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DABBS Thomas (injured) - 1881 - 03/08/1881 – Age 43 – Miner. Hatch (metalliferous), Wellington. The incline rope broke and a piece of limestone fell from the waggon on to Dabbs foot crushing it severely. 6 weeks off.

DADDOW James - 1884 - 13/11/1884 – Age 22 – Miner. Carn Brea (metalliferous), Carn Brea Mining Co., Carn Brea, Cornwall. He was engaged with others cutting the platt at the 310-fathoms level with boring machinery. The drill stuck in the hole and deceased was knocking it with a mallet to loosen it when an old socket left from a hole that had been fired about a week previously and was situated close by exploded, killing Daddow and injuring one of his comrades named Wills. It supposed that the drill had come into contact with some nitro-glycerine that had exuded from remnants of dynamite left in the old socket and been conveyed away through a fissure in the ground it is quite possible, however, that the concussion alone may have caused the explosion.

DADDY Nicholas - 1880 - 18/11/1880 – Age 16 – Putter. Littleburn, North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., Durham, Co. Durham. Slight accident to the knee. Died from blood poisoning on 22nd Nov.

DAGLEISH Simeon - 1889 - 02/11/1889 – Age 13 - Pony driver. Grangemouth, Grangemouth Coal Co., Stirling. Run over by waggons on private branch railway.

DAGNALL J. - 1886 - 07/07/1886 – Age 46 – Byeworker. Denaby Main, Denaby Main Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of coal.

DAGNALL Thomas - 1881 - 26/02/1881 – Age 17 – Driver. Denaby Main, Denaby Main Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Crushed by corves.

DAGNET John - 1880 - 02/10/1880 – Age 35 – Collier. Aitkenhead, G Crookstom and Son, M. Florida. Fall of coal.

DAILY Alexander (non-fatal) - 1885 - 15/09/1885 – Miner. Cairnhill No.6, William Baird and Co., Airdrie, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal and roof.

DAILY John - 1884 - 25/11/1884 – Age 23 – Brusher. Barrwood No.2, William Baird and Co., Kilsyth, Ayrshire. Fall of roof.

DAINTON William - 1889 - 21/12/1889 – Age 14 - Pony driver. Chanters, 5 Foot Fletcher Burrows and Co., Lancashire. Leg broken by his pony which put its foot on a rail and fell as he was starting it with the train tubs. Inspection and inquiry.

DAINTY John - 1881 – 14/03/1881 – Age 43 – Repairer. Kingswood, Kingswood & Parkfield Coal Co., Kingswood, Gloucester. Fall of stone. The deceased knew the stone was broken and was setting timber when it fell.

DAKER E. - 1881 – 11/01/1881 – Age 24 – Sinker. Aberford Road, J and J Charlesworth, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Fall of side of shaft.

DALE ? - 1881 – 07/02/1881 – Manager. Whitfield, Chatterley Co., Tunstall, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp. 25 killed.

DALE J. - 1882 – 24/01/1882 – Age 60 – Collier. Whitfield, Chatterley Co., Tunstall, Staffordshire. Fall of coal.

DALE James (injured) - 1886 - 07/05/1886 – Age 33 – Tunneller. Stopes Pingot, Thomas Fletcher and Sons., Lancashire. Injured slightly by a flash of gas in a tunnel that was being arched. He was examining with his candle where a piece of stone bad to be taken down when a slight flash of gas singed his face but not so as to cause his leaving work.

DALE John - 1882 – 17/01/1882 – Age 21 – Skip filler. West Seton (metalliferous), West Seton Mining Co., Camborne, Cornwall. Was engaged with another man in the platt at the 190 fathoms level one skip was up and the other being filled deceased stooped to take up a stone to put in the skip, when he stumbled and fell into the shaft down to the 204 fathoms level. One of the witnesses at the inquest stated that deceased was subject to lightness in the head.

DALE Joshua - 1880 - 09/06/1880 – Age 21 – Joiner. Skelton (Ironstone), Bell Bros. Ltd., Guisborough, Yorkshire. Fell from a staging 20 feet high he stepped on to a plank that was sawn through during repairs.

DALE Mark - 1889 - 30/03/1889 – Age 47 – Chartermaster. Biddulph Valley, R Heath and Sons, Black Bull, Staffordshire. While lifting timber off top of cage it caught the signal lever in consequence of which the engineman moved the cage while Dale was getting off and he was crushed.

DALE Robert (non-fatal) - 1888 - 20/02/1888 – Miner. Rosehall No.5, Robert Addie and Sons, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at face.

DALE Thomas - 1880 - 15/07/1880 – Age 46 – Labourer. Risca Black Vein, London and South Wales Coal Co., Risca, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp, 120 killed.

DALEY J. - 1880 - 15/07/1880 – Age 18 – Haulier. Risca Black Vein, London and South Wales Coal Co., Risca, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp 120, killed.

