Mining Deaths - Wallarah Collieries
Wallarah
SURNAME |
CHRISTIAN NAMES |
DAY |
MONTH |
YEAR |
AGE |
CAUSE OF DEATH |
Howe |
William |
1 |
October |
1896 |
48 |
died of injuries - accidental death |
Johnson |
George |
7 |
July |
1909 |
20 |
dislocation of the neck - accidental death |
Williams |
Frank Birchell |
16 |
March |
1911 |
17 |
fracture of the skull and consequent laceration of the brain having been knocked down and run over by a skip - accidental death |
Outram |
John William |
31 |
October |
1911 |
52 |
heart disease accelerated by a strain - natural causes |
Marks |
Albert |
31 |
August |
1912 |
29 |
injuries sustained from a roof collapse - accidental death |
Tresidder |
Reginald D'Arcy |
31 |
August |
1912 |
35 |
injuries sustained from a roof collapse - accidental death |
Morrow |
James |
23 |
July |
1913 |
40 |
injuries sustained from a fall of coal - accidental death |
Grima |
George |
13 |
June |
1914 |
21 |
injuries and shock sustained from being run over by a wagon - accidental death |
Chapman |
Frederick William |
11 |
December |
1917 |
66 |
fractured skull sustained from falling coal - accidental death |
Brins |
John Augustus |
22 |
September |
1917 |
40 |
injuries sustained from being hit by timber flying off a saw - accidental death |
Dukes |
Joseph |
21 |
September |
1921 |
70 |
injuries received as a result of falling through a bridge - accidental death |
King |
David |
21 |
June |
1921 |
61 |
injuries sustained from being run over by some coal wagons - accidental death |
Walton |
John Henry |
21 |
December |
1928 |
9 |
crushed between skips - accidental death |
O'Neil |
William Thomas |
2 |
July |
1931 |
62 |
septic absorption due to pleurisy and pericarditis caused by fracture of ribs and spine - accidental death |
Hanson |
William |
26 |
November |
1937 |
46 |
chest wounds from being struck by a pile after an engine fouled a wire attached to the pile across the railway line |
Price |
James Henry Price |
8 |
February |
1938 |
65 |
natural causes |
Rolfe |
Edward James |
22 |
February |
1938 |
72 |
severe shock from a fall, being crushed between railway tracks |
Holby |
Albert Edgar Thomas |
17 |
April |
1942 |
18 |
injuries sustained from falling onto a conveyor belt - accidental death |
Stephenson |
William |
23 |
December |
1942 |
49 |
accidental death |
Taaffe |
Ino Thomas |
22 |
April |
1943 |
47 |
injuries sustained from a fall of coal |
North Wallarah
SURNAME |
CHRISTIAN NAMES |
DAY |
MONTH |
YEAR |
AGE |
CAUSE OF DEATH |
Marks |
Richard William |
6 |
July |
1937 |
72 |
injuries sustained from being run down by a rake of skips - accidental death |
Jeffries |
Norman |
31 |
August |
1944 |
18 |
injuries received after being struck by a skip - accidental death |
Sault |
Thomas Alfred |
10 |
January |
1944 |
40 |
electrocution |
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