MARSH Joseph – 1909 – 21/07/1909 – Age 29 – Golden Collier, Golden Iron Co., Staffordshire. Deceased was employed in driving a place for a water-lodge off a level in which a steam separator had been placed. He was looking round for a dry spot on which to lay his clothes before commencing to work when he accidentally trod on the unprotected handle of the tap on the drain pipe of the separator. He was badly scalded and died at the Infirmary 3 days later.

MARSH Richard – 1908 – 10/01/1908 – Age 13 – Abergorky No.3 Collier boy, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, cliff, 34 inches by 24 inches by 5 inches thick, fell and dashed deceased's head against a tram, and killed him. It was unsupported. No.2 seam.

MARSH Thomas – 1904 – 22/10/1904 – Age 27 – Wet Earth Dataller, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. In jig brow whilst repairing from a pronounced slip and from a lip or caunch edge. He ought to have had a bar under the lip edge. (Bad roof)

MARSH William – 1903 – 26/01/1903 – Age 55 – Bispham Hall Dayman, Bispham Hall Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made. He was using a crowbar when it slipped out of his hand and his arm got scratched. Blood poisoning afterwards set in and he died from the effects February 12th 1903.

MARSHALL Alfred – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 33 – 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. Penylan Terrace, Ynyshir, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

MARSHALL Andrew – 1902 – 03/04/1902 – Age 25 – Glencraig Miner, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Explosion of firedamp. 4 killed.

MARSHALL David – 1905 – 02/10/1905 – Age 14 – Haugh No.2 Drawer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. When stepping off the cage at the pithead, after ascending, he as caught by the cage being lowered before he got clear, in response to a hand signal given by the bottomer who also ascended in the same cage.

MARSHALL Frederick – 1908 – 30/11/1908 – Age 55 – Stanley Manager, Stanley Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. A large fall had occurred during the week end on a haulage road, and these, with about 16 other men, were engaged in clearing it away when a second fall occurred and killed these four men. The first fall was 82 feet long by 9 feet 6 inches wide by 19 inches thick, the second was 10 feet long by 6 feet wide by 12 inches thick. No precautions were taken to protect the men working at the first beyond sounding the roof above them from time to time. 4 killed.

MARSHALL George – 1900 – 22/02/1900 – Age 22 – Charity Bedworth Loader, Stanley Bros. Ltd., Warwickshire. Fall of roof. The front tub or a train of empty tubs when entering the flat at the bottom of an incline got off the road and striking a prop knocking it out caused the roof to fall on deceased who was standing near.

MARSHALL Henry – 1909 – 27/09/1909 – Age 29 – Ely Rider, Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. Twenty eight men were descending. The reversing gear of the winding engine failed to act. The descending cage sped to the bottom and the ascending cage went upwards into the sheaves (which it broke) and then fell back down the pit onto the full cage. Five men in the upper deck were killed instantaneously. Those in the lower cage escaped with horrific injuries. Two died later in hospital. 7 killed 14 injured.

MARSHALL J.W. - 1901 - 14/08/1901 – Age 19 - Manvers Main Engine Plane Attendant, Manvers Main Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Owing to the train of empty tubs not being stopped at the usual place Marshall was run over and killed.

MARSHALL James - 1907 - 28/08/1907 – Age 50 - Banknock, Livingstone Waggon Shifter, Youngs Collieries, Stirling. When crossing the rails in front of moving waggons he fell and was run over.

MARSHALL James - 1908 - 17/08/1908 – Age 32 - Carriden Fireman, Carriden Coal Co., Linlithgow. Explosion of firedamp.

MARSHALL James - 1909 - 05/10/1909 – Age 23 - Donibristle Shunter, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was attempting to get on to the buffer of a waggon for lookout purposes during a shunt, when he slipped and fell and was run over.

MARSHALL John - 1905 - 01/03/1905 – Age 59 - Washington Hewer, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died October 14th. Deceased sustained a slight injury to his right eye on March 7th by a piece of coal flying from the pick and striking it while he was hewing; he saw the doctor at the time who found the covering of the eye had been cut, and advised him to stay at home and shade it for the next two days but deceased would not stay from work more than two days. On 14th Oct. while carrying home some wood during a high wind, he died on the highway. Medical evidence after a post-mortem was given at the inquest that the injury to the eye had no connection with the death which was due to the rupture of an artery and so the jury found.

MARSHALL John - 1908 - 26/05/1908 – Age 46 - Ryhope Stoneman, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was filling coals by the side of the waggonway in the Harvey Seam, when a piece of stone fell on to his head fracturing his skull.

MARSHALL John - 1909 - 23/07/1909 – Age 18 - Whitburn Engineplane lad, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Caught by runaway tubs.

MARSHALL John Henry - 1906 - 10/12/1906 – Age 36 - Darfield Main Incline Man, Mitchell Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was having a set of 29 full tubs taken out of a landing when, owing to four of the tubs being off the road, a coupling between 8th and 9th tubs broke and the eight tubs in front were jerked forward with great violence and he was caught and killed by them. It was his duty to see all was in order before the signal was given to the hauling engineman to start his engine but he neglected to do so.

