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ROBERT Lloyd - 1882 - 04/12/1882 – Age 32 – Miner. Bradford, Parker Bradford Colliery Co., Manchester, Lancashire. Roof from a slip.

ROBERT Owen Henry - 1889 - 26/08/1889 – Age 30 – Rockman. Diphwys Casson (slate). He was at a winch lowering a block of slate, one end of which was resting on the ground, when he let go of the handle. It flew round and struck him on the forehead. Probably he thought the block was resting quite firmly on the ground and was holding the handle of the winch loosely when the block gave slight lurch and so jerked the chain and caused the handle to revolve. He had received a severe injury in the same manner Apr. 1886.

ROBERTS Charles - 1884 - 18/08/1884 – Age 22 – Collier. White Moss, White Moss Coal Co. Ltd., Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A sudden fall of roof from between two slips in the drawing road close to the face. The roof was propped, but not barred. The place had been examined by the fireman half an hour previously.

ROBERTS Charles - 1886 - 11/06/1886 – Age 38 – Collier. Carrs, Carrs Coal and Cannel Co. Ltd., Prescot, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A piece of ley and coal fell suddenly from the face of his working place on to him.

ROBERTS D. - 1881 - 20/01/1881 – Age 37 – Collier. Bank Foot, James Critchley and Sons, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Rope broke while descending shaft. Died 30th.

ROBERTS Daniel (injured) - 1881 - 02/04/1881 – Age 24 – Labourer. Bryneglwys (slate), Aberynolwyn. Fall of earth whilst excavating at the surface for a new reservoir. 1 killed, 1 injured, 3 weeks off.

ROBERTS Daniel (injured) - 1884 - 04/03/1884 – Age 35 – Miner. Bryneglwys (slate). While standing upon a step of rock he slipped and fell cutting his head badly. 4 weeks off.

ROBERTS Daniel - 1887 - 12/02/1887 – Age 30 – Collier. Bettisfield, Bettisfield Colliery Co. Ltd., Bagillt, Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. The two men were sending timber down the pit and finding it to be too long to go into the cage, signalled to the engineman to lift the cage from the bottom lading (level of the ground) to the top to enable them to remove the cage cover. By some means the cage was carried with great velocity into the headgear and the safety hook failing to act the rope broke and the cage, with the two men in it, fell to the bottom of the pit. 2 killed.

ROBERTS Daniel - 1889 - 30/09/1889 – Age 40 – Miner. Votty & Boydd (slate). He got over a fence, 3 feet high, at the entrance of a disused level, 45 feet long, through a pillar between two underground chambers and fell over a precipice 50 feet deep at the other end of the level. It is probable that he went into this level to relieve his bowels and possibly put out his light for fear of being dissevered in the set of breaking the rules. He had only just left the surface a few minutes before and there was no necessity for his going where he did for he was in perfect health and not suffering from diarrhoea.

ROBERTS David (injured) - 1881 - 10/10/1881 – Age 22 – Shaftman. North Wales Copper (metalliferous), Conway. A few stones fell from kibble and struck them. 4 days off. 2 hurt.

ROBERTS David - 1880 - 10/12/1880 – Age 31. Naval Steam, Naval Steam Co., Penycraig, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 101 killed.

ROBERTS David - 1880 - 22/01/1880 – Age 13 - Collier’s boy. Dunraven, Thomas Joseph, Treherbert, Glamorgan. Fall of clod and coal.

ROBERTS David - 1880 - 28/08/1880 – Age 56 – Repairer. Broadoak, Loughor, Glamorgan. Fall of roof.

ROBERTS David - 1882 - 26/12/1882 – Age 28 – Quarryman. Plamerston (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. He fell from a bridge, part of which was unfenced.

ROBERTS David - 1884 - 16/01/1884 – Age 36 – Collier. Garnant, Garnant Collieries Co., Cwmaman, Glamorgan. Breakage of rope. 10 killed.

ROBERTS David - 1885 - 04/09/1885 – Age 55 – Breaksman. Redding, Redding Colliery Co., Polmont, Stirling. While breaking waggons the break which he was pinning down broke at hanger and he fell and was struck by the axle box.

ROBERTS David - 1888 - 02/05/1888 – Age 52 – Miner. Bryneglwys (slate). Unexpected fall of a stone weighing 30lbs. from the roof of his working place 12ft. above him. His partner said that they had not sounded the roof during the three months they had been working at the place though they could have done so easily without any scaffolding.

ROBERTS David Lloyd - 1886 - 26/06/1886 – Age 22 – Rockman. Conglog (slate). He was riding with several other men on a truck containing slabs seeing a stone on one of the rails he jumped off and ran in front of the truck to kick it off. Unfortunately, he slipped and fell and the truck struck him so violently that he died in the course of a few hours.

ROBERTS E. - 1886 - 14/11/1886 – Repairer. Clanway Clive and Co., Tunstall, Staffordshire. Fell off cage while putting in pump trees.

ROBERTS E. - 1886 - 17/02/1886 – Age 41 – Collier. East Gawber, R Craik and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Run over by corves.

ROBERTS Edward (injured) - 1881 - 25/02/1881 – Age 29 – Labourer. Oakeley Upper (slate), Festiniog. He fell from the chamber in which he was working into the chamber below. It is supposed he was splaying. 13 weeks off.

