SELBY Frank - 1908 - 03/12/1908 – Age 24 - Groesfaen Collier, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, cliff, 19 feet by 5 feet by 33 inches thick, fell from a smooth diagonal slant on deceased as he was measuring the length of the prop required to be set under the middle of the stone. The fireman visited the place half an hour previously, and instructed deceased to set a prop, but I am afraid that he delayed setting the prop so as to cut some more coal. Ras Las seam.

SELBY George - 1905 - 16/06/1905 – Age 39 - Shilbottle Shifter, Shilbottle Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. George Selby died on 18th June. The shaft siding, which lies above the seam worked, had been in the course of enlargement for two years. Side stone was worked off on occasions when the pit was idle. The road when finished, was about 12 feet wide and 10 feet high. The sides were principally post with blue metal at top and bottom. The jacks in the stone were blackened with dust. On the day of the accident a shift of three deputies had worked at the place from 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. They were visited both by the undermanager and overman. At 10 a.m. deceased men and others commenced their shift and while deceased men filled loose stones into tubs a stoneman prepared a shot about 18 feet from the place where the stone fell and this shot was fired at noon charged with 1 lb. of powder. It did not do much work but may have helped to loosen the stone. After returning after the shot the overman made an examination and then work was resumed. In about 20 minutes a mass of the post fell from the side and caught deceased, who were filling stones. The fall came away at jacks and there was a slip at the bottom. It gave no warning but any slight sound might not have been heard owing to the noise proceeding from pumps working in the shaft and water falling therein. The Local Inspectors reported, we are of the opinion the occurrence has been a pure accident. 2 killed.

SELF Charles - 1905 - 08/03/1905 – Age 58 – Lady Durham, Shifter, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Died of heart failure whilst setting timber underground [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident].

SELFE R.C.W. - 1904 - 10/03/1904 – Age 19 - Dean Lane Rider, Bedminster Easton Kingswood & Parkfield Collieries Co. Ltd., Somerset. When riding up an incline between the trams the drawbar hook of the first tram straightened causing the ropes to become disengaged and the journey to run back. The hook at the other end, when tested, showed that there was not sufficient margin of safety with the working load. In forging it in some way it was not made as strong as the usual pattern, which has been followed during the past dozen years or more. I have been promised that the pattern will be generally strengthened for the future.

SELFE William John Hillier - 1905 - 13/10/1905 – Age 62 - Broomhill Hewer, Broomhill Collieries Ltd., Northumberland. Died 25th January, 1906. Deceased was hewing alone in a bord 6 yards wide in the Top seam which is made up of 1 foot of top coal, 1 foot of bend and 2 feet 10 inches of bottom coal. He had fired a shot in the right nook and after filling part of the coal had sat down under the band and top coal to kyrve in the bottom coal when a piece of band measuring 5 feet by 3 feet and 1 foot thick fell away, relieved by two slips and caught him. He was found by the putter to whom he stated he had been two hours under the stone. He was taken to Newcastle Infirmary about the end of October but was sent home on the 10th November as incurable the spinal cord being broken. Three Local Inspectors examined the place and reported on the accident at some length they stated inter alia "that while the injured man might have set a prop beneath the stone the accident has not been due to his neglecting to do so," giving as reasons that the prop would have had to be set so far from the face in order to allow him to work that when he kyrved out the coal the stone would have either broken off by the prop or canted it. They concluded “We also find that in no way whatever can any blame be attached to any of the colliery officials but that it is one of these unfortunate accidents which sometimes occur in our mines in which no one can be held to be at fault.” In my opinion deceased acted imprudently in respect that he did not place a prop under the hand or take it down before venturing to work under it.

SELKIRK John - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 30 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas 168 killed. Grange Villa.

SELLARS Alfred - 1907 - 21/06/1907 – Age 32 - Bulwell Stallman, Babbington Coal Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was pushing three empty tubs in the gate-road towards the coal-face when the leading tub struck a prop supporting a steel bar. When be attempted to liberate the tub, the steel bar fell out and fatally injured him. He died 30th June.

SELLARS Edward - 1903 - 16/05/1903 – Age 25 - Stranghow Ironstone Filler, Cochrane and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He had lighted a powder shot, thinking the squib had missed fire in the face when the shot exploded and killed him.

SELLARS Ernest - 1903 - 08/01/1903 – Age 27 - Pilsley No.2 Stallman, Pilsley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased withdrawing a prop, which was supporting one end of a bar and being at the edge of a large goaf. When the prop was pulled out it liberated other props which allowed the roof to fall and killed him.

SELLARS Frank - 1909 - 15/10/1909 – Age 59 - Llwynon Waggon repairer, Llwynon Colliery Co., Glamorgan. He was knocked down and run over on a wet, windy day by the colliery locomotive. The accident occurred near a turn in the railway, and the look out from the engine does not seem to have been as careful as he should have been. The man was employed by the Gloucester Waggon Company, and was not under the jurisdiction of the colliery officials. The waggon company had a shed containing sundry articles for repairing waggons belonging to the Colliery Company.

SELLARS John - 1903 - 06/03/1903 – Age 18 - Auckland Park Putter, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A large stone fell from the roof of a place in which he was waiting for a tub to be filled and caught him. Died same day.

