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MARKHAM COLLIERY - 30th July, 1973 - Page 7

Back to Accident 30th July, 1973



In Memory

Shaft accident, overwind, caused by failure of mechanical break of winding engine.



18 Lives Lost

 

Birkin, Joseph , aged 60, Face Worker

 

Briggs, Clarence , aged 52, Deputy

 

Brocklehurst, Joseph William , aged 58, Deputy

 

Brooks, Clifford , aged 58, Deputy

 

Chapman, Henry , aged 48, Deputy

 

Cooper, Gordon Richard , aged 30, Development Worker

 

Eyre, George , aged 60, Gearhead Attendant

 

Kilroy, Michael , aged 53, Development Worker

 

Kiminsky, Jan , aged 58, Development Worker

 

Plewinsky, Lucjam , aged 59, General Worker

 

Reddish, Frederick , aged 53, Development Worker

 

Rodgers, Wilfred , aged 59, Face Worker

 

Sissons, Charles Leonard , aged 43, Road Repairer

 

Stone, Frank , aged 53, Road Repairer

 

Turner, Charles Richard , aged 60, Deputy

 

Tyler, Albert , aged 64, Back Repairer

 

White, Alfred , aged 57, Deputy

 

Yates, William , aged 62, Development Worker

Seriously Injured

 

Dennis Brothwell, aged 44, Development Worker

 

Frank Cowley, aged 43, Development Worker

 

Malcolm Joseph Cowley, aged 29, Development Worker

 

James Reddish, aged 25, Development Worker

 

Graham Richardson, aged 34, Heavy Supplies Worker

 

George Denis Stone, aged 41, Overman

 

Harry Taylor, aged 47, Development Worker

 

Terence Thornley, aged 18, Face Trainee

 

Terence Graham Vaughan, aged 38 Development Worker

 

William Henry Watson, aged 47, Face Worker

 

Richard Wrobels, aged 44, Face Worker

 

 

Seriously injured in the rescue operation

 

John Maxwell, aged 35, Reserve Face Worker

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