POW Adam - 1901 - 18/03/1901 – Age 29 - Swinhill Miner, Darngavil Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

POW Richard - 1907 - 07/07/1907 – Age 28 - Cambrian No.1 Rider, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. A journey of 30 laden trams was being lowered by a tail rope down a gradient of 1 in 7, when the framing of the sheave broke. The weight of the down going journey drew the framing and sheave rapidly along the double parting and killed deceased. The framing was put in twelve months previous to the accident and was examined daily. It must have been subjected to sudden severe strain.

POWELL Charles - 1900 - 18/04/1900 – Age 21 - Marine Ebbw Vale Collier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When with others, walking into work, he pulled a disused ventilation door which was standing at the side of the road over on himself and was fatally crushed. He evidently mistook it for a door in use and intended to shut it after him.

POWELL D.A. - 1905 - 11/07/1905 - National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones.

POWELL Daniel - 1903 - 25/04/1903 – Age 52 - Abergorky Labourer, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road cliff, 6 feet by 7 feet by 2.5 feet to 3 feet thick, fell on deceased as he was stowing rubbish in the mouth of an old stall road. The stone, which was supported, fell from the side of the rippings on the heading. Nine feet seam.

POWELL David - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 32 - 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. Meyrick House, Porth.

POWELL David S - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 15 - National No.2 Door boy, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed.

POWELL Edward - 1909 - 15/10/1909 – Age 63 - Furnace Yard Owner, Spruce and Powell, Stafford. Rope or chain breaking. Fell down shaft.

POWELL Evan - 1900 - 05/04/1900 – Age 27 - Cwrtybettws Haulier, Hedleys Collieries Co., Glamorgan. Found dead under a full tram. The pin of the gun, he was sitting on, rose and he fell under the tram.

POWELL G. - 1901 - 11/05/1901 – Age 50 - Fence Blacksmith, Rothervale Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Died 18th May. Burnt ignition of colzaline.

POWELL George - 1906 - 13/08/1906 – Age 64 - Well Level Owner, George Powell, Gloucester. He worked this colliery with his two sons, and did most of the coal cutting himself. A piece of clod and some coal from the face fell upon him from a grime causing immediate death.

POWELL George - 1908 - 22/05/1908 – Age 40 - Mansfield Dataller, Bolsover Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was crossing the partly covered sump when he stepped on to a loose plank, which tipped up and he fell into the sump. He had passed through a fence and was taking tools to a box on the opposite side of the shaft.

POWELL Henry - 1906 - 22/03/1906 – Age 18 - Bothwell Castle No.4 Drawer, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof from brushing face. It was said that the fall displaced two props and a crown.

POWELL Horace - 1901 - 23/10/1901 – Age 32 - Penrikyber Master haulier, Penrikyber Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, cliff, 18 feet by 12 feet by 19 feet thick. This large fall occurred suddenly at a place closely timbered discharging 5 pairs of timber. There was probably a cavity above timbers. Six feet seam.

POWELL Isaac - 1906 - 29/12/1906 – Age 16 - Llanbradach Engine cleaner, Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was struck on the head by the crank of the winding engine. Just before the accident he was seen with a brush and bucket in his hands. After the accident his body was found outside the crank-pit fence, while the head of his brush was in the crank-pit. He had evidently attempted to sweep it out.

POWELL James - 1909 - 09/09/1909 – Age 38 - Pochin Collier, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in his stall road, 15 yards back from the face. He and his comrade were taking out a broken prop when the stone, which this prop had been supporting, fell and injured Powell so severely that he died on the 11th September. They were not using a "ringer" and "chain" as they should have been.

POWELL John - 1900 - 02/07/1900 – Age 27 - Myrtle Hill Collier, Myrtle Hill Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fell out of bowk while descending with another man.

POWELL John - 1905 - 22/09/1905 – Age 23 - Dowlais Cardiff Rider, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was riding on the chain, attaching the rope to a journey of empty trams, when some stones fell from the roof and struck him, causing him to fall under the trams.

POWELL John - 1908 - 19/04/1908 – Age 25 - Albion Rider, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was found dead in a hopper which he had been filling with small coal. The doctor attributed his death to suffocation. He must have fallen in and been covered by a rush of fine coal from the sides.

POWELL John J. - 1907 - 08/06/1907 – Age 30 - Tryddyn Lodge Collier, Welsh Coal and Cannel Co., Flint. He was descending the shaft with four other men in the cage when be appears to have fallen out of the cage and was killed.

POWELL Joseph - 1900 - 08/03/1900 – Age 40 - Himley Bandsman, Woodall and Co., Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp. Died 16th Mar.

POWELL Rees - 1902 - 18/01/1902 – Age 20 - Maesteg Deep Night labourer, Norths Navigation Collieries (1899) Ltd., Glamorgan. While following a full journey of 22 trams up the main deep the pin between the first and second trams broke and the journey ran back catching deceased before he had time to reach a manhole.

POWELL Rees - 1903 - 26/09/1903 – Age 39 - Penwyllt Central Quarry Quarryman, Penwyllt Dinas Silica Brick Co., Brecon. While lighting the fuse of a charge placed in a crack the powder exploded causing injuries from which he died on 26th October.