SELLARS Samuel - 1903 - 01/04/1903 – Age 58 - Pilsley No.2 Stallman, Pilsley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was working near a fault in the stall and had exceeded the distance required by the timbering rules for setting a prop for the support of the roof. He died on the 5th Apr.

SELLERS James - 1900 - 11/08/1900 – Age 35 - Dukinfield, Astley Dayman, Dukinfield Collieries Ltd., Cheshire. Fall of roof while ripping the roof of a level in the Black Mine. Died 5th September.

SELLERS Joseph - 1901 - 30/10/1901 – Age 39 - Best Hill, Gritstone Quarry Quarryman, Whitehead and Hague, Derbyshire. Fall of rock from the Quarry face. The rock fell from a clay joint 11 feet above where deceased was working, and if a proper daily examination had been made, its existence might have been discovered, and precautionary measures taken to prevent an accident.

SELLKIRK R.G. - 1904 - 08/12/1904 – Age 14 - Harraton Driver, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Horse fell and threw him off and the horse, in struggling, crushed him to death.

SELLS or WELLS George - 1907 - 24/02/1907 – Age 36 - Hickleton Main Collier, Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. On the 8th of June, 1906 he, it is alleged, slipped when pushing a full tub in the pit and his death was thereby accelerated. He died from peritonitis due to an ulcer on the stomach. The medical evidence was not definite as to whether the injury had any connection with his death but Jury at the inquest in their verdict stated it was accelerated by injury.

SELWAY William - 1900 - 07/02/1900 – Age 46 - Braichcymmer, Darren Collier, Braichcymmer Darren Colliery Co., Glamorgan. Fall at face coal, 11 feet x 34 inches x 29 inches thick, while deceased was holing under without having set sprags. Caedavid seam.

SENIOR George - 1908 - 05/06/1908 – Age 32 - Hodroyd Collier, New Monckton Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. They were on their way out of the pit, at the end of their shift, and when travelling through a pass-bye a fall of roof took place, and killed them both and injured another man. The fall was 12 feet long by 6 feet wide by 8 inches in the thickest part, which was at one side.

SENIOR Tom - 1906 - 24/07/1906 – Age 43 - Woolley Collier, Fountain and Burnley Ltd., Yorkshire. These men were ripping a new level and walling one at each side of the road. One was using a pick and the other wedging when suddenly the roof fell out of a very large pot-hole and killed them both on the spot. 2 killed.

SENIOR Walter - 1908 - 09/11/1908 – Age 25 - Shawcross Collier, Crawcross and Warburton Ltd., Yorkshire. He pulled a slab of coal off the face, which exposed a slip in the roof, and a fall occurred from it and killed him.

SERGEANT Harold - 1906 - 15/10/1906 – Age 15 - Denaby Main Tub coupler, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. His duty was to couple the tubs coming into the shaft together to make up trains of 24 tubs. The tubs were coupled in two and sent forward to him down a slight incline. He steadied the tubs with two lockers and occasionally, if the tubs came too quickly for him, by placing a piece of wood called a ‘dick’ across the rails. He was found crushed between a tub full of wedges and a brick wall at a curve. No one saw the accident but it is surmised the tub of wedges, being heavier, was coming more quickly than empty one and he put the dick in front of one wheel and this caused it to run off the rails.

SETHERTON George A. - 1907 - 25/10/1907 – Age 51 - Avon Ostler, Great Western Railway Co., Glamorgan. Died from tetanus on 5th Nov. brought about by a scratch on his leg while tumbling an empty tram in an underground stable.

SEVERN Aaron - 1903 - 02/03/1903 – Age 22 - Langwith Dayman, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Notts. Fall of roof. Deceased was getting coal down from the face and a quantity of roof fell with the coal and killed the deceased. Another man was injured.

SEVERN Albert - 1906 - 20/05/1906 – Age 20 - Browtowe Roadman, Babbington Coal Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was injured in the mine in October 1904, and died one year and several months later.

SEVERN Arthur Edwin - 1903 - 02/11/1903 – Age 34 - Warsop Stallman, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was cutting a prop out, which was supporting a bar set to support the roof, when the bar fell out allowing a portion of the roof to fall and kill the deceased.

SEVERN John Thomas - 1902 - 23/01/1902 – Age 35 - Swanwick, Deep Stallman, CRP Morewood, Derbyshire. Suffocated by carbon-monoxide. The two men were working in an airway which passed by and communicated with some old workings. The two deceased were found dead. A few days after the fatality a gobfire was found to have broken out. 2 killed.

SEWELL Alexander - 1908 - 03/03/1908 – Age 32 - Brayton Domain, Assistant Deputy, Joseph Harris, Cumberland. Fall of roof stone while repairing road.

SEWELL George - 1907 - 18/10/1907 – Age 23 - Hebburn Hewer, Wallsend Hebburn and Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was hewing in a district where pillars were being split or reduced in size and at the end of a back shift on a Pay Friday he was bringing a loaded tubs far out-bye. The road he travelled was for 13 yards fairly level and then had a dip out-bye for some 32 yards, of an inch or two per yard. He seems to have been in front of the tub, which had no drag in the wheels and was overpowered. He had passed through a canvas door and just beyond it was a turn in the road where the tub got off the rails and crushed his head against a prop. As he did not come out-bye the deputy went to seek him and found him lying in front of but clear of the tub which was off the way. His extinguished safety lamp lay on the floor near him. Some hair was observed on the front of the tub. The deputy stated at the inquest that deceased had asked him if he should bring the tub back from the face at the end of his shift and he had told him not to interfere with it. It is usual, particularly in broken workings, to bring the tub from the face at the end of the day and this is more necessary on Pay Friday when the pit would not work until the following Monday. The Local Inspectors, in their report, described the conditions they observed, but did not suggest how the accident happened. One of them in evidence at the inquest stated it was usual to bring the tubs out of broken places at the very end and that he considered the place where deceased worked was a broken place.

