REES Jenkin – 1900 – 19/06/1900 – Age 39 – Dinas Isha Collier, Ely Rhondda Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 3 feet x 2.5 feet x 1 feet thick, fell from a clayey slip discharging one prop. Died 19th Sept. No.8 Rhondda seam.

REES John – 1901 – 26/06/1901 – Age 29 – Penrikyber Collier, Penrikyber Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face clod, 14 feet by 2.5 feet by 17 inches thick, from between two diagonal slants. It was not supported. Six feet seam.

REES John – 1903 – 14/07/1903 – Age 34 – Fforchaman Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face rock and fireclay, 13 feet by 4 feet by 17 inches thick, fell as he was pulling some coal down. One prop was crushed. out. Two feet nine seam.

REES John – 1904 – 01/03/1904 – Age 33 – Werfa Collier, Marquiss of Bute, Glamorgan. At face shale, 3 feet 9 inches by 18 inches by 10 inches thick, fell off a face slip as he was cutting the bottom coal. He had worked the bottom coal out about 2 feet from under the shale and top coal which should have been spragged. Red vein.

REES John – 1904 – 19/10/1904 – Age 65 – Cwmaman Lamp lighter, Cwmaman Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was knocked down by a tram laden with rubbish. A rider filled a tram with rubbish, off the sides of an engine plane at the end of the shift, and with the assistance of an assistant fireman pushed it out some distance to where the outward dip became greater. Then they spragged two of the wheels and allowed it to run unattended to the parting where it knocked deceased down. He was a cripple and must have gone down the pit 45 minutes before the usual time so as to have plenty of time to walk quietly to his lamp cabin for the night shift. The men said that they did not think that anyone would be coming in.

REES John – 1904 – 31/10/1904 – Age 30 – Duffryn Rhondda Rider, Duffryn Rhondda Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Found dead under an empty tram having apparently been run over by a journey which was starting from a parting. No external injuries; death due to asphyxia.

REES John – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones. 21 South St., Ynyshir, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

REES John – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 17 – 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. 47, Brewery St., Pontygwaith, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday. Son of John.

REES John – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 37 – 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. 47, Brewery St., Pontygwaith, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday. Father of John.

REES John – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 50 – 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.

REES John – 1905 – 17/03/1905 – Age 25 – Park Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. At face cliff, 3 feet 8 inches by 2 feet by 23 inches thick. Deceased was assisting, at his request, a collier to secure his working place after the shift had come to an end. As they were engaged in building a ‘cog’ and deceased was handing a piece of wood to the collier, the fall occurred and knocked deceased violently against a tram. He was severely bruised on the back and his pelvis was fractured. He died on the 17th April from pyaemia. Six feet seam.

REES John – 1905 – 19/01/1905 – Age 38 – Tirdonkin Collier, Tirdonkin Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, while setting a pair of timbers a stone fell upon him.

REES John - 1906 - 25/08/1906 – Age 40 - Deep Navigation Repairer, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, cliff, 17 feet by 10 feet by 2 feet 9 inches thick. Deceased was sent to clear a small fall on an untimbered roadway. He was poking at some loose stones with a pole when the roof collapsed and buried him. Six feet seam.

REES John - 1906 - 30/08/1906 – Age 50 - Abergorky Labourer, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and a fitter were breaking up the castings of an old Guibal fan. They bored a hole in the outer rim, connecting the arms of the centre wheel and drove a plug in to crack it through. As soon as it cracked half the wheel fell and deceased fell on it, a distance of 16 feet. An old crack was then found around the boss of the wheel, so that when the upper connection was broken the weight of the casting broke the other connection.

REES John - 1907 - 12/04/1907 – Age 42 - Cwrt-y-Bettws Collier, Hedleys Collieries Co., Glamorgan. He was found lying dead on a roadway. It is thought that while riding on a loaded coal tram, drawn by a horse, he had struck his head against a piece of projecting side or a ‘collar’. The doctor at the inquest stated that he had sustained a fracture of the neck.

REES John - 1907 - 13/05/1907 – Age 33 - Glenavon Collier, Glenavon Garw Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face while holing in a bed of coal, 7 inches in thickness, which is under a stratum of clod 2 feet thick some clod and coal measuring 6 feet in length, 2 feet 6 inches in width and 2 feet thick fell upon him causing a fracture of the spine from the effects of which he died 25th Oct. From a sketch of the face, taken shortly before the accident, it would seen that the clod under holing was not properly secured by sprags or short props. The manager and fireman cautioned him a few days before the accident occurred to be more careful in securing his coal face. No 2 Rhondda. Naked lights.

REES John - 1907 - 16/02/1907 – Age 18 - Waunhir Collier, Trimsharan Co. Ltd., Camarthen. The accident was caused by the snapping of a 4 inches x ¾ 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. No barhook used.