POWELL Samuel - 1902 - 13/04/1902 – Age 23 - Wynnstay Loader, Wynnstay Collieries Ltd., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of roof occurred upon deceased near the face of the roadway when he was upsetting an empty tub on side of roadway. The place had only been propped. Cause insufficient timbering.

POWELL Samuel J. Edward - 1906 - 26/05/1906 – Age 17 - Wyndham No.1 Collier boy, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. While a main journey was starting for the pit bottom, another rope, belonging to a different haulage, was also attached to the last train, in order to pull it back about 20 yards. The rider had signalled to the engineman to slack out, but owing to the signal wires having been damaged, no signal was received. The rope came away from the cup because of the increased tension, and in springing back, struck Powell, who was on his way out, causing fatal injuries.

POWELL Seth - 1907 - 09/02/1907 – Age 36 - Marine Repairer, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was working in Klondyke endless rope incline, Old Coal Seam, as a journey of 16 empty trams was being let down to be filled. It was attached to the rope at both ends by short chains. The chain on the upper side becoming detached allowed the trams to run down until they over-ran the chain at the lower side and were checked by it. The two first trams were thus thrown across the rails and crushed him against the side.

POWELL T.J. – 1900 – 05/04/1900 – Age 15 – Fochriw Road boy, Dowlais Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While on their way out they were struck by runaway trams on double parting owing to the breaking of a hitching plate. 2 killed.

POWELL Thomas – 1902 – 11/07/1902 – Age 33 – Pochin Collier, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was killed by a fall of roof when pulling top coal. It was closely timbered all round and fell from two slants. Apparently a pure accident.

POWELL Thomas – 1906 – 16/07/1906 – Age 58 – Saron Ripper, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, cliff, 7 feet by 5 feet by 7 inches thick, fell as deceased was making a foothold for a prop to hold a boring machine for boring a hole in the side. The fireman examined the roof 20 minutes before the accident, found it given, and instructed deceased to take it down before doing anything else. He, however, took no notice of the instruction and in consequence, was killed. No.3 Rhondda seam.

POWELL Vavasor – 1900 – 04/01/1900 – Age 37 – Maesteg Merthyr Collier, Maesteg Merthyr Colliery Co., Glamorgan. While pushing an empty tram up a rise road it slipped fell on to his side and ruptured his spleen. Died on 8th January.

POWELL W.T. – 1903 – 03/04/1903 – Ferndale No.1 Fireman, D Davis and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by a tram of rubbish. Four trams were standing on a dip having a gradient of 1 in 12, they were spragged and rested against a barhook. It is supposed that deceased attempted to lower one a short distance down the dip, he was overpowered and run over. No one saw the accident.

POWELL William – 1907 – 23/05/1907 – Age 20 – Blaina, Lower Deep Collier, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of top coal from the face in consequence of his accidentally knocking out a sprag which was against a lump of coal which he was turning over towards the tram into which it was to be loaded, it struck the sprag.

POWER Benjamin – 1903 – 02/05/1903 – Age 29 – Bedlinog No.1 Screener, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed by the buffers of two waggons between which he was passing. The shunter did not know deceased was near and allowed some wagons to bump against one of those between which deceased was passing.

POWER Charles – 1901 – Age 55 – Silverwood Foreman, Barnsley, Yorkshire. June ?? Horse drawn wagon ran over both his legs and he died of his injuries, this was on the surface during the sinking of the shafts.

POWERS David – 1900 – 21/07/1900 – Age 38 – Himley Pikeman, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of coal in a thick coal stall when getting it down. Died 5th Aug.

POWERS Samuel – 1907 – 07/01/1907 – Age 29 – Dunston Hewer, Dunston Garesfield Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased, a son of the master shifter of the colliery, was kyrving at the roadhead in a longwall gateway in a wet working in No.1 district of the Five Quarter seam, which is 2 feet 1 inch thick and is overlaid by 3 or 4 inches of ramble above which is a post. The post fell away, without any warning, over an area 12 feet long and 8 to 10 feet wide and covered him almost completely. The fall extended from the coal face outwards right across the road to where the tub was standing. It terminated at a small hitch leader which crossed the road at right angles, and here the stone was 3 feet thick, thinning out to the face and towards the sides. A pair of gears was canted out. The roof was not broken into before the accident as height was made in the gateway by a bottom canch being shot up. The place had been visited by the deputy before work was started, about 1.5 hours before the accident, when it appeared safe. There was a sufficient supply of loose timber. The Local Inspectors reported, ‘In our opinion it was a pure accident.’

POWIS Frank – 1905 – 02/11/1905 – Age 24 – Craig-yr-hesg, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Mackay and Davies, Glamorgan. Deceased required an iron skip against which a stone 6 feet by 3 feet by 2 feet, recently taken down, rested. He attached the chains of a steam crane to the skip and told the driver to pull up. As soon as the skip was raised the stone fell forward on deceased. I cannot understand him standing where he did.

POWNALL James – 1905 – 03/11/1905 – Age 45 – Lawrence Dayman, Lord Vernon, Cheshire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was attempting to push an empty, and two full tubs to start jigging, when he got crushed under a lower part of the roof. He succumbed to his injuries received 12th November 1905.

