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JONES Davy - 1884 - 02/03/1884 - Age 49 – Sinker. Natmelyn, Natmelyn Colliery Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Breaking of rope.

JONES E. - 1883 - 26/05/1883 - Age 9 – Repairer. Clay Level, Rhymney Iron Co., Monmouthshire. Explosion of steam boiler.

JONES Edward (injured) - 1881 - 17/05/1881 – Age 32 – Rockman. Oakeley Upper (slate), Festiniog. He was shifting a block of slate, underground, when a small piece fell off and dropped on to his foot piercing the boot of his toe. 15 weeks off.

JONES Edward (injured) - 1882 - 05/06/1882 – Age 55 – Miner. Tan-y-Allt (metalliferous), Talybont. A kibble, which was being lowered down a winze, became detached from the rope and fell striking him. 15 days off.

JONES Edward (injured) - 1882 - 07/11/1882 – Age 24 – Rockman. Oakley Upper (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. He was standing on a heap of rubbish, some of which slipped away, and he tumbled down and broke the bone of his elbow. Some weeks off.

JONES Edward (injured) - 1883 - 28/02/1883 – Age 28 – Rockman. Oakeley Middle (slate). While he was using his crowbar a splinter of rock flew off and struck his eye. 20 weeks off.

JONES Edward (injured) - 1884 - 09/06/1884 – Age 30 – Miner. Great Holloway (metalliferous). He was deepening a socket i.e. the remainder of an old hole blasted some months previously, probably with dynamite, when an explosion occurred, injuring his eyes and arms. 9 weeks off.

JONES Edward (injured) - 1889 - 14/02/1889 – Age 30 – Miner. Hole-in-Bank, George Hargreaves and Co., Lancashire. Injured by falling from slips as he was pillaring. Inspection and inquiry.

JONES Edward (injured) - 1889 - 23/05/1889 – Age 32 – Miner. Halkyn (metalliferous). He wished to fire three holes in an end at once. He had lit the snuffs and was endeavouring to light the third. Trusting too much to the length of the fuse and in spite of the frantic warnings of his partner he stayed too long in the end and the two holes went off just as he was leaving, breaking one of his ribs and inflicting severe flesh wounds. 2 months off.

JONES Edward - 1880 - 22/04/1880 – Age 57 – Miner. Mill Bank (Ironstone), JH Pearson, Silverdale, Staffordshire. Fall of stone.

JONES Edward - 1881 - 01/09/1881 – Age 36 – Collier. Wrexham, Wrexham & Acton Collieries Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of roof occurred as the deceased was taking a tub along the road. The accident was due to the presence of slips which were not previously seen.

JONES Edward - 1881 - 22/04/1881 – Age 42 – Rockman. Oakeley Middle (slate), Festiniog. He fired a hole in the face of his barging, which loosened a large rock plate. His partner told him he thought it was sufficiently loose to get down with a crowbar but Jones considered more powder was necessary, and was on his way down to fetch some, when the block fell and rolled on to him.

JONES Edward - 1882 - 16/09/1882 – Age 44 – Trammer. Great Dyliffe (metalliferous), Llanbrynmair, Montgomery. By mistake he pushed his tram waggon into the shaft before the cage came down; the fence had not been put up.

JONES Edward - 1882 - 23/09/1882 – Age 30 – Shaftsman. Talargoch (metalliferous), Rhyl, Caernarvon. He slipped while climbing round the main road of the pumps, with no other support than the staples of the plunger connection, and fell down the shaft.

JONES Edward - 1882 - 27/10/1882 – Age 26 – Collier. Plas Kynaston, Plas Kynaston Coal Co., Ruabon, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased with others were engaged in cutting a road through into an old level and had just made a hole through when some water broke out and deceased was washed down the road and drowned.

JONES Edward - 1884 - 01/02/1884 – Age 40 – Miner. Gib Field, Arley Fletcher Burrows and Co., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face in taking down.

JONES Edward - 1884 - 10/07/1884 – Age 36 – Collier. Bettisfield, Bettisfield Colliery Co. Ltd., Bagillt, Flint. Inspection made. The men had got down the top coals and were loading them up when a piece rolled off the side on to deceased. The men said they had examined the place after the shot went off but they had evidently not examined it closely enough.

JONES Edward - 1884 - 24/11/1884 – Age 38 – Ripper. Redlinog, Dowlais Iron Co., Dowlais, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES Edward - 1885 - 12/06/1885 – Age 56 – Miner. Minera (metalliferous). Fall of 14 feet in some stopes from the breaking of one of the planks of the temporary stage upon which he was standing.

JONES Edward - 1886 - 03/06/1886 – Age 16 – Collier. Cae, Neville Druce and Co., Llanelly, Camarthen. Crushed between a tram and prop.

JONES Edward - 1886 - 09/01/1886 – Age 50 – Dataler. Low Hall, Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made. Deceased and another man had removed two bars and had evidently neglected to carefully examine the roof as a heavy stone fell on deceased whilst engaged in removing the rubbish.

JONES Edward - 1887 - 01/09/1887 – Age 58 – Collier. Wrexham, Wrexham and Acton Colliery Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. Inspection made. He was working out a pillar his place being 10 yards wide and 7 feet high. Believing the roof to be strong he had no props set, when a slab of stone fell on him near his loose end.