MARSHALL John T. - 1909 - 25/03/1909 – Age 14 - Houghton Main Pony driver, Houghton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was taking empty tubs inbye with a pony, and was riding on the shafts. He was killed by being crushed between a bar and the top of a tub.

MARSHALL Lenoard - 1905 - 26/01/1905 – Age 18 - Bickershaw Drawer, Ackers Whitley and Co., Leigh, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of roof took place upon the deceased at the mouth of a gateroad capping the props on each side of the roadway. His father, who was near the spot and the fireman stated they had considered the place in safe working order.

MARSHALL Matthew - 1906 - 24/06/1906 – Age 33 - Boldon Shaftman, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Overwinding. 3 killed.

MARSHALL Robert - 1905 - 23/04/1905 – Age 35 - Old Etherley Shifter, H Stobart and Co., Co.Durham. Died suddenly of heart disease while sitting outside of the mine previous to going down. He had been treated for heart disease for some months. No inquest was held.

MARSHALL Robert - 1908 - 05/08/1908 – Age 20 - Montagu Shifter, W Benson and Son, Northumberland. Fall of roof stone at face of stone drift.

MARSHALL Samuel - 1900 - 21/06/1900 – Age 42 - Pinxton No.1 Deputy, Pinxton Coal Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was an official of the mine and his attention was called to the goaf being on the weight. He was proceeding to examine the roof when a large fall occurred and killed him.

MARSHALL Samuel - 1904 - 02/03/1904 – Age 59 - Stocksbridge Deputy, Samuel Fox and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died from injuries received on Feb. 23rd last. He was walking along a road lowering two empty tubs, he slipped and fell with ribs to a full tub on the other side.

MARSHALL Stephen - 1901 - 15/05/1901 – Age 28 - Washington F Joiner, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Inquest attended. While a vertical boiler was being raised, by means of jacks and shear legs, the guide rope connected to the latter broke and one of the shear legs struck deceased. The rope was unfit for use although deceased had got it from the store himself.

MARSHALL Thomas - 1901 - 03/07/1901 – Age 53 - South Broadrigg Miner, John Nimmo and Son Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was breaking away a place in a stoop and room working in a seam 3 feet thick having a roof of fakey clay. He had fired a bursting and a cut shot in the coal and finding they had shaken the overhanging fireclay he proceeded to secure it with prop. While setting the prop the clay fell upon him causing injuries which resulted fatally two days afterwards.

MARSHALL W. James - 1909 - 02/09/1909 – Age 17 - Aldwarke Main Driver, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was in the haulage road whilst a tram of tubs was being hauled up an incline. When the train had gone 40 yards it’s coupling broke and 23 tubs ran back. Marshall was run over and killed.

MARSHALL William - 1903 - 20/04/1903 – Age 37 - Mosside Roadsman, Gavin Paul and Sons Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased and another were repairing a heading, 12 feet in width, and shifting some props which had been set too close to the rails. They had renewed four props and deceased was preparing to set a fifth when a stone, 12 feet long by 4 feet 6 inches broad and 1 foot 3 inches in thickness triangular in section suddenly fell upon him causing his death before he could be extricated.

MARSTON Thomas - 1901 - 18/09/1901 – Age 14 - Exhall Labourer, Executors of Edward Wilson, Warwick. Deceased was crushed between buffers of waggons on a very foggy day.

MART James - 1909 - 26/04/1909 – Age 54 - Coalpit Heath Hewer, Coalpit Heath Co., Gloucestershire. Large fall of roof in the working place, extending over 20 feet by 10 feet by 6 inches at widest part. It was let down by a smooth from under which the coal had just been taken out, on the lower side and broke on the higher. It was in the "broken" where they were working out the pillars. No doubt the weighting, although slight, would affect it in relation to the upper bed in consequence of a smooth parting. It fell without warning, and deceased's comrade had a very narrow escape from being killed as his hand was pinned on the end of a tub by the fall, and he was not released for 20 minutes. The stone fortunately rested on the end of the tub, and did not break.

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

MARTIN Douglas - 1906 - 10/07/1906 – Age 17 - Cove, Sandstone Quarry Boiler fireman, New Cove Quarries Ltd., Dumfries. A steam excavator overturned while the full bucket was being swung round and he was caught by it.

MARTIN E.J. - 1905 - 16/06/1905 – Age 17 - Lancaster Shackler, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. A journey of five trams was being lowered down an incline when the cross-bar of the front tram dropped and caught a bevel sheaf. The journey was stopped, and the roadman freed the crossbar. Directly this was done the tram ran down overtook deceased, who was running in front of it, and ran over both of his legs. The right leg was so badly smashed that it had to be amputated. He died the same day. The shackle pin was found broken in two, no doubt by the blow of the 4 trams when they blocked down against the first. It was a good deal crystallised. He was standing opposite a manhole.

MARTIN Ephrahim - 1901 - 09/11/1901 – Age 28 - Shildon Lodge Spare putter, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. While pushing an empty tub on to an east incline the large link that connected two full tubs to the rope of an incline on the West Side, which was running at the time, broke and let the two tubs run amain, they ran across the road at the bottom and crushed him against the empty set. Died on the 13th.

MARTIN Frank - 1900 - 16/11/1900 – Age 35 - Preston Sinker, Preston Coal Co., Northumberland. Explosion of firedamp. 4 killed.