POWTON Robert – 1903 – 17/12/1903 – Age 24 – Hamsterley Hewer, Hamsterley Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. A fall of stone at the goaf edge displaced two props and crushed him to death.

POXON Arnold – 1903 – 23/06/1903 – Age 26 – Brownhills No.3 Loader, William Harrison Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of side (coal) at longwall face in Shallow seam. Sprags had been knocked out at the buttock end the previous day leaving the coal face overhanging about 18 inches. The fallen coal had been filled up when the overhanging coal fell for a length of 9 feet. The face should have been spragged up or the coal got down before it fell. The place had been examined by a fireman and by the father of the deceased who worked with him.

POXON William – 1902 – 13/08/1902 – Age 33 – Broxtowe Stallman, Babbington Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of coal while either removing the timber, supporting it, or the under clay when a slab of coal fell and crushed deceased.

POXTON William – 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.

POYNTE Thomas – 1901 – 29/10/1901 – Age 24 – Ackton Hall Collier, Ackton Hall Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Fall of coal in working face. Cause previously unseen slip.

POYNTON Enoch – 1907 – 19/01/1907 – Age 40 – Peelwood Collier, Tyldesley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Lifting a piece of binn dirt to throw into the pack, it broke in his hands, left hand borne down so that the back caught sharp edge of a stone lying on the floor cutting the knuckle joint of his little finger, he never again worked, blood poisoning set in, spreading through the whole body. Died 3rd June. Doctor, at inquest, suggested cleaning of all slight wounds at the colliery with diluted carbolic.

POYSER George Leonard – 1908 – 21/12/1908 – Age 16 – Bestwood Horse driver, Bestwood Coal and Iron Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased attempted to get on to the limmers when the horse was pulling three full tubs. He failed to get on properly and fell under the tubs. Riding is not allowed, He died in the mine.

POYSER John – 1907 – 13/05/1907 – Age 36 – Coppice Stallman, Coppice Colliery Co., Staffordshire. Deceased was cleaning up along a face in the Bad Coal which was well timbered with bars 5 feet 6 inches long and 3 feet apart at right angles to the line of the face, one prop being close to the pack wall the other within 4 feet of the face. He was buried by a fall of roof coal and bass which came from a slip running diagonally from the face across the pack. The fall reeled one bar and broke over the next one on one side and along the line of the one on the opposite side.

PRACTICE Robert – 1905 – 22/08/1905 – Age 38 – Broxburn oil shale Miner, Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. The top shale fell away suddenly on deceased killing him instantaneously.

PRANGLEY John – 1905 – 09/12/1905 – Age 45 – Radstock Collier, Rt. Hon. Earl of Waldegrave, Somerset. Fall of roof from slips which he could not reasonably anticipate. The place seemed to be in good working order but very cramped for space, there being only 14 inches thick.

PRATER Trevor – 1908 – 09/10/1908 – Age 15 – Garth Merthyr Engine cleaner, Elders Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed in crank pit by the connecting rod of a winding engine. The engineman worked the engines before the lad got away, and the evidence was not clear that he called the boy's attention. The machine had been idle some time before the accident happened.

PRATLEY Henry – 1902 – 21/03/1902 – Age 30 – Cornbury Park, Freestone Quarry Quarryman, Higlett and Hammond, Oxford. While getting stone from the face another stone rolled over and fatally injured the deceased. Died the next day.

PRATT Arthur – 1905 – 06/11/1905 – Age 28 – Fairburn, Limestone Quarry Foreman, William Humphrey Holder, Yorkshire. When last seen, before the accident he was standing on a bench drilling a hole. About ten minutes later one of the men working in the Quarry heard some stone dropping and on looking round saw the deceased falling feet foremost on to some stones on the ground and with his head and back against the Quarry face. He was so severely injured that he died the same night. What caused him to fall is difficult to say. He may have been climbing up the slope of the Quarry and slipped or when working and lost his balance.

PRATT E.W. – 1909 – 22/03/1909 – Age 24 – Frickley Assistant boilerman, Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Deceased was caught in an overhead shafting, which drives the mechanical stokers, and he was whirled round and killed. It is conjectured that he was oiling the machinery when in motion.

PRATT Henry – 1909 – 27/07/1909 – Age 34 – Garforth Timber drawer, Owners of Garforth Colliery, Yorkshire. He was drawing timber and using a hammer instead of a dog and chain when he was killed by a fall of roof.

PRATT Jonas Atty – 1907 – 28/08/1907 – Age 60 – Boldon Wasteman, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased, another wasteman, and a stone putter, were clearing away a pack wall in an old headway in the Old South way of the Bensham seam of No.1 pit to make a new return airway. The stones were stowed in a stow head, about 60 yards away. The two wastemen took alternate days at loading the kibble and stowing, and deceased was stowing on the day of the accident and had dealt with six kibble loads. As he filled up the stow bord he drew timber, and he had sent to his mate for an axe, and afterwards, as he had been unable to get the timber out with it, for a saw to saw it out. He appears to have been removing a pair of gears when a fall of stone took place from the roof, over an area about 9 feet by 5 feet and up to 6 inches thick. The fall extended to the turn and displaced a pair of gears the deceased had set. He seems to have had some warning as he had his lamp with him and was caught by the fall at the turn. His mate heard the fall and at once got assistance and he was released, but died soon after he was taken to the surface. No official had examined the place before work started or during the course of the shift but the assistant master wasteman had visited them the previous shift. The Local Inspectors in their report, after describing the fall, remarked Found plenty of timber lying where the accident occurred. and at the inquest they gave evidence and stated they thought the occurrence a pure accident.

