ROWLANDS Edward - 1907 - 24/04/1907 – Age 61 - Glyn Ffestiniog, Slate Slate Getter, Glyn Ffestiniog Slate Quarry Co., Merioneth. A slate-block, weighing about four, tons fell on to him. He died in a few minutes.

ROWLANDS Evan – 1904 – 07/09/1904 – Age 13 – Fochriw Collier boy, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. At face rock, 7.5 feet by 2 feet by 7 inches thick, burst out of the roof, owing to a sudden squeeze, and killed the lad. The roof had been squeezing on the previous night and there was a break running parallel to the face. It was from this break that the stone fell. One prop, which had been stood under, the stone was crushed out Four feet seam.

ROWLANDS Henry R. – 1902 – 29/11/1902 – Age 26 – Cambrian No.2 Hitcher, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased had descended in the cage to the bottom of the sump, to clean under the weights and levers of the fans. Some men came out to go up the pit, the hitcher told him of this and asked him if he was safe, he replied that he was. They signalled the cage up with the men in the top deck heard him cry out and stopped the cage. Deceased was found crushed between the cage and the landing. There must have been a misunderstanding between deceased and the hitchers.

ROWLANDS John – 1906 – 01/06/1906 – Age 31 – Wepre Hall, Clay Quarry Labourer, Wepre Hall Brick Co., Flint. About 2 cwt. of clay fell on to him from a height of about 8 feet. Died two hours after.

ROWLANDS Richard – 1908 – 18/02/1908 – Age 21 – Maindy Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was taking a tram of rubbish along the Six-feet level when, by some means, he fell and was run over. He had just removed the sprags, and it was thought that after doing so he started his horse, and in jumping on the gun slipped and fell.

ROWLANDS Rowland W. – 1901 – 24/05/1901 – Universal Repairer’s helper, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway, Cd 947. 81 killed.

ROWLANDS William David – 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.

ROWLEY Edward – 1909 – 04/05/1909 – Age 18 – Cannock Wood Horse driver, Cannock and Rugeley Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. This accident occurred on a longwall face in the Six Feet Seam. The coal had been cut by a coal cutter, and two men were employed in the stall filling it away, deceased being the driver for them. While one of the men was away seeking a drill, deceased went along the face to the place where the man had been working and appeared to have been working at the coal with a pick when a large quantity of the holed coal fell suddenly upon him, burying him and killing him instantly. A "slip" was exposed at the back of the coal which fell. Deceased had no duty to perform along the face, and should not have been there.

ROWLEY George – 1903 – 28/01/1903 – Age 54 – Rothwell Haigh Collier, J and J Charlesworth Ltd., Yorkshire. He was knocking out a prop in the road when a large area of roof fell and knocked out four others. He might have used a dog and chain which was at hand to dislodge the timber.

ROWLEY John - 1902 - 29/05/1902 – Age 28 - Talk o’th’ Hill Dataller, Talk o’th’ Hill Colliery Ltd., Staffordshire. Explosion of a shot of ammonite fired by electric battery while he was close to the shot.

ROWLEY Michael – 1900 – 26/03/1900 – Age 50 – Cowdenbeath Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased and another worked in an upset near the face of a dook. The upset had been driven for a distance of about 20 feet and had a rise of 1 in 2. Canvas was led to the mouth of the upset but no provision was made to take air to the face. No one had worked in the upset for 40 hours prior to the accident. The fireman reported to deceased’s fellow workmen that he had found a small quantity of firedamp at the face of the upset and had wafted it out and permitted them to pass inbye, giving them an unlocked Davy lamp with which they might examine the place if they entered it before he reached it again. On reaching the upset they entered it with open lights and ignited some gas which burned both men somewhat severely. Deceased succumbed to his injuries five days later.

ROWLEY Orlando – 1904 – 23/08/1904 – Age 33 – Sneyd Collier, Sneyd Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust ignited by a broken safety lamp. Died 27th, 26th, and 28th August respectively. 3 killed.

ROWLEY Thomas – 1903 – 13/01/1903 – Age 44 – Orgreave Collier, Rothervale Collieries. A piece fell and rolled upon him. He was only slightly bruised and scratched but he was in a delicate state of health and congestion of the lungs supervening he died.

ROWNSLEY William – 1906 – 16/01/1906 – Age 70 – Strawberry Bank Collier, Liversedge Coal Co. Yorkshire. He was getting coal when a piece of ‘clod’ which was projecting 18 inches from the face broke away suddenly to a weight break and fell upon his thigh causing bruises which at the time were not considered serious. The clod should either have been got down or supported with timber. Died February 20th.