REES John - 1908 - 17/08/1908 – Age 21 - Merthyr Vale No.2 Collier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was helping his neighbour, a collier named Fletcher, to lower an empty tram to the face of his road, which owing to a fault dipped 12 inches per yard. The full tram had been pulled up from the face by means of a compressed air hauling empty in the meantime having been left in a shunt or parting at the top of the brow. They pulled the empty tram out of the shunt on to the main road, and deceased was holding it in position for Fletcher to attach a hemp rope, two turns of which were passed round a post, to the outer end of the drawbar, when the tram overpowered deceased, ran down the steep place and reached the face. Undoubtedly a sprag should have been used and an error of judgement was made by both men.

REES John B. - 1900 - 26/06/1900 – Age 31 - Llwynypia No.6 Rider, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A brick fell out of the lining of the shaft on to the top of the cage in which he was ascending with nine others and he fell or was thrown out.

REES Joseph - 1908 - 21/01/1908 – Age 43 - Black Vein Drift Collier, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, cliff, 21 feet by 2.5 feet by 2 feet thick, fell from between two converging slants, which were invisible before the accident. It was unsupported. Black seam.

REES Joseph - 1900 - 22/12/1900 – Age 59 - Maesteg Deep Screenman, Norths Navigation Collieries (1899) Ltd., Glamorgan. Died on 3rd April, 1901 from injuries according to doctor's evidence, to spleen and pancreas the result of a blow or squeeze said to have been received while working at picking table on 22nd December 1900.

REES Morgan – 1901 – 30/11/1901 – Age 26 – Hendreforgan Labourer, Gwaun Cae Gurwen Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While removing a stone from the road the journey, which was standing close by, started and he was caught between the side and the trams. He could have cancelled the signal to start before exposing himself to the danger.

REES Morgan – 1903 – 05/10/1903 – Age 53 – Castle Repairer, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased strained himself while assisting another man in putting up a wood door. He was operated on three days after the accident but died from exhaustion the day after the operation.

REES Morgan – 1906 – 31/03/1906 – Age 28 – Castle Haulier, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was assisting some men to place a tram which had become derailed on to the road, when a piece of side stumbled on him from between two pairs of timber, 7 feet apart. The quantity of side that gave way probably amounted to 4 or 5 cwt. but only a portion of this struck deceased. His spine was fractured, and he died on March 26th. 1906. Nine-feet seam.

REES Nathaniel – 1907 – 05/07/1907 – Age 23 – Ynyo-cedwyn Haulier, South Wales Anthracite Colliery Co. Ltd., Brecon. While walking between a horse and a train of six loaded trams the horse slipped on a rail stumbled and fell. The trams coming onward crushed the haulier between them and the horse.

REES Rees - 1901 - 13/12/1901 – Age 46 - Gelli Steam Fireman, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed against a broken collar while illegally riding up a drift. Died next day.

REES Samuel - 1904 - 05/11/1904 – Age 15 - Merthyr Vale No.2 Shackler, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. The roof on the road cliff, 4 feet by 4 feet by 9 inches thick, fell on him. It was quite unsupported. Nine feet seam.

REES Thomas – 1900 – 15/10/1900 – Age 57 – Ferndale No.6 Repairer, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road cliff, 6 feet x 3 feet x 2 feet thick which he was barring down fell before he expected it and he failed to get out of the way. Five feet seam.

REES Thomas – 1900 – 26/01/1900 – Age 58 – Clydach Merthyr Collier, Graigola Merthyr Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road rock, 6 feet x 4 feet x 8 inches thick fell while he was striking out a post in an abandoned stall. Graigola seam.

REES Thomas – 1901 – 08/04/1901 – Age 33 – Park Master haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Rider (assisting) crushed while riding between trams, the first tram having got off the rails. Died on 15th.

REES Thomas – 1903 – 20/06/1903 – Age 30 – Abergorky No.1 Sinker, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was sinking a small air-pit when something fell, either from the saddle beard or from the side, and struck him on the head. It was a pit sunk from one seam to another for ventilation.

REES Thomas – 1903 – 23/12/1903 – Age 45 – Ferndale No.2 Labourer, Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was unloading a tram of rubbish on the side of a heading when he was caught by another tram of rubbish which came from higher up the heading and crushed between the two. The runaway tram was being hauled up the heading by a chain attached to a haulage rope and had a barhook behind. The tram left the rails and the rider took off the barhook in order to lift the hind end on to the rails. In lifting the front end on the rails the chain somehow became detached and the tram ran back. The rider stated that he put two sprags in the wheels before removing the barhook. Died Feb. 28th, 1904.

REES Thomas – 1906 – 16/10/1906 – Age 27 – Aberpergwm Collier, Morgan S Williams, Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, a portion of the roof at the road end had been shaken by a shot which had been fired in the place and a prop had been displaced. While deceased was clearing away the debris, a stone measuring 4 feet 2 inches by 2 feet 10 inches by 7 inches, fell upon him and killed him. Three feet seam.