PRATT Joseph – 1904 – 31/08/1904 – Age 38 – Netherseal Stallman, Netherseal Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Fall of roof coal. Deceased was clearing up top coal which had been got down by a shot when a further fall of coal occurred and killed him.

PRATT Thomas – 1905 – 21/01/1905 – Age 18 – Elba Coal shifter, Baldwins Ltd., Glamorgan. By explosion of gas and coal dust. 11 killed.

PRATT William – 1902 – 09/04/1902 – Age 67 – Cromhall, Limestone Quarry Lime burner, Earl of Dusie, Gloucester. After tipping a barrow load of coals on the top of a kiln he fell over the side, 14.5 feet to the ground and fractured his skull. The top of the kiln was not fenced.

PRATT William – 1908 – 23/06/1908 – Age 21 – Westerton Hand putter, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He had pulled a tub off the flat sheets at the top of an incline, and stepped on one side to allow the tub to pass him. He was, however, not quick enough in stepping aside and the tub squeezed him against a prop. He died six days afterwards.

PREECE Alma – 1903 – 10/02/1903 – Age 60 – Titterstone, Basalt Quarry Stonebreaker, Field and McKay, Shropshire. Knocked down by truck at the stone breaking yard. Died 18th May. Female

PREECE Henry Charles – 1908 – 02/11/1908 – Age 47 – South Wales Asst. hitcher, Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. As he was descending, with seven others in the first cage load of night men, he was struck in the neck behind the jaw by some blunt instrument which made a hole in it, and also fractured the base of his skull. Whatever struck him had evidently fallen in the shaft and caught him, being the outside man. What it was or where it came from remains unknown. The shaft had been examined about 2.30 pm. or about 4 hours before the accident and again after it but nothing was found throwing light upon it. I am classifying it as ‘Things falling from Surface,’ but cannot say definitely that it is so.

PREECE James – 1908 – 01/09/1908 – Age 45 – Grassmoor No.3 Stallman, Grassmoor Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of coal. Deceased and others were engaged in ripping the roadway and building packs when a fall of roof occurred and injured three men. One, the deceased, died from his injuries on 3rd September.

PREECE Joseph – 1906 – 21/09/1906 – Age 36 – Llanhilleth Collier, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was engaged, about 5 yards back from the face, ripping top in his road about 10 inch thick, and was trimming the side to make place for timber, when a large piece of the upper top came down upon him. There seems to have been no sign of smooth joints, before the accident. A general squeeze seems to have been taking place there at the time.

PREEDY William – 1903 – 25/11/1903 – Age 51 – Thurmaston, Clay Quarry Quarryman, Thurmaston Brick Co., Leicestershire. Fall of clay. The deceased died on 30th November.

PRENTICE Thomas – 1900 – 02/03/1900 – Age 54 – Earnock Ashman, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. A wall against which dross for the boilers was laid down collapsed and fell on deceased.

PRESCOT Edmund – 1901 – 23/01/1901 – Age 32 – Abram No.2 Undermanager, Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A tub attached to the haulage in getting off the rails displaced a bar supporting the roof and after the fall had been cleared away deceased was examining the roof above when a second fall occurred burying him.

PRESCOT Mary – 1902 – 07/11/1902 – Age 18 – Wigan Junction Screenhand, Wigan Junction Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased attempted to cross some bevelled pulleys, where a face rail had been taken off near the screens, and her dress got caught in the wheels and she got her leg severely injured. She expired at the Wigan Infirmary 5th Dec 1903, after undergoing an operation. Manager prosecuted and convicted for non-fencing. Female.

PRESCOTT Henry – 1902 – 03/02/1902 – Age 35 – Dean Lane Collier, Bedminster Easton Kingswood & Parkfield Collieries Ltd., Somerset. He had benched or holed over the coal and while clearing away the rubbish a large stone fell from the roof. Result of the place not being sufficiently timbered.

PRESCOTT John – 1909 – 04/06/1909 – Age 26 – Barrington Hewer, Bedlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of roof stone at face of pillar workings.

PRESLEY John – 1904 – 04/09/1904 – Age 16 – Creswell Horse driver, Bolsover Colliery Co., Derbyshire. He was fatally crushed between a standing set of tubs and another train of tubs which ran into the standing set which should have been unclipped from the rope by the deceased. He was working a Sunday night shift.

PREST Thomas – 1903 – 14/10/1903 – Age 53 – Binchester Engineman, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Alleged to have died from the effects of a fall in the engine house but medical evidence proved that his death was due to syncope.

PRESTON A. – 1904 – 25/10/1904 – Age 32 – Roundwood Collier, Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was cutting through a 8-foot rib of coal, next to the goat side, when some stone from the roof fell upon and killed him. The fall disclosed a sloping slip in the roof and a weight break at the coal side. As weight breaks are to be expected under such circumstances a prop ought to have been set near the rib before any coal was taken off.