JONES Edward - 1887 - 04/06/1887 – Age 33 – Collier. Bettisfield, Bettisfield Colliery Co. Ltd., Bettisfield, Denbigh. Inquest attended. Deceased and his mate had drawn all the props but one from under the top coal to allow it to fall during the week end. Deceased was then knocking this last prop out, contrary to the advice of his mate, when the top coal suddenly fell upon him.

JONES Edward - 1887 - 21/02/1887 – Age 33 - Hooker on. New Broughton, Thomas Clayton, Wrexham, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased and another man were going down the pit to do some repairs at the bottom when the cage was lowered too far into the sump which was full of water, mid deceased was drowned. A new rope had just been put on mid in consequence of its stretching the engineman miscalculated the position of the cage.

JONES Edward - 1888 - 07/11/1888 – Age 25 – Collier. Westminster, Westminster & Brymbo Coal & Coke Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. He had drawn his sprag and was getting down the coal standing in front of it when it suddenly fell knocking his head against a tub which he had foolishly left standing just behind him.

JONES Edward - 1889 - 16/10/1889 – Age 30 – Loader. Mossfields, Hawley and Bridgwood Ltd., Longton, Staffordshire. Explosion 64 killed.

JONES Edward Henry - 1889 - 20/11/1889 – Age 18 – Putter. Murton, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Co. Durham. Head crushed between top of tub and a balk while riding on limbers contrary to orders.

JONES Elias (injured) - 1885 - 28/11/1885 – Age 42 - Plate layer. Wrysgan (slate). He slipped and fell when starting to walk down an incline and hurt his head and arm. 16 days off.

JONES Elias - 1880 - 10/06/1880 – Age 47 - Collier. Ryding, Evans and Bevan, Neath, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES Elias - 1882 - 21/07/1882 – Age 17 – Labourer. Rhosydd (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. While riding down an incline he jumped off too soon; thigh fractured. 5 months and 3 weeks off.

JONES Elias - 1886 - 25/06/1886. Coed Talon, Coed Talon Colliery Co., Mold, Flint. Deceased had his leg broken in October 1882, and has never thoroughly recovered from the injuries then received.

JONES Elias - 1887 - 16/10/1887 – Age 49 – Shiftman. Hafod-y-bwch, Ruabon Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Ruabon, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was ordered by the fireman to make more height in the road by taking 5 or 6 inches out of the middle of the roof but instead of doing so he commenced to cut the side of the stone without first putting a prop under it. He cut into a slip running across the road, when the stone suddenly fell on to him. Accident due entirely to carelessness and disregard of orders.

JONES Ellis (injured) - 1883 - 16/04/1883 – Age 50 – Carpenter. Palmerston (slate). He was examining the wall supporting some winding machinery at the top of an incline, without having explained to the men that nothing was to be moved. A waggon was hooked on and set on the incline and the brake wheel moved slightly squeezing Jones head against the wall. Nose broken and head and forehead bruised. 3 weeks off.

JONES Ellis (injured) - 1889 - 21/03/1889 – Age 16 - Slate maker. Maen Offeren (slate). While living to get something from under a sawing table, he carelessly put his hand through the reversing wheel and had his arm broken between the wrist and the elbow. The boy was working with his father. 10 weeks off.

JONES Enoch (injured) - 1883 - 11/04/1883 – Age 42 – Miner. Lisburne (metalliferous). While running down stuff into a pass he lost his hold of the chain and was carried down with the stuff and imprisoned eight hours. Body and limbs severely squeezed. 6 months off.

JONES Enoch - 1884 - 12/01/1884 – Age 21 – Collier. Plas Power, Broughton and Plas Power Coal Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. These men, who were in charge of a fireman, were engaged at night to liberate some gas which had collected in consequence of a fall in the air road and for that purpose had driven a new road. When they cut through they continued working in the gas, and were after a time overpowered. The fireman, although close at hand, appeared to have left the men entirely to their own devices and appeared throughout to have acted with the greatest carelessness.

JONES Enoch - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 29 – Miner. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

JONES Enoch - 1889 - 13/09/1889 – Age 33 – Collier. Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Clay Level Rhymney Monmouth. Fall of roof at his stall face through not setting timber. The supervision of the overman and examiner did not appear to have been sufficiently strict and they were dealt with by the management.

JONES Enoch - 1889 - 30/07/1889 – Age 65 – Ostler. Aberdare Works Tunnel, Aberdare Works and Collieries Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fell out of cage while ascending shaft.

JONES Esiah - 1885 - 24/03/1885 – Age 43 – Hitcher. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Steam Coal Co., Ferndale, Glamorgan. Stone fell down pit.

JONES Evan (injured) - 1882 - 11/07/1882 – Age 32 – Labourer. Cwmorthin (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. A loose block of slate slipped down the working face and struck him. 13 weeks off.

JONES Evan (injured) - 1883 - 13/09/1883 – Age 51 – Miner. Van (metalliferous). A small excepted fall of ground in the stopes. Five and half weeks off.

JONES Evan (injured) - 1884 - 09/04/1884 – Age 35 – Rockman. Oakeley Middle (slate). A rung of the ladder upon which he was standing broke, and he had a fall. 3 days off.