REES Thomas – 1907 – 01/08/1907 – Age 36 – Bwllfa No 2 Repairer, Bwllfa & Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries (1891) Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and his partner tumbled an empty tram on the side of a level piece of road in order to allow the haulier to pass out with the tram of rubbish which they had filled. Deceased stood at the outer end of the tram, between it and the arm of a pair of timber. As the full tram reached the empty tram, it left the rails, probably owing to something which the horse had knocked on the rails, and caught the corner of the empty tram, driving it against deceased who was badly crushed between it and the arm of the pair of timbers. There was no need for deceased to stand where he did, there being plenty of room on both sides of the road which was free from accumulated rubbish.

REES Thomas – 1907 – 29/06/1907 – Age 20 – Gurnos Rider, Gurnos Anthracite Colliery Co. Ltd., Brecon. While riding on a loaded train of trams he fell off when attempting to signal to the engineman to stop the journey in consequence of the leading tram leaving the rails. Before the journey was brought to a standstill the first tram had knocked out a pair of timbers and a fall of roof resulted. The fall of roof was not, in my opinion, the cause of death.

REES Thomas – 1908 – 15/05/1908 – Age 41 – Tydraw Collier, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, about 15 lbs. in weight, fell from the face of the rippings, and cut deceased’s head slightly. He worked two days afterwards. He was medically attended, but in a fortnight died in an epileptic fit. The doctor said that the cut on the head was the primary cause of the fit. Four feet seam.

REES Thomas – 1909 – 12/11/1909 – Age 45 – Cwmllynfell Assistant pitman, Benjamin Thomas and Sons, Glamorgan. In a shaft, while engaged in releasing pulley block ropes, which had been used in lowering a steam pump from the surface to shaft bottom, the deceased was in a bowk disentangling a rope from the water column, when the rope, due to its weight, was drawn over the pulley at the top and fell down the shaft, Rees either fell off the bowk in the jerk when the rope flew upwards, or when the rope fell down the shaft. The deceased fell a distance of 50 yards and was killed.

REES Thomas – 1909 – 21/10/1909 – Age 26 – Graig Merthyr Roadsman, Graigola Merthyr Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road while enlarging a roadway in order to extend a siding, a large stone (sandstone) 8 feet 4 inches, by 5 feet and 7 inches in thickness fell and killed Rees who was near the place and injured the two colliers who were working at the enlargement. Jeffreys came to the rescue, when a further fall took place and killed him. Graigola Seam. Naked lights. 2 killed.

REES Thomas John – 1901 – 10/09/1901 – Age 60 – Llanbradradach No.2 Fireman, Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion formed the subject of a special report by Mr. J. S. Martin. Cd885. 8 killed. some injured.

REES William – 1902 – 12/07/1902 – Age 48 – Maesteg Deep Day overman, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, while on his rounds he was killed by a fall of roof which was weak but apparently well secured. Two feet nine seam.

REES William - 1902 - 18/02/1902 – Age 55 - Bryn Navigation Collier, Bryn Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While riding up a slant on the first tram, with his feet on the bridle chain, his head came in contact with the roof.

REES William - 1902 - 31/07/1902 – Age 24 - South Duffryn No.1 Haulier, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Crushed to death while passing between two coaches used to convey the workmen to and from their work before the train was brought to a stand still.

REES William - 1903 - 21/01/1903 – Age 31 - Ferndale No.7 Haulier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was walking up behind a journey of five loaded trams, which were being drawn up a road rising three inches per yard when the D-link, which connects the rope to the short length of chain attached to the trams broke. The journey ran back and injured deceased so badly that he died in four days. A barhook was said to have been on the last tram but it failed to prevent the runaway.

REES William - 1904 - 24/08/1904 – Age 20 - Rhymney Merthyr No.1 Haulier, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was driving a horse with a tram of rubbish up an old heading which was being stowed. He was sitting on the front of the tram and was crushed against the roof. The height of 5.5 feet was reduced at that spot to 4.4 feet through an undulation in the roof. He died on 8th Sept.

REES William - 1907 - 12/07/1907 – Age 31 - Tonhir Coalcutter, Tonhir Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While removing a bar machine coal cutter, after it had reached the end of its cut, the machine was started with the cutter bar out of the seam, which is contrary to the maker’s instructions. The teeth caught in the man’s clothing, and drew him under cutting and mangling him so severely that he died in a very short time after he was extricated.

REES William - 1909 - 08/07/1909 – Age 13 - Merthyr Vale No.2 Collier boy, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased died on 17th July, from septic pneumonia, nine days after receiving what was considered to be a slight injury, caused by the falling of a small piece of coal off the face.

REES William - 1909 - 17/02/1909 – Age 32 - Ferndale No.2 Repairer, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road, fireclay, 6 feet by 6 feet by 10 inches thick, fell from a smooth slant on deceased as he and his partner were putting a collar on the anus of a pair of timber. He was said to have examined the roof after completing ripping and considered it safe. The overman and fireman were present at the time of the accident and had been there for five minutes. Yard seam.

REES William Daniel - 1903 - 03/12/1903 – Age 54 - Golden Hope Labourer, Swansea Coal Trust Ltd., Glamorgan. Died, 7th December from injury to his head having been struck with the handle of a windlass while engaged lowering an empty train down a short incline.

