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Accident Reports for Weardale Steel Coal & Coke Co Ltd at Wheatley Hill Colliery

Date

Time

If Abovegroud

Pit

Seam

District

Hour of Person's Shift

Name

Injured/Killed

Age

Occupation

Character of Accident and Induries

Signed

Forenames

Surname

18-Feb-1903

8:30 AM

No 1

Harvey

1st South

5th

Robert

Moore

Injured

Coal Hewer

Whilst engaged in hewing a piece of stone fell from a slip & caught his left thumb causing a Compound Fracture

M Barrass

22-Apr-1903

10:00 AM

on Private Branch Line

4th

James

Prentice

Injured

Locomotive Fireman

In crossing the line in front of the locomotive in order to lift a switch he fell & the engine passed over one of his legs severing this limb between the knee and ankle

M Barrass

1-Oct-1903

7:45 AM

No 1

Harvey

1st South

2nd

Thomas

Craig

Injured

Assistant Wagonwayman

Whilst bringing a drivers set of 4 full tubs out, the driver being temporarily absent he got caught between the top of the 1st tub and the roof resulting in serious injury to his back

M Barrass

20-Oct-1903

8:15 PM

No 2

Hutton

So. Narrow Bord

5th

Michael

Christopher

Injured

Coal Cutting Machine Driver

Whilst jacking the machine into the coal the holding tackle gave way causing the machine to re-bound when the wheel teeth caught his leg. He received a compound fracture of the right leg between knee and ankle

M Barrass

3-Dec-1903

1:00 AM

No 1

Harvey

1st South

7th

Nicholas

French

Injured

Stoneman

He was preparing to build a pack at left side of Gateway and had knocked a prop out to make room when a stone fell & caught him causing a compound fracture of right leg

M Barrass

13-Aug-1904

5:00 AM

No 2

Hutton

2nd North

1st

Robert

Cowan

Injured

Deputy

He had just commenced to draw some timber out of a bord that had reached a hitch when a stone fell out between two planks and caught him injuring his spine.

M Barrass

9-Jan-1905

11:00 AM

No 2

Hutton

2nd So. West

5th

Winskill

Parkin

Injured

Helper-up

He was going from one gate to another along the face of Longwall when a coal shot was fired by the deputy. He was opposite the shot when it exploded and his left arm was bruised by pieces of coal.

M Barrass

5-Apr-1905

9:00 AM

No 2

Hutton

2nd North

3rd

Albert

Beardsmore

Injured

Pony Putter

Whilst standing in the Flat a large stone fell out between two baulks and caught him and seriously injured his back.

M Barrass

6-Jun-1905

2:30 PM

No 2

Hutton

2nd So. West

9th

Geo Thos

Stead

Injured

Pony Driver

Whilst bringing out a full set of 4 tubs his pony stumbled & fell & in attempting to clear himself the tub caught his right leg causing a fracture between knee and ankle.

M Barrass

31-Jul-1905

9:30 PM

No 2

Hutton

1st West

6th

James

Hutchinson

Injured

Shot Firer

Whilst firing a stone shot charged with Westfulite with a battery & cable he failed to get the shot to explode. Having dis-connected the battery from the cable he walked towards the shot and when within about 6 yards the shot went off and slightly injured one side of his face & also his arms.

M Barrass

17-Aug-1905

2:30 AM

No 1

Harvey

1st South

9th

William

Jordan

Injured

Spare Driver

Whilst employed leading water, he was in the act of turning his pony when it fell & caught his left leg between the limbers and the framing of an Angle?? Wheel causing a simple fracture of the leg between the knee & ankle.

M Barrass

8-Sep-1905

7:40 PM

No 1

Harvey

2nd North

2nd

Robt

Norman

Injured

Deputy

With another deputy he was engaged lowering a tramway turn at a Gateway end when a piece of stone came away off the side and caught his left leg causing a compound fracture between the knee and ankle.

M Barrass

8-Jan-1906

4:20 AM

No 1

Harvey

1st South

7th

Robt

Charlton

Injured

Shifter

He was in the act of setting a prop on the Wagonway when a stone came away from the roof and caught him injuring him on the shoulder and side

M Barrass

8-Feb-1906

6:00 AM

No 1

Harvey

1st South

2nd

Thomas

Hetherington

Killed

Coal Hewer

He was Sumping-in in front of the Gateway in the Longwall . A hitch leader runs in roof? Line with Gateway on the right hand side of the place and he appears to have bared a slip at the coal head. A fall of stone came away, tilting the timber & caught him & other assistance was at hand he was dead when released.

M Barrass

13-Feb-1906

9:00 AM

No 2

Hutton

2nd West

5th

Jos

Walton

Injured

Fore Overman

Whilst creeping up behind the pack, next tho fast side, towards the face the deputy fired a coal shot and a piece of coal caught him on the Fore-head causing a slight injury

M Barrass

15-Feb-1906

7:30 PM

No 2

Hutton

So. Narrow Bord

3rd

George

Bell

Injured

Pony Putter

Whilst going inbye with the empty tub a piece of stone fell and caught him in the side causing a fracture to one or two of his ribs on the right side.

M Barrass

17-Feb-1906

6:30 AM

No 1

Harvey

5th North

5th

Robert H.

Margetson

Killed

Coal Hewer

Whilst hewing in a lift a fall of stone came away between a joint in the roof and a slip at the coal face and caught him, injuring him about the head & causing his death.

M Barrass

2-May-1906

11:30 AM

No 1

Harvey

North West

6th

Thomas

Nichol

Injured

Driver

Whilst hanging-on his pony to a set of 4 tubs at the Flat a putter came out with another tub & allowed it to join the rest and setting them in motion. The injured boy had wrongly taken off the chock before he got the pony hung-on and in trying to stpo the tubs he fell in front of the first one which injured his back hip.

M Barrass

9-May-1906

8:15 PM

No 2

Hutton

2nd West

5th

Robert

Stoker

Injured

Shot Firer

Whilst firing a stone shot in a gateway canch with a battery and cable a piece of either stone or stemming caught him on the calf of his leg inflicting a slight flesh wound.

M Barrass

6-Jun-1906

2:45 PM

No 2

Hutton

North

6th

Joseph

York

Injured

Coal Hewer

While hewing at a longwall face, he was in the act of settng a prop when some stone came away at a slip inflicting flesh wounds on his face.

M Barrass

19-Aug-1906

12:00 PM

No 2

Hutton

North

2nd

Henry

Holden

Injured

Stoneman

Two stone shots were being fired by a shot firer in a longwall gateway. Explosive used being Westfulity fired by cable & battery. The shot firer sent the 2 stonemen to the gateway turn. While waiting of the shots being fired Holden who was one of the stonemen went to seek a shovel & in his absence the 1st shot was fired, -- on his return he said to his marrow that both shots must have gone off and against his advice he went up towards the face and was caught by the 2nd shot which inflicted severe lacerated wounds on his chest and abdomen.

M Barrass

21-Sep-1906

10:30 PM

No 2

Hutton

3 North

5th

Ralph

Wright

Injured

Coal Cutter Machine Man

He was preparing to ? ?ast the machine when a piece of ramble fell & caught him causing injury to his spine.

M Barrass