DALEY James - 1887 - 24/10/1887 – Age 37 – Labourer. White Moss, Lower White Moss Coal Co. Ltd., Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Inspection made. He was taking some empty tubs out of the cage at the surface level and is supposed to have had his back to the pit pushing them away placing his foot against the cage to give them a start when the cage was suddenly lifted and caught his foot pulling his shoe and throwing him down the pit. The fence had been temporarily removed to enable them to send some bricks and mortar down from the surface level.

DALEY John - 1888 - 04/10/1888 – Age 45 - Night hitcher, Ferndale No.4, David Davis and Sons, Ferndale, Glamorgan. Crushed by carriage descending upon him. It was supposed he had been taking something out of the sump.

DALEY Michael - 1889 - 20/12/1889 – Age 37 – Miner. Udston, Udston Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof.

DALKIN James - 1886 - 16/01/1886 – Age 40 – Deputy. Elemore, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Fence Houses, Co. Durham. Fall of stone at end of jud after drawing it out.

DALLAS Steven - 1884 - 08/02/1884 – Age 46 – Labourer. Wheatfields (ironstone or fireclay), Merry and Cunninghame, Beith, Ayrshire. Part of chimney stalk falling on him while in the act of taking it down.

DALLETT James - 1881 - 25/08/1881 – Age 40 – Brusher. Rawyards No.4, Rawyards Coal Co. Ltd., New Monkland, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof brushing. The stone fell while he was knocking out props from under it to make the shot work better. Longwall.

DALROND Arthur - 1886 - 11/06/1886 – Age 22 – Collier. Maindy Ocean, David Davies and Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Slight injury on the knee caused by a hatchet which terminated fatally on 12th July, in consequence of erysipelas having set in.

DALTON C. - 1889 - 26/08/1889 – Age 61 – Collier. Old Silkstone, RC Clarke, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of side. Died 31st Aug.

DALTON Dominic - 1886 - 26/01/1886 – Age 35 – Banksman. Bold, Collins Green Colliery Co. Ltd., Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The banksman was going into the cage to get the loaded tubs out instead of pushing them out, with the empties, and by accident the engine crept and lifted the cage when the deceased who was on the cage at the time jumped out and a tub followed and fell on him.

DALTON Robert - 1881 - 28/11/1881 – Age 44 – Miner. Gillfoot Park (metalliferous), Gillfoot Park Mining Co., Cumberland. Fall of roof.

DALY William - 1889 - 05/09/1889 – Age 33 – Miner. Pencuick, Shotts Iron Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Suffocation by smoke. 63 killed.

DAMSON William (non-fatal) - 1884 - 25/10/1884 – Collier. Neilston, J Wallace and Co., Kilsyth, Ayrshire. Fall of roof.

DANCER Charles - 1884 - 06/09/1884 – Age 36 – Pikeman. Hall End, Hall End Colliery Co., West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Explosion of gas in a sinking pit.7 killed 5 injured. Died 15th September.

DANDO Henry - 1885 - 30/07/1885 – Age 45 – Collier. Greyfield, Earl of Warwick, Somerset. Injured by a tram which had become uncoupled running into him on the incline. He died on the 23rd.

DANIEL Charles - 1882 – 05/08/1882 – Age 23 – Haulier. Taibach, Aberdare Plymouth Co., Merthyr, Glamorgan. Crushed by descending cage.

DANIEL F. Thomas - 1889 – 04/05/1889 – Age 14 – Boy. Prince of Wales, Albercarn Coal Co. Ltd., Albercarn, Monmouth. Blocked between trams on a siding on the engine plane.

DANIEL James - 1887 – 17/07/1887 – Age 38 – Sinker. Carn Coch, John Grasbrook, Gowerton, Glamorgan. Fell off a water barrel upon which he was ascending while drawing water out of a sinking shaft.

DANIEL Levi - 1880 – 09/01/1880 – Age 15 – Taker-off. Shelton (Ironstone), Earl Granville, Hanley, Staffordshire. Found dead under tub at bottom of incline.

DANIEL William - 1884 – 14/04/1884 – Age 25 – Pitman. Merthyr Vale, Nixons Navigation Co., Merthyr, Glamorgan. Fell down pit.

DANIEL William - 1886 - 19/11/1886 – Age 22 – Collier. Trimsaran, Trimsaran Colliery Co Ltd., Kidwelly, Carmarthen. Explosion of firedamp about midnight. One of their lamps was found after the accident with the gauze removed. The place was somewhat disturbed and gas must have been given off more than usual or the man may have gone slower owing to there being no person directly in charge of it or leakage may have occurred at some of the doors. They were smoking their pipes after coming out of the mine and were not considered badly burnt but all died within three or four days. 3 killed.

DANIELS Curtis - 1885 - 25/06/1885 – Age 15 – Driver. Mapperley, Glendon Iron Co., Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Fall of roof.

