Penshaw Colliery

1792 - The Lambton Pit, Penshaw Colliery, was commenced and sunk from the surface to the Main Coal Seam.

1830, Oct 30 - The Dor Whitfield Pit, Penshaw Colliery, was commenced and sunk from the surface to the Hutton Seam.

1831 - The new D Pit, Penshaw Colliery, was commenced and sunk from the surface to the Hutton Seam.

1932, 27 Feb - Main, Maudlin, Low Main, Hutton seams abandoned

Baister, Charles, 23 Jun 1874, aged 31, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

Barber, -, 12 Aug 1842, aged boy, [Not employed], boiler explosion [More information ...]

Chicken, Benjamin, 03 Dec 1869, aged 14, Staple Boy, crushed by staple

Conn, William, 30 Mar 1850, aged 14, he had been standing at the Maudlin Seam of Whitefield Pit, Shiney Row, when he was struck by the descending cage, which knocked him 126 feet to the bottom of the shaft; he was supposed to have been looking down the shaft at the time and had failed to notice the cage; he was still alive when he was taken out, but died shortly afterwards

Davison, T., 07 Oct 1867, aged 21, Hewer, fall of top coal

Grey, Thomas, 09 Nov 1854, (accident: 30 Oct 1854), aged 43, he was crushed by a mass of refuse coal known as "black brass", which fell from the roof, his back and sides were severely injured; he died on 9 November

Hall, John, 06 Jul 1872, aged 20, Hewer, attempting to lower himself down a staple from one seam to another, jumped out of the cage when near the bottom and was crushed by the framing

Hann, Stephen, 12 Aug 1842, aged 22, Engine man, boiler explosion [More information ...]

Havelock, William, 17 Jan 1872, aged 22, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

Horn, William, 03 Oct 1856, Brickmaker, boiler exploded [More information ...]

Hunter, John, 27 Mar 1862, aged 14, Switchkeeper, struck by railway rope flying off sheaves

Hunter, Joseph, 04 Oct 1859, aged 20, Hewer, crushed by a set of tubs in engine plane

Kirk, Owen, 02 Jul 1868, Onsetter, killed in a drop staple by cage

Langham, Michael, 17 Sep 1877, aged 59, Labourer, run over by waggons after being warned to get out of the way

Reary, William, 12 Sep 1860, aged 38, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

Robson, Robert, 16 Jun 1866, Driver, crushed by tubs

Simpson, Robert, 26 Nov 1877, aged 14, Driver, found lying under the third tub of set of four ; supposed to have been riding on the tubs, which at this point is against orders

Southern, John, 03 Sep 1871, aged 60, Screenman, fell off a gangway

Ward, Robert, 14 Dec 1877, aged 17, Putter, chain broke in a set being drawn up an incline ; deceased, who was travelling out-bye with his pony, having finished his shift, was caught be the descending tubs