MARTIN Henry - 1905 - 06/09/1905 – Age 36 - Collins Green No.1 Timberman, Collins Green Colliery Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was fatally crushed by a runaway tub of bricks owing to the lashing chain getting loose from the haulage rope, in the endless rope downbrow.

MARTIN Henry - 1907 - 11/12/1907 – Age 53 - Pinxton No.3 Enginewright, Pinxton Collieries Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was lifting one of the brasses from the bed-plate of a new pair of winding-engines when he slipped and the brass, weighing 114 lbs. crushed his hand. Gangrene set in and he died of septic pneumonia on 20th December.

MARTIN James - 1900 - 16/01/1900 – Age 57 - Donnington, Granville Holer, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Fall of roof at working face in Top Coal Seam. Fall liberated at two slips one of which was known of.

MARTIN John - 1903 - 04/02/1903 – Age 28 - Ross No.1 Miner, Thomas Barrs Trustees, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal. It was not spragged in terms of the regulations.

MARTIN John - 1905 - 10/03/1905 – Age 48 - Gartshore No.1 Roadsman, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Dumbartonshire. When redding a fall on a road his naked light ignited gas.

MARTIN John - 1906 - 29/01/1906 – Age 26 - Bothwell Castle Nos. 3 & 4 Drawer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When crossing the line on the colliery premises he was run over by wagons which were being shunted by the Caledonian Railway Companies locomotive.

MARTIN John George - 1906 - 05/04/1906 – Age 30 - Washington Hewer, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died April 6. Deceased, who worked along with another hewer, was engaged during the back shift in kyrving in broken workings in the Maudlin seam, 5 feet thick, in the 2nd South way of the Glebe pit. About 2.5 tons of coal fell over without any warning on to him, relieved by a slippery back which had not shown its presence in any way before the accident. The coal was kyrved about 3 feet under, for a length of 7 feet, and a sprag 2 feet long had been set, but the coal in falling rode over it. His marrow was knocked to one side. But not injured. There was a good supply of loose timber close at hand and the deputy had just left the face and was sawing timber for them a short distance away. While he waited to fire a shot in the place. The Local Inspectors reported, "In our opinion we consider it was a pure accident, no blame being attached.'

MARTIN John Henry - 1902 - 29/08/1902 – Age 40 - Bentink Loader, New Hucknall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. A fall of coal fell from the face of the stall and knocked a prop out which had been set the previous day. The falling prop struck deceased who was building a pack, and inflicted fatal injuries. He died 12th Sept.

MARTIN John James - 1907 - 09/05/1907 – Age 19 - Garth Merthyr Labourer, Elders Navigation Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. While returning to the pit bottom at the end of the shift, he was crushed between a loaded tram and the side of a roadway. A haulier was lowering the train, by means of sprags, down a small gradient into a double parting.

MARTIN John William - 1909 - 16/02/09 – Age 21 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 2 Manx St.

MARTIN Joseph - 1900 - 23/10/1900 – Age 19 - Cleves China Clay Quarry Labourer, J Lovering and Co., Cornwall. When receiving sand waggons at top of an incline he caught his heel in the flange of a tram rail and slightly spraining his foot. Blood poisoning setting in he died or 3rd November.

MARTIN Joseph - 1909 - 12/02/1909 – Age 45 - Grassmoor No.4 Dataller, Grassmoor Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased had nearly completed the work of repairing the roof of a roadway, when, by the deputy’s orders, he struck a prop, with the object of taking it out. Only one blow was struck, and a large quantity of roof fell from over the prop.

MARTIN Joseph Henry - 1909 - 16/02/09 – Age 14 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas, 168 killed. 2 Manx St.

MARTIN Luke - 1900 - 27/12/1900 – Age 70 - Rosehall No. 12 Labourer, R Addie and Sons Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. A dross hopper, in front of the boiler, collapsed and fell upon him.

MARTIN Michael - 1904 - 23/12/1904 – Age 47 - Mosley Common Dataller, Earl of Elmesmere, Lancashire. In main level, repairing. Collapse of two bars, one had two jack props placed under it by deceased, the other bar had a jack prop under the middle. Both bars were canted so much that the upright jack props did not hold them when one of the end props was underfooted, the whole place came in, another man narrowly escaped. (Average roof)

MARTIN Nicolas - 1906 - 28/03/1906 – Age 48 - Sherburn Hill Stoneman, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was killed by a fall of stone in a road after a shot had been fired. Presumably the shot had loosened the stone.

MARTIN Philip - 1908 - 23/06/1908 – Age 52 - Kenmuir No.1 Repairer, Glasgow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road while repairing it.

MARTIN Richard - 1903 - 16/10/1903 – Age 37 - Llwynypia No.2 Rider, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Two trams of rubbish, which deceased and another man had left at the top of a slight dip, started to run down the dip and crushed deceased against a loaded tram that was derailed and which they were putting back on to the rails. It was said that deceased had scotched the trams but in my opinion he forgot to do so.

MARTIN Robert - 1906 - 10/12/1906 – Age 16 - Llanhilleth Collier’s boy, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of coal from the face, it having been given off at a sooty grime which came up from a reverse slip and could not be seen. Generally I have found the places in this colliery spragged and kept in good order but the coal, which is about 7 feet thick, requires to be well spragged whether overhanging or not, and this was not done in this case.