DANIELS John - 1887 - 11/01/1887 – Age 40 – Miner. Parker, Bradford Colliery Co., Lancashire. Not comprised by the Act. Reported death from a strain by lifting a full tub onto the rails in a gig brow. Died 16th. The evidence was conflicting but a post-mortem examination was made which proved that death was from natural causes and not from straining.

DANIELS John - 1889 - 15/11/1889 – Age 34 – Collier. Chatterley No.4, Chatterley Iron Co. Ltd., Tunstall, Staffordshire. A piece of bass fell from the working face on to his head. Died 5th December.

DANIELS Michael - 1886 - 13/08/1886 – Age 45. Woodend, John Speakman, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp in the north-west workings. 38 lost.

DANIELS Ralph - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 65 – Labourer. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

DANIELS Samuel - 1885 - 08/04/1884 – Age 17 – Wagoner. Great Fenton, Staffordshire. Coal and Iron Co., Stoke, Staffordshire. Killed by an explosion. 8 killed.

DANIELS Sarah - 1880 - 04/02/1880 – Age 26 – Banker. Priors Lee, Lilleshall Co., Wellington, Shropshire. Crushed by cage at pit top. Female.

DANKS Francis - 1882 - 25/08/1882 – Age 48 – Overman. Broxburn, Hayscraig (shale), Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Uphall, Linlithgow. Explosion of firedamp. Danks and Neil, without thought, went with naked lights into a place which they knew was unventilated. They all lived more than a week after the accident and could explain how it happened.4 killed.

DANKS W.L. - 1883 - 26/03/1883 – Age 26 – Brusher. Hange (ironstone), Round Bros., Tipton, Staffordshire. He neglected to reset roof timber which a rate of ironstone had knocked out and the roof fell and killed him.

DARBY Eli - 1889 - 18/09/1889 – Age 69 – Collier. Aber, Aber Coal Co., Ogmore Valley, Glamorgan Fall of roof (cliff) 19ft.x 9ft.x 3ft. at face of double road stall from between two visible slips 9ft. apart parallel with the face. There were six props below the fall. No.2 Rhondda seam 6.5ft. thick.

DARBY Joseph - 1880 - 06/08/1880 – Age 28 – Pikeman. Priorfield, George Wellings, Bilston, Staffordshire. Fell down pit shaft whilst ascending. Died this day.

DARBY William - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 23 – Filler. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

DARBYSHIRE Herbert (injured) - 1888 – 12/06/1888 – Age 49 – Miner. Limehurst, Peacock Limehurst Coal Co., Lancashire. Thigh broken by top coal which he was taking down falling further than was expected there being a slip. A prop behind prevented his getting out of the way.

DARBYSHIRE Thomas - 1883 – 15/03/1883 – Age 58 – Banksman. Pemberton, Jonathan Blundell and Sons, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. After signalling the engineman to lift the cage he noticed a bolt on the cover loose, and as he was reaching across to tighten it the cage was lifted, and slipping, his foot was caught between the cage and flatsheets. Died 16th July.

DARLEY George - 1886 – 01/06/1886 – Age 29 – Bandsman. Conygre, Trustees of the Earl of Dudley, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. Died 6th June. Injured by fall of coal from the side of a thick coal pillar. Cause a bump.

DARLINGTON Adam - 1885 – 10/03/1885 – Age 47 – Miner. Bradley Fold, Thomas Fletcher and Sons, Lancashire. Fatal fall of roof on his working place, a bay 8 yards wide, Trencherbone Mine. It fell from slips and capped three props. The place was well propped.

DARLINGTON Henry - 1880 – 21/01/1880 – Jigger. Leycett, Crewe Coal Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp. 62 killed.

DARLINGTON Thomas - 1880 – 21/01/1880 – Collier. Leycett Crewe Coal Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp. 62 killed.

DARRALL J. - 1887 - 20/01/1887 – Age 50 – Collier. Oldpark, Heybridge Co., Dawley, Staffordshire. Explosion of powder. 1 killed 2 injured.

DARRINGTON Ralph - 1886 - 29/01/1886 – Age 39 – Stallman. Birchwood, C Seeley and Co., Alfreton, Derbyshire. Fall of coals.

DARVEY Michael (injured) - 1884 - 08/01/1884 - Age 27 – Miner. Linnyshaw, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Leg broken, stone from pot hole in his place.

DAUBER John - 1887 - 05/11/1887 – Age 51 – Dataler. Gidlow & Swinley, Rylands and Sons Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquest attended. He was getting some side off to widen a place only 3 feet high when a stone fell off and caught his knee. It was not considered to be serious but ultimately blood poisoning set in and he died on the 4th January 1888.

DAUBER Thomas - 1886 - 05/04/1886 – Age 27 - Horse driver. Crook Pier, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was lowering waggons to the canal tip and in putting the brake down to stop two of them thoughtlessly put his arm between the buffers when the last waggon bumped up and crushed it. He died after amputation at the infirmary.