ROWS William – 1902 – 06/06/1902 – Age 36 – Drumpeller No.3 Miner, Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While ascending the escape shaft along with a third miner the cage left the slides but got caught by bintons which broke and tilted over and the two deceased fell out to the bottom. 2 killed.

ROWSELL Thomas – 1903 – 17/03/1903 – Age 38 – Coneygre, Lye Cross Loader, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of side (coal) over bolt hole timbers opening in thick coal. A bump preceded the fall and three settings of timbers were reeled out.

ROY Robert – 1905 – 18/08/1905 – Age 16 – Stane Miner, Turners Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased came up the shaft and began to run after the girls employed on the pithead and in chasing one he came into violent contact with the lever of the weighing machine causing injuries whereby he died the same day.

ROYSTONE George – 1905 – 03/08/1905 – Age 58 – Houghton Main Dataller, Houghton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. In getting out of the way of a falling stone he caught his boot heel against the tram rail, fell backwards with his neck across a prop, which was by the side of the road and broke his neck.

RUCHTON William – 1907 – 12/10/1907 – Age 20 – Cannock Chase Driver, Cannock Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was driving a horse, taking two full tubs inbye, one loaded with stone, which the horse ‘jibbed’ and then started away suddenly and knocked out a temporary roof bar, where the road was under repair and deceased was jammed between the tub and the bar. The horse was rather too large to be working in this portion of the road. The roof was constantly settling down, owing to the recent working of the seam above and one below this road and special care and supervision should have been exercised.

RUDD James – 1905 – 23/10/1905 – Age 59 – Hetton Hewer, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was run over by a full set when walking in-bye. He had recently come down the pit and probably had not got his ‘eyesight.’

RUDDICK Francis – 1906 – 12/02/1906 – Age 32 – Chopwell Hewer, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was hewing alone in a loose jenkin, 5 yards wide, just turned away off an old headways in 1st East flat of the Towneley seam, which is 2 feet 4 inches thick, when a stone, 5.5 feet by 2.5 feet and 16 inches thick, fell upon him from the brow of the caunch that had been taken down in the old headway. The stone would weigh about one ton and was relieved by a breaker over the coal and a slip at one side and had a free side next the old head ways. In its fall it canted out a prop set under it and also knocked out a prop under one end of a plank crossing the headways. The foreshift deputy had been twice in the place during the time deceased’s brother occupied it during the foreshift and had observed no special danger. There was plenty of loose timber close at hand. The Local Inspector reported, "We find that in our opinion it is a pure accident, there being sufficient timber in the place." There is always extra danger from falls of stone in driving the first yard or two from an old road.

RUDDICK Ted – 1904 – 14/01/1904 – Age 13 – Writhlington, Lower Assistant carter Writhlington
Colliery Co. Ltd., Somerset A carting boy or putter who was in front pulling a cart or tub up a rather steep stall road or topple slipped and the gusset chain or tugger became detached whereupon the tub overpowered deceased, who was pushing up behind it, carried him before it in its descent and crushed him fatally against the lower side of the level.

RUDDY William – 1903 – 17/06/1903 – Age 18 – Silverdale Nos, 14 & 15 Dayman, Silverdale Co., Staffordshire. Tub became unhooked on landing the plates at the top of a short jig, it ran down and crushed him against the full tub as he was about to unhook it.

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

RUDGE Henry – 1909 – 29/10/1909 – Age 43 – Bargoed Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. As the men in the morning shift were going into their work, along the main East Haulage Road, deceased and a man named John Davies on reaching a certain point a fall of roof occurred which fell more or less upon them both. Davies was practically uninjured, while Rudge received injuries from which he died the same day. The road appeared to be in good order, no squeeze at the place and no broken timbers. Apparently a ball of "mine" or ironstone loosened from the side, above the collars, falling over against the laggings, displaced them, causing them to fall between the double timbers and let down the loose stone which was resting upon them. About two trains full fell.

RUDGE Thomas – 1905 – 27/02/1905 – Age 24 – Ackton Hall Byeworker, Ackton Hall Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Low girders were being taken out and stone taken down to make height on a driving road and the girders re-set. He and another man had got a girder out and were removing the props which had supported it when a fall of stone occurred and swamped another girder out and killed him. He had a ‘dog and chain’ to draw props but did not use it. If he had done so and set temporary timber to protect himself, the accident, in all probability, would not have been a fatal one.