PRESTON James – 1905 – 14/09/1905 – Age 18 – Lea Green Pony driver, Sutton Heath and Lea Green Collieries Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was run over on the haulage downbrow through a coupling breaking when travelling the haulage road. Manholes were 12 yards apart.

PRESTON William Henry – 1904 – 08/04/1904 – Age 23 – Hindlow, Limestone Quarry Labourer, PW Spencer, Derbyshire. Deceased stood upon a barrow-road formed of planks, 22 inches wide, and while turning round he missed his footing and fell with his head upon a railway rail 9 feet below. He died 12th Apr.

PRESTWOOD Ambrose – 1903 – 22/01/1903 – Age 56 – Llwynypia No.2 Collier, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and 28 other persons were being lowered down the shaft and when about 88 yards from the bottom the cage struck a cast iron water garland curb, which caused it to tilt up and deceased fell out. On inspection being made the shaft and appliances were found to be in good order and it is difficult to say what caused the cage to oscillate sufficiently to strike the curb as there was a clearance of 19 inches, 2 killed.

PREWETT Leslie – 1903 – 30/10/1903 – Age 16 – Abercarne, Prince of Wales Collier’s boy, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. His butty or the responsible collier was wedging a piece of coal off the face when a fall of roof occurred across the stall catching deceased under one edge of it. There apparently were no false slips to account for the accident. It evidently resulted in consequence of a weighting of the place breaking the roof down. There was considerable carelessness on the collier's part in not having examined and sounded the roof more carefully and in having so much roof space without timber. The examiner seems also to have been slack in his duty.

PRICE Alfred – 1900 – 05/09/1900 – Age 19 – Milfraen Collier, Blaenavon Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of coal under which he was working with insufficient sprags.

PRICE Alfred – 1905 – 01/02/1905 – Age 36 – Ebbw Vale Waun Llwyd Haulier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Scratched his face just beneath the left eye when pulling a locker out of a wheel. Erysipelas supervening, he died on the 11th of February, the result, according to medical evidence, of the scratch.

PRICE Alfred Thomas - 1908 - 24/03/1908 – Age 20 - Elliot Rider, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When riding a journey of trams, on the Abercarn Haulage Deep, he appears to have been on a shackle between two trams and falling off was run over by the journey. It has been prohibited at this Colliery to ride the shackles, and a seat has been provided for use at the end of the journey. He had been cautioned by the overman against the practice only the day before the accident. (Mechanical haulage).

PRICE Arthur - 1906 - 27/04/1906 – Age 22 - Ashtons Green Waggoner, Bromilow Foster and Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was pushing tubs off the flat landing, to run downbrow, when the engineman, without any proper signal, started them the wrong way, and deceased got fatally crushed against the frame of the jig wheel.

PRICE Arthur Adcock - 1901 - 08/10/1901 – Age 16 - Clifton Horse driver, Clifton Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. He was travelling in front of a horse and train of full tubs and when going down a slight incline in the roadway the horse caught him up and ran over him.

PRICE Arthur Henry - 1907 - 02/08/1907 – Age 44 - Sneyd Collier, Sneyd Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased left his working place and started outbye for the pit, a few minutes before ‘loose it’ and while haulage was still going on. He got in front of a loaded tub, which was being brought out by hand down a slight incline. He hurried along to get out of the way but struck his head against a low bar in the roadway and was knocked down and run into by the load. He received injuries to the spine from which he died on the 31st.

PRICE Arthur Llewellyn - 1907 - 16/02/1907 – Age 16 - Waunhir Collier, Trimsharan Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. The accident was caused by the snapping of a 4 inches x 3/4 inch mild steel hitching plate or draw bar across a rivet-hole, at the tail end of the first tram in a train of nine loaded ones as the journey was getting over a brow having an inclination of 20 degrees, at the mouth of the main haulage slant. These men, with many others, were walking up the slant at the end of the shift, when they were run over and killed. 6 killed. Five others were injured.

PRICE Bert - 1907 - 16/10/1907 – Age 28 - Marine Assistant blocklayer, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof on a Barry road in the Big Vein Seam, where he was assisting to lay the curve rails leading up into the face clod which had not been taken down, as usual to make height, fell from a face slip, which his butty should have noticed, he himself not being an experienced man the collier in charge of the place seems to blame in the matter more or less.

PRICE Charles - 1900 - 27/03/1900 – Age 60 - Renishaw Park No.2 Stallman, J and G Wells, Derbyshire. He received a very slight injury in the mine on 22nd June, 1889, and he died from a complication of diseases of the heart and liver.

PRICE Charles - 1901 - 08/11/1901 – Age 30 - Blaen-Cae-Gurwen Timberman, Blaen-Cae-Gurwen Colliery Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road (airway) while clearing a fall and repairing the airway another fall killed deceased on the spot, his partner having a narrow escape. Brass or Peacock vein.

PRICE Daniel - 1900 - 11/06/1900 – Age 39 - Ebbw Vale, Marine Collier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof where he and others were making height in a cross heading. The bed of stone which they were ripping down fell over a considerable area, the props having been removed for the purpose.