ROBERTS Edward - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 19 - Horse driver. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

ROBERTS Elias (injured) - 1884 - 28/10/1884 – Age 28 - Slate packer. Oakeley Upper (slate). Squeezed between two loaded slate waggons. 6 weeks off.

ROBERTS Ellis (injured) - 1883 - 04/07/1883 – Age 55 – Miner. Cwmorthin (slate). They charged two holes in an end one above the other and lighted the bottom hole first. While returning to set light to the upper hole it exploded, no doubt the explosion of the first hole set fire to the fuse of the second. 2 injured. Ellis 9 days off. William 12 days off.

ROBERTS Ellis - 1888 - 29/06/1888 – Age 14 - Collier’s boy. Gadlys Waynes, Merthyr Co. Ltd., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fell out of carriage while descending with nine others in the morning. It was thought he had taken a fainting fit.

ROBERTS Evan (injured) - 1881 - 14/10/1881 – Age 35 – Labourer. Oakeley Upper (slate), Festiniog. He was blown down by a gale of wind and fell on the rails breaking his arm. 6 weeks off.

ROBERTS Evan (injured) - 1881 - 25/05/1881 – Age 16 – Carter. Palmerston (slate), Festiniog. He jumped on to an incline rope, fell over and got under the waggon receiving injuries to his head and knee. 6 weeks off.

ROBERTS Evan (injured) - 1882 - 22/04/1882 – Age 48 – Carpenter. Llechwedd (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. He was directing the operation of uncoiling a wire rope on an incline but he allowed it to go so quickly the men lost all control, the Rope came off the reel and knocked him down. Arm injured. 2 months off.

ROBERTS Evan - 1882 - 30/01/1882 – Age 52 – Labourer. Maen Offeren (slate), Festiniog. Boiler explosion 4 killed.

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

ROBERTS Evan - 1885 - 23/12/1885 – Age 28 – Ropeman. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Steam Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 81 killed.

ROBERTS Evan - 1888 - 22/02/1888 – Age 47 – Rockman. Oakley (slate). The accident was caused by a blast but no more can be said with certainty. It is supposed that a charge of guncotton and gunpowder failed to go off completely and that after hanging fire for an hour the remnants exploded unexpectedly when Roberts returned to his work in place. Roberts killed Hughes 2 months off.

ROBERTS Frederick - 1884 - 16/12/1884 – Age 16 – Driver. Brotton (ironstone), Morrison and Co., Saltburn, Yorkshire. While leading his horse he fell and the full tubs ran over him, crushing him to death.

ROBERTS George (injured) - 1885 - 23/03/1885 – Age 50 – Miner. Parsonage, Denton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Leg broken by some dirt which he was pulling down the side of the level when it fell suddenly and caught him.

ROBERTS George - 1885 - 18/06/1885 – Age 25 – Miner. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal great explosion. 178 killed.

ROBERTS Griffith (injured) - 1888 - 26/11/1888 – Age 25 – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). The peg holding the chain by which he was supported got loose and he fell down the working face of the chamber. Possibly some rock had fallen against the peg. 3 weeks off.

ROBERTS Griffith G. (injured) - 1886 - 02/11/1886 – Age 15 - Slate maker. Llechwedd (slate). While making slates, with a rotary machine, he had the top of one of his fingers cut off. Still unable to work March 1887.

ROBERTS H. - 1884 - 29/10/1884 – Age 36 – Sinker. Bruntcliffe, Joseph Haigh, Leeds, Yorkshire. Fell out of trunk while descending shaft.

ROBERTS H. - 1889 - 13/07/1889 – Age 53 – Collier. Oaks, C Cammell and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of side.

ROBERTS Henry (injured) - 1888 - 22/05/1888 – Age 55 – Carpenter. New Kitty (metalliferous), St. Agnes, Scorrier, Cornwall. Engaged in repairing poppet heads. Fell from the ladder about 5 feet injuring his back.

ROBERTS Henry - 1881 - 22/09/1881 – Age 13 – Driver. Cramlington, Amelia WA Potter and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland. Crushed between tub and limbers.

ROBERTS Howell J (injured) - 1881 - 12/05/1881 – Age 17 – Quarryman. Oakeley Upper (slate), Festiniog. He tripped against slate on the floor of the mill house, and fell down breaking his arm. 16 weeks off.

ROBERTS Hugh (injured) - 1883 - 05/05/1883 – Age 25 – Rockman. Oakeley Middle (slate). A piece of slate weighing 10 or 12 lbs. fell upon him while he was drilling a hole. 8 weeks off.

ROBERTS Humphrey - 1888 - 28/08/1888 – Age 30 – Rockman. Oakley (slate). Unexpected fall of three quarters to 1 ton of rock from the roof of the chamber 60ft. above him. The roof had been left as safe when first formed 10 years before.

ROBERTS Ishmael - 1882 - 28/08/1882 – Age 22 – Collier. Argoed, Alltami Colliery Co. Ltd., Mold, Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of coal, on to deceased, when holing. This accident was entirely due to the carelessness of the man himself in not setting sprags.

