Moss Bay (Iron Ore)

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Credits

Sources:

Location:

Woodend
4 miles [6 km] SSE of Whitehaven

Map Ref:

(Sheet 89) NY006130, 54° 30' 9" N, 3° 32' 7" W

Opened:

Closed:

31 Dec 1931

Owners:

1890's - Moss Bay Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.

1900's - Moss Bay Hematite Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.

1910's - Workington Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.

1920's - United Steel Cos. Ltd., (Workington Iron & Steel Branch)

1930's - Bigrigg Mining Co. Ltd.

Output:

1888 - Iron Ore.

1890 - Iron Ore.

1896 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).

1902 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).

1914 - No. 3 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).

1914 - No. 6 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).

1921 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).

1921 - No. 3 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).

1923 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).

1923 - No. 3 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).

1924 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).

1925 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).

1927 - Iron Ore.

1929 - Iron Ore.

1930 - Iron Ore.

1934 - Iron Ore.

Detailed Mineral Statistics for Moss Bay (Iron Ore)

Employment:

Year	Pit	Total	Below	Above
1896		97	81	16
1902		108	90	18
1914	No. 3	4		4
1914	No. 3	Pumping only
1914	No. 6	380	330	50
	Total	384	330	54
1921		37	13	24
1921	No. 3	Not worked
	Total	37	13	24
1923		199	155	44
1924		159	120	39
1925		67	41	26
1927		138	102	36
1929		100	66	34
1930		93	63	30
1934		Pumping only

Colliery Management (prior to 1955)

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Moss Bay (Iron Ore)

Notes:

1891 - Nos. 3 & 5 Pits - Abandoned, exhausted

1931, 31 Dec - Haematite seam abandoned

Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Moss Bay (Iron Ore)

None found.

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Moss Bay (Iron Ore)

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Moss Bay (Iron Ore)

Byrne, Lawrence, 23 Mar 1910, (accident: 21 Mar 1910), aged 58, Miner, Delayed explosion of blasting gelatine. Deceased waited outside the working for 25 minutes after lighting the fuse; the shot exploded just as he got back

Dixon, David, 17 Nov 1914, aged 25, Labourer, deceased was engaged in trailing ore from a hopper, or shoot; the hopper is an inclined plane over 100 feet long, at an angle of about 45 degrees; during the course of the shift he went up the hopper a distance of 10 or 12 feet to liberate some ore which had stuck; by some means he slipped into the hopper, and was covered by fine ore and was suffocated; he was alone at the time, and was not missed until upwards of an hour later

McLean, Isaac John, 15 Aug 1908, aged 15, Locomotive fireboy, while assisting to shunt waggons he sat on a brake lever and was jerked off

Sloan, Hugh, 19 Jan 1910, aged 25, Labourer, A runaway bogie knocked out a prop and allowed a stone to fall, which, striking Sloan, killed him on the spot

4 names found

1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672)
1910 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5676)
1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1914 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 8023)
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1927 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1929 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1934 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian



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