MARTIN T.D. - 1903 - 09/03/1903 – Age 39 - Devon Great Consols Arsenic and Copper Labourer, J Petherick and Co., Devon. When pushing a truck laden with iron along a gantry at the wharf the gantry collapsed and the laden truck falling to the ground crushed him beneath it. The gantry was in a bad state of repair but it appears to have been part of his present duty to make it secure for their temporary purposes.

MARTIN W. - 1903 - 09/06/1903 – Age 66 - Victoria, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, BB Booth, Yorkshire. Died 12th June. Some small pieces of shale fell from a place 100 feet above Martin's working place. One piece struck him on the head and fractured his skull. Probably a sudden change to dry hot weather caused the fall.

MARTIN W.E. - 1906 - 24/03/1906 – Age 59 - Denaby Main Collier, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. When drawing timber he noticed the roof lowering and ran towards the face, and came in contact with a prop which was knocked out. The blow was so severe that he died almost immediately.

MARTIN William - 1902 - 04/09/1902 – Age 26 - Navigation Collier, Parkend Deep Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Gloucestershire. Irruption of water from old workings in consequence of inaccurate plans, the manager, who also acted as surveyor having neglected to check the surface with the underground workings. 4 killed.

MARTIN William - 1903 - 22/01/1903 – Age 48 - Kinnaird Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Kinross. Deceased was stamping a hole in the pavement to set a machine tree to bore a shot hole when a small stone fell off the side and injured the thumb of left hand, blond poisoning supervened and he died on 5th February.

MARTIN William - 1907 - 30/09/1907 – Age 14 - Allanton Miner, William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face of machine wall.

MARVIN James Henry - 1901 - 31/01/1901 – Age 17 - Ashington Waggoner, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. The deceased was coupling two railway wagons when in motion and was crushed between them. He should have used the coupling pole provided for the purpose.

MASH John - 1904 - 11/07/1904 – Age 42 - Detling Lime, Chalk Quarry Lime Burner, Hayward and Son, Kent. When examining the face of the Quarry, to see where next to bore a shothole, a piece of chalk fell from above and striking him so injured him as to cause his death 12 days afterwards.

MASON Alexander - 1905 - 05/06/1905 – Age 37 - Blackhill, Granite Quarry Quarryman, Great North of Scotland Granite Co. Ltd., Aberdeen. A scaffold was erected on the face of the Quarry, about 40 feet from the top, on which the deceased stood while boring a hole for a shot. The face was on a "slide" and some distance above was some inferior rock. This mass of inferior rock suddenly slipped from its position and carried the scaffold and the men with it in its descent to the Quarry bottom, a distance of 10 feet. The person in charge for examining the face was not at his work and no one examined the face on the day of the accident. 2 killed.

MASON David - 1907 - 18/10/1907 – Age 22 - Cadeby Main Filler, Denaby and Cadeby Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was filling coal at the face when there was a sudden burst, and about a ton of coal fell upon and killed him.

MASON Edward - 1908 - 15/01/1908 – Age 55 - Moss Hall Labourer, Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When attending at bottom of the hoist, he appears to have left the catch off the cage, and eventually a tub fell out of the hoist, and caught him on the head. He expired February 4, 1908.

MASON Elizabeth A. - 1901 - 28/12/1901 – Age 13 - Middle Place Pit brow girl, Garswood Coal and Iron Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased had been paid her wages and had to cross the railway lines near the screens to go home. She was knocked down and run over by the two empty waggons. The loco was pushing the two waggons and one of the brakesmen ought to have ridden on the leading waggon but he neglected to do so hence the accident which otherwise would have been prevented. She died form her injuries received at Wigan Infirmary Jan. 25th. Female.

MASON Enoch - 1905 - 16/11/1905 – Age 31 - Ferndale No.5 Rider, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was found lying on the road dead, the full journey that he was in charge of having run over him. His lamp and cap were found 400 yards farther in, showing that he had been drawn that distance. He must have been riding on one of the shackles and fallen off. Had he ridden on the full rope he would have been safe.

MASON Ernest - 1904 - 26/09/1904 – Age 21 - Lumley Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of stone at old bord end. He and another man were hewing in a west jud when another man hewing in a wall on the outbye side heard the stone move and shouted to them to come out, the two men rushed out but before the deceased got clear a stone fell upon him and killed him, 14 yards from the face.

MASON George - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 60 - Wingate Shifter, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust, result of shot firing. 25 killed.

MASON Henry - 1907 - 07/05/1907 – Age 35 - New Hollybush Collier, Reps of late ED Williams, Monmouth. Fall of roof at the face when approaching a dangerous part which required more than ordinary care. He lived until the 11th October, the roof is more or less irregular in this seam, clod putting in at places under the rock, and when it does so close timbering is necessary, but the maximum distance for timber does not appear to have received consideration under these conditions and was not altered being 15 feet by 15 feet. Under such circumstances these distances are absurd, and even under rock they are too great and do not meet the spirit of Special Rule 2.

MASON James - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 49 - Wingate Shifter, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust result of shot firing. 25 killed.

