Mining Deaths - Burwood Colliery
Burwood
SURNAME | CHRISTIAN NAMES | DAY | MONTH | YEAR | AGE | CAUSE OF DEATH |
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Bailey | Peter | 12 | June | 1856 | 47 | injuries sustained from fall of coal - accidental death |
Straw | Thomas | 12 | June | 1856 | 41 | injuries sustained from fall of coal - accidental death |
Foster | Miles | 19 | February | 1857 | 29 | injuries sustained after a fall of stone - accidental death |
Robinson | John | 10 | January | 1857 | 30 | injuries sustained from a roof collapse - accidental death |
Thomas | William | 13 | October | 1857 | 15 | injuries sustained from being crushed under horses - accidental death |
Hunter, John | John | 12 | January | 1859 | 12 | injuries sustained from a fall of coal - accidental death |
Thompson | George | 18 | May | 1859 | 40 | injuries sustained from a fall of coal - accidental death |
Jones | Evan | 15 | June | 1861 | 40 | head injuries sustained from a large coal fall |
Hopton | Benjamin | 23 | June | 1862 | 36 | heart failure - natural causes |
Carr | Henry | 23 | May | 1862 | 35 | injuries sustained from falling stone - accidental death |
Meredith | Thomas | 2 | July | 1863 | 43 | internal injuries from being hit on the back by a large lump of coal - accidental death |
Melumphy | Thomas | 2 | October | 1868 | 29 | rupture of the pulmonary blood vessels caused by compression of trolley wheels passing over his chest |
Smith | John | 25 | January | 1886 | 33 | drowning - accidental death |
Bray | Frank | 24 | June | 1886 | 24 | injuries sustained from a fall of coal |
Morgan | Thomas | 19 | December | 1887 | 45 | fracture of the neck caused by a prop falling on his head - accidental death |
Young | William | 10 | January | 1887 | 29 | injuries sustained from being crushed under a fall of coal |
Wilson | John | 7 | November | 1887 | 58 | injuries sustained from a fall of coal - accidental death |
Scott | John | 6 | July | 1890 | 23 | injuries sustained from being struck by a coal train - accidental death |
Siedencamp | Antonio | 18 | August | 1891 | 48 | internal injuries sustained from a fall of coal - accidental death |
Disney | Edward William | 21 | September | 1891 | 35 | injuries sustained from being crushed by coal |
Russell | James | 16 | September | 1892 | 52 | head injuries sustained in a stone fall - accidental death |
Malloy | John | 13 | November | 1901 | 26 | injuries and shock sustained as a result of an explosion - negligent death |
Paterson | William | 13 | November | 1901 | 20 | injuries sustained as a result of an explosion - negligent death |
Davies | John | 14 | June | 1906 | 57 | injuries and shock sustained from a fall of coal |
Hincks | Timothy John | 13 | June | 1907 | 52 | extensive injuries sustained from a fall of coal - accidental death |
Stephenson | John Nicholas | 13 | October | 1908 | 45 | shock due to pressure from internal bleeding into the lung and injuries - accidental death |
Hamilton | William | 16 | June | 1909 | 49 | internal injuries sustained by a fall of coal - accidental death |
Lake | John Thomas | 10 | March | 1909 | 45 | severe injuries sustained from a fall of coal - accidental death |
Emery | George | 21 | August | 1911 | 53 | injuries sustained from a fall of coal - accidental death |
Nash | Richard | 29 | July | 1912 | 62 | injuries received by a fall of coal - accidental death |
Williams | Henry | 4 | October | 1918 | 64 | severe internal injuries sustained from falling coal - accidental death |
Caine | Duncan | 22 | April | 1921 | 35 | injuries sustained from a fall of coal - accidental death |
Davies | John Rees | 8 | July | 1924 | 71 | injuries incurred from accident about 2 years prior |
Carr | John Robert | 27 | November | 1925 | 19 | injuries sustained from being crushed by skips dragged by a bolting horse - accidental death |
Grant | Donald | 19 | December | 1930 | 57 | injuries from roof falling - accidental death |
Drinkwater | William Thomas | 2 | June | 1933 | 58 | strangulated hernia - undetermined according to section 36 Coal Mines Regulation Act |
Wakely | George Joseph | 17 | December | 1936 | 18 | electrocution |
Dobbins, John | John | 11 | February | 1936 | 18 | injuries sustained as a result of being run over by skips - accidental death |
Tripney | Adam Brown | 21 | October | 1938 | 61 | pneumonoconiosis, bronchitis and emphysema contracted while employed in mine- awarded workers compensation |
Hunt | Robert Charles | 27 | July | 1940 | 16 | injuries sustained from being hit on the head by a large piece of coal - accidental death |
Dixon | John Willis | 16 | May | 1940 | 27 | asphyxia and shock from being run over by a skip |
Robinson | Joseph | 27 | May | 1940 | 55 | heart failure, due to coronary occlusion |
Briggs | Joseph | 15 | November | 1940 | 59 | complicated fracture of the spine incurred from being knocked down by a horse |
Dorn | Ronald William | 23 | October | 1940 | 19 | injuries sustained in a train derailment - accidental death |
Grubb | Norman | 26 | September | 1940 | 17 | head injuries - accidental death |
Wall | James | 24 | March | 1941 | 72 | injuries received from being crushed in a doorway - accidental death |
Buckley | John William | 7 | April | 1941 | 72 | injuries sustained from being struck by a set of four skips - accidental death |
Howe | Edwin Leslie | 8 | May | 1942 | 26 | electrocution |
Jewell | Alexander Stanley | 18 | September | 1942 | 53 | injuries sustained from a fall of stone - accidental death |
Eaton | William | 28 | August | 1944 | 46 | shock and internal haemorrhage after a fall of coal - accidental death |
Graham | John | 15 | June | 1944 | 52 | injuries sustained from being crushed between two wagons |
Garbutt | Robert James | 3 | October | 1944 | 22 | injuries sustained after a roof collapse - accidental death |
Dawson | William Petrie | 19 | March | 1945 | 49 | shock following injuries received after a charge exploded |
Feighan | Francis | 6 | May | 1947 | 42 | injuries sustained after being run over by two loaded skips - accidental death |
Pearce | Wesley George | 8 | June | 1948 | 18 | shock and head injuries sustained after being jammed between a locomotive and a roof baulk |
Mellors | Edwin | 8 | June | 1950 | 42 | injuries sustained after a fall of coal - accidental death |
Norris | Thomas | 15 | June | 1950 | 46 | injuries sustained by being jammed between a skip and a rib |
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