Hello Dave
I was fascinated by the list you posted regarding 2nd of November deaths. I
also belong to mailing lists for all the areas mentioned. Would you have any
objection to me copying your post and the link to the Mining History Network
on the Glamorgan and Durham lists, as I am sure they would be of interest to
someone else.
Kind Regards
Kim Bewick (Cardiff)
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To demonstrate the horrendous rates of fatal accidents in the coalmining
industry, I have listed the deaths that occurred on the 2nd. of
November, largely between 1895 and 1913. There are 83 of them. If you
multiply this by 365 days, you can work out just how many men (and
women) died in and around the collieries of Great Britain at the height
of the Industry.
02 November 1906
Smith, Wm. Collier 21
Aberbeeg, Monmouthshire Budd and Company
He was acting as haulier, in the absence of the usual haulier, that day,
and was stooping to sprag the trams as they turned into the heading.
After he had spragged the first two, the third caught in a tram, which
was turned into a road, but not pushed far enough up to be out of the
way, and it crushed him against the side of the road.
02 November 1897
Jones, George Collier 51
Abergorky, Glamorgan Burnyeat, Brown and Company
At face, clift about 11 feet by 6 feet in area, inside of nearest
timbers. Nine Feet seam.
02 November 1906
Beresford, John Stallman 52
Alma No. 3, Derbyshire
Fall of coal. Deceased was getting coal down, and when it fell he
slipped on the rising floor. His head was crushed by the falling coal
against a prop which was supporting the roof.
02 November 1898
Frew, Archd. Miner 40
Sundrum No. 3, Ayr George Taylor and Company
Fall of coal and stone from working face.
02 November 1895
Howe, James Dataller 53
Barlborough, Derbyshire Staveley Coal and Iron Company
Limited
Fall of roof. He was repairing the road by taking the roof down, when a
large quantity fell and killed him. Top Hard coal.
02 November 1914
Ball, Henry Borer 34
Bedwas, Monmouthshire Bedwas Navigation Colliery
Company Limited
He received fatal injuries by being knocked down by an empty tram which
had accidentally been pushed over the top of an incline and which ran
into him as he was at work boring a hole in the roof 100 yards down the
dip. He died from his injuries on November 6th., 1914.
02 November 1901
Wallace, James Chair runner 63
Beoch, Ayr Dalmellington Iron Company
Limited
"Crushed in some unexplained manner between the ""race"" of hutches and
the side of the haulage road."
02 November 1900
Alexander, Thos. Taker-off 18
Biddulph Valley, Staffordshire R. Heath and Sons Limited
Crushed by a tub at bottom of jig dip 10 yards long. He called to the
top for a tub to be jigged before he had hooked the empty tub, and was
standing in front of the dip when the full tub came down.
02 November 1912
Edwards, Henry Platelayer's Boy 14
Big Pit, Glamorganshire Blaenavon Iron and Steel Company
Limited
Run over and killed on sidings near screens.
02 November 1855
Kelly, Thomas
Birley Wood, Sheffield Hounsfield and Company
Fall of stones in the Shaft
02 November 1855
Tissington, James
Birley Wood, Sheffield Hounsfield and Company
Fall of stones in the Shaft
02 November 1904
Wilson, Edward Stoneman 59
Blaydon Burn, Durham Priestman Collieries Limited
Died 5th. March, 1906. On 9th. November, 1904, while deceased was
walking out-bye on the engine plane his head came in contact with the
roof and he never worked again. Three days previous to this he had
complained of straining himself while lifting a stone. He was paid
compensation for some time both from the Colliery Owners and the
Permanent Relief Fund, but after a time his medical attendant came to
the conclusion that deceased was suffering from kidney disease and that
his condition was not due to any accident and refused to give
certificates entitling him to compensation any longer. When he died an
inquest was held, after a post-mortem examination, and medical evidence
given to the effect that death was due to kidney disease not the result
of any accident, and so the jury found.
02 November 1898
Jones, Samuel Collier 48
Bold, Lancashire Collins Green Colliery Company
Limited
Inspection made and inquest attended. A heavy fall of rock roof fell
upon the deceased, over the drawing road apparently from unseen slips,
although the rock was broken previously in the vicinity of the fall.