ROBERTS J - 1883 - 25/06/1883 – Age 55 – Timberman. New Duffryn, Rhymney Iron Co., Glamorganshire. Explosion of firedamp. 6 killed. Died 29th.

ROBERTS J. - 1886 - 08/12/1886 – Age 52 – Collier. Simon Wood, Earl Fitzwilliam, Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of coal.

ROBERTS James - 1880 - 03/08/1880 – Age 36 – Fireman. Bersham, Bersham Colliery Co. Ltd., Wrexham, Denbigh. Explosion of gas. 9 killed.

ROBERTS Jane M. - 1885 - 02/04/1885 – Age 11 – Trespasser. Abergorkie, Burnyeat Brown and Co., Treorky, Glamorgan. Fell under trucks on surface. Female.

ROBERTS Jesse (injured) - 1889 - 09/08/1889 – Age 22 – Rockman. Diphwys Casson (slate). He was jumping a hole, near the floor of a chamber, when a block of slate slipped down the working face and a piece struck him breaking one rib. He had previously tried a crow bar to get the block but failing to do this considered it quite safe. 9 weeks off.

ROBERTS John (injured) - 1880 - 06/11/1880 - Dayman. Messing Trees, William Ramsden, Shakerley, Lancashire. Burned. Ignition of firedamp, at their open lights, in a fallen part of a down brow which was being unwatered and repaired. Safety lamps were provided for testing but open lights allowed to work with. Great Seven Feet Mine. 2 injured.

ROBERTS John (injured) - 1882 - 09/03/1882 – Age 36 – Rockman. Diphwys Casson (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. Small piece of slate slipped from the face of the open quarry and struck him on the foot. 18 week 3 days off.

ROBERTS John (injured) - 1883 - 16/03/1883 – Age 45 – Miner. Oakeley Middle (slate). He was working half way up his bargain at a place where he had climbed with a rope. When going down he took hold of the wrong end of his rope and fell to the bottom of his bargain hand cut and back bruised. 10 days off.

ROBERTS John (injured) - 1883 - 20/09/1883 – Age 58 – Labourer. Wrysgan (slate). He was loading a block of slate on to a sled when it fell upon his leg, breaking the small bone near the ankle. 9 weeks off.

ROBERTS John (injured) - 1883 - 31/10/1883 – Age 23 – Labourer. Oakeley Upper (slate). He fell in front of a waggon and his ankle was squeezed by one of the wheels. 2 months off.

ROBERTS John (injured) - 1884 - 04/01/1884 – Age 26 – Labourer. Oakeley Upper (slate). He went to fetch a pick, lent to some other men, and fell over the edge of their bargain. Skull fractured. 9 months off.

ROBERTS John (injured) - 1886 08/01/1886 – Age 50 Miner. Morfa-du (metalliferous). Fall of roof loosened by a blast. He did not think it would fall so soon. 1 week off.

ROBERTS John (injured) - 1888 – 19/09/1888 – Age 30 – Rockman. Cwmorthin (slate). He was lowering a block of slate with a crane, thinking it rested firmly on the truck, he loosened his hold of the handle when the block moved a little and caused the handle to fly round and strike him on the head. Four and a half weeks off.

ROBERTS John (injured) - 1889 – 04/12/1889 – 21 Miner. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Injured by roof falling as he was pulling coal from the face where he worked with his father. Inspection and inquiry.

ROBERTS John - 1880 – 05/06/1880 – Age 5 – Child. Cornfield Branch, Executors of John Hargreaves, Padiham, Lancashire. Not employed. Run over and killed on the chain tramway at Padiham, about a mile from the colliery. Not comprised.

ROBERTS John - 1882 – 02/02/1882 – Age 61 – Miner. Bradford, Bradford Colliery Co., Manchester, Lancashire. Caught between tub and roof in engine brow.

ROBERTS John - 1882 – 03/03/1882 – Age 37 – Labourer. Oakley Middle (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. He let go of the handle on the crane while lowering a block of slate on to a sled and he was struck by the handle on the forehead. Four and a half weeks off.

ROBERTS John - 1883 – 10/11/1883 – Age 61 – Labourer. Hanmer, BP Bidder, Mostyn, Flint. Inspection made. He was employed in taking the ashes from the firehole to the cinder tip. He had to turn the tub over with a prop and it is supposed that it went too far and in attempting to stop it he fell over with it for he was found shortly after under the tub at the bottom of the tip. The latter is only about 6 feet high but being an old man, it is supposed he had not enough strength to get under it.

ROBERTS John - 1883 – 25/06/1883 – Age 55 – Timberman. New Duffryn, Rhymney Iron Company, Rhymney, Glamorganshire. Explosion of gas 7 killed.

ROBERTS John - 1886 – 09/04/1886 – Age 56 – Miner. Bridgewater No.1, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Fatal fall of dirt from under a bed of coal where they were widening out a tunnel. The chargeman had shortly before examined the place as: he thought safely. An error of judgement on the chargeman's part. 1 killed 1 injured.