PRICE Daniel - 1906 - 18/08/1906 – Age 60 - Cwmaman Roadman, Cwmaman Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was taking a stranger along a haulage road to the shaft, when he walked into an ingoing empty journey. Deceased had been deceived when the journey started in. He thought it was back at the pit, whereas it was only 200 yards away, and had been standing at that spot for some time. The road was of good width and height, and there were sufficient manholes.

PRICE David - 1900 - 05/07/1900 – Age 38 - Abercrave Collier, Abercrave Colliery Co., Brecon. Crushed by a journey of five loaded trams running wild owing to the breaking of a link in the bridle chain on a gradient of 1 to 9.

PRICE David - 1903 - 14/01/1903 – Age 40 - Wyndham Pulleyman, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. He died 22nd Jan. from injuries received while oiling having been caught by sheave which tore his arm off.

PRICE David John - 1902 - 07/01/1902 – Age 39 - Ferndale No.4 Haulier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Found under a loaded tram fatally injured. He was last seen walking out in front of his horse. He may have slipped on the rail or may have been getting on to the gun and fallen. The road was level.

PRICE David R. - 1906 - 11/06/1906 – Age 24 - Werfa Haulier, Marquess of BUTE, Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 12 feet by 7 feet by 5 feet thick, fell on deceased, he was taking a full tram out. The tram jumped off the rails, knocked out two pairs of timber and allowed the roof to fall on deceased, who was riding on the gun. Quarters seam.

PRICE Edward - 1900 - 10/10/1900 – Age 33 - Penrikyber Repairer, Penrikyber Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road cliff, 3 feet x 2.5 feet x 1 foot 8 inches thick, it fell between two arms while he was lagging behind them. Four feet seam.

PRICE George – 1905 – 16/08/1905 – Age 25 – East Elliot Timberman, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof on a level road where he and another were repairing. They appear to have taken reasonable precautions for their safety.

PRICE Isaac – 1904 – 19/03/1904 – Age 36 – Cambrian No.1 Haulier, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was taking two empty trams along a heading, riding on the gun, when his head came violently in contact with a low collar. He fell to the ground but the tram did not touch him. He was able to tell another haulier how the accident occurred but died in ten minutes from a fracture of the neck. There was a bridge of five pairs of low timbers from 4 feet 10 inches to 5 feet 4 inches high.

PRICE James – 1902 – 08/09/1902 – Age 77 – Garn Ironstone miner, Blaenavon Co. Ltd., Monmouth. About half cwt of roof stone, which was insufficiently spragged, fell from a joint and injured his shoulder blade and back. The injuries were comparatively slight but owing to his great age they resulted fatally.

PRICE James – 1904 – 06/06/1904 – Age 40 – Point of Ayrshire, Shotlighter, Point of Ayr Collieries Co., Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased attached the electric cable to the charge in the shothole when another shotlighter, who appeared to have been assisting him, owing to it being a wet road fired the shot with the battery thinking the deceased had retired to a safe place. Breach of Special Rules for which the other shotlighter was prosecuted and convicted.

PRICE James – 1904 – 16/11/1904 – Age 43 – Tir Pentwys Roadsman, Tir Pentwys Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He appears to have been riding up the main slope from where the journey started. Before it got clear of the parting he fell off and was run over by the last tram. It is strongly alleged that riding was prohibited but as the roadman, who should report anyone doing so, was at the parting when the journey started it is hardly imaginable that the man would have acted as he did unless he knew that the roadman was slack in the matter.

PRICE James – 1909 – 10/12/1909 – Age 58 – Ashmore Park Stallman, Ashmore Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. This accident was due to a deliberate breach of General Rule 22 and Special Rule 83. The seam at the place of accident had a section beginning from the roof, as follows:- Coal 7 inches, batt 1 foot 6 inches, coal 2 feet 2 inches, batt 1 foot, coal 8 inches. Although there was a quantity of the top batt projecting from the face line, about 2 feet for a length of 12 feet, deceased sat down beneath this and commenced holing in the bottom batt. A portion of the over hanging batt came off at a "slip" and fell upon his back and side causing injuries from which he died three days later. He ought either to have got the batt down or securely spragged it before commencing work.

PRICE John – 1901 – 07/11/1901 – Age 21 – Bedwellty Collier’s butty, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof on a main road where he was clearing rubbish after a fall.

PRICE John – 1904 – 16/07/1904 – Age 16 – Diamond Assistant rider, Diamond Anthracite Mine Co. Ltd., Brecon. Run over by a tram on slant. The tram became detached, apparently by the journey being lowered instead of being raised after the signal was given and the bar-hook bending and failing to hold the journey. Deceased had put the bar-hook on but did not move out of the road as he ought have done.

PRICE John – 1906 – 13/06/1906 – Age 23 – Silverwood Trammer, Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He went into the goaf, beyond the back timber, to relieve himself when a large fall of roof occurred and killed him.

PRICE John – 1909 – 07/10/1909 – Age 45 – Maesteg Merthyr Fireman, Elders Navigation Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road; while inspecting a place where a large fall of roof had occurred, a further extensive fall of roof took place, which buried him, and when extricated he was found to be dead. Cross Measure Return. Safety lamps.

