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Yorkshire Coalfield - 1860

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Date	Name	Age	Colliery	Cause of Accident
09-01-1862	George Green		Middleton	Fall of roof
08-02-1862	William Armitage		Babes in the Wood	Fell down the shaft
06-03-1862	John Yowel		Wharncliffe Silkstone	Crushed in the shaft
12-03-1862	John Bartle	boy	Wyke	Fall of roof
12-03-1862	George Ward	boy	Park Gate	Run over by tubs
24-03-1862	Joseph Whalley		Foxholes	Fall of coal
12-03-1862	John Bartle	boy	Wyke	Fall of roof
26-03-1862	Joseph Robinson Smith		Chickenley Heath	Explosion of methane
29-03-1862	Peter Howgate		Beeston	Fall of coal
04-04-1862	John Clitheroe		Westwood	Explosion of methane
04-04-1862	Thomas Clitheroe		Westwood	Explosion of methane
04-04-1862	William Morton		Westwood	Explosion of methane
04-04-1862	Walter Roger		Westwood	Explosion of methane
04-04-1862	Thomas Laycock		Westwood	Explosion of methane
04-04-1862	A Hemingway		Westwood	Explosion of methane
04-04-1862	John Clitheroe		Westwood	Explosion of methane
04-04-1862	Thomas Clitheroe		Westwood	Explosion of methane
04-04-1862	William Morton		Westwood	Explosion of methane
04-04-1862	Walter Roger		Westwood	Explosion of methane
04-04-1862	Thomas Laycock		Westwood	Explosion of methane
04-04-1862	A Hemingway		Westwood	Explosion of methane
05-04-1862	James Lumb		Stanley	Fall of roof
17-04-1862	John Anderton		Whitwood	Crushed in the shaft
17-04-1862	John Deeming		Gilderstone	Fall of roof
07-05-1862	Luther Haynes	boy	Fence	Crushed by tubs
15-05-1862	Aaron Pickles		Woolley	Fell down the shaft
17-05-1862	Henry Sidebottom		Criggleston	Fall of roof
30-05-1862	George Ellam		Swallow Hill	Fall of roof
30-05-1862	Henry Holmes		Hoyland	Fall of roof
02-06-1862	Edward Dewick		Ashton	Fall of roof
02-06-1862	Richard Sellars		Ashton	Fall of roof
10-06-1862	William Nettleton		Darfield Main	Fall of coal
12-06-1862	John Biggin		Birley Vale	Fall of coal
17-06-1862	William England		Carhouse	Fall of coal
18-06-1862	Adam Brook		Adwalton Water Loose	Fell down the shaft
20-06-1862	William Horner		Lundhill	Fall of roof
26-06-1862	Joshua Liversedge		Brown Moor	Fell down the shaft
07-08-1862	Richard Inman		Hostingley	Explosion of methane
07-08-1862	Henry Megson	boy	Hostingley	Explosion of methane
01-09-1862	Robert Lindley		North Gawber	Fall of coal
10-09-1862	Joseph Smith		Woolley	Fall of roof
12-09-1862	William Wilson		Westwood	Fall of roof
12-09-1862	Thomas Platts		Wharncliffe Silkstone	Fell down the shaft
05-10-1862	Joseph Shaw		Westwood	Explosion of methane
10-10-1862	Joseph Sumerscales		Adwalton Water Loose	Drowned in the sump
29-10-1862	Henry Parker		Neville Hill	Fall of coal
07-11-1862	Abraham Taylor	boy	Low Elsecar	Run over by tubs
21-11-1862	Joseph Schofield	boy	Churwell	Fall of roof
27-11-1862	John Howgate		Stanley	Fall of roof
02-12-1862	William Murfin		Orgreave	Fall of coal
08-12-1862	George Baker		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Mathew Bates		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Peter Blacker		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	George Columbine		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Nicholas Cottle		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Robert Cottle		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	William Davey		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	James Ellis		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	James Ellis		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	James Ewing		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Robert Farrington		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	William Fielding		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	James Cawthorne	46	Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Richard Hunt		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	George Firth		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Charles Wildsmith		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Thomas Gawthorpe		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	William Rigby		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Thomas Mitchell		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Thomas Oxterberry		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	George Galloway		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Henry Palfreyman		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	George Ogley		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	William Ogley		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	William Sharrock		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	John Shaw		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	James Radcliffe		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	George Lawton		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	George Wroe		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Edward Leech		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Leech		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Leech		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	John Hitchin		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	John Scofield		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	William Parkinson		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Joseph Walker		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Joseph Hawley		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Patrick McCourt		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Henry Lawton		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	James Eastwood		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	John Parkin		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Robert Oldfield		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Charles Frobisher		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	William James Porter		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Robert Watson		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Robert Hough		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Thomas Margierson		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	John Hartley		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	Walter Hartley		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
08-12-1862	John Hartley		Edmunds Main	Explosion of methane
12-12-1862	David Bedford		Neville Hill	Fell down the shaft
12-12-1862	Jonas Wood		Farnley	Fell down the shaft
15-12-1862	Joseph Clegg		New Gawber	Fall of coal
22-12-1862	George Blakeley		Hostingley	Fell down the shaft
23-12-1862	Thomas Frost		Wharncliffe Silkstone	Fall of roof
23-12-1862	George Hobson	boy	Wharncliffe Silkstone	Fall of roof
31-12-1862	John Rook		Thrybergh Hall	Fall of roof