02 November 1903
Woollins, William Loader 36
Brands, Derbyshire The Butterley Company
"He died on 21st. April, 1904, of ""heart disease"" which the doctor
said was indirectly caused by an accident he received in the mine on
2nd. November, 1903, when he slipped down while conveying a full tub and
so caused a rupture."
02 November 1865
Brierley, Ashton Miner 40
Brotherod, Rochdale H.H. Fishwick and Company
Explosion of fire-damp. The fireman, knowing there was gas, allowed him
to go in with a candle to bat it out. Proceedings were taken by the
owners, and the fireman was fined 5s. and costs.
02 November 1866
Hawkins, S. Deputy 17
Burr, Wednesbury Messrs. Lloyds and Company
Explosion of gunpowder.
02 November 1895
McCourt, Peter Miner 50
Carmyle No. 1, Lanark James Dunlop and Company Limited
Fall of roof in working place.
02 November 1914
Williams, David Repairer 49
Castle Pit, Glamorganshire Crawshay Brothers, Cyfarthfa,
Limited
Fall of side as he was repairing an airway, caused by two pairs of
timber discharging.
02 November 1914
Green, James Collier 57
Chanter's No. 1, Lancashire Fletcher, Burrows and Company
Limited
Deceased was working at the coal face when the roof uncapped and
displaced some props. A piece of roof, 5 feet by 5 feet by 2 feet 6
inches, fell on deceased and killed him outright. The roof was
considerably broken up with slips, and deceased had neglected to set a
bar which the fireman had ordered him to put up one and a quarter hours
previously.
02 November 1888
Davis, John Coupling Boy 17
Cinderhill, Nottingham Babbington Coal Company
Supposed to have been crushed by empty tubs.
02 November 1883
Robbins, I. Repairer 54
Clandown, Somersetshire C. Hollwey
He was getting into the cage on the surface when the safety gate fell on
to his head, and he died on the 4th. in Bath Hospital. The gate had been
lifted to take some tarpaulin off the top of the cage, and it is thought
one of the shoes got out of the slide.
02 November 1881
Gannion, Patrick Banksman 44
Clay Cross No. 4, Clay Cross Clay Cross Iron and Coal Company
Crushed between a railway waggon and fire-hole wall.
02 November 1881
Wood, John Loader 26
Clay Cross No. 2, Clay Cross Clay Cross Iron and Coal Company
Fall of roof whilst loading coals.
02 November 1898
Spencer, Joseph Horse-driver 15
Clifton, Nottinghamshire Clifton CoLliery Company
Deceased was found dead under the first tub of a set of full tubs drawn
by a horse. He appears to have been attempting to ride, contrary to
orders. Deep Hard coal.
02 November 1862
Webster, T. Miner 33
Coleorton, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Messrs. Walker and Norswick
Fall of Roof
02 November 1895
Morgan, Ed. Shackler 22
Collena, Glamorgan Glyn Colliery Company Limited
Struck by runaway trams on parting, the pin of shackle connecting the
first tram to the second in a journey of four having come out while the
journey was ascending the slant, rising 36 inches per yard.
02 November 1910
Williams, W.J. Sinker 30
Crown, Carmarthen Crown Colliery Company
While getting out of a bowk on to a platform fixed in the shaft side he
slipped and fell five yards to pit bottom. A little fencing would have
prevented the accident. Died 7th. November.
02 November 1901
Evans, Taliesin Collier 41
Cwm, Glamorgan Crawshay Brothers Limited
On road, fireclay, 11ft. x 10ft. x 7ft. thick, fell from the sides on to
the collars and crushed four pairs of timbers out. Seven Feet seam.
02 November 1897
Williams, W.G. Haulier 18
Cymmer, Glamorgan Insole's Limited
At face of heading in Hafod seam; clift from between two slips 1.5 feet
apart; a shot had been fired in it during the previous shift.
02 November 1910
Muir, John Brusher 46
Daldowie, Lanark Glasgow Coal Company Limited
While repairing a main dook road he had fired a shot which did not bring
down all the stone. He was pinching it down when it suddenly fell and
caught him.
02 November 1899
Ellis, J. Driver 15
Darfield Main, Yorkshire Mitchell Main Coal Company
Was driving horse with four full tubs, when through some cause (unknown)
he fell and was run over.
