ROBSON Stephen - 1901 - 04/09/1901 – Age 36 - Auchinraith No.2 Miner, Merry and Cuninghame Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

ROBSON Thomas - 1900 - 20/02/1900 – Age 46 - Craghead Stoneman, Thomas Hedley Bros., Co.Durham. A staple was being put up to Five-Quarter from Main Coal Seam and when it was nearly at the top an outburst of stythe occurred which overpowered deceased and another four men. He died on 23rd inst. the others recovered.

ROBSON Thomas - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 43 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 12 Beaconsfield Terrace, Stanley.

ROBSON William - 1903 - 09/09/1903 – Age 42 - Spa Wood Ironstone Assistant Deputy, Sir B Samuelson and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. When replacing a prop, which had been displaced by a stone from a shot, a fall occurred and killed him.

ROBSON William - 1905 - 20/05/1905 – Age 22 - Chopwell Joiner, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The upcast shaft was being fitted with wire rope guides, and the first guide, consisting of 80 fathoms of rope, 1.25 inches in diameter, had been attached to one of the winding ropes, wound on the drum and then lowered into the shaft over one of the pulley wheels. Deceased was standing on a platform of the headgear to which the bell of the detaching hook was fixed. The guide rope was fastened to the winding rope by a 3/8 inch lashing chain, one end of which was fastened to the socket of the winding rope, and the chain then attached to the guide rope by seven half hitches. The rope hole in the engine-house wall was built up too high and the guide rope moved over the brickwork. All went well until the chain reached this wall, when it was telescoped down the guide rope, which became free, and the end, flying over the pulley wheel, struck deceased on the head, killing him instantly. The rope did not go down the pit, but jammed itself in the headgear. The Jury added to their verdict of accidental death a rider that in future lifting clamps on the chain should he used as an additional security. The Local Inspectors reported ‘In our opinion it is a pure accident.'

ROBY James - 1904 - 25/04/1904 – Age 18 - Garswood Hall Drawer, Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was taking a full tub of coal out to the shunt when another drawer, on the same road, let his tub run down to the scotch coming out, it crushed deceased when in the act of lifting his tub on the rails.

ROCHE James - 1902 - 08/10/1902 – Age 18 - Rockingham Screenman, Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was wheeling a barrow from the screens across the siding and not noticing approaching wagons he was run over and killed.

ROCHE Michael - 1903 - 04/03/1903 – Age 26 - Raisby Hill, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Raisby Hill Limestone Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. In jumping back, to escape a fall of baring whilst working on a post, he fell over into the Quarry to the bottom, a distance of 128 feet and was killed.

ROCHE Patrick - 1907 - 25/04/1907 - Age 29 - Hulton No.4 Dataller, Hulton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Attempting to leave the cage, after it had started from the surface to descend, he was cut in two by the top hoop of the cage and the edges of the landing plates. The last of 16 men who entered the cage he stood at the end when the banksman shouted ‘Down to Trencherbone’ deceased realised he was in the wrong cage he should have got into the cage to go to the Arley. Gates at the end of cage would have prevented this loss of life. They have since been applied.

ROCHELLE David - 1903 - 19/08/1903 – Age 53 - Holly Bank No.5 Stallman, Holly Bank Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of side (coal) at working face in a stall, 15 yards wide in the 5 feet seam. He was holing about the middle of the face, where a small face crossed the face diagonally. The fall was about 8 feet long by 3 feet at the widest, it appeared to have pushed out a sprag. The fault caused the floor to be on the slope and the sprag may not have been securely set in consequence.

ROCKETT Peter - 1904 - 23/02/1904 – Age 54 - Aldwarke Main Collier, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When descending the shaft the winding rope broke. 7 killed.

ROCKLEWICS K. - 1902 - 02/04/1902 – Age 33 - Garswood Hall Sinker, Garswood Hall Collieries Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Explosion of firedamp in the sinking shaft at the Ravine seam which probably was ignited by a short circuit of the electric light cable. 9 killed.

RODDA Samuel James - 1908 - 25/09/1908 – Age 20 - Barlborough No.1 Dataller, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased and another youth had been instructed to take some rails on a trolley down an inclined roadway. They were told that the load must not exceed five pairs, but they were attempting to take ten pairs. The trolley ran away, and a hook on the holding-back chain, getting into deceased’s boot, he was pulled down the incline and killed.

RODDIS Thomas - 1903 - 18/06/1903 – Age 12 - Adderley Park, Clay Quarry Boy, Adderley Park Brick Co., Warwickshire. Deceased was riding on the side of a loaded clay waggon when the horse suddenly turned round and crushed deceased between the horse gears and the side of the waggon. Deceased was not employed at the Quarry.

RODDISS William - 1908 - 14/09/1908 – Age 48 - Beechburn Hewer, H Graham and Sons, Co.Durham. He was turning away a wall, and had only advanced two or three feet. The bord, out of which he was turning the wall, had holed into the goaf. The goaf was an old one, and was filled tight with dirt. The wall was properly crossed off, i.e., a plank had been set to take the ends of those in the bord at the turn away, with four props beneath it. The planks in the bord were six inches apart only. There were two pairs of gears set in the wall. The places were 5.5 to 6 feet wide. The roof was clay and shale. The man was setting a prop, when the roof above the crossing timber collapsed and fell in, partially burying him. He was fast by the head, and before he could be released  he was smothered.

