Hazlerigg Colliery

1934, 05 Jun - Low Main or Plessey seam abandoned

1950 - Main seam discontinued

Arkle, Robert, 1922, [approximate date]

Ashurst, John, 26 Sep 1905, (accident: 25 Sep 1905), aged 59, Stoneman [More information ...]

Ashworth, Thomas, 18 Mar 1913, aged 17, Endless Rope Lad, deceased was found near his post in the underground shaft sidings and had been run over by a full set travelling at the rate of 2 miles per hour; he was decapitated

Asworth, Thomas, 1913, [approximate date]

Bailey, F., 1923, [approximate date]

Bainbridge, Thomas E., 08 Jan 1902, (accident: 06 Jan 1902), aged 46, Hewer, the cotteril securing the limbers to a set of tubs, which a driver was taking inbye from the top of a self-acting incline, fell out, and the tubs ran back and crushed deceased ; the road was in good order and had deceased stood to one side he might have escaped, but he probably lost his presence of mind

Batey, William, 03 Jan 1901, aged 13, Endless Rope Boy, While deceased was knocking off the screw clip by which the tubs were attached to the rope, he fell in front of the tubs [Inspection made & inquest attended]

Bell, William, 1927, [approximate date]

Briggs, Andrew, 18 Dec 1907, aged 55, Hewer, explosion of firedamp [More information ...]

Brown, John, 03 Jan 1900, aged 31, Stoneman, He was preparing to rid the stones from a shot when a large stone fell from slips between the props. The place was examined by the chargeman 10 minutes before, and considered safe. [Inspection made & inquest attended]

Charlton, Michael, 17 Feb 1900, aged 20, Putter & Hewer, The deceased was passing up an incline, when he was crushed between some props and a set of tubs which had got amain in consequence of the improper removal of the chock at the bank head. [Inspection made & inquest attended]

Clapperton, Thomas Benson, 06 Jun 1913, aged 22, Hewer, deceased lighted a squib by means of "touch" paper to blow down with a charge of gunpowder some coal in a longwall face; he failed to get away in time, being found partly buried under the coal, some 4 feet from the shot-hole

Conway, Patrick Joseph, 1920, [approximate date]

Cooley, Ralph, 1938, [approximate date]

Cooper, John, 09 Nov 1905, aged 52, Shifter [More information ...]

Davey, Thomas, 1928, [approximate date]

Davidson, Francis, 1928, [approximate date]

Edgar, John, 1935, [approximate date]

Farrar, Vivian, 1939, [approximate date]

Foreman, John Thomas, 12 Apr 1906, (accident: 06 Jul 1905), aged 29, Blacksmith [More information ...]

Forster, T., 1916, [approximate date]

Franks, Joseph William, 1940, [approximate date]

Graham, John, 18 Feb 1904, aged 77, Crossing Keeper [More information ...]

Gray, Lewis Spottiswood, 1923, [approximate date]

Gray, Michael, 30 Nov 1911, aged 33, Chargeman, killed by a fall of stone

Hansom, Henry Kinh, 1936, [approximate date]

Henderson, Matthew, 1924, [approximate date]

Heron, Alexander, 1918, [approximate date]

Hodgson, Matthew, 1945, [approximate date]

Howey, John Thomas, 1916, [approximate date]

Johnson, Amos, 1915, [approximate date]

Johnson, Thomas, 21 Sep 1899, aged 15, Driver, When driving a pony attached to a set of full tubs, he by some means fell off the limbers, and was found underneath the first tub [Inspection made & inquest attended]

Lamberth, Samuel, 1939, [approximate date]

Malloy, Patrick, 25 Sep 1901, aged 29, Shifter, Deceased and his marrow were building a pack wall at the longwall face when a fall of roof suddenly occurred. There was a plentiful supply of timber close at hand [Inquest attended]

Maughan, Thomas, 1915, [approximate date]

McIllmurray, William James, 1925, [approximate date]

McPeake, John Robert, 09 Jan 1912, aged 35, Stoneman, deceased and another man had fired four shots (about 4 lbs.) of samsonite with fuze in a stone drift rising 1 in 3, 15 yards in advance of the canvas brattice, and going back 25 minutes later to stem another shot, they were both overcome by the fumes from the explosive; death was due to carbon monoxide poisoning

Murray, John, 1940, [approximate date]

Murray, John Ward, 1933, [approximate date]

Nicholson, George, 1923, [approximate date]

Nicholson, John, 1944, [approximate date]

Oliver, Septimus, 28 Sep 1895, 5:55 a.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 28, Sinker, this accident was due to a mistake on the part of the engineman, who lowered the kibble onto the deceased, who was at work on the scaffold, fixing it at one side of the pit; the engineman stated that he thought the signal to lower the scaffold had been given, and he lowered accordingly, whereas the chargeman and waiter-on said that no such signal had been given [More information ...]

Porter, James, 23 Jan 1914, aged 22, Putter and Hewer, deceased was fatally crushed by an empty set over-running its journey; it was being lowered by gravity from the drum of a small compressed air hauler, when an empty oil bottle got underneath the brake lever and prevented the driver from applying the brake

Robertson, Joseph, 1932, [approximate date]

Robinson, John William, 1936, [approximate date]

Robinson, Robert Ernest, 09 Jun 1896, aged 23, Mining Engineer, [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a colliery accident], Buried: South Church, Bishop Auckland [More information ...]

Ross, John, 17 Aug 1910, aged 15, Endless rope lad, Run over by carriage

Scott, Joseph, 21 Nov 1910, aged 27, Rolleywayman, killed by a fall of stone

Seymour, Thomas, 22 Sep 1902, (accident: 16 May 1901), aged 37, Hewer, died 22nd September, 1902 (more than a year after the accident), fall of coal and stone at face of a longwall place in Low Main seam, no inquest held

Smith, John, 19 Aug 1912, aged 38, Hewer, deceased had returned to the longwall face after the deputy had fired two shots; ten minutes afterwards he was kirving at the gate-end when he was buried by a fall of roof and fatally injured

Smith, Peter, 02 Feb 1904, aged 59, Hewer [More information ...]

Smith, Robert, 21 Feb 1940, aged 41, Buried: Dudley Cemetery

Soulsby, George, 1917, [approximate date]

Straughan, Edward, 1908, [approximate date]

Tulip, Robert Carr, 11 Jun 1947, killed by a fall of stone

Walton, Thomas, 21 Aug 1906, (accident: 17 Aug 1906), aged 58, Deputy [More information ...]

Warnock, Hugh Watson, 16 Apr 1909, aged 41, Stoneman, fall of roof on road he was repairing

Westerby, James, 1931, [approximate date]

White, Joshua, 1944, [approximate date]

Wilson, Robert, 1938, [approximate date]

Young, Albert, 1918, [approximate date]

Young, Elias, 1918, [approximate date]

Young, Samuel, 1908, [approximate date]