02 November 1865
Harmer, James Hooker-on 17
Doffcocker, Bolton Thomas Cross
Roof falling near the shaft bottom.
02 November 1902
Ross, Alexr. Roadsman 36
Dumbreck No. 3, Stirling Wm. Baird and Company Limited
He fell down the shaft from a mid-working which was not in use.
Apparently he was crossing the shaft on a bunton to reach the signal
wire, and either missed his footing and fell or the cage came down and
knocked him off.
02 November 1906
Ball, Thomas Hewer 28
East Tanfield, Durham James Joicey and Company Limited
"Deceased and another hewer were working together during the fore shift
in a longwall place, in the north district of the Beaumont seam, 20
inches thick, and had nearly finished their shift, when a post stone, 5
yards long, 2 yards wide, and varying in thickness up to 2.5ft., and
weighing some tons fell from the roof across the road head close to the
packs and killed deceased, and caught, but did not seriously injure, his
mate. There was no top canch taken down in the road, height being
obtained by a bottom canch; deceased was on this canch waiting for the
putter, his mate being in the cut. The stone was relieved by a curved
parting with coal pipes lying over outbye, and meeting a joint, and
canted out three props in its fall. The deputy was in the place before
the men started work, when it appeared safe, but had not visited it
during the course of the shift. There was a sufficient supply of loose
timber, and deceased and his mate had set six props during the shift.
The Local Inspectors, after an intelligent description of the accident,
concluded: ""There was no evidence of neglect on the part of workmen or
official. We were satisfied it was a pure accident."""
02 November 1914
Harrison, Harold Drawer 18
Eatock, Lancashire Wigan Coal and Iron Company
Limited
Deceased was taking a full tub along a drawing road, when a stone fell
from a cavity and fractured his skull. Another drawer had previously
allowed his tub to overrun a landing at a cross road end and knocked out
a bar leg and displaced some timber. Some datallers removed the timber,
and the drawers commenced work before the covering timber had been
replaced.
02 November 1905
Hodges, Alfred Timberman's Helper 23
Ebbw Vale Marine, Monmouthshire Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal
Company Limited
He was engaged repairing on the Main East Level with his brother, who
was a timberman, and was cutting back the side in order to make room to
set a pair of timbers, when a fall from the side occurred killing him
instantly.
02 November 1898
Thomas, David Repairer 39
Ferndale No. 2, Glamorganshire D. Davis and Sons Limited
On road, where a fall of roof, 12 feet in length, was being cleared.
Bute Seam.
02 November 1904
Newall, Thos. Repairer 39
Fochriw No. 1, Glamorgan Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds
Limited
On road. A pair of low timbers on an engine-plane had been taken out and
14 trams of rubbish had fallen. While the rubbish was being filled away
preparatory to putting in new timbers, deceased was passing when two
pairs of timbers were crushed out, and about 8 trams of rubbish fell on
him.
02 November 1891
Alldrit, John Tub Coupler 13
Glascote, Tamworth Glascote Colliery Company
Coming down an incline roadway in front of a loaded tub, contrary to the
special rules of the mine.
02 November 1909
Waite, Henry Collier 53
Glyncymmer, Glamorgan Glenavon Garw Colliery Company
Limited
A tram was being hauled by a horse and haulier, when the horse stumbled,
and fell. The haulier threw the tail end of the tram over the road,
detached it from the horse, and then attended to the animal on the
ground. Waite came up and thinking the tram was attached to the horse,
placed it on the rails, but the tram overcame him on the slight
gradient, and so injured him that he died on 21st. January, 1910.
02 November 1903
Hutchinson, Wm. Watson Driver 14
Gordon House, Durham North Bitchburn Coal Company
Limited
He was driving on a waggonway when a tub got off the way and displaced a
prop which caused a stone to fall upon and kill him.
02 November 1896
Ward, D. Labourer 31
Grange, Yorkshire Newton, Chambers and Company
Run over by waggon on sidings.
02 November 1900
Davis, Albert Clipper-on 18
Great Fenton, Staffordshire Stafford Coal and Iron Company
Limited
Crushed by tubs which became unclipped from an endless haulage rope, and
ran back down an incline.
02 November 1865
Phillips, W. Pikeman
Green Lane, Walsall J. Highway
"Fall of ""roof rock"" in a ""waste"" in the gob of a yard-coal pit,
brought about by deceased himself whilst improperly knocking a timber
prop out."