RODDY Matthew - 1909 - 14/05/1909 – Age 19 - Washington Putter, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. His head was crushed between the tub and timber while riding on limbers.

RODEN Frank - 1908 - 22/01/1908 – Age 16 - Whitfield Screenboy, Chatterley Whitfield Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased had apparently gone into the screen engine-house in the temporary absence of the engineman, to help himself to some paraffin oil to saturate a torch with which to light himself home. He had passed under (or over) the fence and when handling the oil can, he had come in contact with the driving pulley or rope drive. He was drawn round the pulley and killed instantly.

RODEN John - 1904 - 01/09/1904 – Age 40 - Prior’s Lee Woodhouse No.1 Stallman, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Fall of roof (sandstone) at longwall face in Top Coal. Two men were injured by the fall, and Roden died on 6th September.

RODERICK David - 1901 - 27/07/1901 – Age 38 - Deep Navigation South Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by a journey of loaded trams on which he was supposed to have been riding.

RODERICK Roderick - 1900 - 25/07/1900 – Age 33 - Abercothi Quarry Labourer, Thomas Lewis, Carmarthen. While upon a ladder, placed on the face of the Quarry and barring a piece of limestone down a fall from the top of Quarry, it carried away the ladder and killed him.

RODERICK Roderick - 1908 - 17/02/1908 – Age 26 - Ferndale No.7 Assistant repairer, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was expecting some empty trams, and hearing the journey he went a short distance up the drift to secure them. The journey was stopped about 50 yards higher up the drift for the purpose of discharging a tram of timber, when by some means, probably by the pin of a shackle rising, two trams were liberated. These ran for 50 yards, jumped the rails, and crushed deceased against the side. He died on April 12.

RODGER Andrew - 1908 - 26/02/1908 – Age 35 - Aitken Labourer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was cleaning dross from the rails at the coal washery dross pits when some loaded waggons, which had got out of control, ran over him.

RODGERS Harold - 1908 - 10/08/1908 – Age 20 - Ashton Moss Drawer, New Moss Colliery Ltd., Lancashire. On 10th August he was crushed by tubs. No drag in front of the tubs on the incline road, he should have turned the tubs from the rails before going in front. (Died 12th September.)

RODGERS Henry - 1902 - 29/10/1902 – Age 32 - Eston Ironstone Labourer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was holing a fall of soil on the surface when a portion of it suddenly fell away upon him and killed him.

RODGERS James - 1904 - 21/03/1904 – Age 54 - Kirkwood Pump attendant,  Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When walking up a dook, with a double line of rails, in some unknown manner he was run over by the hutches.

RODGERS James - 1908 - 17/12/1908 – Age 31 - Gartcosh, Fireclay Miner, Glenboig Union Fireclay Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. On-going up to the face of his working place, after being out for some time, his naked light ignited firedamp. There was a feeder of gas and the ventilation was insufficient to keep it from accumulating as it had to be "wafted" out with a piece of screen cloth. Safety lamps ought to have been used. The under-manager entered this place the following day with a naked light and caused another explosion which injured him also.

RODGERS James - 1909 - 03/09/1909 – Age 62 - Cleator No.6 (metalliferous) Miner, Cleator Iron Ore Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Several pieces of stone weighing 3 or 4 lbs. weight fell from the roof in front of the last headtree of a close-timbered working, about 7 feet high and struck Rodgers in the back while he was in a stooping position. Died June 14th.

RODGERS James Frederick - 1903 - 27/08/1903 – Age 29 - Backsbottom, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Col. Foster, Lancashire. Fell from ledge, 46 feet, whilst moving a block of stone a piece broke and he fell backwards over the ledge. He ought to have been secured to the rope and worked at the stone from behind.

RODGERS Joseph - 1905 - 21/09/1905 – Age 22 - Blantyreferme Miner, AG Moore and Co., Lanarkshire. While illegally drawing in front of a hutch he lost control of it and got run over.

RODGERS Joseph - 1906 - 15/10/1906 – Age 27 - Montreal, Iron Ore Labourer, John Stirling, Cumberland. Died October 16. The deceased waited, filling a bogie with ore in a robbery working, 7 feet high by 9 feet wide, with a fairly strong limestone roof, when a piece of ore, weighing about 7 cwts fell from the side and struck him. Systematic timbering is the rule in this type of working and there was one prop about three feet from the face and a headtree 3 feet further back. There was a good supply of loose timber. The overman had visited the place before the accident occurred and thought everything was in good order. Three shots were subsequently fired and all the loose ground dressed down. The side from which the piece fell, about an hour later, was also examined and it sounded all right. The fall disclosed a slippery parting not previously visible.

RODISS David - 1904 - 15/02/1904 – Age 18 - Beechburn Hewer, H Graham and Sons, Co.Durham. Died in mine from fatty degeneration of the heart.

RODWAY George - 1902 - 28/10/1902 – Age 45 - Crown Labourer, Thomas Johnson, Gloucestershire. The pit being idle he was hitching stock coal at the level of the surface to be drawn up to the pit bank for screening and loading into railway trucks. He omitted to close the gate upon signalling the cage away and subsequently pushed a full tram into the pit and fell down with it.

