SHEPPHARD William – 1901 – 19/12/1901 – Age 24 – Murton Spare Putter, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Found by run rider lying by the side of the engine plane with wounds to his ear and chin and fractured larynx. Probably caught by engine set. Died on 21st.

SHERADON Thomas – 1902 – 12/08/1902 – Age 30 – Holly Bank Stallman, Holly Bank Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of coal from working face while pulling coal off with a bar causing injury to his left knee. Died at Wolverhampton Infirmary after undergoing an operation to straighten his knee. 6th. November.

SHERHERD George – 1905 – 26/06/1905 – Age 45 – Barnstone Limestone Quarry Crane Driver, Barnstone Blue Lias Lime Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased lost control of a travelling steam-crane and used the wrong level as it ran down a slight gradient at the top of the Quarry Face. He got out of the cab or driver’s shelter on the crane and fell down the Quarry face a distance of 23 feet. Died same day.

SHERIDEN Joseph – 1906 – 02/11/1906 – Age 43 – Manvers Main Labourer, Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He dropped a chain into the small coal hopper, and was lowered by some other men on a rope to recover it; when he was in, the coal fell from the sides of the hopper and suffocated him.

SHERIFF William – 1907 – 08/11/1907 – Age 54 – Eston Ironstone Miner, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He was taking a piece of loose stone down from the face, when, it is supposed, he was caught by the stone as it fell. He was so injured that he died as he was being carried out of the mine.

SHERRATT Herbert – 1900 – 27/05/1900 – Age 32 – Jammage Fireman, Representatives of John Wedgwood, Staffordshire. Fall of roof in Crut engine dip during repairs. Another man injured.

SHERWIN James – 1906 – 29/10/1906 – Age 40 – Netherton Stoneman, Netherton Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, who was under medical treatment for heart disease, worked in the night shift and had complained to his marrow during the course of the shift of feeling unwell. They went outbye together at the end of the shift, but deceased lagged behind and was left to come out alone as his marrow had some work to attend to near the shaft. When the fore shift hewers were going inbye, about 3.30 am., they found deceased quite dead by the side of the road with his lamp burning near him. An inquest was held, at which there was no suggestion of any accident made and medical evidence given that death was due to heart disease and so the jury found.

SHIELD Charles - 1907 - 06/07/1907 – Age 18 - Blaydon Burn Dauber, Priestman Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. Died July 7. Deceased was employed to daub the oven doors of a battery of Otto Hilgenstock coke ovens, and had been at work about three quarters of an hour when the accident happened. A machine worked by an electric motor for ramming this ovens travels on four rails laid in front of the ovens, and deceased was sitting on the rail nearest this ovens, and was supposed either to have fallen asleep or been under the impression that this machine was travelling from him instead of to him when his was caught by it. This machine makes much noise when travelling on the rails, and its maximum speed is only about 4 miles per hour, and it was not moving at this speed when this accident happened. The driver had no view of the point where deceased sat, but it is supposed to remedy this by extending side windows the fell length of each side, and also to put a guard in front of the wheels.

SHIELD J.W. - 1904 - 07/11/1904 – Age 27 - Brotton Miner, Morrison and Durham. Died from heart disease when on his way to the powder house.

SHIELD John - 1902 - 03/05/1902 – Age 40 - Nenthead, Lead and zinc Miner, Vielle Montague Zinc Co., Cumberland. Died 4th May. He and two others raised the machine of a rock-drill in order to alter its position on the standard so as to drill another hole. Whilst in this position and uncramped it slipped down the standard and falling on a loose drill lying on the floor, caused it to spring up and strike deceased on the temple.

SHIELDS David - 1906 - 03/12/1906 – Age 40 - Kilgrammie Miner, David Robertson, Ayrshire. While being lowered with six other men in a race of four hutches down a dip incline, three hutches got uncoupled and ran down the incline. Other three men were injured.

SHIELDS Francis - 1908 - 22/10/1908 – Age 19 - North Motherwell Miner, Merry and Cunninghame Ltd., Lanarkshire. Deceased was filling a tub with coal when a stone fell from the roof and striking his head caused injuries from which he died four hours later. The man in charge should have propped the stone.

SHIELDS James - 1905 - 14/04/1905 – Age 17 - Batonrigg Drawer, United Collieries Ltd., Fife. Deceased and two other boys were on their way home after finishing their day's work. He and another got into an empty tub and the third boy pushed; owing to the dip outbye a snibble was inserted in one wheel and at a stiff part of the work this was withdrawn. The boy lost control of the tub at another dipping part and the tub ran away and collided with a stationary loaded rake.

SHIELDS John Thomas - 1903 - 02/02/1903 – Age 17 - Lumley Runrider, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. An empty set going inbye caught tubs filled with ballast which had been carelessly left on the road and took them in on the font of an empty set. He saw them coming down at the start of an incline and ran to signal the hauling engineman to stop when the first ballast tub overturned and caught and killed him.

