Ushaw Moor Colliery

1911, 24 Jan - Yard seam abandoned

1927 - Colliery closed between 1927 and 1929

1930, 21 Oct - Harvey seam abandoned

1934, 30 Dec - Ballarat seam abandoned

1935, 05 Jun - Victoria seam abandoned

1944 - Brockwell, Busty seams abandoned

Anderson, James, 12 Sep 1889, aged 33, Chock Drawer, fall of stone while drawing chocks out of a broken jud, Buried: St. Michael & All Angels Churchyard, Esh

Baxendale, John, 28 Sep 1956, aged 58, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery

Bell, Thomas, 08 Oct 1893, (accident: 07 Oct 1893, 11:00 a.m., 3rd hour of shift), aged 43, Engineman, Severe scalds on body and limbs, also dislocated shoulder, caused by dome of locomotive coming in contact with screen and breaking it off. The switches had been set wrong. Died from the effects on 8th inst. [More information ...]

Blower, Thomas, 04 Mar 1875, aged 40, Hewer, killed by a fall of roof

Brannen, Martin, 18 Jan 1925, died at home after a long illness as the result of an accident during the Great War while following his employment, his leg had to be amputated after the accident

Carse, Thomas Atkinson, 13 Mar 1933, aged 42, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery

Collinson, T. C., 14 Jan 1936, aged 39, Hewer, struck by door [More information ...]

Courtney, Joseph, 01 Oct 1887, (accident: 30 Sep 1887), aged 44, Hewer, arm, leg, and thigh broken by a fall of stone while holing a jud through, near to two steps

Davis, Thomas, 23 Jan 1895, 11:00 a.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 32, Hewer, he was bringing a tub out of his place; it got off the way and drew a prop, causing a heavy fall of stone

Emmerson, Thomas, 14 Sep 1909, aged 39, Hewer, The stone which fell and killed this man had slips on two sides and was false bedded. It had broken off by its own weight. The slips could not have been seen prior to the stone falling. The place had not been worked regularly; if it had been the stone would have been in the goaf, and the accident would not have happened

Fawcett, Charles, 25 Nov 1897, aged 23, Stoneman, He had fired a shot which did not bring all the stone down and he took a bar to pinch it off and got too far under it, and when it fell away he was caught and killed, Buried: Esh Winning Cemetery

Fitches, Samuel, 03 Mar 1914, aged 65, Hewer, Deceased was working at the face of a double stall, when a stone, weighing nearly 2 tons, fell canting out the timber, and killed him.

Fletcher, James, 24 Nov 1876, aged 19, Collier, fall of coal while working under the top part of the seam in the Busty Pit, contrary to orders

Foulger, Ed, 23 Jan 1924, aged 27, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

Gallaghar, Peter, 12 Jan 1876, aged 38, Collier, crushed by fall of roof in Hutton Seam

Gibson, Richard H., 11 Dec 1909, aged 40, Deputy, He was drawing a prop when the stone between a hitch leader and a joint fell and killed him

Gill, Arthur, 14 Nov 1932, aged 22, Putter, single man from Ushaw Moor, gas explosion [More information ...]

Gill, Thomas, 05 Nov 1893, 9:30 p.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 50, Wasteman, Fall of stone while wedging it down.

Hall, Robert, 23 Jun 1912, (accident: 18 Jun 1912), aged 17, Lamp cleaner, it was said that when putting two lamps on to a lamp rack 6 feet high, he fell to the floor; Post-mortem examination revealed the fact that each of his kidneys only weighed one ounce, and the Doctors were all agreed that the cause of death was Uraemia; the verdict of the jury was that his death, on June 23rd, was due to Uraemia accelerated by a fall from the lamp rack on June 18th

Hogg, Thomas, 23 Apr 1883, aged 16, Landing Boy, crushed between tubs at landing, the empty set took the wrong way at points

Holliday, Leslie, 22 May 1959, aged 37, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery

Hope, John Thomas, 22 Sep 1934, (accident: 13 Sep 1934), aged 50, Deputy, died from injuries received, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery

Kelly, E., 27 Feb 1943, (accident: 19 Jul 1940), aged 49, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone

Lewin, Henry, 06 Dec 1939, (accident: 23 Nov 1939), aged 59, Shifter, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery

Lowery, Thomas, 05 Apr 1888, aged 44, Chock Drawer, broken leg and arm, and other injuries caused by a fall of stone while taking out chocks from the workings

McPartland, John, 15 Sep 1879, aged 22, Collier, fall of top coal - he had nicked both sides of jud top and only put in one prop which was crushed out by the weight

Mould, Robert, 10 Mar 1883, aged 11, Greaser, killed by a fall of stone in the rolleyway

Nicholson, J., 31 Dec 1888, aged 43, Stoneman, while engaged removing timber out of an engine landing a large stone fell upon him

Oxley, Thomas Stephenson, 14 Jan 1936, aged 39, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery

Parker, George, 22 Feb 1925, (accident: 20 Feb 1925), aged 63, Shifter, after completing his shift he was going outbye in the Busty seam when he was taken ill, he died at home on the 22nd

Quinn, James, 29 Sep 1889, (accident: 28 Sep 1886), aged 28, Shifter, severe injury to spine and broken leg by a fall of band while taking it off side coal

Roe, William, 18 Sep 1914, aged 49, Hewer, He was taking off a stork in brokens in a seam 3 feet thick, when a stone, 8 feet 8 inches long, 3 feet 4 inches wide, and an average thickness of 2 feet, fell from the roof on to him, without warning, as he sat kirving. This stone was bounded by slips. It carried out two props.

Seed, Henry, 20 Jan 1949, aged 22, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery

Stephenson, Frederick, 06 Apr 1900, aged 31, Fitter, While taking some electric wires down near the quadrant of a pumping engine, while it was in motion, his head was caught between the quadrant and part of the shaft timber and he was killed instantly., Buried: St. Michael & All Angels Churchyard, Esh [More information ...]

Stoker, John, Dec 1874, aged 50, Chester Ward Coroner's Inquest, place: Ushaw Moor, cause: crushed between tubs, Ushaw Moor Coll. (DRO Ref: COR/C/2/191)

Taylor, Joseph, 07 Mar 1878, aged 28, Collier, fall of stone from between two slips

Timmons, William, 14 Nov 1932, aged 51, Hewer, married with three young children, living in Esh Winning, gas explosion, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery [More information ...]

Tinnion, Thomas, 15 Jun 1882, aged 16, Screener, crushed between a truck and screen leg, too little room

Tyman, John, 13 Apr 1897, aged 51, Buried: St. Mary Magdalene, Belmont

Vickers, Hall, 08 Dec 1903, aged 15, Helper-up, he and another boy, without permission, got into a tub and set it going on the engine plane to ride out-bye; after going about 300 yards it got off the way, and he was fatally injured [More information ...]

Wanless, William, 03 Dec 1923, aged 56, Drawer, killed by a fall of stone

Young, James, 17 Jan 1925, (accident: 05 Jul 1924), aged 60, Deputy, killed by a fall of stone