RODWAY T. - 1904 - 06/01/1904 – Age 38 - Allerton Bywater Collier, New Silkstone and Haigh Moor Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When ripping in a gateway a stone suddenly fell and killed him. There was a weight break, and when worked through the stone was loosened at the sides and had a smooth parting in the roof, it should have been supported on the cutting side.

ROE Charles - 1907 - 15/03/1907 – Age 49 - Stafford, Kemball Collier, Staffordshire Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was walking along the face, where the buttock had been taken off and props set in accordance with the timbering rules. A piece of roof-bass, 9 inches thick and triangular in shape, measuring 8 feet by 8 feet at extremes, fell from a face joint or slip, breaking off at the corner of a chock and along the edges of lids on three props set approximately at the angles of the triangle. One prop at the centre of the triangle was reeled by the fall. The bass gave little or no warning and the edge of it caught deceased just as he was passing beneath it.

ROE Jesse - 1901 - 10/09/1901 – Age 74 - Shobnall, Clay Quarry Quarryman, G Hodges, Staffordshire. Fall of loose clay which he was engaged in removing.

ROEBUCK James - 1907 - 17/01/1907 – Age 61 - Rotherham Main Collier, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When shovelling coal into a tub on November 6th, 1906, he hit his hand against the coal face and bruised it. Blood poisoning set in from which he died.

ROEBUCK Joseph - 1909 - 27/05/1909 – Age 50 - Manvers Main Collier, Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was pulling coal from the face, when a piece of top coal fell and knocked him against a prop. He died on 15th June.

ROGAN Bernard - 1900 - 23/02/1900 – Age 54 - Brayton Domain No.3 Hewer, Joseph Harris, Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. While working alone in a broken working a heavy fall of metal took place between a slip and the coal face. The working was fairly well timbered but the roof was very much broken some props were canted out by the fall. There was plenty of suitable timber five yards away but it had not been considered necessary to set more.

ROGERS Absolom - 1902 - 26/03/1902 – Age 63 - Commonwood, Elvan Quarry Quarryman, Liskeard Rural District Council, Cornwall. While working on a narrow ledge, which was not his ordinary working place and where he ought not to have been, a quantity or stone fell upon him from above causing injuries from which he died 7 or 8 hours after.

ROGERS Alexander - 1900 - 29/01/1900 – Age 43 - Whitrigg Sinker, R Forrester and Co., Linlithgow. Deceased was the leading sinker, and he and three other sinkers came from the bottom in the kettle to the Jewel level to make some alterations on the pump, by a mistake of signal they were raised to the striking mark which was too far and again in signalling to be lowered a mistake was made and the kettle was dropped suddenly whereby deceased was thrown off and fell to the bottom a distance of 7 fathoms. The signals given to the engineman were such as given to raise debris and strike in the usual way. The signal for men to ascend was not given.

ROGERS George - 1902 - 14/02/1902 – Age 32 - Wynnstay Repairer, Wynnstay Collieries Ltd., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. The place had been timbered but they required one of the bars higher for haulage purposes and deceased went on top of the bars and attempted to get a stone down to set the bar at a greater height when more roof fell than he expected and he was fatally injured.

ROGERS George - 1903 - 08/10/1903 – Age 55 - Hanham Journey rider, Bedminster Eston Kingswood & Parkfield Collieries Ltd., Gloucestershire. He fell off the seat provided for him in front of a journey of tubs which were being drawn up an engine dip in the Jubilee Vein and was run over. The cause of his falling off is unknown.

ROGERS Herbert - 1901 - 10/12/1901 – Age 18 - Whitefield Driver, Chatterley Whitefield Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Fell in front of a journey of tubs drawn by a horse and was crushed under tubs.

ROGERS John - 1901 - 17/04/1901 – Age 60 - Heolddu, Uchaf Collier, Lewis Jenkins, Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 15 feet by 6 feet by 18 feet thick. Five pairs of timbers discharged. Mynyddd-islwyu seam. 2 killed.

ROGERS John - 1902 - 07/04/1902 – Age 47 - West Ardsley Coal Hewer, Yorkshire Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 28th April. Foolishly removing a prop from under the roof in his work place which he thought was safe and was fatally injured by a fall.

ROGERS John – 1909 – 16/02/09 – Age 57 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 1 Whitewell Terrace. Body recovered March 1933.

ROGERS John – 1909 – 16/03/1909 – Age 33 – United Westminster Sinker, United Westminster and Wrexham Colliery Co., Denbigh. He was engaged working at the bottom of the sinking shaft, when he was fatally injured by a poling board falling down upon him, which was one of the boards used for securing the side of the shaft, which somehow had got loose.

ROGERS Joseph – 1900 – 31/05/1900 – Age 48 – Linnyshaw Brassey Collier, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. A charge of amvis, 8 ounces, in a hole in the roof for a ripping shot, after several attempts to fire, by electricity, it was abandoned by the fireman as a missed shot. He saw deceased on his way to work in the place and directed that a new hole be drilled 9 inches from the old one. The new one was started, under 6 inches from the old one, and so directed that it entered the old one and passed along the old hole, a foot 2 or 3 inches into the explosive when the drill struck the detonator fired the charge. Rogers, who was under the roof and the hole, was so injured that he died the next morning.