SHILLAW George - 1904 - 21/06/1904 – Age 43 - Silksworth Miner, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. While kirving in the face of a place a large piece of coal came off at a back and knocked the middle prop out which caught him in the abdomen. Died June 23rd.

SHINGLER Thomas - 1900 - 30/04/1900 – Age 49 - Holland, White Moss Collier, White Moss Coal Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made. A piece of coal fell off the face against his leg, where he had received a previous injury. He died May 9th. 1900 from rheumatism accelerated by the accident.

SHINGLES Richard - 1902 - 08/10/1902 – Age 22 - Norchard Collier, Park Iron Ore and Coal Co. Ltd., Gloucestershire. The two men were killed by a fall of rock (about five tons) while working in their place. The place had been examined about 1.5 hours before the accident and is said to have been thought safe. Owing to unseen slips this roof requires more regular and closer timbering although a strong rock roof. 2 killed.

SHIPLEY I.W. - 1904 - 01/03/1904 – Age 29 - Northwood Loader, T Beech Barton, Staffordshire. Fall of roof (coal and shale) at longwall face in Cockshead seam. This was a large fall about 7 yards long which came away at a fault at one end and knocked out five bars. The fall was caused by a heavy goth. Two other men had narrow escapes, being withdrawn from the area of the fall and one on each side of deceased one saved himself by getting under the holing. The place was well timbered.

SHIPLEY Ralph - 1908 - 21/10/1908 – Age 24 - Talk o’th Hill Collier, Talk o’th Hill Colliery Ltd., Staffordshire. The two deceased and another collier were all at work at the face of a breasting in the Ten Feet Seam. The level behind the face was timbered with 8 feet bars (on legs) at intervals of 2 feet 6 inches the sides of the road were formed by continuous chocking 6 feet wide. At 9 am. without the slightest warning about 8 yards of the roof collapsed and fell to a height of 6 feet above the ordinary roof level. The fall reached right up to the face and came from three slips one parallel to the face and one running along either side of the level along the edges of the chocks. Carter was released and taken from the pit about 4 pm., but it was 2 am. on the 22nd before it was possible to release the remaining two. None of the three appeared to have been seriously injured except Carter who was suffering from a fractured thigh. The two deceased died from shock and exhaustion early on the following day. The work of rescue was most tedious and attended with considerable danger for a road had to be made over the top of the fall and the debris removed from against the face and carried back to make a passage to the imprisoned men. 2 killed.

SHIPMAN Alfred - 1904 - 14/09/1904 – Age 34 - Portland No.4 Deputy, Butterley Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was riding up an engine plane when the tubs left the rails and deceased being thrown off he was run over and killed.

SHIPTON Thomas William - 1908 - 16/03/1908 – Age 42 - Bulwell Stallman, Babbington Coal Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased was riding down an inclined roadway in a train of empty tubs, when the rope broke, due to coming off the drum and falling across the axle. The train ran away and arriving at a curve in the roadway the tub which deceased was riding overturned and killed him.

SHIRT John - 1908 - 24/06/1908 – Age 29 - Crist Quarry Carpenter, Great Central Railway Co., Derbyshire. He was assisting to lower some waggons on a tramway when he fell under the wheels. Died 1st July.

SHIRTCLIFFE Thomas - 1904 - 30/05/1904 - Norwood Dataller, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. He had a stroke while leaving the mine on 27th May and died from the effects of it.

SHIVERALL William - 1903 - 19/06/1903 – Age 24 - Bothwell Park No.2 Fireman, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at brushing face when about to fire a shot, just after firing another close to it.

SHONE Thomas - 1909 - 05/08/1909 – Age 43 - Queen’s Ferry Collier, Queen’s Ferry Colliery Co., Flint. When clearing dirt, after a shot in the face of a stone tunnel, a portion of side fell upon him from a slip.

SHOOTER George - 1906 - 01/02/1906 – Age 26 - Morley Main Miner, Morley Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. When filling a tub in a coal cutting machine face a piece of clod, 7 feet long by 3 feet by 1 to 2.5 inches thick, fell from between two slips on to his shoulders and fractured his spine. Died December 21st. One of the slips could be seen and the stone should have been taken down.

SHORE Alfred - 1904 - 02/11/1904 – Age 61 - Brecks, Sandstone Quarry, Quarry Owner, Alfred Shore, Yorkshire. Head crushed between face of the Quarry and a large stone which was being raised.

SHORT Ernest - 1900 - 02/08/1900 – Age 16 - Pleasley Horse Driver, Stanton Iron Works, Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was in charge of a horse and four full tubs travelling along a roadway when the horse stumbled against one of the props supporting a bar knocking it out and allowing the roof to fall which killed deceased.

SHORT John - 1908 - 08/09/1908 – Age 18 - Shirebrook Screenman, Shirebrook Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was engaged in levelling slack in a waggon under the screens. He was found dead and covered with slack about fifteen minutes after he had been spoken with.