RUMGAY Andrew – 1904 – 08/09/1904 – Age 36 – Aitken Brusher, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. While preparing to measure the breadth of the roadway, for crowns, the roof suddenly fell upon him.

RUMLEY Edward – 1903 – 17/11/1903 – Age 29 – Brandon Hewer, Starkers and Love, Co.Durham. When travelling outbye on engine plane he was naught by the empty set and killed.

RUMMING S. – 1903 – 23/02/1903 – Age 28 – West Riding Pipe Layer, Pope and Pearson, Yorkshire. The flexible metallic pipes joins the contributory pipes to the compressed air pipe blew off while he was manipulating it and struck his face. He died in a few hours and should have turned off the air.

RUMMINGS Samuel – 1909 – 05/08/1909 – Age 65 – South Tunnel Repairer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased when, at the request of the haulier, was leading a horse attached to two trams of coal, slipped on a steel sleeper, and fell under the first tram.

RUMNEY William – 1903 – 06/03/1903 – Age 28 – North Biddick Deputy, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by a fall of stone at two slips, which could not be seen before it took place when drawing timber in a longwall face.

RUNDLE Thomas – 1902 – 18/04/1902 – Age 70 – Wingate Grange Pumper, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery, Co.Durham. He was riding in a driver's set to his work when some side stone fell away and caught and fatally injured him.

RUSH James – 1908 – 06/01/1908 – Age 23 – Collins Green Ripper, Collins Green Colliery Co., St Helens, Lancashire. They had taken a bar out in the downbrow and a shot had been fired where they were ripping roof down and, whilst he was engaged clearing the dirt and preparing to set a new bar, a fall of roof fell on deceased.

RUSH Thomas – 1905 – 10/05/1905 – Age 50 – Carnock No.1 Sinker, Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. The engineman in some unexplained manner overwound the kettle in which they were ascending. 2 killed.

RUSHFORTH John – 1907 – 19/12/1907 – Age 37 – Middleton Collier, Middleton Estate and Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The seam in which this accident occurred is about 3 feet 1 inch in thickness and is made up of top to make it safe to work coal, a thick middle dirt and bottom coal. It is worked by first taking the top coal off for a distance of about 18 inches, then taking up the dirt, which is put to the goaf and finally getting up the bottom coal. At the time of the accident the two deceased men were taking up and rolling the dirt into the goaf and it is probable in doing so they displaced a prop set under the middle of a steel rail bar and thus allowed the roof to fall from two slips, one of which was visible before the fall occurred. The dirt when being taken up comes off in long pieces and in order to get them rolled into the goaf the prop at the end of the bar next to the goaf had been taken out without one being set at the face end of bar in addition to middle prop. This was an error of judgement. The deputy was in the place a quarter of an hour before the accident occurred and the bar with only the prop in the middle of it and also the slip which was visible but said nothing about setting props at the ends of it. It is unfortunate he did not give instructions for additional props to be set for, if he had done so, the probability is that the accident would not have occurred. He has since been removed from deputy’s work.

RUSHTON Jeremiah – 1903 – 26/03/1903 – Age 29 – Smallshaw Coke burner, Executors of Col. Hargreaves, Lancashire. Crushed by slack waggon on top of coke ovens.

RUSHTON John – 1905 – 17/01/1905 – Age 30 – Coneygre No. 120 Bandsman, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. While he was getting over a loaded tub, to which a horse was attached (in order to go to the rescue of a driver who was crushed by another tub through the breaking of a drag-chain) the horse started and he was thrown under the tub and killed.

RUSHTON Levi – 1908 – 18/08/1908 – Age 52 – Maypole Pusher-on, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

RUSS Henry – 1901 – 01/05/1901 – Age 35 – Bertie Collier, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face, as he was trying to pull a piece of coal down with his mandrill a lump of coal about 15 lbs. in weight fell and freed the mandrill. He fell backward and struck his neck against a prop an dislocated it. Nine feet seam.

RUSSELL Charles – 1906 – 06/08/1906 – Age 24 – Bothwell Castle No.1 Painter, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He was crushed by the bell crank of the pumping engine, which was started while he was preparing to paint the logs on which it was set.

RUSSELL Duncan – 1900 – 19/01/1900 – Age 55 – Clydesdale Roadsman, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. While working in the pit deceased punctured his hand with a rusty nail and blood poisoning supervene causing his death 10 days later.