ROGERS Joseph – 1904 – 22/08/1904 – Age 46 – Kirkcross, Limestone Quarry Engineman, Allerdale Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Died August 23rd. While deceased was working at a windmill pump he stood on an 11-inch plank which he himself had fixed about 7.5 feet above a ledge in the Quarry. He slipped and fell off the plank and his head came in contact with a wooden water box and his skull was fractured and he never recovered consciousness. The plank fell with him as it was not nailed or firmly secured at either end.

ROGERS Robert – 1901 – 21/05/1901 – Age 62 – Plaspower Byman, Broughton & Plaspower Coal Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He had knocked out a brattice prop set under the roof and against the top portion of the side when a stone gave way from the side, over a sprag, crushing the deceased against an iron tub. He succumbed on the 24th.

ROGERS Samuel – 1900 – 20/04/1900 – Age 32 – Wrexham & Acton Collier, Westminster & Brymbo Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. After the fireman had fired a shot loosening the coal, which was 7 feet thick, they were attempting to bar the coal down when more came than they expected, and crushed the two men and capping a sprag. 2 killed.

ROGERS Samuel – 1907 – 14/06/1907 – Age 58 – Rowley Station Loader, Rowley Station Colliery Co. Ltd., Worcestershire. Deceased and another man were loading a tub in the gateway of a small stall in the bottom portion of the Thick Coal seam, alongside a fault, when there was a very heavy bump and a piece of the rock roof, about 7 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 2 feet 9 inches thick, fell from between two timber cogs. Deceased was kneeling against one of the cogs and his skull fractured. Two posts set under the stone were knocked out and the other timbers broken. There was a slip, previously unseen, on each side of the stone which fell.

ROGERS William – 1903 – 24/09/1903 – Age 36 – West Cannock Stallman, West Cannock Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (rock) at longwall face in Deep seam. A heavy bump preceded the fall which came away from a break on one side and a slip at one end. Rogers was about to set a post close to the slip. The place was timbered with posts and lids 4 feet or less apart.

ROGERS William – 1906 – 25/04/1906 – Age 75 – Merthyr Vale Master Wasteman, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, deceased had been sent for to assist in getting a wasteman from under a fall of roof and while so engaged, a piece of coal from the roof fell and struck him on his back. He died on May 5th.

ROGERSON James – 1903 – 28/08/1903 – Age 45 – Pemberton, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, William Ashcroft, Lancaster, Lancashire. His hand was slightly cut by a strand of a winding rope. He died of blood poisoning.

ROGERSON Thomas – 1905 – 31/05/1905 – Age 15 – Rothwell Haigh Rope Boy, J and J Charlesworth Ltd., Yorkshire. These boys were working on an engine plane, taking off empty tubs and fastening full tubs to an endless rope when a large fall occurred without any warning displacing and breaking down six bars and crossing bar, and killed both of them. 2 killed.

ROGERSON Thomas – 1909 – 10/11/1909 – Age 23 – Shorrock, Sandstone Quarry Machineman, E Lewis and Sons, Lancashire. Back of coat caught by revolving shaft, 3 feet from the floor, carried round. Shaft revolved about 120 times per minute.

ROLLIN E. – 1903 – 25/11/1903 – Age 14 – Nunnery Driver, Nunnery Colliery Ltd., Yorkshire. Found dead under a set of full tubs which he was taking along a level. The horse was very quiet and the road in good order and it is probable that he stumbled and fell under the tubs.

ROLLIN William Henry – 1908 – 20/02/1908 – Age 30 – Washington Glebe Stoneman, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of firedamp. 14 killed.

ROLLINGS Walter – 1907 – 22/02/1907 – Age 37 – Cadeby Main Collier, Denaby and Cadeby Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He had got a fall of coal down, part of which had been filled away and was going to pull some more over when a weight bump occurred and a fall of roof from between two slips caught and fatally injured him.

ROLLINSON George – 1904 – 30/03/1904 – Age 13 – Coppy Hall Door Boy, Execs. of Edward Barnett, Staffordshire. Leg injured in pit, first by falling down and afterwards by a horse. Died 18th April.

ROLLINSON R. – 1904 – 08/01/1904 – Age 16 – Old Roundwood Pony Driver, Terry Greaves and Co., Yorkshire. He was bringing a set of eight full tubs outbye and was sitting on the front one. The inclination of the road was 1 in 30 and he had six lockers or sprags in the tubs so the horse had to pull and in starting the first tub it was jerked off the road and he was thrown under it and fatally injured. The road was in very good condition.

ROLLO William – 1906 – 19/01/1906 – Age 19 – Montgomeriefield Labourer, A Kenneth and Sons, Ayrshire. He went among the moving parts of the screening machinery to put on a belt that had come off the pulleys and got caught by the driving pulley.

ROMIG Ludwig – 1901 – 02/01/1901 – Age 34 – Backworth, Algernon Stoneman, Owners of Backworth Collieries, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased men were preparing to timber the face of a gateway when the stone fell. The roof was full of slips. The chargeman had previously examined the place. 2 killed.