MASON John - 1900 - 31/05/1900 – Age 24 - South Duffryn No.1 Labourer, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road coal, 5.5 feet x 5 feet x 2.5 feet thick, fell from between two arms while he was building a side wall. Red seam.

MASON John - 1908 - 21/01/1908 – Age 32 - East Tanfield Hewer, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of stone at face of longwall.

MASON Leonard - 1906 - 01/06/1906 – Age 42 - Backworth Hewer, Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. A shot hole in the coal was charged with one cartridge of carbonite, fitted with detonator and electric wires and stemmed with clay. The current was turned on but the shot missed fire. The cable was then tested by holding the wires at the end of it furthest from the battery against the metallic cover of a safety lamp and observing if a spark was produced on operating the battery it was found to be defective and about 2 feet was cut off its length and the shot firer went back to the battery intending and expecting that deceased would again test it; owing to a misunderstanding deceased went to the shot and coupled its wires to the cable. The shot firer turned on the current, the shot exploded, and he was killed on the spot. The local Inspectors reported ‘in our opinion we think it a pure accident.'

MASON Matthew - 1906 - 18/04/1906 – Age 28 - Wingate Grange Hewer, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. When lifting coal into a tub he strained himself. He died five days afterwards. Death was due to rupture of the aorta.

MASON Samuel - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 34 - 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. 9, Hillside Terrace, Wattstown, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

MASON Thomas - 1900 - 12/04/1900 – Age 40 - Dudley Hewer, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. A large fall occurred at the face of a longwall gateway, where deceased and his cousin were hewing. A shot had been fired in the coal by the deputy two hours previously. The stone fell from treacherous slips and gave no warning.

MASON Thomas - 1909 - 10/11/1909 – Age 23 - Hebburn Coal filler, Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of stones at working face.

MASON William - 1901 - 23/09/1901 – Age 26 - Orrell No.2 Gang rider, Orrell Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was riding in the haulage gang in a tub that had some props lying in it and got crushed against a low part of the roof and was fatally injured. Died 26th.

MASSEY Frederick - 1902 - 19/09/1902 – Age 18 - Pendleton Drawer, A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Struck by the handle of the crane. When lowering a waggon of dirt in the brow the handle probably slipped from his hands and struck him on the chin causing comminuted fracture of the jaw. On the 22nd of Oct. he was discharged from Salford Hospital, the wound not quite healed. At 4 pm on the 23rd, he complained of pain in his head, at 5 pm became unconscious and died at 4 pm the following day.

MASSEY Henry - 1900 - 10/09/1900 – Age 14 - West Cannock Number taker, West Cannock Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Found dead between two empty waggons on branch railway.

MASSEY John - 1907 - 05/07/1907 – Age 59 Marston Lane Clay Quarry Quarryman, Hawkesworth and Bedworth Brick and Tile Co., Warwickshire. Deceased was working in front of a face of clay, which had been undercut and left standing with rails driven in the top acting as wedges to get it down, when it fell and killed him.

MASSEY Thomas - 1904 - 08/02/1904 – Age 33 - Collins Green Hooker on, Collins Green Colliery Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was about putting the catch up for pulling the empties out of the cage at at the pit bottom when the thimble of the other cage, which was ascending the shaft upon him. A guide rod had been changed at the other shift and the block had only been secured by one nut or bolt instead of two as should have been done.

MASSINGHAM George - 1904 - 02/09/1904 – Age 61 - Upleatham Ironstone Deputy, Pease and Partners Ltd., North Yorkshire. Assisting to draw a jud and was carrying out a prop when he hit another prop with it and let loose a piece of stone which fell upon him and fatally injured him.

MASTERS George - 1901 - 29/11/1901 – Age 28 - Altofts Silkstone Collier, Pope and Pearson Ltd., Yorkshire. Died same day. Fall of roof in roadway.

MASTERSON William - 1907 - 04/04/1907 – Age 17 - Bankton Apprentice surveyor, Edinburgh Collieries Ltd., Haddington. Deceased and the surveyor had been engaged levelling in a mid seam, and on arriving at the shaft the signal was given for them to be raised to the surface. When all was right they stepped on to the cage, and as soon as the cage began to ascend, deceased, who carried the levelling staff in one hand, apparently lost his balance, and before he could regain it, he fell off the cage into the shaft.

MASTERSON William – 1908 – 31/01/1908 – Age 39 – Cramlington Stoneman, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of roof stone near face of a stone drift.

MATCHELL Joseph – 1909 – 20/10/1909 – Age 26 – Woolmet Miner, Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was "backening" coal to the road, when the roof suddenly fell upon him.

MATES Thomas – 1904 – 16/02/1904 – Age 63 – Black Park Airwayman, Black Park Colliery Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He appears to have been fatally crushed by the full tubs attached at the endless rope haulage when travelling along the main level to the shaft. Manholes were found in order.

MATHER Adam – 1908 – 23/06/1908 – Age 70 – Maypole Dataller, Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Deceased had gone through a hole in the waste, to an adjoining old roadway with his saw, probably for old timber to finish a chock, when a stone from the roof fell upon him. There was one prop found capped.

MATHER Alfred – 1902 – 11/03/1902 – Age 17 – Shildon Lodge Incline boy, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Caught and killed by set at the bottom of an incline. He was putting the chain on to an empty set when empty tubs at the top ran amain down the incline and caught him between them and the tubs he was putting the chain on.