REES Willie - 1900 - 22/06/1900 – Age 24 - Caerau Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 4.5 feet x 33 inches x 16 inches thick, part of rippings which fell directly he knocked a prop out. A shot was ready to be fired in the rippings. New seam.

REES WJ - 1909 - 19/11/1909 – Age 28 - Ynysamman Labourer, Ynysamman Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. Crushed between tracks at screens while shunting. Died 8th November, 1910.

REEVE Henry - 1907 - 26/03/1907 – Age 41 - Gibfield Collier, Fletcher Burrows and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from the face, overhanging, ought to have been pulled down, he was kneeling down sorting out large coal pieces of coal which were only 2 feet long. Deceased had been ordered to work the top coal first over and in advance of the bottom coal, the accident revealed that the fireman had permitted deceased to work the bottom coal under the tops disregarding the order given. The place was not timbered according to the rule.

REEVES Herman - 1901 - 28/08/1901 – Age 48 - Barrow-on-Scar (limestone) Miner, John Ellis and Sons, Leicestershire. Fall of roof. Deceased was working in a heading getting limestone and shale when a fall of shale occurred and fatally injured him. Died 4th Sept.

REEVES John - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 19 - National No.2 Hitcher, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. 62, Hillside Terrace, Wattstown. He may have been the third person to be brought out alive but died from his injuries, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

REEVES John - 1909 - 03/09/1909 – Age 34 - Lumpsey Ironstone Miner, Bell Bros. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He took some top stone off the face with a pick, when a heavy fall of shale occurred and covered him up. There was a hitch running across the place and the stone he picked out had acted as a key and kept the shale in its place.

REEVES Thomas - 1902 - 19/04/1902 – Age 37 - Bwllfa, Gorllwyn Collier, Bwllfa & Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries (1891) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff 8 feet 8 inches x 3 feet 5 inches thick fell from between two slips which met at the top, it was part of a bell. The edge of the stone touched the lids of two props. Deceased was working away coal from under it at the time. Gorllwyn seam.

REGAN Albert – 1906 – 19/12/1906 – Age 28 – Measham Main Collier, Measham Collieries Ltd., Leicestershire. The deceased was injured in the mine on 21st October, 1903, which became a permanent injury. The coroner’s jury found that he died from ‘tuberculosis, accelerated by the accident and by alcoholism.'

REGAN Dennis – 1901 – 08/03/1901 – Age 50 – Falcon, Iron Ore Miner, Wyndham Mining Co., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased and three other men were engaged slicing a pillar of ore. At the time of the accident they had a hole charged and ready for firing, when without any warning part of the side, which the shot was intended to blast down, suddenly slipped off from a slippery parting and caught Regan. The overman had visited the place about an hour previously and thought all was in proper order.

REGAN Frank – 1903 – 12/05/1903 – Age 45 – Auchinraith No.2 Repairer, Merry and Cuninghame Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on haulage road while repairing it.

REGAN Patrick – 1908 – 27/01/1908 – Age 30 – Bold Contractor, Collins Green Colliery Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. They had been drilling a hole in the ripping and when deceased was taking up the rails, under where the shot was, a fall of roof occurred, fatally injuring deceased.

REID Alexander – 1901 – 04/02/1901 – Age 23 – Balbardie Miner, Balbardie Colliery Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased and his neighbour were brushing a level road when a stone fell off the side and killed him instantaneously.

REID Alexander – 1905 – 25/05/1905 – Age 42 – Balbardie Miner, Balbardie Colliery Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was adjusting a suction pipe, near a dock face, when a stone fell from the side upon him.

REID George – 1907 – 22/08/1907 – Age 61 – Herdshill Enginekeeper, Coltness Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was employed as an engineman at a shaft only used for lowering timber. The shaft is boxed at the surface up to a higher level. The cage had been lowered to the bottom, and deceased came to the lower level in order to dug a tub of debris on to the cage to raise it to the higher level, and opening the door which fenced the shaft he pushed the tub forward forgetting the cage was not there, and he and it were precipitated to the bottom, a distance of 46 fathoms.

REID James 1902 01/08/1902 – Age 36 Pumpherston Shale Miner Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow Explosion of firedamp. 3 killed.

REID James – 1905 – 18/03/1905 – Age 37 – Newbattle Miner, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was engaged laying rails on a dock road, at an upthrow fault, when a fall took place and he was fatally injured.

REID James – 1906 – 26/10/1906 – Age 33 – Craig yr Hesg, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Mackay and Davies, Glamorgan. Deceased and another man were going to remove a stone which stood on sloping ground. He worked away the earth in front of the stone and was about to attach the crane chain to it, when it slid forward and crushed his leg against another stone. He was taken to the Cardiff Infirmary, where on 22nd November the limb had to be amputated. He did not improve but died from blood poisoning on 5th February, 1907.

REID William N – 1905 – 27/09/1905 – Age 23 – Newbattle Dookfooter, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Haulage accident.