RONALDSON Walter – 1907 – 29/05/1907 – Age 18 – Linton Engine Attendant,  Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A small hauling engine, fitted with one drum, 2 feet 9 inches diameter on the second motion, and actuated by compressed air was situated about 1/2 mile in-bye, and drew tubs up a dip road. Deceased and another lad attended to this engine and tubs. A set of 5 loaded tubs had been hauled up this dip on to this road near the engine where this inclination was about 1-inch per yard out-bye. Deceased was at this engine and this other lad somewhere near this top of this dip, not many yards distant. This lad, near this top of this dip, called to deceased as the rope had stopped before this tubs had reached this crown, and getting no answer went to this engine and found him fast on the drum with a coil of rope on his right arm and neck. Marks showed that he had been carried round on the drum until his head came in contact with this crank shaft, which was only a few inches clear of this drum. The air valve at this opposite side was slightly open. This engine was properly fenced, and it could not be determined what action on deceased’s part had led to this accident. Possibly he had been guiding this rope on to this drum when his clothing had been caught by a broken wire in this rope. The rope led on to the top of the drum, about 5 feet from the pavement. This Local Inspectors reported ‘In our Opinion we find it a pure accident.’

RONAYNE John – 1909 – 11/12/1909 – Age 44 – Broomfield, Limestone Quarry Quarrier, JJ Coffey Co. Cork, Ireland. Crushed by stone tilting over. Stone had been raised on the edge to attach the chain of the crane to it in order to raise it. Stone 10 feet long, 1 feet 6 inches deep, 1 foot 10 inches wide. Died 17th.

ROOKE Byas – 1907 – 15/11/1907 – Haulage lad, 22 Barrow, Hematite Steel Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Along with others the deceased men got on to the cage in the No.3 shaft, at the Parkgate seam, for the purpose of ascending to the surface at the end of their shifts. A horsekeeper was also in the cage to go to the Thorncliffe seam, 38 yards below. The cage was therefore lowered to that seam where he got off. At the Thorncliffe landing there is a staging or platform so that the men can get on or off the two decks of the cage without its being moved. The signalling is done from the top part of this staging and the hanger on there is the chargeman; the one at the low part is an assistant and beyond opening and closing the gates protecting the entrance to the shaft taking off and putting on the chains at the ends of the decks and putting over a flag or flat sheet to cover the space between the floor of the deck of the cage and that of the landing has nothing to do. The flag or flat sheet is fitted with two spikes, each 3.5 inches long, which fit into holes in the floor of the cage decks and act as anchors to the cage. They are hinged to the floors of the landings and lifted and lowered by means of chains by the hangers-on. On the day in question the hanger-on, on the top part or landing of the staging, when the cage came, let the horsekeeper get off without dropping the flag or flat sheet, and at the same time shouted to the hanger-on at the bottom landing ‘Don't put the flag down’, and at the same moment signalled for the cage to be taken to the surface. Unfortunately the hanger-on at the bottom landing had lowered the flag and before he could get it up again the cage started and the result was that the cage was held and tilted for a moment or so and the flag flew back. Violent oscillation was thus set up and in ascending the top of the cage collided against the girder under the floor of the Parkgate landing with such force as to damage the cage and with another girder. It became liberated and was taken further up the shaft where it collided with another girder. The engineman then noticed something was wrong and stopped the cage. Seven of the men at one or another of these places were thrown out of the cage and fell to the bottom of the shaft being killed instantly and six others were more or less seriously injured. 7 killed.

ROOSE Robert – 1906 – 20/06/1906 – Age 56 – Bedlinog No.1 Ostler, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff and rock, 7 feet by 5 feet by 5 feet thick, fell on deceased, who was alone at the time It was unsupported. Ras Las seam.

ROPER Eli 1906 07/05/1906 17 Monckton Main Pony driver Monckton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was taking a set of two full tubs up in a gradient of about 1 in 20, and should have walking in front of his pony; he was, however, caught between the first tub and a door frame. Died on May 26th.

ROSBOTTOM James - 1905 - 31/01/1905 – Age 34 - Low Hall Waggon lowerer, Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made. The wagon rails were not in good order and they had to use the locomotive and a chain to pull the waggons from under the screens. Deceased was trying to stop some started by the loco. and on getting on the brake he was crushed to death against a standing waggon.

ROSE Arthur - 1903 - 01/05/1903 – Age 19 - Lady Windsor Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road cliff, 15 feet by 3 feet by 2 feet thick, which the repairers had been trying to get down suddenly fell and killed the deceased. A face slant was visible after the fall. Six feet seam. 2 killed.

ROSE John - 1906 - 17/09/1906 – Age 49 - Princess Collier, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. While he was travelling to his working place, along the haulage slant, he got run over by some full tubs of dirt, which some road repairers were lowering down, and failed to hold on to them. He expired September 23rd, 1906.

ROSE Joshua - 1903 - 09/02/1903 – Age 31 - Ashton Moss Collier, New Moss Colliery Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from working face while holing. Face holed 12 feet in length, 2 feet 8 inches under to a slippery back cut on one side, one sprag set and this 7 feet from the loose corner. Rules require sprags to be not more than 5 feet apart and loose corner to be spragged. Fireman visited two hours before accident ordered sprags to be set, he ought to have seen the loose corner was spragged.

ROSE Thomas - 1905 - 06/03/1905 – Age 15 - Cadeby Main Coupler, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was working at No.2, or upcast shaft, hanging-on, which is 126 yards above that at No.1 or downcast shaft, owing to a fault of that size running between the shafts. A can of hot water was sent to the shaft bottom, which the deceased took to the stables, a short distance away, and on his way he had to pass through two doors. He arrived at the stables all right and left the can there but in returning he appears to have lost his light, and to have gone past the doors through a fence, into the airway from No.1 shaft and walked a distance of 80 yards, and then to have got over another fence and through an opening into the shaft and to have fallen to the bottom. He had only worked in the pit 10 days and probably did not know that he should not have gone past either of the fences.