SHORT Joseph - 1909 - 29/03/1909 – Age 24 - Ferndale No.6 Rider, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was riding in front of a tram of coal up a gradient of 30 inches per yard. In order to obtain a pull at a higher level than the drawbar, a short chain loop had been hooked to the upper cross-bar, and the bull chain passed through that. On the journey the ear holding the cross-bar broke, and the bar, swinging round, struck deceased a violent blow behind his ear. He had noticed that the ear of the cross-bar was defective, but had decided to risk it.

SHORT Robert W. - 1907 - 24/04/1907 – Age 20 - East Hetton Ropeboy, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. He was dragged along the way and run over by a set of full tubs. He died the following day.

SHORT Seth – 1907 – 04/10/1907 – Age 45 – Abercarn Collier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of coal from the face at a ‘grime’ or sooty slip and another slip in the top coal behind the lump which fell and which allowed the coal to drop down. The place was not properly secured, deceased being much to blame as was also the overman who was in the place an hour before and apparently took no notice of the fact.

SHORT Thomas – 1909 – 16/02/1909 – Age 18 – West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. 10 Manx Street, Stanley.

SHORT William – 1903 – 28/06/1903 – Age 46 – Brandon Pikeman, T and J Marsh, Worcestershire. Fall of side (old gob) at working face in thick coal pickings.

SHORTHOUSE George – 1900 – 07/04/1900 – Age 46 – Cadley Hill Dataller, Hills Collieries Ltd., Derbyshire. The two deceased and other men were stowing dirt in an old roadway when the deputy in charge of the district went up the road carrying a lighted candle and ignited some firedamp which appears to have come from the old workings. The deceased both died on the 10th. 2 killed.

SHORTHOUSE William - 1903 - 16/04/1903 – Age 24 - Graig Fawr Collier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. When forming a stall or putting road, to the face out of a heading, they were killed by a fall of stone from slips. They are said to have been working in the wrong place for 6.5 hours during which time no official had visited them. 2 killed.

SHOTTON James E. - 1902 - 09/05/1902 – Age 16 - Wrightson Shunter, Cramlington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Three trucks were being lowered out at the screens and deceased was crushed between them and the wall of the screen shed. It was his first day of employment here.

SHOTTON William - 1906 - 14/12/1906 – Age 59 - Netherton Screener, Netherton Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, who was sometimes rather deaf, left the screens about 6.30 am to relieve himself, and while crossing the sidings was caught by a 15-ton loaded truck which was being pushed by a locomotive; no one saw or was aware of any accident.

SHREEVES N. - 1902 - 14/05/1902 – Age 61 - Darfield Main Collier, Mitchell Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 26th June. Fatally injured by a fall of coal from the face. Cause a sudden weight and a break.

SHRIGLEY William - 1900 - 09/02/1900 – Age 25 - Brownhills Header, W Harrison Ltd., Staffordshire. Injury caused by a blow from a moving tub. Died 10th July.

SHUTTLEWORTH Harry - 1903 - 21/05/1903 – Age 14 - Nelson Pony driver, William Ramsden and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed by tubs whipping pony whilst running before six full tubs, he fell before the tubs.

SHUTTLEWORTH Richard - 1900 - 16/12/1900 – Age 48 - Chapel Hill (Sandstone Quarry) Nightwatchman, Thomas Croft and Sons, Lancashire. Some time in the night he fell eighty feet into the Quarry. Proved to be in drinking.

SICKLING Walter - 1909 - 10/05/1909 – Age 30 - Gordon House Putter, North Bitchburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He strained himself by lifting a tub. Died 16th May, 1909, from pneumonia.

SIDALL William - 1902 - 18/12/1902 – Age 45 - Hyde Lane Collier, Hyde Lane Colliery Co., Cheshire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of roof occurred in the roadway and deceased and his son were about clearing it when another fall occurred owing to the roof weighting which capped a bar and crushed deceased.

SIDDELL Richard - 1902 - 11/04/1902 – Age 56 - Waterloo Main Coal Hewer, Brooks and Pickup, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in working place. Cause a slip.

SIDDLE Albert - 1900 - 10/03/1900 – Age 18 - Langley Park Runrider, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. In attempting to put the brakes on, to stop the tubs, he slipped and the whole set of tubs passed over his right leg. Died the same day.

SIDDLE James - 1904 - 07/03/1904 – Age 53 - Black Prince Hewer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Took ill when following his employment and died at home the same day from natural causes.

SIDDLE Jonathan - 1906 - 22/03/1906 – Age 16 - Loftus Ironstone Horse Leader, Pease and Partners, North Yorkshire. When leading a horse, pulling three tubs down a going bord, he stumbled and fell in front of the tubs, which ran on to him and killed him instantly.

SIDDLE Matthew Henry - 1909 - 01/03/1909 – Age 22 - Wearmouth Screener, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He fell before wagons while lowering them.