DAVENHILL R.S. - 1886 - 10/12/1886 – Age 48 – Surveyor. Fishley, Fishley Colliery Co., Bloxwich Staffordshire. Died 11th Dec. Explosion of firedamp.

DAVENPORT James (injured) - 1880 - 13/01/1880 – Age 35 – Miner. Whittaker Bridge, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Radcliffe, Lancashire. Dirt falling from coal. Three Yard Mine.

DAVENPORT James (injured) - 1888 - 13/06/1888 – Age 20 – Contractor. Withins Lane, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Head and shoulders hurt by more dirt falling when he was clearing a fall.

DAVENPORT John (injured) - 1880 - 02/12/1880 – Age 14 – Waggoner. Kersley, Samuel Scowcroft and Sons, Kersley, Lancashire. Burned. In putting some fuse into the case his candle dropped upon and lighted one of two cartridges of compressed powder.

DAVENPORT Richard (injured) - 1884 - 07/03/1884 – Age 43 – Miner. Green Lane, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Leg broken, fall of dirt in Cannel Mine.

DAVES William - 1886 - 30/01/1886 – Age 19 – Labourer. Eastern Ocean, David Davis and Co., Treorkie, Glamorgan. Fell out of carriage when ascending the shaft, the carriage was not overcrowded.

DAVEY Abraham - 1888 - 21/04/1888 – Age 38 – Hitcher. Maritime, Maritime Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. He had been adjusting the pin in the signal lever and on getting down from top of carriage it was raised and he was crushed against a beam at top of arching. It appeared a signal had been given inadvertently.

DAVEY William - 1882 - 19/07/1882 – Age 16 – Miner. East Pool (metalliferous), East Pool Mining Co., Redruth, Cornwall. While passing through the 100 fathoms level he found the trammer with his waggon run off the rails whilst helping him to replace it he fell backwards on some boards at the side of the level, which gave way, and he fell to the 170 fathoms level. On examining the boards, they were found to have been attacked by dry rot.

DAVID Charles - 1880 - 10/12/1880 – Age 24 - Naval Steam, Naval Steam Co., Penycraig, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas, 101 killed.

DAVID Daniel - 1883 - 17/01/1883 – Age 52 – Collier. Morfa, Vivian and Sons, Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Fall of coal.

DAVID Evan - 1880 - 10/12/1880 – Age 32. Naval Steam, Naval Steam Co., Penycraig, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas, 101 killed.

DAVID Evan - 1880 - 10/12/1880 – Age 49. Naval Steam, Naval Steam Co., Penycraig, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas, 101 killed.

DAVID Evan - 1883 - 30/07/1883 – Age 56 – Collier. Bryndewi, Dynevor Coal Co., Neath, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

DAVID Gwilym - 1882 - 17/05/1882 – Age 17 – Haulier. Lady Margaret, Marquess of Bute, Treherbert, Glamorgan. Crushed between the coal on a tram and the roof.

DAVID Richmond (non-fatal) - 1884 - 12/01/1884 – Collier. Barleith, John Galloway and Co., Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Fall of coal.

DAVID W.R. - 1880 - 10/12/1880 – Age 23. Naval Steam, Naval Steam Co., Penycraig, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas 101 killed.

DAVID William - 1880 - 02/04/1880 – Age 19 – Stoker. Cilely, Great Western Railway Co., Llantrisant, Glamorgan. Bursting of a naphtha lamp in engine house.

DAVID William T. - 1880 - 10/12/1880 – Age 21. Naval Steam, Naval Steam Co., Penycraig, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas 101 killed.

DAVIDSON Alexander - 1888 - 09/03/1888 – Age 60 – Fireman. Birkenshaw, Birkenshaw Coal Co., Larkhill, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp when he went into place where gas was lying with naked light.

DAVIDSON Andrew (non-fatal) - 1889 - 10/09/1889 – Age 35 – Miner. Elphingstone, R and J Drurie, Haddington. Fall of coal. 83 days off.

DAVIDSON Charles - 1884 - 04/08/1884 – Age 46 – Stoneman. Seaham, Marquess of Londonderry, Sunderland, Co. Durham. While riding in a tub the limbers came off and the tub ran amain. In attempting to get out he fell and fractured his skull.

DAVIDSON Elizabeth - 1889 - 30/07/1889 – Age 50 – Woman. Alma, Thomas Holdsworth, Clay Cross, Derbyshire. Crushed between railway waggons whilst crossing the colliery sidings. Female.

DAVIDSON J. - 1888 - 01/03/1888 – Byeworker. St. John’s, Locke and Co., Normanton, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

DAVIDSON John (injured) - 1883 - 20/01/1883 – Labourer. Shankstone No. 2, Eglington Iron Co., Cumnock, Ayrshire. Injured while engaged lifting a scaffold.