ROSE Thomas - 1908 - 08/07/1908 – Age 34 - Nook Collier, Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face from between slips, arranging to set a cocker sprag, which was urgently required and ought to have been set sooner. (Died 9th.)

ROSEBERRY James - 1900 - 26/12/1900 – Age 23 - North Bidduck Labourer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He, on Dec. 26th last, was lowering two waggons down an incline riding on the front end and let them join some other waggons. He was so crushed between them that he died on January 2nd.

ROSEBERRY John - 1907 - 06/11/1907 – Age 39 - Harraton Waggonwayman, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. The set uncoupled when being hauled outbye, and part of it, running back, squeezed him against the side.

ROSEN Max - 1902 - 08/03/1902 – Age 45 - South Duffryn No.2 Handpumpman, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Found dead on engine plane having been run over by a full journey. He was a Russian Jew and did not understand English so could not read the Act or rules and therefore ought not to have been employed. The engine plane was of ample dimensions and there were sufficient manholes.

ROSEVERE John - 1902 - 05/03/1902 – Age 17 - Moorfields Jenny Tenter, Altham Colliery Co., Lancashire. He took hold of the endless chain, near to jenny wheel, and was carried twice round receiving injuries from which he died on the following day.

ROSEWARNE Henry - 1905 - 07/04/1905 – Age 27 - East Pool & Agar Tin Miner, East Pool & Agar United Mines Adventurers, Cornwall. When working on a stope, below the 200-fathom level, a fall of rock from above occurred, which striking him fractured his skull, causing death in a few hours.

ROSIE William - 1906 - 26/04/1906 – Age 39 - Annesley Dayman, Annesley Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was filling coal in a stall, beyond the last bar set to support the roof, a fall occurred and killed him.

ROSS Alexander - 1902 - 02/11/1902 – Age 36 - Dumbreck No.3 Roadsman, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. He fell down the shaft from a mid working which was not in use. Apparently he was crossing the shaft on a bunton, to reach the signal wire, and missed his footing and fell or the cage came down and knocked him off.

ROSS David Tinnion - 1903 - 26/10/1903 – Age 67 - Watergate Banksman, Flimby & Broughton Moor Coal & Firebrick Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Something falling part way down the shaft hit him.

ROSS George - 1906 - 01/05/1906 – Age 39 - Bowhill Pit Bottomer, Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was engaged loading the deck of the cage which held four tubs and while doing so the cage was suddenly lifted, and he was carried up the shaft and crushed. The cage had not been signalled to ascend.

ROSS John - 1905 - 23/03/1905 – Age 64 - Polton Fireman, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was repairing a roadway on an idle day and just as he knocked out some props the roof collapsed and he was killed.

ROSS John – 1907 – 02/04/1907 – Age 21 – Bowhill Miner, Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was engaged taking down coal when the roof suddenly collapsed and he was badly injured. He died from his injuries 19 days later. The roof fell away from two parallel lypes which were unseen.

ROSS William – 1902 – 29/03/1902 – Age 45 – Allanton No 1 Fireman, William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in working place while putting in a crown.

ROSS William – 1906 – 15/08/1906 – Age 16 – Dumbreck No.2 Bencher, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Stirling. When attaching hutches on a dook to the haulage rope a full hutch slipped free from the jigger rail back and struck another hutch, which in turn struck him.

ROSS William John – 1900 – 31/01/1900 – Age 24 – Blenkinsopp Screener, Thompson and Sons, Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was moving a full waggon from under the screens, with the aid of a horse, when it is supposed he was crushed between the moving waggon and a stationary one.

ROSSER John – 1909 – 11/09/1909 – Rock Ostler, Rock Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. He was said to have strained himself while carrying a sack of oats. A post mortem was made and the doctor stated that death was due to peritonitis due to strangulated hernia caused by a strain while carrying a sack of oats.

ROSSER or DAVIES Levi – 1905 – 18/04/1905 – Age 20 – Lower Varteg Haulier, Varteg Deep Black Vein Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. The tram, in which he was riding, got off the way and in getting out his foot was bruised against the side of the road. Blood poisoning set in and he died on the 16th of May.

ROSSER William – 1906 – 09/10/1906 – Age 17 – Gendros Collier boy, Gendros Coal and Brick Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face stone measuring 6 feet 5 inches, by 3 feet 5 inches by 8 inches, it fell from roof which had an area of 59.5 sq. feet and was unsupported. Maximum only permitted 20.3 sq. feet. The collier knew the roof had broken, and was preparing props to set under it when the accident occurred.

ROSSINGTON Charles – 1900 – 07/10/1900 – Age 52 – Shady Birchwood Stallman, Babbington Coal Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was said to have received an injury in the mine in July. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict that he ‘died from an abscess on the brain, the cause of which there was not sufficient evidence to show.’

ROTHERAY H. – 1901 – 25/01/1901 – Age 42 – Park, Sandston Quarry Quarryman, R Kershaw, Yorkshire. Premature explosion of gunpowder when tamping a hole with a wooden rammer.