JONES Evan (injured) - 1886 - 06/09/1886 – Age 47 – Rockman. Palmerston (slate). He was startled by a sled coming along the tunnel, while he was opening his chest and lifting up has head suddenly struck it against the roof and cut it severely. 6 weeks off.

JONES Evan (injured) - 1889 - 05/03/1889 – Age 37 – Miner. Clogau (metalliferous). Small unexpected fall from the roof of the level which broke his leg. The manager was standing by his side at the time. 16 weeks off.

JONES Evan (injured) - 1889 - 05/06/1889 – Age 32 – Carpenter. Brynkir (metalliferous). He was putting up a door when it fell upon him and hurt his side. 2 weeks of.

JONES Evan (injured) - 1889 - 18/07/1889 – Age 24 – Labourer. Oakeley (slate). He was in the act of unhooking a waggon which had just reached the top of an incline when he fell and the truck went over his leg breaking it. 29 weeks off.

JONES Evan - 1880 – 10/12/1880 – Age 45. Naval Steam, Naval Steam Co., Penycraig, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas, 101 killed.

JONES Evan - 1881 – 01/03/1881 – Age 22 – Collier. River Level, Aberdare and Plymouth Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of clod.

JONES Evan - 1882 – 03/04/1882 – Age 13 – Trammer. Bryn Dyfil (metalliferous), Taliesin. He was found drowned in a winze, but there was no evidence to show how he came there.

JONES Evan - 1882 - 17/04/1882 – Age 30 – Quarryman. Oakley Upper (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. He went into a level without a light and fell over an unfenced precipice 6 feet from a tram road. 2 months off.

JONES Evan - 1882 - 28/03/1882 – Age 14 – Haulier. Tynewydd, Llynvi and Tondu Coal and Iron Co., Bridgend, Glamorgan. Killed by a full train passing over him.

JONES Evan - 1883 - 22/05/1883 – Age 46 – Miner. Cwmstwith (metalliferous). Jones was working on a stull partly covered with stuff and having fired a hole got on to the stull again without having noticed that the blast had broken one of the stull pieces. The stall gave way suddenly and Jones fell four fathoms and broke one of his legs. He died on the 23rd June from weakness and exhaustion after amputation of his leg.

JONES Evan - 1884 - 23/07/1884 – Age 40 – Collier. Bedlinog, Dowlais Iron Co., Dowlais, Glamorgan. Fell out of tram.

JONES Evan - 1888 - 03/02/1888 – Age 16 – Collier. Aberdare Merthyr, Aberdare Merthyr Colliery Co., Hirwain, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (coal about four tons) at face. Two props discharged. 9ft. seam. Pillar and stall. 2 killed.

JONES Evan - 1888 - 16/02/1888 – Age 26 – 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 fell 60 feet and were killed. 5 killed.

JONES Evan - 1888 - 18/05/1888 – Age 18 – Collier. Aber, Aber Colliery Co., Ogmore Valley, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 5 killed.

JONES Evan - 1888 - 26/06/1888 – Age 27 – Repairer. Mardy Locketts, Merthyr Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fall of roof discharging three pairs of double timbers on a double parting which was being lengthened. 2 killed.

JONES Evan George - 1888 - 03/02/1888 – Age 20 – Collier. Aberdare Merthyr, Aberdare Merthyr Colliery Co., Hirwain, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (coal about four tons) at face. Two props discharged. 9ft. seam. Pillar and stall. 2 killed.

JONES Evans - 1886 - 22/01/1886 – Age 14 – Collier. Park, David Davis and Co., Treorky, Glamorgan. Fall of roof whilst riding in an empty journey against rules.

JONES F. - 1883 - 17/08/1883 – Age 33 – Miner. Stonehill, Roscow and Lord, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

JONES Frank (injured) - 1885 - 26/09/1885 – Age 27 – Dayman. Baxenden, George Hargreaves and Co., Lancashire. Crushed while repairing in a steep drawing road in Moleside workings by a tub which a drawer allowed to run away for which he was punished. 2 injured.

JONES Frank - 1884 - 16/08/1884 – Sinker. Mosley Common, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Stone from side below the bricking. 1 killed 1 injured.

JONES G. - 1881 - 19/12/1881 – Age 36 – Carpenter. Deepfield, Coalbrookdale Co., Horsehay, Shropshire. While examining machinery in motion.

JONES George (injured) - 1884 - 03/04/1884 – Miner. Bower, R and William Marland and Co., Lancashire. Leg broken gig prop dragged out as he was gigging.

JONES George - 1885 - 10/02/1885 – Age 61 – Collier. Caedu, Llynvi and Tondu Co., Tynewydd, Maestegm, Glamorgan. Fall of stone.

JONES George - 1888 - 09/03/1888 – Age 30 – Pikeman. Straits, Green Goaze and Co., Lower Gornal, Staffordshire. Worton killed and Jones so badly injured that he died on the 12th March. Fall of side coal in a main road from previously unseen slip. 2 killed.

JONES Griffith (injured) - 1884 - 27/03/1884 – Age 28 – Rockman. Oakeley, Upper (slate). He fell down the face of his bargain just as he was preparing to climb down by a chain the chain by which he was supporting himself broke unexpectedly and he fell down the face of the bargain. Ankle severely sprained. 14 weeks off.