02 November 1906
Illingsworth, George H. Bricklayer's Labourer 43
Grimethorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire Carlton Main Colliery Company
Limited
He and another workman were being taken by their foreman across the
sidings, where there are five sets of rails, and as they were passing
across the first set, between some empty wagons, where there was 3 feet
of space, a shunter brought seven other wagons down on the brakes and
ran into those standing. The foreman had got through, the second man was
knocked down but not hurt, but deceased was caught between the first set
of buffers and instantly killed. The survivors stated that they looked
and did not see any wagons approaching, and the shunter also said he did
not see the men. The wagons were brought down on a slight curve, and it
was raining heavily at the time.
02 November 1855
Salisbury, James
Hollingwood, Chesterfield Richard Barrow
Fall of Coal in the Mine
02 November 1906
Adams, Isaiah Stallman 33
Holly Bank, No. 15, South Staffordshire Holly Bank Colliery
Company Limited
Deceased was pulling down a piece of roofstone with a pick. It came away
unexpectedly, and in stepping back he slipped and fell, the stone
knocking him back against the corner of a partially built pack,
fracturing his spine. He died nine days later of pneumonia supervening
upon the spinal injuries.
02 November 1912
Sutcliffe, Bernard Byeworkman 20
Ingham's Thornhill, West Riding of Yorkshire
Ingham's Thornhill Collieries Limited
He was stowing ripping dirt, which had been brought down by a shot, into
the gate pack, when a piece of roof 6 feet by 2 feet, weighing about 30
cwts., fell upon him without warning and broke his neck.
02 November 1909
James, Richard Haulier 38
International, Glamorgan International Coal Company Limited
On road; while walking outbye in front of the horse, a stone fell out
from the side, and killed him instantaneously. Good roof not timbered.
Caedefaid Seam. Naked lights.
02 November 1899
Hodge, James Miner 29
Kelty, Fife Fife Coal Company Limited
Deceased and other workmen were proceeding homewards after completion of
shift, and while travelling on inclined plane the wheeler at top sent
away a loaded rake; on the opposite end of the rope no empty tubs were
attached, and the rake ran down at a high speed, and overtaking deceased
struck him in passing.
02 November 1906
Donnelly, Samuel Screener 22
Kibblesworth, Durham John Bowes and Partners Limited
"A steam hoist, consisting of a vertical cylinder, an old pump pipe 15
inches diameter and 9 feet long, fitted with a piston and a 3 way cock
at the top of the cylinder and with a rope attached to a fixed point,
and then passing round a pulley at the top of the piston rod and round a
pulley above the cage, to which its other end was attached, was used to
raise loaded tubs from the surface level to the pit head level. Steam
was admitted to the top of the piston by pulling a chain at the bottom
of the hoist attached to the 3-way cock, but steam could only be cut off
at the top of the hoist on the pit head level where there was also an
indicator to show if steam was on. At the end of a stormy day deceased
first lowered five empty tubs and then brought forward to the bottom of
the hoist five tubs laden with stones from the screens to raise them to
the pit head level so that they could be emptied over the refuse heap.
He appears to have pushed one tub through the cage to the far side and
then put another on the cage and turned steam on, but the cage did not
move, either because there was not sufficient steam pressure to raise
the tub, which would contain from 17 cwt. to a ton of stones, or owing
to water in the pipes. He spoke to the keeker on the pit head, who shut
steam off and then went to his cabin. Deceased is supposed to have made
another unsuccessful attempt to raise the tub, and shortly after the
keeker came from his cabin and told him to push the tub through the cage
and leave it, as owing to the stormy day all the hands had gone home and
he had no means of dealing with any tubs. The keeker did not then notice
that the indicator showed that steam was half on. Deceased took hold of
the top bar of the cage and pushed the tub out with his feet, and when
it was half out the cage moved upwards, upended the tub, and crushed him
against a fixed cross beam. He was released at once but died in about
half an hour. The manager arranged to make certain alterations in the
structure and mode of working the apparatus to prevent a similar
accident in future. The Local Inspectors reported - ""We have come to
the conclusion it was a pure accident."""