ROTHERHAM James – 1907 – 05/04/1907 – Age 52 – Legh Dataller, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. He was travelling to his work downbrow, when a fall of side occurred, which knocked out three sprags and fatally injured deceased.

ROTHERY John – 1905 – 27/06/1905 – Age 14 – Dean & Chapter Trapper, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He had permitted his trap door to close partially. The third of a set of 14 loaded tubs caught it and drove it back against him, fracturing the base of his skull. He died on the following day.

ROTHWELL James – 1907 – 19/01/1907 – Age 56 – Dawber Delph, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, Leeds and Liverpool Canal Co., Lancashire. Fell off a wide ledge to a depth of 37 feet while clearing away the overburden of Quarry.

ROTHWELL James William – 1908 – 24/06/1908 – Age 27 – Rakehead (metalliferous) Miner, Lord and Phillipson, Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place. Supports too far apart. Stone 9 feet long, 4 feet to 6 feet wide, 2 feet to 3 feet thick fell, height was 16 feet from the floor. Beams 12 inches and 14 inches square supported the roof but were 10 feet apart between.

ROTHWELL Thomas – 1905 – 16/01/1905 – Age 15 – Bold No.3 Haulage Hand, Collins Green Colliery Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The five persons were killed and thirteen injured in an overwinding accident whilst they were descending the shaft The cage went beyond the usual point and struck a scaffold below. 5 killed.

ROTHWELL William - 1909 - 31/12/1909 – Age 18 - Outwood Pony Driver, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Riding out on the first of a gang of tubs, stooping down to detach the pony, he overbalanced, fell and was crushed by the tubs.

ROUBLE Charles – 1901 – 01/11/1901 – Age 32 – Tarbrax Oil Shale Miner, Caledonian Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased, who was a Pole, worked with a fellow countryman in an upset near the face of a level. They had charged seven ‘yankee’ or holing shots situated at intervals across the working face. Each man lighted three shots and retired to the level and on hearing the six explosions deceased returned to the face of the upset to light the seventh shot. He appeared to have been close to it when it exploded causing injuries which resulted fatally on the same night. The shot which was said to have caused the accident was close to one side of the upset and 2 feet from the adjacent shot. They were charged with gunpowder and fired by means of gutta-percha covered fuse.

ROUGHLEY Thomas – 1903 – 18/07/1903 – Age 32 – Queen Dataller, Pemberton Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. Deceased was in the act of getting into the cage at the yard coal mouthing before the return signal had been given from the surface; although the hooker-on stated he told him not to do so. The cage was unexpectedly lowered owing to some misunderstanding in the signals and he fell down the shaft a distance of 120 yards and was killed.

ROUSE William – 1902 – 06/06/1902 – Drumpellier No 11, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. At 4 pm. Cause of death was "falling down the shaft of the pit as certified by William Dunlop" The informant was his widow, Mary Bridget Rouse of 148d Bank Street, Coatbridge.

ROUTLEDGE Francis – 1909 – 19/05/1909 – Age 68 – Backworth Wasteman, Owners of Backworth Colliery, Northumberland. Caught by tubs on endless rope incline.

ROUTLEDGE George – 1900 – 26/03/1900 – Bullgill Roadsman, Bullgill Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Died 9th May 1902 (more than a year after the accident). Crushed between the top hoop of a three decked cage and the flatsheets at the surface. He was in the act of getting into to the top deck when the cage moved away. No inquest held.

ROUTLEDGE John William – 1902 – 25/02/1902 – Age 14 – Wearmouth Driver, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was sitting on the limbers, driving two empty tubs inbye with a rather nervous pony. It is supposed that the tubs had been derailed at a junction and that deceased was crushed between the first tub and a prop.

ROUTLEDGE Robert – 1908 – 26/03/1908 – Age 37 – Wallsend Brakesman, Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fell down staple from the top.

ROUTLEDGE William – 1909 – 01/02/1909 – Age 46 – Wingate Grange Hewer, Wingate Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A stone fell at the goaf edge and knocked out a prop. The prop hit him on the head and he laid off work six days. He then worked until June 19th when he became ill and died on 8th September. The medical evidence at the inquest, though not positive, appeared to point to the accident he had received on February 1st as having, in some measure, accelerated his death.

ROWAN T. – 1903 – 28/04/1903 – Age 25 – Soothill Wood Collier, Soothill Wood Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof displacing timber in the working place. Cause a fault a slip and shake from blasting.

ROWE Ernest – 1909 – 28/07/1909 – Age 32 – Dolcoath, Tin Chemical Assayer, Dolcoath Mine Ltd., Cornwall. When alone in the Assay Office he appears to have had a fit of some kind, resulting in the breakage of bottles containing acids. He was found next morning on the floor dead, his body in places being more or less burned with acids. The presumption is that he died from shock resulting from the effects of injuries caused by the acids while in a fit. It is not outside possibility that he died from the fit itself and that the acids affected the body after death. He was not known to be subject to fits by his family.

ROWE Herbert – 1904 – 14/09/1904 – Age 32 – Holly Bank No.5 Stallman, Holly Bank Collier Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (shale) in an abandoned road into which he should not have gone. He went through a fence in a part of the road from which timber had been drawn.

ROWE James – 1907 – 26/11/1907 – Age 24 – Whitehaven, William Trailer, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Explosion of firedamp. 5 killed.