JONES Griffith (injured) - 1888 - 08/09/1888 – Age 25 – Labourer. Oakeley (slate). A piece of stone rolled down his working place on the fall and struck his head. 3 weeks off.

JONES Griffith - 1881 - 30/11/1881 – Age 15 - Collier’s boy. No.2, South Aberadre and Plymouth Co., Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Fall of coal.

JONES Griffith - 1882 - 13/01/1882 – Age 33 – Rockman. Palmerston (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. He was engaged in splitting a block of slate when it shifted a little and caught his foot, breaking some of the bones. Five and three quarter months off.

JONES H. - 1884 - 02/02/1884 – Age 20 – Rope Runner. Talk o’th’ Hill, New North Staffordshire Co., Stoke, Staffordshire. Crushed while riding on tub.

JONES Henry (injured) - 1885 – 24/02/1885 – Age 65 – Labourer. Oakeley Upper (slate). Blow on his head from a stone which probably fell from the side of his chamber. 12 weeks off.

JONES Henry (injured) - 1889 – 12/12/1889 – Age 27 – Miner. North Pant-y-go (metalliferous). Fall of a stone from the side of a level he was driving. Leg broken. Still disabled March 1890.

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

JONES Henry - 1880 – 19/01/1880 – Age 25 – Miner. Robin Hood, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co., Clifton, Lancashire. Roof falling in bay. 4 Feet Mine.

JONES Henry - 1881 – 24/03/1881 – Age 38 – Collier. Aberdare Merthyr, Aberdare Merthyr Steam Coal Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of top coal.

JONES Henry - 1883 – 23/11/1883 – Age 43 – Chargeman. Cannock & Rugeley, Cannock & Rugeley Colliery Co., Hednesford, Staffordshire. Fall of roof in gate road when raising timber.

JONES Henry - 1883 – 26/11/1883 – Age 30 – Collier. Crow Orchard, Crow Orchard Collieries Co. Ltd., Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Inspection made. This man was taking a ribbing off a pillar timbering the top coal as he advanced but he neglected to keep the bars near the face and the top coal fell on him. Inquiry seemed to show that the men had difficulty in getting a proper supply of timber to keep themselves safe and a communication to this effect has been made to the owners.

JONES Henry - 1884 – 19/04/1884 – Age 46 – Rockman. Diphwys, Casson (slate). He had charged a hole about 6 feet 5 inches deep with dynamite and powder and it was lighted at the same time as another hole charged by another man. On hearing one report, Jones rashly concluded that both holes had gone off at the same time, and returned to his hole. It exploded and inflicted fatal injuries on him.

JONES Henry - 1889 – 19/09/1889 – Age 14 – Collier’s boy. Blaenclydach, Forest Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Tonypandy, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (rock) 24ft long x 9ft. broad from between two slips in a skip 10ft. wide and 30ft. in where there were props 3 to 4ft apart. No.3 Rhondda seam. 32 ins. thick Pillar and stall.

JONES Henry - 1889 – 28/01/1889 – Age 49 – Repairer. Dean Lane, Bedminster Coal Co. (Henry Bennett), Bedminster, Somerset. An explosion of firedamp through the use of naked lights. The three men died within 21 hours from the effects of burns. The lad Roberts was found insensible in the horse road several hundred yards away suffering from the effects of afterdamp from which he died some days after without regaining consciousness. 3 killed.

JONES Hugh (injured) - 1882 – 04/09/1882 – Age 21 – Miner. New Cambrian (metalliferous), Talybont. A hole charged with dynamite hung fire for 20 minutes, and exploded when the men had returned to their working place, thinking it had missed fired altogether. They received severe cuts, and David Jones had his eyes injured. 2 injured 12 days off each.

JONES Hugh (injured) - 1889 – 29/06/1889 – Age 23 – Miner. Frongoch (metalliferous). He was taking down some lose ground after a blast when it fell on to his left leg and broke it. Still disabled February 1890.

JONES Hugh - 1882 – 21/02/1882 – Age 33 – Rockman. Palmerston (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. Unexpected fall of roof, which was considered firm that Jones and his partner had arranged to bring it down by blasting.

JONES Hugh John - 1886 – 29/04/1886 – Age 16 – Slate maker. Diphwys, Casson (slate). Explosion of 10lbs. of gunpowder. Hugh John Jones was walking along a level carrying two calico bags, each containing 4lbs. of gunpowder. He was followed by Hugh Samuel Jones carrying two similar bags and by Robert Lewis carrying three similar bags. Jones struck a match to light a candle or a pipe his powder ignited and set fire to the rest. He died two days afterwards, and the men following him were severely burned. 1 killed 3 injured. Jones - 18 weeks off, Lewis - 18 weeks off and Griffith 29 weeks off.

JONES Hugh Parry (injured) - 1883 - 29/05/1883 – Age 28 – Rockman. Llwchwedd (slate). He fell down the face of his bargain from the breaking of the iron peg to which his chain was attached. 1 month off.