REIDY Thomas Patrick – 1909 – 26/04/1909 – Age 39 – Stockfield Collier, Chamber Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Bruised and skin abrasion on his leg from a small fall of coal and dirt from the face, he was pulling dirt down preparatory to setting a prop, he slipped, the fall caught his leg. Blood-poisoning caused death on 10th July.

REILLY James – 1908 – 10/04/1908 – Age 48 – Prospect Metalman, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. He was engaged packing the side of the road after roofing down, when a large stone fell upon him from the roof, capping three props.

REILLY Michael – 1905 – 11/05/1905 – Age 35 – Riddochhill Roadsman, Gavin Paul and Sons Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was assisting to repair a roadway when the roof fell upon him and he was injured. He died two days afterwards from his injury.

RELPH Robert – 1907 – 02/09/1907 – Age 41 – Burlington, Slate Quarry Quarryman, Burlington Slate Works, Lancashire. The part of the Quarry where this accident happened is known as the ‘Town’ Quarry and is about 120 feet deep. No slate was being obtained there, the men being engaged in removing rubbish to enable good metal to be worked below. The Town Quarry has been worked for many years and no accident had previously occurred there. The practice has been to work the bottom up during the summer months so that the top may he brought down during the winter. The working face at the time of the accident was nearly vertical, and a small piece of rock fell, without any warning, from a point about 55 feet above the Quarry floor and struck Relph, who was filling a truck, on the head.

RENARD W. – 1900 – 02/11/1900 – Age 28 – Rook Clay Quarry Quarryman, Rook Red Brick Co., Yorkshire. Fall of ground from place beyond his control.

RENFREW William – 1900 – 02/05/1900 – Age 29 – Blantyre Ferme Miner, AF Moore and Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal and midstone which burst away from the unholed face.

RENNIE David – 1903 – 02/07/1903 – Age 30 – Lochore Engineer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased and three other workmen were engaged getting a steam pump forward to lower it into a sinking pit when it tilted over and crushed him against an iron beam.

RENNIE Robert – 1900 – 22/01/1900 – Age 35 – Hallside Miner, James Dunlop and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof from brushing face. Caused by want of props.

RENSHAW James – 1907 – 02/08/1907 – Age 51 – Nunnery Collier, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The roof at the place where this accident occurred was full of slips. He was dressing the coal off to enable and set another bar when he exposed one of these slips, and a piece of stone, 1 foot 10 inches long by 1 foot 10 inches wide by 8 inches thick, fell and hit his pick causing it to be forced into his forehead. He died the same day.

RENTON Thomas – 1901 – 09/09/1901 – Age 65 – Aberdare Merthyr Pumpman, Marquess of Bute, Glamorgan. Killed by runaway trams at a pump on the side of the engine plane owing to the breaking of a shackle.

RENWICK George William – 1900 – 12/06/1900 – Age 26 – Cadzow Carter, Cadzow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While driving a cart in the colliery a wheel came in contact with a pipe and the cart was overturned.

REUDER Samuel – 1902 – 28/05/1902 – Age 30 – Bamfurlong Dataller, Cross Tetley and Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They had been blowing the roof down in a roadway and were propping the roof as they thought making it safe for the colliers shift when a fall of roof occurred from between two slips capping several prop, and fatally injuring deceased.

REVEL Samuel – 1909 – 05/11/1909 – Age 67 – Grassmoor No.2 Dataller, Grassmoor Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was approaching a door when a horse, attached to three full tubs, pushed the door open and knocked deceased down and was on the other side. A joint in the compressed air main was leaking and deceased was somewhat deaf.

REYNOLDS Annie – 1901 – 12/04/1901 – Age 17 – Chapel Coal Cleaner Chapel Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. The shoot which conveyed the nuts from the picking table to a hopper underneath had become choked owing to the hopper being full. Deceased placed her foot upon the nuts and was pushing them down when it was caught by the plates of the picking table, her leg was drawn in and the lower part of her body was severely crushed resulting in her death three hours after. Female.

REYNOLDS David J. – 1905 – 05/06/1905 – Age 25 – Cae Duke Collier, Loughor Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While letting down a tram on an in dined heading it overpowered him. He was found 26 yards from the top under the tram. A chain used as a ‘drag’ was not attached in this instance.

REYNOLDS George – 1903 – 28/08/1903 – Age 24 – Ellismuir No.2 Haulageman, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Crushed in some unexplained manner by his bogie when bringing a race of hutches out to the pit bottom.

REYNOLDS Hugh – 1900 – 04/01/1900 – Age 30 – Bunkers Hill No.3 Collier, William Rigby and Co., Staffordshire. Fall of coal and stone at working face in a ditching alongside an old level in 7 feet Banbury Seam while he was getting down coal shattered by a shot. Died 7th Jan.

REYNOLDS John – 1906 – 05/11/1906 – Age 47 – Wednesbury Oak No. 11 Trammer, T Higgs, Staffordshire. Said to have slipped and strained himself whilst pulling a loaded tub with a strap round his waist. He walked home but became ill and died later.

