Aged 24, Miner, He and his marrow were filling a tub, when a large piece of dogger forming the roof fell, killing him and injuring his marrow. The dogger fell from three converging slips, and was dome-shaped. The place was the last lift of a pillar. The fall would weigh 2½ to 3 tons. The […]
Month: September 2017
Belmont Fatality – William Watson – 23 Sep 1911
Aged 33, Miner, he was working in a wall 14 feet wide along with another miner, and when in the act of filling a waggon was killed by a fall of dogger and sulphur; along the centre of the working there was a slight dislocation of 10 inches and the roof was entirely unsupported for […]
South Skelton Fatality – Samuel Parker – 19 Sep 1923
Spa Wood Fatality – Arthur Ayre – 18 Sep 1911
Aged 21, Token Lad, he was removing a token from the end of a waggon when another waggon came down and he was jammed between the two; his head was crushed and he died almost immediately; he was accustomed to the work and should have been on the look out for another waggon coming
Belmont Fatality – William Gardner – 15 Sep 1875
Spa Wood Fatality – William Robson – 09 Sep 1903
Aged 42, Assistant Deputy, when replacing a prop, which had been displaced by a stone from a shot, a fall occurred and killed him
Skelton Park Fatality – George Ward – 07 Sep 1916
Skelton Park Fatality – Joseph Winter – 06 Sep 1882
Aged 37, Miner, fall of stone; was holding a light while his mate (Francis Oxendale) was baring down a piece of top stone left after a shot, when it suddenly fell and knocked a large prop down on him, Buried: Skelton in Cleveland, All Saints on 09 Sep 1882. Newspapers at the time all reported […]