RUSSELL Duncan – 1906 – 11/12/1906 – Age 31 – Shotts Drawer, Shotts Iron Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. The system of haulage is endless rope, speed 2.5 miles per hour. The tubs are conveyed in rakes of ten with a bogie in front and the rope is attached by means of a gripper or sheares. The haulage road is 1,400 yards long and worked by bogie boys between the mid bye and the shaft, a distance of 1,200 yards, and from the mid bye deceased bogied the tubs to and from the inside or inbye lye. When the rake had not reached the mid lye his custom was to go on with his loaded rake until he met the incoming rake and a transference took place. On the occasion on which the accident occurred he met a bogie boy, 700 yards outbye from the mid lye, and as usual handed over his rake to the boy to proceed to the shaft, while he took the empty rake toward the inside. About 15 minutes afterwards another bogie boy was proceeding inbye with an empty rake when his bogie collided with the rear of a rake in front, and deceased shouted for help; he was found on the opposite line of rails under the tubs and the bogie was partly over to the empty side and free of the rope; his injuries were serious and he succumbed three days later. The accident was due to the rake having run amain and some of the tubs left the rails and at a lower part of the pavement than usual the bogie and tubs were thrown to the opposite side, and deceased was pushed out the track of a derailed truck was discovered for 150 yards. The plane is undulating and for 300 yards dipped inbye 1 in 14, and it appears deceased released the rope from the hears and allowed the rake to run free inbye.

RUSSELL George – 1909 – 03/09/1909 – Age 27 – Allerton Main Miner, Allerton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He worked off coal to an unsuspected slip when a large stone fell from the roof from between this slip and it previously unknown slip behind him.

RUSSELL James – 1904 – 15/10/1904 – Age 25 – Little Raith Miner, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased and two other workmen preparing to put up a crown to a bad part of the roof when a large stone suddenly fell upon him.

RUSSELL James – 1907 – 03/06/1907 – Age 15 – Prestongrange Haulage Boy, Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd., Haddington. Deceased’s duties were to attach and detach tubs to this haulage rope, and it appeared that in detaching this clip from a moving tub his was too near a train of tubs and before he got the clip out he was crushed between the moving tub and this last tub of this train.

RUSSELL James – 1908 – 07/05/1908 – Age 67 – Hamilton Palace Labourer, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. When applying the brake to a moving waggon he put his arm in front of the buffer and got it crushed against the buffer of a stationary waggon.

RUSSELL John – 1903 – 03/02/1903 – Age 35 – Whistleberry No.1 Miner, Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. He is said to have gone in front of a loaded hutch at the top of a cuddie brae to put it on the rails. He did not hook it to the rope and when put on the rails it overcame and ran over him.

RUSSELL Robert – 1905 – 20/01/1905 – Age 23 – Holytown No. 8 Miner, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road while repairing it. He died on 17th May.

RUSSELL Thomas – 1901 – 07/11/1901 – Age 17 – J. Blindell’s Black Vein Collier, Blindell and Wakeford, Monmouth. Fall of roof from slips in his working place. A prop was set under the centre of the stone which fell.

RUSSON James – 1904 – 02/02/1904 – Age 16 – Creswell Horse driver, Bolsover Colliery Co., Derbyshire. He was crushed between the last tub of a train of four full tubs and the side of the roadway.

RUTHERFORD Adam – 1906 – 07/09/1906 – Age 32 – Harehope Gill, Limestone Quarry Loco. Fireman, Harehope Mining and Quarrying Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When kneeling on the buffers, between two moving wagons trying to uncouple them, he fell between, and was run over by the last waggon.

RUTHERFORD Andrew – 1907 – 06/03/1907 – Age 37 – Wallyford Miner, Edinburgh Collieries Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was breaking up a projecting stone in the side of a self-acting incline, when the timber supporting the roof gave way and the roof fell upon him, he died from his injuries on 23rd December, 1907.

RUTHERFORD James – 1906 – 14/09/1906 – Age 17 – Elphingstone Drawer, R and J Durie Ltd., Haddington. Deceased was filling coal into a tub when a stone in the centre of the seam suddenly burst off the face and killed him.

RUTHERFORD Joseph – 1908 – 10/02/1908 – Age 51 – Stargate Assistant Keeper, Stella Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Crushed between truck and engine house.