MATHER Henry – 1909 – 14/05/1909 – Age 19 – Rainford Haulage hand, Bromilow Foster and Co., Rainford, Lancashire. He was in charge of the haulage gang going upbrow, and it appeared when he attempted to pass the full tubs, he got fatally crushed in a narrow portion of the roadway.

MATHER Robert – 1903 – 03/04/1903 – Age 30 – Bewick Main Hewer, Charles Perkins and Partners Co.Durham. Died 6th April. Deceased, when hewing in the Hutton seam on March 8, which is overlaid by ramble, a soft stone that often falls even where the timber is very close to a piece of this stone is supposed to have fallen out on his knee. He did not report any accident on that day but next day his wife informed the deputy that her husband had got a bat on the knee by a small piece of stone. Blood poisoning supervened followed by septic pneumonia and septic meningitis which caused his death. The jury found he had died from pneumonia derived from injuries received in the pit.

MATHER Walter – 1903 – 15/06/1903 – Age 17 – Old Boston Pony driver, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was bringing eight full tubs with the pony along a roadway and appears to have had only one scotch in the tub where they generally use three. He was found under the second full tub, the first three tubs being found upset at the bottom of a run dipping about 1.5 inches per yard.

MATHEWS Charles – 1906 – 06/10/1906 – Age 20 – Delph Miner, Wyndham and Phillips, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was assisting the repairer to clear a fall of roof in the airway (where two bars had fallen) without protecting the roof, when more roof fell on the deceased, fatally injuring him.

MATHEWS George (escaped) – 1909 – 29/10/1909 – Darran Rhymney Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident has been the subject of a Special Report. 27 men lost their lives and 4 were injured.

MATHEWS Robert – 1906 – 05/02/1906 – Age 28 – Llysfen, Limestone Quarry Fireman, Raynes and Co., Carnarvon. He was struck down by a full waggon running down a slight gradient. Pneumonia supervened and he died on the 14th.

MATHEWS W. – 1901 – 01/07/1901 – Age 59 – Oaks Collier, C Cannell and Co., Yorkshire. Smothered by fall of small coal and dirt from the roof in gateroad.

MATHIAS David – 1909 – 26/10/1909 – Age 53 – Rhos Brakesman, Rhos Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. While moving waggons he probably slipped, and got into contact with the brake guard axle box, and the wheel of the waggon. No one witnessed the accident.

MATHIAS Thomas – 1907 – 17/12/1907 – Age 30 – Phoenix Collier, Phoenix Colliery Co., Flint. A fall of roof occurred near the face of a roadway to a slip upon the deceased capping two stretcher bars and a prop.

MATHIE James – 1903 – 12/05/1903 – Age 56 – Neilsland No.1 Miner, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

MATHIESON Alexander – 1906 – 29/05/1906 – Age 33 – Bowhill Drawer, Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased put a tub on to the rope at the foot of a short brae and another drawer put a loaded tub on at the top end and pushed away, as soon as the latter applied the brake to the wheel the axle broke and tubs ran back, and deceased was shouted to stand clear; he evidently mistook the shout and stepped in front of the runaway tubs.

MATHIESON Alexander – 1907 – 25/12/1907 – Age 21 – Lanemark, Rigfoot Drawer, Lanemark Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. Fall of roof on road while clearing away a fall.

MATHIESON Angus – 1904 – 21/11/1904 – Age 23 – Neilsland No.1 Brusher, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at road head while brushing it.

MATHIESON Charles Henry – 1903 – 02/11/1903 – Age 36 – Nuneaton Loader, Stanley Bros., Warwick. Fall of roof. A large piece of roof fell and struck deceased while he was loading a tub of coal. The fall came away from an unseen slip in the roof.

MATHWIN George G. – 1906 – 29/06/1906 – Age 30 – Murton Shifter, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was standing at a way-end waiting for the ingoing set to pass him. The points had not been turned, and the set took the wrong way and ran over him. He ought not to have been standing at the way end, but instead should have gone into a refuge hole. There were two near by.

MATTHEWS Charles Henry – 1901 – 24/07/1901 – Age 16 – Annesley Horse driver, Annesley Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Run over by a full tub. Deceased, in charge of a horse with three tubs coming down a slightly inclined roadway, when a wooden locker in the wheels broke. It was supposed the horse knocked deceased down and the first full tub ran upon him.

MATTHEWS Coll. – 1909 – 12/10/1909 – Age 36 – Addis Hill Collier, A Schofield, Gloucester. Fall of clod from the working face owing to a sprag giving way. The floor, which was fireclay, on becoming wet became soft and the sprag should have been let into the floor further than it was. He died on the 16th of November.

MATTHEWS David - 1909 - 30/03/1909 – Age 26 - Maindy Shotman, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased had to fire 6 shots in a hard heading. The fifth shot missed fire, and he was examining the cable for faults, when a piece of the untimbered cliff roof, 5 feet by 3.5 feet by 4 inches thick, fell on to him from a height of 11 feet.