SEXTON John - 1902 - 26/05/1902 – Age 62 - Dalziel & Broomside Miner, John McAndrews and Co., Lanarkshire. Deceased worked in a room 11 to 12 feet in width in a seam 4 feet 10 inches in thickness. He was going outbye with a tub when a piece of blaes, falling 9 feet x 11 feet x 4 inches, suddenly came away from the roof swinging out three props. A portion of it fell on him fracturing his skull. Additions Special Rule 6 did not appear to have been strictly enforced.

SEXTON John - 1909 - 23/11/1909 – Age 52 - Millhall, Whinstone Quarry Quarryman, Dundee DC, Forfar CC, Fofar. Deceased was standing on a ledge when some loose stones began to slip away, and on turning round to discover the cause he lost his balance and fell to the ground a distance of 7 feet.

SEYMOUR Henry - 1905 - 30/09/1905 – Age 57 - Court Farm Limestone Miner, HW Burt, Dorset. Fall of stone, 8 feet long, 20 inches wide and 10 inches to 12 inches thick, which burst off at the face, leaving two ends, one being a greasy joint.

SEYMOUR John - 1902 - 26/02/1902 – Age 15 - Littleburn Belt Lad, North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Some old castings were being broken by means of stowite in the colliery yard, a piece flew 116 yards and hit the deceased who was on the hempstead looking through a small hole and killed him instantly.

SEYMOUR John - 1907 - 02/10/1907 – Age 18 - Hayhills No.2 Miner, Hayhills Colliery Co., Ayrshire. Fall of roof in working place. A shot displaced several props and apparently theses had not been reset.

SEYMOUR Thomas - 1901 - 16/05/1901 – Age 37 - Hazelrigg Hewer, Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died 22nd September 1902 (a year after the accident). Fall of coal and stone at the face of a longwall place, in the Low Main seam. No inquest held.

SHACKLETON Thomas - 1909 - 16/02/1909 – Age 39 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 29 High Street.

SHACKLETON Timothy - 1904 - 23/02/1904 – Age 59 - Ting End Tops, Sandstone Quarry Stone Dresser, Henry Heys and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by railway waggon against side wall, want of room.

SHAD Christopher - 1906 - 12/05/1906 – Age 3 - Little Raith Child, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. The child had wandered to the colliery sidings where shunting was going on, and was run over by the waggons.

SHAKESHAFT Robert - 1907 - 03/10/1907 – Age 49 - Denaby Main Collier, Denaby and Cadeby Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When preparing to set a prop a fall of roof coal occurred, it was not visible before the fall took place.

SHANKS George - 1906 - 04/10/1906 – Age 32 - Broxburn Oil Shale Miner, Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Deceased was found 16 feet from his working place, injured on the head by being struck with flying shale from a shot. The shot was in the bottom portion of the seam and was charged with 1 lb. of gunpowder and it appeared deceased had been delayed after the fuse was lit and failed to reach a place of safety when the shot exploded. His lamp was found near the shot, which indicated that probably the light had been extinguished by the splitting of the fuse and he had dropped it and put off some time searching for it.

SHANNON David - 1909 - 11/05/1909 – Age 16 - Douglas Park No.1 Miner, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of side in road-head while occupied filling a hutch.

SHANNON John - 1902 - 14/05/1902 – Age 27 - Sandwith, Sandstone Quarry Stonemason, Sandwith Quarries Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Deceased was measuring the stone fixed on his planning machine whilst in motion. The machine only moved at creeping pace and he had apparently placed one foot on the moving carriage when he slipped or stumbled and the carriage passed over his legs inflicting injuries from which he died.

SHANTWELL Richard - 1906 - 12/10/1906 – Age 41 - Hoffman, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Buxton Lime Firms, Derbyshire. Deceased had taken shelter in a properly built cabin, and went outside to call to a man just as a shot exploded. A stone from the shot struck his head and fractured his skull. He died 20th October.

SHAPOTCH William - 1904 - 01/12/1904 – Age 37 - Eddlewood No.3 Miner, John Watson Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal and stone due to want of sprags.

SHARKEY Edward - 1908 - 29/10/1908 – Age 21 - Broomhouse Engineman, Haughead Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall from the side of the underground haulage engine-room.

SHARMAN Alfred - 1907 - 26/02/1907 – Age 39 - Thindon Iron Ore Quarry Quarryman, Walter Neilson Jnr., Northampton. A shot had been fired the previous day, and upon resuming work the next morning a fall occurred which fatally injured deceased. He died same day.

SHARP George William - 1908 - 21/07/1908 – Age 25 - Rotherham Main Corporal, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The deceased was putting a drag on the last full tub of a set of two, which a driver was taking out about 400 yards from the coal face, when a fall of stone suddenly took place from the roof and caught him and he was so seriously injured that he died the same afternoon. A seam 250 yards below was being worked and a long wall face was approaching the place of the accident. This, no doubt, was the cause of the fatality.