SIDDOWN Walter - 1909 - 25/02/1909 – Age 26 - Manners Dataller, Manners Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. The deceased was ripping the roof, 30 yards from a gate end, and on stepping on one side, to allow the loader to start work, he was injured by a fall of roof. Died 27th February.

SIDEBOTTOM Walter - 1902 - 09/10/1902 – Age 16 - Rothwell Haigh Pony Driver, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. Found dead under the tubs. He had probably stumbled when walking between the horse and the first tub.

SIDES C. - 1901 - 26/03/1901 – Age 30 - Orgreave Filler, Rothervale Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Stepped out of the cage, in mid stone, thinking he was at the bottom.

SIDWALLS James - 1908 - 30/09/1908 – Age 18 - Swadlincote Dataller, Halls Collieries Ltd., Derbyshire. Fall of roof and side of a roadway. Repairs had been completed and several stretchers had been put in place when a bump came over the place causing a fall of stone to knock the timber out and killing the deceased.

SIFORD John - 1909 - 06/09/1909 – Age 31 - Fforchaman Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, having removed the sprags, was barring down a face slip of coal, when more came away than he expected, knocked out some posts and caused a fall of cliff, 10 feet by 13 feet by 2 feet, under which there had been nine posts. Six feet seam.

SILCOCK Richard - 1904 - 05/03/1904 – Age 63 - Worsley Menses Wagon Greaser, Worsley Menses Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased stepped in front of a standing waggon just at the moment it was bumped by some others and was knocked forward, fatally crushing deceased. The other waggons were being pushed by a locomotive and it was said the driver was blowing the whistle. The brakeman was also looking about but did not see the deceased until the accident had occurred.

SILCOCK Robert - 1903 - 27/03/1903 – Age 60 - The Park Daywageman, J and R Stone, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was engaged changing a prop under a bar and had set a jack prop under the centre of the bar and he had set the lower side prop but when driving the higher side prop under, the bar slipped and a loose stone fell. He succumbed to the injuries April 2nd, 1903.

SILLS George William - 1904 - 02/09/1904 – Age 25 - Alfreton Stallman, Blackwell Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was preparing to set a bar, to support the roof of the working place, when the roof fell and fatally injured him. He died the same day.

SILVERTHORNE JC - 1909 - 24/09/1909 – Age 25 - Tillery Haulier, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fell while spragging a tram and was run over by it. Died 9th June 1910.

SIM James - 1909 - 11/02/1909 – Age 42 - Dechmont No.3 Miner, Archibald Russell Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at face of stone mine on knocking out props set for drilling machines.

SIM William - 1904 - 11/03/1904 – Age 60 - Fauldhead Brusher, Sanquhar and Kirkconnel Collieries Ltd., Dumfries. He is said to have been inserting unthawed gelatine cartridges into a shot hole when the charge exploded. Another was injured.

SIMCOX George - 1903 - 11/05/1903 – Age 19 - Leycett, Fair Lady Jigger, Madeley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed between a tub, which ran too fast on to the landing and the brake frame. Tubs were jigged from an intermediate level as well as from the top of the dip and for this purpose a piece of wood lagging was put on the drum to regulate the running of the rope. Deceased had, by mistake, put the lagging on the drum when jigging a tub from the top. This caused the ascending tub to land on the plates before the empty tub was at the bottom.

SIME John - 1903 - 27/03/1903 – Age 19 - Westhall, Sandstone Quarry Drawer, Duncan Galloway Co. Ltd., Forfar. Deceased had taken hold of the end of the chain, attached to a hand crane, and was pulling round the point of the jib when it suddenly broke about 2.5 inches inside of the cast iron cap, which carried the pulley at its upper end. Both jib and cap fell upon deceased causing injuries to which he died about four hours afterwards. The jib was of oak 6.75 inches in diameter at the point of fracture and appeared perfectly sound with the exception of the portion inside of the cap which was completely rotten.

SIMM Alfred - 1900 - 21/09/1900 – Age 15 - Asby Assistant brakeman, Asby Colliery Co., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He and another boy were engaged infilling small coal into tubs and putting them into the cage just below the surface level in order that the coal might be drawn up to the level of the heapstead. He evidently thought the cage was at the opening ready to receive the tub and he fell with the latter down the shaft.

SIMM John - 1903 - 08/04/1903 – Age 35 - Low Hall No.7 Undermanager, Moss Hall Coal Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The two deceased persons were descending the shaft in the cage which collided with the ascending cage owing to the fact that three bars of pitwood had been sent down in that cage to the bottom of shaft and had not been taken out at the mouthing of the Five Feet Seam, which was a landing about sixty yards from pit bottom, and was the only mouthing where coal was being raised from. The timber in the ascending cage caught the descending cage. and the deceased persons fell to the pit bottom and were killed. At the inquiry it was stated that the undermanager was aware that timber was in the other cage when they descended contrary to rule's. 2 killed.