ROBERTS John - 1886 - 22/03/1886 – Age 28 – Dataler. New Boston, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Some men were setting up some big bars 20 feet long and 12 inches square. It was necessary to knock out a prop and the men were sent back whilst this was done by one of the number. Deceased was sitting at one end of one of the bars which was lying on the floor when a large quantity of stone fell at the spot where the props had been taken on the other end of the bar and the bar was jerked upwards and deceased thrown against the roof.

ROBERTS John - 1888 - 19/01/1888 – Age 40 – Dataler. Collins Green, Collins Green Colliery Co. Ltd., Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Injured 16th August 1887. Deceased and another man were set to get some roof down and to pack it close by. They pulled out a chock and some props without taking proper precautions for their safety and went on building the pack when a large stone fell upon deceased.

ROBERTS John - 1889 - 08/01/1889 – Age 26 – Quarryman. Rhiwbach (slate). Explosion of a charge of gunpowder just as he was lighting the fuse. It is probable that a hole fired by him an hour before the accident produced a small crack and that he recharged it and tamped. Probably some grains of powder were lying over the crack and were ignited accidentally while he was lighting the fuse and conveyed fire to the charge. The accident happened in an open quarry adjacent to underground workings.

ROBERTS John - 1889 - 09/09/1889 – Age 49 – Labourer. Oakeley (slate). He got over a stone wall underground in order to relieve his bowels and having done so went away in the wrong direction and fell over a precipice. Proper privies were available and the man was disobeying orders by going where he did.

ROBERTS John - 1889 - 15/07/1889 – Age 28 – Miner. Tyldesley, Lancashire. He had been a healthy man until five weeks previously when he returned from his militia training with a slight cough. Verdict: ‘Death from pulmonary apoplexy.’ Ventilation found good. Inspection inquest attended. Non-Comprised.

ROBERTS John Griffith (injured) - 1889 - 28/02/1889 – Age 16 – Slate maker. Oakeley (slate). While a smith was arranging a fork for shifting the driving belt of a sawing table which he was repairing. Roberts came up behind him unawares and put his head upon a cog-wheel usually covered by the table. The wheel moved slightly and the boy’s fingers were pinched. 3 months off.

ROBERTS John T. (injured) - 1889 - 28/11/1889 – Age 32 – Miner. Dolcoath (metalliferous), Camborne, Cornwall. Had his arm broken whilst boring a hole at the 400 fathom level. He was holding the borer to two of his comrades one of then missed the borer and struck Robert's on the arm.

ROBERTS John Tudor - 1886 - 24/11/1886 – Age 69 – Quarryman. Oakley Upper (slate). Fell over a natural precipice used as a tip close to his working place.

ROBERTS Joseph - 1883 - 15/08/1883 – Age 43 – Miner. Wheal Agar (metalliferous), Wheal Agar Mining Co., Redruth, Cornwall. Fracture of the capstan rope which was being used to draw the men to surface. 12 killed.

ROBERTS Joseph - 1886 - 29/10/1886 – Age 27 – Miner. No.2 (metalliferous), Askham and Mouzell Mining Co., Mouzell-in-Furness, Lancashire. Fall down a rise. The deceased and his partner were engaged driving a vertical rise, they were shifting their stage plank previous to firing when the deceased, on reaching for a plank, fell down the rise and was so injured that he died.

ROBERTS Joseph - 1888 - 09/06/1888 – Age 19 – Waggoner. Black Park, Black Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Chirk, Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was taking his tub along the level and as he was passing the bottom of a jig a loaded tub came down and caught him. He ought to have been stopped by the doggey who was at the bottom of the jig and knew that it was running.

ROBERTS Lewis (injured) - 1883 - 13/07/1883 – Age 37 – Miner. Tankerville (metalliferous). Although duly warned he thoughtlessly walked past the entrance to a cross cut in which blasting was going on. He was struck by a stone from the blast. 20 weeks off.

ROBERTS Lewis (injured) - 1884 - 22/01/1884 – Age 53 – Rockman. Braichgoch (slate). A small loose block of slate rolled down a slope of rubbish and struck him. 7 weeks off.

ROBERTS or JONES Edward - 1882 - 18/04/1882 – Age 15. Tudhoe, Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Durham, Co. Durham. Explosion of gas in Brockwell Seam. 37 killed.

ROBERTS Owen (injured) - 1882 - 09/11/1882 – Age 38 – Rockman. Oakley Upper (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. The chain by which he was fastened happened to touch some loose rubbish and a piece of stone rolled on his foot and cut his toe. About 13 weeks off.

ROBERTS Owen (injured) - 1883 - 03/04/1883 – Age 13 - Slate maker. Cwmorthin (slate). While mischievously interfering with the pulley of a sawing table, during the dinner hour, he was caught by the strap and drawn under the pulley. Arm badly injured. Still unable to work March 1884.

ROBERTS Owen (injured) - 1889 - 07/06/1889 – Age 55 – Miner. Pantgwyn (metalliferous). He was in the act of walling, under the hanging wall of an overhand stope, when a stone fell unexpectedly and broke his leg. 6 weeks off.

ROBERTS Owen H. (injured) - 1886 - 28/04/1886 – Age 27 – Rockman. Diphwys Casson (slate). While lowering a block of slate, with a crane, he let the handle slip, it flew round and struck him a severe blow on the nose. 3 weeks off.

