Parliamentary Papers

Cause of Accident, and Remarks.

Inspection made and inquest attended. He was about putting a loaded tub in the bottom deck of cage when he was struck by a piece of coal which had come down the shaft. It appeared to have rebounded off the shelter boards and struck him on the head. He expired shortly after reaching the surface.

Peter Stirrup, 58, Hooker-on.

Thomas Keeley,

28, Hooker-on.

John Pritchard,
69.
Collier.

Inspection made. He apparently was bringing a tub full of colliers' picks towards the shaft, to be ready to be put in the cage, and seems to have been bringing it backwards, and he fell into the sump, and the tub fell on top of him, and got fatally crushed by the descending cage.

Inspection made and inquest attended. While he was attempting to push a tub further in the cage, with his foot, and pulling down the bow, around the end of tub; he appears to have got his foot fast, after telling his mate to signal the winder to start. He was carried up about six yards, to the shelter covering, where he fell back, down the shaft into the sump. He died from pneumonia, accelerated by the the accident, April 17th, 1906.

Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was an old man, and after going through a pass-bye to the other side of the shaft, he is said to have walked back, and fallen into the sump. The gate and chain fencing was open, as they were about starting to wind coal. He fell a distance of ten feet, and succumbed to the injuries received, March 3rd, 1906.

Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased with three other men were taking down a wire rope to the pumps, in a sinking tub; one end was attached to a stretching screw fixed in a steel girder 96 yards from the surface. After they had reached about 200 yards from the surface, and uncoiling the rope, they appeared to have unscrewed the stretching screw, and the rope fell, fatally injuring deceased. The safer method (and usual way) is to take the rope down in the tub, and then haul it up.

Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was in the bottom shunt in the downbrow when he was struck by a lump of
coal coming off the tub, caused by the haulage rope breaking in the capping, and the trailer behind the journey of full tubs
throwing the tubs off the rails. He was fatally injured, and succumbed to the injuries received June 5, 1906.

Inquiry made. Deceased got his knee injured with his tub, and slipped on the crossing of the shunt. Blood poisoning after-
wards set in, and he died February 5, 1906.

Inspection made and inquest attended. His tub had got off the rails, and he appears to have gone in front to lift it on when the
scotches fell out and the tub overcame him and crushed him fatally against the pack wall bottom of brow. Dip of road
being 1 in 6.

Inspection made. A full tub in going up the brow, rising 1 in 4, got unlashed, the chain attaching it to the endless rope
getting loose, and the deceased got fatally crushed by the tub running back downbrow, before he reached the manhole.
Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased drove another boy's pony, which was taking along six full tubs and in
unhooking the chain he got in front of the tubs somehow, and got fatally crushed.

Inspection made and inquest attended. He was pushing tubs off the flat landing, to run downbrow, when the engineman without
any proper signal started them the wrong way, and deceased got fatally crushed against the frame of jig wheel.
Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was in the endless rope haulage level, and appears to have stepped to the full
road to let some colliers pass him, when two full tubs came along, which crushed him against some wooden bearers,
supporting the haulage pulleys. He expired May 27, 1906.

Inspection made and inquest attended. He was attending to some tubs in the endless rope downbrow, when he got fatally
crushed by two full tubs and a timber trolley, running back downbrow, off the flat landing place top of brow, after they
had been unlashed; which happened through the haulage engineman having a signal to reverse, and the weight of the rope
carried them back sufficient distance to run downbrow themselves. A warrick will be placed top of downbrow to prevent
them going back.

Inspection made and inquest attended. He was found under a journey of full tubs, coming up the brow; nobody witnessed the
accident, but probably he was trying to put one of the tubs on the rails when in motion, and got run over.

Inspection made and inquest attended. While he was travelling to his working place along the haulage slant, he got run over
by some full tubs of dirt, which some road repairers were lowering down, and failed to hold on to them, He expired
September 23rd, 1906.

(North Wales.)

1906. May 29

Black Park,

Denbighshire.

Black Park Colliery
Co.

Eli Davies,
25,
Roadman.

Run over or crushed by Trams or Tubs.

Inspection made and inquest attended. When taking an iron water tub attached to a mangle downbrow, the rope got fast on
the windlass; when deceased went in front of the tub to give slack rope, the rope somehow got uncoupled, and he got
crushed by the tub against a step in the roof. He expired November 3rd, 1906.
Inspection made and inquest attended. While he was standing at the mouth of an old roadway for a drawer to pass with a
full tub of coal, he appears to have had his head out too far, as the tub caught his head, crushing it against the prop
supporting the roof. He died the same day.