SIMM Noah - 1908 - 08/05/1908 – Age 36 - Alexandra Dataller, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When engaged packing dirt near the longwall face, some roof fell from a slip, capping the props, and fatally injuring deceased.

SIMM Peter - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 42 - Maypole Fireman, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

SIMM Peter jnr. - 1903 - 09/06/1903 – Age 22 - Hamilton Place Pony Driver, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road while taking an empty hutch to a working place.

SIMM Robert - 1901 - 07/02/1901 – Age 19 - Langtree Contractor’s Man, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was the son of the contractor who was making an airway parallel to the longwall face and when preparing to set the second bar a fall of roof occurred from some slips capping some props and killing the deceased.

SIMM John - 1909 - 16/02/1909 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed.

SIMMONDS Benjamin - 1903 - 16/12/1903 – Age 19 - Gilfach Engineman, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased went into the shaft tunnel, connected with the screening plant, and by some means got his coat fast to a stud on the revolving shaft. His dead body was found twisted around the shaft. He had been told that he was not to oil any part of the machinery when it was in motion.

SIMMONDS John - 1905 - 31/03/1905 – Age 38 - Littleton Timberer, Littleton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed by tubs on self-acting endless rope haulage road while repairing. Died 9th April.

SIMMONDS W. - 1901 - 02/03/1901 – Age 34 - Waleswood Collier, Skinner and Holford, Yorkshire. Fall of rock in working place. Cause, two converging slips.

SIMMONE George - 1907 - 23/04/1907 – Age 20 - Silverwood Collier, Dalton Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. A tub, which he and his mate were taking down a gateway, got off the rails with the last wheels. He then went in front and swayed down while his mate lifted at the back end of the tub. As soon as the tub was got on to the rails it was more than he could hold and he was carried and fatally crushed against a train of full tubs standing 20 yards further down the gateway, his mate said they had put lockers in the wheels of the tubs but they had fallen out when the tub got off the rails.

SIMMONS Edmund - 1902 - 22/04/1902 – Age 34 - Sherwood Sinker, Sherwood Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. The balance weight controlling the drop became detached at the top of a sinking shaft and fell down the shaft and among the sinkers killing the two deceased. 2 killed.

SIMMONS Thomas - 1908 - 25/02/1908 – Age 53 - East Pool & Agar, Tin Shaftsman, East Pool & Agar United Mines Adventurers, Cornwall. While engaged with others in the pumping shaft at 270-fathom level, on a fairly good stage for the purpose, he appears to have thoughtlessly stepped back into the opening, left for the capstan rope, to work in and he fell 8 or 9 fathoms. He died before being brought to the surface.

SIMMS Joseph - 1905 - 10/11/1905 – Age 50 - West Stanley Shifter, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Found sitting at wayside dead. He had been on his way outbye. Cause of death, syncope due to degenerative changes in the heart.

SIMMS William - 1904 - 21/11/1904 – Age 71 - Darkhill Weighman. Died from natural causes while at work at Darkhill Colliery on the 21st November.

SIMON John - 1909 - 16/02/09 – Age 23 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed. Coronation House, Tempest Terrace.

SIMONS Charles - 1909 - 31/03/1909 – Age 35 - Maltby Main Chargeman, Maltby Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. The three men were ascending a sinking pit in a hoppit. The hoppit caught a pump staging, 77 yards from the surface, Saunders and Orton were thrown out and fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 310 yards. Simons remained in the hoppit but was killed by the impact. 3 killed.

SIMONS John - 1902 - 28/07/1902 – Age 36 - Careau Engineman, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Found fatally injured between the bedplate and the flywheel of the engine driving the electric dynamo.

SIMPSON Alexander - 1907 - 09/07/1907 – Age 34 - Clydesdale Miner, United Collieries Ltd., Lanarkshire. Struck or run over by empty wagons being shunted in the siding while he was apparently attempting to cross the rails.

SIMPSON G. - 1900 - 27/08/1900 – Age 28 - Lofthouse Carter, Lofthouse Colliery Co., Yorkshire. When crossing the sidings he went between standing wagons.

SIMPSON George - 1909 - 10/08/1909 – Age 57 - Desford Dataller, Desford Coal Co. Ltd., Leicestershire. He was told to take out a broken bar in a roadway and did so. Shortly afterwards the roof fell and fatally injured him and he died next day. No catch prop was set, and he should have lined the old bar up with a new one before taking it out.

SIMPSON Henry - 1906 - 30/04/1906 – Age 22 - Harraton Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was killed by the jud he was kirving breaking off at a slip. The one sprag set was discharged.