DAVIDSON John (non-fatal) - 1889 - 07/06/1889 – Fireman. Garrockhill No.2, Garrockhill and Dunchay Coal Co., Coylton, Ayrshire. Explosion of firedamp. 3 killed.

DAVIDSON John * - 1888 - 19/04/1888 – Age 53. St. Helen's, Joseph Pease and Partners, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham.

DAVIDSON Lewis - 1884 - 13/09/1884 – Age 45 – Pitheadman. Kirkwood, Summerlee Iron Co., Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Jammed between two loaded waggons while shifting them.

DAVIDSON Moses - 1884 - 01/02/1884 – Age 61 - Miner Benhar (ironstone), Robert Addie and Sons., Whitburn. Fall of roof at face.

DAVIDSON Thomas - 1886 - 10/04/1886 – Collier. Gore, Amiston Coal Co. Ltd., Gorebridge, Edinburgh. Explosion of gas at face, longwall.

DAVIDSON Thomas - 1888 - 11/07/1888 – Age 54 - Asst. wastemaster. Boldon No.1, Harton Coal Co., Boldon, Co. Durham. Removing timber to straighten the way causing the roof to fall upon him.

DAVIDSON Thomas - 1889 - 09/06/1889 – Age 30 – Fireman. Knockterra No.1, Eglinton Iron Co., Cumnock, Ayrshire. Fall of roof while drawing props. Injured 21st.

DAVIDSON Thomas - 1889 - 31/03/1889 – Age 32 – Ostler. Nixon’s, Merthyr Nixon’s Navigation Co. Ltd., Merthyr, Glamorgan. Fell down shaft from Four Feet landing while attempting to jump on the cage. A gangway was being pushed forward for deceased and others to get on safely.

DAVIDSON William (non-fatal) - 1884 - 15/03/1884 - Drawer. Gartveerie, Gartveerie Fireclay Co., Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof.

DAVIDSON William (non-fatal) - 1887 - 01/09/1887 - Pony driver. Rankinston No.2, Merry and Cunninghame, Patna, Ayrshire. Fell between hutches while taking a race out to pit bottom.

DAVIDSON William - 1885 - 28/05/1885 – Age 22 – Fireman. Letterick, Letterick Coal Co., Blantyre, Lanarkshire. Scalded while securing a leakage in the boiler.

DAVIES A. - 1886 - 02/10/1886 – Age 17 – Byeworker. Silkstone, Normanton, Yorkshire. Explosion of coal dust. 20 were killed at once one died 4th Oct and one on the 31st Oct. 22 killed.

DAVIES Ben - 1887 - 08/07/1887 – Age 27 – Collier. Dinas Steam, Dinas Steam Colliery Co. Ltd., Dinas, Glamorgan. Fall of top coal while holing below it without sprags. Long wall.

DAVIES Benjamin - 1886 - 22/04/1886 – Age 16 – Collier. Park David, Lloyd Annanford RSO, Glamorgan. Fall of coal.

DAVIES Benjamin - 1888 - 17/11/1888 – Age 22 – Pumpman. Cymmer, Cymmer Colliery Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fell from the 9ft. landing while attempting to get on the carriage after it had moved away.

DAVIES Bennet - 1883 - 02/10/1883 – Age 17 – Labourer. Votty & Bowydd (slate). While standing in the mouth of a level, partly sheltered by a waggon of rubbish whilst he was tramming, he was struck on the forehead by a stone from a blast 30 yards away. He was aware that the blast was going to be fired and had stopped his waggon.

DAVIES C. - 1886 - 30/04/1886 – Age 14 - Pony driver. Leycett Madeley Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Thrown off load in waggon road.

DAVIES Charles J. - 1886 - 23/01/1886 - Age 14 – Collier. New Tredegar, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof.

DAVIES D. - 1883 - 01/03/1883 – Age 37 – Pitman. Cilhaul, Bargoed Coal Co., Glamorganshire. Fell off cage. He was examining the guides at the time the cage was moving very slowly and steadily and there is nothing to account for his falling out.

DAVIES Daniel (injured) - 1881 - 15/08/1881 - Age 25 – Miner. Palmerston (slate), Festiniog. He had the ends of two fingers and thumb shattered by the explosion of a dynamite cap while picking out some dirt from it.

DAVIES Daniel (injured) - 1882 - 21/03/1882 – Age 40 – Labourer. Oakley Upper (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. He was filling a waggon on Floor 7, when a piece of slate weighing 8 or l0lbs, loosened by a man working at the top of the bargain on floor above him, fell down, rolled over the edge of Floor 8, and struck him on the foot, injuring the toes severely. He has lost the fore part of his foot. 7 months off.

DAVIES Daniel (survivor) - 1887 - 18/02/1887 – Age 28 – Hitcher. National, National Colliery Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas and dust caused by a shot. 39 killed.