ROBERTS Peter (injured) - 1889 - 09/02/1889 – Age 63 – Fitter. Riwbach (slate). In endeavouring to start a small water-wheel, which was frozen up, he slipped into the wheel pit just as the wheel began to move. He was badly squeezed and had three ribs and the breast bone broken. 12 weeks off.

ROBERTS Reuben - 1885 - 10/08/1885 – Age 23 – Miner. Clifton Hall, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fatal fall of roof coal in their working place. Roberts lived long enough after, being to tell that after knocking the chocks and props from under the coal it seemed to be fast, they began cutting when it suddenly fell and buried them both. Their own error. 2 killed.

ROBERTS Richard (injured) - 1881 - 22/07/1881 – Age 40 – Rockman. Diphwys Casson (Slate), Festiniog. While charging a hole a second time, in the open, the powder was fired by a spark, and he was thrown a few feet, and broke his leg. 37 weeks off.

ROBERTS Richard (injured) - 1881 - 23/06/1881 – Age 14 – Labourer. Park (slate). Llanfrothen. He was pushing a waggon along the tramway during the dinner hour for amusement, and accidentally ran it over the tip. It fell upon him breaking his thigh. 5 months off.

ROBERTS Richard (injured) - 1883 - 25/06/1883. New Duffryn, Rhymney Iron Company, Rhymney, Glamorganshire. Explosion of gas. 7 killed.

ROBERTS Richard (injured) - 1884 - 18/07/1884 – Age 26 – Rockman. Cwmorthin (slate). He was struck by a stone which slipped from the rubbish of his partner’s workings above him. 3 weeks 4 days off.

ROBERTS Richard (injured) - 1888 - 24/05/1888 – Age 22 – Miner. Oakeley (slate). Two holes were charged with guncotton and gunpowder and lit. One report was heard and it is supposed that both had gone off together. On returning after the lapse of 5 minutes one of the holes went off. It was a draughty place and the snuff had not ignited the fuse as soon as had been expected. Four and a half weeks off.

ROBERTS Richard (injured) - 1888 – Age 63 – Pitman. South Darren (metalliferous), Aberystwith, Cardigan. Fall of 5 or 6 yards from a ladder which he knew to be unsafe and which he was going to replace. The sides were rotten and a rung came out while he was climbing. 2 weeks off. The incident took place in January.

ROBERTS Richard (injured) - 1889 - 26/07/1889 – Age 40 – Rockman. Bwich-y-slater (slate). He stretched across a sawing table to wedge up a block of slate when his sleeve was caught by the circular saw. His left arm was cut to the bone between the elbow and wrist. 17 weeks off.

ROBERTS Richard - 1880 - 30/11/1880 – Age 49 – Miner. Upleathan (Ironstone), JW Pease and Partners, Marske, Yorkshire. Fall of top stone, while baring a quantity of stone.

ROBERTS Richard - 1886 - 02/04/1886 – Age 36 – Rockman. Maen Offeren (slate). Unexpected fall of rock from the side of a pillar where he had just been blasting.

ROBERTS Robert (injured) - 1881 - 08/08/1881 – Age 60. The Victor (metalliferous), Mold. Explosion of half a tonite cartridge while ramming it into a hole with an iron bar. 2 injured. 22 weeks off.

ROBERTS Robert (injured) - 1881 - 16/02/1881 – Age 26 – Rockman. Palmerston (slate), Festiniog. Some loose rubbish slid down a heap, at the foot of which he was working, and cracked a bone of his ankle. 12 weeks off.

ROBERTS Robert (injured) - 1882 - 01/07/1882 – Age 45 – Quarryman. Palmerston (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. Through absence of mind he put his right hand on to the edge of a slate dressing machine and the ends of four fingers cut off. About 6 months off.

ROBERTS Robert (injured) - 1882 - 05/01/1882 – Age 45 – Rockman. Rhosydd (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. Fall of a stone, weighing a few pounds, from the top of an open part of the quarry in which he was working. Skull fractured. 6 weeks and 3 days off.

ROBERTS Robert (injured) - 1883 - 27/12/1883 – Age 19 - Slate dresser. Oakeley Upper (slate). Inadvertently put his hand into a slate dressing machine and had two fingers cut off. Eight and a half weeks off.

ROBERTS Robert (injured) - 1885 - 03/11/1885 – Age 30 – Rockman. Palmerston (slate). A block of slate fell on him while he was endeavouring to extricate it from the rubbish in which it was partly embedded. Still unable to work, March 1886.

ROBERTS Robert (injured) - 1885 - 24/06/1885 – Age 26 – Labourer. Oakeley Middle (slate). While working with a crane he let the handle slip from his grasp, it flew round and struck him on the forehead. 6 weeks off.

ROBERTS Robert (injured) - 1886 - 11/02/1886 – Age 31 – Rockman. Palmerston (slate). He was using a brass tipped stemmer to tamp a charge of gunpowder when it exploded and burnt his face. 4 weeks off.

ROBERTS Robert (injured) - 1888 - 17/05/1888 – Age 32 – Rockman. Oakeley (slate). He and his partner were using a crane to drag a block of slate along the floor of their chamber. Their light happened to go out but they continued to work on and dragged the block against one of the legs of the triangle or crane causing it to fall over. Roberts was struck in trying to escape. Still disabled March 1889.