SIMPSON Hugh - 1906 - 06/08/1906 – Age 22 Lady Windsor, Rivetter, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was at work on a stage, inside an air casing which was being erected over the top of the shaft to convert it into an upcast. Owing to the stretching of a new winding-rope it became necessary to take out a few links of the bull chain of one of the cages. The rope-smith got on top of the cage and signal was given to the engineman to give slack rope. This was done, but before the banksman knocked stop, the engine suddenly reversed, and the cage crashed upwards against the stage upon which deceased was working and precipitated him down the shaft. The winder found fault with the working of his engine but a careful overhauling by the makers failed to reveal any defect which could have caused the engine to reverse.

SIMPSON James - 1906 - 02/11/1906 – Age 28 - Newton Miner, Robert Brown and Son Ltd., Renfrew. He was firing two gunpowder shots and thought he only lighted the fuse of one. On returning after one shot went off, the other went off on him.

SIMPSON Joseph - 1900 - 14/04/1900 – Age 16 - Littleburn Blacksmith, North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was going down the pit to keep the pump man company, as is always done; he got into the cage and was lowered to the Hutton Seam and got out at that level. He then went the wrong way to get to the pumping engine house; he got through two doors and over a wall, 3 feet 6 inches high, and then fell down another shaft into the sump, a distance of 130 yards.

SIMPSON Joseph - 1908 - 05/09/1908 – Age 49 - Dawdon Joiner, Londonderry Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was putting in the mould for a concrete floor, and was standing on a 7 by 2.5 inches batten, driving a nail to fasten a stay, when he overbalanced and fell 30 feet to the ground. His skull was fractured. He only had one nail to drive and therefore, presumably, did not use more than the one batten as a scaffold. There were several other battens within reach had he thought it necessary to use them.

SIMPSON Matthew - 1904 - 07/10/1904 – Age 33 - Littletown Hewer, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He and his marrow were hewing in a wall and after they had got a shot ready to fire he went back to get some tokens which he had left in a bord which was fenced off, however he went under or over it and when at the face a shot was fired in another wall and blew it through into the bord he was in and the coal caught him on the head and killed him.

SIMPSON Michael - 1909 - 16/11/1909 – Age 64 - Lumpsey Ironstone Miner, Bell Bros. Ltd., North Yorkshire. He and his son were working in the brokens and were turning away a new lift. A top hole had been fired at the loose end but had done no work. A bottom hole was then fired but the stemming was blown out. After firing the litter shot he, accompanied by the overman, went into the place and was there discussing with the overman what was the best thing to do when a piece of overhanging ironstone fell on to him. He did not jowl the place when he went in and the overman did not do so either, nor did the latter remonstrate with him for not doing so. It is evident that a careful examination was necessary and that the occurrence was due to the want of it.

SIMPSON Robert - 1901 - 01/08/1901 – Age 40 - Bamfurlong No.3 Dataller, Cross Tetley and Co., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased had been setting a wooden chock and was clearing some dirt away when a fall of roof occurred upon him. The fireman had told him a prop was needed at that point but he did not appear to have set it.

SIMPSON Robert - 1903 - 04/12/1903 – Age 50 - Abercarne, Prince of Wales Manager, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He slipped and wrenched himself when climbing over a fall in the Five Foot Seam from the effects of which he is alleged to have died two or three weeks later.

SIMPSON Robert - 1908 - 09/03/1908 – Age 39 - Walkmill Ropeman, Moresby Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Caught by haulage pulley.

SIMPSON Robert - 1909 - 27/04/1909 – Age 19 - Waterloo Main Shunter, Brookes and Brookes, Yorkshire. He and another man were uncoupling two wagons under the screens. The couplings were tight and deceased was trying to ‘ease’ them by using a crow-bar under the wheels. Whilst he was doing this another waggon was crushed up with the locomotive and he was crushed between the buffers. The engineman was blowing the whistle and the deceased knew more wagons were to be brought up.

SIMPSON Thomas - 1902 - 15/01/1902 – Age 45 - Birley West Stallman, Sheffield Coal Co., Derbyshire. Crushed by an empty tub which he was attempting to get on the rails while coupled to others standing above on an inclined roadway. The weight of the train pushed the tub forward and crushed deceased between it and the side of the roadway. He died the next day.

SIMPSON Thomas - 1905 - 09/03/1905 – Age 55 - Binchester Hewer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of coal while kirving a jud in a whole bord. Head and chest crushed. Died while being taken home. Probably due to not setting a jud prop.

SIMPSON Thomas Gibson - 1903 - 25/03/1903 – Age 25 - Seaton Burn Hewer, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased prepared a shot in the coal, drew the pricker and inserted in the hole left a patent squib with a sulphur end and lighted it. The shot exploded before he was clear and he was struck by flying coal sustaining such injuries that he died the same day. He probably nipped off part of the sulphur end of the squib before he lighted it.

SIMPSON William - 1902 - 02/10/1902 – Age 27 - Townhill Engine Fitter, West of Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Two waggons loaded with slates were about to be lowered down a short incline by means of a stationary engine to be emptied at a lower level and deceased volunteered to sprag them. When they were on the move he attempted to put a prop 4 feet 6 inches long into the back wheel of the second waggon and it apparently missed and coming round struck him and threw him in front of the van, which passed partly over him. He managed to put one sprag in, which was also an ordinary prop, into the back wheel of the first waggon.