REYNOLDS John James – 1906 – 16/08/1906 – Age 25 – South Kirkby Dataller, South Kirkby Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The two deceased men and chargeman, of considerable experience, were taking girders out on a horse road in the Haigh Moor seam in order to make height. A deputy went to the place and found two girders had been taken out, and he stayed till another was got down and set three temporary props under the stone and thinking all was safe left the men. Within ten minutes of his doing so a bump occurred and displaced the props and a stone measuring 10 feet 8 inches long by 7 feet 7 inches wide by 10 inches thick at one end and running to nothing at the other fell and caught and killed these two men and injured the third. 2 killed.

REYNOLDS Norman – 1902 – 23/08/1902 – Brittania, Sandstone Quarry Crane tenter, Brooks and Brooks, Lancashire. Struck by fragments of broken crane engine which came out of gear either from vibration whilst the load was being raised or the looseness of the wheels of the engine.

REYNOLDS Thomas – 1907 – 05/09/1907 – Age 39 – Nine Mile Point Stoker, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fatally crushed against a kibble or bowk by the water tank at the back end of a steam navvy crane, as the navvy was being rotated to the discharging point, over a railway truck. How he came to be at the side of the truck is unknown and equally so how he failed to notice the approach of the water tank.

REYNOLDS Thomas – 1907 – 30/03/1907 – Age 56 – Bwllfa No.2 Pitman, Bwllfa & Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries (1891) Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased had been lowered on the top of the cage to the middle lift of the pump, and while he was attending to the pump a change of engineman took place, the out going on duty told the other where deceased was. In a short time deceased signalled to be lowered to the bottom and the engine was put in motion but the engineman forgot temporarily the position of the cage and lowered it on to the bottom with such force that deceased was knocked off by the bridle chains and his skull fractured. The engineman had worked the engine for 24 years without mishap. The engine was in good condition. He died in three days.

REYNOLDS Vincent Edward J. – 1905 – 21/09/1905 – Age 29 – Strelley Stallman, Shire Oaks Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof, after the coal had been got down and while it was being loaded up. 2 killed.

REYNOLDS William – 1901 – 04/12/1901 – Age 34 – Dunnikier Miner, Walter Herd and Sons Ltd., Fife. Deceased and his neighbour were hauling a loaded tub up a dook by means of an ordinary windlass and when the tub was a short distance up his neighbour thought there was something the matter with the machinery and let go of his handle causing the tub to go back and deceased, who was at the opposite handle attempted to escape, but failed to do so and was struck by the handle as it revolved in the reverse direction.

REYNOLDS William – 1903 – 28/11/1903 – Age 53 – St. Helens Hewer, St. Helens Colliery and Brickworks Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased and his son-in-law worked together in a longwall place in the Cannel Band. The shot firer had fired a shot for them, examined the place afterwards and cautioned them as to some hanging coal. Deceased appears to have been picking stones off the coal thrown by the shot preparatory to hewing down the hanging coal when it fell on him. He was apparently not seriously injured but he was a weakly man and he died in a few minutes.

RHEAD John – 1907 – 25/03/1907 – Age 28 – Marine Motor driver, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was in charge of an Electric (Motor) haulage engine, underground in the N.W. District Big Vein. It appears that the wires for the electric lighting (5 lamps in series) were so placed that they frequently got damaged by horses passing along the road and that they were frequently jointed by and everyone and these joints were not covered or insulated. Rhead appears to have gone to examine the wires, which had again been disturbed by a horse, and in turning a slack one out of the way he caught the bare part and received a severe shock from which he died. Unfortunately there was no one present who understood First Aid or there seems every reason to think his life would have been saved. The electrician appears to have been very slack about his work and was also found so on one or two previous occasions.

RHODES Arthur – 1904 – 06/08/1904 – Age 25 – Fforchaman Haulier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A link of a chain, holding 17 trams broke; the trams ran down a road having a dip of 3 inches per yard, knocked deceased down and ran over him. The link showed a flaw and signs of crystallisation.

RHODES Ben Albert – 1909 – 26/11/1909 – Age 35 – Hoyland Silkstone Manager – Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was standing on a cross beam, 24 feet from the ground, helping to lower a derrick pole with a length of spun yarn. The yarn was rotten and broke with the weight of the pole. This caused him to loose his balance and he fell to the ground and was killed.

RHODES George – 1909 – 13/12/1909 – Age 24 – Ravenhead Haulage Hand, St Helens Collieries Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Deceased, when attempting to scotch a set of full tubs in motion, got a fatal blow by the tubs on his head.

RHODES Harry – 1904 – 11/03/1904 – Age 20 – Lofthouse Byeworker, Lofthouse Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When drawing timber a fall of stone occurred and killed him. He was not authorised to draw timber and should not have been doing such work.

RHODES James – 1907 – 19/06/1907 – Age 51 – Manvers Main Boiler Cleaner, Manvers Main Collieries Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. At the time of the accident these two men were cleaning one of the drums of a Stirling boiler, when one of the tubes in an adjoining boiler, which was under steam, drew out and allowed an escape of steam and water to rush out on to the fire, and the access door, nearly opposite to the drum in which these men were, was blown open owing to the handle on which the neck fastening the door was fixed, breaking. This caused steam to come out into the passage way between the two boilers and the men hearing it rushed out and were scalded about the head, face, and arms. Rhodes died on the 30th June and White on July 5th. 2 killed.