ROBERTS Robert (injured) - 1889 - 19/02/1889 – Age 36 – Rockman. Moelferna (slate). Premature explosion of a gelatine dynamite and gunpowder in a pillaring hole while ramming down the second layer of tamping with an iron bar. 11 weeks off.

ROBERTS Robert - 1880 - 10/12/1880 – Age 16. Naval Steam, Naval Steam Co., Penycraig, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas. 101 killed.

ROBERTS Robert - 1882 - 13/08/1882 – Age 32 – Labourer. Palmerston (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. He was shifting a block of slate, which was being lifted by a crane, when his crowbar slipped and he fell, breaking the small bone of his leg.

ROBERTS Robert - 1882 - 25/07/1882 – Age 30 – Rockman. Oakley Upper (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. Unexpected fall of a block of slate from the face of his bargain.

ROBERTS Robert - 1882 - 26/06/1882 – Age 40 – Rockman. Cwmorthin (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. A piece of a block of slate which he was splitting fell against his thigh inflicted a flesh wound. Died 12th. July.

ROBERTS Robert - 1885 - 14/03/1885 – Age 42 – Hewer. Binchester, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham. Fall of stone from a slip or hitch met with him in his working place.

ROBERTS Rowland (injured) - 1886 - 11/09/1886 – Age 30 – Rockman. Oakeley Upper (slate). He dislodged some loose rubbish lying on the face of the bargain and fell down it. Still unable to work March 1887.

ROBERTS Rowland (injured) - 1888 - 19/12/1888 – Age 32 – Miner. Oakeley (slate). While walking along a flat road he fell down and broke his thigh. Still disabled March 1889.

ROBERTS Rowland - 1884 - 13/07/1884 – Age 19 – Miner. Cae Coch (metalliferous). Explosion of a charge of gunpowder. It is probable that he was pressing down the charge with, an iron scraper, which struck a spark against the iron pyrites in which the hole was bored.

ROBERTS Samuel - 1888 - 19/12/1888 – Age 40 – Miner. Eston (ironstone), Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. Fractured skull by fall of a large prop and some stone which came away unexpectedly. Died on 20th.

ROBERTS Simon jnr. (injured) - 1888 - 26/05/1888 – Age 24 – Miner. Minera (metalliferous). A stone weighing about 10lbs. fell from the place where he was charging a hole and crushed his big toe. Twenty five and a half weeks off.

ROBERTS Stephen Thompson (injured) - 1881 - 26/05/1881 – Age 26. Rhosesmor (metalliferous), Halkin. Fell from the second ladder as he was descending the shaft. 5 weeks off.

ROBERTS Thomas (injured) - 1886 - 22/07/1886 – Age 53 – Carter. Cwmorthin (slate). He was talking to a rock man boring a hole and through inadventure, he fell over the edge of the chamber. Foot amputated. Still unable to work March 1887.

ROBERTS Thomas (injured) - 1886 - 29/04/1886 – Age 33 – Rockman. Wrysgan (slate). The tip of the crowbar broke as he was prising up a block of slate and falling backwards, he cracked the small bone of his leg. 7 weeks off.

ROBERTS Thomas (injured) - 1889 - 21/02/1889 – Age 20 – Miner. Wheal Kitty (metalliferous), St Agnes, Cornwall. A scale of ground from the back of the 154 fathom level fell and struck Roberts on the back causing slight injuries. He was able to resume his work in about five weeks.

ROBERTS Thomas (injured) - 1889 - 28/01/1889 – Age 48 – Rockman. Diphwys Casson (slate). He slipped and fell a couple of feet while using a crowbar on the working face of his chamber. Scalp wound. 9 weeks off.

ROBERTS Thomas - 1880 08/09/1880 – Age 45 Packer Seaham Marquess of Londonderry, Sunderland, Co. Durham. Explosion of gas 164 killed.

ROBERTS Thomas - 1880 - 10/03/1880 – Age 18 – Collier. Bedwellty, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co., Bedwellty, Monmouth. Explosion of gas. 4 killed.

ROBERTS Thomas - 1882 - 07/04/1882 – Age 30 – Rockman. Oakley Middle (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. Explosion of a pellet of guncotton while ramming it into a hole with a wooden stick. Still unable to work.

ROBERTS Thomas - 1883 - 13/11/1883 – Age 76 – Miner. Votty & Bowydd (slate). He stumbled while running away to escape the fall to some slate in a place where he had just fired a blast, and falling on the road broke a rib. His health was already much impaired by disease, and he died four days after the accident.

ROBERTS Thomas - 1884 - 16/01/1884 – Age 14 – Collier. Garnant, Garnant Collieries Co., Cwmaman, Glamorgan. Breakage of rope. 10 killed.

ROBERTS Thomas - 1884 - 20/03/1884 – Age 46 – Ripper. Cethin No.1, Crawshay Bros., Merthyr, Glamorgan. Fall of stone.

ROBERTS Thomas - 1885 - 19/03/1885 – Age 65 – Rockman. Oakeley Upper (slate). Unexpected fall of a piece of slate rock from the face of the bargain where his son was at work.