SIMPSON William - 1904 - 28/10/1904 – Age 65 - South Medmosley Platelayer, Owners of South Medmosley Colliery, Co.Durham. A tank engine going tank first pushing two empty coke trucks past the screens to the coke yard. Deceased was cleaning out a drain or runner in a space of 2.5 feet between the rail and wall and he was run over, unknown to the engine driver who stated at the inquest that he sounded the whistle while moving forward. The fireman was also on the locomotive. The Jury added a rider to their verdict of accidental death that more care should be taken in shunting on the colliery branches.

SIMPSON William - 1905 - 09/03/1905 – Age 69 - Bigrigg, Iron Ore Miner, Lord Leconfield, Cumberland. Deceased and another miner, who was seriously injured, were driving a stone drift, 6 feet wide by 6 feet high, and were using Nobel’s Gelignite and No.5 Detonators. Two shots were successfully fired, and then two others were charged and the fuses lit. There were two reports but one was faint, and may have been due to the detonation of the cap only. They waited half an hour, thinking the Gelignite of the shot that had made the faint report might be burning and filling the place with fumes, as had occurred the week before. When they returned, deceased went first, the injured man following with a pick, and he had just got to the face when the second shot exploded; he was not able to say what deceased was doing at the moment of the explosion. When the drift was examined after the accident, a hammer in the shaft damaged was found 24 feet from the face, and 12 feet further out was a broken steel jumper or drill, which makes it probable that deceased had been unramming the shot.

SIMS C. - 1901 - 19/06/1901 – Age 60 - Silverwood Labourer, Doulton Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Failed to step out of the way of a moving wagon and was killed.

SIMS Gilbert Hendy - 1908 - 17/04/1908 – Age 14 - Llanhilleth Colliers Boy, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of coal from the face. It came from a back slip and broke off over a sprag catching him against a post set 3 feet from the coal.

SIMS John - 1900 - 16/05/1900 – Age 51 - Ludlows Collier, Radstock, Somerset. Died suddenly from natural causes when resting at the end of his shift before ascending the shaft. Not compromised.

SIMS John - 1900 - 25/06/1900 – Age 27 - South Duffryn No.1 Repairer, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by empty journey whilst walking out to the shaft.

SINCAIR Thomas - 1909 - 11/02/1909 – Age 39 - Penallta Sinker, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. A heavy bowk was lowered violently on deceased by the winding engineman, who had mistaken his position in the shaft. The engine was provided with a proper indicator and was found to be in perfect order after the accident. The accident can only be attributed to a fit of abstraction on the part of the winder, who had not been allowed to wind since. He was 50 years old and had been a winder for over 30 years. 2 killed.

SINCLAIR John - 1902 - 07/10/1902 – Age 40 - North Cobbinshaw Coal and Limestone Miner, John Baird and Co., Edinburgh. The coal is worked first and afterwards the limestone is dropped. Deceased was engaged taking down the latter when a piece weighing about 10 cwt fell and crushed him.

SINCLAIR Walter - 1903 - 31/12/1903 – Age 21 - Moss No.6 Drawer, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. Deceased was engaged in the Wigan Six Feet Mine and was in the act of filling his tub when a stone fell upon him from the roof fatally injuring him.

SINCOCK Richard - 1901 - 01/10/1901 – Age 25 - Basset, Tin Miner, Basset Mines Ltd., Cornwall. A small stone fell from the side of the shaft, just below where some men were cutting a hitch. Deceased had finished boring in the 260 fathom level and had stepped forward to ring up the hoppet when the stone struck him. The stone was a small piece of granite about 1 inch in the thickest part and tapering off to nothing.

SINGLETON Charles - 1900 - 13/11/1900 – Age 13 - International Colliers Boy, International Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 7.5 feet x 4.5 feet x 27 inches thick from a slant running diagonally across the road. One prop crushed out. A heavy pounce was heard immediately before the fall. Six feet seam.

SINGLETON Eli - 1904 - 25/01/1904 – Age 44 - Windleden, Sandstone Quarry Barer, Wagstaff and Co., Yorkshire. He was standing upon a large bench undermining at the face of the baring when a small quantity of shale slipped off the face, he stepped back quickly and in turning round strained himself internally. Died soon after being taken home. He had previously been ruptured.

SINGLETON Job - 1905 - 25/11/1905 – Age 68 - Coppice Banksman, Shipley Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased trapped his finger while lowering coals into a wagon; blood poisoning followed and although he recovered from it he was left so weak that he died from heart failure 10th Mar 1906.

SINGLETON W. - 1901 - 22/05/1901 – Age 25 - Monk Bretton Incline Man, Monk Bretton Colliery Co., Yorkshire. He made a mistake in the manipulation of the tubs on an incline and was fatally crushed.