SHARP Joe - 1906 - 22/08/1906 – Age 33 - Three Nuns Byeworkman, Low Moor Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When engaged drawing timber, rails, flat sheets, etc., out of the roadways of recently finished workings. He had five bars to draw and had set props in the middle of the road for protection, but while knocking out a prop, from under one end of one of the bars, the roof gave a lurch and swung the bar out and he was caught and killed by the fall.

SHARP Robert - 1909 - 27/02/1909 – Age 42 - Leven Labourer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was inside a condenser cleaning it out when he was scalded by steam and water.

SHARP Thomas - 1903 - 17/11/1903 – Age 44 - Church Gresley Stallman, Moira Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. A shot had been fired at the gate end and the men were building the packs when a portion of the roof fell and fatally injured him. The fall pushed a prop out which had been set to support the roof. Died 8th. December.

SHARPE James Morton - 1902 - 08/09/1902 – Age 46 - Seaton Delaval Stoneman, Seaton Delaval Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased and another stoneman drew the timber in a gateway in the Main Coal seam, 20 yards from the face, in order to get stones for building packwalls at the face, they left the place for a time and then returned to clear away the fallen stones and when deceased was plotting the place a large stone fell away from jacks and killed him.

SHARPE John - 1905 - 06/03/1905 – Age 46 - Church Gresley Engine Fitter, Moira Colliery Co., Derbyshire. The colliery locomotive was standing near a wall. Deceased attempted to pass between the loco and the wall when the loco moved forward and crushed him.

SHARPE John Henry - 1908 - 23/03/1908 – Age 31 - Rail Works, Clay Quarry Clay Getter, HR Mansfield, Derbyshire. Fall from a ledge, 10 feet from the ground, and in his fall he struck the corner of a tub which fractured his skull.

SHARPLES Henry - 1900 - 27/04/1900 – Age 17 - Garswood Hall Drawer, Garswood Hall Collieries Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The roof fell out between two bars on a roadway when the deceased was attending to his tub. The distance between the two bars was three yards where the deceased had turned his empty tub over to allow other drawers to pass with their full tubs.

SHARPLES Richard - 1905 - 17/02/1905 – Age 54 - Newton No.1 Fireman, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Lancashire. On 17th February, whilst travelling in the mine, he bumped his head, knocked him down, made a lump on his head. On 4th March he again bumped his head. Died 25th March. At inquest doctor said death was due to the rupture of blood vessels in his brain, the blood vessels were in such a naturally diseased condition, a slight blow would cause rupture.

SHARPS George - 1907 - 14/03/1907 – Age 50 - Bold Browman, Collins Green Colliery Co., St Helens, Lancashire. When walking along the waggon road, near the steam boilers, he got run over by the locomotive engine, the whistle of which was said to be blowing at the time.

SHARROCK James - 1904 - 27/09/1904 – Age 43 - Priestners Collier, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Lancashire. At face of working place, from between two parallel slips, one of the slips running along the coal face. Timbering distance 4 feet, this was exceeded by inches only. Another row of props ought to have been set apart from the presence of the pronounced face slip. (Roof generally good, in this place bad)

SHARROCK John - 1901 - 10/04/1901 – Age 53 - Orrell Dataller, Orrell Colliery Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. When engaged getting materials out of the Orrell four-feet mine, just after the seam had been abandoned, the fireman appears to have fired a charge of roberite on an iron cog wheel in a level near the main haulage brow in a dusty part of the mine without the knowledge of the managers and contrary to the rules. An explosion of coal dust occurred which travelled through the main roads killing Halliwell and Farrimond and the other two persons. Sharrock and Parkinson succumbed to the injuries received about a week after the explosion. 4 killed.

SHAUGHNESSEY James - 1903 - 15/09/1903 – Age 23 - Ashton Moss Collier, New Moss Colliery Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof from side of level four, back from the face overhung one foot not spragged. Fireman on his visit ought to have ordered the overhanging to be pulled down.

SHAW Bernard - 1908 - 20/01/1908 – Age 34 - Orgreave Miner, Rother Vale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. When drawing back timber from the waste a large stone fell without warning and killed him.

SHAW Edward - 1900 - 21/02/1900 – Age 44 - Denton Great Dataller, Denton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in jigbrow whilst repairing 40 yards from working face. Died 2nd March. (Good roof)

SHAW Edward - 1905 - 02/06/1905 – Age 19 - Brackenhill, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Joseph Hanby, Yorkshire. Helping to pull a large flag, which was on the edge, slightly forward when it and two others came over and pinned him between them and some reared up behind him. He was seriously crushed and died 16 hours afterwards in the Clayton Hospital at Wakefield.

SHAW Emmanuel - 1904 - 26/08/1904 – Age 33 - Biddulph Valley Collier, Stafford. Died suddenly while waiting to ascend the shaft. Verdict, syncope.

SHAW Fred - 1909 - 20/08/1909 – Age 18 - Wombwell Main Hurrier, Wombwell Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Thirteen full tubs were at the top of an incline, supposed to all be coupled, when a block was knocked out and eleven went away down the jinney, leaving two full ones attached to the rope. These ran into the empties at the bottom of the jinney, causing the rope to jerk and spring, the two full ones attached to it back, a distance of about 15 feet. Deceased, who was sitting waiting for empties, was struck by the full ones and so seriously injured that he died half an hour afterwards. It is probable that the tubs had not been coupled, and that the second or catch blocks were not in position.