RHODES John – 1900 – 10/03/1900 – Age 15 – Berry Hill, Railway Door boy, H Warrington and Son, Staffordshire. Crushed between tubs while attempting to unhook pony's tail chain from tubs coming into shunt.

RHODES John – 1908 – 12/02/1908 – Age 49 – Soothill Wood Labourer, Soothill Wood Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. With two other men he was pushing a partly filled wagon under the screens. Two empty wagons were standing about 3 feet from them and they were pushing the wagon away from them. The deceased was, foolishly, pushing at the buffer when the two empty wagons followed after them and he was fatally crushed between the buffers. The empty wagons were started by a wagon, which had been foul of a crossing above the screens, being pushed by the locomotive into the road in which they were standing. The road was practically level and the shunter thought the wagon would stand and therefore did not put on the brake as he should have done.

RHODES John – 1909 – 04/06/1909 – Age 47 – Pilsley No.3 Dataller, Pilsley Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was repairing a roadway, acting as a main return airway, and while working at the lip a fall of roof occurred from over deceased and killed him. He had been at work nearly 8 hours and no official inspection had been made during that time.

RHODES R. – 1900 – 12/11/1900 – Age 46 – Prince of Wales Collier, John Rhodes, Yorkshire. Fall of side.

RHODES Thomas – 1902 – 11/09/1902 – Age 64 – Bearpark Brancepeth Tub mender, Bearpark Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When following his employment he got scratched. Blood poisoning set in and he died on October 29th.

RHODES Thomas Edward – 1909 – 02/10/1909 – Age 41 – Huncoat Chain and Road Inspector, George Hargreaves and Co., Lancashire. Crushed by endless chain and forks leading to wheel, whilst between the chains, where he ought not to have been. Fred Whittaker of 23 Oswald Street, Clayton-le-Moors, ginney tenter at the Pit, stated that he saw the deceased working on Saturday morning. He noticed him at 11.20, when Rhodes was lowering some rails near his (witnesses) ginney. Shortly afterwards he heard a faint shout "Knock stop". He stopped the chain and went to see what was the matter. He found the deceased about three yards from the ginney, head fast between the chain and the knocking off rods. The chain was underneath his stomach, Rhodes was not dead then, but he could neither speak or move. Witness sent for assistance, and Rhodes was released in about a quarter of an hour. He died a few minutes afterwards. The Coroner. He might have stopped the ginney at any time? Yes, but I fancy he had finished work, and was going to the ginney head when the accident happened. How did he get caught? That is a question that would puzzle anyone. If the chain had caught his clothing, if would have jerked him in. Yes, but I could not tell whether he was caught or not. Mr. Roscamp; If he was travelling up the middle of the road, he would have to stride over or get underneath the chain to get to the side? Yes. Mr. Whittaker pointed out that the chain was between his legs. The Coroner thought that the suggested explanation was the right one, namely, that in striding over the chain deceased had been caught and carried back. He would have been squeezed until he could not take his breath. P.C. McGregor, said deceased body bore a bruise from under the stomach right to the left shoulder, apparently having been caused by the chain. From that he arrived at the conclusion that the deceased was caught between the legs by the chain. His watch was in his pocket, and had stopped at a quarter past eleven. It was explained that the deceased might have given the signal for the ginney to be stopped. The Coroner observed that the deceased had evidently got accustomed to his dangerous work, and in striding over the chain he was probably only doing what he had done many times before. A verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded. (Accrington Gazette).

RHODES Valentine Wiliam – 1902 – 19/02/1902 – Age 42 – New Hucknall Dataller, New Hucknall Colliery Co., Warwickshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was preparing to take down some roof, known to be dangerous, when a portion of the same fell and killed him.

RHODES William – 1904 – 12/11/1904 – Age 35 – Wrexham & Acton Banksman, Wrexham & Acton Collieries Co., Denbigh. Inquiry made and inquest attended. After getting the two full tubs out of the cage and two empties had been placed there the engineman received his signal, deceased appears to have slipped and got his leg caught by the descending cage and was fatally crushed.

RICE John – 1901 – 20/03/1901 – Age 16 – Thornley Staple Top Boy, Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was improperly riding on the cage top from Hutton to Low Main seam when by some means his head caught the timber at the top of the staple and the blow was so severe he died at once.

RICE John – 1902 – 30/12/1902 – Age 52 – North Skelton Ironstone Platelayer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was injured on August 31st when carrying a long rail by the end of it, hitting a wall side but postmortem examination showed the injury was not the cause of death.

RICH Thomas or Henry – 1903 – 07/02/1903 – Age 23 – Blindell’s Black Vein Rider, Blindell and Wakeford, Monmouth. When holding a light for a repairer, who was barring down a stone, where a fall had occurred, a further and unexpected fall of roof occurred and caught him.