SINGLETON William - 1907 - 28/08/1907 – Age 21 - Cropwell Bishop Gypsum Miner, Gotham Plaster Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased had charged two shots of gunpowder and lighted the fuse of one of them. This exploded and the flame from it appears to have lighted the fuse of the second shot which exploded and killed deceased when he re-entered the place.

SISTERN Walter - 1907 - 23/11/1907 – Age 34 - Hoyland Silkstone Contractor, Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. These men and another along with a deputy were removing a portion of an old side wall and arching, in an underground boiler house, with a view of replacing it, when a girder collapsed and a large quantity of stone fell and caused the death of Ogden instantly and the others subsequently died from their injuries in the Beckett Hospital at Barnsley. The deputy and the other man were also seriously injured. 4 killed.

SIVITER William - 1902 - 09/12/1902 – Age 61 - Haden Hill Loader, W Bassano and Co., Staffordshire. Crushed between tub and post at side of road on endless rope haulage road. The rope should not have been running at the time.

SIZE John - 1903 - 28/11/1903 – Age 30 - Horden Sinker, Horden Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. The engineman, by some means, ran the kibble into the bottom of the sinking pit, past the steadying mark, on to the top of this man, who was at work in the pit bottom and killed him

SIZER Edward - 1907 - 05/07/1907 – Age 16 - Darfield Main Driver, Mitchell Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. This accident occurred in a landing which was being used as a siding, both full and empty tubs being lowered into it. The deceased had pulled in an empty train with his horse and was waiting below it for the full tram to be taken out. As the full train went out part of it caught the first of three tubs of dirt which were at the lower side of the empty road and train, and dragged it up about eight yards until it twisted across the road and pinned the deceased lad against his horse with his head over the tub. The train was stopped at once and he was released as quickly as possible but was quite dead. There was very little space between the full and empty roads but if these were wider the  accident would not have happened.

SKACKLETON Thomas - 1909 - 16/02/1909 - West Stanley, Owners of West Stanley Colliery, Co.Durham. Explosion of gas. 168 killed.

SKEATS Samuel - 1900 - 26/09/1900 – Age 23 - Albion Collier, Albion Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face coal, 10 feet x 2 feet x 4 feet thick, crushed two sprags out and fell on deceased. Six feet seam.

SKEL James - 1904 - 29/09/1904 – Age 24 - Hollings Estate, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, John Shaw Son and Co., Yorkshire. A piece of tree root slipped from another labourer's hands and rolling down a slope caught deceased below causing injuries from which he died the following day.

SKELLAND John H. - 1909 - 13/06/1909 – Age 15 - Hafod Pony driver, Ruabon Coal and Coke Co., Denbigh. Deceased, when driving his pony with a sett of full tubs somehow fell, and was found under the second full tub fatally injured.

SKELLET Alfred - 1902 - 18/09/1902 – Age 59 - New Brancepeth Hewer, Cochrane and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by a fall of stone from the roof between a slip and a hitch running across the face.

SKELLY Margaret Ann - 1906 - 23/07/1906 – Age 17 - Whitehaven Screener, Whitehaven Colliery Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Died July 27. New screens erected in connection with the sinking and fitting-up of the Ladysmith Pit, close to the Croft Pit, had been in operation for about 7 weeks and new work was still being added. The manager had given instructions to fence all the more dangerous parts, and this had been accomplished, and men were busy completing the fencing. Deceased was employed picking stones from the coal passing along on a travelling belt, and occasionally she shovelled the refuse down a shoot, where it fell into wagons below. On the floor on which she worked there was a space of 16 feet 3 inches from the belt to the side of the building, and within 1 foot 9 inches of the side and 1 foot 6 inches from the floor, a shaft 3 inches in diameter revolved 70 times per minute, and within about 3 feet of one of the shoots there was a carriage for the shaft, and on each side of it a ring was placed round the shaft secured by two set screws, the squared end of which projected 0.5 inch; the rings were fixed on the shaft to prevent longitudinal movement. Deceased was standing near the carriage, and her skirts, which were about 6 inches from the floor, were caught by a set screw of one of the rings, and she was drawn in and carried round several times before the machinery was stopped. The nearly plain shaft did not look particularly dangerous but where girls and women are working anything revolving is always a source of danger and should be carefully fenced. Female.

SKELTON Alfred - 1909 - 20/08/1909 – Age 39 - Wath Main Dataller, Wath Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was helping to repair an airway and was preparing to set a prop when he was fatally injured by a fall of roof. The fall disclosed a previously unsuspected slip. He died on the 15th April, 1910.

SKELTON Arthur - 1900 - 07/02/1900 – Age 15 - Deaf Hill Driver, Trimdon Coal Co., Co.Durham. He was coming down a landing with a full set when he slipped and fell in front of the tubs which run on to killed him.

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