dataller, Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. Along with his mate he was removing the stone displaced by two shots and building a pack in a gateway when a stone measuring 5 feet long by 3 feet 3 inches wide by 12 inches thick, fell away at a weight break, caught and killed him. The break could be seen below where the stone fell and it should have been pulled down directly the shots were fired.

LOWTHER Henry - 1906 - 31/12/1906 – Age 59 - Chopwell Wasteman, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased and another wasteman, who had been a deputy and who acted as chargeman were repairing an airway in an old headways in the North flat of the Brockwell seam of No.2 pit, when a stone, triangular in area, having sides about 4 feet long, fell partly from the side and partly from the roof and pinned deceased’s head against a pack wall, he was building on the opposite side of the road. The stone was relieved by a breaker 6 inches over the coal and a slip at one end it was 2 feet thick next the coal and thinned out to a thin edge in the direction of deceased, and is known locally as a ‘side waver.’ No timber was got under it, although there was loose timber close at hand. Deceased’s mate examined the place before they started work, and the master shifter had seen it shortly before, and while they were at work the overman visited them, and no sign of danger had been observed. There was pillaring next the thick part of the stone, but it had no hold of it. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘We are of opinion that it was a pure accident, and no fault whatever of the management or the deceased.’

LOWTHER John Thomas - 1904 - 14/12/1904 – Age 20 - Mosley Common Shunter, Earl of Ellesmere, Lancashire. Crushed between waggon and pillar at break.

LOWTHER Richard - 1908 - 16/09/1908 – Age 29 - Newbottle Timber drawer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He and his marrow were drawing timber out of an old waggon-way. They had one end of a chain round a prop and the other end round another six or seven yards further outbye. He stood between the two points. On his marrow putting pressure on to the lever to draw out the inbye prop, the roof all came on over six or seven baulks and buried him up. The baulks should have been middle propped and he should have been further away.

LOWTHER Thomas - 1906 - 11/02/1906 - Trimdon Grange Hewer, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. Injured by a fall of stone, 7th May, 1903. Died 11th February, 1906.

LOYDON Patrick - 1901 - 12/09/1901 – Age 46 - Clough Hall No.18 Shifter, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. A fall of roof had occurred on the main haulage crut near the shaft where it intersected the Bullhurst seam at a place where old dips had been driven in the Bullhurst. This fall caused a cavity in bad ground over the roof of the crut the roof and sides of which cavity were not properly secured before the crut was retimbered. After the crut had been retimbered by five large bars with runners and laggings over the bars a large fall from the roof and sides of the cavity broke down or reeled out the timber and filled the crut for 7 yards while a number of men were at work finishing the repairs. Loyden, Shaw, and Farr were dead when got out and Turner died on the 20th September. An under-manager and overman were also injured by the fall. There was a grave error of judgement on the part of the officials in charge of the work in not first properly securing the roof and sides of the cavity above the crut.

LUCAS Henry - 1909 - 13/09/1909 – Age 16 - Brancepeth Spare lad, Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. He walked across the shaft and the descending cage caught and crushed him. He had been twice cautioned the same morning for the same offence. He ought to have been sent out of the pit.

LUCAS John - 1903 - 24/02/1903 – Age 64 - Outwood Dataller, Thomas Fletchers and Sons, Lancashire. Fall of roof in roadway whilst repairing foot ridding for making increased height, he must have disturbed a prop and let down the stone. (Good roof.)

LUCAS William - 1901 - 17/01/1901 – Age 32 - Crown Collier, Thomas Johnson, Gloucestershire. Fall of roof from a slip in his working place. It discharged 2 or 3 props which were under it.

LUCAS William - 1904 - 18/02/1904 – Age 24 - Robin Hood Collier, J and J Charlesworth Ltd., Yorkshire. When taking a full tub from the face to the passbye a large stone fell upon and killed him. Cause, weight coming on to place.

LUCOCK Thomas - 1902 - 05/11/1902 – Age 17 - South Hetton Putter, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. In attempting to get past a tub to his pony it is supposed he stumbled and seized hold of the limbers causing the pony to move away. He was dragged and fatally crushed between the tub and the timber at the side the road.

LUDDON John - 1903 - 22/12/1903 – Age 41 - Ashtons Green Metalman, Bromilow Foster and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was the contractor for ripping the roof in the roads and when a shot of ammonite was fired a stone struck the deceased at a distance of 18 yards. He succumbed to the injuries on the 24th instant. The shot lighter had the battery around the corner in a safe position and appeared to have given deceased proper warning but he must have thought himself safe sitting by the side or the road. If he had gone behind the pack he would have been absolutely safe.