DAVIES Daniel - 1885 - 03/11/1885 – Age 32 – Collier. Cwmbach, Cwmbach Coal Co., Swansea, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

DAVIES Daniel - 1886 - 23/01/1886 – Age 69 – Byeman. Wrexham, Wrexham and Acton Colliery Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased had fired a shot at the face and after examining the place came back some distance down the road to wait whilst the next shot was being prepared when a large pot hole fell out knocking down a bar which fell on him.

DAVIES Daniel - 1887 - 18/02/1887 – Age 22 – Stoker. National, National Colliery Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas and dust caused by a shot. 39 killed.

DAVIES David (injured) - 1882 - 13/04/1882 – Age 24 – Carter. Palmerston (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. While hooking two slate waggons together got his thumb between two of the buffers and had the top of it broken. 1 month off.

DAVIES David (injured) - 1882 - 15/03/1882 – Age 46 – Miner. Grogwinion (metalliferous), Pentrhydygroes. While coming down an old disused pass after searching for a tribute pitch, he fell 6 feet and bruised his hip. 3 weeks off.

DAVIES David (injured) - 1883 – 12/01/1883 – Age 33 – Rockman. Cwmorthin (slate). He dropped his candle, and set fire to loose powder spilt on the ground. This caused the ignition of gunpowder, dynamite, and gun cotton in a miner’s chest close by, an explosion happened when Davies had got away 20 yards. Back of head burnt. Five and a half weeks off.

DAVIES David (injured) - 1884 – 28/08/1884 – Age 28 – Rockman. Oakeley Upper (slate). While they were standing in front of their bargain a short time after blasting some small lumps fell down and knocked them over. 2 injured. Davies 6 weeks off Pritchards 3 days off.

DAVIES David (injured) - 1886 - 08/09/1886 – Age 18 – Labourer. Braichgoch (slate). While lifting a block of slate with a crane he let the handle slip, it flew round and struck him on the head. 6 days off.

DAVIES David - 1880 - 24/06/1880 – Age 38 – Hitcher. Ty Trist, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co., Monmouth. Killed by a piece of coal falling down the shaft.

DAVIES David - 1881 - 13/05/1881 – Age 18 – Collier. Colly Levels, Dowlais Iron Co., Dowlais, Glamorgan. Fall of coal.

DAVIES David - 1882 - 18/12/1882 – Age 45 – Overman. North Tunnel, Dowlais Iron Co., Dowlais, Glamorgan. Killed by falling under trams on engine drift.

DAVIES David - 1882 - 26/09/1882 – Age 55 – Labourer. Kay Slope, Blaenavon Steel and Iron Co., Monmouth. A small stone fell and bruised his hip. He finished his day’s work but afterwards suffered from shock. He died on the 4th. Oct from pneumonia and hepatic congestion, consequent of nervous shock.

DAVIES David - 1884 - 18/11/1884 – Age 58 – Collier. Navigation, Navigation Steam Coal Colliery Co. Ltd., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Crushed by tram.

DAVIES David - 1885 - 07/01/1885 – Age 14 – Collier. Merthyr Vale, Nixons Ltd., Merthyr, Glamorgan. Fall of stone.

DAVIES David - 1885 - 08/06/1885 – Age 57 – Pumpman. New Tredegar, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouthshire. He was employed to look after the donkey engines at the shaft bottom and was walking from one to another about 5 a.m. when he met a haulier bringing a horse and two trams of rubbish to the shaft. Davies thought as he told his wife there was only a horse and stood at the edge of a manhole to let it pass and the corner of the tram caught and ruptured him. Died 11th.

DAVIES David - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 20 – Miner. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

DAVIES David - 1885 – 23/02/1885 – Age 14 – Banksman. Pentre, Vivian and Sons, Swansea, Glamorgan. Struck by timber through overwinding.

DAVIES David - 1885 – 24/01/1885 – Age 31 – Labourer. Vochriw No.2, Dowlais Iron Co., Dowlais, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp.

DAVIES David - 1885 – 30/05/1885 – Age 53 – Collier. Castle, Crawshay Bros., Cyfarthfa, Merthyr, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

DAVIES David - 1886 – 03/11/1886 – Age 38 – Repairer. Seven Sisters, Evans and Bevan, Neath, Glamorgan. Fall of stone while engaged in repairing an airway.

DAVIES David - 1886 – 09/12/1886 – Age 21 – Stower. George Powell, Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Collision of railway trucks on self-acting incline between the George and Lower Duffryn collieries in
consequence of a stone having been wilfully placed in the self-acting points below the meetings, thus preventing their working. Eleven men were at the time riding up to their work. Riding on this incline was prohibited, and in some instances parties had been prosecuted and others fined for so doing. 5 killed.