SHAW Frederick Herbert - 1909 - 17/08/1909 – Age 31 - Nunnery Onsetter, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. His duty was to put on the tubs at a mid-inset in a shaft, where the work was intermittent. He was alone, but was heard to fall down the shaft. The fence gate was open and it is probable that he had forgotten to close it after landing a tub and afterwards inadvertently walked into the shaft.

SHAW G.E. - 1909 - 10/10/1909 – Age 18 - Rockingham Screen Boy, Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was found dead in the gearing of the machinery driving the creepers. The machinery was well fenced but he was inside the fence, and had probably been oiling the machinery when in motion.

SHAW George - 1902 - 30/12/1902 – Age 49 - Kilnhurst Collier, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. Died 8th January. Fall of coal in working place. Cause neglect of timber.

SHAW George - 1905 - 06/10/1905 – Age 39 - Cadeby Main Labourer, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. In connection with a new Baum washer, which was being erected, the flooring of a storey, about 22 feet from the ground was being made by means of brick arches sprung from steel girders three feet apart. One of these arches had been finished on the previous night and the joiners had removed the centres and were putting them in for the next arch, and he was standing on two planks placed above the recently built arch, passing timber to the joiners, when he stepped on to the arching which collapsed, and he fell to the ground and was so severely injured that he died the following day. He had been warned to keep clear of the arch but evidently had, for the moment, forgot this warning.

SHAW Henry - 1906 - 14/08/1906 – Age 17 - Leasingthorne Putter, Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He slipped when getting on to the limbers and was crushed by the tub against a prop.

SHAW Henry - 1907 - 18/01/1907 – Age 37 - Woodside Stallman, Shipley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. The coal being worked was a narrow pillar between some old workings and probably the roof had been shaken some years previously.

SHAW James - 1903 - 25/06/1903 – Age 41 - Foxfield Byworker, Foxfield Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (shale) at longwall face while he was removing a previous fall.

SHAW John - 1905 - 17/10/1905 – Age 79 - Shipley Labourer, Shipley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Run over by railway wagons. He was found under some full wagons, which were being shunted in the colliery sidings, and died the same day.

SHAW John - 1905 - 30/11/1905 – Age 16 - Whitfield Oiler, Chatterley Whitfield Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed between ropes and driving wheel of fan engine. He had no business in the fan engine house and had gone through the fence.

SHAW John - 1906 - 21/05/1906 – Age 54 - Nostell Dataller, Lord St. Oswald, Yorkshire. He was sent by an official to remove some small falls of stone on a road, and while doing so a fall occurred from the roof and side at a slip, which caught and fractured his leg. He was got out and taken home, where he progressed satisfactorily until the 13th of June, when he, with the permission of his doctor, got out of bed and, with assistance, put on his clothes. He then attempted to get to the top of the stairs where he fainted and died. A post-mortem examination showed his heart to be in a very bad condition, and that death was due to syncope. The doctor was of opinion that death was accelerated by lying in bed for three weeks and suddenly getting into an upright position, and that the condition his heart was in would predispose him to an attack of syncope.

SHAW Joseph - 1900 - 06/08/1900 – Age 57 - Marks End (Sandstone Quarry) Quarryman, Joseph Wetton, Cheshire. Fell 76 feet from a ledge near the top of the Quarry from which he was removing the baring.

SHAW Joseph - 1904 - 27/12/1904 – Age 57 - Fitzwilliam Hemsworth Labourer, Fitzwilliam Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He and another man went between a waggon to fasten a bottom door without first warning someone when they were lowering it with the result that while they were there another waggon collided with them and deceased in trying to get out was fatally injured. The other man was fortunate to escape unhurt.

SHAW Joseph - 1908 - 12/09/1908 – Age 60 - Crown Pikeman, EJ and J Pearson, Staffordshire. Deceased, who worked alone, had fired two shots charged with compressed powder and lighted by means of a cotton covered fuse. Another miner, who had gone into the face to shout ‘loose it’ found it in darkness, and on reaching the face found deceased lying unconscious at the side of the road, his head being within a foot of the path of one of the shots. He never regained consciousness, and died on the following day. On testing the fuse it was found to burn at the rate of feet in 30 seconds. The length usually used was stated to be about 3 feet. Deceased had apparently delayed too long while lighting the second shot or had returned prematurely on a hanging shot.

SHAW Richard - 1901 - 12/09/1901 – Age 42 - Clough Hall No.18 Shifter, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. A fall of roof had occurred on the main haulage crut, near the shaft where it intersected the Bullhurst seam, at a place where old dips had been driven in the Bullhurst. This fall caused a cavity in bad ground over the roof of the crut, the roof and sides of which cavity were not properly secured before the crut was retimbered. After the crut had been retimbered by five large bars with runners and laggings over the bars a large fall from the roof and sides of the cavity broke down or reeled out the timber and filled the crut for 7 yards while a number of men were at work finishing the repairs. Loyden, Shaw, and Farr were dead when got out and Turner died on the 20th September. An under-manager and overman were also injured by the fall. There was a grave error of judgement on the part of the officials in charge of the work in not first properly securing the roof and sides of the cavity above the crut.