JONES Hugh Samuel (injured) - 1886 – 29/04/1886 – Age 30 – Slate maker. Diphwys Casson (slate). Explosion of 10lbs. of gunpowder. Hugh John Jones was walking along a level carrying two calico bags, each containing 4lbs. of gunpowder. He was followed by Hugh Samuel Jones carrying two similar bags and by Robert Lewis carrying three similar bags. Jones struck a match to light a candle or a pipe his powder ignited and set fire to the rest. He died two days afterwards, and the men following him were severely burned. 1 killed 3 injured. Jones - 18 weeks off, Lewis 18 weeks off and Griffith 29 weeks off.

JONES Humphrey (injured) - 1881 – 03/12/1881 – Age 46 – Labourer. Braichgoch (slate), Festiniog. He was pushing a tram waggon full of rubbish when some of the load fell upon his knee. Has not yet resumed work March 1882.

JONES Humphrey - 1882 – 25/08/1882 – Age 32 – Rockman. Votty & Bowydd (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. After trying unsuccessfully to get a piece of rock off with a crowbar, he began to bore a hole in order to remove it by a blast, when the piece fell on the chain by which he was supported, squeezing his leg. 3 days off.

JONES Humphrey - 1885 – 28/03/1885 – Age 21 – Haulier. Glyncorriog No.2, William Parch and Co., Glyncorriog, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES Humphrey - 1886 – 26/05/1886 – Age 58 – Collier. Naval Steam, Naval Steam Coal Co., Pen y graig, Glamorgan. Injured by a fall of coal so that he died a few days afterwards.

JONES Hywel (injured) - 1889 - 12/02/1889 – Age 46 – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). While using a crowbar on level ground he fell against a sharp rock and cut his arm severely. Two and a half weeks off.

JONES Isaac - 1880 - 01/10/1880 – Age 13 - Collier’s boy. Vochiw No.1, Dowlais Iron Co., Dowlais, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES Isaac - 1885 - 20/06/1885 – Age 47 – Collier. Apedale, Stanier and Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Killed by an explosion. 9 killed.

JONES Isaac - 1886 - 05/10/1886 – Age 45 – Miner. No.3 Mouzell (metalliferous), Askham and Mouzell Mining Co., Mouzell-in-Furness, Lancashire. Crushed by descending cage. The deceased was engaged driving a rock drift and was returning to a shot which had missed fire; he had to cross the shaft foot instead of doing so by the travelling way he crossed the bottom of the shaft when the descending cage caught him and crushed him to death.

JONES Isiah - 1880 – 03/06/1880 – Age 24 – Collier. Allerton Main, T and RW Bower, Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of coal. Died 20th.

JONES Israel - 1888 – 26/01/1888 – Age 18 – Haulier. Wyndham, Norths Navigation Co., Nantymoel, Glamorgan. Fall of roof on main road.

JONES Issac - 1885 – 23/12/1885 – Age 20 – Collier. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Steam Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 81 killed.

JONES J. - 1880 – 15/07/1880 – Age 27 – Labourer. Risca Black Vein, London and South Wales Coal Co., Risca, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp. 120 killed.

JONES J. - 1883 – 02/09/1883 – Age 52 – Underlooker. Deep, Lord Granville, Hanley, Staffordshire. Explosion of gas. 3 killed.

JONES J. - 1883 – 07/09/1883 – Age 30 – Ripper. Naval, Naval Steam Coal Co., Penygraig, Glamorgan. Fell under trams.

JONES J. - 1883 – 14/09/1883 – Age 68 – Collier. Bauwani, Dowlais Iron Co., Dowlais, Glamorgan. Fall of coal.

JONES J. - 1883 - 22/10/1883 – Age 56 – Labourer. Cwmbach, Aberdare Coal Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fell under trucks.

JONES J. - 1883 - 28/10/1883 – Age 50 – Repairer. Wain Llwyd, Ebbw Vale Steel and Iron Co., Monmouthshire. He was cutting out some props, and the adjoining timber gave way and the top came down and suffocated him.

JONES J. - 1884 06/09/1884 46 Collier Trefonen Messrs France Oswestry, Shropshire Fall of coal.

JONES J. - 1888 16/05/1888 Collier St. John’s Locke and Co., Normanton Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

JONES J.D. - 1882 - 03/02/1882 – Age 26 – Loader. Himley, Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcester. Fall of coal from edge of the holing drift in a gate road in thick coal. Again caused by a bump. Injured January 31st, died this day.

JONES J.D. - 1885 - 23/12/1885 – Age 50 – Airwayman. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Steam Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 81 killed.

JONES James - 1880 - 15/07/1880 – Age 20 – Haulier. Risca Black Vein, London and South Wales Coal Co., Risca, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp, 120 killed.

JONES James - 1881 - 05/05/1881 – Age 55 – Miner. Chanters, Fletcher Borrows and Co., Atherton, Lancashire. Fall of coal, as he was holing.

JONES James - 1881 - 23/12/1881 – Age 54 – Miner. Great Lever, Earl of Bradford, Bolton, Lancashire. Fall of coal.

JONES James - 1882 - 24/04/1882 – Age 51 – Collier. Grougar, Eglington Iron Co., Hurlford, Ayrshire. Fall of coal while engaged taking it down.

JONES James - 1882 - 27/02/1882 – Age 42 – Repairer. Henwain, J Lancaster and Co., Henwain, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp. 5 killed.