ROBERTS Thomas - 1887 - 04/06/1887 – Age 60 – Repairer. Navigation, Nixons Navigation Coal Co. Ltd., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Fall of roof while knocking out timber to enlarge a road.

ROBERTS Thomas - 1887 - 10/10/1887 – Age 23 – Miner. Chanters 5 Foot, Fletcher Burrows & Co., Lancashire. Fatal by large block of coal, which he had taken down, rolling down the brow upon him, as he was breaking it up the weight having broken a prop against which it rested.

ROBERTS Thomas - 1889 - 18/07/1889 – Age 22 – Haulier. Aber, Aber Coal Co., Ogmore Valley, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (cliff quar) 3ft.x 1ft.x 1ft.8 ins. on level while going with empty trams. Road not timbered. No.2 seam. Pillar and stall.

ROBERTS Thomas Henry - 1884 - 05/04/1884 – Age 36 – Metalman. Taylor, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased, who was the chargeman, and three others, were engaged in driving a tunnel. They had drilled and charged two holes with bobbin powder, and deceased was putting the powder in the third hole, using a pick shaft to push it to the back, when it exploded, burning all the men.

ROBERTS W. - 1881 - 15/01/1881 – Age 55 – Collier. Calder, Charles Wheatley, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

ROBERTS W. Sidney - 1889 - 28/01/1889 – Age 17 - Asst. 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.

ROBERTS W.M. (injured) - 1883 - 20/09/1883 – Age 16 – Quarryman. Rhosydd (slate). He was lifting part of a block, which had been split from a sled when it slipped and a sharp edge severed and artery in his arm. Still unable to work March 1884.

ROBERTS William (injured) - 1880 - 15/01/1880 – Age 23 – Rockman. Oakekey Upper (slate quarry). WE Oakeley, Rhwbryfdir. Explosion of a hole while firing it a second time, from sparks falling upon loose powder lying about the hole. Cheek and hand burnt. 6 to 7 weeks off work.

ROBERTS William (injured) - 1881 - 01/09/1881 – Age 30 – Rockman. Oakeley Upper (slate), Festiniog. He was shifting a block with a crow bar and fell against the bar bruising his collar bone. 5 weeks off.

ROBERTS William (injured) - 1882 - 30/05/1882 – Age 64 – Miner. Talargoch (metalliferous), Rhyl, Caernarvon. Fall of roof on returning to his stopes 2 minutes after blasting, in spite of his comrade’s warnings. Both thighs broken. Still unable to work March 1883.

ROBERTS William (injured) - 1883 - 04/07/1883 – Age 37 – Miner. Cwmorthin (slate). They charged two holes in an end one above the other and lighted the bottom hole first. While returning to set light to the upper hole it exploded no doubt the explosion of the first hole set fire to the fuse of the second. 2 injured, Ellis 9 days off. William 12 days off.

ROBERTS William (injured) - 1883 - 23/10/1883 – Age 27 – Rockman. Oakeley Middle (slate). A hole charged with powder missed fire. Roberts turned a little stream of water into the fuse hole for some hours and then illegally proceeded to bore out the hole with a jumper, the charge exploded, and Roberts had his nose and forehead cut. Five and a half weeks off.

ROBERTS William (injured) - 1884 - 06/08/1884 – Age 17 – Waggoner. Whittaker Bridge, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Leg broken fall of coal which a miner was taking down.

ROBERTS William (injured) - 1885 - 01/07/1885 – Age 21 – Rockman. Oakeley Upper (slate). He was climbing up to a temporary stage on the face of his bargain by a chain which knocked against the stage and caused a jumper to drop it, fell on to his foot. 5 months off.

ROBERTS William (injured) - 1885 - 20/04/1885 – Age 20 – Rockman. Oakeley Upper (slate). A stone rolled down from the chamber above the one in which he was working and struck him. 2 weeks off.

ROBERTS William (injured) - 1885 - 24/03/1885 - Age 36 – Rockman. Oakeley Upper (slate). While using a crowbar to get down some slate rock, loosened by a blast, a large piece fell on him and broke his leg which had to be amputated above the knee. Still in receipt of sick pay March 1886.

ROBERTS William (injured) - 1886 - 23/06/1886 - Age 52 – Labourer. Oakeley Upper (slate). A loose stone rolled down a heap of rubbish and struck him. Twelve and a half weeks off.

ROBERTS William - 1880 - 13/02/1880 - Age 40 – Collier. Low Stubbin, Earl Fitzwilliam, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

ROBERTS William - 1881 - 23/03/1881 - Age 46 – Miner. Minera (metalliferous), Wrexham. Explosion of dynamite and blasting gelatine, while preparing to make a large blast in an experimental drivage, carried on with Captain Penrices new boring machine. 3 killed.

ROBERTS William - 1882 - 07/04/1882 - Age 27 – Labourer. Votty & Bowydd (slate), Festiniog, Merioneth. He was lowering a block on to a sled, and the block slipped a little on the sled and pulled round the crane handle and he was struck on the lip. 2 days off.