MATTHEWS Edward - 1906 - 11/12/1906 – Age 35 - Arrail Griffin Collier, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of coal from the face while he was filling a coal box to finish off a loaded tram. The coal appears to have burst off a straight face, showing that spragging should be strictly carried out, and enforced, in this Black Vein seam, even when coal is not overhanging.

MATTHEWS Edwin - 1901 - 23/12/1901 – Age 39 - Wyndham No.1 Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1899) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, while wedging the collar of a doubling pair of timbers they collapsed and deceased was suffocated beneath a heavy fall of rubbish. Two feet nine seam.

MATTHEWS Edwin - 1903 - 10/11/1903 – Age 19 - Llancaiasch Collier, Llancaiasch Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 7 feet 4 inches by 5 feet, by 2 feet thick, which was unsupported. Mynyddyslwyn seam.

MATTHEWS Evan - 1904 - 18/01/1904 – Age 23 - Pochin Collier, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A large stone fell from three slants in the roof, the roof was very strong and the stone being thick misled deceased who had set props according to the custom of the colliery.

MATTHEWS Frederick - 1908 - 11/02/1908 – Age 19 - Usworth Assistant onsetter, Johnasson Gordon and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The engineman appears to have collapsed while the cages were running and deceased was thrown out of the ascending cage.

MATTHEWS Henry - 1908 - 27/10/1908 – Age 27 - Shelton Deep No.1 Loader, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. This was not reported as an accident at the time at which it was said to have occurred. The man died on 13th December from swelling of the brain, consequent upon the rupture of an abscess set up in the diseased ear, which in its turn was set up by deceased pushing tubs with his head.

MATTHEWS - Henry - 1909 - 19/05/1909 – Age 46 - Llanbradach Labourer, Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Co., Glamorgan. Deceased, when painting the headgear, fell off a temporary staging into the shaft.

MATTHEWS James - 1907 - 17/09/1907 – Age 42 - Arrail Griffin Collier, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. While engaged ripping top coal in his stall road, about 12 yards back from the working face, a fall of clod occurred. He does not appear to have taken precautions to secure this clod while working under it, as he should have done.

MATTHEWS John - 1906 - 14/11/1906 – Age 33 - Arrail Griffin, Assistant timberman, John Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Three trams of an empty journey, running down, John Williams’ Deep, on the west side of the shaft, became unhitched through the shackle pin rising from some unexplained cause running wild, the trams lashed into the full journey at the bottom of the double parting Matthews, hearing them coming instead of going into a manhole, ran to the double parting and was crushed between the trams. The road and manholes were in good order.

MATTHEWS Joseph - 1908 - 02/06/1908 – Age 17 - Levant, Tin Miner, Levant Mining Co., Cornwall. Fall of ground from the side or face of the stope in which they were working, in consequence of slips and a break in the ground. The stone was of such size (3.5 tons) that something would give no indication of its being loose. As the result of examination the day before by the manager, one of the underground agents, and the brother of Trathen, who was in charge of the place, no danger was apprehended. No blasting was done during the shift but there had been some the day before. 2 killed.

MATTHEWS Mason - 1900 - 12/04/1900 – Age 62 - Allhallows Shifter, Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was cleaning up on the haulage road when a flag of stone about 6 inches thick and 16 feet long fell causing fracture of the skull and spine. The stone was of a tough nature and it had not been considered necessary to timber it.

MATTHEWS Noah (injured) - 1909 - 27/09/09 - Ely Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. Twenty eight men were descending. The reversing gear of the winding engine failed to act. The descending cage sped to the bottom and the ascending cage went upwards into the sheaves (which it broke) and then fell back down the pit onto the full cage. Five men in the upper deck were killed instantaneously. Those in the lower cage escaped with horrific injuries. Two died later in hospital. 7 killed 14 injured.

MATTHEWS Patrick - 1905 - 24/01/1905 – Age 21 - Llwynypia No.2 Rider, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A tram of rubbish was being taken up a stall, rising 4 inches per yard, when the little pin of the gun broke. The tram ran back and crushed deceased against the side. He died 4 days later.

MATTHEWS Sydney - 1904 - 14/12/1904 – Age 35 - Elliot Ripper, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When he and another were engaged in repairing a heading, some 70 yards back from the face, a fall of side came away from a break and caught him 4 or 5 yards away from where he had been knocking out double timber to let down a piece of roof. He had been at this work 15 or 16 years.

MATTHEWS Thomas (injured) - 1909 - 27/09/09 - Ely Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. Twenty eight men were descending. The reversing gear of the winding engine failed to act. The descending cage sped to the bottom and the ascending cage went upwards into the sheaves (which it broke) and then fell back down the pit onto the full cage. Five men in the upper deck were killed instantaneously. Those in the lower cage escaped with horrific injuries. Two died later in hospital. 7 killed 14 injured.

MATTHEWS Thomas - 1904 - 19/01/1904 – Age 30 - Grange Driftman, R Heath and Sons Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (shale) at longwall face in Red Shagg seam. The fall came away from slips while deceased and another miner were setting posts.

MATTHEWS Thomas - 1904 - 28/03/1903 – Age 28 - Ffaldau, Braichycymmer Collier, Ffaldau Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face while kneeling, about 10 cwt of coal fell from the face which was said to have been spragged. Six feet seam.