02 November 1906
Ritchie, George Miner 35
Lochside, Fife Lochside Coal and Clay Company
The blaes in the openings of the old stoop and room workings is worked
for the purpose of making bricks, and while deceased was shovelling, an
overhanging piece of the blaes fell and fatally crushed him. The part
did not seem to be sufficiently timbered.
02 November 1914
Wilcock, William Collier 48
Long Lane, Lancashire Garswood Coal and Iron Company Limited
While working on the longwall face in the Ince Four Feet Seam, a stone,
8 feet long, 2.5 feet wide, and 9 inches thick, suddenly fell away from
between two slips running parallel to the face. The fireman had visited
the place about an hour previously and told deceased to set another
prop. It is supposed he was in the act of doing so when he was killed.
02 November 1906
Sheriden, Joseph Fitter's Labourer 43
Manvers Main, West Riding of Yorkshire
Manvers Main Collieries Limited
He dropped a chain into the small coal hopper, and was lowered by some
other men on a rope to recover it; when he was in the coal fell from the
sides of the hopper and suffocated him.
02 November 1914
Jones, Albert H. Collier's Butty 20
McLaren No. 3, Monmouthshire
Tredegar Iron and Coal Company Limited
"Fall of roof in ""barry"" face which caught him on the right leg,
causing a fracture. Death resulted from his injuries after an operation
on the 6th. November."
02 November 1866
Wires, E. Banksman
Meadows, Willenhall J. Jones and Company
Walked backwards towards pit shaft, and fell into it.
02 November 1899
Birchall, John Fireman 30
Moss No. 6, Lancashire Pearson and Knowles Coal and
Iron Company Limited
Inspection made and inquest attended. A tub got off the road with the
endless rope haulage, and was fast behind a prop supporting a bar; the
deceased and the under-looker were using a rail against the prop
attempting to get the tub back, when suddenly the prop came out and let
down the bar and roof upon the deceased.
02 November 1910
Kennett, James Hewer 28
Murton, Durham South Hetton Coal Company
Limited
Whilst walking inbye he was overtaken by the empty set in the landing,
and was found partly in and partly out of a refuge hole by another hewer
who followed him inbye. The landing was provided with refuge holes 10
yards apart, but there was not room to stand between the tubs and the
side of the road. It was his sixth shift at the colliery, and not being
accustomed to main and tail rope haulage probably did not realise that
the set was close upon him until too late to take refuge.
02 November 1883
James, T. Collier 23
National, Porth National Steam Coal Company
Fall of roof.
02 November 1909
Jones, John Collier Boy 17
New Dynant, Carmarthen New Dynant Anthracite Colliery
Company Limited
On road; while the lad with two colliers had retired to a roadway so
that a shotman might fire a shot in their working place, a sudden fall
of roof occurred which killed the lad and injured the colliers.
Pumpquart Seam. Safety lamps.
02 November 1914
Jones, William Henry Haulier 36
New Tredegar, Monmouthshire Powell Duffryn Steam Coal
Company Limited
Owing to the horse he was driving running wild, he was run over and
fatally injured. He died on November 6th., 1914.
02 November 1906
Simpson, James Miner 28
Newton, Renfrew Robert Brown and Son Limited
A Fireclay mine. He was firing two gunpowder shots, and thought he only
lighted the fuse of one. On returning after one shot went off, the other
went off on him.
02 November 1910
Hayes, Clarence Screen Engine-lad 16
North Gawber, West Riding of Yorkshire
Fountain and Burnley
He stood on a spoke of a fly-wheel (inside the fencing) to get a
duplicate screen engine off centre, when the wheel revolved taking him
with it. The duplicate engine was not coupled to the screens and should
not have been touched by deceased.
02 November 1904
Murphy, Margaret Not Employed 57
North Walbottle, Northumberland
North Walbottle Coal Company Limited
Deceased trespassed on the colliery wagon way, which at the place of
accident is a self-acting incline, in taking dinner to her husband, who
was a mason not employed by the colliery company. She appears to have
crossed the line about 45 yards above meetings immediatetly after the
full set passed her, and was caught by the upcoming empty set. Notices
as to trespassing are posted at several points on the line, but these
have no effect, the public apparently claiming a right of way. The
colliery company propose prosecuting trespassers in future.
02 November 1897
Lowell, William Taker-off 23
Norton, Staffordshire R. Heath and Sons Limited
Crushed by tubs while attempting to unhook rope from journey at top of
engine dip.