JONES James - 1885 - 04/08/1885 - Age 30 – Pikeman. Himley, Trustees of the late Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcester. Died 13th. Aug. He, in jumping away from a full tub of coal, struck against a tree, and the coal which fell rolled on him.

JONES James - 1886 - 10/09/1886 – Age 26 – Hewer. Dean Lane, Bedminster Coal Co., Somerset. Explosion of firedamp. 10 killed.

JONES James - 1887 - 09/05/1887 – Age 54 – Dayman. Foggs, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal. Caught by a tub on a gig brow where they were clearing dust, the tub having become loose from the coupling chain as a train of four tubs was being started from the top. 2 killed.

JONES James - 1888 - 22/04/1888 – Age 41 – Hillman. Hawkesbury, Hawkesbury Colliery Co., Coventry, Warwick. Fall of coal from the side of engine plane while repairing the roadway.

JONES John (Bevan) - 1885 - 23/12/1885 – Age 23 – Haulier. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Steam Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 81 killed.

JONES John (injured) - 1881 - 07/11/1881 – Age 35 – Rockman. Oakeley Upper (slate), Festiniog. While prizing down a block of slate with a crowbar a small piece fell off and struck his foot. 2 months off.

JONES John (injured) - 1881 - 16/11/1881 – Age 26 – Labourer. Bryneglwys (slate), Aberynolwyn. He was tramming out rubbish and finding his waggon going too quick he put a bar on to one of the wheels to act as a brake, and somehow got his thumb between the bar and the waggon. He has lost the first joint of the thumb. 8 weeks off.

JONES John (injured) - 1881 - 21/09/1881 - Age 32 – Labourer. Votty and Bowydd (slate), Festiniog. He fell from an unfenced tramroad while dragging a surveying chain. 10 weeks and 5 days off.

JONES John (injured) - 1882 - 03/02/1882 – Age 33 – Rockman. Braichgoch (slate), Corris, Merioneth. Fall of slate rock from the face of his bargain. 3 days off.

JONES John (injured) - 1882 - 24/11/1882 – Age 31 – Miner. Braichgoch (slate), Corris, Merioneth. He slipped down the face of the rock while engaged in unroofing. 15 days off.

JONES John (injured) - 1885 - 01/05/1885 – Age 41 – Rockman. Maen Offeren (slate). Unexpected fall of some stones weighing about 2 cwt. from the roof of the chamber 50 feet above them. 1 killed 1 injured. 2 weeks off.

JONES John (injured) - 1885 - 23/12/1885 – Hitcher. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Steam Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 81 killed.

JONES John (injured) - 1886 - 07/10/1886 – Age 50 – Shaftman. Pantgwyn (metalliferous). He was screwing up a flange bolt when his spanner slipped and he fell 60 feet down the shaft into water. 3 weeks off.

JONES John (injured) - 1886 - 08/09/1886 – Age 27 – Miner. Croft Side Cannel, Darcy Lever Coal Co., Lancashire. Injured by fall of dirt from between two slips as he was propping it.

JONES John (injured) - 1886 - 12/04/1886 – Age 42 – Rockman. Maen Offeren (slate). Through inadvertence got in the way of a blast, leg broken. Still unable to work March 1887.

JONES John (injured) - 1886 - 26/04/1886 – Age 50 – Carter. Oakeley Upper (slate). A piece of stone fell from a loaded waggon on to his leg. 17 weeks off.

JONES John (injured) - 1888 - 26/10/1888 – Age 39 – Rockman. Rhiwbach (slate). A small lump of rock fell upon him in the open quarry and fractured his skull. Still disabled March 1889.

JONES John (injured) - 1889 - 09/05/1889 – Age 22 – Rockman. Rhosydd (slate). He and his partners had moved one leg of the triangle or so called crane and began to use it while it was in an unstable position. It fell and John Jones was either struck by it or knocked his nose against a block of slate in endeavouring to escape. Ten and a half weeks off.

JONES John (injured) - 1889 - 18/03/1889 – Age 24 – Miner. Cae Coch (metalliferous). Explosion of a charge of gunpowder whilst John Jones was ramming down the first layer of tamping with a wooden stick. The hole was bored in solid iron pyrites and there may have been a little iron pyrites in the stuff used for tamping. Richard Jones had both arms broken and John Jones lost the little finger of his left hand. 2 injured. 23 weeks off.

JONES John (injured) - 1889 - 19/02/1889 – Age 52 – Miner. Bryn-yr-afr. Slipped while coming down some stopes and fell four feet against a stempel. One rib broken. 6 weeks off.

JONES John - 1880 - 02/07/1880 – Age 22 – Haulier. Cwmaman, Cwmaman Coal Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Falling under a tram.

JONES John - 1880 - 03/08/1880 – Age 42 – Fireman. Bersham, Bersham Colliery Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. Explosion of gas. 9 killed.

JONES John - 1880 - 04/10/1880 – Age 24 – Collier. No.2 South Plymouth, Aberdare and Plymouth Co., Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES John - 1880 - 06/03/1880 – Age 12 - Door boy. Cwmneol, Powells Duffryn Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Crushed between two loaded trams.