ROBERTS William - 1883 - 21/08/1883 - Age 24 – Miner. De Eresby Mountain (metalliferous). The men were getting a piece of timber, weighing about 4 cwt., across an underground footbridge when it gave way suddenly and they were precipitated into the chasm beneath. The exact cause of the giving way was not ascertained possibly the rock on one of the sides gave way. 2 killed.

ROBERTS William - 1886 - 13/08/1886 - Age 23 – Engineman. Agecroft, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. By falling off a scaffold, about six feet high, in the mine where he was assisting to put a manhole door to a boiler. Died 14th.

ROBERTS William - 1886 - 25/01/1886 - Hooker on. Berry Hill, H Warrington, Stoke, Staffordshire. Fell into sump from inset with waggon.

ROBERTS William - 1886 - 29/06/1886 - Age 39 – Miner. Whittaker Bridge, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Coal from a slip jamming him against a prop. He had two sprags set. Accidental.

ROBERTS William - 1887 - 17/05/1887 - Age 26 – Ripper. Garw, Ocean Coal Co., Garw Valley, Glamorgan. Fall of roof which they were about to blast after failing to pinch it down. Main deep Longwall. 2 killed.

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

ROBERTSON Alexander (non-fatal) - 1885 - 15/06/1885 – Manager. Corby Craigs No.4, Dalmellington Iron Co., Dalmellington, Ayrshire. Fall of ironstone.

ROBERTSON Andrew - 1880 - 17/05/1880 – Age 50 – Roadsman. Gauchalland, Gauchalland Coal Co., Galston, Ayrshire. Fall of roof. 2 killed.

ROBERTSON Angus - 1883 - 25/10/1883 - Age 39 – Miner. West Stanley, JH Burn, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham. Fall of stone and coal in holing a board.

ROBERTSON Daniel - 1887 - 28/05/1887 - Age 14 – Miner. Udston, Udston Coal Co. Ltd., Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Explosion of gas 73 killed.

ROBERTSON Isa. - 1885 - 03/10/1885 - Age 20 - Pit head worker. Kinneil, Kinneil Iron Co., Bo’ness, Linlithgow. Crushed between two hutches on gangway.

ROBERTSON James (non-fatal) - 1885 - 01/03/1885 – Bencher. Drumpeller, Drumpeller Coal Co., Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Caught when riding on incline.

ROBERTSON James (non-fatal) - 1885 - 24/12/1885 – Drawer. Twechar No2, William Baird and Co., Kilsyth, Stirling. Burnt by gunpowder while tampering with a miner’s flask.

ROBERTSON James - 1882 - 29/08/1882 – Age 26 – Collier. Millburn, Cornshilloch Coal Co., Dalserf, Lanarkshire. At stooping while drawing timber.

ROBERTSON James - 1883 - 19/05/1883 – Age 50 – Sinker. Barncluith, Archibald Russell, Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Struck by a stone, which fell from the side of shaft. Sinking pit.

ROBERTSON John (non-fatal) - 1888 – 26/11/1888 – Pony driver. Loudoun No.1, Eglinton Iron Co., Galston, Ayrshire. Fell off his seat in front of the first hutch of a race.

ROBERTSON John (non-fatal) - 1888 – 27/04/1888 – Fireman. Kirkhill No.2, Kirkhill Coal Co., Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. Ignited some firedamp while inspecting with a naked light.

ROBERTSON John (non-fatal) - 1889 – 04/06/1889 – Hutch greaser. Carfin No.6, William Dixon Ltd., Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Crushed between hutch and side of road.

ROBERTSON John (non-fatal) - 1889 – 06/11/1889 - Age 56 – Roadsman. Holmes, Holmes Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Explosion of firedamp. 2 injured. 40 days off.

ROBERTSON Matthew - 1886 – 27/05/1886 - Age 21 – Collier. Westburn No.1, Westburn Colliery Co., Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof while drawing props at stooping.

ROBERTSON Peter - 1880 – 09/08/1880 - Age 33 – Collier. Kelty No.1, Fife. Coal Co. Ltd., Beath, Fife. Fall of roof at face longwall.

ROBERTSON Robert - 1885 – 26/12/1885 - Age 38 – Engine driver. Longriggend, James Nimmo and Co., New Monkland, Lanarkshire. Crushed between waggon and engine. The engine and waggons left the rails at facing points.

ROBERTSON Thomas - 1886 – 07/06/1886 - Age 40 – Miner. Tarbrax (shale), Lanarkshire. Oil Co. Ltd., Auchengray, Lanarkshire. In charging a hole which he did with loose powder, it is supposed from his lamp, ignited the charge.

ROBERTSON Walter - 1884 – 24/10/1884 - Age 33 – Bottomer. Devon, Alloa Coal Co., Alloa. Crushed by cage while drawing off second hutch after signalling for the ascent of men and before getting the return signal.

ROBERTSON William (non-fatal) - 1885 – 05/09/1885 – Drawer. Heathery Knowle No.3, J McNaughton Son and Co. Baillieston Explosion of firedamp. 1 injured 1 killed.

ROBERTSON William - 1880 – 25/05/1880 - Age 63 – Asst bottomer. Newbattle Bryans, Marquis of Lothian, Newbattle, Edinburgh. A loaded tub slipped out of top deck and some coals struck him. Died 27th May.