MATTHEWS Thomas - 1907 - 12/06/1907 – Age 40 - Allerton Bywater Collier, New Silkstone and Haigh Moor Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When withdrawing timber he did not use his dog and chain and when the stone fell it caught and killed him.

MATTHEWS William - 1903 - 14/07/1903 – Age 38 - Ynishir Mason, Ynishir Steam Coal Co., Glamorgan. Crushed by a runaway journey of five loaded trams which were being drawn up a gradient of five inches per yard when the rope broke. It had broken before and judging from its appearance and the broken wires in it, it ought to have been taken off some time before. The rope examiner should have condemned it.

MATTHEWS William - 1907 - 04/10/1907 – Age 33 - Collena Collier, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, cliff, 5.5 feet by 2 feet by 32 inches thick, fell on deceased as he was clearing the rubbish produced by a shot, fired in the roof by the previous shift. The roof had been examined by the deceased five minutes before the fall. No.3 Rhondda seam.

MATTY George - 1907 - 03/03/1907 – Age 53 - Hoyland Silkstone Dataller, Hoyland Silkstone Coal Coke and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Some repairs were being done in the upcast shaft at night time and he was assisting the shaft man. He and the banksman had been cutting a piece of wood with a saw on the pit hill and after doing so the banksman took the saw into the engine house. Deceased followed him and while they were there a signal was received from the men in the shaft and the banksman got through a window to go by a shorter road to the pit hill. The deceased attempted to follow him but in getting out lost his footing and fell to the ground, a distance of 12 feet and was seriously injured about the head. He died on the 21st instant The road they were going by was totally unfenced and quite unfit to be used at night time and they should have travelled by the proper road which was provided.

MAUGHAN Albert Edwin - 1907 - 26/11/1907 – Age 18 - Beamish Pony putter, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased had worked in the pit for four and a half years and had acted as a driver part of the time but had only started as a putter the day before this accident, when a deputy had spent two hours instructing him and deceased then appeared nervous and disinclined to ride on this limbers, as is the usual custom. On the day of this accident he had started work at one flat but had got on so badly he was sent to the flat where he was killed at 10.30 am. as the putting there was easier. He had taken one tub from a hewer at the second then went in-bye with an empty tub to another hewer. He left the tub in the siding about 20 yards from the face and went into the a skirting with a packwall on one side within a foot of this side of this tub. He hung this pony on to this loaded tub and did not go it to help this pony away over this plate ends and then follow out behind this tub which is the usual course. He appears to have walked between this limbers and this side of this road next this pack having hold of the reins and when about 12 yards away probably stumbled over some loose stones, fallen from this pack and was crushed by this tub. He was soon released but never recovered consciousness and died in a short time. The Local Inspectors reported ‘In our opinion there is no blame attached to anyone.'

MAUGHAN Thomas - 1906 - 28/09/1906 – Age 63 - Brusselton Stoneman, Bolckow, Vaughan & Co, Ltd. Co.Durham. This man and his marrow were altering timber in an inclined place. It was desired to get the props set in a straight line. They had done part of the work, and wished to move one baulk endways slightly. They knocked out the two end props and loosened the middle one, and then tried to shuffle the baulk along towards the left side of the place. The baulk canted over, and let down the ‘ramble’ above. The baulks next inbye then canted out and let down more ramble which fell on Maughan and so severely injured him that he died three days afterwards. The work they had done had, apparently not been well done, and the method of moving the baulk along, having regard to the nature of the roof, was very bad.

MAUGHEN Robert John - 1905 - 06/01/1905 – Age 26 - Wath Main Waggonman, Wath Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was crossing a line to where his work was, through between the buffers of two waggons which were standing with the brakes fastened down, when another bumped the last one and forced it forward. He appears to have been stooping to get under the buffers at the time when he was caught by the back of the head and killed. He should not have crossed between the waggons as he did.

MAWSON Frank - 1906 - 03/03/1906 – Age 29 - Manvers Main Banksman, Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. The action of brake on drop cages on the surface had become disarranged, and the assistant enginewright was readjusting it. He told all the persons employed near to stand clear, but deceased must have misunderstood him, for he went to push some full tubs off the drop cage and the assistant enginewright released the brake; the cage ascended, and he was caught between the bottom of the cage and the upper floor of the pit head.

MAXWELL Andrew - 1906 - 21/12/1906 – Age 60 - Simpsonland No.2 Overman, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. While descending the shaft after repairing some defect the barring gave way, 12 fathoms above them, and some 50 tons of debris fell from the side of the shaft upon the cage. 3 killed.

MAXWELL George - 1909 - 27/04/1909 – Age 28 - Bowhill Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. After pushing a tub and turning it at his coal face, deceased said to his drawer he had hurt his side. He went home and after a three and a half months illness he died.

MAXWELL Janet - 1903 - 22/12/1903 – Age 14 - Kinniel Stone picker, Kinniel Cannel & Coking Coal Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was employed to pick dirt from amongst the coal on a travelling band, 30 feet by 4 feet, which conveyed it from the screen to the trucks and which was driven by a horizontal shaft parallel to and 3 feet 9 inches distant from it. She was standing with her back towards the shaft when her clothing was apparently caught by the head of a pinching pin in a thrust collar on the shaft and she was carried round several times with it receiving injuries which terminated fatally on the following day. Female.