Inspection made and inquest attended. He was coming up the endless-rope haulage downbrow in front of two full tubs, when
he appeared to have slipped on an iron landing, and got crushed by the full tubs, opposite an old roadway. He expired
November 8th, 1906.
Inspection made and inquest attended. When attempting to unlash a tub from the endless-rope haulage he got fatally crushed
against the iron upright shaft supporting a curve pulley. It was advised that the roadway should be made larger.

W. Carsley,

19,
Jigger.
William Jones,

14,
Door-boy.

Joseph Brown,

Inspection made and inquest attended. After lifting the lever of jig brake, and finding the journey did not start, he left his
lever and went to push at the tubs, and failed to get back in time, as it was a short jig, and he got crushed by the empty
set of tubs. The jigger's assistant was absent a short time when the accident occurred.

Inspection made and inquest attended. When in the act of unhooking the chain of the pony from the first full tub, he
appeared to have left it too late as he got his head fatally crushed against a standing tub in the shunt.

Inspection made and inquest attended. When leading a horse attached to four tubs of manure, he appears to have lost his light and stumbled and fell; two of the tubs ran over him and he was fatally injured.

Inquiry made and inquest attended. When jigging, the empty tub got uncoupled from the rope, the full tub going down about
half way and got off the rails. They pushed the empty up to near that point, deceased standing behind it. Another person
trying to get the full tub on the rails, when the full tub moved down knocking the corner of the empty tub, which fatally
crushed the deceased against a bar. He expired October 11th, 1906.

Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased when attempting to unlash the chain from the empty tubs got fatally crushed
by the tubs against a low bar. There was a low portion of the haulage road about four yards in length. It was recom-
mended at the inquiry that the roadway should be enlarged as early as possible.

Feb. 15

W. Y. Craig & Sons

63 Mar. 15

Black Park Colliery
Co.
Broughton & Plas
Power Coal Co.
Wynnstay Colleries
Co.

By Machinery Underground.

Inspection made and inquest attended. He attempted to oil the haulage curve pulley when in motion when his arm got drawn in by the rope and severely crushed. He expired February 6th, 1906, after amputation.

James Rigby,

42,
Packer.
John Foster,

45,
Dataller.

Inquiry made. While he was lifting a stone from a heap on the floor, a second stone slid down and injured his thumb. He expired January 31, 1906, at St. Helens Hospital, from the effects of blood-poisoning

Inspection made and inquest attended. l'hey were making an underground engine-house; and, while fixing up heavy bars,
and attempting to move one a little further, they slackened the jack prop, when the bar overbalanced, and fell, fatally
injuring deceased. He expired the following day.
Inspection made. While he was repairing the roadway, and in the act of levering a stone, he appears to have slipped, and in
falling backwards on the rail, be broke his neck, and expired.

1906. Jan. 17

Thomas Jones,

Inquiry made and inquest attended. While his partner was using his pick and striking at the face, a small piece of coal only fell; when his pick accidentally slipped out of his hands and struck the deceased just above his breast bone, who expired in about ten minutes afterwards.

Elizabeth
Greenough,
19,
Screen-hand.
John Hallinon,

17,
Engineman.

Inspection made and inquest attended. While engaged at the screens, her skirt came in contact with the end of a revolving shaft the clutch of which was under repairs-and part of the fence down. She succumbed to the injuries received, March 30, 1906.

Inspection made and inquest attended. He went within the fence to oil whilst the engine of the coal washer was in motion, when his clothing got caught by the wheels, and he got drawn in and fatally injured. There was a printed notice forbid. ding oiling whilst in motion.

Inspection made and inquest attended. He slipped off a baulk into the cog-wheels, when attempting to oil them, when in motion. These wheels where fenced, on the sides, but might have been boxed over them, to have them safer.

John Chorley.

38,
Brakesman.
John Grundy,
36,
Labourer.

Inspection made and inquest attended. He had got down off the locomotive, and was passing in front of a train of waggons, in
order to put brakes down, when he appears to have caught his foot against the rail, and fell, and his arm was run over. He
expired on January 18th, 1906, after having his arm amputated.

Inspection made and inquest attended. Apparently the waggon lowerer failed to warn two men, that he was going to lower a
waggon, against the one they were filling; and just at the moment they were lowering their own waggon a little deceased
pushing at the buffer, when the other waggon came behind him, crushing him. He expired the following day.

Cause of Accident, and Remarks.

Coal & Iron Co.

Wilmer Halsall,

60, Labourer.

Inspection made and inquest attended. While deceased was going up the steps, to the pit brow landing, another person was coming down, carrying an empty wooden box on his shoulder, when he accidentally slipped, and the box in falling struck the deceased, who fell back, against the engine house. He succumbed to the injuries received January 8th, 1906.

LIST of FATAL ACCIDENTS in MINES under the METALLIFEROUS MINES REGULATION ACTS.