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Please note: this page provides the details we have for those fatalities not shown
on the colliery pages - i.e. for those fatalities at collieries/pits etc. for which we
do not have a web page.
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see bottom of page for details |
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Name of Persons killed, Age, Occupation, Cause of Accident, and Remarks |
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01 Jan 1924 |
Tanfield |
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29 Jan 1864 |
Willington |
Farnaby, George, aged 18, Fireman, killed by the exploding of a boiler |
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Gilbert Gill Pit, Clifton |
Fearon, Henry, Drawer, killed by a corf falling on him from the top of the pit |
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25 Dec 1908 |
Whitehall Level (Fluorspar) |
Featherstone, John, aged 45, Miner, killed by a fall of ore, ( accident: 22 Dec 1908) |
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09 Apr 1855 |
Blyth & Tyne Railway |
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04 Oct 1888 |
Unknown |
Fenwick, Thomas, aged 16, was found lying beside his set of four tubs, the set had not left the road and his pony was standing quietly, he showed symptoms of having had a fix of apoplexy, and the medical man confirmed this view |
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11 Oct 1905 |
Peareth (Sandstone) |
Finn, William, aged 32, Labourer, fall of ground |
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28 Sep 1808 |
Kimbleworth |
Firth, William, explosion of fire-damp |
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22 Aug 1895 |
Hetton Colliery Railway |
Fishburn, J. W., [ Sunderland Daily Echo reports: accident - 22 Aug 1895 pg 3] [date of report] |
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10 Jul 1893 |
Millom, No. 5 Pit |
Fitzwilliam, John, aged 62, Miner, Deceased had lighted the fuse of a shot, and thinking it had mis-fired, returned to the place, when it exploded and killed him [Inspection made] |
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29 Mar 1905 |
Hetton Railway |
Fletcher, George, he was found dead on the railway below the coal trucks at Hetton, it was reported that 45 full waggons and the locomotive had passed over his body |
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03 Oct 1705 |
Gateshead, Stony Flatt |
Fletcher, Richard, killed in the 1705 explosion, Buried: October 5th |
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20 Dec 1858 |
Hetton Railway |
Ford, -, aged 10, killed on the Hetton Railway by a boiler explosion along with his father (James) |
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20 Dec 1858 |
Hetton Railway |
Ford, James, Engineman, killed on the Hetton Railway by a boiler explosion along with his son |
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10 Jan 1913 |
Loaning Head sandstone quarry |
Fordy, James, aged 47, Quarry Chargeman, deceased, whilst engaged wedging stone down at the face, was buried by a fall of stone; the stone fell from a "back." |
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25 Oct 1911 |
Lambton Railway |
Forster, John Ridley, aged 27, Guard, he was engaged along with a loco-engineman and fireman in shunting some trucks of waste material into a siding where the refuse is tipped; the engine had pushed the trucks to a certain point and then left them, and from this point the trucks gravitated into the siding; it was the custom to put one or two sprags into the wheels to prevent the trucks moving too quickly, and deceased was doing this when he slipped under the wheels of one of the waggons and was internally injured so seriously that he died on the following day, ( accident: 24 Oct 1911) |
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03 Jul 1865 |
Victoria |
Forster, Joseph, aged 14, Banker Out, fell down shaft from surface |
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13 Dec 1883 |
Alston |
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02 Feb 1801 |
Unknown |
Forster, Marshall, aged 42, Pitman, of Birtley, shown in Parish records as being accidentally killed - may not be Colliery related |
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08 Nov 1833 |
Black Fell |
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19 Sep 1627 |
Unknown |
Forster, William, of Willington, "kilde in a colepit" |
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11 Jun 1862 |
Unknown |
Fox, Joseph, aged 33, explosion of firedamp |
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14 Dec 1807 |
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Frazer, James, aged 30, Overman, of Fatfield, shown in Parish records as being accidentally killed - may not be Colliery related |
For those names marked
a web page providing more details of the accident is available online. Click on the
icon to display the page.
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For those names marked we have
a digital photograph of the tombstone, see the information page
for further details.
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Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by
Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser
and Durham Chronicle) and are marked with
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