SHAW Richardson - 1906 - 02/07/1906 – Age 56 - East Hetton Stoneman, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He had a rib broken by a fall of roof but was thought, by the doctor, to be little the worse. He died on 28th July from syncope, following upon pleuro-pneumonia, resulting from the accident.

SHAW Rowland - 1909 - 20/04/1909 – Age 52 - Woolley Collier, Fountain and Burnley Ltd., Yorkshire. A small piece of stone fell from the roof upon him. He complained of pain but worked for the rest of the shift. He rested a day and then worked a day but as the pain continued he consulted a doctor. Pneumonia supervened and he died. A post-mortem examination showed that one of his ribs was broken.

SHAW T. - 1902 - 25/10/1902 – Age 46 - Osmondthorpe Collier, Low Moor Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 7th November. Fall of overhanging ironstone measure over the coalface at which he was working. Cause neglect to set timber.

SHAW W. - 1903 - 02/05/1903 – Age 56 - Warren Vale Collier, J and J Charlesworth Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof in a working place where timber was being drawn. Cause sudden weight.

SHAW W.H. - 1903 - 05/12/1903 – Age 31 - Barnsley Main Trammer, Barnsley Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of rock from the roof of a road when he was taking an empty tub inbye.

SHAW Walter - 1906 - 29/03/1906 – Age 64 - Rawdon Stallman, Moira Colliery Co., Leicestershire. He fell down in the mine on 28th December, 1905 and died 29th Mar, 1906. An inquest was held and the jury returned a verdict that ‘there was not sufficient evidence to say how such inflammation of the spinal cord was caused,’.

SHAW William - 1902 - 28/07/1902 – Age 14 - Newbottle Margaret Driver, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. When driving a full tub it, by some means, up-ended and crushed him to death.

SHAW William - 1903 - 13/05/1903 – Age 58 - Beamish Shifter, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died 19th May. Deceased was at work on the 13th-14th May and complained of a pain in his side which he stated was caused by falling on a prop; he worked no more until the 18th May and returned home on the 19th complaining of a pain across his chest and he died that day at 5.30 am., no doctor having seen him. A post mortem examination revealed heart disease and medical evidence was to the effect that death was due to this cause and that the accident had no bearing on his death.

SHAW William - 1904 - 12/02/1904 – Age 56 - Woodthorpe Collier, Nunnery Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was drawing a chock in the longwall face when a large stone fell from the roof and killed him. There were weight breaks.

SHAW William - 1906 - 08/02/1906 – Age 48 - Lumphinnans Miner, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was taking down a ‘fallen’ overhanging the face when the roof fell upon him.

SHAW William - 1908 - 19/05/1908 – Age 14 - Warsop Door Boy, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Nottinghamshire. The draw bar of the first full tub, of a set of sixteen tubs broke, and as deceased was following the train up a hill, he was killed by the runaway tubs. The train over-ran the drag.

SHAW William - 1909 - 11/11/1909 – Age 37 - Holbrook Stallman, J and G Wells Ltd., Derbyshire. He was holing in a parting between two sections of the seam when the top coal broke over a sprag and injured him so seriously that he died on the 27th January, 1910. The sprags were 5 feet 8 inches apart, or nearer than the prescribed distance of 6 feet, but in view of the fact that a settlement of the strata had recently occurred the distance between the sprags might have been further decreased.

SHEAMAN David - 1908 - 17/12/1908 – Age 35 - Barbush Sand Quarry Labourer, G and R Cousin, Perth. Deceased and another was digging sand and at the time of the accident he was in a hole, below the surface level, when suddenly a huge mass slipped off the face and he was buried.

SHEARD Solomon - 1906 - 24/05/1906 – Age 24 - White Lea Collier, White Lea Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Along with his mate he was getting coal and in doing so they disclosed a slip and as there was a weight break parallel to it and also another slip at right angles to it a stone fell  which displaced five props, caught and killed him.

SHEARER James - 1906 - 27/06/1906 – Age 56 - Saline Brusher, West of Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased and his neighbour were about to make some repairs, and while he was preparing to set a prop part of the roof fell and injured his foot; he died from the effects of the injury on 25th September, 1906.

SHEARER John - 1904 - 03/08/1904 – Age 58 - Blantyre No.4 Miner, William Dixon Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of stone from working face. The accident was not reported until after his death on 29th Dec.

SHEARER Joseph - 1907 - 18/04/1907 – Age 16 - Cowdenbeath No.10 Drawer, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased hung an empty tub on the rope, and a miner at the top pushed over his loaded tub, and while tubs were in motion this wheel tree broke and the loaded tub crashed into this empty tub at the bottom of the brae which struck and killed him.

SHEARER William - 1902 - 20/09/1902 – Age 36 - Montgomeriefield No.1 Pony driver, A Kenneth and Sons, Ayrshire. When starting a race of full hutches, at the top of an inclined part of the horse road, a coupling between the first and second hutch broke. The hutch which was unsnibbed ran down the incline and ran over him.

SHEARER William - 1908 - 04/03/1908 – Age 20 - Dechmont No.2 Pony Driver, Archibald Russell Ltd., Lanarkshire. When assisting to clear away a fall on a road he was slightly injured by a stone falling from the side and striking his arm. Tetanus set in, and he died eight days after the accident occurred.