PRICE John – 1909 – 17/05/1909 – Age 37 – Abram Collier, Abram Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. He was engaged building a packwall on the side of the roadway when a sudden weighting of the roof took place, capping two bars, and fatally injuring deceased.

PRICE John Edward – 1902 – 01/10/1902 – Age 21 – Tirpentwys Collier, Tirpentwys Black Vein Steam Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Monmouth. The accident was caused by the loose board on the top of the upcast shaft casing for closing the aperture through which the rope passed and had play room for surging being drawn up to the pulley and knocking the rope off it on to the gudgeon or axle, the sudden bend and jerk being quite enough to account for the rope break. The rope was a good one, breaking strain when tested afterwards was 36 tons, working load 4 tons, original breaking strain of rope 40 tons. It had been working two years and four months. 8 killed.

PRICE John Edward – 1909 – 17/12/1909 – Age 41 – Glapwell Ripping contractor, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Two shots had been fired by the deceased deputy in the ripping lip and he and the contractor were getting down the shaken stone. A large piece of stone appeared to be insecure and both men tried for some time to get it down but had not succeed. They then decided to set a prop under it and were doing so, when the piece of stone fell, bringing others with it, and both men were killed instantly. 2 killed.

PRICE Joseph – 1903 – 31/10/1903 – Age 44 – Tudhoe Hewer, Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from injuries received in the pit 1899 by fall of stone.

PRICE Joseph – 1909 – 07/07/1909 – Age 37 – Gore, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Old Radnor Trading Co. Ltd., Radnor. Deceased was working on a ledge 4 to 8 feet wide when, by some means, he fell to the bottom, about 100 feet. He very likely had an attack of giddiness. He had complained of giddiness some time previous.

PRICE Noah – 1907 – 15/01/1907 – Age 30 – Darran Haulier, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased brought a full tram out from the face of a level and left it and the horse just outside of a rise heading. He then went up the rise healing and attempted to run the full trams down to attach it to the one he had brought out of the level. He took two sprags out and got the fireman to start the train and, after it had gone a few yards, replaced the sprags. Before it reached the level it came to a stop and deceased was found under it. His spine was fractured. He was very probably going in front of the tram, holding it back and fell. He died on January 29th.

PRICE Patrick – 1907 – 03/08/1907 – Age 30 – North Bitchburn Labourer, North Bitchburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was putting some buckets into a cage when it was taken away suddenly, and he fell into the sump.

PRICE Rees – 1900 – 28/09/1900 – Age 34 – Gwaun-cae-Gurwen Hitcher, Gwaun-cae-Gurwen Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fatally injured by a lump of coal falling from the ascending cage as it reached the surface. Pit 185 yards deep.

PRICE Richard – 1906 – 05/06/1906 – Age 38 – Wynnstay Collier, Wynnstay Collieries Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. When his partner was getting souls roof down with an iron bar in the brow, deceased appeared to have stood too near him, as more roof came down than they expected, to a slippery parting. He expired June 10.

PRICE Richard – 1906 – 14/02/1906 – Age 37 – Ferndale No. 8 Roadsman, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, cliff, 15 feet by 10 feet by 8 inches thick, fell while deceased was laying down rails. It was quite unsupported. The Four feet workings were passing over it, and no doubt caused the stone to burst off from the roof. Six feet seam.

PRICE Robert – 1906 – 07/11/1906 – Age 17 – Allerton Bywater Pony driver, New Silkstone and Haigh Moor Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He had gone into the face of the workings with four empty tubs, but as there were no full tubs ready he took the empty ones into the crossgate and left them there, and was passing the end of a gateway, with his horse, under some girders which were resting at one end on another girder, when by some means the prop under one end of the latter was displaced and a large fall of stone occurred which killed both the lad and the horse. There was considerable weight on the road and it is probable the prop was pushed out by the side squeezing in.

PRICE Robert J. – 1907 – 03/12/1907 – Age 23 – New Duffryn Collier, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was recovering a charge of Saxonite, which had missed fire, when he did something to it and caused it to explode. The detonator had previously been recovered.

PRICE Robert Thomas – 1908 – 25/02/1908 – Age 22 – Wharncliffe Woodmoor Dataller, Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died from an injury received on January 9th last, which at the time was not considered serious. A water tub was being removed from the engine plane into an old engine house on the side of the road, and when it was passing through the door his hand was crushed. It was subsequently found that a bone in the back of his hand was broken, and marrow from the fracture passed into the blood stream to the heart and clogged the valves.

PRICE Samuel H. – 1902 – 02/05/1902 – Age 26 – Walsall Wood Stallman, Walsall Wood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof from a slip at working face in the yard coal seam while cutting away the top of a post for withdrawing it. He should have set a foreset to protect himself.

PRICE Thomas – 1900 – 27/08/1900 – Age 19 – Lower Varteg Haulier, Lower Varteg Colliery Co., Monmouth. His horse having stopped he kicked it. The horse kicked back and caused injuries which resulted in his death.

PRICE Thomas – 1900 – 28/02/1900 – Age 50 – West Elliott Assistant timberman, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Crushed between tram and the side of the road when assisting a haulier to hitch his horse to the tram. He died on the 6th March.

