Lake Macquarie History

Mining Deaths - John Darling Colliery

SURNAME	CHRISTIAN NAMES	DAY	MONTH	YEAR	AGE	CAUSE OF DEATH
Miller	Joseph	29	May	1927	63	crushed by a dobbin - accidental death
Crozier	Richard	4	July	1927	38	hit by steel girder - accidental death
King	John Rutherford	14	January	1929	42	fractured spine from falling coal - accidental death
McGuinness	John	19	December	1930	57	injuries from roof faling - accidental death
Tripney	David Thompson	13	November	1930	43	haemorrhage - accidental death
Ryan	John William	16	December	1932	32	injuries from roof caving in
Jensen	Frederick	31	October	1933	46	natural causes - heart failure
Cartwright	William Aubrey	26	March	1934	29	injuries received from being buried under a roof collapse - accidental death
Monaghan	James	3	March	1935	51	septicemia from injuries sustained in roof collapse - accidental death
Young	James	14	September	1937	48	injuries sustained from being crushed under a fall of coal
Anderson	James White	11	April	1938	42	injuries sustained from being run over by a locomotive
Robertson	William George	8	March	1938	23	injuries sustained from a fall of coal
Galvin	Daniel	24	March	1939	65	pneumonoconiosis, bronchitis and emphysema contracted while employed in mine- awarded workers compensation
Carey	Andrew	23	May	1939	47	injuries sustained from faling coal
Cobbin	William	20	February	1940	72	pulmonary oedema due to myocardial degeneration accentuated by shock following amputation of his leg
Thomson	Arthur Morris	23	December	1942	52	accidental death
Giffen	Thomas	3	October	1945	16	injuries sustained after being run over by a train of empty skips - accidental death
Houghton	Clarence	15	August	1957	38	Was driving a loco being shunted when a bolt from the skiff came undone and the trap doors fell on to the track shaking the locomotive. Mr Houghton fell off the loco and under the wheels which ran over him.

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