ROWE John – 1902 – 20/12/1902 – Age 54 – Cannock Chase No.5 Banksman, Cannock Chase Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. He injured his head by falling off the buffer of a railway truck. He was in very bad health suffering from chronic bronchitis. Erysipelas developed in the wound on his head. Medical evidence was that the cause of death was chronic bronchitis becoming acute and accelerated by erysipelas following a contused wound on head and that the wound itself apart from the other conditions would not have caused death. Died 6th February, 1903.

ROWE John – 1906 – 07/04/1906 – Age 26 – West Kitty (metalliferous) Miner, West Kitty Mining Co., Cornwall. When clearing the end or working place with a pick after blasting, for the purpose of resuming boring, deceased either struck a loose cartridge or some unexploded gelignite remaining in the end of a hole, and caused it to explode and kill him.

ROWE John – 1907 – 03/01/1907 – Age 14 – Black Boy Spragger, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was going inbye to tell the putters not to come out; on the way, a putter coming through a brattice door with a full tub ran on to him and killed him.

ROWE Joseph – 1904 – 22/06/1904 – Age 61 – Ruddle China Clay Quarry Shaftsman, China Clay Co., Cornwall. When sending up timber from a shaft a piece fell out of the lashing and striking him caused injuries from which he subsequently died.

ROWE Thomas – 1901 – 06/12/1901 – Age 26 – Tillery Gray Collier, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof clod from smooth slips in his working place. This like October 8th, occurred in the 3 quarter seam. This clod sets in frequently under the strong roof of this seam and is very treacherous. Regular and close timbering is the only apparent safeguard.

ROWE William – 1908 – 18/03/1908 – Age 23 – Ferndale No.7 – Repairer, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. The deceased were filling rubbish into trams when a journey of eight trams of rubbish ran back down the dip and killed them. The rider had left them two empty trams, and was taking the full journey up towards the pit, when it ran against a piece of timber lying on the road. The sudden check caused a link of the chain attaching the rope to the journey to open at a bad weld, and liberate the journey. The rider had neglected to attach a barhook. 2 killed.

ROWELL John – 1900 – 03/09/1900 – Age 34 – Hall End, Ryder Coal Stallman, Morris and Shaw, Warwickshire. Fall of side. Deceased appears to have been cleaning up in front of a length of overhanging coal when it fell and crushed his head between the coal and a prop supporting the roof. No sprags had been set to the coal.

ROWELL John Thomas – 1907 – 11/10/1907 – Age 23 – West Wylam Hewer, Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased was going to his work in the fore shift in the Crosscut way in the Brockwell seam and was pushing an empty tub from the flat when a stone fell from the roof upon him, a few feet out-bye from the face of a top canch that was taken down to make height. The seam is 2 feet 6 inches thick and 4 feet 6 inches of the overlying blue metal was shot down. The stonemen, when last engaged at the work two nights ago, had shot a length of the stone down but had not squared back the sides so as to set the permanent timber, and although they may have left it in their opinion safe, the stone is so damp and full of joints, which here cross the road diagonally, that it would have been prudent to have set some temporary timber. The stone that fell was 5.5 feet long, 16 inches wide and from 3 to 11 inches thick, and was relieved by joints and was not supported in any way. The fore shift deputy had examined the place two hours before the accident and it appeared safe. The back shift deputy had the day before set a prop with a sleeper as a headtree between the canch and where the fall took place. There was an abundance of loose timber available. The Local Inspectors reported ‘Found it to be a pure accident with the exception of insufficient timbering.'

ROWELL William – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 52 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 6 Wylam Terrace, Shield Row.

ROWLANDS Albert Victor – 1909 – 09/07/1909 – Age 19 – Hafod Labourer, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, after lifting a derailed tram of rubbish, complained of great abdominal pain. He died from peritonitis, Probably due to the strain, on July 20th.

ROWLANDS Bob – 1901 – 24/05/1901 – Universal Haulier, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway Cd 947. 81 killed.

ROWLANDS Charles – 1908 – 20/10/1908 – Age 50 – Pentre Roadman, Baldwins Ltd., Glamorgan. While repairing a railroad, a runaway tram came down the slant. The deceased could not get out of the way and was caught, and his leg was crushed by a tram with which the runaway had collided.

ROWLANDS Daniel – 1909 – 27/09/1909 – Age 52 – Cwmneol Haulier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased had just succeeded in replacing on the rails a tram of coal which was being drawn up a dip by his horse, when the horse darted forward and came to a dead stop against a wooden door 15 yards away. Owing to the concussion the little pin of the shaft lifted and the tram ran over deceased, who was following in the rear. He had removed the barhook when putting the tram on the rails. Having lost his own little pin, he was using a road-nail as a makeshift.

ROWLANDS David – 1906 – 14/03/1906 – Age 53 – Gelliceidrim Shunter, Gelliceidrim Collieries Co. Ltd., Camarthen. While four waggons were being lowered down to the screens Rowlands attempted to pass in to couple the first to the others, and in doing so was crushed between the buffers.

ROWLANDS Edward – 1907 – 12/08/1907 – Age 18 – Moelferna Slate Mine, Slate Loader, Moelferna and Deeside Slate and Slab Co. Ltd., Merioneth. A runaway truck going down a steep gradient crashed into one he was riding on. He was so seriously injured that he died in a few hours.