SHEARS John - 1900 - 02/10/1900 – Age 52 - Polyphant Stone Quarry, Quarryman, Nicholls Bros., Cornwall. Fall of overburden which was not kept back as required by Special Rules. (penalties imposed upon the owner)

SHEASBY William - 1903 - 06/01/1903 – Age 53 - Stockton, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Greaves Bull and Lakin, Warwickshire. Deceased and other men were lowering a barrow-road supported by trestles between the Quarry and the spoil bank when the structure collapsed and deceased fell 40 feet to the ground. He died 23rd September. Three others were injured.

SHEENAN Albert - 1907 - 23/01/1907 – Age 65 - Watergate Hewer, Flimby and Broughton Moor Coal and Firebrick Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Four other persons were injured by this accident. The No.2 Pit is an upcast shaft with fan ventilation; it is 13 feet diameter and 113 fathoms deep to the Cannel band eye, to which point it is traversed by two single decked cages each holding two tubs placed end to end. The covers of the cages are flat and consist of wooden boards. The shaft is walled with bricks for 101 fathoms from the surface and for 33 fathoms above the Cannel band eye, the remainder is lined with wood. The wood lining consists of oak cribs, 5 inches square, placed about 45 feet apart and to the inside of these cribs, deal boards 10 inches wide and 1/8 inch thick called latting are nailed. The miners were ascending at the end of the shift and 5 cage loads had gone up, one of the cages was at the Cannel band eye and had nearly received its complement of 12 men when some stone fell from the side of the shaft, 33.5 fathoms above and near the bottom of the latting, which it broke away, and falling on to the cage top broke through the wood cover and killed deceased, injuring some of the others. The stone was blue metal and broke up in its fall, but two of the largest pieces measured 2 feet 8 inches by 10 inches by 7.5 inches, and 1 foot 10 inches by 9 inches by 6 inches respectively. About 3 weeks before the accident a commencement had been made to deepen the shaft to lower seams and sinkers were engaged on this work after the pit was done drawing coal. The shaftman’s reports on the 13th December, the 22nd January, and the 23rd January called attention to defective latting near the point from which the stone fell, but he stated at the inquest that the fall took place above the defective point. The stone fell away from a natural joint in the strata and broke away some of the latting. The Jury found that the deceased were killed by a fall of stone in the shaft but were unable to say definitely whether the defective latting contributed to the fall but they regretted that the report of the 19th December had not been promptly attended to. This mode of securing shaft sides is not the safest as the latting is only held in position by nails. The rotting of wood in the moist air of an upcast shaft may escape notice. An arched iron cover to cages is safer than a flat wooden top. 2 killed.

SHELDON James - 1905 - 19/12/1905 – Age 45 - Alma No.4 Stallman, Alma Colliery Co., Derbyshire. He was injured by roof coal falling upon him on 2nd February, and died a year and ten months later. No inquest was held.

SHELDON Sidney - 1909 - 06/11/1909 – Age 39 - Choppington Shifter, Bebside Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Fall of side stone at face of gateway.

SHELDON Thomas - 1906 - 15/11/1906 – Age 35 - Church Gresley Stallman, Moira Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was driving an electrically driven coal-cutter, when a fall of roof occurred and fatally injured him. He died the same day.

SHELDRAKE George - 1909 - 27/01/1909 – Age 27 - Denaby Main Filler, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was holding a light for a collier who was cutting top coal in a gate road to make it higher, when a heavy fall of roof occurred. The fall disclosed a slip.

SHELFORD George - 1902 - 09/06/1902 – Age 19 - Arley Hindley Green Drawer, John Scowcroft and Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He had brought his full tub down a curve when another drawer, following some distance behind with another tub, got his foot fast with a sleeper on the rail causing him to fall, a full tub ran down the brow crushing the deceased and fatally injuring him.

SHELLEY John - 1903 - 23/03/1903 - Age 42 - Crawford No.2 Dataller, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was repairing a fall on the main road when a stone fell upon him from the roof. He was aware the stone was unsafe and was about setting a prop under it when it fell upon him. The fireman was present and had directed him to set a prop.

SHELLIBEER Samuel - 1908 - 14/03/1908 – Age 52 - Meiros Collier, Gas Coal Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, as deceased was in the act of setting a post under it, a piece of rock, 5 feet by 3 feet by 15 inches thick, fell on him and killed him. No.3 Rhondda seam.

SHELTON John - 1904 - 06/08/1904 – Age 49 - Fitzwilliam Hemsworth Rock Ripper, Fitzwilliam Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was travelling outbye with several other men when a large slab of stone fell from the roof and killed him. The roof was hard sandstone and timbering was not considered to be necessary and it had been in the same condition for a long time. The stone fell from a smooth parting.

SHELTON Joseph - 1904 - 30/08/1904 – Age 30 - Baddesley Incline Man, Baddesley Colliery Trustees, Warwickshire. Deceased was attempting to take a loaded tub down an engine-plane, dipping 1 in 5, by means of scotching the wheels and using the rope-clip behind as a brake. The tub overpowered him and ran away throwing him against the side of the roadway.

SHEPHERD Albert - 1906 - 16/06/1906 – Age 18 - Glyngwyn Haulier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was taking two trams of coal along a heading dipping 1.5 inches per yard. He was riding on the gun and must have struck his head against a piece of low roof and fractured his neck. He was found lying on the ground in front of the tram. The heading was only 5 feet high and riding should have been prohibited, it was made higher.