RUTHERFORD Robert – 1904 – 18/08/1904 – Age 50 – Broomrigg, Bonnyrigg No.2 Miner, Banknock Colliery Co. Ltd., Stirling. A shot of gunpowder from an adjacent place blew through on him, he having failed to stand clear after being warned to do so.

RUTHERFORTH Daniel – 1900 – 07/07/1900 – Age 68 – Acklington Horsekeeper, Acklington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was descending the shaft when he fell out of the cage. There was no evidence to show how the accident occurred and it is probable he fainted or had a fit.

RUTTER Edward – 1903 – 29/11/1903 – Age 50 – St. Hilda Mason’s labourer, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was working underground near the shaft carrying bricks. Inquest held. He came to work at 6 am. but feeling unwell he left at 8 am. and the shaftman went up with him in the cage. He went home and afterwards took a short walk and on returning home he died in a chair. No inquest was held.

RUTTER Evan – 1909 – 06/09/1909 – Age 31 – Gorse Hall, Sandstone Quarry Carter, Thomas Smith, Lancashire. About 40 tons of sand fell from the face of the Quarry, 50 feet high. Deceased, along with two others, were shovelling the sand from the bottom into a cart when a run took place. The sand ought to have been worked from the top in short benches.

RUTTER Robert – 1908 – 14/03/1908 – Age 40 – Preston Shifter, UA Ritson and Sons Ltd., Northumberland. Injured his knee while lifting a tub onto the rails and blood poisoning supervened.

RYALL John – 1902 – 30/05/1902 – Age 34 – High Hazels Pump attendant,  Waverley Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fell from a mid inset where he was attending to a steam pump.

RYAN Daniel – 1906 – 15/04/1906 – Age 18 – Garrbeg Slate Quarry Signaller, Killaloe Slate Co. Ltd., Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Fell from the top edge of the Quarry, 154 feet. Left his fenced station where he had to stand, to convey messages from the Quarry bottom to the crane driver for exercise, no one saw him fall, he fell when about 10 feet from his station.

RYAN John – 1906 – 29/08/1906 – Age 31 – Tulleady Limestone Quarry Quarrier, Tipperary, (N. Riding) County Council Co., Tipperary, Ireland. Struck on the left temple by a stone projected 60 yards from a gunpowder shot. He had concluded there was sufficient distance from the shot.

RYAN Patrick – 1900 – 12/11/1900 – Age 48 – Albion Hitcher, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Caught by the descending cage while crossing through the shaft.

RYAN Patrick – 1904 – 19/11/1904 – Age 35 – Killaloe, Slate Quarry Labourer, Tipperary, Ireland. Fall of ground from beyond control. About 2 tons of slate rock fell from a sloping joint on the face, 200 feet into the bottom of the quarry pit where several men were at work. 2 killed.

RYAN Thomas – 1909 – 21/10/1909 – Age 30 – Bedlinog No.2 Labourer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, when assisting a repairer, was struck on the side of the head by a small stone. He continued to work until Nov. 11th. He died from cerebral meningitis on Dec. 14.

RYAN William – 1901 – 06/12/1901 – Age 22 – Hayes No.2 Brickkiln Loader, Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Staffordshire. Fall of roof at entrance to a waste at the working face in the deep coal while he was building a pack. Several posts were knocked out by the fall which came from a slip running across entrance to waste.

RYAN William – 1903 – 15/09/1903 – Age 19 – Gateside Miner, Flemington Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

RYAN William – 1904 – 25/02/1904 – Age 25 – Great Mountain Rider, Great Mountain Collieries Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. While bringing a tram of rubbish up a dip he either struck a collar or was jerked off by the rope coiling badly around the drum and he was crushed so severely that he died on 23rd March.

RYDER George – 1906 – 26/10/1906 – Age 17 – Dean & Chapter Driver, Bolckow Vaughan & Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When driving a set of tubs into the landing, he was a little late in detaching the limbers. The pony turned out and he was crushed by the end of the first tub against the bow of the limbers. He died two days afterwards.

RYDER James – 1908 – 16/11/1908 – Age 46 – Silverwood Collier, Dalton Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He and his mate were bannocking above the seam when they touched a slip and as there was one parallel to and 3 feet from it on the goaf side and also another at right angles a stone from the roof fell and fatally injured him. Died the following day.

RYDER William – 1903 – 08/10/1903 – Age 18 – Watnall Horse Driver, Barber Walker and Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was in a gate near the stall when a fall of roof occurred and killed him. Another youth was injured by the fall.