02 November 1899
Ashworth, J. Collier
Nostell, Yorkshire Lord St. Oswald
Fall of roof.
02 November 1903
Mathieson, Charles Henry Loader 36
Nuneaton, Warwickshire Stanley Brothers
Fall of roof. A large piece of roof fell and struck deceased while he
was loading a tub of coal. The fall came away from an unseen slip in the
roof.
02 November 1906
Johnson, Fred. Charles Labourer 21
Oak, East Lancashire Chamber Colliery Company Limited
Crushed by waggon used for carrying tubs, being lowered by rope on
incline. Deceased and others were riding (not permitted) when the rope
broke, in getting off he fell on the line and was run over. Died 10th.
02 November 1912
Frewin, Robert Trammer 23
Old Silkstone, West Riding of Yorkshire
Old Silkstone Collieries Limited
He was taking an empty tub to the face and came into collision with a
full tub which was being trammed out. His head was jammed between the
tub and the roof.
02 November 1904
Flitcroft, William Mills Collier 33
Outwood, No. 2, Lancashire Thomas Fletcher and Sons Limited
Whilst passing through a shunt of engine plane, travelling out from
work, met a train of empty tubs, got confused and stepped from the road
he was on to the other road in front of the ingoing train.
02 November 1899
Davies, Isaac Collier 49
Outwood, Lancashire Thos. Fletcher and Sons Limited
Fall of coal from working face, from loose corner; either holing without
sprags or standing in front after taking out sprags.
02 November 1895
Howcroft, James Under-manager 54
Peelwood, Lancashire Tyldesley Coal Company Limited
Had tapped water by bore-hole in abandoned workings, three hours after
the water broke through. It was found there were only 2 feet of coal
between new place and the old place.
02 November 1895
Aldred, Isaiah Fireman 50
Peelwood, Lancashire Tyldesley Coal Company Limited
Had tapped water by bore-hole in abandoned workings, three hours after
the water broke through. It was found there were only 2 feet of coal
between new place and the old place.
02 November 1854
Barkby, Frederick
Peggs Green, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Price and Company
Fall of Roof in the Mine
02 November 1866
Davies, John Collier 20
Pennydarron, Merthyr Dowlais Iron Company
Fall of coal.
02 November 1904
Thomas, John Haulier 41
Penrikyber, Glamorgan Penrikyber Navigation Colliery Company
Limited
Deceased and two other men were stowing rubbish in an old stall, which
dipped inwards 1in. per yard, and then rose 1.5ins. per yard. A loaded
tram, with one wheel spragged, was allowed to run down the stall and
part way up the rise. The men followed it, and instead of the sprag
preventing it from running back, it dropped out of the wheel, and the
tram ran back. Deceased, in attempting to stop it, got his neck crushed
and vertebrae fractured against a low collar.
02 November 1888
Webster, George Boilermaker 31
Pinxton Sleights, Alfreton Coke and Company
Crushed by boiler plates falling against him in the store house.
02 November 1910
Williams, F. Engine Driver 40
Risca, Monmouthshire United National Collieries Limited
Head crushed by spur wheel of haulage engine while he was tightening up
lubricator.
02 November 1904
Dodd, Henry Shifter 63
Seaton Burn, Northumberland Seaton Burn Coal Company Limited
The furnace shaft is also used as a coal drawing shaft for the Low Main
seam and is traversed by two double decked cages holding one tub on each
deck and running in end slides which terminate about 5 feet from the
landing. There is a separate winding shaft for the Yard seam, an upper
seam, but no engineman attends during the night, and the Yard seam
shifters and stonemen make use of the Low Main shaft, only using the
upper deck of the north side cage. A code of signals posted up at the
top and bottom of the shaft was not strictly observed, and it appeared
to have been understood that while the upper deck of the north side cage
was being used from the Yard seam no use should be made of the other
cage, the lower deck of which stood level with the flat sheets at the
Low Main, when men were getting out of the upper deck of the north side
cage on its arrival at the surface from the Yard seam. About midnight
men were both at the Yard seam and Low Main to ride, and signals were
made to the surface from both levels. The north side cage was set at the
Yard seam and some men got in and were drawn to the surface, but as more
were to follow the engineman set the cage there again. While the first
cage load of Yard seam men were getting out at the surface deceased and
other men thought the top deck of the other cage was level with the
plates at the Low Main, and a man and a boy got in and deceased was
following them when the cage was drawn away, and he was dragged up the
shaft and his head was severed from his body and remained in the cage,
his body falling back. The bottom of the shaft was well lighted by
electric lamps. The Local Inspectors reported that they considered it a
pure accident.