SHEPHERD Albert - 1908 - 04/03/1908 – Age 13 - Eatock Lamp Lad, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Caught by wagon wheel, falling out of wagon, riding prohibited. (Died on 6th instant)

SHEPHERD Ambrose James - 1905 - 03/11/1905 – Age 19 - Pendlebury Dataller, A Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fell from cage whilst descending the shaft, evidence stated that the cage jerked up and down at a point in shaft where retardation commenced, deceased had not hold of the bar provided. Jury recommended protection gate.

SHEPHERD Arthur Thomas - 1909 - 16/02/09 – Age 32 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 4 Lucy Street.

SHEPHERD Frederick William - 1909 - 05/04/1909 – Age 23 - Markham No.2 Loader, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was getting coal from the face and putting it on to a mechanical conveyer, when a pot-hole fell out and killed him.

SHEPHERD Henry - 1901 - 08/10/1901 – Age 62 - Whitehaven, Wellington Fitter, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased and two others were engaged in laying water pipes along the side of an engine plane. He left his mates in order to examine the work of the previous shift and was caught by an empty set.

SHEPHERD John - 1907 - 20/08/1907 – Age 24 - Crawford No.2 Waggon Lowerer, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. He was engaged filling some dirt into a tub from under the screens, when he got knocked down and fatally injured by a wagon which was being lowered.

SHEPHERD Joseph - 1907 - 24/05/1907 – Age 54 - Monckton Main Collier, New Monckton Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was walking towards the face with a pick and shovel in one hand and his safety lamp in the other when his feet slipped and he fell forward with his head against the coal face with such violence as to cause severe concussion of the brain. Died almost immediately.

SHEPHERD Nahum N. - 1906 - 17/03/1906 – Age 18 - Littleton No.3 Screening Plant Fitter, Littleton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was assisting to get a load off a gravity hoist. The man at the brake left it thoughtlessly to assist also. When the load came off the empty cage it shot up and deceased’s head was caught between the bottom ring of the cage and a girder forming part of the framework of the hoist. An empty tub had been left on the top of the cage.

SHEPHERD Robert - 1901 - 02/01/1901 – Age 32 - Backworth, Algernon Shifter, 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.

SHEPPARD Henry J. - 1907 - 11/12/1907 – Age 23 - Celynen Timberman, Newport Abercarne Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. The stone, which he was engaged in getting down, fell on his head as he was in a stooping position clearing some stone from the rails to allow a haulier passing out with his journey. The place and the work were apparently about the safest in the colliery, but the stone gave way suddenly from an unseen slip at the back and side, his work no doubt having shaken it.

SHEPPARD Job - 1908 - 31/08/1908 – Age 45 - Coegnant Collier, Norths Navigation Collieries Co. (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side on road; while ripping the roof on his stall road, a small stone struck him on the head. He died 12th March, 1909, from compression of the brain as the result of the accident. Two Feet Nine Seam. Safety lamps.

SHEPPARD Thomas - 1902 - 25/03/1902 – Age 21 - Shirebrook Banksman, Shirebrook Colliery Co., Derbyshire. While fastening the end door of a railway wagon a train of eleven empty wagons ran into the one deceased was working at and pushed it over him.

SHEPPERD Benjamin - 1904 - 11/05/1904 – Age 55 - Ringby, Sandstone Quarry Driver, T Cordingley and Co., Yorkshire. He was assisting in the erection of a steam crane and while the upright was being raised one of the guy ropes broke and the weight that was being lifted pulled the pole down and it hit and killed him.

SHEPPERD Joseph - 1902 - 05/09/1902 – Age 20 - Bond’s Main Loader, Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. The stallman and deceased were preparing to send a full tub down a self-acting incline and deceased went in front to place it in position, the stallman pushing it into the incline. It was then found that the incline chain had not been attached and deceased was fatally crushed by the runaway tub. The man whose duty it was to see the tub properly coupled was afterwards prosecuted for breach of rule and fined 20 shillings and 17 shillings costs.

SHEPPERD William – 1907 – 19/12/1907 – Age 19 – Usworth Landing Boy, Johnasson Gordon and Co., Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased was employed in the night shift in an engine plane landing in the Maudlin Seam, known as Klondyke. His duties included tracing up loaded tubs, with a pony, from an incline foot near the in-bye end of the landing and he had brought up three tubs and was waiting to be relieved by the day shift lad. A day shift putter found him, quite dead about 6.45 am. opposite a refuge hole, about the middle of the lauding, under a stone, 4 feet by 3 feet, and from 6 inches to 12 inches thick but more stone had fallen in the immediate neighbourhood and a crown, 12 feet long, and semi-circular in section, 14 inches by 7 inches, supported at each end by 5.5 feet props which were displaced. His lighted safety lamp was on a balk end inside the refuge hole. The stone was relieved by a slip, but it was also probably broken and resting on the timber. As a crush had been experienced in the landing time of the crown it had been replaced by iron girders. He had been seen in the landing by the fore shift deputy at 5 am., and by the waggon wayman about 5.40 am., and they had not noticed anything unsafe. The Local Inspectors reported ‘In our opinion we consider it to have been a pure accident.'