JONES John - 1880 - 11/03/1880 – Age 50 – Ripper. Navigation, Nixon Taylor and Cory, Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES John - 1880 - 23/03/1880 – Age 34 - Waggon trimmer. Ty Trist, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co., Glamorgan. Crushed between waggons on the surface.

JONES John - 1880 - 23/08/1880 – Age 37 – Collier. Ferndale No.2, D Davis and Sons, Ferndale, Glamorgan. Killed by fall of stone.

JONES John - 1880 - 25/05/1880 – Age 25 – Collier. Lady Margaret, Marquis of Bute, Treherbert, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES John - 1881 - 01/02/1881 – Age 51 – Miner. Spindlepoint, Clifton and Kersley Coal Co., Kersley, Lancashire. Coal from face, insufficient spragging.

JONES John - 1881 - 01/12/1881 – Age 49 - Carpenter. Glasdir (metalliferous), Dolgelly. He went within the framework between two percussion tables in order to do some light repairs but he neglected to stop the machinery. His clothes were caught by some revolving shafting and he was drawn in and killed.

JONES John - 1881 - 03/06/1881 – Age 28 – Collier. Sguborwen, Messrs Thomas, Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of coal (forming roof).

JONES John - 1881 - 21/03/1881 – Age 22 – Haulier. Deep Duffryn, Nixon Taylor and Cory, Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Killed by falling under loaded trams on engine plane.

JONES John - 1881 - 28/09/1881 – Age 20 – Collier. Middle Duffryn, Powells Duffryn Co. Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES John - 1882 - 01/09/1882 – Age 38 – Rockman. Braichgoch (slate). Corris, Merioneth. A piece of a block of slate, which he was causing to fall struck him and injured his head and arm. 19 days off.

JONES John - 1882 - 10/10/1882 – Age 34 - Collier’s boy. Banwain, Dowlais Iron Co., Dowlais, Glamorgan. Fall of coal.

JONES John - 1882 - 16/09/1882 – Age 14 – Collier. No.9 Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel Co., Monmouth. The boy was going into his work along an engine plane up which a journey was coming. In hurrying to a refuge hole he lost his light and fell under the rope and died of his injuries on the 18th.

JONES John - 1882 - 18/02/1882 – Age 40 – Collier. Vochrin No2, Dowlais Iron Co., Dowlais, Glamorgan. Fall of coal.

JONES John - 1882 - 23/06/1882 – Age 37 – Collier. Flint, Flint Colliery Co. Ltd., Flint, Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of stone from between slips which broke some of the timber. The place was well timbered.

JONES John - 1882 - 26/08/1882 – Age 21 – Sinker. Park, D Davies and Co., Treorky, Glamorgan. Fall of stone in sinking pit.

JONES John - 1883 - 02/03/1883 – Age 30 – Shackler. Penrikyber, Penrikyber Navigation Steam Coal Co., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Struck by haulage rope.

JONES John - 1883 - 03/01/1883 – Age 18 – Collier. Cae, Neville Druce and Co., Llanelly, Camarthen. Fall of stone.

JONES John - 1883 - 03/10/1883 – Age 47 – Overman. Coppice, Coppice Colliery Co., Brownhills, Staffordshire. Rate of coal from side of a road after sprags were withdrawn.

JONES John - 1883 - 05/08/1883 – Age 27 – Collier. Bedlinog, Dowlais Iron Co., Dowlais, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES John - 1883 - 21/08/1883 – Age 46 – Collier. Gelli, Thomas Griffith, Ystrad, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas 5 killed.

JONES John - 1883 - 22/09/1883 – Age 35 – Collier. Hafod, Ruabon Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Ruabon, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was loading up some coal when a stone fell out from between some slips. More timber should have been set in the place and it transpired at the inquiry that the supervision of the working places by the firemen was inadequate. Representations to this effect were made to the owners.

JONES John - 1884 - 06/02/1884 – Age 40 – Sinker. Dinas, Executors of Daniel Thomas, Penygraig, Glamorgan. Breakage of rope.

JONES John - 1884 - 07/07/1884 – Age 52 – Hitcher. New Tredegar, Powell Duffryn and Co., Monmouth. A lump of coal fell off the cage which had just landed at the top and hounded off the top of the bottom cage and struck him on the forehead killing him on the spot.

JONES John - 1884 - 08/11/1884 – Age 25 – Haulier. Pochin, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co., Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp. 14 killed.

JONES John - 1884 - 12/11/1884 – Age 13 - Collier’s boy. South Duffryn, Messrs Hankey, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Fall of coal.

JONES John - 1884 - 13/12/1884 – Age 29 – Collier. Abergorchi, Burneat Brown and Co., Treorky, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES John - 1884 - 14/07/1884 – Age 25 – Collier. Foxhole, Patent Anthracite Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Swansea, Glamorgan. Fall of stone.

JONES John - 1884 - 16/01/1884 – Age 32 – Collier. Garnant, Garnant Collieries Co., Cwmaman, Glamorgan. Breakage of rope. 10 killed.

JONES John - 1884 - 25/01/1884 – Age 45 – Collier. Gatewen, Broughton and Plas Power Coal Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. Inspection made. The man was setting a prop when a piece of the roof shelled off. The place was fairly well timbered.

JONES John - 1884 – 25/08/1884 – Age 35 – Fireman. Llwynpia, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fall of stone.