PRICE Thomas – 1902 – 20/09/1902 – Age 64 – South Leicester Banksman, South Leicester Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Deceased was seen leaning over a coal tub, gasping for breath. He was taken to the cabin and died there. An inquest was held when the jury returned a verdict that he 'died from natural causes namely heart disease.'

PRICE Thomas – 1904 – 29/03/1904 – Age 19 – South Duffryn No.1 Labourer, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was stowing a dip with rubbish lowered by a hauling engine. A loaded tram got off the rails in going down and deceased and the rider put it back on. He then walked down the dip and as the rider started the tram to follow him the rope broke and the tram ran down and struck deceased on his side. The rope was said to have worked for five weeks only but this was not borne out by the condition of the rope. It had been knotted in five places and a length of one strand was missing. The rope was 3/8 inch in diameter and the dip was 1 in 9. Deceased died in two days.

PRICE Thomas Charles – 1903 – 03/12/1903 – Age 21 – Bargoed Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Thomas, in pulling coal, released a false slip from which a large stone, weighing about four tons, fell and knocked out a post that was placed under it although it was tested twice, the thickness of the stone evidently deceived the men and caused it to sound good. The roof which is strong in this part of the seam was apparently trusted with less timber than elsewhere. 2 killed.

PRICE Watkin – 1907 – 11/03/1907 – Age 56 – Glyncorrwg, Blaengwynfi Haulier, Glyncorrwg Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While drawing sprags from the wheels of a loaded tram the horse moved on and drew the tram into the side and he got crushed between the tram and the side of the roadway, and so severely injured that he died at the Swansea Hospital on 24th April.

PRICE William – 1900 – 12/06/1900 – Age 24 – Clydach Merthyr Collier, Graigola Merthyr Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 12 feet x 6 feet x 18 inches thick, fell while he was pulling down some bast. Craigola seam.

PRICE William – 1900 – 20/07/1900 – Age 64 – Lady Windsor Cog cutter, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by a journey as he was passing out of the pit. Died November 23rd.

PRICE William – 1901 – 18/12/1901 – Age 32 – Gilwen Collier, Gilwen Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While working in the face of the main dip, and assisting his partner to place an empty tram against a rail to hold it, the rope attached to this and two other (leaded) trams broke at a cap and the trams squeezed him against the face.

PRICE William – 1902 – 04/07/1902 – Age 67 – Navigation Labourer, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Knocked down and drawn along by an empty journey, which was being let down from the rubbish tip. Not sufficient space between the two roads. Died Aug. 12th.

PRICE William – 1903 - 22/06/1903 – Age 34 – Park Stoker, Blaina Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. Died 6th July in Swansea Hospital from burns, the result of his having upset a torch lamp suspended in front of boilers which he attended.

PRICE William – 1906 – 14/11/1906 – Age 21 – New Brancepeth Hewer, Cochrane & Co. Ltd. Co.Durham. When hewing in his working place, a stone fell from between four slips and killed him. The slips could not possibly have been detected.

PRICE William – 1906 – 16/02/1906 – Age 22 – Byers Green Hewer, Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was apparently very slightly injured by a fall of roof on 16th February. He worked subsequently, but died on 27th July, and the medical evidence at the inquest was to the effect that death was due to the injury he had received by the fall.

PRICE William – 1908 – 15/09/1908 – Age 56 – Blean-Cae-Gurwen (Bleancaegurwen?) Timberman, Blean-Cae-Gurwen (Bleancaegurwen?)  Colliery Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road while repairing; while engaged in bringing down a bed of shale roof with his iron bar, it is believed that the bar struck him in the forehead as the stone was falling. He suffered from a fractured skull. Brass Vein. Safety lamps.

PRICE William – 1909 – 06/10/1909 – Age 53 – St. John’s Sinking Labourer, Norths Navigation Collieries Co. (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. He was standing in front of the smoke box of a locomotive which was taking 10 loaded rubbish waggons down a gradient varying from 1 in 25 to 1 in 40. The train ran wild, owing to greasy rails, probable defect in the apparatus for supplying the sand, and the heavy weight of the train. The train crashed into a block at the siding end, crushing Price between the waggon and engine. Four men on the engine jumped off. Total weight of waggons was 160 tons and weight of engine 22 tons. The locomotive was clearly too light for the work.

PRICE William – 1909 – 17/12/1909 – Age 16 – Coedcae Labourer, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, in the process of levelling the small coal in a bunker at the coke ovens, must have stepped on the surface of the small coal at a time when the bunker was being tapped at the bottom, with the consequence that he was carried down with the rush of small coal and smothered. Grids are to be erected which will prevent a recurrence of this accident.

PRICE William J. – 1904 – 28/03/1904 – Age 45 – Tirydail Electrician, Tirydail Colliery Co. Ltd., Camarthen. Electrocuted while searching for a leak in a cable.

PRICHARD John – 1904 – 19/07/1904 – Age 36 – Cefn Du, Slate Quarry Slate getter, Llanberis Slate Co. Ltd., Carnarvon. A stone, which had probably been loosened by a blast, fell on to him and he was killed on the spot.

PRICHARD Richard B. – 1904 – 22/08/1904 – Age 57 – Penyrorsedd, Slate Quarry Slate getter, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry Co. Ltd., Carnarvon. A large block of slate turned on to him and crushed his thigh.