Date	Name	Age	Colliery	Cause of Accident
01-01-1863	Richard Cornfield		Oaks	Fall of roof
03-01-1863	Charles Inman		Hostingley	Fall of roof
06-01-1863	William Reeves		New Gawber	Fall of roof
10-01-1863	Henry Carr		Tong	Fall of roof
18-01-1863	Joseph Lunn		Allerton	Rope broke
23-01-1863	Edward Bickerdike		Allerton Haigh Moor	Brick fell down the shaft
23-01-1863	Joseph Taylor		Grange	Fell from pit hill surface
30-01-1863	Charles Sykes		High Royd	Fall of coal
30-01-1863	Michael Gurney		Lundhill	Fall of coal
04-02-1863	John Evans	boy	Lower Elsecar	Fall of coal
09-02-1863	Benjamin Banks		Neville Hill	Fall of roof
09-02-1863	Joseph Heaton		Neville Hill	Stone fell down the shaft
16-02-1863	John Wilson		Honey Well	Coal fell down the shaft
02-03-1863	John Bedford		Morley Main	Fall of roof
17-03-1863	John Bates		Brightside	Fall of roof
28-03-1863	William Harmfield		Wharncliffe Silkstone	Fall of roof
08-04-1863	Samuel France		Park Gate	Fall of roof
23-04-1863	Thomas Cliff		Gawber Hall	Fall of roof
08-05-1863	William Hauge		Castle	Fall of coal
11-05-1863	William Firth		Allerton Haigh Moor	Coal fell down the shaft
09-06-1863	George Broadhead		Honey Well	Fall of coal
09-07-1863	Frederick Boshell		Beeston Moor	Fall of roof
28-07-1863	John Wood		Eccleshill	Rope broke
28-07-1863	William Burton	boy	Eccleshill	Rope broke
17-09-1863	J Gillot	20	Birley Vale	Fall of roof
19-09-1863	George James	boy	Lundhill	Explosion of methane
19-09-1863	Thomas Firth	boy	Lundhill	Explosion of methane
25-09-1863	John Ester	boy	Thorncliffe	Crushed by tubs
30-09-1863	Edward Donkin		Oaks	Fall of roof
09-10-1863	Charles Brown		Park Gate	Fall of coal
06-11-1863	Henry Carr		Warren Vale	Fall of coal
07-11-1863	Thomas Wright		Allerton Main	Fall of roof
17-11-1863	William Longbottom	boy	Soothill	Crushed by tubs
19-11-1863	Joseph Stringer		Warren Vale	Fall of roof
20-11-1863	George Cawthorn		Lower Elsecar	Fall of coal
26-11-1863	Henry Wroe		Worsbrough Park	Fall of roof
30-11-1863	Joseph Cooper	40	Thrybergh Hall	Fell down the shaft
30-11-1863	Ambrose Batley	19	Thrybergh Hall	Fell down the shaft
30-11-1863	Ezra Shaw	21	Thrybergh Hall	Fell down the shaft
30-11-1863	Isaac Ashman	27	Thrybergh Hall	Fell down the shaft
30-11-1863	James Bailey	22	Thrybergh Hall	Fell down the shaft
30-11-1863	Reuben Cousins	17	Thrybergh Hall	Fell down the shaft
07-12-1863	John Vickers		Warren Vale	Coal fell down the shaft
12-12-1863	W Hall	14	Birley Vale	Fall of roof
14-12-1863	Alfred Watson		Denby Grange	Crushed by a steam engine
14-12-1863	Luke Abbott		Tinsley	Fall of coal
23-12-1863	John Baines	boy	Darley Main	Crushed by tubs

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