DAVIES David - 1886 - 20/08/1886 – Age 25 – Collier. Blaenclydach, Forest Iron and Steel Co Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fall of stone from slip in the roof in his working place which seemed to be well secured.

DAVIES David - 1887 - 02/11/1887 – Age 30 – Overman. Llwynapia, Glamorgan Coal Co., Llwynapia, Glamorgan. Fall of roof in a stall road, which had been stopped a day or two before while examining it with the manager. It was well timbered. Six feet seam; long wall.

DAVIES David - 1887 - 05/09/1887 – Age 32 – Labourer. Garn Coch, John Grasbrook, Gowerton, Glamorgan. A loaded bucket which was being tipped by steam crane canted and fell upon him. He had been warned to keep out of the way while the bucket was being emptied. Sinking pit.

DAVIES David - 1887 - 16/07/1887 – Age 16 – Collier. Cwmneol, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Aberaman, Glamorgan. Run over by journey of loaded trams while returning from the face with his father.

DAVIES David - 1887 - 26/01/1887 – Age 24 – Collier. North Dunraven, London and South Wales Coal Co. Ltd., Treherbert, Glamorgan. Fall of roof which he was preparing to blast.

DAVIES David - 1887 - 29/11/1887 – Age 73 – Hostler. Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen Colliery Co. Ltd., Brynaman, Glamorgan. He was attending a chaff cutter when his arm was drawn in and taken off. Died 1st December.

DAVIES David - 1887 - 31/05/1887 – Age 22 – Haulier. Clydach, Merthyr Graigpla Merthyr Co. Ltd., Cwm Clydach, Glamorgan. Run over by journey while he was on engine plane for the purpose of cleaning it. The rider did not observe him in passing and it was thought deceased had been sleeping by the side of road and been caught by the passing trams.

DAVIES David - 1888 - 04/12/1888 – Age 40 – Hitcher. Pentre, Cardiff & Swansea Smokeless Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Ystrad, Glamorgan. Fell off carriage at 6ft. landing while about to hitch a tram.

DAVIES David - 1888 - 11/04/1888 – Age 26 – Collier. South Duffryn, Plymouth Works Co., Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Run over by tram which got detached from haulage rope and ran back down the engine plane on which deceased was travelling to his work.

DAVIES David - 1888 - 16/02/1888 – Age 29 – Trammer. Oakley (slate). In contravention of the rules of the mine they trammed three loaded waggons on to a bridge which only one was allowed to pass at a time. The bridge broke and they all fell 60 feet and were killed. 5 killed.

DAVIES David - 1888 - 22/08/1888 – Age 57 – Examiner. Cefn Brithdir, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Bargoed, Glamorgan. The breaking out of some water which had collected behind a dirt stopping or pack in an old abandoned rise heading. They were trying to get past the stopping and on disturbing it to make a way to creep through, the water which they were not aware of burst away. They were told by the overman to go by a different road but presumably they thought this would be the better way for the object they had in view, namely, the ventilating of a place higher up. 2 killed.

DAVIES David - 1888 - 23/05/1888 – Age 16 – Haulier. Tredegar No.7, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Tredegar, Monmouth. Head crushed between a loaded tram and a low place in the road while riding out on the limbers with a full set.

DAVIES David - 1888 - 28/03/1888 – Age 37 – Collier. Bedwellty Level No.2, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Tredegar, Monmouth. Fall of roof from slips running wedge shape into the roof; his comrade had a very narrow escape.

DAVIES David - 1889 - 20/07/1889 – Age 26 – Collier. Powell’s Duffryn, Lower Powell’s Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Fall of roof, 9ft. x 5ft. x 7ins. thick at one end running out to nothing. One prop within the fall was discharged. He was putting up another when fall occurred. Two Feet Nine seam. Long wall.

DAVIES David W. - 1888 - 24/10/1888 – Age 26 – Collier. Gadlys, Waynes Merthyr Co. Ltd., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (rock) 5ft. x 5ft. between coal face and a slant which was plainly seen. Two posts discharged by fall. 2ft. 9in. seam. Long wall.

DAVIES Edward (injured) - 1882 - 06/03/1882 – Age 39 – Timberman. Great Dyliffe (metalliferous), Llanbrynmair, Montgomery. A platform upon which he was standing while repairing the engine shaft dropped, owing to the ground giving way at one end. He fell 5 fathoms. He had examined one end only of the platform before trusting himself upon it. 6 weeks and 2 days.

DAVIES Edward - 1883 - 22/01/1883 – Age 14 - Door boy. Clydach Vale, Thomas Riches and Co., Tonypandy, Glamorgan. Fell under trams.

DAVIES Edward - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 36 – Miner. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

DAVIES Edward - 1886 - 04/02/1886 – Age 16 – Haulier. Bryngwyn, Executors of WG Cartwright, Monmouth. He was sitting on the front end of a tram and trotting down a road dipping about three inches in the yard. The shaft pin broke and he fell under the tram.