RICHARD David – 1900 – 08/01/1900 – Age 55 – Oakeley Slate, Slate getter, Oakeley Slate Quarries Co. Ltd., Merioneth. Unexpected fall of a block of slate weighing 4 to 5 tons from a place well within his reach. Killed on the spot.

RICHARD Parsons – 1905 – 31/08/1905 – Age 29 – Dolcoath Tin Timberman, Dolcoath Mine Ltd., Cornwall. When engaged with others repairing in Harriett Shaft, below the 275 fathom level, he unaccountably fell down a branch shaft from that point.

RICHARDS Alfred – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 46 – 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.

RICHARDS Arthur Moore – 1909 – 30/12/1909 – Age 54 – Ullbank, Iron Ore Miner, Millom and Askham Hematite Iron Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Collapse of staging.

RICHARDS Benjamin – 1909 – 20/01/1909 – Age 23 – Deep Navigation Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, when riding on the gun, was crushed between the tram and the arm of a pair of timbers. He was probably trying to jump off and misjudged his position.

RICHARDS D.J. – 1900 – 10/02/1900 – Age 21 – Coegnant Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 8 feet x 4 feet x 8 inches thick, fell on him while pinning a gob wall. Six feet seam.

RICHARDS David – 1909 – 03/12/1909 – Age 64 – Penrikyber Repairer, Penrikyber Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, having removed an old arm, was clearing rubbish from the floor of an untimbered portion of a main return, when a fall of about 6 tram-loads of cliff occurred. During the process of recovering the body two other falls occurred, making a total of about 20 trams and leaving a cavity of 15 feet by 6 feet by 6 feet thick.

RICHARDS Edward – 1904 – 26/03/1904 – Age 20 – East Pool Tin Miner, East Pool & Agar United Mines Adventurers, Cornwall. He was killed in an end, at the 212 fathom level by an explosion of gelignite which he had brought from the surface in two inches. The gelignite, which had only just been brought down the shaft from the surface in some unexplained way received a shock and exploded. It was most probably frozen but no definite information as to the cause of the explosion could be obtained from his comrades and others who had seen him a few minutes before on his way to his working place.

RICHARDS Evan – 1904 – 19/12/1904 – Age 58 – Maindy Level Repairer, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. At face fireclay, 7 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 9 inches by 18 inches thick fell on deceased as he was changing broken props in a Nottingham face. New seam.

RICHARDS Evan – 1907 – 26/11/1907 – Age 43 – Cynon Collier, Cynon Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face while setting a prop under a thin bed of shale, which had evidently become loosened from the stratum above, a stone 4 feet by 3 feet by 3.5 inches in thickness fell on him and killed him. It would have been better to have taken this stone down than attempting to support it. No.2 Rhondda. Naked lights.

RICHARDS George – 1900 – 11/05/1900 – Age 17 – West Cannock Road boy, West Cannock Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof rock in main road between timber.

RICHARDS George – 1901 – 30/04/1901 – Age 42 – Celynen Filler, Newport Abercarne Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Was entangled in a turn pulley for endless haulage rope leading from the counter balance pulley into the engine house underground. How he got there is unknown. He had been sent to tighten the brake but before completing it allowed the engine to be stared, the engineman finding he had lost control and that the brake would not act called to everyone to leave the engine house which they did including Richards.

RICHARDS George Henry – 1909 – 22/12/1909 – Age 18 – Sherwood Loader, Shirebrook Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was using a riddle in a stall, when another loader hit him over the left eye with a fork while loading coal. Meningitis was set up by the injury, and he died 31st December.

RICHARDS Harry – 1908 – 12/05/1908 – Age 17 – Frickley Pony driver, Carlton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was bringing a set of four full tubs out from the face to the pass-bye and was in front of his pony when he stumbled and fell. The first tub ran over and killed him.

RICHARDS Henry – 1907 – 16/12/1907 – Age 42 – Abercarn Shunter, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. The locomotive was engaged moving some rubbish waggons, the buffers of which came inside the buffers of the engine. Deceased was standing on the step of the engine putting sand on the rails and in some manner got his hand between the buffers of the rubbish truck and the buffers of the loco and it was injured. His hand was making very satisfactory progress and was considered to be nearly well, but he died suddenly in his house at 11 pm. on Saturday night, the 28th Dec. from advanced heart disease according to the post mortem, the doctor states accelerated by the accident. This is a case which before the Compensation Act would not have been brought under notice as being connected with his work.

RICHARDS Howell – 1904 – 22/09/1904 – Age 44 – Maclaren Haulier, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When riding on the gun or connection between the horses limbers and the tram with a full journey he raised his back to throw off a swing sheet, which he was passing under, and caught his head against a low collar which caused him to be crushed against the tram of coal.

RICHARDS Hugh – 1909 – 11/06/1909 – Age 37 – Senghenydd Rider, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Slipped off the chain in front of two trams of coal which he was bringing up a rising road. In consequence of the accident riding has been discontinued on this road. The speed was 4 miles per hour.