02 November 1896
Clark, Frank Hewer 48
Seaton Delaval, Northumberland Seaton Delaval Coal Company
Inquiries made. Injured himself by lifting a large piece of coal. died
January 4th., 1897.
02 November 1866
Hunter, William Deputy 35
Sherburn, Durham Earl of Durham
Fall of stone.
02 November 1914
Wells, Joseph Ridley Boiler-fireman 24
South Derwent, Durham South Derwent Coal Company Limited
Deceased, with three other men, were joking, and they intended to give
the horsekeeper an electric shock by connecting the donkey pump-house
handle to a lighting switch. The horsekeeper, however, did not go near
the pump-house, and deceased himself was caught. The current was 2 phase
- 220 volts. The men had played jokes on each other before in the same
way, but on this occasion it was a very wet night so the deceased made a
good earth connection. (See Page 19.).
02 November 1905
Partridge, William Collier 45
South Wales
Died suddenly on the 2nd. November when at work from the rupture of an
aneurism of the heart. It was alleged that he strained himself while at
work and thus caused the rupture, but according to medical evidence
serious heart disease had been present for years, and consiquently it
does not appear to be a case to be properly attributed to work in or
about the mine.
02 November 1909
Whittle, James Collier 51
St. George's, Lancashire Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Limited
Whilst cleaning dirt from before face, coal came away from a slip,
probably undermined. Seven Feet seam.
02 November 1914
Whittaker, William Haulage Hand 31
St. Helen's, Crop and Deep, Lancashire
St. Helen's Collieries Company Limited
Deceased was attempting to pull the rope off the drum of a small haulage
engine, which was carried on a staging above the tub road. To do this he
stood on the top of a full tub which formed one of a set of tubs
attached to another haulage rope. While standing on this tub the set was
hauled forward and he was caught and crushed between the top of the tub
and the underside of the staging. He received injuries from which he
died on November 15th. There was no necessity for him to get on the top
of the tub, and he had no right to do so.
02 November 1854
Musson, George
Staveley, Chesterfield Richard Barrow
Fall of Roof in the Mine
02 November 1900
Hilton, Walter Drawer 18
Tyldesley, Lancashire Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Limited
Crushed by tubs. Full tubs caught empties, endless rope haulage road
rise drift through fault; lashing chain broke, two full tubs ran back,
passed two persons, caught deceased who had slipped on iron plate in
trying to get out of the way. Faulty link and lack of room. Drags now
used behind tubs.
02 November 1891
Brammer, Thomas Stallman 49
Unstone, Chesterfield Unstone Coal and Coke Company
Fall of coal. The deceased sat holing, when the coal broke over the
holing sprags and killed him. The loading end was too near him, and
probably the taking down of the coals only a few yards from him caused
the coal on the sprags to give way.
02 November 1868
Irvin, George Collier 21
Victoria, Coventry Troughton
Run over
02 November 1910
Patterson, William Shifter 24
Walker, Northumberland Walker Coal Company Limited
Fall of stone. Died September 18th., 1911.
02 November 1903
Severn, Arthur Edwin Stallman 34
Warsop, Nottinghamshire Staveley Coal and Iron Company
Fall of roof. Deceased was cutting a prop out which was supporting a bar
set to support the roof, when the bar fell out allowing a portion of the
roof to fall and kill the deceased.
02 November 1898
Crewe, James Collier's Boy 16
Waun Llwyd, Monmouthshire Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal
Company Limited
Crushed against a prop by an empty tram which was turned over at the
side in a stall road, but not far enough to clear the full tram which he
was about to sprag.
02 November 1911
Wroe, Charles Ripper 48
Wharncliffe Silkstone, West Riding of Yorkshire
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Company Limited
Whilst engaged ripping he was caught by a fall of roof stone, 6.5 feet
long, 3.5 feet broad, and an average thickness of 12 inches. He stood
underneath it whilst trying to get it down.
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