DAVIES Edward - 1886 - 11/09/1886 – Age 56 – Sinker. Bradley Mines, Drainage Commission, Bradley, Staffordshire. Fell from fireclay inset to the bottom of the shaft, 22 yards.

DAVIES Edward - 1886 - 22/10/1886 – Age 15 – Collier. Cwm Level, Aberdare Works and Collieries Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. A small quantity of stone fell and forced him down against a box which he was leaning over and filling.

DAVIES Edward - 1887 - 25/07/1887 – Age 30 – Repairer. Lewis Merthyr, Lewis Merthyr Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Hafod, Glamorgan. Fall of roof while enlarging the road. He was taking out some old timbers when the roof gave way over his head.

DAVIES Edward - 1888 - 18/07/1888 – Age 35 – Engineer. St. Helens No.3, St. Helens Colliery and Brick Works Co., St. Helens, Cumberland. Fell into sump from shaft bottom. Said to have been subject to fainting fits from sunstroke.

DAVIES Edward - 1889 - 24/07/1889 – Age 20 – Haulier. Ocean Park, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Treorky, Glamorgan. Fall of roof on double parting. A 13-ft. collar broke and a large stone fell upon him as he was passing. Collars were 4ft. apart and lagged. Long wall.

DAVIES Elias - 1887 - 16/09/1887 – Age 28 – Drawer. Moss, Pearson & Knowles Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Pemberton, Wigan, Lancashire. Inquest attended. He was holing in a place 10 feet wide and had one sprag set when some of the coal came over the sprag on to him. He ought to have had a leaning sprag set also.

DAVIES Elijah - 1886 - 01/01/1886 – Age 44 – Collier. Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Deceased was said to have strained himself on the 21st December 1885 but he went on working till the 23rd December when he was taken ill and died of pleurisy on the 1st instant.

DAVIES Ellis (injured) - 1882 - 09/05/1882 – Age 65 – Quarryman. Palmerston (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. Inadvertently put his hand in a slate dressing machine and had two of his fingers cut by the revolving knife. About 7 months off.

DAVIES Ellis (injured) - 1883 - 11/10/1883 – Age 24 – Miner. Oakeley Middle (slate). He and another man had fired two holes in a level and heard only one report. After waiting a quarter of an hour they came to the conclusion that the two holes had exploded simultaneously and returned to the level. At that moment the hole that had hung fire went off and inflicted severe cuts on Davies’ arm and forehead it was charged with asphaline and dynamite. Six and a half weeks off.

DAVIES Ellis (injured) - 1885 - 19/02/1885 – Age 25. Sawyer Minera (metalliferous). Right hand badly cut as he was using a circular saw. 12 months off.

DAVIES Emanuel - 1884 - 18/04/1884 – Age 30 – Collier. Whitworth No.2, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co., Monmouth. Fall of coal. He was working the fire coal leaving the Yard coal for a top, and the collier next to him advised him to pull some of the top coal down, which he said he would do. Nothing more was heard of him till, as he did not answer when called to go to dinner, he was searched for and found dead under a fall of coal.

DAVIES Emmanuel (injured) - 1882 - 03/11/1882 – Age 42 – Chartermaster. Steeraway (metalliferous), Wellington, Shropshire. Small unexpected fall of roof. 1 week off.

DAVIES Enoch - 1881 - 22/07/1881 – Age 30 – Collier. Preesgywn, Ruabon Coal Co., Chirk, Flint. Pushed a tub into staple and fell with it.

DAVIES Evan - 1880 - 10/12/1880 – Age 15. Naval Steam, Naval Steam Co., Penycraig, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas 101 killed.

DAVIES Evan - 1881 - 09/12/1881 – Age 36 – Collier. Tunnel, Aberdare and Plymouth Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of coal.

DAVIES Evan - 1883 – 26/04/1883 – Age 48 – Collier. Lower Duffryn, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

DAVIES Evan - 1885 – 23/12/1885 – Age 19 – Collier. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Steam Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 81 killed.

DAVIES Evan - 1885 – 23/12/1885 – Age 29 – Collier. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Steam Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 81 killed.

DAVIES Evan - 1886 – 28/10/1886 – Age 22 – Haulier. Maindy Ocean, David Davies and Co., Ystrad, Glamorgan. Run over by a tram which he fell under.

DAVIES Evan - 1887 – 13/04/1887 – Age 23 – Miner. Bridgewater No.3, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Fatal fall of roof as he was riding in a tub in a roadway 10 feet wide. The inquest recommended that such a roadway should be propped with a row of props.

DAVIES Evan - 1889 – 14/08/1889 – Age 19 Collier Penrikyber, Penrikyber Navigation Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Fall of a "scale" of rock roof 7ft. x 4ft. x from 7ins. to nothing in thickness between a row of roadside props along the face and the coal which space was not propped. Four Feet seam. Nottinghamshire long wall.