JONES John - 1884 – 27/02/1884 – Age 71 – Labourer. Trafalgar, Trafalgar Colliery Co., Forest of Dean, Gloucester. Injured by being squeezed between a tram full of ashes which he was removing from the boiler fires and the end of a wall, and died on the 2nd March. He was very feeble or he would probably have easily recovered.

JONES John - 1884 – 27/06/1884 – Age 47 – Collier, Deep Duffryn, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Fall of stone.

JONES John - 1885 – 01/05/1885 – Age 32 – Labourer. Maen, Offeren (slate). Unexpected fall of some stones weighing about 2 cwt. from the roof of the chamber 50 feet above them. 1 killed 1 injured.

JONES John - 1885 - 09/03/1885 – Age 55 – Labourer. Vauxhall, Vauxhall Colliery Co. Ltd., Ruabon, Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was crossing the main line with a bag of provender on his back and was found a few minutes afterwards at the foot of a stile he had to cross, quite dead. It is supposed he fell from the top of the stile.

JONES John - 1885 – 10/06/1885 – Age 23 – Labourer. Clydach Vale, Thomas Riches and Co., Tonypandy, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES John - 1885 – 14/05/1885 – Age 15 – Pony driver. Chanters Fletcher, Burrows and Co., Lancashire. Fatal. Crushed between the side of the roadway and the tub on which he was riding when a wheel of the tub broke.

JONES John - 1885 – 15/05/1885 – Age 17 – Slate. Sawyer Prince, Llewellyn (slate). He went unnecessarily inside the fence of some machinery to put tar on to a belt and was caught by a crank wheel.

JONES John - 1885 – 20/10/1885 – Age 15 – Collier. Fforchaman, Powell Duffryn Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Rope broke crushed by trams. 2 killed.

JONES John - 1885 – 23/04/1885 – Age 36 – Collier. Aberdare No.9, Aberdare Coal Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES John - 1885 – 23/12/1885 – Age 42 – Collier. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Steam Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 81 killed.

JONES John - 1885 – 30/12/1885 – Age 37 – Chargeman. Snydale Hall, Colonel Le Gendre, Starkie, Lancashire. Fatal. Fall of roof in a bay where 37 men were doing daytal work. Deceased tried the roof and within a minute or two coal and buzzard fell on him. The pack was within 5 feet of the face and props closer across the place.

JONES John - 1885 - 31/07/1885 – Age 15 – Collier. Fernhill, G Watkinson and Sons, Treherbert, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

JONES John - 1885 - 31/12/1885 – Age 12 - Door boy. Merthyr Vale, Nixons Ltd., Merthyr, Glamorgan. Crushed by tram.

JONES John - 1886 - 04/09/1886 – Age 13 - Road cleaner. Vochriw, Dowlais Iron Co., Vochriw, Glamorgan. Fall of stone from the roof of engine plane where he was engaged cleaning the road.

JONES John - 1886 - 15/12/1886 – Age 16 – Filler. Worcester, Forest Fach Coal Co., Forest Fach, Glamorgan. Breakage of coupling chains and consequent running wild of tram on engine plane.

JONES John - 1886 - 18/03/1886 – Age 28 – Collier. Lady Windsor, Davies Scott and Co., Ynisybwl, Glamorgan. Fall of coal.

JONES John - 1886 - 27/01/1886 – Age 38 – Timberman. Deep Duffryn, Nixons Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Run over by tram.

JONES John - 1887 - 04/01/1887 – Age 52 – Collier. Mardy Locketts, Merthyr Colliery Co. Ltd., Mardy, Glamorgan. A small stone from the roof struck him on the head while clearing a fall. Longwall. Died 6th March.

JONES John - 1887 - 18/02/1887 – Age 36 – Ripper. National, National Colliery Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas and dust caused by a shot. 39 killed.

JONES John - 1888 - 05/10/1888 – Age 40 – Collier. No.9, Norths Navigation Co., Maesteg, Glamorgan. Fall of cliff roof 5 cwt x 2.5ft. x 16ins. between two smooth slips meeting at top. The fall was within 2ft. of coal face and there were no supports nearer than 6ft. Caedafid seam 3.5ft Pillar and stall.

JONES John - 1888 - 06/02/1888 – Age 25 – Ripper. Abergorky, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Treorky, Glamorgan. Fell over retaining wall at surface.

JONES John - 1888 – 06/04/1888 – Age 41 – Repairer. Garncoch, John Glasbrook, Swansea, Glamorgan. Fall of roof while re-timbering main road. 5ft. seam. Pillar and stall. 2 killed.

JONES John - 1888 – 07/02/1888 – Age 16 – Pump boy. Dunvant, Phillip Richards, Swansea, Glamorgan. Found drowned in the sump (4.5ft deep) near steam pump which he attended.

JONES John - 1888 – 13/01/1888 – Age 29 – Collier. Lady Windsor, Ocean Coal Co Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fall of 5 cwt of coal from a face slip which was not spragged. Longwall.

JONES John - 1888 – 14/06/1888 – Age 29 – Collier. Llwynypia, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Tonypandy, Glamorgan. A small stone from a slip running parallel with a heading fell on his head while filling coals. 6ft. seam, 8.5ft. thick. Long wall.